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Subject: [BPR] - Aug 3, 2000 TV Programs
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Date: Thu, 3 Aug 2000 08:44:20 -0400
8:00 PM Eastern
TLC - DISASTER DETECTIVES - "Water" - Experts search for
new methods to halt the human and economic loss caused by
water disasters.(CC)(TVG)
9:00
DISC - BETWEEN LIFE AND DEATH - Researchers explore the
possibility of life after death.(CC)(TVG)
HIST - WEALTH & POWER - "Celebrity" - Mary
Pickford; Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz; Steven Spielberg;
Oprah Winfrey.(CC)(TVG)
10:00
DISC - INTO THE UNKNOWN - "Ancient Puzzles" - Secret
codes, ancient puzzles and the Egyptian
pyramids.(CC)(TVG)
HIST - SILVER MINES - A silver mine discovery helps
establish Nevada as a state.(CC)(TVG)
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Subject: [BPR] - Rain-making network for China's west
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Date: Thu, 3 Aug 2000 08:48:11 -0400
Thursday, August 3, 2000
Rain-making network for China's west
By David Rennie in Beijing
CHINA is planning a network of rain-making bases using radar and cloud-
seeding aircraft to help to combat drought and forest fires in the country's
arid west.
The ambitious project could increase the average rainfall across the north-
west of China by up to 20 per cent, a senior official said yesterday.
Chen Zhiyu, director of the Weather Modification Division of the State
Meteorology Bureau, was careful to distance himself from some of the wilder
claims made for his technology, which involves scattering chemicals into the
heart of cloud formations, forming crystals that trigger rain or snowfall.
He said: "We cannot change the weather as we like. I don't think anyone
can. Success depends on harnessing the actual weather conditions at the
time."
http://www.telegraph.co.uk:80/et?ac=000118613908976&rtmo=3mwwH8xM&
atmo=77777ont&pg=/et/00/8/3/wrain03.html
Link via:
http://www.newsviewtoday.com
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Subject: [BPR] - Keo: The 50,000-Year Mission to Earth
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Date: Thu, 3 Aug 2000 12:58:32 -0400
Keo: The 50,000-Year
Mission to Earth
By Andrew Bridges
Pasadena Bureau Chief
posted: 07:00 am ET
31 July 2000
Itīs 52,001: A Space Odyssey.
A nonprofit French group hopes to launch a satellite
on a 50,000-year spin around Earth next year, loading
it with as many as 6 billion messages from humans
eager to give the far-flung future a glimpse of the
present.
"As long as our life span seems limited at 120
years, itīs a way to let a part of yourself live on
for a long, long time -- whether itīs on orbit around
Saturn or around Earth."
Former JPL scientist Charley Kohlhase
Called Keo, the satellite project is as much a message
in a bottle or time capsule as it is a high-flying art
project.
"It is a blend of those three things," said Jean-Marc
Philippe, the French artist spearheading the mission.
Since the project began in 1994, its organizers have
collected messages – through its website and by mail –
from across the globe to include in Keo, which will
crash back to Earth after traveling an estimated 9
trillion miles (14.5 trillion kilometers) around the
planet.
The Keo satellite.
Anyone is free to contribute the equivalent of four
typewritten
pages to be digitally tucked aboard the 100 digital
versatile
disks (DVDs) Keo will carry.
So far, submissions have poured in from
120 countries in 50 different languages,
with everyone from Israeli schoolgirls to
American prisoners loaning their
uncensored thoughts to the project
"Itīs not celebrities telling us what they
think, itīs the person in the street getting
to tell us what they think," said Veronica Quinn, a
Keo spokeswoman.
The projectīs international scope is even reflected in
its name: "Keo" is made of the three phonemes most
common among all the worldīs languages.
The satellite will venture into space late in 2001 as
a secondary payload aboard either a Russian or French
rocket. For its first few years in orbit, Keo will
sport an artful pair of wings 33 feet (10 meters)
across that will aid in its spotting from Earth.
