Rogers Cadenhead: "I enjoy Slashdot, but how can a site once valued more highly than the New York Yankees be touted as a success because it makes a little money selling T-shirts and soap?"

Volunteers seek answers to Fallon leukemia cluster: "Volunteers in Fallon will take to the streets over the next three days looking for clues into the rural northern Nevada town's childhood leukemia cluster. Volunteers hope to survey more than 3,000 households through Wednesday to try to determine why 16 children contracted the disease since 1997. Of those, three have died. "

Bin Laden Hails Anti-West Attacks: "Qatar's al-Jazeera television broadcast Monday what it said was a statement by Osama bin Laden hailing last week's attacks on U.S. Marines in Kuwait and a French supertanker off Yemen."

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Pope Is Reportedly Changing Rosary: "According to Vatican sources, the Pope Wednesday will issue a document proposing that Catholics meditate on five more events in Christ's life in the new rosary, adding a further layer of spirituality to the age-old prayer."

Best and worst states to run a small biz: "Appropriately enough, the hands-down winner is Nevada, a state better known for another kind of gambling. Why? A pro-business regulatory environment, affordable housing and, I suspect, a good year-round climate have combined to make the Silver State a mecca for fast-growing startups."

BootDisk Project: "I have been asked over a number of years for different types of Boot Disks to meet different needs. The following Boot Disks and Add-On files have been produced to meet most of them. They have been archived using Disk Copy Pro 2.6 (DCP) which is a DOS based utility which can also be extracted by WinImage. Each image is saved in 3½" 1.44MB HD Format, But can be easily be converted into 360Kb 5½" LD, 1.2Mb 5¼" HD and 3½" 720Kb LD Formats by both DCP and WinImage."

Apple-Linux merger powers Mac switch: "Macintoshes today use Motorola chips, but the industry is rife with rumors that Apple has developed a prototype Mac running on Intel chips. O'Reilly foresees a world where the Mac operating system could run Linux applications on cheap computers made by Dell, Gateway and Hewlett-Packard"

Site for the Truly Geeky Makes a Few Bucks: "Slashdot persists as a must-read publication for the wizardly set, and especially those within the community of developers and fans of "open source" software like Linux, which is created and improved by legions of volunteers. The Web site provides the technically inclined a place to keep up with news, submit articles on their own, and discuss it all at length that can make a neophyte's head throb. The 25-year-old creators of the site, Rob Malda and Jeff Bates, estimate that in their five years online they have published 30,000 articles, served 500 million pages and amassed an audience estimated at 2 million people - including some 50,000 who regularly enter the continuing conversation at least once a month."

Vista, Newmont ink deal: "Littleton, Colorado based Vista Gold Corp. signed a non-binding letter of intent to purchase a 100 percent interest in two Nevada gold projects currently controlled by Denver-based Newmont Mining Corp. Vista is vying to purchase Maverick Springs, a deposit containing both gold and silver located near Elko and Mountain View, Nev., about 40 miles west of Winnemucca, Nev."