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Punk-Rock Bands Seek to Register Voters Wed Feb 25, 8:14 AM ET By ADAM ASHTON, Associated Press Writer

A new computer model of the long-term future of the world ... explores the fact that we all see the world through biases.

Garbage Truck Stopped With 2 Tons of Pot By Associated Press February 26, 2004, 8:29 PM EST SIERRA VISTA, Ariz. -- A garbage truck was stopped carrying more than two tons of marijuana north of Huachuca City, a Department of Public Safety official said. The truck had been driving erratically late Tuesday, said DPS Sgt. Steve Tritz. "It got my attention," Tritz said. "He was driving slow and failing to signal." The driver, who identified himself as 28-year-old Brian Rivera Martinez, said he didn't know how to drive the truck.

"Passion of Christ" movie claims first fatality, woman dies in theater

Thursday, 26 February, 2004, 02:26 GMT Doubt cast on free radical theory Scientists have questioned a widely accepted theory for a cause of diseases such as cancer and arthritis.

Pentagon tells Bush:
climate change will destroy us
Secret report warns of rioting and nuclear war · Britain will be 'Siberian' in less than 20 years · Threat to the world is greater than terrorism Mark Townsend and Paul Harris in New York Sunday February 22, 2004 The Observer

By Robert Tanner The Associated Press Published: Feb 23, 2004 WASHINGTON (AP) - Education Secretary Rod Paige called the nation's largest teachers union a "terrorist organization" during a private White House meeting with governors on Monday.

Exporting the American dream In the penultimate episode of a six-part series entitled Age of Empire, the BBC's Jonathan Marcus examines how US culture is as crucial a weapon in the American arsenal as its military hardware. Monday, 23 February, 2004, 11:23 GMT

Assistant Principle plants pot in student's locker to get him expelled. Associated Press Comment on this story SOUTH HAVEN (MI)— An assistant high school principal is being investigated after police say he admitted to planting marijuana in a student’s locker. Police say Pat Conroy told them earlier this month that he placed the marijuana in the male student’s locker at South Haven High School last year because he suspected the student was a drug dealer. Conroy told police he was trying to get the boy expelled. But the plan failed because a police drug dog didn’t find the contraband during a school search, according to The Herald-Palladium of St. Joseph.

By Brian Skoloff Associated Press Writer Published: Feb 21, 2004 BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (AP) - John Stoll has been imprisoned for 20 years based solely on the testimony of six children who claimed he molested them. Most of those witnesses, now adults, have come forward to say they lied. Only Stoll's son maintains his father molested him. Stoll's case was part of a wave of hysteria concerning child molestations that swept the nation in the 1980s and led to the arrest of hundreds of people, including dozens in Bakersfield. Many later had their convictions overturned for reasons including prosecutorial misconduct and coercive interview techniques now believed to produce false statements from children.

On Quiet Baghdad Lane, Saddam Made a Family's Home a Torture Chamber By Lee Keath Associated Press Writer Published: Feb 21, 2004 (Gruesome but poignant story)

February 22, 2004 A BRITISH Sunday newspaper is claiming Osama bin Laden has been found and is surrounded by US special forces in an area of land bordering north-west Pakistan and Afghanistan. The Sunday Express, known for its sometimes colourful scoops, claims the al-Qaeda leader has been "sighted" for the first time since 2001 and is being monitored by satellite.

OSAMA movie review by ROGER EBERT The movies are a little more than a century old. Imagine if we could see films from previous centuries -- records of slavery, the Great Fire of London, the Black Plague. "Osama" is like a film from some long-ago age. Although it takes place in Afghanistan, it documents practices so cruel that it is hard to believe such ideas have currency in the modern world. What is shows is that, under the iron hand of the Taliban, the excuse of "respect" for women is used to condemn them to a lifetime of inhuman physical and psychic torture. No society that loves and respects women could treat them in this way.

