News You Might Have Missed * December 13, 2006

Wed Dec 13 13:05:44 PST 2006

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 NEWS YOU MIGHT HAVE MISSED * December 13, 2006 * Vol. 5, No. 50
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 Important but overlooked news from around the world -- tell a friend!
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 Read NYMHM online: http://www.newsdesk.org/archives/001004.php
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QUOTED: "Their work is excellent, and they've been able to do everything
we've ever asked them to do. And lately, we've asked them to do a lot."

-- Army radio contractor James Bowden, on the booming Pentagon demand 
for cheap prison labor (story #15, below).

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TOP STORIES
  [o1] "Zimbabwe: "New Farmers" fail to deliver"
  [o2] "Rise of far right leads to fear and mistrust for Japan's neighbors"
  [o3] "Soldiers say army ignores, punishes mental anguish"

WORLD
  [o4] "Corpses contaminate Nile after Sudan clashes"
  [o5] "'Pesticides are what is killing our kids'"
  [o6] "Bread shortage grips Turkmenistan" 
  [o7] "Pentecostals vs. paleoanthropologists"

ISRAEL
  [o8] "17 illegal houses demolished in Negev; Bedouins furious"
  [o9] "Olmert backs Tamir's proposal to include Green Line in textbook maps"
  [10] "Al Aksa operative: Rockets will resume"

HEALTH & ETHNICITY
  [11] "Ethnic divide for diabetes"
  [12] "Obesity and implications for American Muslims"
  [13] "Suicide rate among NY's ethnic women population alarming"

U.S. PRISONS
  [14] "Governor's panel urges tripling state's faith-based prisons"
  [15] "Prison industry's war jobs come under fire"

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TOP STORIES
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[o1]

"Zimbabwe: "New Farmers" fail to deliver"
Institute for War and Peace Reporting, December 8, 2006
http://www.iwpr.net/?p=acr&s=f&o=325987&apc_state=henh

    Corruption and cronyism have sparked a food crisis, as peasants
    are driven from farms they seized with the president's support. 

[o2]

"Rise of far right leads to fear and mistrust for Japan's neighbors"
Independent (U.K.), December 8, 2006
http://www.newsdesk.org/archives/000995.php

    Japan plans to change its constitution to acquire nuclear 
    technology and train troops for the first time since 1945. 

[o3]

"Soldiers say army ignores, punishes mental anguish"
National Public Radio, December 4, 2006
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=6576505

    Iraq vets with depression and PTSD are hazed or expelled rather 
    than treated or paid mental-health benefits.

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WORLD 
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[o4]

"Corpses contaminate Nile after Sudan clashes"
Reuters, December 3, 2006
http://www.mg.co.za/articlePage.aspx?articleid=292082&area=/breaking_news/breaking_news__africa/

    Government and rebel forces traded blame for bloody clashes that
    have led to cholera outbreaks in the south. 

[o5]

"'Pesticides are what is killing our kids'"
Globe and Mail, December 6, 2006 
http://www.newsdesk.org/archives/001003.php

    Chemicals from Prince Edward Island potato farms are blamed
    for Canada's highest local rate of childhood cancer. 

[o6]

"Bread shortage grips Turkmenistan"
EurasiaNet (NY), December 5, 2006
http://www.eurasianet.org/departments/insight/articles/eav120506a.shtml

    The government purged more agricultural ministers after its winter
    wheat crop failed, but observers say such moves worsen the crisis. 

[o7]

"Pentecostals vs. paleoanthropologists"
ABC News, December 10, 2006
http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/story?id=2701723&page=1

    A museum in Kenya that displays the oldest known hominid 
    fossils has been asked by to move them to a back room. 

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ISRAEL
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[o8] 

"17 illegal houses demolished in Negev; Bedouins furious"
Ynetnews (Israel), December 6, 2006
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3336785,00.html

    Israel left 80 Bedouins homeless after demolishing an 
    "unrecognized" village. Critics say the move was racist.

[o9]

"Olmert backs Tamir's proposal to include Green Line in textbook maps"
Haaretz (Israel), December 6, 2006
http://www.newsdesk.org/archives/000998.php

    Rabbis have banned school history books showing the pre-1967 
    boundary, and called its proponents "enemies of Israel." 

[10]

"Al Aksa operative: Rockets will resume"
Jerusalem Post, Dec. 6, 2006
http://www.newsdesk.org/archives/000999.php

    A Fatah militia broke ranks by claiming an official cease-fire no 
    longer applied, as Israel arrested 20 West Bank residents. 

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HEALTH & ETHNICITY 
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[11]

"Ethnic divide for diabetes"
Chicago Tribune, December 7, 2006
http://www.newsdesk.org/archives/001000.php

    A Puerto Rican neighborhood in Chicago has the highest rate of
    fatal diabetes in the United States; doctors blame poor nutrition.

[12]

"Obesity and implications for American Muslims"
InFocus (CA), December 8, 2006
http://www.infocusnews.net/content/view/542/135/

    Fast food and lack of exercise are blamed for obesity among
    the children of Muslim immigrants living in Western societies. 

[13]

"Suicide rate among NY's ethnic women population alarming"
Indo-Asian News Service, December 9, 2006
http://www.newsdesk.org/archives/001001.php

    Spiking depression among Hispanic teen girls and older Asian 
    women is blamed on language problems and poor mental health care.

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U.S. PRISONS
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[14]

"Governor's panel urges tripling state's faith-based prisons"
Palm Beach Post, December 3, 2006
http://www.palmbeachpost.com/politics/content/state/epaper/2006/12/03/a30a_prisons_1203.html

    Analysts say it's hard to tell whether Florida's faith based prison 
    programs are working since participants are self-selected.

[15]

"Prison industry's war jobs come under fire"
Newhouse News Service, December 6, 2006
http://www.newsdesk.org/archives/001002.php

    Critics say Pentagon reliance on cheap prison labor is uncom-
    petitive; others claim it boosts the war effort. 

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