Blog-heap o' links from 2004-Nov

TUE 2004-NOV-30

Currentap.tbo.com/ ... 16:22:10Honduran children hunting rabbits who were running from a burning sugarcane field were caught in the blaze themselves. Thirteen youngsters were killed, and a man and a 14th child were severely burned.

Rather Embarrassedhollywoodreporter.com/ ... 16:08:46"Ed Murrow's ghost is here. I've seen him and talked to him on the third floor of this building many times late at night. And I can tell you that he's watching over us." -Dan Rather

Preternatural Patternsabcnews.go.com/ ... 23:57:13Already eBay is teeming with other icons rendered on toasted sandwiches. A grilled SpongeBob is going for 99 cents, and for a little more you can also have Al Roker, Hello Kitty and Ron Artest etched on toast.newsday.com/ ... 16:15:22A month-old baby died while his parents were on a three-day crack cocaine binge that began after Thanksgiving dinner... she could not remember when she had last fed the baby... the couple admitted smoking about $500 worth of crack cocaine over three days...reuters.com/ ... 15:36:18An unnamed Zimbabwean politician has been trying to win women's votes by handing out free lingerie reuters.com/ ... 15:35:22Doting South Korean parents can preserve their child's umbilical cord in acrylic resin to make a personal seal or even have it gold plated.detnews.com/ ... 15:34:24Until the birth of Julia Roberts' son in a Los Angeles hospital two days ago, the only "Phinnaeus" of note was Phinnaeus Gage, a 19th century railway worker who distinguished himself in medical history by accidentally blasting a metal rod through his left cheek and the top of his head.... Why, instead, with a universe of names at your disposal, make your son an inevitable classroom laughingstock, doomed like a mythological character to a lifetime of helping others spell Phinnaeus -- a name almost impossible to spell correctly?

Transportap.tbo.com/ ... 16:30:35A Lion Air passenger plane carrying more than 150 people skidded off a runway in central Indonesia during heavy rain and split into two pieces Tuesday, killing at least 31 people... Some survivors remained stuck in the wreckage for more than three hours after the crash...denverpost.com/ ... 15:26:26In an instant, ordinary morning became nightmare... The plane's passengers befitted its size and luxury. On board were NBC Sports chairman Dick Ebersol.....abclocal.go.com/ ... 15:21:18The 14-year-old son of N-B-C Sports' Dick Ebersol apparently died in Sunday's plane crash in Colorado.

Mechanical Disasternews.xinhuanet.com/ ... 15:20:03At least 63 miners have been killed in the Chenjiashan coal mine gas explosion in Northwest China's Shaanxi Province and more than 100 miners remained trapped underground.

Digital Consequencesnews.com.com/ ... 23:40:09Google, Microsoft and Yahoo are quietly developing new search tools for digital video, foreshadowing a high-stakes technology arms race in the battle for control of consumers' living rooms. Google's effort, until now secret, is arguably the most ambitious of the three. According to sources familiar with the plan, the search giant is courting broadcasters and cable networks with a new technology that would do for television what it has already done for the Internet: sort through and reveal needles of video clips from within the haystack archives of major network TV shows.news.yahoo.com/ ... 16:13:47Merriam-Webster Inc. said on Tuesday that blog, defined as "a Web site that contains an online personal journal with reflections, comments and often hyperlinks," was one of the most looked-up words on its Internet sites this year.indystar.com/ ... 16:02:47A long-awaited microprocessor developed by IBM Corp., Sony Corp. and Toshiba Corp. will go into early production next year and start appearing in video game consoles, high-definition televisions and home servers in 2006, the companies said Monday. The processor, code-named Cell, will handle vastly more memory than today's consumer chips as well as enable hardware-based copyright protection and allow multiple operating systems to run at the same time. It also will feature multiple cores, or logic engines, on a single die.news.bbc.co.uk/ ... 15:40:49China has been accused of blocking access to Google News by the media watchdog, Reporters Without Borders... news site had been unavailable for the past 10 days....reuters.com/ ... 15:37:05New Internet-based technology could soon turn regular computer users into armchair spies... a mapping and surveillance tool called SAME (see anywhere, map anywhere), that produces images so sharp that geographic co-ordinates typed into a Web site can reveal the make of a car parked on the street.reuters.com/ ... 15:35:51An Australian phone company is offering customers the chance to blacklist numbers before heading out for a night on the town so they can reduce the risk of making any embarrassing, incoherent late-night calls.www3.cjad.com/ ... 15:18:55The owners of file-swapping giant Kazaa claimed Tuesday their software, which allows users to exchange copyrighted music and movies online, is no different from video recorders as they launched their defence in a landmark music piracy case in Australia.cnn.netscape.cnn.com/ ... 15:14:23Hollywood's major movie studios said they won a $23.8 million judgment against a California company and its Malaysian owner for operating a Web site that charged customers to download illegally copied movies.news.bbc.co.uk/ ... 15:12:24Internet portal Lycos has made a screensaver that endlessly requests data from sites that sell the goods and services mentioned in spam e-mail. Lycos hopes it will make the monthly bandwidth bills of spammers soar by keeping their servers running flat out. The net firm estimates that if enough people sign up and download the tool, spammers could end up paying to send out terabytes of data.news.bbc.co.uk/ ... 15:10:17Paramount, Universal and Warner Brothers are to use a high definition DVD format backed by Toshiba and NEC. Their decision is a setback for Sony which famously lost the battle to set a standard for video cassette recorders when its Betamax lost out to JVC's VHS.

Yeah, Sure!ap.tbo.com/ ... 15:08:18Secretary-General Kofi Annan said he was unaware his son received $30,000 a year for over five years from a Swiss-based company under investigation in connection with suspected corruption in the U.N. oil-for-food program in Iraq.... "Naturally I was very disappointed and surprised, yes."...

Justice?post-gazette.com/ ... 23:41:31One sells doughnuts, the other sells ice cream. One's been in business since 1937, the other since 1968. But most importantly, one makes enough money to have more than 390 stores in 45 states and six countries while the other makes enough to employ a husband and wife full time and help a handful of teenagers each summer earn extra money for college. And now, the musclebound company, Krispy Kreme Doughnuts Inc., is on the verge of suing Krispy Kream Drive-In for stealing its company name.

Freedomsg.news.yahoo.com/ ... 16:16:58Several thousand Buddhists in southern Russia braved heavy snowfalls and freezing temperatures to see the Dalai Lama on the second day of a long-awaited visit, as China slammed Moscow's decision to allow the trip.

US Militarycbs2chicago.com/ ... 16:11:35Mayor Richard Daley's son... will soon report to active duty as an enlisted soldier in the Army's regular airborne infantry.reuters.com/ ... 15:09:38

A U.S. Army Black Hawk helicopter clipped wires supporting a TV tower and crashed in foggy weather in central Texas on Monday, killing all seven soldiers on board

Human Rightapnews.myway.com/ ... 15:42:58a hospital in the Netherlands - the first nation to permit euthanasia - recently proposed guidelines for mercy killings of terminally ill newborns, and then made a startling revelation: It has already begun carrying out such procedures in a handful of cases and reporting them to the government.news.bbc.co.uk/ ... 15:20:40The US Supreme Court has said it will not hear a case that challenges the legality of same-sex marriages.

Reasons for Repealreuters.com/ ... 15:37:37Iranian police seized 18 kilograms of opium after cutting open the stomachs of six camels, which are being increasingly used to carry narcotics from Afghanistan thestate.com/ ... 15:18:09The Supreme Court on Monday questioned whether state medical marijuana laws might be abused by people who aren’t really sick as it debated whether the federal government can prosecute patients who smoke pot on doctors’ orders. Five justices seemed inclined to rule against the two California patients who sued to prevent the federal government from confiscating their drugs, with two others appearing more open to either side. Justice Clarence Thomas remained characteristically silent.

