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How risk assessment poisons children

By Peter Montague According to the American Academy of Pediatrics, somewhere between 2 and 4 million US children have sufficient lead in their blood to diminish their IQ, reduce their physical stature, damage their hearing, decrease their

Radio highlights

Songs and stories of Australia — Kev Carmody: Singer and Storyteller — A program recorded in conversational style. Through his folk songs and storytelling, Carmody reflects on the cultural differences between Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal

Write on: letters to the editor

Clutching at straws I must endorse, with feeling, the recent WET Tank's award of the brass tampon to the Court government of WA for monumental incompetence and uselessness. Not only have we had Court denouncing the Gay Mardi Gras with the

Timorese painter's story of survival

"To me Dili was a really nice place, very peaceful. Everyone was free, living life without much planning for the future", Timorese painter Sebastiao Silva recalls his home, which he left behind in 1984, prior to the Indonesian invasion. It is

North Korea: don't be confused

North Korea: don't be confused "Chaos. Corruption. Civil war. He's back to lay down the law" runs the promo for Hollywood's latest extravaganza of violence, Robocop 3. It just about describes US policy on North Korea. The US-supported

Brazilian Workers Party feminist to tour

By Pat Brewer The Brazilian Workers Party (PT) has been tipped by many commentators to become part of a new government in the country's national elections in October. The PT is part of an electoral alliance with a variety of progressive parties,

Rail workers picket Goss

Rail workers picket Goss By Bill Mason BRISBANE — More than 100 angry rail workers booed Queensland Premier Wayne Goss outside a Labor Party function in Townsville on March 23 over plans to close the Townsville railway workshops by the

Environmental rally

Environmental rally By Anthony Thirlwall ADELAIDE — Nearly 500 people gathered for a rally outside Parliament House on March 24 to oppose the Hindmarsh Island Bridge project, the Craigburn Farm subdivision and the development of the Mt

Well-done political thriller

The Pelican Brief With Julia Roberts and Denzel Washington Reviewed by Arun Pradhan It sounds like a good idea: rework the familiar Watergate plot, get some big names like Julia Roberts and Denzel Washington, chuck in some suspense and

Critic of Suharto's Timor policy harassed

By Sri Kristianti JAKARTA — Well-known sociologist and lecturer George Aditjondro has publicly criticised the Indonesian occupation of East Timor. Aditjondro, from the prestigious private Satya Wacana University in Java and a popular columnist

Russia's rural crisis — the 1920s revisited?

By Renfrey Clarke MOSCOW — Years ago, it would have been sensational news. The Russian state authorities, President Boris Yeltsin announced on March 9, would not import grain in 1994. The country, he explained, had sufficient reserves to last

'Revivalist meetings'

'Revivalist meetings' Environmental activists George Marshall and Brent Hoare will be whizzing around Australia throughout April to hold "evolutionary revivalist meetings" with as many people as possible who are interested in striving to ensure