binaryoppositionpublic

plan to be the first to exchange vows and kisses in the conference room Weir converted into a wedding chapel that hosts 1,200 couples a year

says Weir

"It's a big deal."

One happy byproduct is that Weir should be able to get Hemm on his long-term health plan. They already have stood by each other in sickness and in health: Hemm has AIDS.

Brazil's National Indian Foundation believes there may be as many as 68 "uncontacted" groups around Brazil, although only 24 have been officially confirmed.

Anthropologists say almost all of these tribes know about western civilization and have sporadic contact with prospectors, rubber tappers and loggers, but choose to turn their backs on civilization, usually because they have been attacked.

Brazilian officials once tried to contact such groups. Now they try to protectively isolate them.

our tribes monitored by Meirelles include perhaps 500 people who roam over an area of about 1.6 million acres.

Loggers are closing in on the Indians' homeland — Brazil's environmental protection agency said Friday it had shut down 28 illegal sawmills in Acre state, where these tribes are located

many people who've arrived over the last century and a half see this Native American land grab as a drain on their tax base and powers of economic development.

tribal leaders are increasingly removing the land from tax rolls by placing it into federal trust.

government officials and critics are trying to fend off the Native American's land rush.

"I don't think in the modern world it makes any sense to tie any individual rights to a tribal entity that is unaccountable," said David Vickers, president of Upstate Citizens for Equality in Verona, N.Y., an organization which disputes the notion of Native American sovereignty. "It's possible to maintain cultural identity without establishing a separate land base."

Other criticism followed and the coffee and doughnuts chain has now decided to drop the advert.

n a statement, Dunkin' Donuts said the silk scarf had been "selected by Rachael Ray's stylist and that no symbolism was intended.

One theory for the trend is that public health campaigns aimed at raising awareness of the problem and improving school meals have had a positive impact. Another suggestion is that there has been a natural levelling off related to the proportion of the population who are susceptible to obesity.

The towers would be about 50ft high and 8ft in diameter, and use a special type of plastic to absorb the CO2.

conducted drug raids and made arrests

police chief and two officers have been fired over the incident.

Gerald police officers burst into

the fake agent

personal property and took money.

homes in April and May, made arrests, damaged

some of those arrested had guns placed to their heads.

officials and police should have better verified Jakob's identity.

the nation's largest farming organizations and environmental groups.

Since 1990, farmers and consumer advocates have relied on the agency's detailed annual report

which states apply the most pesticides and where bug and weed killers are most heavily sprayed to help cotton, grapes and oranges grow.

uses the fine-grained data when figuring out how chemicals should be regulated, and which pesticides pose the greatest risk to public health.

program was cut because the agency could no longer afford to spend the $8 million the survey sapped from its $160 million annual budget.

could find similar data from private sources.

$500,000 it costs to buy a full set of the privately collected data each year

Eliminating the program "will mean farmers will be subjected to conjecture and allegations about their use of chemicals and fertilizer,"

Pesticide companies also rely on the program when they're looking to reregister agricultural chemicals

only do key surveys. Those include the monthly crop report, which influences commodity prices on the futures market, and livestock reports, which set the price for hogs and cattle.

What we'll end up doing is understanding pesticide use through getting accident reports," said Steve Scholl-Buckwald, managing director at the San Francisco nonprofit Pesticide Action Network. "And that's a lousy way to protect public health."

confronted and confounded thousands of other Iraqis since 2003 who have been freed by their nation's courts but remained in U.S. custody.

amnesty rulings could offer an early exit for many of the 27,000 prisoners in Iraqi hands.

Commanders say the current international mandate in Iraq, as well as general codes of war, allow them to hold any prisoner until the detainee is no longer considered a threat to U.S. forces.

faced by about 3,000 Iraqis since 2003 and stand as a sharp contrast between U.S. policies on the battlefield and Washington's appeals for Iraqis to build credible civic institutions.

