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Political
- 
Free
Speech - 
History
- Hawaii
- 
Military
- "Flag
amendment fails by one vote: Compromise measure that
would have left Constitution unaltered also fails." ... "The 66-34 tally
in favor of the amendment was one less than the two-thirds required. The
House surpassed that threshold last year, 286-130." ... "The resolution
represented Congress' response to Supreme Court rulings in 1989 and 1990
that burning and other desecrations of the flag are protected as free speech
by the First Amendment to the Constitution." ... "Opponents said the amendment
would violate the First Amendment right to free speech. And some Democrats
complained that majority Republicans were exploiting people's patriotism
for political advantage in November's midterm elections." ... ""Our country's
unique because our dissidents have a voice," said Sen. Daniel Inouye, D-Hawaii,
a World War II veteran who lost an arm in the war and was decorated with
the Medal of Honor." ... ""While I take offense at disrespect to the flag,"
he said, "I nonetheless believe it is my continued duty as a veteran, as
an American citizen and as a United States senator to defend the constitutional
right of protesters to use the flag in nonviolent speech.""
-AP via -MSNBC
Hawaii
- History
- 
Museum
- "Group
hides native Hawaiian artifacts: Judge jails leader,
holds three others in contempt of court." ... "Leaders of a Hawaiian group
vowed not to divulge the location of a cache of native artifacts obtained
from a museum and then buried, despite the jailing of their director."
... "One of the four, executive director Edward Halealoha Ayau, was taken
into custody after refusing [Chief U.S. District Judge David] Ezra's order
to reveal the exact location of the 83 artifacts from the Bishop Museum."
-AP via -CNN
Science
- 
California
- Los
Angeles - Hawaii
- "Man-Made
"Star" Illuminates Milky Way's Mysterious Center."
... "[...] even on the clearest night, the earth's atmosphere obscures
the true brilliance of our galaxy and astronomers have long struggled with
images blurred by its mix of gases and turbulence. Now researchers have
used a new laser-generated star to obtain the clearest pictures yet of
the Milky Way's center. " ... "Astronomer Andrea Ghez of the University
of California, Los Angeles, and her colleagues used the 10-meter Keck 2
telescope in Hawaii, which has a laser attached to it, to observe our galaxy.
The skywatchers employed the 14-watt laser to generate a fake star. By
continuously imaging this false star along with the real ones, they could
correct any fuzziness or other distortions introduced by the earth's atmosphere."
-By David Biello -ScientificAmerican
Hawaii
- Military
- 
Flying
- 
Intelligence
- "Stealth
engineer facing federal indictment." ... "A federal
grand jury in Honolulu has returned a six-count indictment against a B-Two
stealth bomber engineer already accused of selling U-S military secrets
to foreign countries." -AP
via KPUA
Hawaii
- 
Business
- "Hawaiian
Electric 3Q Income Slips." ... "Hawaiian Electric
Industries Inc. on Wednesday said third-quarter profit fell as customers
faced with more expensive electricity bills and higher fuel costs curbed
their electricity use." ... "Hawaiian Electric supplies power to more than
400,000 customers, or 93 percent of Hawaii's market through its three electric
utilities." -AP
via -Forbes
Political
- Business
- Hurricane
Katrina - Hurricane
Rita - Hawaii
- "Oil
Company Execs Defend Huge Profits." ... "The chiefs
of five major oil companies defended the industry's huge profits Wednesday
at a Senate hearing where they were exhorted to explain prices and assure
customers they're not being gouged." ... "Together the companies earned
more than $25 billion in profits in the July-September quarter as the price
of crude oil hit $70 a barrel and gasoline surged to record levels after
the disruptions of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita." ... "Democrats had wanted
the executives to testify under oath, but Republicans rejected the idea.
``If I were a witness I would demand to be put under oath,'' said Sen.
Daniel Inouye, D-Hawaii. The soaring prices have sent shivers through a
Congress worried about political fallout." -By H.
Josef Hebert -AP
via -Guardian.co.uk
Hawaii
- Scuba
- 
Water
- Animals
- Business
- "The
Dangers of Hawaii's Fish Industry." ... "Every year.
more than half a million of the state's most beautiful fish are taken our
reefs and sent to aquarium tanks around the world. It's a multi-million
dollar industry that's been mostly unregulated. Now, some say it's time
for a radical change." ... "For decades now, the aquarium fishing industry
in Hawai'i has been basically a free-for-all. Get a boat, some dive gear
and a $50 permit and you're in business." ... "In the past 20 years, the
state's total catch of aquarium fish has quintupled. Last year, the industry
reported catching nearly 750,000 fish, grossing more than $3 million in
sales." ... "Aquatic biologist Bill Walsh of the Department of Land and
Natural Resources says that's not counting renegade fish collectors who
don't report their catches." ... "Walsh is recommending banning aquarium
fish collecting on at least 20 percent of all island coastlines. He's also
recommending statewide bans on a few specific fish and a possible limit
to the number of fish collectors." -By Keahi Tucker
-KGMB9
