A war between India and Pakistan would be bin Laden's victory. Click.

India Vows to Win Nuclear War

All Indian Political Parties Back War Stance

India Again Rejects Pakistan Offer for Talks

Latest US Bombing Error Kills 107 Civilians

New Argentine President Quits After One Week

Argentina in chaos after latest president quits

Afghan military commander in Harat criticizes United Nations-arranged peace agreement Click.

Sadaam's enemies make plans to take over

The Dreamer Shimon Peres

Mystery Ship Sent Suicide Message

Short history of the Kashmir conflict

Vocational cuts leave students without middle ground

Concannons not gone with the winery

New laws: Boosters hot on new trail to follow California's coast

Redwood Children's Center

Former L.A. mayor trying to buck trend. Governor's job has eluded big-city leaders

Reworking Hayward: Blueprint for city's future proposed

Luxury liner ventures into wine country

To build a fire, the California way

Sisters restore Taoist temple, testament to vanished community

Gov. Davis taps donors outside California for millions

Gov. Davis fighting to broaden his authority

Happy New Year in Sunol!

China sentences two leaders of a Christian sect to death

Germany's just war

SATANISTS MAY ENDANGER RUSSIA’S SECURITY  Click.

Healing After Terror Click.

What's the Best Way to Get Rid of a Holiday Hangover?

Australian net users 'mature'

Japan rations new year mobile use

Tampa desalination plant drawing international attention

December Internet job losses at 18-month low

California's auto design centers earn nickname "Detroit West"

More on FCC wants to yank Kevin Mitnick's radio license

EMC Seeks to Rebound in '02 with Data Software

India Seeks to Become World's Back-Office

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Europe hails 'historic euro'

A flat 2001: Bubbly sales in U.S. lack pop

Top 10 business stories of year mostly bad news

France Investigates Israeli Banks For Money-Laundering

Hong Kong Disneyland

Indian Stocks For American Investors

HOW LOW THE LAW GOES....

ACLU Exec Voices Concerns

Click. In 1942, I helped try the German saboteurs. Here's what we learned.

Cointelpro

Former judge fought mental illness

Counterpane: Crypto-Gram: National Security Cards? Specialists in security matters argue against them.

Bush's Judicial Nominees Go 28 for 80 in the Senate

The Pen is Mightier....

Click. How did a racist speechwriter for George Wallace turn into a "Cherokee" sage and author of a revered multicultural text?

A guide to the dot.commies and dot.reactionaries on the web

Queen of Madison Avenue brands America. Click.

An Egyptian view of the press in the U.S.

CINEMATIC SHOCK: MOCK DOC ON THE ASSASSINATION OF BILL GATES TO PREMIERE AT FILM FESTIVAL

Giant Jupiter heralds new year

Alternative therapies 'backed by ministers'

Doctors support acupuncture

Aromatherapy hazards warning

'Deaf' toddler recovers hearing

Renaissance man relishes role of provocateur

Herb linked to liver problem

Worldwide Climate Crisis

Scientists validate old wives' advice

Newborns Will Be Screened for More Diseases

Defensive Maneuvers

Return to Exercise Can Be Hard on Your Bones

Hearing Solutions in a Fly's Ear

Defensive Maneuvers

Researchers Announce Location Of Gene That Causes High Bone Mass; May Lead To New Osteoporosis Treatment

From Cornstarch To The Giant's Causeway

NASA Scientist Finds Some Meteorites Not Sugar-Free

India or Pakistan: Who will strike first?

Pakistan freezes nuclear scientists' bank accounts

A shortage of cruise missiles has thrown plans for a full-scale strike on Iraq into disarray.  Click.

Ex-Taliban hide their histories to rejoin society

The making of a human time bomb. Click.

Unanswered Questions About Would-Be Suicide Bomber Reid

UK Spies Knew Shoe Bomber Was Linked to 9/11

Bin Laden Fighters Say Little

One man's basic training

Afghan Gov't Reversal: US Bombing Should Continue

India: We Can Survive Strike, Pakistan Can't

BIOWARFARE WATCH.....

Doctors fear Ebola is spreading

Click. Alameda County Counsel Richard E. Winnie has served as legal adviser for a virtual United Nations of clients.

