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This page features brief excerpts of news stories published by
the mainstream media and, less frequently, blogs, alternative media,
and even obviously biased sources. The excerpts are taken directly from
the websites cited in each source note. Quotation marks are not used.
Because most of our readers read the NYT we usually do not include the
paper's stories in HIGHLIGHTS.
Here are some of the stories for June 8, 2009
Soviet Wreck Found on the Baltic Sea Floor
Amnesty blasts poor human rights record 10 years after Kosovo war
Hunt begins for leader of Terracotta army
How MI6 link of traitor George Blake was covered-up by Government
Longest Great War memoir to be published
Hawaii archives holds mystery Lincoln document
6,000-year-old tombs found next to Stonehenge
Archeological Evidence Of Human Activity Found Beneath Lake Huron
Handwritten book by Mussolini among stolen Italian artefacts found in Illinois home
Coin hoard exceeds sale estimate
Paris theft of $11m Picasso works
The spy who started the Cold War
Baltic Sea Divers Discover Wreck of Soviet Submarine
Centuries-old slate discovered at Jamestown dig
Bone find suggests humans on Treasure Coast 13,000 years ago (South Florida)
Human skull found in possible Indian burial site near
AND MUCH MORE!
excerpt:
France to pay nuclear test compensation
Source: BBC (6-9-09)
Nearly
40 years after the first of its 210 nuclear tests, France is preparing
to compensate people affected by the fallout. The move leaves the UK
isolated in its policy of rejecting liability for illnesses suffered by
test participants, reports Aidan Lewis.
Early in the morning of 13 February, 1960, several thousand French
servicemen gathered in the Algerian Sahara to witness "Gerboise Bleue"
or "Blue Desert Rat", an atmospheric nuclear explosion four times more
powerful than the bomb dropped on Hiroshima.
But the test programme it launched also exposed participants and local populations to potentially lethal radiation.
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6,000-year-old tombs found next to Stonehenge
Source: The Times (UK) (6-9-09)
A prehistoric complex, including two 6,000-year-old tombs, has been discovered by archaeologists in Hampshire.
The Neolithic tombs, which until now had gone unnoticed under farmland
despite being just 15 miles from Stonehenge, are some of the oldest
monuments to have been found in Britain.
Archaeologists say they will hold valuable clues about how people lived at the time and what their environment was like.
The discovery is also close to Cranborne Chase, one of the most well researched prehistoric areas in Europe.
Posted on Tuesday, June 9, 2009