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  • in their investigation of Texaco. Former Texaco executive Richard Lundwall was charged yesterday with obstruction of justice. The arrest comes despite the fact that it was Lundwall who provided prosecutors with incriminating tapes secretly recorded at company meetings. The Texaco officials on the tapes were discussing how to handle a race discrimination lawsuit brought by some 14-hundred black employees.
  • inspiration for the "Winnie the Pooh" story books. A.A. Milne wrote the stories in the mid to late 1920's for and about his young son. As Christopher Robin grew up, however, he made clear that he didn't care for the way his father had swirled fact and fiction.
  • in Lima, Peru. Late last night, leftist rebels freed more than 200 hostages, including seven Americans. Another 140 hostages remain captive. Last Tuesday, the rebel group took the Peruvian and foreign officials hostage during a reception. They are demanding the Peruvian government release about 300 of their comrades from prison.
  • Last week, officials appeared to have lost a chance to strike a blow against the country's leading drug lord. A Mexico City newspaper found that no one in his organization was detained...but federal officials DID arrest local and state police officers who had been hired as a security force.
  • the French language have sued a U.S. university with a branch in France, for using mostly English on its Internet web site. The groups sued Georgia Tech, charging it uses the Web site to advertise its academic programs, and French law requires that all advertising in France must be in French.
  • Astronauts visited the Hubble just weeks ago to update hardware and to install new instruments. After extensive testing, scientists found the new spectrograph and infra-red camera to be especially sensitive to radiation in the Earth's atmosphere. NASA expects to correct the problem and have the first new scientific pictures from the Hubble by early May.
  • during last year's Presidential campaign. Presidential spokesman Mike McCurry denies that the White House provided a computer data to the Democratic National Committee for fundraising purposes. McCurry says the database was used only to keeping a record of people who had attended official White House functions.
  • The show features works from 14 different artists, all suffering a mental illness. The exhibit was put together by a niece of Senator Alan Simpson...her sister, a painter with schizophrenia, committed suicide a few years ago. "Truth from Darkness" travels to Philadelphia...Laramie, Wyoming... then Boulder, Colorado.
  • available on the Internet, known in the computer industry as 'Push' technology. Until now, Internet users have 'pulled in' the information they want from the Internet. With push technology, a broadcaster pushes information out to someone's computer, without that person's having to do anything, once they subscribe to the service.
  • Why'd the turtle cross the road? More importantly, is it safe to move it to the other side? LBL Woodlands Nature Station lead naturalist, John Pollpeter,…
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