Placed in a 1,110-mile (1,800-kilometer) orbit, it
should take the 220-pound (100-kilogram) satellite a
leisurely 50 millennia to return to Earth, thanks to
the effects of gravity, the pressure of solar
radiation and atmospheric friction.
"Itīs a way of making a key part of yourself live on
for a long time," said Charley Kohlhase, a former NASA
Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) scientist, of the
projectīs appeal.
Indeed, Kohlhase helped open the door to the concept.
While working as the science and mission-design
manager for the Cassini mission to Saturn, Kohlhase
spearheaded a project to allow people to forward their
signatures to JPL, where they were scanned, digitized
and recorded on a CD-ROM placed aboard the spacecraft.
"It seems to be a general rule now of missions that go
anywhere to include something of this sort," said
Louis Friedman, executive director of The Planetary
Society, which helped scan the more than 600,000
names. NASAīs Pathfinder, Mars Polar Lander and
Stardust spacecraft all carry or carried similar
disks.
(Pioneers 10 and 11 and Voyagers 1 and 2 also carried
disks, but did not include messages sent by members of
the general public. Galileo carries thousands of
names, but only of mission members, contractors and
their families. A private project called Encounter
2001 will take the concept one step further next year
when it launches both human ashes and DNA samples into
space for a fee.)
http://www.space.com/missionlaunches/missions/keo_mission_000731.html
Part 2
1 2
Keo: The 50,000-Year Mission to
Earth(cont.)
"As long as our life span seems limited at 120 years,
itīs a way to let a part of yourself live on for a
long, long time -- whether itīs on orbit around Saturn
or around Earth," Kohlhase said. "Itīs unique, itīs a
way of separating yourself from the people who didnīt
do it."
In that sense, Keo is as much about the present as it
is the future.
"The main purpose of Keo is that as soon as the
satellite is launched into space, all people on Earth
will share the messages. They will be anonymous, but
it is possible that through them to have a new image
of humanity today," Philippe said of plans to publicly
release copies of Keoīs contents after launch.
Artist's conception of the return of the
Keo
satellite, 50,000 years from now.
Upon its return – targeted for 52,001, give or take a
few millennia – the satellite will give whoever
happens to be around an impressive show, as it lights
up the sky as it streaks through the atmosphere. By
that time, the satellite and its contents will be as
old as Meteor Crater in Arizona is today.
Unlike the space rock that struck Arizona, the
tenacious satellite should survive its fall intact.
Successive sheaths of titanium, tungsten, carbon and
aluminum will shield and cushion Keoīs contents while
on orbit and during reentry and landing.
"If the sphere falls in water, it will float and if it
hits the ground, it will be like a ‘black box,ī"
Philippe said.
The core sphere, just 32 inches (80 centimeters) in
diameter, will be engraved with an image of the Earth.
Keoīs backers hope the sphereīs discoverers will crack
it open to reveal its contents.
The bulk of the payload will be 100 glass,
radiation-resistant DVDs, each containing the millions
of messages that Keoīs backers have been busy
gathering.
"The challenge to get messages from all around the
world is harder than actually building the capsule,"
Philippe joked.
Along with the disks, Keo will also contain:
a collage of portraits of human beings;
an astronomical clock showing the current
position and rotation speed of different radio
pulsars that will allow the sphereīs finders to
calculate when Keo was launched; a library of
sorts that will sum up the state of affairs in
the present; an artificial diamond containing
seawater, air and soil samples and a drop of
human blood.
Since a DVD player could never survive impact,
diagrams explaining how to build one from scratch will
be engraved on the surface of several dozen of the
disks.
"I would just question doing it with an encoded format
and not just a visual format," said Alexander Rose,
the executive director of The Long Now Foundation. The
San Francisco-based group is developing what it calls
a "Rosetta Disk," a 2-inch (5-centimeter) plug of
nickel that can be micro-engraved with as many as
350,000 pages of data.