Only Naturalabcnews.go.com/ ... 23:59:26HONOLULU -- One of the rarest birds on Earth came closer to being wiped out if not already extinct with the death of one of the last three believed to exist... The male po'ouli bird died in captivity late Friday... kept at the Maui Bird Conservation Center in Olinda since it was captured for breeding on Sept. 9. Biologists failed to capture a mate for the aging bird, which was found in the Hanawi Natural Area Reserve.... The remaining two [known] po'ouli, believed to be a male and a female, haven't been seen for nearly a year....cbsnews.com/ ... 23:56:26A 4-year-old cocker spaniel died Tuesday, a day after coming under attack by a swarm of bees nesting in discarded backyard tires cnn.netscape.cnn.com/ ... 16:16:24Germs found in dental plaque can make their way into the lungs and cause potentially fatal pneumonia in elderly nursing home patients abcactionnews.com/ ... 16:10:27When a young Hillsborough County teacher was accused this summer of having a sexual affair with a 14-year-old student, many people's first reaction to the notorious case was, 'She's crazy.' Tuesday, Debra Lafave's attorney announced that his client would indeed be using an insanity defense.reuters.com/ ... 15:37:53Goats, cows and other livestock will be forced off the streets of South Africa's commercial capital, Johannesburg, as public health officials get tough on what they say is a menace.reuters.com/ ... 15:36:35 Kiruna, a mining town in north Sweden, has been invaded by thousands of rats thought to have crossed the border from Norway with garbage shipments for the local recycling center reuters.com/ ... 15:36:04 China's first nationally televised show about sex will get participants talking freely but allow them to wear masks to avoid embarrassment, the state-run China Daily said Tuesday.nytimes.com/ ... 15:16:10...a team of researchers has found that severe emotional distress - like that caused by divorce, the loss of a job, or caring for an ill child or parent - may speed up the aging of the body's cells at the genetic level....thescotsman.scotsman.com/ ... 15:15:19Exterminators on one of Spain’s Canary Islands have fumigated, torched or scooped up hundreds of thousands of locusts that flew across 60 miles of ocean after an infestation that wreaked havoc in North Africa this summer news.bbc.co.uk/ ... 15:12:41A medical scan that can pick up brain tumours could also be used to tell whether a person is lying news.bbc.co.uk/ ... 15:11:37The Atlas experiment will explore the fundamental properties of matter and look for "new physics" beyond the limits of our current understanding.... esearchers are confident they will be able to detect the most sought after particle in physics: the Higgs boson, which explains why all other particles have mass....

Under Tyrannychinadaily.com.cn/ ... 16:09:15The world's largest retailer, Wal-Mart Stores Inc, says its inventory of stock produced in China is expected to hit US$18 billion this year, keeping the annual growth rate of over 20 per cent consistent over two years.

Police Riotsun-sentinel.com/ ... 15:19:42Police departments throughout the nation are abusing the use of Tasers, firing them on children, the elderly and in situations that do not merit the use of a 50,000-volt jolt, a report released Monday by Amnesty International concluded.

Threatswashingtontimes.com/ ... 15:18:36Osama bin Laden's top deputy vowed in a videotape aired yesterday to keep fighting the United States until Washington changes its policies.

Violenceexaminer-enterprise.com/ ... 23:29:39Federal and local law enforcement officials have announced the capture of one of America's Most Wanted criminal suspects following an alleged kidnapping in Caney, Kan. yesterday. Larry L. Raifsnider, 39, of unknown residence, was arrested shortly after noon Monday in Bartlesville.ap.tbo.com/ ... 16:28:47Whose Woods Are These? Shooting in North Woods Highlights Contrast Between Hmong, Local Hunters by Matt Crenson The Associated Press ap.tbo.com/ ... 15:42:30A car bomb exploded Tuesday next to a U.S. military convoy on Baghdad's dangerous airport highway... a suicide bomber who drove his car into the convoy...news.yahoo.com/ ... 15:16:45A Pentagon spokesman said Monday that Red Cross officials have "made their view known" that the indefinite detention of terror suspects at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, amounts to torture. ..."It's their point of view," but it is not shared by the Bush administration....reuters.com/ ... 15:09:08 A car bomb exploded near a U.S. military patrol in the town of Baiji, north of Baghdad, on Tuesday, killing at least seven Iraqis and wounding 20 people, including two U.S. soldiers

US Military Casualtiesdefenselink.mil/ ... 15:50:41

Marine Cpl. Gentian Marku, 22, of Warren, Mich., died Nov. 25 as a result of enemy action in Al Anbar Province, Iraq. defenselink.mil/ ... 15:50:25

Army Pfc. Stephen C. Benish, 20, of Clark, N.J., died Nov. 28 in Ar Ramadi, Iraq, when he received enemy fire while on a dismounted patrol.defenselink.mil/ ... 15:50:02

Marine Lance Cpl. Adam R. Brooks, 20, of Manchester, N.H.

Marine Lance Cpl. Charles A. Hanson Jr., 22, of Panacea, Fla.
died Nov. 28 as a result of enemy action in Babil Province, Iraq. defenselink.mil/ ... 15:49:23

Army Spc. Jeremy E. Christensen, 27, of Albuquerque, N.M., died Nov. 27 in Ad Duilayah, Iraq, when an improvised explosive device detonated near his patrol vehicle.defenselink.mil/ ... 15:49:08

Army Sgt. Trinidad R. Martinezluis, 22, of Los Angeles, Calif., died Nov. 28 in Baqubah, Iraq, when his 5-ton vehicle rolled over and pinned him underwater. defenselink.mil/ ... 15:48:37

Army Staff Sgt. Michael B. Shackelford, 25, of Grand Junction, Colo.

Army Sgt. Carl W. Lee, 23, of Oklahoma City, Okla.
died Nov. 28 in Ar Ramadi, Iraq, when their unit was conducting a dismounted patrol and they encountered enemy forces using small arms fire.defenselink.mil/ ... 15:47:57

Marine Lance Cpl. Jordan D. Winkler, 19, of Tulsa, Okla, died Nov 26 due to a non-combat related incident at Camp Fallujah, Iraq. defenselink.mil/ ... 15:47:39

Marine Cpl. Kirk J. Bosselmann, 21, of Napa, Calif. died Nov. 27

Marine Lance Cpl. Bradley M. Faircloth, 20, of Mobile, Ala. died Nov. 26

Marine Lance Cpl. Jeffery S. Holmes, 20, of White River Junction, Vt. died Nov. 25

Marine Lance Cpl. David B. Houck, 25, of Winston Salem, N.C. died Nov. 26

Marine Lance Cpl. Joshua E. Lucero, 19, of Tucson, Ariz. died Nov. 27

Marine Sgt. Nicholas S. Nolte, 25, of Falls City, Neb. died Nov. 24 at the National Naval Medical Center Bethesda, Md., from injuries received Nov. 9
died as a result of enemy action in Al Anbar Province Iraq. defenselink.mil/ ... 15:44:24

Army Pfc. Harrison J. Meyer, 20, of Worthington, Ohio, died Nov. 26 in Ar Ramadi, Iraq, when his unit was attacked by enemy forces using small arms fire. defenselink.mil/ ... 15:44:06

Army Pvt. Brian K. Grant, 31, of Dallas, Texas, died Nov. 26 in Ar Ramadi, Iraq, when his unit was attacked by enemy forces using small arms fire.

MON 2004-NOV-29

Human Rightap.tbo.com/ ... 22:54:30Tiny Himalayan Kingdom of Bhutan Is World's First Country to Ban Tobacco Sales, Public Smoking

Violenceap.tbo.com/ ... 22:53:59Leaflets urging people to "count all the American tanks you see and report them to us" were strewn across the courtyard of a two-story building that doubled as a hospital for those who fought U.S. troops in this former insurgent stronghold.... "It is all pretty sophisticated by Third World standards. They were obviously preparing for a long, drawn-out conflict.... We had seen so many things stashed in weirdest places, yet this was a surprise...."nbc4.tv/ ... 22:51:59Violence at an illegal rave-style party in South Los Angeles resulted in the death of a 19-year-old man and the wounding of four other people.

Threatsndtv.com/ ... 22:51:18"Pakistan today successfully carried out indigenously a surface-to-surface missile having a range of 290 kilometers.... All the flight tests went well...."

SUN 2004-NOV-28

Too Much Informationdrudgereport.com/ ... 18:40:35Diana, Princess of Wales had a secret abortion while having an affair before she and Charles were divorced

Transportnewsday.com/ ... 23:53:39New York - A charter bus from Toronto filled with young Polish dancers and their families slammed into an overpass on the FDR Drive Sunday afternoon.... peeled back part of the bus' roof and crushed its front end like an aluminum can... All 49 riders were injured in some way....ap.tbo.com/ ... 23:46:25VERO BEACH, Fla. - Six people died Sunday in a head-on collision on Florida's Turnpike that might have been caused by a blown tire ap.tbo.com/ ... 18:43:36Hundreds of stranded passengers awaited flights out of Reno-Tahoe International Airport on Sunday, a day after a snowstorm and an equipment malfunction forced dozens of flights to be canceled or delayed.forbes.com/ ... 18:38:23Divers found a six-foot gash on the tanker that leaked 30,000 gallons of crude oil into the Delaware River, creating a 20-mile-long slick that killed dozens of birds and threatened other wildlife.. The company said something probably struck the tanks underwater, but the Coast Guard investigation has not confirmed that..

