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USA: CNN.com - Woman with altered passport detained - Jul 28, 2004: Well, at least they caught Farida Goolam Mohamed Ahmed, with her South African passport that had six pages ripped out of it. Wonder what stamps were on theose pages?

Sports: SI.com - Ref shoots coach for questioning call: I have a new film for Michael Moore. “A South African soccer referee pulled a gun and shot dead a coach who questioned one of his rulings, police said on Sunday… South Africa has one of the world’s highest murder rates with an alarming 47.4 murders per 100,000 people, or eight times the figure for the United States.”

USA: CNN.com - Edwards revives memories of Florida 2000 - Jul 18, 2004: “‘We will get voters registered, we will get voters mobilized, we will get voters to the polls!’ Edwards said during a campaign stop at Orlando’s St. Mark African Methodist Episcopal Church. ‘We’re going to make sure that all those voters that go to the polls and cast their votes, that [their] votes are counted this time.’”

World: CNN.com - UK envoy attacks�graft ‘gluttons’ - Jul 15, 2004: “Kenya’s creditors never expected corruption to be ‘vanquished overnight,’ High Commissioner Edward Clay told a meeting of British investors in Kenya on Tuesday. But creditors also did not expect corrupt business to continue as usual following the December 2002 election of President Mwai Kibaki, who won in large part on promises to battle graft — endemic under the administration of his predecessor, Daniel arap Moi.”

World: Yahoo! News - My, how the Dutch have grown: “He became interested in height as an economic barometer after a lecture by Robert Fogel, the University of Chicago Nobel laureate who published a landmark study on the slave economy in the American South. African-American slaves, it seems, were significantly taller than their African ancestors but shorter than their owners for reasons that defied conventional wisdom. ‘People with better incomes and higher educations are taller. Everywhere and always,’ Komlos said. ‘Even in communist countries that were supposed to be classless. It’s one of the basic laws of heights.’ ”