No kidding? The journalist who said he would oversee DNA testing to verify a company's claims it had produced a human clone said Monday he had dropped his efforts for lack of cooperation and could not rule out the possibility of "an elaborate hoax."

Civil Rights in Palestine: Will "Reporters Without Borders" protest this suppression of press freedom? Doubt it.

The main headline in Sunday's San Francisco Chronicle was "Wartime Iraq aid calamity feared" subheading: "Relief agencies predict humanitarian disaster". The story goes on to quote various UN agencies and other NGOs. Of course, back in the Fall of 2001 the same organizations were predicting a humanitarian disaster in Afghanistan in the event of US military action. As it turned out, the US-led regime change in Afghanistan actually improved the humanitarian situation for most Afghanis.

On the other hand, a group of human rights activists from a Muslim country demonstrated in Seattle yesterday to support regime change in Iraq.