By preserving the disk, and perhaps 1,000 different
translations of the book of Genesis and other messages
in a variety of tongues, Long Now hopes it will serve
as a long-term linguistic archive and translation
engine that will allow for the recovery of lost
languages 10,000 years in the future.
Rose warns only analog – not digital – formats can
promise that kind of longevity.
"We canīt even read our (Microsoft) Word 3.0 files,"
he said.
Keoīs Quinn said the project is leaving the challenge
of deciphering the disks to the future.
"How long will our descendants take to decode our
glass disks? One day or a thousand years?" Quinn said.
"We will never know."
http://www.space.com/missionlaunches/missions/keo_mission_000731_2.ht ml
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Subject: [BPR] - Space-age ID system takes parts and products tracking to new heights
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Date: Thu, 3 Aug 2000 13:14:21 -0400
Jerry Berg
Media Relations Department
Marshall Space Flight Center
Huntsville, AL
(256) 544-0034
jerry.berg@msfc.nasa.gov
For Release: August 1, 2000
Release: 00-233
Space-age ID system takes parts and products tracking to new heights
Think of them as barcodes with an attitude.
They're permanent, scannable, sometimes invisible, and they're popping up
on items from vitamins to computer chips. They're matrix symbols, first
studied for use by NASA in 1987 to help in tracking Space Shuttle
components.
"In the space program, we have to track millions and millions of parts -- even
tiny electrical components no larger than a dime -- to be certain of the
integrity of critical systems," said Fred Schramm of NASA's Marshall Space
Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala. "We need to know where each part was
made, who touches it along the way and when and where it is installed."
This led NASA to study the matrix symbol -- technology that takes parts
identification to the next level.
At the beginning of the Shuttle program, NASA tracked parts manually. "As
the flight rate increased, we were gathering as much information as several
large grocery stores each day," said Schramm, manager for engineering
application projects for Marshall's Technology Transfer Department. "That
created a backlog of paperwork that took as long as three months to catch
up with the finished product."
In the mid-1980s, NASA turned to the barcode system, saving millions of
dollars annually through automatic data entry.
"Barcode labels, however, didn't work well on some parts, especially ones
that were small," Schramm said. "And a sticky label isn't going to last long
on a Shuttle heat tile during the return to Earth. We had to find something
that performed like a barcode but would remain readable for the part's full life
cycle."
Enter the matrix symbol, capable of storing as much as 100 times the
information as a barcode -- and in the same amount of space. The symbol is
a small, square-shaped mark resembling a checkerboard. Unlike a barcode,
which is scanned using a laser beam, the symbol is captured by a charged-
coupled device (CCD), a solid-state chip that turns light into electric signals.
In 1997, the Marshall Center moved to introduce the permanent marking
aspect of this technology into the commercial sector. Marshall formed an
alliance with the developer of the "Data Matrix" symbol CiMatrix, a Canton,
Mass., firm, and its parent company Robotic Vision Systems, Inc. (RVSI), to
develop commercial applications for NASA's marking technologies.
"The applications for Data Matrix are unlimited," said Don Roxby, director of
CiMatrix's Symbology Research Center. "Our staff has applied readable
symbols on more than 80 different materials, including metal, plastics, glass,
paper, fabric and ceramics. We have a method for successfully marking
almost any substance or item."
The symbols have begun appearing on items used every day, said Roxby.
"Because of their versatility, Data Matrix symbols are on a wide variety of
products -- household items like Colman's English Mustard, Mennen
Speedstick, Wyeth-Ayerst vitamins and Kodak film."
The technology has become the method of choice for direct-part marking in
the automotive, health, semi-conductor, aircraft and electronics industries,
he said.
"Before this technology was available, computer chip manufacturers had no
way of marking their products, and counterfeit and stolen chips flooded the
market," Roxby said. "The same is true with other small electronic parts.
With Data Matrix, companies can place permanent marks on their
components -- an obstacle to thieves and counterfeiters."