Cuban officials said Saturday that they oppose the use of the U.S. Navy base in Guantanamo Bay for detainees from the war in Afghanistan - mostly because they believe the base should have been closed decades ago. Click.

2002: the next big things

Veterans clubs seek to gain new members

Musharraf to travel to SAARC summit via China: Official

The perfect couple?

TODAY:

Skolnick - The Sucker Traps, Part 1

Click. THE BUSH COUP IS SOOOOO "NORMAL".

The Two Faced Business of New Year's Resolutions Click.

HOW LOW THE LAW GOES....

Click. ACLU Exposes Baltimore Cops Secret Spy Fund

New Inquiry Ordered Into Columbine Teen's Death

Child Molester Implicated in Florida Patricide Case

FBI Widow Turned Down for Benefits by Twin Towers Fund

Judge Reduces Sex Charges Against Shock Rocker Manson

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Workers Rethink Retirement Savings

Early Warnings of Trouble at Enron

Enron's India Disaster. Click.

Agent Orange hotspots located 

Earth and Moon Viewer Click.

Common Mycoplasmas - Now Weaponized, Pathogenic And Deadly

Japan aims for space tourism

Complications from popular gastric bypass surgery can be deadly

Web sites can help you stick to resolutions

Life on the edge

Afghans Say End Bombing, US Says No

US Says Shoe Bomber Linked to Bin Laden

Shoe bomber 'aimed to repeat Lockerbie'

Schools of terror that taught how to kill

Hamas make explosive used by Reid

London mosque leader says police ignored warnings

The Ghost of Christmas Past

Taliban Spy Chief Says Al-Qaeda Planning Next Phase

Al-Qaeda Trained More Than 40 Britons

Arafat Asks US to Implement CIA Peace Plan

The Air Force loves B-52s. Click.

U.S. military tests new robot attack plane

Afghan, British troops begin joint patrols

Troops Gear Up for Phase 2 of War

Pakistan's Jihad factories. Click.

EU adds Basque, Irish, Greek extremists to terror list. Move would ease freezing of assets, arrests

Tribunals to Allow Hearsay Testimony

Bush Team Drafts Tribunal Rules

Lawyers in Tribunals to Face Daunting Task

Shoe-bomb incident offers a lesson for law enforcement

BIOWARFARE WATCH.....

Marines Test High-Tech 'Ghostbusters' Slime

Fairfax neighbors oppose plan for new home

Leader steers Conservancy in a radical new direction

Paying a big price to boost learning

California Vintners Put Hopes in Brazil's Labs

California Getaway: Visitors board historic ships in East Bay

Trigger lock law irks gun sellers

Montalcino resort back with revised plan

San Francisco City worker, estranged wife disappear in boat mystery

Newsom wants to widen ban on S.F. begging. Plan would cover median strips, ramps, movie lines, parking lots

Face-Recognition Technology Undergoing Tests at Fresno Airport

Argentina: Statism Triumphant

Anti-gov't riots flare anew in Argentina

State takeover of Philadelphia schools paves way for privatization

Afro American scholars may desert Harvard

Muir scion hews to his heritage. Stubborn advocate for disability rights

'On Call' but Not Replying

Domestic dispute leads police to drug lab on wheels

Keeping kid on ground could land mom in jail

Boeing wants broadband to fly

Jobs takes home $1 salary. Click.

Former Boeing engineer puts the hex on dimples

Sex, Text and Wireless Profits. Click.

Sexchart Degrees of Separation

Japan Bets on Fuel Cells for Tech-Toy Power

Making corporate Web portals pay

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Disney, EchoStar battle heats up

Last tango

The Argentine Financial Crisis: Causes and Cures

Euro-creep. Brussels may set UK taxes. Click.

Ohio Pension Funds Lost in Enron Collapse

Concerns Deepen Over Policy to Depreciate Yen

WTC Insurance War Looms

HOW LOW THE LAW GOES....

Delayed Marin County family law report due late next month

Campaign complaint against Sonoma D.A. Mullins is dismissed

Berkeley man to be Superior Court Judge

Alioto-Lazio fish firm wins big.  S.F. agency must pay $3 million

Forced mental care still tough issue

Tattoos admissible as evidence of hate crimes.

