Tuesday, May 06, 2003

Stormy vote for Bacardi clan
"There are 600 shareholders in the business, all but about a dozen of them family members descended from Don Facundo Bacardi, who set up the rum business in Cuba 140 years ago."
Negócio familiar... gosto ainda mais do rum deles por isso.
Secret McCarthy papers released
Perto do que o Ashcroft está fazendo, o McCarthy é um iniciante.
Muito movimento em Marte nos próximos meses:
Mars mission agreed
The Russian and US space agencies have agreed to co-operate on a joint unmanned mission to Mars and expand the development of other joint interplanetary probes.


Europe ready for Mars
Europe's first mission to Mars will blast off from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on Monday, 2 June.

"The US space agency (Nasa) should despatch the first of its Mars rovers to the fourth planet just days after the European probe blasts off - on 5 June, with the second rover heading off later in the month."

Monday, May 05, 2003

Tribes dig in to fight uranium
"Every time we turn up at the uranium mines, the tribes people chase us with bows and arrows and swords."
"They call us the agents of death and threaten to kill us if we try to mine uranium."