Palm Beach Post | By Alex Clifton | November 4, 2003
Buried in a bill that provides money for the war in Iraq is an $8.5 million federal boost for Miami to host the Free Trade Area of the Americas conference later this month.
Passed in the House last week and the Senate Monday, the FTAA money is a single line within the massive Iraq bill.
The Toronto Star | By Carol Goar | November 3, 2003
Roy Romanow's health-care blueprint is about to be put to its second big test.
It still hasn't passed Test #1.
Drug Week | October 31, 2003
Inside a laboratory in Brazil's coffee-growing region, scientists painstakingly replicate brand name drugs and oversee mass production of cheap copies to treat ailments ranging from Parkinson disease to AIDS.
The Australian | By Cathy Pryor | October 20, 2003
THE UN body on arts and culture, UNESCO, has adopted a resolution aimed at protecting cultural diversity from globalisation at its general conference which wrapped up in Paris on the weekend.
Associated Press | By UAMDAO NOIKORN | October 17, 2003
A ritual curse has been placed on him. His spirit will be potted and thrown into a river. Some want him tried for murder and terrorism.
The Guardian | By Naomi Klein | October 13, 2003
Fighting Aids was supposed to show George Bush's softer side. "Seldom has history offered a greater opportunity to do so much for so many," he said in his State of the Union address in January.
Agence France Presse | By SHINO YUASA | September 30, 2003
Nearly 50 African nations and the international community on Tuesday discussed peace and the failure of global trade talks as they began the second day of a three-day conference on African development here.