Whoopsedinburghnews.scotsman.com/ ... 14:24:56Reliance officers based at Edinburgh Sheriff Court released the 32-year-old after a paperwork mix-up. But when he returned to Saughton Prison he was turned away because there was no record of him being due back.

Preternatural Patternschannelcincinnati.com/ ... 14:26:06...on I-75 see the 62-foot statue of Jesus... "It just makes you, it's like 'Wow,' "... "I was just like, 'Oh my goodness,' "edinburghnews.scotsman.com/ ... 14:06:41a new fortnightly porn-themed club event... the Pornaoke Lounge... encourages members of the public to add their own sound effects to silent clips of sex scenes....ap.tbo.com/ ... 03:05:24TOKYO - Four men were found dead Sunday in a sealed Tokyo apartment littered with charcoal stoves, a scene police said appeared to be Japan's latest suicide pact. ... Suicides in Japan hit a record high last year, exceeding 32,000.

Digital Consequencesadn.com/ ... 18:42:21"Just to let everyone know, my mother was murdered." This simple yet startling sentence marks the last entry Rachelle Waterman made in her Internet journal before she was arrested on charges she participated in killing her mother. And it marks the beginning of an online discussion that's as remarkable for its popularity as its content. Waterman is the 16-year-old high school honor student from Craig jailed with two 24-year-old men who troopers say schemed for months to kill 48-year-old Lauri Waterman....reuters.com/ ... 14:13:15Video games... are becoming a way for firefighters, soldiers, currency traders and college administrators to hone their skills.reuters.com/ ... 03:03:23DualDisc and DVD(plus) discs have until now been devoid of graphics, apart from limited text on the inner ring. Because both sides of these CD/DVD hybrids contain optical data, it has been impossible to apply graphics to them. But MediaCoat technology from Spectra Systems, a developer of systems for marking, tracking and authenticating documents and products, has opened the door to graphics, text and barcodes on the "play" side of a disc.

Mechanical Disasterabcnews.go.com/ ... 03:01:56At least 170 workers were trapped Sunday after an explosion tore through a central Chinese coal mine, sending smoke billowing out from air vents, the government said. Another 123 were rescued.

Only Naturalboston.com/ ... 23:52:16...having a sixth finger projecting from one hand and an extra toe on each foot made life in his impoverished country, the Dominican Republic, even more difficult... thanks to the generosity of a hospital and surgeons in Jersey City, the extra digits have been removed.. Next week, he will return to his wife and three children in his village.. a region where several other residents, mainly children, also have extra fingers and toes... ap.tbo.com/ ... 23:47:38earthquake... Japan's northern island of Hokkaido... injuring at least 13 people, swaying buildings and triggering a small tsunami wave that reached the shore....apnews.myway.com/ ... 18:42:57A powerful earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 7.1 struck Japan's northern island of Hokkaido early Monday, swaying buildings and triggering a tsunami that lashed the shore...sg.news.yahoo.com/ ... 18:40:07A South Korean woman paralyzed for 20 years is walking again after scientists say they repaired her damaged spine using stem cells derived from umbilical cord blood.heraldsun.news.com.au/ ... 14:23:42A LANDMARK bridge on Indonesia's Sumatra island may collapse because too many people are fond of urinating on one of its steel pillars.

US Military Casualtiesdefenselink.mil/ ... 14:16:58

Marine Pfc. Ryan J. Cantafio, 22, of Beaver Dam, Wisc., died Nov. 25, as result of enemy action in Al Andar Province, Iraq.defenselink.mil/ ... 14:16:38

Marine Sgt. Benjamin C. Edinger, 24, of Green Bay, Wisc., died Nov. 23, at the National Naval Medical Center, Bethesda, Md., from injuries received as result of enemy action in Al Anbar Province, Iraq on Nov 14.

Human Rightexaminer-enterprise.com/ ... 14:16:10A new state law allowing employees to keep guns in their locked cars on company property has alarmed some of Oklahoma's biggest employers and pitted them against gun enthusiasts.

Freedomtelegraph.co.uk/ ... 03:08:21"They started to beat voters and election officials, trying to push through towards the ballot boxes....People's faces were cut from blows to the head. There was blood all over."... The thugs - believed to be loyal to the pro-Russian presidential candidate Viktor Yanukovich from his stronghold, Donetsk - were repulsed only when locals pushed them back and a policeman fired warning shots. The catalogue of abuses in the contest between Mr Yanukovich, the prime minister, and his opponent, the pro-Western Viktor Yushchenko, is growing longer by the day....

Reasons for Repealcsmonitor.com/ ... 18:39:40Showdown over medical marijuana -- The Supreme Court hears a California case Monday that could become a signature decision of the Rehnquist era... Ultimately at issue in the case is to what extent the Constitution places limits, under the commerce clause, on Congress's ability to regulate areas that have traditionally been left to state and local jurisdictions... Legal analysts say one aspect of the case that makes it particularly worth watching is the mix of a liberal policy issue - medical-marijuana use - with a constitutional principle embraced by conservatives - federalism (state sovereignty)...usatoday.com/ ... 03:05:49Kevin Winston, 46, called police at 2:45 a.m. Friday after his 16-year-old daughter came home drunk and unruly. When police arrived, however, the girl told them she feared for her safety because her father stored drugs and weapons in the home. The girl led officers to a crawl space above the ceiling where they found four semiautomatic guns and more than 600 vials of cocaine. Winston was charged with numerous weapons and drug charges. His five daughters were placed in the custody of a relative.

Threatssuntimes.com/ ... 23:50:59The Pakistan army said Saturday it will withdraw hundreds of troops from a tense tribal region near Afghanistan where Osama bin Laden and his top deputy were thought to be hiding.ap.tbo.com/ ... 23:50:12The U.N. nuclear watchdog will send a group of inspectors to South Korea next week for additional investigations into the country's past secret nuclear experiments reuters.com/ ... 14:32:52Iran formally withdrew its demand to exempt sensitive research from a freeze of key parts of its nuclear program -- a last-minute bid to remove the threat of U.N. economic sanctions...sfgate.com/ ... 14:27:28What goes on beyond the fence is a mystery. The multiagency review normally required to erect anything on federal parkland did not apply to the beige, metal buildings. The Navy, which operates the site, calls the work a "utility assessment and upgrade" and volunteers nothing more.signonsandiego.com/ ... 14:26:36Iran is working on a secret nuclear programme for military purposes despite promising the European Union it would halt all activities related to uranium enrichment, the news magazine Der Spiegel said on Saturday.reuters.com/ ... 14:12:39Iran said Sunday it was ready to co-operate with Iraq to stop militants crossing their mountainous 1,000-mile border to join the insurgency there.worldnetdaily.com/ ... 14:08:36"Was there a plan to slip a firearm into this dinner in Santiago and assassinate GW? No one in Washington is sure – but there is a very frightened and angry buzz of worry that there might have been." (article-ad)

Under Tyrannynews.bbc.co.uk/ ... 14:05:40The latest issue of US news magazine Newsweek has been banned in Pakistan for publishing material that "desecrates the Koran"... contains an article about murdered Dutch film-maker Theo Van Gogh and pictures of a woman with Koranic verses inscribed on her body....

Rebuildingnews.bbc.co.uk/ ... 03:06:41Afghanistan golf course reopens -- Afghanistan has been hosting its first golf tournament for more than 30 years... many of the "greens" are actually dark grey, made from oiled sand....