But it doesn't stop there, said Schramm. NASA as part identification needs
that go beyond marks that can be seen.
Markings might be covered by paint, cork, foam or other protective coatings.
Patents are pending for six methods of reading the symbols under coatings,
through containers or within an assembly. NASA is currently soliciting
partners to develop hand-held devices for reading these "invisible" markings.
Interested companies should contact the Marshall Technology Transfer
Department.
"This identification process will have untold implications for industry, as well
as NASA," Schramm said. "New marking methods -- possibly ready this
year -- should open the door to marking parts that must operate under
extreme pressure, in some cases, thousands of pounds per square inch."
[NOTE: Images supporting this release are available at
http://www1.msfc.nasa.gov/NEWSROOM/news/photos/2000/photos00-
233.htm
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Subject: [BPR] - The final slap across Barak's face
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Date: Thu, 3 Aug 2000 18:29:05 -0400
Thursday, August 3, 2000
The final slap across Barak's face
By Yossi Verter
The Knesset could not take its leave of Prime Minister Ehud Barak
yesterday without first spitting in his face one more time. The more
contemptuous Barak grows of the Knesset, the harder it bites back. On
Monday, it was Shimon Peres' turn to fall victim to the growing alienation
between Barak and the public's representatives. Yesterday, it was Barak's
turn.
The five bills to dissolve the Knesset, which passed their preliminary
readings yesterday with large majorities, do not reflect MKs' desire for
elections. If the MKs truly wanted this, Barak would have been toppled at the
beginning of the week by the no-confidence motion and elections would have
been scheduled for October.
There may not be a majority in the Knesset to call for new elections, but
there is a clear majority to degrade and disgrace the prime minister. His
minority government was dealt blow after blow as each one of the bills
passed.
Private-member bills were approved without any thought, as if there was no
tomorrow. The coalition members just sat there, heads slumped, staring in
disbelief at the electronic scoreboard, praying for the day to end, for the
session to end - this dreaded session of Barak's out-of-control government.
And then David Levy, the never-tiring quitter, chose to convene a press
conference at the Knesset to announce, for the third time in eight days, that
he is resigning as foreign minister.
His resignation speeches are becoming more and more moderate. In 1993, it
was the "monkey" speech; in 1998, he just exclaimed, "I've had enough;"
and yesterday, he mentioned his "rare friendship" with Barak four times. And
it really does seem as if he is sorry.
Levy, who has realized that his political future lies with the Likud, sounded
yesterday like his former party's propaganda announcements, looking
straight at the camera and repeating three times: "a divided Jerusalem."
Later on, he gave Likud Chair Ariel Sharon a warm greeting.
According to Barak, though, things are not as bad as they seem. This led
Channel Two to ask the prime minister if he is not, perhaps, a little cut-off
from reality. "Me?" questioned Barak, smiling mischievously, "The
presidential election showed me just how in touch with reality you are.
http://www.haaretzdaily.com/htmls/kat7_3.asp
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Subject: [BPR] - Arutz-7 News items (8/3/00)
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Date: Thu, 3 Aug 2000 18:39:34 -0400
BARAK MEETS MUBARAK
Prime Minister Ehud Barak met with Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak in
Alexandria for several hours today, attempting to convince Mubarak not to
pressure Arafat to remain insistent regarding Jerusalem. The two leaders
did not hold a press conference after their meeting or issue an
announcement. Riki Shushan, a correspondent for Makor Rishon who
accompanied Barak to Egypt, said that Mubarak was not anxious to field
questions about the extent of his involvement in Arafat's strong stance.
The Americans have similarly been pressuring Mubarak regarding
Arafat. Communications Minister Binyamin Ben-Eliezer said today that
American mediator Dennis Ross will arrive in Israel within a week or two to
renew the final-status talks between Israel and the Palestinians.
