21 August 2001

  • White House considers backing out of plans to remove 50 tons of plutonium from warheads.
  • Portugal favors treatment over incarceration for drug addicts.
  • Bush calls on Congress to approve his education and defense spending immediately.
  • Amazon will allow some purchased items to be picked up at Circuit City stores.
  • A French collection of vintage lunchboxes.
  • A look inside today's teenager's backpack: only "dorks" take laptops.
  • A car that will tap you when someone's cutting you off: the application of Haptics.
  • First Fed-sponsored cyber-terrorists begin training this week.
  • Novartis goes under protest from dolls against genetically-modified ingredients.
  • A day in the life of a Palestinian doctor.
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