Violencesuntimes.com/ ... 23:50:36The warning left in the garage of Omar Hameed, an Iraqi national guardsman, showed two bloody swords and a message: ''If you don't quit your job in three days, you will be killed.'' The next day, Hameed, still recovering from a leg injury after gunmen attacked his patrol, gave his reply in signs he hung in the market of his hometown of Mahmoudiya and on the street leading to his home: ''I wash my hands of the Iraqi National Guard.'' He said the decision to give up his job, which paid a relatively hefty $190 a month, was easy because he knew the alternative.reuters.com/ ... 14:32:20KANDAHAR, Afghanistan - Dozens of Taliban guerrillas attacked the compound of an Afghan aid agency with rocket-propelled grenades and machineguns on Sunday, killing three guards.. two-hour attack on the compound of the Voluntary Association for the Rehabilitation of Afghanistan in Delaram, a town in the western province of Farah, began before dawn... A Taliban spokesman... confirmed the guerrillas had carried out the attack, but said the intended target was a military post next to the aid agency compound.slate.msn.com/ ... 14:29:24Dexter Filkins' Fallujah -- A New York Times reporter walks the killing ground with Marine Company B.stuff.co.nz/ ... 14:27:50A bomb tied to a stray dog in Indian-controlled Kashmir blew up on Friday, killing the animal and wounding four people ap.tbo.com/ ... 14:15:36Iraq's deputy prime minister said holding elections in January will be "a serious challenge," but he insisted Sunday they must go ahead as scheduled....
U.S. troops and Iraqi paramilitary police arrested 43 suspected insurgents in the northern city of Mosul...
In Samarra, 60 miles north of Baghdad, a car bomb killed six people and injured five others.
Two American soldiers were injured in an attack on their convoy in Baghdad.ap.tbo.com/ ... 14:14:14Nichols admitted to prosecutors in a signed statement that he helped Timothy McVeigh make the bomb that killed 168 people in the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in 1995, The Oklahoman reported... According to the statement, Nichols knew of no other conspirators in the attack and said he did not know which building McVeigh had chosen as a target until reading about it after the bombing...reuters.com/ ... 14:12:08The FBI has told Spanish investigators that one of three men believed to have planned the Sept. 11 attacks from Spain in the summer of 2001 also gave the order to carry out the March 11 Madrid train bombings ap.tbo.com/ ... 03:04:33NEW YORK - Police were reviewing video camera footage to find out who discharged pepper spray inside an elevator at Toys R Us' crowded flagship store, sending at least three people to the hospital....ap.tbo.com/ ... 03:03:59A car bomb exploded early Sunday near a U.S. military convoy on the road leading to Baghdad's airport... a witness said two Humvees were destroyed....

SAT 2004-NOV-27

Too Much Informationdrudgereport.com/ ... 23:01:59DIANA, Princess of Wales had a secret abortion while having an affair before she and Charles were divorced, a new book sensationally claims.nydailynews.com/ ... 13:01:27Prince Charles was a "hopeless" lover who rarely slept with Princess Diana, according to a never-before-seen video to be shown next week.

Transportnewsday.com/ ... 12:59:42A Cypriot tanker spilled 30,000 gallons of crude oil into the Delaware River between Philadelphia and southern New Jersey

Preternatural Patternsap.tbo.com/ ... 01:25:24A man jumped to his death Friday from the 86th-floor observation deck at the Empire State Building... hit a landing on the sixth floor, where he died instantly... No identification was found on his body... At least 31 other people have committed suicide at the Empire State Building since it opened in 1931. More than 3.8 million people visit the tourist attraction each year....

Christmas 2004ap.tbo.com/ ... 01:22:31Why No Christmas Display? Couple Points Grinchly Finger at Neighbors Who Initiated Complaints

Freedomcnn.worldnews.printthis.clickability.com/ ... 13:02:26As Ukraine's popular pro-Western opposition leader claimed victory Tuesday in hotly contested presidential elections, the mystery surrounding an appearance-altering illness that twice prompted him to check into a Vienna hospital persisted. Yushchenko accused the Ukrainian authorities of poisoning him. His detractors suggested he'd eaten some bad sushi.

Human Rightsg.news.yahoo.com/ ... 12:44:53Russia announced plans to allow Tibet's exiled spiritual leader the Dalai Lama to visit its southern Buddhist region for the first time, before appearing to backtrack on a move that is certain to anger China.

US Militaryap.tbo.com/ ... 01:25:56Fallujah Offensives Take Toll on Texas Troops

Only Naturalnews.xinhuanet.com/ ... 01:21:54A strong quake... 6.4-magnitude... in the Indonesian province of Papua on Friday has left 11 people killed and 75 others injured... destroyed 150 buildings, including churches, mosques and schools...

Reasons for Repealalertnet.org/ ... 01:20:14MEXICO CITY, Nov 25 - Suspected drug gangsters murdered eight people execution-style in and around the Caribbean beach town of Cancun this week as a wave of brutal killings hit Mexico.
Narco murders are frequent in gritty towns on Mexico's U.S. border but are rare in tourist resorts like Cancun, famed for its white beaches and warm, turquoise waters....washtimes.com/ ... 01:19:47A band of Mexican army deserters that smuggles illicit drugs into the United States across the southern Texas border has offered bounties of up to $50,000 for the assassination of U.S. Border Patrol agents and state and local police officers, U.S. law-enforcement authorities said.

US Military Casualtiesdefenselink.mil/ ... 01:11:52

Army Cpl. Dale E. Fracker, Jr., 23, of Apple Valley, Calif.

Army Cpl. Jacob R. Fleischer, 25, of St. Louis, Mo.
died on November 24 in Deh Rawod, Afghanistan, when an improvised explosive device detonated near their unit.

Aftermathnews.bbc.co.uk/ ... 12:45:52A British hotelier and cameraman has said Afghan authorities tried to get him to confess to involvement in the kidnapping of three UN hostages.

Violencereuters.com/ ... 13:03:15Twenty months after toppling Saddam Hussein, U.S. troops still battling his followers in the heart of Iraq's old arms industry are hitting back with a new weapon -- ex-members of Saddam's special forces.news.bbc.co.uk/ ... 12:45:29A man has been arrested in connection with the deaths of eight boys stabbed as they slept in a dormitory... captured thanks to a tip-off ...from his mother after he tried to commit suicide....ap.tbo.com/ ... 01:26:25Leading Iraqi politicians called Friday for a six-month delay in the Jan. 30 election because of the spiraling violence as U.S. forces uncovered more bodies in the northern city of Mosul, apparent victims of an intimidation campaign by insurgents against Iraq's fledgling security forces.chinadaily.com.cn/ ... 01:19:32A knife-wielding man stabbed 12 students in a provincial high school, killing nine and injuring three... The students were all fast asleep...

Threatscbsnews.com/ ... 01:20:36Prince Harry arrived back in London Friday amid reports that armed guards at the Argentinean ranch where was working had foiled a plot to kidnap him. CBS News Correspondent Tom Fenton reports Buckingham Palace said the stories are "irresponsible."worldnetdaily.com/ ... 01:18:45Lawyer makes the case that his brother was tortured, murdered in federal prison... The Federal Transfer Center in Oklahoma City... a new, $80 million high-tech facility at the edge of Will Rogers World Airport....sltrib.com/ ... 01:17:36The FBI "in all likelihood" had advance notice of the Oklahoma City bombing plot but did nothing to prevent the attack, a Salt Lake City lawyer claims. Attorney Jesse Trentadue alleges an informant infiltrated a white supremacist compound in Oklahoma and learned Timothy McVeigh was trying to recruit accomplices there about two weeks before the April 19, 1995, bombing. This information probably was relayed to the FBI before the bombing, the lawyer contends in a document filed Tuesday in U.S. District Court in Salt Lake City. Trentadue has sued the FBI, alleging it is violating the federal Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) by refusing to turn over documents connected to the 1995 death of his brother in an Oklahoma prison....

FRI 2004-NOV-26

Whoopsreuters.com/ ... 14:10:51Australian police apologized on Thursday after inadvertently sending Internet images of child pornography to 1,800 schools while trying to warn principals about children at risk of abuse.

Christmas 2004reuters.com/ ... 14:10:28A British hotel chain is offering couples called Mary and Joseph a free night's stay over Christmas. "We are trying to make up for the hotel industry not having any rooms left on Christmas Eve 2004 years ago,"

Digital Consequencesreuters.com/ ... 14:09:35Sony, the world's largest consumer-electronics group, is having trouble meeting soaring demand for flat televisions as its assembly lines did not gear up quickly enough

Beatles - still with usnews.bbc.co.uk/ ... 14:09:15Ruling on a case of medical malpractice being heard in New York, Judge Roberto Gigante parodied one of The Beatles' most famous love songs, "Something". On trial was doctor Gil Lederman, famous for having asked dying Beatle George Harrison, the song's author, to sign a guitar for his teenage son. The guitar became the subject of a legal wrangle and was eventually returned to Harrison's family.
"Something in the folks he treats
Attracts bad press like no other doctor
He's in our jurisdiction now
He gets Beatle autographs somehow
And all I have to do is move this trial
Somewhere they don't know George Harrison
If this case I were to keep
Defendant would gently weep."