The Alexandria visit took place amidst strong tensions in Barak's One
Israel-Labor party, in the wake of the major defeats the party suffered
this week. The loss of Shimon Peres in the Presidential election, and
yesterday's preliminary votes to dissolve the Knesset, were the catalysts
for last night's faction meeting, at which Barak exuded strong confidence
about the government's future and its objectives. "We must continue to
storm the target," he said, "and whoever feels that he cannot withstand the
pressure, is asked to step aside." Several leading Labor MKs criticized
what they saw as Barak's failure to recognize the severe state into which
the party and the government have fallen.
To calm the tensions, Minister Shlomo Ben-Ami said almost categorically
today that he would not run against Ehud Barak in the next
elections. Ben-Ami has devoted one day a week over the past months in
meeting with the public and building public support.
THE GOVERNMENT THAT WAS
Following is a list of Ministers and Deputy-Ministers who have resigned
from the Barak government over the past year:
Health Minister Shlomo Benizri (Shas);
Industry and Trade Minister Ran Cohen (Meretz);
Religious Affairs Minister Yitzhak Cohen (Shas);
Foreign Minister David Levy (One Israel-Gesher);
Housing and Construction Minister Yitzchak Levy (NRP);
Transportation Minister Yitzchak Mordechai (Center Party);
Agriculture Minister Chaim Oron (Meretz);
Education Minister Yossi Sarid (Meretz);
Interior Minister Natan Sharansky (Yisrael B'Aliyah);
Infrastructures Minister Eliyahu Suissa (Shas);
Labor and Social Affairs Minister Eliyahu Yeshai (Shas);
Deputy Religious Affairs Minister Yigal Bibi (NRP);
Deputy Finance Minister Nissim Dahan (Shas);
Deputy Education Minister Meshulam Nahari (Shas);
Deputy Immigration Absorption Minister Marina Solodkin (Yisrael B'Aliyah);
Deputy Communications Minister Yitzhak Vaknin (Shas);
Deputy Education Minister Sha'ul Yahalom (NRP).
Former Tourism Minister Amnon Lipkin-Shachak has taken over the
Transportation Ministry, but the other ministries - Health, Industry and
Trade, Religious Affairs, Foreign Ministry, Housing, Agriculture,
Education, Interior, Infrastructures, and Labor - are not under the
supervision of any minister at present. In addition to his role as Prime
Minister and Defense Minister, Ehud Barak has official jurisdiction over
the vacated ministries.
ANOTHER DROUGHT WOULD BE CATASTROPHIC
Another drought-ridden winter next year would result in losses of six
billion shekels to the State of Israel. So reported Agriculture Ministry
Director-General Yossi Yeshai to the Fruit Growers Association
today. Yeshai said that a drought year would cause severe damage to fields
and orchards across Israel, as well as introduce thousands of agricultural
workers to the unemployment lines. He estimated that such a situation
would also mandate a 60-70% cut in water use for farmers. Yeshai said that
his office is in the midst of drawing up emergency plans for the event of
another dry winter.
RELIGIOUS TENSIONS IN NAZARETH
Christian-Moslem tensions are heating up again in Nazareth. Policemen and
Waqf officials clashed today at the mosque adjacent to the Church of the
Annunciation in the city's downtown. The incident began when Waqf
officials attempted to bring construction materials onto the site, in
defiance of police orders. During the riot, the Moslems shouted
nationalist slogans and sparred with police officers. Despite the fact that
the land in question is owned by the town's Christian community, an
agreement between the government and the Waqf permits the Moslems to
build
a 700-square meter mosque on the premises.
IN BRIEF
The Camp David summit seems to have left a violent taste in the mouths
of
many Palestinians. A poll taken of 1,300 Palestinians in Judea, Samaria,
and Gaza after the summit shows that 52% are in favor of armed attacks
against Israeli targets - the highest this figure has been in six
years. Some 63% are in favor of taking an example from Hizbullah in waging
the struggle against Israel...