High Court's Political Position Debated One Year After Bush v. Gore Click.

Click. The California Highway Patrol is now issuing alcohol-content test kits to Modesto area bars

Click. Afghan jailers beat confessions from men

Judge Orders Bolivian General: Defend "Plan Condor" Crimes: Court Seeks Testimony by Kissinger on U.S. Complicity

Click Trulock Wins against Freeh, FBI Agents

Birds 'missing' after US bombing

Moon status denied to new satellite of Uranus

Goats may provide malaria vaccine

Almost one in three people will suffer complications from body piercing. Click.

Skin cancer websites 'misleading'

Rocket city thrives in unlikely oasis 

Scientists 'unlocking body clock'

Jogging May Make You Smarter, Study Says

Treatment for nerve disorder

Whole Grain Diet Lowers Heart Disease Risk Factors

Mushrooms: 'the new medicine'

Super-broccoli 'to fight cancer'

Agricultural genomics. Click.

L.A.'s polluted air linked to infant heart defects

Steroid Nasal Sprays Seem To Speed Sinusitis Recovery

Implantable Hearing Device Can Improve Sound Quality

Shoe bomber's terror tour

Reid Says He Built Shoe Bomb Alone

Shoe bomb 'came from Netherlands'

Sneaker-Bomber's Lawyer Denies Ties to Wider Plot

Moussaoui Mom Here to Help Son

US Military Ops 'Going on in a Great Many Places'

Osama Video Highlights US Quandary

Strange symbiosis - Israel and anti-Semitism Click.

Bin Laden: 'We Are at the Start of our Military Action on America'

Full Text of Osama Bin Laden's Videotaped Comments
 

Historical Truth And 'Black Hawk Down'

Saudis Ignored Fighters

POWs to Be Held at Base on Cuba

India: Full-scale War Threatens Subcontinent

Pakistan Would Retaliate To Indian Threat, Rules Out Nuclear War

There's no question U.S. favors India

July arrest was missed opportunity. Militant's odyssey led him to bin Laden

How we could still lose in Afghanistan

Military mission turns to searches, interrogations

BIOWARFARE WATCH.....

Postal Workers Nix Vaccine

US anthrax attacks linked to army biological weapons plant

California's roads have ranked low for years, but have finally hit ROCK BOTTOM

Click. As we're now finding out, Gov. Davis may be the only one who won't have to pay for his mishandling of the energy crisis

GOP fails to dispute Tauscher district

Whale migration begins

Future is hazy for cannabis facility

County OKs Martini plan for winery

Pilotless plane crashed in Napa County canyon

Easing of rules a boon for hard-rock mining. Clinton environmental regulations being erased

Dog maul victim's holiday of hope. Richmond boy gets artificial ears, surgery just before Christmas

84-year-old teacher not retiring type

The Chinese Police Can't Bust Crime

Bones found buried under El Salvador's police headquarters

Japan: men behaving badly

Click. The Year in Queer

The 30 most influential Jews in America in 2001. Click.

Plane thefts spark security concerns

Paul Newman to help set up camp for seriously ill children in Galilee

Security overhaul for wireless networks

Internet Reconstruction: Assets Going for a Song

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Yahoo will buy HotJobs

Click. FinCEN Rule on Money Instruments, Suspicions

Hewlett lays out detailed case against HP's bid for Compaq

Invasion of the CEOs

Surf 'N Hemp: Feel the Power

PG&E says natural gas bills should be 60 percent lower than a year ago

The Tax Breaks

The Pen is Mightier....

The two-faced Chronicle SANTA MARIA! If The City needs an Ethics Commission to vet its politicians, does the Chronicle need a Hypocrisy Commission to pass on its news copy?

Click. How Not to Run a Liberal Magazine

Asleep at the switch. Click.

HOW LOW THE LAW GOES....

Should she now be teaching law?

Afghans May Nix War Crimes Tribunal

Three strikes law appears to have met goal

Court says sex offenders' rights violated

Sonoma D.A. Mullins accused of witness coaching in rape case

Agent's ouster from flight prompts probe

Detainees, free after 67 days, can't shake fears

Calf's DNA leads to rancher's arrest. UC Davis analysis is evidence.

