Repeatedly I've read of bias in Israel/Palistine reporting..

This Guardian Article gives me greater reason to include places like the independent media center in my scanning-the-world awareness, yet I find political-motivation so loathesome that I seldom bother ( gave away my TV years ago, maybe a decade ago, no radio, no newspapers... )

Please remember this -- you probably use a wordprocessor more than anything, but your system's software reliability/availability-to-you is dependent on 3 things:
Immune-system ( Anti-Virus software )
Blocking Trojans + undermining + attack ( Firewall software )
Preventing spyware/stealware from undermining your system ( spyware-detecting software )
Without these basics, you don't have any right to rely-on your system, because it isn't born with built-in self-prot

Human Rights Watch

ChildAdvocate.org

AdolescentHealth.org / Society for Adolescent Medicine ( no I can't comment on their worth, I noticed 'em, and was once adolescent, so I'm giving you the link: you decide their worth or non-worth )

Athlon/Barton page, translated from Chinese, 2 ways...

Does that make it Translation-MP?

Babelfish translation of original chinese
-- Damn, but that kills: you've got to see what machine-translation creates in instances of this kind... Damn..

The MX5 super Bike Engine ( 33.6cc )

You may have wondered why we only make our world damaging-against-wellbeing, and much ( nearly all ) of what we do is enforced by our unconscious determination to do what we already have immediate-habit-of, but Christopher Alexander dug and realized that fundamental patterns of our civil order are non-necessarily damaging, and he wrote the alternatives he saw.

... though you'll have to read the entire page to get maximal gain from it...

A beginner's guide to choosing equipment for nature photography

Excellent info there...