Guardian: Finally, The Truth In November 1995 Bill Clinton leaned across a desk at an air force base at Dayton, Ohio and handed a Cuban cigar to Slobodan Milosevic. Not…
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(H) SEDAM OSUMNJICENIH ZA UBOJSTVO HRVATSKE OBITELJI
SEDAM OSUMNJICENIH ZA UBOJSTVO HRVATSKE OBITELJI KOD KONJICA Op-ed Where is the outcry? Where is this news in the major newspapers of the world?No TV? Is our government so impotent or…
(E) Christmas Message by Dr. Mate Granic
Op-ed I want to emphasize that CROWN is not supporting any particular politicalparty in Croatia. We want intellectual bridge and transfer of ideas and respectto flow over the oceans and continents that…
(E) Earthquake Shakes Northern Croatia Dec 6, 2002
3.9 earthquake jolted northern Croatia earlyFriday ZAGREB, Croatia (AP) – An magnitude 3.9 earthquake (news – web sites) jolted northern Croatia early Friday, but there were no immediate reports of damage…
(E) Babic revealed his identity in order to counter allegations
Babic, witness C-061, revealed his identity Milosevic mystery witness namedFriday, December 6, 2002 Posted: 1203 GMTBabic revealed his identity in order to counter allegations made against him by Milosevic. THE HAGUE, Netherlands…
(E) Authorities uncover dozens of bodies in western Serbia
Authorities uncover dozens of bodies in western Serbia Tue Dec 3,10:24 AM ET BELGRADE, Yugoslavia – Serbian authorities have exhumed 42 bodies of people believed killed during the wars in neighboring…
(E) Caulerpa now affects the waters off the coasts of Croatia
Caulerpa now affects the waters off the coasts of Spain, France, Italy andCroatia , and is spreading to parts of Northern Africa and Australia. … Wednesday, November 27, 2002 – 10:01:09…
(E) Dog rescued after year down 30ft pit
Dog rescued after year down 30ft pit Nov 12 2002 A dog has been rescued after being trapped down a deep pit in Croatia for more than a year. The dog was probably thrown into the 30 ft deep pit with a litter of puppies, the Zagreb newspaper Jutarnji reported. Dinko Novosel, a member of an animal protection group, abseiled into the pit and rescued the dog. The mongrel had survived by drinking rain water and eating dead animals, Novosel said. Locals use the pit, located on outskirts of a forest in central Croatia, as a dump for dead pets. Novosel said the dog was given sedatives in food before it was rescued. “Our first attempt to save the dog was without much luck as it was too startled and just scrambled into a small side crevice,” he said The dog was taken to a veterinary clinic in the capital Zagreb after the rescue. Novosel said that several dog lovers had already contacted him offering a home for the animal. http://icwales.icnetwork.co.uk/0100news/0700world/page.cfm?objectid=12357641&method=full&siteid=50082
(E) Croatian Club @ DePaul University
Croatian Club atDePaul University I wanted to announce that this is the first time there is a Croatian Club at DePaul University & we especially need people to join the club to help show appreciation and recognition on campus for our culture. If anyone attends DePaul University & is interested in joining, please contact me(Claudia) or Davor at CroatianDePaul@hotmail.com . To be an official member you must be a DePaul student, however, you don’t have to be Croatian. If you are interested in knowing more about this club, but don’t attend DePaul, please feel free to contact us. Hope to here from all of you soon !! Thanks >> Claudia / Davor << CroNetwork: The Croatian-American Organization for Young Professionals.
