30 August 2001

  • Israeli Army withdrew from Beit Jala after two days, leaving tanks nearby.
  • Two years after tragic elections, East Timor votes for "constituent assembly."
  • U.S. government and environmental groups compromise on dying-species protection.
  • Milosevic rants in court and has a lawyer assigned against his will.
  • 40,000 tax returns lost.
  • EU expands MS probe, claiming Windows Media Player tie-in deprives consumers of "free choice."
  • The tell-all-trash-about-Tina-Brown-book is banned in England.
  • Upoc has a celebrity-tracking service that is somehow parlayed as a social service.
  • A wide collection of skateboard decks.
  • Many business magazines were launched after troubled economic times, not before them.
  • Good photo collection for "2001: A Space Odyssey."