Thanksgivingnews.bostonherald.com/ ... 14:07:13WORCESTER, Mass. - A man was charged with stabbing two relatives who allegedly criticized his table manners during Thanksgiving dinner.

Artthisislondon.com/ ... 14:06:29A group of former pupils at a London comprehensive school are poised to win thousands of pounds in unpaid royalties for singing on Pink Floyd's classic Another Brick In The Wall 25 years ago.

Living with Dyingap.tbo.com/ ... 03:43:37Tips for End-of-Life Planning ap.tbo.com/ ... 03:43:23Living Wills, Meant to Guide Tricky Medical Decisions, Don't Always Work - or Get Followed

Korean War - still with usreuters.com/ ... 01:30:56Former U.S. sergeant Charles Robert Jenkins, who is serving a 30-day confinement term in Japan for deserting to North Korea four decades ago, will be released on Saturday... ordered to serve the confinement term and given a dishonorable discharge from the military at a court martial on Nov. 3 after confessing to deserting to North Korea in 1965 while on patrol near the demilitarized zone between the two Koreas.....

Transportusatoday.com/ ... 13:59:43

GLENWOOD SPRINGS, Colo. — Snowfall delayed repairs Friday to a section of Interstate 70 where a rock slide sent boulders as big as vans crashing onto the road... More than three dozen boulders landed on Interstate 70 early Thursday, some embedded 6 feet deep. State officials ended up closing a 24-mile section of the main east-west artery through Colorado. They rerouted Thanksgiving Day traffic that ordinarily flows between Glenwood Springs and Gypsum along an almost 220-mile detour to the north.ap.tbo.com/ ... 03:42:44MARION, Ill. - A van crossed a median and struck a car head-on, killing five people including a family of four headed to Texas for Thanksgiving.....cnn.com/ ... 03:39:56TAHLEQUAH, Oklahoma -- Turkey-truck crash kills three people -- Car collides with truck carrying 11,000 pounds of frozen poultry... "There was nothing we could do about it... It was like they didn't even know there was a stop sign."apnews.myway.com/ ... 01:25:21Travelers didn't plan on starting their long Thanksgiving weekend stuck in airports or driving on slippery roads, but then again they hadn't figured on snow - and a lot of it. A blanket of white stretched from the Great Lakes region to the central Plains. Accumulations from the Midwest's first major snowfall of the season ranged from 4 inches in southeastern Iowa to 9 inches in southern Michigan, the National Weather Service said. High winds and thunderstorms also worked their way across the region Wednesday....

Reasons for Repealreuters.com/ ... 01:31:41Paraguayan anti-drug agents seized their biggest cocaine haul in 15 years after searching a small airplane near the border with Brazil... seized 660 pounds of cocaine in a shoot-out on Wednesday that killed one of the suspects.... Eight people were arrested....

Freedomedition.cnn.com/ ... 03:36:00Tens of thousands of protesters were on the streets of Kiev for a fifth day as international efforts to mediate the country's election crisis gained strength. European Union foreign policy chief Javier Solana and Polish President Aleksander Kwasniewski were expected in Kiev on Friday for urgent talks amid allegations of vote fraud.news.bbc.co.uk/ ... 01:29:34Ukraine's Supreme Court has suspended publication of the presidential election result until it considers the opposition's complaints next week.

US Militarykentucky.com/ ... 01:26:19Members of a National Guard battalion preparing for deployment to Iraq said this week that they are under lockdown and being treated like prisoners rather than soldiers by Army commanders at the remote desert camp where they are training. A number of the Guard troops also said that the training they have received is so poor and equipment shortages so prevalent they fear their casualty rate will be needlessly high when they arrive in Iraq early next year. They said they think that their treatment and training reflects bias against National Guard troops by commanders in the active-duty Army, an allegation Army commanders denied.

Only Naturalabcnews.go.com/ ... 03:40:46Six people were killed and at least 30 injured when a strong earthquake shook Indonesia's Papua province Friday, collapsing buildings and starting fires, officials said. A series of aftershocks continued to rattle the coastal town of Nabire, 3,000 km (1,900 miles) northeast of Jakarta, hours after the morning quake, measured at 6.4 on the Richter scale by the National Earthquake Center. "We're still in panic...."seattlepi.nwsource.com/ ... 01:24:08Big game hunters may be off the hook in the latest twist of a prehistoric whodunit that tries to explain why bison populations sharply crashed thousands of years ago.... scientists used ancient DNA to track the hulking herbivore's boom-and-bust population patterns, adding to growing evidence that climate change was to blame. "The interesting thing that we say about the extinctions, is that whatever happened, it wasn't due to humans...."

Yeah, Sure!cbsnewyork.com/ ... 14:07:39It's not my fault. I'm mentally ill. That's the argument a woman is using to sue American Express for two (M) million dollars after she ran up nearly one (M) million dollar in charges and couldn't pay the bill.abc.net.au/ ... 14:01:31A potential gas source found on the moon's surface could hold the key to meeting future energy demands as the earth's fossil fuels dry up in the coming decades, scientists say.

Under Tyrannyasianews.it/ ... 14:01:07Yangoon – Myanmar’s military junta freed about 500 of the nearly 4,000 prisoners it promised to release, this according to eyewitness accounts. There was no certain word on whether political detainees were among them—the newly freed appeared to be people sentenced to short terms of one or two years for criminal offences—but relatives of some political prisoners said that fewer than 30 of them have been released. Min Ko Naing, the now 42-year-old leader of student democracy protests the military suppressed ruthlessly in 1989, was one of them.

Threatsabcnews.go.com/ ... 14:00:22VIENTIANE (Reuters) - Tourists have been barred from the capital, bars ordered to shut early and women told to cover up in traditional ankle-length skirts as communist Laos prepares for a summit of Asian leaders. Otherwise famous as the most bombed country per capita on earth, the landlocked Southeast Asian backwater has undergone a radical facelift for next week's meeting, with roads hastily repaved to greet 16 Asian heads of government. But hammer and sickles lining the boulevards of the sleepy capital serve as potent reminders of Laos' political leanings — the cause of America's massive aerial bombardment during the Vietnam War.itv.com/ ... 03:40:14A chemical weapons laboratory has been found in the Iraqi city of Fallujah, according to the Iraqi Minister of State Kassim Daoud.sun-sentinel.com/ ... 01:29:08Shocked by what she perceived as far too intimate a security check, Melanie Higley burst into tears.
First, the wand was placed too aggressively between her legs, then the airport screener at Dallas-Fort Worth International groped her, she said. Hysterical, she protested that she was being abused. The screener's response: She was just doing her job. Higley was then ordered to take off her tennis shoes, which she did -- and threw them at the screener. "I was sweating, I was crying, I was a mess," said Higley, of Jupiter, who was heading to Palm Beach International with her family that September day. "I've never been touched like that before by another woman." Scores of women, and some men, say they have suffered similar humiliation during a pat-down, standard procedure since Sept. 22 in secondary screenings at airport checkpoints. Many protest that it is an unnecessary invasion of privacy, the security process going too far....asia.news.yahoo.com/ ... 01:27:59India's Supreme Court lifted a 20-year ban on night viewing of the Taj Mahal, the 17th century white-marble monument to love in the northern city of Agra. Starting this weekend, the court allowed tourists to view the Taj on full moon nights and two nights before and after the full moon from 8:30 pm to half-past midnight.... The ban on night viewing was imposed in 1984 at the height of raging Sikh militancy when it was feared that the monument could come under attack....kentucky.com/ ... 01:25:55Members of a National Guard battalion preparing for deployment to Iraq said this week that they are under lockdown and being treated like prisoners rather than soldiers by Army commanders at the remote desert camp where they are training. A number of the Guard troops also said that the training they have received is so poor and equipment shortages so prevalent they fear their cas-ualty rate will be needlessly high when they arrive in Iraq early next year.

