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Sunday, September 24, 2000
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ATMOSPHERE

1) Europe rolls out largest yet car-free day ENDS Daily - 
22/09/00 Some 800 European cities and municipalities today 
participated in the continent's largest yet "car-free day" 
initiative, aimed at raising awareness of motor traffic 
problems in cities and promoting more sustainable transport 
modes. Some 65m people from 25 European countries were 

2) The Daily Yomiuri (Tokyo) September 24, 2000, Pg. 2, 179 
words HEADLINE: Anti-car protesters hold landmark rally in 
Tokyo BODY: Demonstrators calling for a car-free society 
braved drizzle to parade in and around Yoyogi Park, Tokyo, 
on Saturday, as they participated in "Car Free Day 2000," a 
rally that was the first of its kind in the country and was 

3) The Nation (Thailand) September 23, 2000, 616 words, 
HEADLINE: Save-energy drive hailed a triumph BODY: 
AUTHORITIES yesterday declared Bangkok's "Car-Free Day" a 
success, with lighter traffic, less air pollution, 
increased use of public transport and millions of baht 
saved. Yesterday's traffic was about 10 per cent lighter 

4) The Ottawa Citizen September 24, 2000, SECTION: World; A8 
,596 words HEADLINE: Stronger sun blamed for global 
warming: Temperature rise caused by increase in solar 
radiation, scientists claim BYLINE: Jonathan Leake BODY: 
LONDON -- Scientists have dismissed claims that taxing fuel 
will stop global warming, because new evidence shows it is 

5) The Guardian (London) September 23, 2000, Guardian Home 
Pages, Pg. 9, 669 words HEADLINE: Traffic-free day fails to 
fuel UK interest: BYLINE: Suzanne Goldenberg, Michael 
Howard in Athens, John Hooper in Berlin, Jon Henley in 
Paris and Ian Black in Brussels BODY: Belgium Europe's 
car-free day got off to a symbolic start in the heart of 

ENERGY

6) International Herald Tribune (Neuilly-sur-Seine, France) 
September 23, 2000, News; Pg. 8, 796 words HEADLINE: Gas 
Protests Create a United Europe; Borders Are No Barrier to 
Public's Discontent Over Gasoline Prices BYLINE: By Peter 
Finn; BODY: If the governments of the European Union can 
find any comfort in the gasoline price protests that have 

7) Baltic News Service September 23, 2000, 340 words HEADLINE: 
OIL POLLUTION REACHES ESTONIAN PRESIDENT'S COASTLINE BODY: 
Large-scale oil pollution, which started in the Muuga port 
during the last weekend has by now reached the coastline 
along the tip of the Viimsi pensinsula where Estonian 
President Lennart Meri has his house. The pollution has 

8) The Associated Press. September 23, 2000, 76 words, 
Japanese tankers collide, causing 3,120 gallon oil spill 
BODY: Two Japanese tankers collided Saturday in the Pacific 
Ocean, spilling 3,120 gallons of heavy fuel oil into the 
sea, the Coast Guard said. None of the 11 crew members of 
the 499-ton Hozan Maru No. 8 - which released the oil - or 

9) Agence France Presse September 24, 2000, LENGTH: 149 words 
HEADLINE: Polish fishermen begin fuel protest BODY: 
Fishermen demonstrated against high petrol prices in most 
of Poland's fishing ports Sunday, launching the latest in a 
wave of fuel protests to hit Europe, the principal 
fishermen's organisation said. Around 300 trawlers lowered 

10) Agence France Presse September 23, 2000,157 words HEADLINE: 
Spanish fishermen continue blockades BODY: Spanish 
fishermen kept up a week of protests Saturday against 
rising fuel prices, maintaining a blockade of ports and 
wholesale markets. Fishermen at Motril on the southern 
Mediterranean coast blocked the entrance to the port for 

FORESTS

11) The New York Times September 24, 2000, Section 3; Page 6; 
Column 1; 1223 words HEADLINE: THE BUSINESS WORLD; 
Preserving the Forest By Leasing the Trees BYLINE: By REED 
ABELSON BODY: IT'S a hard sell. In trying to persuade 
developing nations to protect their wilderness areas, 
environmentalists often meet strong resistance. Why would 

12) The Guardian (London) September 23, 2000, Guardian Home 
Pages, Pg. 3, 363 words, HEADLINE: Dying breed: Ancient 
tribes fight violence, pollution and disease BYLINE: Paul 
Brown BODY: The Yanomami people are one of the truly 
Neolithic human groups in the world. There are still an 
estimated 21,000 of them spread across a vast area of 

