The fight to free the West Memphis 3: “Six years after the conviction of three young men in the

‘Paradise Lost’ triple homicide, a burgeoning movement

insists they’re innocent.” I was convinced after I saw the first film several years ago…Salon

Vegetarian Mothers Have More Girls. “A British study of how diet affects the health of

new mothers and their babies produced the surprise finding that

vegetarian women are more likely to have girls, one of the report’s

authors said on Tuesday.”

Top 10 Morose Records of all time, by NME. Joy Division have two albums on the list.

Annals of the Age of Depravity (cont’d.): Chrome Wheels May Have Led to Family’s Killing. “An Arizona teenager has been

charged with the brutal killing of a woman and her two young

children — a crime that may have been committed for the chrome

wheels from the victim’s Ford Thunderbird. Police say the killings appear to have been the result of a carjacking on Friday in the parking lot of

the family’s Tucson apartment complex. The mother’s body was found in the lot at about 4:30

p.m.; the (6- and 7-year-old) children’s bodies were discovered about a half-hour later… a

short drive away.”

Oh, what a pity: Lilly Set Back by Appeals Court Ruling on Prozac. The company’s proprietary rights protecting it against generic competitors are not extended through 2003 as it had hoped. Competing versions might appear in the marketplace as soon as Feb. 2001.

What’s at Stake in the Verizon Strike? Does organized labor have a place in the “new economy”? Slate

Pinochet Ruled No Longer Immune From Prosecution. Despite this unprecedented ruling, Pinochet is still a long way from being prosecuted and the country is gearing up for a fight about whether his health shold preclude his standing trial or even being examined for fitness to stand trial in the first place. The decision pits the administration of President Ricardo Lagos — the first Socialist in power since Pinochet overthrew Salvador Allende in 1973 — against the hierarchical military, not in the least because it clears the way for many other prosecution of Pinochet-era officers. The court ruled that the “Desaparecidos” of the junta era be considerd kidnappped and that, since the kidnappings are still in progress, the crimes are exempt from the amnesty Pinochet declared on political crimes during the early years of his rule. The military warns that vulnerability to prosecution may dissuade them from coming forward with any information they may have on the Disappeareds, as they had previously promised to do. Could we be heading for another right-wing overthrow of a democratic Socialist Chilean government? New York Times