April 2004 Top Ten Articles

4/26/2004 New York Times ************ VoteMeter	Militants in Europe Openly Call for Jihad and the Rule of Islam The call to jihad is rising in the streets of Europe, and is being answered, counterterrorism officials say.
4/27/2004 New York Times ************ VoteMeter	At NASA, Science Sharply Shifts Course After President Bush's order that NASA redirect its energies toward human exploration of the Moon and Mars, the space agency has drastically shifted its scientific priorities
4/11/2004 Washington Post ************ VoteMeter	Text: President's Daily Brief on Aug. 6, 2001 The following is the text of an Aug. 6, 2001, intelligence briefing for President Bush that outlined al Qaeda plans to strike within the United States. It was released Saturday by the White House.
4/22/2004 The Guardian (London) ************ VoteMeter	Global warming floods threaten 4m in UK Risks of flooding are growing to "unacceptable levels" because of climate change with up to 4 million Britons facing the prospect of their homes being inundated
4/5/2004 New York Times ************ VoteMeter	7 U.S. Soldiers Die in Iraq as a Shiite Militia Rises Up In effect, the militia attacks confronted the American military command with what has been its worst nightmare as it has struggled to pacify Iraq: the spread of an insurgency that has stretched a force of 130,000 American troops from the minority Sunni po
4/4/2004 The Guardian (London) ************ VoteMeter	Bush and Blair made secret pact for Iraq war President George Bush first asked Tony Blair to support the removal of Saddam Hussein from power at a private White House dinner nine days after the terror attacks of 11 September, 2001.
4/9/2004 Los Angeles Times ************ VoteMeter	Scalia's Tape Tactics at Issue First Amendment experts on Thursday questioned the legal basis for a deputy U.S. marshal — apparently acting on the orders of Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia — to confiscate and erase recordings made by two reporters invited to hear the justice speak
4/7/2004 New York Times ************ VoteMeter	White House Minimized the Risks of Mercury in Proposed Rules, Scientists Say The staff members deleted or modified information on mercury that employees of the environmental agency say was drawn largely from a 2000 report by the National Academy of Sciences that Congress had commissioned to settle the scientific debate about the r
4/5/2004 New York Times ************ VoteMeter	Leaders of 9/11 Panel Say Attacks Were Probably Preventable In a joint television interview, the commission's chairman, Thomas H. Kean, a former Republican governor of New Jersey, and its vice chairman, Lee H. Hamilton, a former Democratic House member from Indiana, indicated that their final report this summer wo
4/5/2004 Independent (London) ************ VoteMeter	No Palestinian state for years, says Sharon Sharon said the withdrawal plan was a "deadly blow" to the Palestinians and that he would not coordinate with them...