Violencereuters.com/ ... 03:41:18Two U.S. Marines were killed in the Iraqi city of Falluja Thursday when insurgents threw grenades at them after they entered a house to search it... Marines had also killed three insurgents in the incident....asianews.it/ ... 03:36:35 A man with a knife killed eight people and injured four others at a high school Friday, in the deadliest of a series of knife attacks at Chinese schools in recent months, the government said. Police were searching for the attacker following the killings at the No. 2 High School in the city of Ruzhou....news.bbc.co.uk/ ... 01:30:02Israeli soldiers have killed three Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza Strip, Palestinian witnesses say. Israeli radio said troops in Hebron killed two men in a gun battle which broke out after they surrounded a militant hideout and dynamited it....reuters.com/ ... 01:24:40The group led by al Qaeda ally Abu Musab al-Zarqawi said on Thursday it carried out a shooting attack that killed a U.S. civilian official near Baghdad's Green Zone government compound. A U.S. official said on Wednesday that State Department employee James Mollen was shot dead by gunfire. It said he was an adviser to the Iraqi Education Ministry....wcco.com/ ... 01:21:06Police in Brook Park, Minnesota say that Wisconsin shooting suspect Chai Vang owns 40 acres of hunting property in the area.

THU 2004-NOV-25

Transportchron.com/ ... 01:11:06Air traffic controllers contacted a private jet to warn the pilot the craft was too low approximately two minutes before the plane crashed Monday, killing its crew of three.

Whoopsreuters.com/ ... 03:05:56A 69-year-old woman who was accidentally injected with a toxic cleaning fluid as she was prepared for surgery at a Seattle area medical center has died as a result,reuters.com/ ... 01:10:46A Spanish army sergeant has been arrested for staging a make-believe attack in a Madrid bar using a plastic toy gun

Thanksgivingreuters.com/ ... 01:09:50"As you would expect, the loss of freedom and the lack of privacy are extremely difficult. But I am safe, fit and healthy." -- MARTHA STEWART, in a Thanksgiving message posted on her personal Web site from prison

History - still with usreuters.com/ ... 01:07:56The bat Babe Ruth used to hit the first home run in Yankee Stadium and help usher in 80 years of New York Yankee dominance over his former team, the Boston Red Sox, is going on the auction block. The pre-sale estimate for the 36-inch (90-cm) ash wood bat Sotheby's will auction off next week is $1 million...

US Military Casualtiesdefenselink.mil/ ... 03:18:07

Army Sgt. Joseph M. Nolan, 27, of Philadelphia, Pa., died Nov. 18 in Fallujah, Iraq, when his unit was on patrol and an improvised explosive device detonated near his up-armored HMMWV. defenselink.mil/ ... 03:17:44

Army Spc. David L. Roustum, 22, of West Seneca, N.Y., died Nov. 20 in Baghdad, Iraq, when his up-armored HMMWV was attacked by enemy forces using rocket-propelled grenades and small arms fire. defenselink.mil/ ... 03:17:05

Army Spc. Blain M. Ebert, 22, of Washtucna, Wash., died Nov. 22 in Baghdad, Iraq, when enemy forces engaged his unit with small arms fire. defenselink.mil/ ... 03:15:55

Marine Cpl. Michael R. Cohen, 23, of Jacobus, Pa., died Nov. 22 as result of enemy action in Al Anbar Province, Iraq. defenselink.mil/ ... 03:15:28

Army Sgt. Michael C. O’Neill, 22, of Mansfield, Ohio, died November 21 in Landstuhl, Germany, of accidental injuries sustained on November 17 at Bagram Air Field, Afghanistan, during preparations for combat operations. defenselink.mil/ ... 03:13:44

Marine Cpl. Bradley T. Arms, 20, of Charlottesville, Va.

Marine Lance Cpl. Demarkus D. Brown, 22, of Martinsville, Va.
died Nov. 19, as result of enemy action in Al Anbar Province, Iraq.

Marine Lance Cpl. Michael A. Downey, 21, of Phoenix, Ariz. died Nov. 19 at National Naval Medical Center, Bethesda, Md., from wounds received as a result of enemy action on Nov. 11 in Al Anbar Province, Iraq.

Marine Cpl. Joseph J. Heredia, 22, of Santa Maria, Calif. died Nov. 20 at Landstuhl Regional Medical Center, Germany, from wounds received as a result of enemy action on Nov 10 in Al Anbar Province, Iraq.

Marine Lance Cpl. Joseph T. Welke, 20, of Rapid City, S.D. died Nov. 20 at Landstuhl Regional Medical Center, Germany, from wounds received as a result of enemy action on Nov 19 in Al Anbar Province, Iraq.defenselink.mil/ ... 03:11:44

Army Sgt. Jack Bryant Jr., 23, of Dale City, Va., died Nov. 20 in Muqdadiyah, Iraq, when an improvised explosive device detonated near his military convoy followed by an enemy rocket-propelled grenade attack.

US Militarydefenselink.mil/ ... 03:17:29This week, the Army and Air Force announced an increase in the number of reservists on active duty in support of the partial mobilization, while the Navy , Marines and Coast Guard had a decrease. The net collective result is 294 more reservists mobilized than last week.ap.tbo.com/ ... 03:07:20NORRISTOWN, Pa. - A man pleaded guilty Wednesday to ransacking the apartment of a newlywed Marine reservist killed in Iraq, breaking in while his widow was with family members planning the soldier's funeral.

Freedomreuters.com/ ... 01:08:47Sunni Muslim deputies expelled a Shi'ite Muslim journalist from Bahrain's parliament in the latest sectarian dispute to erupt in the divided assembly

Human Rightreuters.com/ ... 03:05:26A California teacher has been barred by his school from giving students documents from American history that refer to God -- including the Declaration of Independence.reuters.com/ ... 01:06:48 A Saudi woman is set to challenge religious conservatives by becoming the first female pilot in a country where women are not even allowed to drive.

Only Naturalnews.bbc.co.uk/ ... 03:05:40Homing pigeons use the Earth's magnetic field to navigate their way home over long distances, scientists writing in Nature magazine claim.nypost.com/ ... 03:05:03New research reveals that female infidelity and the number of sexual partners women have are partially influenced by genetic makeup.expressindia.com/ ... 03:04:47A teenage girl has become the first known rabies victim to survive the disease without the benefit of a rabies vaccination, her doctors said. Doctors at Children's Hospital of Wisconsin broke the news of the medical first on Wednesday, crediting an experimental treatment that they crafted when the sick teenager showed up at the hospital with an advanced case of the disease. ...bitten by an infected bat at a church on September 12... coma-inducing drugs to protect the teenager's brain and a cocktail of drugs to protect her nervous system and boost her immune system.... The goal was to protect her brain while the virus ran its course through her body....reuters.com/ ... 01:04:00Don't squash that bug! Cockroaches, beetles, spiders and worms may be the U.S. government's next line of defense in the war on terror. Backed by the Pentagon, scientists are recruiting insects, shellfish, bacteria and even weeds to act as "bio-sentinels," which give early warning of biological and chemical attacks, detect explosives or monitor the spread of contamination....

Violencememri.org/ ... 03:11:04Mothers of Hizbullah Martyrs: We are Very Happy and Want to Sacrifice More Children ap.tbo.com/ ... 03:06:52LAKELAND, Fla - A man killed his estranged wife, then shot himself in the head in front of his three young daughters and sheriff's deputies. ...shooting occurred at a roadblock as the deputies approached a van where Gans sat with 3-year-old twins and 1-year-old....reuters.com/ ... 01:04:37Two U.S. soldiers were killed and one wounded on Wednesday in a blast caused by an improvised bomb while they were on patrol in central Afghanistan reuters.com/ ... 01:04:21Arab militants and insurgents who ruled the volatile city of Falluja before a U.S.-led offensive this month had enough weapons to take over all of Iraq, Marine officers said on Wednesday.

WED 2004-NOV-24

Netsurf Flotsamgoogle.com/ ... 15:09:56Google on "we're just meat" [looking for a funny bit I'd read -- didn't find it, but found many amusing results]]

Whoopsnews.bbc.co.uk/ ... 14:37:34An angry crowd in Mexico City has burnt alive two police officers and seriously injured another after mistaking them for child kidnappers.

Rather Embarrassednydailynews.com/ ... 14:33:51To the end, Gunga Dan liked to play the part of the crusading journalist, a regular reporter just digging up the facts. That was his TV persona. In real life, his hubris made him more like Richard Nixon than Walter Cronkite. And like Nixon, the coverup was his downfall.

