World News 06-10-2003 who: Professor of psychiatry Robert Spitzer what: Says there may be a "cure" for homosexuality where: Columbia University, NEW YORK when: Last week snippet: The study is being taken seriously, explains The Independent`s science editor Steve Connor, because Professor Spitzer "is an eminent authority on sexual orientation and, in 1973, was instrumental in having homosexuality removed from the American Psychiatric Association`s list of mental illnesses". Elsewhere in science news, The Mirror reports on "the first injected male contraceptive" and The Telegraph reports that "huge tracts of human DNA, previously written off as meaningless junk, have been found to contain a hitherto unrecognised genetic grammar". In technology news, the BBC reports on the new digital advertising display which has transformed the lights of London`s Picadilly Circus and The Guardian reports on the problems the BBC are experiencing with plans to put the "largest vault of TV and radio programmes in the world" onto the internet. [... more]

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