SMITHSONIAN ARTICLE ON CUBA
The May 2003 issue of Smithsonian Magazine has an excellent article entitled "Wild Cuba: The Caribbean's Unlikely Preserve". It not only contains a lot of good information but also thoughtful consideration of what the future may bring for what is now the best preserved natural environments and national park system in the entire Caribbean.
(Unearthed by Dick Diehl)

UNIVERSITY OF UTAH PROF HELPS EDIT CUBAN BRIEF
Brief Amicus Curiae of Sociedad Cubana de Ciencias Penales in Support of "Cuban Five"

CANADA READY TO EASE POT LAWS
Calling his government "activist" and "not afraid to take on controversial issues," Prime Minister Jean Chrétien cast a nod at youth last night and vowed that marijuana would soon be decriminalized.
(Toronto Star unearthed by Paul Whitehurst)

RETALIATION PROMISED AGAINST CUBA
If you have been following the debate, as it affects Cuba and the US, US citizens and its own government, and the US and the rest of the world, you will want to read this New York Times account of the criticism leveled by Secretary of State Colin L. Powell against Cuba. Calling Cuba an "aberration in the Western Hemisphere", he said that the administration is studying ways to respond to the Havana government's recent crackdown on "its critics".
(NYT, See also Reuters Story)

THE WAR AT HOME
Our jails overflow with nonviolent drug offenders. Have we reached the point where the drug war causes more harm than the drugs themselves?
(Sojourner's Magazine, unearthed by Paul Whitehurst)