Preternatural Patternsduluthsuperior.com/ ... 14:23:34Police are investigating an informal exorcism at the Cathedral of St. Paul [MN], which was directed at gay Roman Catholics and will cost thousands of dollars to clean up... ritualistic sprinkling of blessed oil and salt around the church and in donation boxes earlier this month amounted to costly vandalism and possibly a hate crime.....washingtontimes.com/ ... 14:17:24French President Jacques Chirac lead a delegation of business leaders on a trip to oil-rich Libya Wednesday hoping to expand trade ties.

Sexual Equality??news.bbc.co.uk/ ... 14:45:02The original adverts for Lux, one of the leading soap brands in Israel, showed Miss Parker in a strappy, backless gown familiar to fans of her role as sex columnist Carrie Bradshaw. The short dress barely covered her bottom and the actress' upper thigh was clearly visible. ...Facing a potentially devastating boycott by the ultra-Orthodox community, new posters were drawn up, clothing Miss Parker to the satisfaction of rabbis.... "We decided to make her dress more suitable for the winter weather," the spokesperson said.

US Militaryapnews.myway.com/ ... 14:32:55A 72-year-old great-grandmother is preparing for deployment to the war zone in Iraq and will become one of the oldest Department of Defense civilian workers in the war zone. "I volunteered," said Lena Haddix of Lawton [Oklahoma], who has five children, eight grandchildren and three great-grandchildren. "I wanted to do something for the country, because I was always left behind taking care of the children."

Freedomapnews.myway.com/ ... 14:24:27Secretary of State Colin Powell said Wednesday the United States does not consider legitimate the results of elections in Ukraine, which the opposition says was marred by fraud.

Only Naturalnews.com.au/ ... 14:22:19"If this is true, it's one of the most remarkable pictures ever taken...." "I was taking a series of time-lapse pictures of the build-up of clouds," amateur photographer Wayne Pryde said. "I did not realise I had snapped the meteorite until later." ...The meteorite, which could have been as small as a grain of sand, would have been travelling about 30,000km/h... the explosion on impact could be seen clearly in the photograph... "Nobody has ever photographed one hitting Earth...."timesonline.co.uk/ ... 14:16:59ALMOST half of all Aids sufferers are now women and the number infected is increasing in every region of the world, according to a UN report published yesterday.

Rebuildingwashingtontimes.com/ ... 14:15:59Kabul - "Since we were released we have learned of the many statements of support and expressions of solidarity by Afghan personalities and ordinary men and women, some of whom even offered to take our place as hostages.... We are humbled and very, very grateful for this... During our many months of work here in Afghanistan we have learned to love Afghanistan, its people, its culture and traditions. The awful experience we went through does not change our feelings for the Afghan people and the solidarity they have shown during the 27 days of our captivity just strengthens our commitment to support Afghanistan in its transition to peace and democracy." --Shqipe Hebibi of Kosovo, Annetta Flanigan of Northern Ireland and Angelito Nayan of the Philippines.

The trio concluded, "We are looking forward to joining our families and to returning to our work."

Violencenews.bbc.co.uk/ ... 15:11:47Hunting 'Satan' in Falluja hell -- by Paul Wood, BBC News, Falluja tallahassee.com/ ... 14:16:28A bomb ripped through a U.S. patrol in southern Afghanistan on Wednesday, killing two American soldiers and wounding another nzherald.co.nz/ ... 14:14:26Indonesian police have arrested four suspects in the September bombing outside Australia's Jakarta embassy that killed 10 people, but said a top bombmaker may have eluded arrest.

TUE 2004-NOV-23

Rather Embarrassedabcnews.go.com/ ... 13:18:20Dan Rather announced today he will step down as anchor and managing editor of the "CBS Evening News" on March 9 — 24 years to the day after his first broadcast as the network's anchor.

Transportwstm.com/ ... 13:17:50A small jet that was to have taken former President Bush on a trip to Ecuador was flying hundreds of feet lower than it should have been when it crashed yesterday.

Preternatural Patternsreuters.com/ ... 13:34:45Nearly one in four Americans get on a plane over the holiday season hoping the person sitting in the next seat might be a future date or spouse reuters.com/ ... 13:34:08An online casino won the eBay bidding for a decade-old cheese sandwich bearing what some people consider a likeness of the Virgin Mary and immediately began hawking Virgin Mary Grilled Cheese T-shirts.news.bbc.co.uk/ ... 13:31:16"You hear that if you want to look beautiful, then you have to look like a white person and to look like a white person you have to use these creams. Of course it is natural that women want to be beautiful," she says. But using the creams can have devastating health consequences and now the authorities in Tanzania have started a process of removing 83 banned creams from shops across the country... Tanzania Food and Drugs Authority.. ultimately ..hopes to re-educate women that black, whatever its shade, is beautiful.news.independent.co.uk/ ... 01:05:06Greek lawyers are threatening to sue the Hollywood makers of the new film Alexander the Great for depicting the king as bisexual.

Digital Consequencesreuters.com/ ... 13:34:28A judge in the northern Italian town of Padua on Monday found a man who sent an unsolicited compliment by SMS guilty of harassment and fined him 300 euros ($391), Italian news agency Ansa reported.opinion.telegraph.co.uk/ ... 01:04:37Whenever it is announced that familiar features in our personal landscapes - Routemaster buses, red telephone boxes, high street bank branches - are becoming endangered species, nostalgic protests inevitably follow. Understandably: tradition has its place, and most people initially distrust change. But please, please, let there be no wailing or gnashing of teeth over the demise of the video cassette recorder (VCR).washingtonpost.com/ ... 01:03:46To have players pretend to be Lee Harvey Oswald, crouch on the sixth floor of the Texas School Book Depository with a rifle, and fire those three shots is bad enough. But, for the game's critics, it gets worse. It costs $10 to play, and the company that created it is supposedly offering $100,000 in prize money -- where that will come from isn't clear -- for the player who re-creates the exact timing and angle of the shots that killed the nation's 35th president.

Human Rightreuters.com/ ... 13:44:27 India has dropped a plan to bar politicians with more than two children from fighting elections for parliament or state legislatures, saying it does not want to use force to control the population

Only Naturalstory.news.yahoo.com/ ... 13:26:37A pod of dolphins circled protectively round a group of New Zealand swimmers to fend off an attack by a great white shark... "They started to herd us up, they pushed all four of us together by doing tight circles around us..." Howes tried to drift away from the group, but two of the bigger dolphins herded him back just as he spotted a nine-foot great white shark swimming toward the group..... spent the next 40 minutes surrounded by the dolphins before they could safely swim back to shore.hindustantimes.com/ ... 13:12:27...researchers have found that ingredients in chocolate could put a stop to persistent coughs and lead to new cough medicines....

Threatswashingtontimes.com/ ... 01:03:01 Armed with Yasser Arafat's weighty medical dossier, his nephew blamed Israel for the Palestinian leader's death... he acknowledged that doctors found no known poison....

Violencenews.bbc.co.uk/ ... 13:28:12..."I recognised them from the TV. They came in a Toyota Corolla, a white car, then they got into a UNHCR car and they were gone." The UN and Afghanistan's government have refused to confirm the exact circumstances of the release and the events of the night remain shrouded in something of a mystery....worldtribune.com/ ... 13:21:36The military said the Marine Corps detained the top commander in Al Anbar province in western Iraq. The commander, who was not identified, was one of six insurgents captured on Nov. 21 in the Anbar town of Haqlaniya.apnews.myway.com/ ... 13:19:24Some 5,000 U.S. Marines, British troops and Iraqi commandos launched raids and arrested suspected insurgents Tuesday in a new offensive aimed at clearing a swath of insurgent hotbeds south of Baghdad... known as the "triangle of death" for the frequent attacks by car bombs, rockets, and small arms on U.S. and Iraqi forces there and for frequent ambushes on travellers...
...masked gunmen assassinated a Sunni cleric north of Baghdad...channel3000.com/ ... 13:16:54A man suspected in the killings of six Wisconsin hunters told investigators he was shot at first after some of the victims called him racially derogatory names... records show police were called to his house twice in the past year on domestic violence calls. Both were resolved without incident, and no reports were filed...washingtontimes.com/ ... 01:02:32Israel pledged yesterday to ease its military hold on the West Bank in order to allow Palestinians free movement to campaign and vote in Jan. 9 presidential elections to replace the late Yasser Arafat.guardian.co.uk/ ... 01:01:51US forces in Falluja may have found the house in which the British hostage Kenneth Bigley was held and murdered by militants in October.channel3000.com/ ... 01:01:08A sixth hunter is dead after a murderous shooting spree in a northwest Wisconsin woods.

