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To: marcos who wrote (1468)	9/21/2001 2:45:51 PM
From: ralfph	Respond to of 8273

What cheap golds stocks ? I suspect gold will bounce when the invasion begins..and the markets to tumble. rregards ralfph

To: marcos who wrote (1468)	9/22/2001 9:20:54 AM
From: CIMA	Respond to of 8273

Check out the advertisement (in bold by me) taken out by Quebec in today's online edition of the NY Times: /--------------------- ADVERTISEMENT ---------------------The people of Quebec support the United States of America in their systematic fight against terrorism. As friends and neighbours of America, Quebecers share its pain and anger over the tragic events of September 11, 2001. Bernard Landry Prime Minister of Quebec \---------------------------------------------------------/ TODAY'S HEADLINES The New York Times on the Web Saturday, September 22, 2001 ------------------------------------------------------------ For news updated throughout the day, visit www.nytimes.com QUOTE OF THE DAY ========================= "So the only master of the world wants to threaten us. But make no mistake: Afghanistan, as it was in the past the Great Britain, he came, the Red Army, he came Afghanistan is a swamp." -SUHAIL SHAHEEN, an Afghan envoy in Pakistan. nytimes.com NATIONAL ========================= Tape Reveals Wild Struggle on Flight 93 A desperate and wild struggle took place aboard the hijacked United Airlines Flight 93 before it crashed in southwestern Pennsylvania, according to the plane's cockpit voice recorder. nytimes.com ----- Some Passengers Singled Out for Exclusion by Flight Crew Incidents of racial profiling are occurring on commercial airline flights. nytimes.com ----- Talk of War No Deterrent for Some Looking to Military Enlisting in the armed forces is still seen as a way up, if not out, for young people in poor and working class neighborhoods. nytimes.com ----- MORE NATIONAL NEWS: nytimes.com /--------------------- ADVERTISEMENT ---------------------The people of Quebec support the United States of America in their systematic fight against terrorism. As friends and neighbours of America, Quebecers share its pain and anger over the tragic events of September 11, 2001. Bernard Landry Prime Minister of Quebec \---------------------------------------------------------/ INTERNATIONAL ========================= U.S. Puts Afghan Strike Ahead of Full Plan A senior Bush administration official said that the "initial phase" of the assault on terrorism would be aimed at Osama bin Laden and his network in Afghanistan. nytimes.com ----- U.S. Sanctions on Islamabad Will Be Lifted The Bush administration moved to lift some economic and military sanctions against Pakistan, its new partner in the war on terrorism. nytimes.com ----- Europe Moves Against Those Tied to Attacks The pursuit of the network behind the terrorist attacks spread across Europe, with arrests in Britain, in France and the issuing of two arrest warrants in Germany. nytimes.com ----- MORE INTERNATIONAL NEWS: nytimes.com BUSINESS ========================= Congress Allocates $15 Billion to Help the Airline Industry Congress overwhelmingly passed a $15 billion package to bail out the ailing airlines and agreed to set up an open-ended federal fund to compensate victims of last week's terrorist attacks. nytimes.com ----- Confidence, in the Economy and the U.S., Is the Long-Term Issue As the Dow suffered its worst week since the Great Depression, fundamental attitudes about the American economy and faith in America itself are being tested. nytimes.com ----- Share Prices Plunge 14% for the Week, Second Worst Ever America's stock markets fell again Friday, ending one of the worst weeks in their history, as many investors moved their money out of stocks and into less risky assets. nytimes.com ----- MORE BUSINESS NEWS: nytimes.com TECHNOLOGY ========================= Microsoft Delays Release of Xbox Game System by a Week The Microsoft Corporation, following a pattern of delays and shortfalls by the makers of video game consoles, postponed by one week the North American release of its Xbox game system. nytimes.com ----- Concern Over Proposed Changes in Internet Surveillance Significant and perhaps worrisome changes in the government's Internet surveillance authority have been proposed by legislators in the wake of the attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. nytimes.com ----- Wireless Companies May Be Near Deal for New Licenses Federal officials and the wireless telephone industry are close to what could be a $17 billion settlement of the lawsuits between the government and NextWave Telecom. nytimes.com ----- MORE TECHNOLOGY NEWS: nytimes.com POLITICS ========================= Congress Allocates $15 Billion to Help the Airline Industry Congress overwhelmingly passed a $15 billion package to bail out the ailing airlines and agreed to set up an open-ended federal fund to compensate victims of last week's terrorist attacks. nytimes.com ----- For Bush, a Mission and a Defining Moment The terror attacks on New York and Washington have transformed President Bush's sense of himself and his presidency, his aides say. nytimes.com ----- Debating Whether New Agency Can Command, or Just Link Commanders How do more than 40 disparate agencies police borders, protect against terrorists and respond immediately to any attack? nytimes.com ----- MORE POLITICS NEWS: nytimes.com SPORTS ========================= Mets' Magic Shows No Signs of Disappearing Mike Piazza hit a two-run homer off Queens native Steve Karsay in the bottom of the eighth, lifting the Mets over Atlanta in dramatic fashion to cap an emotional evening at Shea Stadium. nytimes.com ----- Orioles Rally to Beat Yanks The Yankees rallied from two runs down in the ninth inning to take a one-run lead before losing to the Baltimore Orioles in the bottom of the ninth. nytimes.com ----- At Penn State, Unease Extends to Football In its first game in three weeks, Penn State's football team must contend with unease generated by last week's terrorist attacks and a fan base disappointed by a program that does not win as much as it used to. nytimes.com ----- Giants' Defense Hopes to Live Up to Hype nytimes.com Injury-Depleted MetroStars Get Ready for Playoffs nytimes.com Business Is Anything but Usual nytimes.com ----- MORE SPORTS NEWS: nytimes.com ARTS ========================= Stars Gather on TV to Raise Money and Pay Tribute A history-making all-star telethon to raise money for the terror relief effort was shaped by the wise idea that the public was ready for an eloquent expression of sorrow. nytimes.com ----- Thinkers Face the Limits of a Just War As Americans reel from the attacks, a moral equation hovers: what would be the appropriate, effective and just response by the most powerful nation on earth? nytimes.com ----- Brahms, Masur and Philharmonic Touch the Heart of the Matter If ever there was a moment when Americans, particularly New Yorkers, needed musical inspiration and healing it is now. nytimes.com ----- MORE ARTS NEWS: nytimes.com NY REGION ========================= Quiet Pockets Fill Up With Cries of Grief The trail of terror wrought in the Sept. 11 tragedy hit not only Manhattan, but also tread a path through several surrounding communities. nytimes.com ----- Officials Say Number of Those Still Missing May Be Overstated The possibility of the number of people listed as missing and feared dead in the World Trade Center attack could go down because of discrepancies in the number counted from abroad. nytimes.com ----- Already, Grim Statistics for New York Consumer Sales As New Yorkers try to recover from the World Trade Center attack, consumer confidence is eroding to a point where many are avoiding big-ticket purchases. nytimes.com ----- MORE NY REGION NEWS: nytimes.com OP-ED ========================= Remembering and Forgetting By BILL KELLER Oklahoma City rushed into the question of a proper memorial, as New Yorkers almost certainly will, as a form of healing. nytimes.com ----- 'To Thine Own Self Be True' By ANTHONY LEWIS We have urgent reasons of self-interest to make sure that our struggle against terrorism sticks to American values. nytimes.com ----- Afghans Can Be Our Allies By BARNETT R. 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To: marcos who wrote (1468)	10/3/2001 4:48:57 AM
From: Snowshoe	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 8273

