The Cody News (May 12, 2005)

UK politician targeted by US Senate is local hero
Wired News - 50 minutes ago
By Peter Graff. LONDON (Reuters) - To the US Senate he may have been receiving favors from Saddam Hussein, but to the inner London voters who elected him to parliament last week, George Galloway is the only one who speaks their language. ...
What an utter crock that these entities like the UN shift billions upon billions of dollars from taxpayers around the world into their cronies pockets -- and the public doesn't grasp how out of control it is.

N. Korea unloads nuclear fuel rods
Berkshire Eagle - 42 minutes ago
By James Brooke. TOKYO -- North Korea said yesterday it has removed 8,000 spent fuel rods from a nuclear reactor, a step that could provide the communist state with more plutonium for nuclear weapons. "The ...
Gulp.

Gates sees mobile phones overtaking iPods - paper
Reuters - 1 hour ago
FRANKFURT (Reuters) - Microsoft founder Bill Gates sees mobile phones overtaking MP3s as the top choice of portable music player, and views the raging popularity of Apple's iPod player as unsustainable, he told a German newspaper. ...
What's he supposed to say? "Apple's won the digital music wars before we even got on the battlefield"?

Michael Jackson never molested me: Culkin
CBC News - 2 hours ago
SANTA MARIA, CALIF. - Actor Macaulay Culkin denied that pop star Michael Jackson ever abused him as he took the stand at Jackson's child molestation trial Wednesday. Culkin, who is now 24, made many visits ...
Jon Stewart's Daily Show is sorta' the model for most of these blogs that pull headlines and then bashes them. Jon commented the other day that if your best defense in a child molestation trial is that you've slept with lots of other children whom you didn't molest....well, you might have problems with that defense.

Birth Month Could Determine When Menopause Hits
WBAL Channel.com - 2 hours ago
Italian researchers found women born in March have the earliest age of menopause at 48. It is years later for women born around October. For them, menopause starts at about age 50. The findings, published ...
This just in -- the month that you're born in determines your personality type too. Really. For example, I was born in late August, and some researchers over the past few thousand years have determined that makes me :

have an eye for detail and good powers of discrimination. Your intellectual ability, loyalty, honesty, flair for analysis, and love of work marks you as an expert in your chosen profession. A sense of harmony comes from doing something useful, preferably for others. Although you give the impression of being unemotional, reserved and cool, in reality you have a kind heart and a real sense of service - more so than most! Hygiene in all things is another strong point. On the negative side, you can be finicky, worried over trivia, highly strung, inhibited and unable to relax or relate to others in a balanced way. Your main task is one of overcoming hyper criticism and learning to relax in order to rule out any possibility of nervous or physical strain.
Career
Likely occupations are all professions related to writing, scientific work, psychology, or all businesses dependent upon analysis.
Love
You are very attractive sexually because you have an aura of quiet strength but this doesn't hide a fiery passion underneath as expected. Despite this you are affectionate and make an excellent lover but need a partner who is satisfied by an immaculate performance with no emotions. Although unemotional you are faithful and once in a relationship you expect your partner to become part of the plans you have mapped out for yourself.

Scientists around the world unite!