Mexican mayor to Bush: Don't bomb Apatzingan
September 23
MEXICO CITY - Mr Bush, please don't bomb Apatzingan. That essentially was the plea made by the mayor of a small Mexican town who evidently misheard news of threatened US strikes against Afghanistan.
'Mr President Bush, I swear by what I hold dearest, which is my political career, that Apatzingan never had any active or moral role in the bloody events at the twin towers and the Pentagon,' Mayor Jorge Luis Castaneda said in a letter to the US leader.
He also stressed that the people of Apatzingan were peaceful and worshipped the Virgin of Guadelupe, the Roman Catholic patron saint of Mexico. --AFP
Osama's in, Pamela Lee Anderson's out
PALO ALTO - Osama bin Laden has displaced Pamela Lee Anderson in cyberspace and people looking for information about the American flag outnumbered those curious about Britney Spears.
For the first time in the short history of the Internet, popular search engines reported that 'sex' dropped off their lists of top 10 search terms in the days following the attacks on the World Trade Center and Pentagon.
'Popular search terms have turned almost exclusively to disaster-related information,' said David Emanuel, spokesman for the search engine AltaVista.
Instead of entertainment and assorted fluff that has for years attracted the bulk of all Internet traffic, it was news, news and more news that people were looking for.
--Reuters |