(E) Croatian Killed at Hebrew University
Croatian Killed at Hebrew University The following was reported by AP. One of the American citizens killed in the Hebrew University bombing, David Gritz, is Croatian through his mother’s side. John Kraljic Americans Die in Jerusalem Bombing By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Filed at 7:47 a.m. ET SAN DIEGO (AP) — Marla Bennett knew that every day she stayed in Jerusalem, the simple choice of whether to turn left or right each morning could make the difference between life or death. “This question may seem inconsequential, but the events of the past few months in Israel have led me to believe that each small decision I make — by which route to walk to school, whether or not to go out to dinner — may have life-threatening consequences,” Bennett wrote in a May 10 column in a newspaper in her hometown of San Diego. Bennett, 24, was one of five Americans killed Wednesday when a bomb ripped through a cafeteria at Jerusalem’s Hebrew University. Two Israelis were killed and four other Americans were wounded. Bennett had been doing joint graduate work at Pardes Institute and Hebrew University in Judaic Studies. She was due to return home on Friday, said family spokesman Norman Greene. “Marla was incredibly bright, top of her class. She was extremely outgoing, bubbling young lady, very seriously involved in investigating her Judaism. She was interested in human beings, and finding a peaceful resolution to the Arab-Israeli conflict,” Greene said. Also among the dead was Benjamin Blutstein, 25, of Susquehanna Township, Pa., who was on a two-year study program to be a teacher of Jewish studies. He had planned to return to Pennsylvania on Thursday. “We are shocked and deeply saddened to hear this news,” said Ted Bernstein, president of the United Jewish Community of Greater Harrisburg. “His life was taken for an inexplicable reason.” Another victim, Janis Ruth Coulter, 36, was an assistant director of graduate studies for the university’s Rothberg International School in New York. She had been escorting American students when the attack occurred. “Janis Ruth was a wonderful, loving, caring person,” said Harry King, a family spokesman. “We, her family, are devastated. Her death is such a pointless thing to have happened.” A fourth victim, David Gritz, 24, of Peru, Mass., held dual American-French citizenship. The son of a Croatian mother and an American father, Gritz grew up in Paris, but spent his summers at his parents’ house in the small town of Peru in the Berkshires. Family friends said he was to begin a graduate course in Jewish thought. “It’s a very sad thing,” said longtime family friend Nancy Kreger. “He was a great kid. He wasn’t even supposed to be there. His classes didn’t start until tomorrow (Thursday).” A fifth person with Israeli and American citizenship was not identified. Bennett was in the second year of a three-year master’s program in Judaic Studies, and had been at the university to take a final exam in her sole Hebrew University class of the semester, Hebrew language. Bennett had long rejected pleas from friends and family to leave the country, spelling out her love for Israel in a column for the weekly San Diego Jewish Press-Heritage. “My friends and family in San Diego are right when they call and ask me to come home — it is dangerous here,” she wrote. “I appreciate their concern. But there is nowhere else in the world I would rather be right now. “I have a front-row seat for the history of the Jewish people. I am a part of the struggle for Israel’s survival. Paying for my groceries is the same as contributing money to my favorite cause.” The explosion occurred at the university’s Mount Scopus campus, a Jewish enclave surrounded by Palestinian neighborhoods in the eastern part of the city. The university said 23,000 students attend the school, about 5,000 of them Arabs and 1,500 from abroad. Spencer Dew, 26, an American student from Owensboro, Ky., was lightly wounded by flying glass. He said he had worried about such attacks in Israel, “but it didn’t deter me from coming. I assume I’ll come back next year.”
(E) 789,000 CROATIANS TO USE INTERNET BY THE END OF 2002
789,000 CROATIANS TO USE INTERNET BY END OF THIS YEAR ZAGREB, Croatia, June 22 (Hina) – The number of Internet users in Croatia will climb by 52.3 percent to 789,000 by the end of this year, according to the latest report of IDC “The Internet Market in Croatia 2001-2006” consulting firm. At the end of last year, 518,000 Croatians used the Internet. By the end of this year, 489,000 Croatians will have access to the Internet from their homes, and they will account for 62 percent of all the Internet users in the country. The IDS branch in Croatia predicts that the number of Croatians who use the Internet will rise by 22.9 percent annually by the end of 2006. At the end of 2001, there were 620,000 personal computers registered in Croatia, and 60 percent of them offered access to the Web. Last year, the eCommerce transactions in Croatia were worth approximately 21.5 million dollars, and Business-to-Consumer (B2C) segment made up 1.94 million of it. CroNetwork: The Croatian-American Organization for Young Professionals.