OT - Some good news for a change... dailynews.yahoo.com Tuesday October 2 4:57 PM ET Scientists: Great Lakes Are Cleansing Themselves By Lesley Wroughton TORONTO (Reuters) - Canadian and U.S. scientists say they have proof the world's biggest fresh water system, the Great Lakes straddling Canada and the United States, are cleansing themselves of pollutants, and they are planning tests to see if the same is true in the Arctic. The unusual phenomenon was discovered by the bi-national Integrated Atmospheric Deposition Network (IADN), which says tests since 1992 show that significant quantities of polychlorinated biphenyls, or PCBs, and pesticides were being released into the atmosphere by the five Great Lakes -- Erie, Superior, Ontario, Michigan and Huron. The combined surface area of the lakes, which hold about 20 percent of the world's fresh surface water, is about 94,250 square miles. Dr. Keith Puckett, Environment Canada's manager of the IADN, likened the process to giant lungs that have been sucking in polluted air for the past 50 years. Now that the atmospheric levels of many of these pollutants have dropped, the lakes have started breathing out the pollutants again. He said that since Canada and the United States began regulating the use of certain chemicals, levels in the atmosphere started dropping and the lakes then began their own process of cleansing -- at twice the rate they took in. ``As air pollutants over the air drop, this then allows the lakes the opportunity to cleanse themselves and they do this through a process of volatilization or out-gassing of these compounds into the air,'' Puckett told Reuters. Now, Puckett and his team want to do the same tests around an archipelago of islands in the Arctic Ocean. ``Our greatest interest will be a group of small islands where we know that the wildlife there, the seals, walrus, polar bears, have high levels of these pesticides we can try to make same measurements there,'' he said. The studies of the IADN on the Great Lakes show that Lake Ontario, the smallest of the five lakes, released almost two tons of PCBs into the air from 1992 and 1996 as well as significant amounts of dieldrin, a widely banned insecticide. Puckett said data between 1992 and 1996 show there was a decrease of roughly 10 tons of PCBs in the lake and a net decrease of more than 4 tons of dieldrin. From remote IADN stations at each of the lakes, which are linked to a series of satellites, the scientists track some 20 atmospheric pollutants, he said. This year they will expand their monitoring to include mercury. Puckett said it was time to pay closer attention to air pollution from power plant smokestacks, factory boilers, household furnaces, fireplaces and smoking tailpipes on millions of vehicles. Each contributes its share of fine particles and ash, acid gases and smog-forming compounds to the atmosphere, some of which ends up in the Great Lakes. This was part of a new challenge, he said, adding that the IADN was still trying to determine the quantity of pollutants coming from local sources within the Great Lakes Basin, and how much was coming from continental or global sources outside. He estimated that about 30-40 percent of dioxins dropping into the lakes comes from local sources, but toxaphene, a now banned pesticide, was blowing in from the southern United States where it is used on cotton fields. ``There is still material going into the lakes but there is more coming out,'' Puckett said. ``In order to stop the material going in we have to ensure that material still being used in Canada and elsewhere is sort of limited and international agreements are put in place. With that, pollution levels will go down faster.''