Miracle Dog Presumed Dead Wakes From Coma Fri Feb 20, 2:30 PM ET The dog, who has been named Lazarus, was hit by a car in late January and picked up as roadkill by the sanitation department.

Normand St Michel submitted an application with the town of Madison, Maine to open a topless coffee bar named the Heavenly Angels Coffee Shop. "He has the go-ahead as far as the town is concerned," said Robert Dunphy, the town's code enforcement officer, adding that the project does not violate Madison's obscenity ordinance.

LONDON (Reuters) - An aging UK rock group gave themselves a facelift by getting a group of teenagers to stand in for them on the video of their latest song, helping them score their first chart hit for some 15 years. Convinced the music industry is prejudiced against wrinkly rockers, The Alarm gave themselves the pseudonym The Poppyfields and persuaded a group of fresh-faced youths to mime their part.

Piranha Fished Out of River Thames

New York Driver Nabbed While Watching Porn Movie

People with suicidal tendencies in Botswana have been asked to throw themselves out of trees instead of in front of trains. The country's Minister for Works and Transport, Tebelelo Seretse, has advised people to use trees instead.

Posted on Thu, Feb. 19, 2004 Scholars: Crucifixion portrayal inaccurate PETER ENAV Associated Press JERUSALEM - The dearth of information about Jesus' crucifixion makes it impossible to describe the event in accurate detail, as Mel Gibson attempts to do in his new film, "The Passion of Christ," Bible scholars and anthropologists say.

Stranger: 'You'll be playing Jesus' Actor relates mysterious encounter, says fans bow down to him, survived strike by lightning on set Posted: February 20, 2004 12:50 p.m. Eastern © 2004 WorldNetDaily.com

Congressmen, Amish Protest Unreality Series By Lisa de Moraes Saturday, February 21, 2004; Page C01 "Sex and the City" calls it quits tomorrow, just as things are getting really hot for "Amish in the City." And not in a good way. Yesterday morning, Rep. Joe Pitts (R-Pa.) staged a news conference on a farm in Lancaster County to blast UPN's plans for a reality series in which 16-year-old members of the Amish community leave their families to join non-Amish teenagers in a house in a city yet to be determined. Casting reps for UPN are scouring Amish communities for five teenagers willing to participate in the program, tentatively called "Amish in the City."

'Dark Energy' Backs Idea Einstein Junked By Rob Stein Washington Post Staff Writer Saturday, February 21, 2004; Page A02 Astronomers announced yesterday they had found strong new evidence that a theory Albert Einstein proposed but later discarded may have been right after all, providing crucial new clues to the fundamental nature and eventual fate of the cosmos.

Hallucinogen May Cure Drug Addiction February 18, 2004 ... when it comes to curing addiction, a reputable scientist believes ibogaine is nothing short of a miracle.

Last Updated: Friday, 20 February, 2004, 17:13 GMT New world found far beyond Pluto By Dr David Whitehouse BBC News Online science editor -- Astronomers have found a large world of ice and rock circling the Sun beyond the most distant planet, Pluto. Preliminary observations suggest it may be up to 1,800 km across, making it the largest body other than a true planet to be discovered orbiting the Sun.

High religion for Shiva devotees By Navin Singh Khadka BBC correspondent in Nepal "The world has become really corrupt and this is how it can be corrected," says Jahar as he confidently takes another puff from his hemp pipe.Jahar is in the Pashupatinath Temple in Kathmandu to mark Shivaratri, one of Hinduism's biggest festivals.

Long-shot suit charges RIAA with extortion, racketeering By JOHN BORLAND Staff Writer, CNET News.com ... Wednesday, Feb. 18, 2004 A New Jersey woman, one of the hundreds of people sued for alleged music-swapping by the Recording Industry Association of America, has countersued the big record labels, charging them with extortion and violations of the federal anti-racketeering act.