"I don't know why the U.S. army brought him to an Iraqi court, if they intend to keep him for an unlimited time," said Humadi's lawyer, Samiya al-Baghdadi.

could wipe the slate for hundreds of the roughly 22,000 detainees held by the U.S. military

"The U.S. army's refusal to release my husband shows that the Americans do not care about how Iraqis suffer," Sundis Nimaa, Humadi's 34-year-old wife said

"They have brought my family down and they have separated the children from their father," she told The Associated Press. "They think they can do whatever they like because they have the upper hand in this country."

accuses Washington of rejecting the very legal system it helped forge.

the detention system is authorized by a U.N. resolution under which the Iraqi government allows U.S. troops to detain people at will.

complies with international laws covering warfare and was created in "the spirit" of the Geneva Conventions.

designed to take fighters off the streets, not determine guilt or innocence.

A ban on adverts for junk food during television programmes aimed at children under 16 came into force in January.

industry leaders said advertising in the UK is already heavily regulated.

And most of the 2,000 questioned want the government to do more to control the marketing of unhealthy food to children.

Which? said rules governing junk food advertising on the internet and on packaging were weak or non-existent, while current regulations on television advertising did not apply to the programmes most watched by children.

New types of promotions, like online and text messaging, have given food companies a whole new playground to promote unhealthy products to children.

With childhood obesity and diet-related health problems on the increase, the government must take serious action and soon."

"Our members take a responsible approach to the way they market their products and further restrictions would seem to be neither necessary nor proportionate."

"The reality is that the advertising industry takes a very responsible approach to food advertising. "There has been a real change in the nature and balance of food advertising to children."

used to treat drink and drug addictions, and even to help people give up smoking.

can help people test out their fears and practise different ways of coping.

They can take the confidence gained in VR into the real world

Dr Page Anderson, a psychologist at Georgia State University, has used VR technology to help people overcome their fears of flying and public speaking.

facing your fears

Facing fears in a virtual world is much more appealing than facing them in real-life

smells are delivered through an electronic scent machine.

distinct lack of realism

Dr Anderson, who has had patients cry and suffer panic attacks on virtual flights.

Binge-eating

Stroke

Burns

Researchers say this unique mixture of features is reflected in its DNA.

holds clues to how humans and other mammals first evolved

But it is the only member of the monotremes (egg laying mammals) for which we have a genetic blueprint.

The platypus is so strange that it was considered a hoax when sent from Australia to European researchers in the 19th Century.

"It has a very weird appearance because it's a mishmash of the bill of a duck, the eyes of a mole, the eggs of a lizard and the tail of a beaver," Dr Ponting told BBC News.

"One big surprise was the patchwork nature of the genome with avian, reptilian and mammalian features,

The platypus and the small spiny mammal known as the echidna are the only existing species of monotremes in the world.

charged with one count of conspiracy and three counts of accessing protected computers without authorization to get information used to inflict emotional distress on the girl.

first time the federal statute on accessing protected computers has been used in a social-networking case

Each of the four counts carries a maximum possible penalty of five years in prison

members agree to abide by terms of service

not promoting information they know to be false or misleading

soliciting personal information from anyone under age 18

not using information gathered from the Web site to "harass, abuse or harm other people."

conspired to violate the service terms from about September 2006 to mid-October that year,

egistered as a MySpace member under a phony name and used the account to obtain information on the girl.

"used the information obtained over the MySpace computer system to torment, harass, humiliate, and embarrass the juvenile MySpace member,"

After the girl killed herself, Drew and the others deleted the information for the account

19-year-old Ashley Grills, told ABC's "Good Morning America" she created the false MySpace profile but Drew wrote some of the messages to Megan.

Drew suggested talking to Megan via the Internet to find out what Megan was saying about Drew's daughter, who was a former friend.

Grills also said she wrote the message to Megan about the world being a better place without her

supposed to end the online relationship

"I was trying to get her angry so she would leave him alone and I could get rid of the whole MySpace,"

about one-fifth of the world's cropland considered degraded

cut production by about one-sixth

The cause of the current global food crisis is mostly based on market forces, speculation and hoarding

"Even the best seeds can't do anything in sand and gravel."

