| October 9, 2001 | - The director general of the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons, which was created by the 1997 treaty that bans such weapons, complained that he didn't have enough money in his budget to make even basic preparations to respond to chemical attacks by terrorists.
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| July 17, 2001 | - A judge in California ruled that Kaiser-Permanente, a health-maintenance organization, did not have to cover prescriptions for Viagra, the popular anti-impotence drug.
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| June 12, 2001 | - The World Meteorological Organization, after protests from Jewish groups, removed “Israel” from the list of potential names of hurricanes.
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| May 22, 2001 | - The United States finally got around to declaring the “Real IRA” a terrorist
organization.
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| May 15, 2001 | - The United Nations
Food and Agriculture
Organization said that 550,000 tons of old, unused pesticides were threatening to poison food and water supplies worldwide.
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| April 17, 2001 | - The League of the South, an organization devoted to Confederate nostalgia, began circulating a petition at gun shows and convenience stores demanding reparations for Southerners whose ancestors' way of life was destroyed by Yankees in the Civil War.
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| March 6, 2001 | -
New York City's
Boy Scouts said they would try to convince the national organization to repeal its ban on homosexuals.
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| February 20, 2001 | - DARE, the anti-drug organization, admitted that its program does not work.
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| January 2, 2001 | - The Bigfoot Field Researchers
Organization found a large imprint of Bigfoot's buttocks in southern Washington.
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| September 26, 2000 | - The World Meteorological Organization found that the hole in the ozone layer, which for a decade has formed each year over Antarctica, was growing more rapidly than usual and could break all the records this year; the hole, which covered 11 million square miles, had reached the Argentinean town of Ushuaia.
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