Posted on Tue, Feb. 17, 2004 Aging H20 Does the bottle's expiration date actually hold water? By Andrea Peterson The Wall Street Journal

Mouse eats frog and pig

Gay Marriage, What's New? Colorado County Issued Same-Sex Licenses in '75 By Ben Kieckhefer Associated Press Writer Published: Feb 16, 2004 Today's Mortgage Rates Online Mortgage Calculators Free Online Pre-approval Apply Online DENVER (AP) - As Clela Rorex sits back and watches the national debate unfold over same-sex marriage, she smiles. She's seen it all before.

Photo of American Victim of Hiroshima Bomb Now Included in Memorial Display By Gary Schaefer Associated Press Writer Published: Feb 14, 2004 IROSHIMA, Japan (AP) - Near where the atomic bomb detonated over Hiroshima, the faces of the victims silently appear and fade on a wall of television monitors in a relentless display of the attack's terrifying human toll. Amid the thousands of faces, one stands apart: that of Cpl. John Long Jr., U.S. Army Air Force.

Towns dismantle Cold War fence Saturday, 14 February, 2004, 01:15 GMT A metal fence that has separated the Italian town of Gorizia from its Slovenian neighbour Nova Gorica since 1947 has been dismantled in a gesture to mark the former Yugoslav republic's impending EU membership.

February 13, 2004 New research in the United States has suggested that the brains of dyslexics can be “jump-started” with an intense three-week course of training.

Fri February 13, 2004 03:32 PM ET WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Scanners showed the brains of young mothers lit up in the same way when they looked at their babies as the brains of people who looked at images of their lovers.

Astronomers spy 10 billion trillion trillion-carat diamond The Associated Press Last Updated 3:06 p.m. PST Friday, February 13, 2004

SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 11 — Intel scientists say that they have made silicon chips that can switch light like electricity, blurring the line between computing and communications and presenting a vision of the digital future that will allow computers themselves to span cities or even the entire globe.

A former senior aide of Saddam Hussein claims the dictator was probably high on drugs when he decided to invade Kuwait in 1990. Issam Rashid Walid, Iraq's ex-Chief of Protocol, says Saddam frequently used drugs such as cannabis and heroin. 13:00 Thursday 12th February 2004

Valentine's Day is approaching, but the romance is over for Barbie and Ken. After 43 years as an item, the plastic pair's "business manager" at toymaker Mattel said they "feel it's time to spend some quality time - apart". Friday, 13 February, 2004, 11:09 GMT

The 60th anniversary of D-Day is approaching, and to mark the occasion the people of Normandy are holding a series of evening "Vigils" - town-hall meetings where the old can reminisce and the young can listen in awe.

The Associated Press Published: Feb 9, 2004 LOS BANOS, Calif. (AP) - A sea lion that apparently swam upriver from the ocean into the inland canals of central California was captured Monday after motorists spotted it flopping along the roadway, 65 miles from the sea.

Surviving Beatles Sir Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr have spoken about the band's US debut on the 40th anniversary of it taking place. They appeared on the Ed Sullivan Show on 9 February, 1964, seen by 73 million viewers and ushering in Beatlemania. Monday, 9 February, 2004, 10:27 GMT

February 7, 2004 Love That Dare Not Squeak Its Name By DINITIA SMITH ... scientists have found homosexual behavior throughout the animal world. This growing body of science has been increasingly drawn into charged debates about homosexuality in American society...

February 05, 2004 If you kick a robotic dog, is it wrong? By G. Jeffrey MacDonald | Correspondent of The Christian Science Monitor ... How should people treat creatures that seem ever more emotional with each step forward in robotic technology, but who really have no feelings?

...what happened at the Super Bowl half-time raised a far more important issue than a bare breast. In all this rush to condemn Jackson for an exposed breast, I've yet to hear the same level of outrage aimed at Timberlake. Jackson didn't just flash the audience. Timberlake, in a mock-display of lust, ripped off part of her clothing. It's not that a breast was bared, it was how the breast was bared that was truly offensive.