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USA: CNN.com - Four drown at Fort Worth water park - Jun 17, 2004: Stupid Baptists can’t read signs. “A little girl either jumped or fell into the pool at the Fort Worth Water Gardens, across the street from the Fort Worth Convention Center, and the others apparently died trying to save her. Officials said that suction from a pump that pulls water to a waterfall at the park made rescues difficult.
All four were members of a Chicago church in town for a National Baptist Sunday School convention, said the Rev. Gerald M. Dew, the church’s pastor.”

World: The New York Times > Technology > Circuits > Turning the Tables on E-Mail Swindlers: “Now, however, an ad hoc militia of self-styled counterscammers on several continents is taking the fight directly to the thieves. Aiming to outwit the swindlers, they invent elaborate and often outrageous identities (Venus de Milo, Lord Vader) under which they engage the con men, trying to humiliate them and, more important, waste the grifters’ time and resources.”

Space: CNN.com - Rubbery fuel to power private spacecraft - Jun 16, 2004: “For SpaceShipOne, reaching space takes three things: a pilot, a spacecraft, and enough to propellant to rocket away from Earth. But the fuel in SpaceShipOne’s tank is about as exotic as the spacecraft’s design. SpaceShipOne, set to be the first non-governmental crewed vehicle to reach space, uses a combination of rubber and nitrous oxide — also known as laughing gas — as the powerhouse for test flights and an anticipated suborbital spaceshot set for June 21”

World: Yahoo! News: “Sanrio Co unveils its platinum tiara jewellery decorated with ‘Hello Kitty’ charm at the company headquarters in Tokyo, June 16, 2004. The tiara, encrusted with 167 pink and black colour diamonds and seven pearls, will go on sale in Japan from July to commemorate Hello Kitty’s 30th anniversary. Sanrio’s Kitty tiara will be available by made-to-order at three million yen ($27,300).”

Sports: Yahoo! Sports Devil Rays win sixth straight: Rays are half a game ahead of Toronto in the AL East, and only 13.5 games back! “The Tampa Bay Devil Rays are getting used to winning ballgames, a feeling the struggling Pittsburgh Pirates long for. “Every day we come to the yard, everybody’s joking around, having a great time,” Tampa Bay third baseman Aubrey Huff said. “Nobody’s down, everybody’s talking. It makes it a lot more fun.” ”