Issue #46
JUNE 20, 2000
(Happy Birthday, Mom)

©2000, Justin Thorne


 
 
Controversial study finds France has world's best health-care system, YET WORST BREATH
 

HALF-HEARTED Anti-monarchy protesters greet Prince Charles and companion Camilla WITH BOWS AND CURTSIES
 

Northern Ireland Protestant group threatens to end cease-fire BECAUSE IT CAN'T SHAKE ITS DISLIKE OF CATHOLICS
 

Egyptian militants tell leader they favor refraining from violence THIS TIME AROUND
 

Police defuse explosive CLEVERLY DISGUISED AS MEAT PIE in Northern Ireland
 

Thousands of South Korean doctors go on strike FOR LOWER GREENS FEES
 

Experts urge U.N. to assure Internet access to everyone by 2005 BY WAVING MAGIC WAND
 

Moscow court rejects media tycoon's claim OF BEING MERELY AN INSTRUMENT OF TRUTH, AND NOT A MONEY GRUBBING INFORMATION MONGER
 

OPEC tackles oil dilemma WITH SCHEME TO INSURE THEY CAN CONTINUE RIPPING OFF THE WORLD
 

REFLECTING OVER THE PAST SEVERAL DECADES, King says Morocco needs time for democracy
 

IN EXEMPLARY MODEL OF DEMOCRACY AT WORK, Zimbabwe mob attacks opposition candidate's house
 

Ethiopia, Eritrea sign pledge to stop fighting 'useless war', START FIGHTING ONE THAT MAKES A DIFFERENCE
 

300 lawyers condemn "parody" trial of Guinea's Conde FOR NOT PAYING THEM ENOUGH MONEY
 

Lebanon bans nine publications that reported on Assad's death, BECAUSE “IT DIDN’T HAPPEN IF YOU DON’T REPORT IT”
 

Ziggy Marley denies he canceled Austria show because of links to Haider, BUT RATHER HE COULDN’T SAY NO TO A FRESH SUPPLY OF REEFER SCORED BY HIS DRUMMER