GENETIC ENGINEERING

13) Indian peasant groups to launch campaign against global 
seed firms, 579 words, BODY: By Jay Shankar BANGALORE, 
India, Sept 23 (AFP) - More than 25 Indian peasants groups 
and foreign delegates will join a "Seed Tribunal" 
conference here Sunday to launch a fight against the 
globalisation of the seed industry, organisers said 

(Greenpeace)
14) INDEPENDENT ON SUNDAY, 24-Sep-2000, Online, NEW BLOW TO GM 
AS BIG STORES EXTEND THEIR BAN, 492 words, SUPERMARKET 
chains are striking a potentially fatal blow at GM food in 
Britain by refusing to sell meat, eggs and dairy products 
from animals fed on modified crops. The development slashes 
the crops' biggest remaining market and marks another 

(Greenpeace)
15) SUNDAY TELEGRAPH(LONDON) September 24, 2000, Pg. 37, 794 
words, HEADLINE: Melchett is an arrogant do-gooder BYLINE: 
By Auberon Waugh BODY: We all know that the English love a 
lord, but that cannot be the only explanation for Lord 
Melchett's acquittal by a Norwich jury on the charge that 
with 27 of his friends he had maliciously and criminally 

(Greenpeace)
16) THE DAILY TELEGRAPH(LONDON) September 23, 2000, Pg. 22, 925 
words, HEADLINE: What happens when juries stop thinking and 
start feeling The Saturday column BYLINE: By Minette Martin 
BODY: The jury system may be one of the few remaining 
jewels in the battered old British crown, and a light unto 
the nations, but I am beginning to feel a sneaking sympathy 

17) Agence France Presse September 23, 2000, 751 words, 
HEADLINE: Kraft recalls taco shells made with prohibited GM 
corn BODY: Kraft Foods announced Friday that it has begun a 
voluntary recall of taco shells recently revealed to 
contain a variety of genetically -modified corn not 
approved for human consumption. "As soon as we learned that 

MILITARY

18) The Boston Globe September 23, 2000, Pg. B3, 490 words, 
HEADLINE: MORTAR FIND AT BASE BOOSTS SAFETY WORRIES BYLINE: 
By Beth Daley, BODY: Cleanup workers unearthed more than 
225 potentially highly explosive mortars yesterday at the 
Massachusetts Military Reservation, 2,100 feet from an 
elementary school, raising new questions about safety at 

19) The Daily Yomiuri (Tokyo) September 23, 2000, Pg. 7, 753 
words, HEADLINE: 2 brothers joined in adversity BYLINE: 
Kakuya Ishida BODY: Twin brothers Viet and Duc have become 
human symbols of the aftereffects of defoliants, such as 
the infamous Agent Orange, used by the U.S. military during 
the Vietnam War, although it is uncertain whether these 

NUCLEAR POWER

20) The New York Times September 24, 2000, Section 1; Page 9; 
Column 1; 646 words; HEADLINE: Austria Fights Nuclear Plant 
Near Border In Czech Hills BYLINE: By LADKA BAUEROVA BODY: 
The four cooling towers of the Temelin nuclear power 
station overlook the rolling hills of the southern Czech 
Republic like a gigantic castle. But for most Austrians, 

21) CTK National News Wire September 23, 2000; 608 words 
HEADLINE: TEMELIN IS SAFE - AUSTRIAN SCIENTIST TELLS MLADA 
FRONTA DNES BODY: Safety systems of the Czech Temelin 
nuclear power station correspond to Western standards, one 
of the most influential Austrian nuclear researchers, 
professor Helmut Boeck from the Austrian universities' 

(Greenpeace)
22) Angry NGOs pan UK radioactive discharge plan ENDS Daily - 
22/09/00 British environmental groups have fiercely 
attacked UK government proposals on cutting radioactive 
discharges. NGOs today described an official plan released 
in the summer as "totally inadequate". "It is difficult to 
overestimate the anger and resentment which this document 

(Greenpeace)
23) INDEPENDENT ON SUNDAY; 24-Sep-2000; Online; SOVIET CLEAN-UP 
JOBS GIVEN TO BRITISH NUCLEAR FUELS 481 words BY JO DILLON 
POLITICAL CORRESPONDENT BRITISH NUCLEAR Fuels, its 
reputation tarnished after a run of safety scandals, has 
been chosen to clean up nuclear installations in the former 
Soviet Union and other eastern bloc countries. BNFL will 

OCEANS

24) The Toronto Star September 24, 2000, SECTION: NEWS; 616 
words; HEADLINE: FEDERAL BOATS HOOK NATIVE LOBSTER TRAPS 
BYLINE: Kelly Toughill BODY: This is an important fight and 
we will keep fighting, but you don't have to die to do 
that.'
 Native fisherman ATLANTIC CANADA BUREAU BURNT CHURCH, N.B. 

