Yes, MsOlga! I also enjoyed the protests of many... not violent street demonstrations, although there were street demos by the fairly far left, they didn't get violent and had music in the background, according to a nytimes piece. Many Romans just hung rainbow peace flags out their windows.
They are pretty used to demonstrating in that city..
That's very good news, littlek!
Quite a break through.
[size=7](And maybe they'll be able to stop experimenting on the mice, too!)[/size]
ooooh uhoh, I hope they can stop experimenting on mice. You'd think with all the cell cloning and tissue making we can do, mice testing would be obsolete.....
Osso
A very good friend of mine has lived in Italy for the past 20+ years ... I'm very familiar with politics there through her accounts. It's all very upfront, isn't it?
littlek wrote:ooooh uhoh, I hope they can stop experimenting on mice. You'd think with all the cell cloning and tissue making we can do, mice testing would be obsolete.....
Yes, yes, yes, please! And cats & dogs& rabbits & monkeys .... THAT would be fantastic news!
agreed. And with that sweet view of the near future, I'm off to bed.
That's wonderful news. One of the techs I learned from in the old days had worked at Washington University on diabetes immunology... this makes those long years worthwhile.
This made me smile this morning, as I listened to the news:
Greece's victory in the Euro 2004 football last night. I know nothing about which brand of football this involves (soccer?), nor about the Euro competition ... But what's great is the reaction of the Greek community in Melbourne. They are beside themselves with joy! This was a total surprise to them. Lonsdale Street (the Greek precinct) was still crowded at around 10 am after the celebrations last night. (Melbourne has one of the largest Greek populations of any world city, so you can just imagine the atmosphere.)
So onto the finals next Monday!
Go, Greece, go!!! 
I have my fingers crossed for Greece, not re any particular game, but for the whole gdolympics thing. I am askance about the olympics as a set panoply, but generally have sympathy for the different cities' trying to do it. Or at least sometimes I do.
I'd be much more enthused if all the druggy stuff in olympic competition hadn't gotten going, and it has been going for some time.
I don't really get it, that athletic achievement needs to involve all the new and newer agents. The lack of interest in the ordinary human body by itself sans ameliorants is sort of amazing to me, as in why this skew toward manufactured enhancement? Has no one any sense?
No, of course they don't osso! You should know that!
GO GREECE!
Yeah, I used to watch the Giro d'Italia and sometimes the Tour d'France, and what the hell, they too are all pumped from diff stuff.
From my point of view, oh, pooh.
I am not interested in watching drug companes vie, yet again, this time with human balloons to the front.
So, I liked the giro d'italia for a while, on the tv ---- though I whined about the abysmal reportage by some apparent dimwits from england re the race, I had liked the sleek tour re the countryside along with the pace data.
But I guess a lot of bicycling is nabbed in buildup drugs, whatever their names.
Jerks are now victims, since everybody does it.
Stupid, all of it, snarls osso.
Somewhere on a2k, Walter had a link on the ongoing construction for the olympics in Greece. It was fairly worrisome, as in, will they finish in time?
Melbourne goes Euro soccer-mad
By Paul Heinrichs
July 4, 2004
Greek fans in Melbourne celebrated their national team's victory against the Czech Repoublic in the semi-final on Friday.
Up to 20,000 people are expected in Melbourne's Greek precinct early tomorrow morning, when Greece plays Portugal in the Euro 2004 soccer final.
The broadcast begins at 4.30am on screens in Lonsdale Street, near Swanston Street, and in Russell Street, near Little Lonsdale Street.
Lonsdale Street will be closed between Elizabeth and Exhibition streets from about midnight, when festivities begin.
Russell Street will be closed between Little Bourke and Little Lonsdale streets.
Last-minute arrangements yesterday saved a live coverage of the game for Portuguese fans, and others, on the big screen in Federation Square.
To fund an alternative to the main event in the Greek precinct, the State Government said on Friday that it would provide $5000 to the Portuguese community, which numbers 10,000-15,000 in Victoria, for its celebrations in Federation Square.
But there were misunderstandings in the negotiations on Friday between Federation Square management and Fox Sports, which owns the broadcast rights.
Late yesterday, Federation Square's marketing manager, Stan Liacos, said he was "99.9 per cent certain" the broadcast would go ahead as planned.
Those who turn out to watch will have to brave harsh conditions. Bureau of Meteorology duty forecaster Geoff Feren said a cold front was expected through Melbourne just in time for the game, bringing gusty winds and showers.
The weather could ensure a crush at the two main indoor venues, the Marathon Room at South Melbourne Soccer Club's Bob Jane Stadium ($20 admission, beginning at midnight) and Crown Casino's All Star Cafe, where doors open
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GO GREECE!
