Sidelights.

Fifty percent of Americans believe Hillary Rodham Clinton's new memoir Living History should be filed in the history section of libraries and bookstores, according to CNN/USA Today/Gallup Poll. Twenty-two percent believe it belongs in the fiction section.

* At a speech in Washington, D.C., PBS's Bill Moyers stated that the Republicans are planning the "deliberate, intentional destruction of the United States of America." * A proposed mural at the University of California, Riverside has offended some at the campus. Academic affairs director Elisa Haro saw the images of Shakespearean actors as "pilgrim invaders" that reminded her "of my colonization, and I don't like that." There were also complaints that the cranes in the mural were white, and that there were no same sex couples. * A UCLA study found no significant correlation between secondhand smoke and death due to coronary heart disease or lung cancer. * The European Central Bank predicts the European Union's economy will grow by only 0.7 percent this year.... Unemployment in Germany has risen to 4.49 million. Germany has a population of over 82 million and is the biggest contributor to the E.U. budget.

An exiled Burmese girl wrote a letter to the Bangkok Post asking George Bush and Tony Blair to "please eliminate the Burmese dictators immediately. We need only one missile. Help us, please." * The number of terror attacks in the world fell sharply in 2002, according to the State Department's Patterns of Global Terrorism report. There were 199 terrorist attacks last year, a 44 percent drop from 2001. This is the lowest figure in over 30 years. * In Western Europe, 35 percent of software is pirated, in Eastern Europe it's 71 percent, concludes the Business Software Alliance in its annual survey on software piracy, estimating the global cost of software piracy last year at $13.08 billion.

The dictator of Belarus, Alexander Lukashenko, decreed that the heads ...