Polluters Pay on the High Seas and other Lead stories
Australian authorities said on Tuesday they had charged the Japanese owners of a Panama-registered chemical tanker
with causing an oil spill near the Great Barrier Reef and
fleeing without reporting the incident. The charges carry a A$1.1 million (US$600,000) fine.

Democrats first again to announce no ads and political activity on 9/11.
Republicans came in on their matching decision midweek. Both parties have joined a growing number of corporations' not advertising on tv and other media

AND HE SAID:"When we get back to Washington after the ... August break, I look forward to working with the United States Congress to do
everything we can to effect an organizational change, which would then allow me to say more certainly to the American people, 'We're effective at
protecting the homeland.' " - President BUSH.
Get the feeling don't you that here is a man 'making war' home AND away. It might help to know whether he's with Mr Rumsfeld, or agin him or independent and taking all on hisself.? A seige mentality of one is hardly ON.

Science for non-scientists.. (Science-in-the-City) http://jsp.antville.org.

Once Was New York-unforgettable photo-journalism-
http://digitaljournalist.org/issue0111/biggart_intro.htm

A recent survey by the US magazine Advertising Age found more than half of all US consumers did not want to see ads on TV on September 11, with
nearly 40 per cent saying they would take a negative view of any company that did advertise
http://www.guardian.co.uk/Archive/Article 0,4273,4479106,00.html
An illustration of Walter Lippmann's "The American conscience is a reality."
ENDS-Dickenz