May 2004 Top Ten Articles

5/6/2004 Independent (London) ************ VoteMeter	He saved the elephant. But can he save the Great Apes? Richard Leakey transformed world opinion by setting fire to Kenya's ivory stockpile. Now he is turning his attention to an even greater crisis.
5/30/2004 Toronto Star ************ VoteMeter	Top 10 U.S. blunders in Iraq This is an edited excerpt from a recent speech by retired Gen. Anthony Zinni, delivered to the directors of the Center for Defense Information, outlining his views on "10 crucial mistakes" made by the United States in the invasion and occupation of Iraq.
5/7/2004 The Guardian (London) ************ VoteMeter	Campaigners warn of Sudan disaster Human rights campaigners warned today that a brutal campaign of ethnic cleansing by the Sudanese government risks turning the country into another Rwanda.
5/6/2004 Los Angeles Times ************ VoteMeter	For Many in U.S., Money Talks Even as Jobs Walk Americans are anxious about outsourcing, yet their spending seems to support the practice.
5/3/2004 New York Times ************ VoteMeter	U.S. Is Losing Its Dominance in the Sciences Foreign advances in basic science now often rival or even exceed America's, apparently with little public awareness of the trend or its implications for jobs, industry, national security or the vigor of the nation's intellectual and cultural life.
5/1/2004 Seattle Post-Intelligencer ************ VoteMeter	Selective Service eyes women's draft The chief of the Selective Service System has proposed registering women for the military draft and requiring that young Americans regularly inform the government about whether they have training in niche specialties needed in the armed services.
5/1/2004 New York Times ************ VoteMeter	High-Tech Voting System Is Banned in California California has banned the use of more than 14,000 electronic voting machines made by Diebold Inc. in the November election because of security and reliability concerns...
5/7/2004 New York Times ************ VoteMeter	U.S. Rules Morning-After Pill Can't Be Sold Over the Counter Federal drug regulators yesterday rejected a drug maker's application to sell a morning-after pill over the counter because of concerns about whether young girls would be able to use it safely.
5/5/2004 New York Times ************ VoteMeter	Average U.S. Car Is Tipping Scales at 4,000 Pounds The fattening of the nation's automobiles is a principal reason that average fuel economy has stopped improving and the nation's consumption of crude oil has been swelling
5/1/2004 New York Times ************ VoteMeter	Falluja Choices Exhausted, U.S. Turns to Iraqi Officer The hastily improvised plan to send a small Iraqi force into Falluja, led by a former general in Saddam Hussein's army, is a last-ditch effort to avert a violent and politically charged urban battle...