Wednesday-Night

Swiss files on rogue nuclear ambitions, CIA dealings destroyed
Switzerland destroyed computer records documenting the business dealings of a family of Swiss engineers with suspected ties to Libya and Iran. Both Swiss prosecutors and international atomic inspectors hoping to discover the full activities of Pakistani nuclear scientist and black-market engineer Abdul […]

NBC coverage and Photos of venues
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China, Beijing Olympics ; Tibet
Official website
The Official Mascots of the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games
The Olympic Emblem

Beijing Olympics Most-Watched Event in TV History (Hollywood Reporter)
NBC says it’s official: The Beijing Games has become the most-watched U.S. television event of all time. Through 16 […]

See also Global Treaty on Climate Change
August 13
Elephant seals join fight against climate change
SYDNEY (Reuters) - Elephant seals swimming under Antarctic ice and fitted with special sensors are providing scientists with crucial data on ice formation, ocean currents and climate change, a study released on Tuesday said.
The seals swimming under winter sea ice have overcome […]

China, Beijing Olympics ; Tibet
Official website
The Official Mascots of the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games
The Olympic Emblem

August 7
Athletes pay price for IOC riches
This is the most extreme case of a longstanding phenomenon of holding Olympics just when sensible citizens (as in Barcelona 1992, Atlanta 1996 and Athens 2004), are heading for the hills. It […]

On the eve of the opening of the Beijing Olympics, we have some very special guests, along with the much-anticipated return of Cleo Paskal from her wanderings (who else do we know who covers the UK, Athens, Faroe Islands and India in what seems like a minute?). Cleo […]

Human Rights Watch: Crisis in Darfur

UN extends Darfur peacekeeping mandate, with U.S. exception
The United Nations Security Council voted Thursday to extend the mandate of peacekeeping troops for Sudan’s Darfur region, though Council members remained divided in their response to an International Criminal Court indictment of Sudanese President Omar Hassan al-Bashir. […]

World Hunger and WTO News on Wednesday-night.com
July 31
Seeking a trade deal
(Globe & Mail) The Canadians who participated in the Doha process, including Trade Minister Michael Fortier, say they will now turn to negotiating bilateral agreements with individual countries. That is a smart decision, and a first priority should be to get an agreement in […]

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Starting this Wednesday Night on a different note (!), our very special diva, Susanna Eyton-Jones, and Shem Guibbory will give a brief performance as a warm-up to their in-studio recording the following week. They will present a 13-minute chamber piece for violin and soprano entitled ‘Iglesia Abandonado’, by […]

July 30
Canada’s forestry industry is missing the boat on China
Jason (Guangyu) Wang, Canadian International Council
(The Gazette) Today’s China has a ravenous appetite for imported wood that knows no bounds. But here, our wood associations and governments have, while spending considerable sums on creating a united market for Canadian wood there, missed the basics taught […]

China’s missed understanding
Scientists, not government, should lead efforts to explain the benefits and risks of modern technology, says Li Daguang.
(SciDev.net) Controversies over the health and environmental impact of the Xiamen PX chemical plant and Three Gorges Dam projects have exposed the failings of China’s top-down approach to explaining science, writes Li […]