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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. "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:
Thousands of anti-war protestors marched from the United Nations to Central Park on Sunday to denounce the Bush administration’s policies on Iraq and nuclear weapons proliferation.

_Emergency workers who responded to the 9/11 terror attacks gathered in Manhattan Saturday to learn more about the medical and mental effects of their time at the World Trade Center site. Organizers called on the federal government to expand its medical screening program for responders. Twelve thousand responders have already gone through the initial round of screening and can now get free follow-up exams, which officials say is critical to understanding the scope of the problem.  Saturday’s conference was co-sponsored in part by the World Trade Center Worker and Volunteer Medical Screening Program, and the Centers for Disease Prevention and Control. Read more about it on NY 1.

_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 on NY 1.

_ 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.