Genetic improvements in corn make it possible to grow up to 9,000 pounds of corn per acre in Africa. But millions of poor African farmers only get about 500 pounds an acre "because over the years, their soils have become very infertile and they can't afford to purchase fertilizers,"

The breach triggered severe migraines and near-seizure reactions in some site visitors who viewed the images. People with photosensitive epilepsy can get seizures when they're exposed to flickering images, a response also caused by some video games and cartoons

The attack happened when hackers exploited a security hole in the foundation's publishing software that allowed them to quickly make numerous posts and overwhelm the site's support forums.

Within the hackers' posts were small flashing pictures and links - masquerading as helpful - to pages that exploded with kaleidoscopic images pulsating with different colors.

"They were out to create seizures," said Ken Lowenberg, senior director of Web and print publishing for the foundation.

He said legitimate users are no longer able to post animated images to the support forum or create direct links to other sites, and it is now moderated around the clock. He said the FBI is investigating the breach.

Security experts said the attack highlights the dangers of Web sites giving visitors great freedom to post content to different parts of the site.

In a similar attack this year, a piece of malicious code was released that disabled software that reads text aloud from a computer screen for blind and visually impaired people

no other buyers have emerged wanting Circuit City.

likely to Blockbuster (BBI), where Carl Icahn has stepped up and agreed to finance (BusinessWeek.com, 5/9/08) a Circuit City acquisition. The billionaire—Blockbuster's largest shareholder—has bought into a "game-changing" scheme announced last month in which the troubled electronics retailer would be combined with the troubled movie retailer to create a new national chain selling consumer hardware and software.

Circuit City is in an extremely competitive business with heavy pressure from Wal-Mart Stores (WMT). At the same time, Circuit City comes saddled with 682 locations, many of which are in poor and underperforming areas, a fact that CEO Philip Schoonover often refers to when discussing his company's poor performance.

Its moribund prospects are likely to turn even gloomier, with U.S. consumer spending in the doldrums and unlikely to recover in the near term.

In March, the Commerce Dept. reported that spending grew just 0.1% and much of that was for necessities such as medical care and haircuts, not the electronics gear found at Circuit City and rivals.

Mr Neville, who heads the Visual Images, Identifications and Detections Office (Viido) unit, told the Security Document World Conference that the use of CCTV images as evidence in court has been very poor.

“Billions of pounds have been spent on kit, but no thought has gone into how the police are going to use the images and how they will be used in court,” he told the conference.

The aim of the Viido unit is to improve the way that CCTV footage is processed, turning it into a third forensic specialism alongside DNA analysis and fingerprinting.

Britain has more CCTV cameras than any other country in Europe.

Viido had launched a series of initiatives including a new database of images that will be used to track and identify offenders using software developed for the advertising industry.

This works by following distinctive brand logos on the clothing of unidentified suspects. By backtracking through images officers have often found earlier pictures of suspects where they have not been hiding their features.

Richard Thomas, the information commissioner, said: “We would expect adequate safeguards to be put in place to ensure the images are used only for crime detection purposes, stored securely and that access to images is restricted to authorised individuals.

expressed complex and arguably contradictory views on faith, perceiving a universe suffused with spirituality while rejecting organized religion.

Korean martial art taekwondo is in the Olympics

athletic, artistic and rhythmic yoga

Competitive yoga is a sport in some Indian schools today. Less known is that in most years since 1989 there has been a World-Wide Yoga Championship

it has far fewer participants than yoga

just the start of his list of Olympic events that yoga surpasses.

demonstrating a position in which she twists her feet behind her neck while balancing on one hand

two team members struck synchronized poses as required by the "artistic pair" competition

Judges score on flowing movement, steadiness and perfection of line and, in the words of Mr. Gopal, "a lack of stress and strain on the face."