The Director of the Antiquities Authority, Amir Drori, has announced his
resignation from the position. The Authority, with Drori at its helm, has
found itself in the center of several national controversies, most recently
the illegal construction and artifact-destruction by the Moslem Waqf on the
Temple Mount. Drori served in the position for 12 years, and will continue
there until his successor is found...
SPECIAL INSERT: Excerpts from a rare interview granted by Likud leader
Ariel Sharon to Arutz-7's Haggai Segal today:
Arutz-7: [Referring to yesterday's Likud celebrations] Aren't you
celebrating a bit early?
Ariel Sharon: ... We definitely think that the election of Moshe Katzav as
President is a real revolution, a very welcome development, something that
will help increase unity in our nation... Yesterday, we conducted a mass
tour in the Jordan Valley and in other places - similar to those which we
conducted around the country in the campaign of 1981, when we scored an
amazing victory and won 48 Knesset seats. This was the first of a series
of such marches - and it was very successful - to explain the critical
importance of the Jordan Valley, and to show the public all the things that
Barak promised and did not fulfill - education, health, welfare - there is
hardly any area in which he made a promise and fulfilled it.
A7: He lists the withdrawal from Lebanon as one of his fulfilled promises...
AS: Yes. Look, this too he did not exactly invent. I can tell you
regarding myself that three years ago I demanded a unilateral withdrawal -
and even further back, in October 1982 [four months after the beginning of
the war in Lebanon] I proposed that we leave Lebanon, but I then ceased
being Defense Minister, such that I could not act on this... Barak swore
that he would not divide Jerusalem, but he violated his vow and divided
Jerusalem, and we heard Foreign Minister David Levy say clearly in what is
practically an official confirmation that Barak was dividing the very heart
of the city. Barak also violated his promises regarding the Jordan Valley
and the return of Arab refugees, something which no Prime Minister in
Israel ever agreed to. He must therefore be replaced... and we will do so,
with a nationalist government that has Israel's basic national interests at
heart...
A7: The question is when will this happen, because as you know, Ehud
Barak
hopes to bring an agreement with the Palestinians before the election
campaign.
AS: Barak is apparently very inexperienced in political matters, and he
thinks that he will be able to sneak something by us...
A7: You mean that he will not succeed?
AS: What do you think, we're going on vacation? We might be sending our
children, or our grandchildren, on vacation, but we ourselves are not. We
are working straight through, and are standing guard. All his talk about
three months [of Knesset recess] in which to work are meaningless, and we
are very much on guard...
A7: Will you submit a no-confidence motion during the three-month recess?
AS: All our options are open... We will not weaken until we switch this
failing government...
A7: Do you think that a Likud government will be able to stand firmly on
its demands and interests, even at the price of an armed clash with the
Palestinians?
AS: I would advise the present leaders not to threaten their own people,
their own country, with all sorts of scares about war and the like. I
think that Barak made a great error when he went even further than that and
enlisted foreign leaders to explain to the Israeli public that if it does
not give in then there will be terrorism and war. At such a rate, there
will be no end to Arafat's demands, because they can always threaten us
with war! Even now, Arafat continues to demand, because Barak went to
Camp
David without clear and agreed-upon red lines. Arafat, who is much more
experienced and wily in negotiations of this sort, saw right away that he
was dealing with a man without experience and who could easily be
pressured. Both of them came to Camp David with nothing, but at the end,
Barak returned with nothing, while Arafat returned with several promises
from Barak for future concessions...
A7: To what extent would a Likud government be obligated to these
promises?
AS: These promises will not be fulfilled [by us], as Barak himself and the
Americans said that these promises are null and void in light of the
failure of the Camp David summit. The problem is, however, that Barak will
continue to make every effort to reach an agreement... including further
concessions. We will not rest, however, until we switch this government,
and form a nationalist government, with peace with security, peace for
generations, and with a united Jerusalem...