25) 09/22 Dust May Be Killing Coral By RANDOLPH E. SCHMID 
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The drought in Africa may be partly to 
blame for a decline in the coral in the Caribbean Sea, 
according to a team of researchers who found coral-damaging 
fungi in dust blown across the ocean. "Coincidental with 
the decline of Caribbean coral reefs over the past 25 

TOXICS

26) Vic: Hospital reopens after chemical contamination; 336 
words BODY: Toll Vic Chemicals MELBOURNE, Sept 24 AAP - A 
Victorian regional hospital reopened its emergency section 
today after closing yesterday due to contamination when two 
road accident victims drenched in pesticide were brought in.
Up to 40 different chemicals spewed onto the road and began 

27) The Ottawa Citizen September 24, 2000, SECTION: News; A1 / 
Front; 605 words; HEADLINE: Canadians are 'ready' for 
updated pesticide laws: Commons committe calls for ban on 
'cosmetic' use BYLINE: Mark Kennedy BODY: Canadians and 
their municipal leaders are ready to embrace proposed new 
rules to curb pesticide use on farms and urban lawns and 

28) The Toronto Star September 23, 2000, SECTION: WHEELS; 543 
words, HEADLINE: WHAT WILL HAPPEN TO THOSE 14 MILLION 
RECALLED TIRES? BYLINE: Warren Brown BODY: more lax markets 
WASHINGTON - I wonder what Bridgestone/Firestone is going 
to do with the millions of recalled tires it is now taking 
back. Will they be stacked away somewhere, awaiting the 

29) The Daily Yomiuri (Tokyo) September 23, 2000, Pg. 2; 252 
words; HEADLINE: Govt plan for industry outlines major cuts 
in dioxin emissions BODY: The government set goals for 
individual industrial sectors to reduce dioxin emissions by 
the end of fiscal 2002 at a meeting on antipollution 
measures on Friday. The plan sets target amounts of annual 

30) The Toronto Star September 23, 2000,SECTION: NAR, 276 words,
HEADLINE: BRIGHT BUGS SIGNAL POLLUTION BY BURNING OUT BODY: 
LONDON (Reuters) - Bacteria that glow are helping 
environmentalists detect and clean up contaminated areas, a 
Scottish scientist reports. Much like canaries in mines 
that warned miners of carbon monoxide, the bacteria are a 

31) 13 INDICTED IN BIGGEST LAB FRAUD IN AMERICAN HISTORY 
DALLAS, Texas, September 22, 2000 (ENS) - An environmental 
laboratory falsified test results at thousands of Superfund 
sites across the United States, the U.S. Department of 
Justice said Thursday. Thirteen former employees of the now 
closed lab have been indicted in what federal authorities 

X-OTHER-X

32) The Associated Press. September 23, 2000, 1887 words, 
World's indigenous people mount global campaign for rights, 
culture BYLINE: By JOSEPH COLEMAN, BODY: The plan seemed 
promising: build a series of multimillion-dollar dams along 
Chile's spectacular Bio-Bio River, boosting the country's 
troubled economy with vital foreign investment and jobs for 

33) Agence France Presse September 23, 2000, 1281 words, 
HEADLINE: Protestors block center of Prague in first major 
demo BYLINE: Michael Adler BODY: One thousand anarchists 
briefly blocked the centre of Prague Saturday in the first 
major demonstration against the World Bank and 
International Monetary Fund (IMF)'s annual meeting here. 

34) The Vancouver Sun September 23, 2000,SECTION: Travel; J2, 
718 words; HEADLINE: Earthweek: A Diary of the Planet 
BYLINE: Steve Newman BODY: MONKEY TRAGEDY A troop of 
furious monkeys in India's northeastern state of Assam 
brought traffic to a standstill after a baby monkey was hit 
by a car on a busy street. At least 100 of the animals 

35) Daily Record September 23, 2000, NEWS; Pg. 31; 442 words 
HEADLINE: FEARS FOR MISSING SCOTS ECO WARRIOR; GREEN 
CAMPAIGNERS ARE ASKED TO HELP FIND MARINA BYLINE: Jack 
Mathieson BODY: GREEN activists throughout Britain have 
been asked to help track down a Scots eco-warrior who has 
vanished without trace. Marina Findlay, 29, whose work has 

36) The Guardian (London) September 23, 2000, Guardian Home 
Pages, Pg. 3, 937 words, HEADLINE: Heart of darkness - how 
US scientist brought death to Amazon: Geneticist accused of 
letting thousands die in rainforest BYLINE: Paul Brown BODY:
Thousands of South American indians were infected with 
measles, killing hundreds, so that US scientists could 

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