Sidelights.(Brief Article)

The New Black Panther Party plans to protest Bill Clinton's decision to open offices in Harlem. "There goes the neighborhood," said politician and Panther supporter Charles Barron. * The Atlanta office of the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission faces two age discrimination lawsuits. One of the plaintiffs worked 25-years as an EEOC civil rights attorney before allegedly being forced into retirement. * Delta will pay Western Michigan University $1.65 million to train at least 24 new "multicultural" pilots. Graduates of the program will be given priority employment consideration by the airline. * American Indians are victims of violence at a rate more than twice that of blacks, whites, or Asians, according to the Justice Department. American Indians make up 0.5 percent of the U.S. population, but account for 1.3 percent of all violent-crime victims. * Four New York teens face up to 20 years in prison for burning new homes in the name of the Earth Liberation Front (ELF).... ELF claims to have destroyed $37 million in property throughout the U.S. * After two decades of decline, demand for beef in the U.S. has risen by over 6 percent in the last two years. Demand for chicken has fallen by 2.6 percent.... The president of People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, Ingrid Newkirk, hopes foot-and-mouth disease enters the U.S. "It will be good for animals, good for human health, and good for the environment," she argues.... Taiwan has banned the butchering or selling of dog meat, a winter delicacy. * The Justice Department reported that the Immigration and Naturalization Service cannot account for more than 61,000 items, including 539 weapons and 12,000 laptop computers, worth around $70 million.... Washington, D.C.'s Humane Society pleaded guilty to mishandling, and often killing, nearly 900 federally protected birds over the last four years. * The number of Web-surfers in China has soared from 250 in 1992 to 15 million today. By 2004, 50 to 120 million Chinese may be online.... South Koreans lead the world in average time spent on the Internet, followed by Hong Kong and the U.S.

A teaching guide called "Taking Sex Seriously" has been approved for use in Scottish schools. The guide suggests that children as ...