Black Cops Under Surveillance

Marshals force best in U.S. at making arrests

Sentencing judgment calls

Columbine Motion Accuses Cop of Killing Student

Computerized surgery

New bone marrow registry targets Armenian donors

1978 UFO Appears in Art Over Thousands of Years

Crab-poaching fight goes high-tech

Herbicide ruining compost; chemical detected in vegetable gardens

The Lame Shall Walk & the Blind Shall See

Was Christmas star a double eclipse of Jupiter? 

What is Ball Lightning?

Alpha skipper: body adapts well to zero gravity 

Sumatran tiger cub makes his debut 

Simple Skywatching: Doorstep Astronomy for Late December

Blooming Plants of Southern California

Adverse Childhood Experiences & The Risk of Suicide Attempts

Animal Study Finds Embryonic Stem Cells Can Repair Heart Muscle

London mosque is called magnet for extremist recruiters

Coalition allies lament: It's still 'America first'

U.S. to Aid Jakarta Army

Congressman: 'I Wouldn't Be Surprised if There Were a Nuclear Blast in Israel or US'

Bush Unilaterally Junks the ABM Accord

It Was Allah Scam

Vice behind the veil.

Horn of Africa: al-Qaida regroups?

A closer look: Yemen's about-face

Hamas ceasefire is only tactical

A Transfer of Power in Colombia

Japan to Build Heliport for US Marines

Click.  An Analysis of Al-Qaida Tradecraft.

Click.  Passenger Report on Flight 63 to Miami

BIOWARFARE WATCH.....

Russia Destroys Chemical Weapons

The Pen is Mightier....

Murder So Quirky Has Its Rewards

Was the bombing of Tora Bora one big photo-op? Click.

TV news' East Coast  state of mind. Click. 

Turning Girls Into Ladies

Bringing fantasy to life

Plane flies away from Marin pilot

Marin City man gets 85 years for molestation

Plan would restore Skaggs Island wetlands

Time to dump old computer

Quail at crossroads. Feral cats may be rounded up to protect S.F.'s endangered birds

11 Bay Area scientists honored

Swastika emblems called hate crime

Evita's dream world now a slum

Prostitution unveiled after Taliban

Sri Lanka asks Norway to renew peace role

U.S. master raises ugly head in response to collapse of Argentine capitalism

Office Pool, 2002

Commercial Closet 30 years of ads depicting gays, lesbians and bi-sexuals.

Iceland launches energy revolution

What Would Jesus Do About Bin Laden?

Ex-Child Combatants Seek Normal Lives

Confederate Air Force changing its name

After the dot.com crash

Security by remote control

Analysis: 20 factors that will change PCs in 2002

Cell phone rules reach the workplace

Pop-ups, begone! How to kill those pesky ads

MORE BANG FOR THE BUCK...

Has Eisner lost the Disney magic? Click.

Enron Shifts Cash To Democrats

The tale of Marc Racicot and Enron Click.

French Movie Industry Fears Worst-Case Scenario

Ruling Allows Investment Advisors for 401(k) Plans

HOW LOW THE LAW GOES....

Targets change in drug probes

Still no trace of missing girl

Former Playmate Tells Court About Diamonds, Promises

New law calls for car seats to age 6 or 60 pounds

Court overturns Kern County death sentence

New laws: The debt debate

Court orders Samsung executives to compensate company for mismanagement 

U.N. Halted Probe of Officers' Alleged Role in Sex Trafficking

Why Worm Writers Stay Free

Milosevic 'will be convicted'

Security Failure Throws French Police on Defensive

Hope for Glaucoma Is in Sight

L.A. flu cases at 10-year low

Feathers clue to warbler's wanderings

'Snore box' spots sleep trouble

Drug tackles cancer and brittle bone

Group weighs study of sex

Geologist's Melting Story of a Lost Civilization

Solar wind sparks dazzling light show 

Russia Signs Contract For Satellite Launches From Australia's Christmas Island 

Eating Raw Sprouts Linked to Foodborne Illness

Stress Reduction Could Help Diabetics, Study Says