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BLOGGERS IN THE NEWS: Scientists and engineers at Los Alamos, the
federal government’s premier nuclear weapons laboratory, have created www.lanl-the-real-story.blogspot.com, a blog that is threatening the tenure of its director, G. Peter Nanos.
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"Four months of
jeers, denunciations and defenses of Dr. Nanos’s management recently
culminated in dozens of signed and anonymous messages concluding that
his days were numbered. The postings to a public Web log conveyed a
mood of self-congratulation tempered with sober discussion of what
comes next," Read more about it at the New York Times.
CITY NEWS: Police say 34 people were arrested for disorderly conduct and other charges at Friday night’s Critical Mass bike ride. The event, which is held on the last Friday of every month, has been at the center of various court hearings in the past.
Citing public safety concerns, the NYPD has been trying to force riders to seek a permit for their protests. Participants say the rally is meant to promote alternative modes of transportation. They say the events are peaceful and that the city’s attempts to stop them violate their rights. Read more about it at NY 1.
_From the Daily News: "the crew of the Circle Line made a dramatic rescue yesterday of a woman who plunged off the ferry into the Hudson River while stunned tourists watched from the decks. The pleasant afternoon trip to the Statue of Liberty and Ellis Island turned into a life-and-death struggle as the sailors raced to fish the woman from the choppy waters. "I don’t want to die. I don’t want to die," the woman moaned as she bobbed in the cold river before the lifeboat reached herThe woman, whose name was not released, plunge. d from the top deck of the boat five minutes after it pulled away from the Battery Park City dock. "The woman stood up on the railing and was trying to jump," said Matt Beyranevand, 27, a teacher from Lowell, Mass. "She looked like she was trying to catch a bird.
_District Attorney Morganthau wants statute of limitations on rape abolished.
_ The Parks Department is looking for 1,000 volunteers to help count New York City’s street trees. The Bank of America announced Friday it is footing the bill for the largest tree census in the nation. To get the word out about the census, city parks officials gathered today in Manhattan to plant trees for Arbor Day.