machine brain interface article
"While the richest one percent of the U.S. population saw its financial wealth grow 109 percent from 1983 to 2001, the bottom two-fifths watched as its wealth fell 46 percent."
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Roman Catholic priest barred following allegations he abused girls studying to be nuns 6/1/04 Boston "A Roman Catholic priest accused of molesting girls who were studying to become nuns can no longer perform sacraments or other priestly duties, the Boston Archdiocese announced Tuesday. Robert V. Meffan allegedly described himself as "the second coming of Christ" and encouraged the girls to be "brides of Christ." He was suspended in 1993 after the first allegations were made against him. The acts allegedly took place in the 1960s....Meffan was accused of recruiting girls to become nuns and then molesting them, according to documents made public in 2002." http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/news/archive/2004/06/01/national1818EDT0782.DTL
Assault charge takes McLaughlin back to court By Emily Tjelmeland 06/01/04 "Bruce McLaughlin, a former Leesburg lawyer, was charged April 29 with domestic assault and battery on son Lucas, 17, according to a Leesburg Police report....The charge is the latest round in an eight-year battle between McLaughlin and his ex-wife, Robyn, over his contact with their four children since the couple's separation and subsequent divorce. Since 1998 Bruce McLaughlin has been named in 22 allegations of child abuse. In 1998 he was convicted on seven charges of child abuse and sentenced to 13 years in prison. The convictions were thrown out in a 2002 acquittal. At the same time, his parental rights were restored, and he was granted access to his children through visitation....Lucas McLaughlin, three months shy of his 18th birthday, alleges in the complaint that his father pushed him up against his bedroom door, threatened him and began choking him. When Lucas tried to leave in his car, he said his father pushed him against the car and put him in a choke hold. Lucas said when he wrangled himself free, he fled to his mother's nearby home and shortly after filed an emergency protective order against his father, and the June 2 trial date was set....On May 7, Bruce McLaughlin asked for the emergency protective order to be revoked and joint custody to be restored. The judge granted both of his requests....Robyn and Lucas McLaughlin said they were never notified of the hearing. Bruce McLaughlin, an attorney whose license was suspended after a failed prison escape attempt, attached the custody request to a motion to reconsider bond. Virginia law does not require both parties to be notified of such a hearing. "I hadn't been told about the hearing. The next thing I knew, the amendment was passed," said Robyn McLaughlin. "It's not right. I don't know why this keeps happening to our family. Once again, the system has failed them."...McLaughlin said Lucas became angry after his father took away his car. "This incident," McLaughlin wrote, "was a simple act on my part of proper discipline turned into an overblown assault allegation manufactured by Robyn McLaughlin, who encouraged Lucas to file it." http://www.timescommunity.com/site/tab1.cfm?newsid=11837011&BRD=2553&PAG=461&dept_id=506035&rfi=6
McGuinty to apologize to victims of sex abuse Darcy Henton, CP 6/2/04 "McCann will not be alone. Since he came forward in 1990 to accuse the Ontario Christian Brothers of abuse, about 1,600 victims followed in what became one of the largest sexual abuse investigations in Canadian history. Many of them were expected to cram into a visitors gallery at the legislature today to hear the apology they expected to hear in 1996 as part of a $16-million deal they negotiated with the province, Catholic archdioceses and the Christian Brothers. For McCann, who was branded a liar and forced to go into hiding for his own protection at one point, it's a very important day....Bringing forward the allegations of abuse, he said, was never about money and always about trying to protect children....After McCann spoke out in 1990, police were flooded with hundreds of calls from victims of abuse at St. Joseph's in Alfred, Ont., east of Ottawa, and St. John's in Uxbridge, north of Toronto. Between 1992 and 1993, the Ontario Provincial Police laid nearly 200 charges against 29 former employees of the two church-run, government-funded institutions. Sixteen persons were eventually convicted, and 12 were sentenced to prison terms as long as six years." http://www.canoe.ca/NewsStand/LondonFreePress/News/2004/06/02/482220.html
The Ultimate Remote Control - One day, our brains might be able to beam our very thoughts wirelessly to the machines around us By Carl Zimmer Newsweek "Researchers hope ultimately to eavesdrop on the brain's digital crackle with electrodes, transmit those signals to a computer that can read the brain's code and then use those signals to control a machine. Imagine a quadriplegic person able to operate a robotic arm mounted on a wheelchair with merely a thought. Imagine a digital stream flowing from a microphone into a deaf person's auditory cortex, where it could become the perception of sound. These dreams have an official name: brain-machine interfaces. A decade ago they seemed little more than fantasy, but now their emergence seems like just a matter of time." http://msnbc.msn.com/id/5093199/site/newsweek/
'Inequality Matters' conference puts nations on alert
By Thomas Kostigen,
CBS.MarketWatch.com - June 1, 2004
SOPHISTICATED INVESTOR
http://cbs.marketwatch.com/news/story.asp?siteid=mktw&dist=nwhpf&guid=%7B4299A2CD%2DD4D1%2D4B81%2D89A8%2D63B872F2E626%7D
SANTA MONICA, Calif. (CBS.MW) -- A national alarm will
be set off Thursday. It won't have to do with a
terrorist attack; it's more critical.
Thursday is when the Inequality Matters conference
begins in New York City to discuss the biggest wealth
and income gap -- and its consequences on society --
since the Hoover Administration. The Congressional
Budget Office says the income gap in the United States
is now the widest in 75 years.
While the richest one percent of the U.S. population
saw its financial wealth grow 109 percent from 1983 to
2001, the bottom two-fifths watched as its wealth fell
46 percent.
Alarming? You bet. And here's why: The number of
Americans without health insurance climbed 33 percent
during the 1990's, according to the U.S. Census Bureau.
The biggest indicator of a healthy society -- average
life expectancy -- has dropped. People in the U.S. now
don't live even as long as people in Costa Rica.
Meanwhile the U.S. infant mortality rate has risen, so
much so Cuba has a better success rate of bringing
healthy children into the world.
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