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News You Might Have Missed * Vol. 7, No. 9

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Important but overlooked news from around the world. QUOTED:
“This is the first time we have caught a human trafficking syndicate in a case where the baby was still in the womb.” — A Vietnamese police officer on recent arrests in a adults baby-smuggling ring (see “Adoption,” below). CONTENTS:
*Top Stories*
A ‘complicated truth’ about Obama donations
London shifts gears to favor bicycles
Beijing Olympics: It’s the water
*Environment & Health*
Radiation on the reservation
*Adoption*
Infants and international incidents

TOP STORIES
* A “Complicated Truth” About Obama Donations
Although Barack Obama has publicly disavowed campaign donations from lobbyists, the candidate, along with his rival Hillary Clinton, has received millions of dollars in donations from special-interest groups linked to the legal, pharmaceutical and health-care industries. The Columbia Journalism Review notes that the Obama campaign did indeed take far less money from registered lobbyists — just $86,000 — through the end of December 2007 than either Clinton ($800,000) or Republican candidate John McCain ($400,000).

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News You Might Have Missed * Vol. 7, No. 8

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Important but overlooked news from around the world. QUOTED:
“For the moment, we see a tougher position … motivated by the political space which President Hugo Chavez has tried to open for them.” — Colombia’s peace commissioner Luis Carlos Restrepo, on the Venezuelan leader’s hostage negotiations with leftist rebels in Colombia (see “Chavez,” below). CONTENTS:
*Top Stories*
“Dodgy collateral” fuels new bank borrowing
Wealth gap widens in Silicon Valley
Wikileaks shutdown thwarted
*Transportation*
Much puffery about air-powered car
*Chavez*
Friend of hostages, or friend of hostage-takers?

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News You Might Have Missed * Vol. 7, No. 7

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Happy Birthday, NYMHM! Today marks the SIXTH anniversary of News You Might Have Missed, which debuted on Wednesday, February 13, 2002. We want to thank YOU for your support of this unique service, which has grown into one of the leading sources of “important but overlooked news” today. Every dollar you contribute and every email newsletter you forward to your friends helps keep NYMHM alive and thriving. Here’s to the future, and thanks again for making it all possible!

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News You Might Have Missed * Vol. 7, No. 6

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Important but overlooked news from around the world. QUOTED:
“I’ve never seen such a lackluster campaign. It’s really clear that people don’t trust the elections.” — Journalist Zahid Hussain on Pakistan’s upcoming February 18 vote (see “Top Stories,” below). CONTENTS:
*Top Stories*
Death after pepper spray raises questions
Sea cow stymies Navy’s Okinawa plan
Specter of fraud haunts Pakistan election
*Environment*
The melting mountains
*Democracy*
Russia sends opposition to psych wards

TOP STORIES
* Death After Pepper Spray Raises Questions
A mentally ill man died not long after being pepper sprayed, the New Zealand Herald reported, prompting criticism of a “cavalier approach to using incapacitating weapons.”

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News You Might Have Missed * Vol. 7, No. 5

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Important but overlooked news from around the world. QUOTED:
“Well, it really is signaling to me the tremendous duplicity with which the government has acted on this file. If you remember they first denied that there was any risk of torture.” — Canadian law professor Amir Attaran on his government’s Afghan prisoner policy (see “Top Stories,” below). CONTENTS:
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War crimes trial spurs threat claim
California marijuana law takes a hit
Canada acknowledges Afghan torture
*World*
Uzbek strongman has powerful friends again
*Environment*
Erosion takes a toxic toll in Alaska

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* War Crimes Trial Spurs Threat Claim
A witness in the war crimes trial of Charles Taylor, the former president of Liberia, said a group of men stormed his family compound and said they would “all be killed,” reports the BBC.

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News You Might Have Missed * Vol. 7, No. 4

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Important but overlooked news from around the world. QUOTED:
“His issues are alright. But his answers are wide off the target. Just like the people who vote for him.” “His comments about Islam are no different than comments Muslims make about us.”

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News You Might Have Missed * Vol. 7, No. 3

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Important but overlooked news from around the world. QUOTED:
“Documents we have refer to ways of increasing the number of ‘YAUS’ in Nigeria. We have expert testimony that says YAUS means ‘young and underage smokers’.” — Nigerian lawyer Babatunde Irukera on a government lawsuit against tobacco companies there (see “Top Stories,” below). CONTENTS:
*Top Stories*
Boycotts cut into Myanmar gem auction
Japan’s health care crisis
Nigeria’s Smoke Out
*Public Health*
Transplant shortage hits ethnic minorities
*Iran*
Iran grapples with discrimination, division
*Politics*
Smells like team spirit

TOP STORIES
* Boycotts Cut into Myanmar Gem Auction
The Myanmar junta’s repression of democracy protests last summer may have calmed the streets, but its harsh tactics have also robbed the state’s gem trade of its lustre.

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NEWS YOU MIGHT HAVE MISSED * Vol. 7, No. 2

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Editor’s note: Starting next week, NYMHM will return to its regular, post-holiday format. Thank you for your readership! * Pesticide Fears Along California’s Central Coast
Activists claim that hundreds of people became sick after officials sprayed a type of pesticide along parts of California’s Central Coast. In a pair of studies released last week, a group calling itself California Alliance to Stop the Spray says that 643 residents of Monterey and Santa Cruz counties became ill last fall after state agriculture officials sprayed the area with a synthetic pheromone known as CheckMate LBAM-F. Symptoms listed include eye and throat irritation, shortness of breath, skin rashes, asthma attacks and interruptions in menstrual cycles, according to the Santa Cruz Sentinel.

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News You Might Have Missed * Vol. 7, No. 1

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Editor’s note: Through January 9, NYMHM will be on an abbreviated schedule. Thank you for your readership! — — — — — — — — — —
* Thailand’s New Democracy as Fractious as the Old
Thailand returned to democracy last month, with its first national elections after 15 months of military rule. But the transition is proving to be a rocky one. According to Asia Times, The People Power Party, a new version of the party once headed by ousted Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra, won the largest number of seats — though not an outright majority — in parliamentary elections on Dec.

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News You Might Have Missed * Vol. 6, No. 50

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Important but overlooked news from around the world. QUOTED:
“Although this certainly is a case of domestic violence, some are referring to this as an example of an ‘honor’ killing.” — The Muslim American Society on the killing of an immigrant teen in Canada, allegedly by her father (see “Fundamentalism,” below). CONTENTS:
*Top Stories*
Iraqi officers AWOL in the U.S.
Protestors say Israel will exclude Ethiopian Jews
Afghan reconstruction faces U.S. budget cuts
*Fundamentalism*
Muslim teen’s slaying sparks Canada debate
*Media*
Fur flies in tiger photo fight

TOP STORIES
* Iraqi Officers AWOL in U.S.
At least five and as many as a dozen Iraqi officials have deserted U.S.-based military training, and are at large and unaccounted for, the Washington Times reports. Now, a pair of Texas Republicans are demanding answers from White House officials — more than a year after first inquiring about the disappearances.