Arutz Sheva News Service
<http://www.IsraelNationalNews.com>
Thursday, August 3, 2000 / Av 2, 5760
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Subject: [BPR] - Earth Alert items
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Date: Thu, 3 Aug 2000 18:41:06 -0400
Quake Rocks Solomon Islands
August 3, 2000 =97 Residents ran into streets as
their homes shook from a strong earthquake on
the Pacific's Solomon Islands Thursday. No reports
of damage or injury have been made, said Police
Sgt. Robert Maehanur to Solomon Islands
Broadcasting Corporation radio.
It remains unknown whether the 6.8 magnitude
temblor near the Solomon Islands' Santa Cruz
Island provoked any form of tsunami wave.
The quake was confirmed by Spiro Spilliopoulos of
the Australian Geological Survey Organization to
occur at 12:10 PM about 470 miles east-southeast
of Honiara, the Solomons' capital.
Indonesian Capital
Shaken by Quake
August 2, 2000 =97 A
magnitude 5.5 earthquake
jolted Indonesia's capital
of Jakarta on Tuesday at
1:59 a.m. local time, but
there were no immediate reports of injuries or
damage.
Soehardjono of the country's meteorological agency
reported that the quake was centered 155 miles
northwest of Jakarta and occurred beneath the Java
Sea.
Indonesia is frequently hit by earthquakes due to
its location on the Pacific Ring of Fire =97 a
volcanically active string that stretches from the
western coasts of the Americas across to Japan,
Southeast Asia and the South Pacific.
Philippine Capital
Jolted by Quake
August 2, 2000 =97 A
magnitude 5.7 earthquake
hit the main Philippine
island of Luzon on
Tuesday at 3:10 p.m.
local time, shaking the capital Manila and cracking
the walls of the city's Senate building. Although the
swaying, which was reported to have lasted 15
seconds, panicked residents, there were no reports
of casualties or injuries.
Manila's Senate building is constructed on land
reclaimed from Manila Bay.
The Philippine Institute of Volcanology and
Seismology reported that the tremor was centered
about 100 miles northeast of Manila off Quezon
Province. It occurred 52 miles beneath the seabed
of the Philippine Sea.
Seismologists said the quake was caused by
movement of the East Luzon Trench, which runs
along the eastern side of the main island of Luzon.
It is one of numerous faults that crisscross the
country.
Weekend Quakes
Shake Japanese
Islands
July 31, 2000 =97 Japan's
Izu island chain continued
to be rocked by
earthquakes during the
weekend, culminating with a magnitude 6.2 tremor
that injured one man and triggered landslides. The
strongest quake was felt as far away as Tokyo. The
islands, south of the capital, have been shaken by
thousands of earthquakes since late June when
seismic activity began at Mount Oyama Volcano on
Miyakejima Island.
The magnitude 6.2 quake triggered three
landslides and ruptured a water pipe on the hardest
hit island of Miyakejima. One man on the island
was injured when he was hit on the head by a
falling object. Television reports showed a
supermarket with its aisles littered with fallen cans=
.
http://www.discovery.com/news/earthalert/000731/index/quake_index.html
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Subject: [BPR] - Lightning Shuts Monument Days After Reopening
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Date: Thu, 03 Aug 2000 23:52:59 -0500
Aug 2, 2000
Lightning Shuts Monument Days After Reopening
WASHINGTON (AP) - Just three days after it reopened from seven
months' rehab, the Washington Monument was closed Wednesday because
an overnight lightning strike knocked out the elevator and the air
conditioning system.
The National Park Service said the doors were not opened for
visitors, some of whom waited in line two hours to get tickets.
Around 2,000 free tickets were issued for admission Wednesday. The
park service said they will not be honored Thursday.
"People will just have to start the process all over," spokeswoman
Donna Donaldson said.
The tickets are distributed each morning on a first-come,
first-served basis.
After being closed since December as part of a multiyear project, the
115-year-old monument reopened Monday after a $10 million facelift
that included a massive cleaning.
It will be closed again in December to finish the work. The National
Park Service hopes for a permanent reopening in February or March.
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