(E) Home Sweet Home in a Galaxy far, far away
By Deborah Zabarenko Reuters WASHINGTON (June 13) – After 15 years of searching, astronomers said Thursday they have found an alien planetary system that reminds them a lot of home. This is the first time planet-hunters have detected what they believe is a Jupiter-like gas ball orbiting a star much like our Sun, at a distance that allows for the possibility of an unseen Earth-type rocky planet orbiting in between. In the last decade and a half, scientists have found more than 90 so-called extrasolar planets around stars outside our solar system. But none of these earlier discoveries has held the same potential to answer an essential question: Might there be other planets like Earth in the universe? ”We have a (planetary) system that is maybe not a sibling of the solar system … it might be more accurately classified as a first cousin,” Paul Butler of the Carnegie Institution of Washington told reporters at NASA headquarters. This ”cousin” was one of 15 extrasolar planets whose discovery was announced Thursday by the planet-hunters. Butler and fellow planet-hunter Geoffrey Marcy of the University of California-Berkeley noted that the newly discovered Jupiter-type planet is the third thought to orbit 55 Cancri, a star in the constellation Cancer that can be seen from Earth without telescopes or even binoculars. It is about as old — 5 billion years or so — and about the same size as our Sun. The newly discovered planet moves in an orbit similar to Jupiter’s, rather than the elongated, eccentric orbits that are more typical of extrasolar planets. Aside from its known planets, the new system has a tantalizing gap between the new Jovian discovery and two other big gas planets orbiting very close to the star, Marcy said. ROOM FOR AN UNSEEN EARTH? ”There’s a huge region centered at about Earth-Sun distance, and in that gap … an Earth-mass planet could exist … and such a planet would be stable,” he said. ”It could persist there for billions of years, so it’s conceivable that this system has rocky planets like Mars, Venus or Earth and we simply can’t detect them,” Marcy said. The planet-hunters shared their data with Greg Laughlin at the University of California-Santa Cruz, whose calculations showed that an Earth-sized planet could survive in a stable orbit in this gap. Marcy and Butler pioneered the technique of detecting possible planets around other stars by examining the distinctive wobble their gravitational pull produces in the stars they orbit. None of these giant planets has been seen directly, and the presence of an Earth-like planet has never even been inferred by this method. However, this is the first time that there has been a candidate system so similar to our own, Butler said. At a distance of 41 light-years from Earth, 55 Cancri and its planets are near neighbors in the Milky Way. A light-year is about 6 trillion miles, the distance light travels in a year. This proximity means ”it’s plausible and quite likely that we will be able to image, to actually get a direct picture of this planet,” said David Spergel, an astrophysicist at Princeton University who commented on the discovery. He said such a picture could be possible in the next 10 years. Marcy, Butler and their team are looking for extrasolar planets around Sun-like stars at distances up to 150 light-years from Earth, and there are 1,200 such stars being surveyed. Thursday’s announcement culminates 15 years of observing with the 118-inch telescope at Lick Observatory in California. The research was supported by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration and the National Science Foundation. Images can be seen online at http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/images/newplanets . Copyright 2002 Reuters Limited.
(H) PROSLAVA STOTE OBLJETNICE NAPRETKA U NEW YORKU
Podruznica Hrvatskog kulturnog drustva “Napredak” u New York-u je svecano proslavila stotu obljetnicu osnutka ovog kulturnog drustva u nedjelju, dana 26.5.2002 godine. Tom prigodom u velikoj dvorani Hrvatskog centra na Manhattan-u sakupilo…
(E) Trafficking in Women and Children
Press Briefing NotesFriday 14 June 2002International Organization for MigrationCROATIA – Trafficking in Women and Children for Sexual Exploitation – A new IOM report on trafficking of women and children in Croatia sheds light…
(E) Religious leaders seek Adriatic clean-up
Adriatic (river Po, northwest) By Benet KolekaDURRES, Albania, June 9 (Reuters) – An inter-faith campaign to reduce pollution in the Adriatic will be formally launched on Monday, when a declaration urging…
(H) Euroregija Dunav-Drava-Sava
Osijek, 22. svibnja 2002. Na sjednici clanica Euroregionalne suradnje Dunav-Drava- Sava usvojen je novi Statut i primljene su u clanstvo u statusu promatraca opcine Apatin, Bac, Sombor i Subotica iz SR Jugoslavije, Vojvodine….
(E) Great Britain Offers Five Million Pounds for efficiency ?
EVENING NEWS 29.5.2002. Great Britain Offers Five Million Pounds Support to Croatia At a press conference in Zagreb Wednesday European Integration Minister, Neven Mimica, and the Secretary for Southeast Europe at the Foreign Office, Denis MacShane,…
(E) Through eyes of Croatian, with love
Through eyes of Croatian, with love By Andrew Lyons-Stillman Special to the Deseret NewsMonday, May 6, 2002 Ivona Josipovic is a 16-year-old foreign-exchange student from Zagreb, Croatia, currently attending West High in…
(E) Scientists test first human cyborg
Op-ed I met Christopher Reeve many times. He was always ready to help others. Livesclose to me. We wish him as well as many other unknown to walk one day. Nenad OXFORD,…
(E) www.cronet.org Croatians in France
Croatians in France on www.cronet.org Hrvati u Francuskoj na www.cronet.org Taken from: http://www.hic.hr/dom DOM I SVIJET u broju 376 od 4. ozujka 2002. Distributed by www.CroatianWorld.net. This message is intended for Croatian Associations/Institutions and their Friends in…