MON 2004-NOV-22

Whoopsreuters.com/ ... 13:02:47Bemused diners watched as three hapless thieves unsuccessfully tried to kick open a sliding door in a botched attempt to rob an Australian seafood restaurant... The men, wearing balaclavas, ran off empty-handed but left their bootprints on the industrial-strength glass door... "The door's open, the sign says 'Slide' but obviously with their balaclavas they couldn't read too well...."

Preternatural Patternsnews.yahoo.com/ ... 22:32:58MADISON, Wis. - A radio host apologized Monday for calling secretary of state nominee Condoleezza Rice "Aunt Jemima," but refused to back down from his criticism that she is a "black trophy" of the Bush administration.wavy.com/ ... 22:31:14A 13-year old Virginia Beach boy is being held at the Virginia Beach Detention Center after police say he abducted an exotic dancer last Tuesday night.reuters.com/ ... 13:05:43 A Thai house painter cut off the penises of two teenagers with a knife after he found out they had stolen 50,000 baht ($1,250) of his savings from an ATM machine reuters.com/ ... 13:05:29Scientists from Maastricht University found that burning candles and incense in church can release dangerous levels of potentially carcinogenic particles reuters.com/ ... 13:03:15All three wives of a 67-year-old Iranian man took overdoses in an unsuccessful triple suicide attempt after the youngest wife bought an expensive pair of boots nysun.com/ ... 12:59:20President Clinton's new $165 million library here was funded in part by gifts of $1 million or more each from the Saudi royal family and three Saudi businessmen. The governments of Dubai, Kuwait, and Qatar and the deputy prime minister of Lebanon all also appear to have donated $1 million or more for the archive and museum that opened last week.

Transportexpatica.com/ ... 12:58:44AMSTERDAM — Eight officers reportedly became ill after helping to evacuate Arnhem station after fears dangerous chemicals had leaked from a goods train.news.yahoo.com/ ... 12:57:53A private jet that was en route to Houston to pick up former President Bush clipped a light pole and crashed Monday as it approached Hobby Airport in thick fog, killing all three people aboard...

Digital Consequencesnews.yahoo.com/ ... 22:32:25According to experts, several printer companies quietly encode the serial number and the manufacturing code of their color laser printers and color copiers on every document those machines produce. Governments, including the United States, already use the hidden markings to track counterfeiters. "It's a trail back to you, like a license plate...."pcworld.idg.com.au/ ... 22:29:56Users of Nokia's 7610 smart phone and other phones running Symbian's Series 60 software should be aware of a new Trojan program on the Internet... "We have located several freeware and shareware sites offering a program, called Extended Theme Manager, that contains a Trojan horse... The virus writer is going by the name Tee-222." ..The malicious code, called Skulls, deactivates all links to Symbian system applications... replacing their menu icons with images of skulls.. Users of affected phones can only send or receive calls....news.bbc.co.uk/ ... 13:08:41A Scottish firm has been criticised by the family of John F Kennedy for producing a game which recreates the president's assassination in Dallas... Traffic Games said it was encouraging youngsters to take an interest in history... argued that the game was aimed at disproving theories that a conspiracy, rather than lone gunman Lee Harvey Oswald, was responsible for the assassination... "The game is effectively a reconstruction of the event using video game technology. I hasten to add that we don't regard it as a video game because there's no imagination been used to create the scene."reuters.com/ ... 13:04:27RIYADH -A furious Saudi bride beat up a woman who used a mobile phone camera to photograph her at her wedding party... The bride was applauded by guests for her "vigilance...."comment.zdnet.co.uk/ ... 12:52:48With DVD players outselling VCRs by a ratio of 40 to one -- and DVD recorders rapidly heading towards the sub-£100 mark - the old technology can no longer earn its keep on the shelves.news.com.com/ ... 12:50:10Britain's biggest high street electronics retailer Dixons has announced that it's taking VCRs off its shelves for good... In Britain at least, home burglars don't even bother to take VHS players because new ones now cost so little that no one wants a second-hand model...

Mechanical Disasternews.xinhuanet.com/ ... 02:23:17The death toll in the five iron mines that caught fire Saturday morning in Shahe City in north China's Hebei Province has risen to 57

Justice?edition.cnn.com/ ... 22:30:31The husband of former Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto was released on bail Monday night, ending eight years in custody on corruption charges.

Only Naturalreuters.com/ ... 13:05:12An elephant that stamped on his keeper at a Chinese zoo in the mating season and crushed him to death has been declared innocent because of mitigating circumstances... "...the victim was responsible for his own tragedy because he had entered the elephant pen all alone and without adopting any protective measures, in violation of zoo rules...."news.bbc.co.uk/ ... 12:59:33Fossil hunters on the Isle of Wight have unearthed bones from the biggest dinosaur so far discovered in the UK.news.bbc.co.uk/ ... 02:28:27The birth rate among US teens aged 10-14 has fallen to the lowest level since 1946, government figures show. Purists claim it is down to policies promoting abstinence, which have been heavily backed by the Bush government. But family planning services argue 88% of those who make the pledge break the pledge, so it must be down to condoms and safe sex education.

Aftermathnytimes.com/ ... 02:27:45A marine who appears to shoot and kill an unarmed and wounded Iraqi prisoner in an NBC News video was not aware that the incident was being recorded, and moments later approached the cameraman with seemingly remorseful words - "I didn't know, sir, I didn't know" - according to the first public description of the events by the cameraman, Kevin Sites, since his brief and somewhat ambiguous initial report.

Violencenews.bbc.co.uk/ ... 22:33:14Three foreign UN workers who were taken hostage last month in Afghanistan have been released news.bbc.co.uk/ ... 12:56:06An Israeli military court has charged an army officer with illegally using his weapon . ...13-year-old schoolgirl... close to an Israeli army outpost in the town of Rafah on Gaza's border with Egypt.... killed by Israeli soldiers who suspected she was carrying explosives... Witnesses said the officer emptied the magazine of his weapon into the girl as she lay dead on the ground...ap.tbo.com/ ... 02:28:47 American and Afghan forces searching for three kidnapped U.N. workers smashed their way into houses in downtown Kabul early Monday abc.net.au/ ... 02:27:01The US military says marines in Fallujah have shot and killed an insurgent who engaged them as he was faking being dead, a week after footage of a marine killing an apparently unarmed and wounded Iraqi caused a stir in the region.thetimesonline.com/ ... 02:20:34BIRCHWOOD, Wis. - A dispute among deer hunters over a tree stand in northwestern Wisconsin erupted Sunday in a series of shootings that left five people dead and three others injured... "sniping" at the victims with a SKS assault-style rifle...turkishpress.com/ ... 02:12:41Omar Hadeed, senior aide of Iraq's most wanted man Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, was wounded in the US-spearheaded assault on Fallujah but was able to return to action, a rebel leader told an AFP correspondent.nynewsday.com/ ... 02:12:27FALLUJAH, Iraq -- When the fighting began, the 2nd Battalion of the 7th Cavalry was the tool that punched the hole in Fallujah. That's what they were there for. The Army battalion's Abrams tanks and Bradley Fighting Vehicles destroy with an efficiency and ferocity unmatched by the limited firepower of the Marines, who have a comparatively small number of armored vehicles....

Threatsitv.com/ ... 22:26:26Britain's security services thwarted a September 11-style attack on targets including Canary Wharf and Heathrow Airport, according to reports... involved pilots being trained to fly into target buildings including London's famous financial centre and the world's busiest airport. ...one of four or five al-Qaeda planned attacks, since 9/11, that have come to nothing, after the authorities intervened, reports claim....news.xinhuanet.com/ ... 12:53:37Foreign ministers ofIraq's neighboring countries met Monday in the Egyptian Red Sea resort of Sharm El-Sheikh amid US and Iraqi requests for tougher border controls to stop foreign militants from infiltrating into the war-torn country.news.bbc.co.uk/ ... 02:27:56Iran says it is suspending its uranium enrichment programme, in line with a deadline agreed with European nations.usatoday.com/ ... 02:26:13...It crossed my mind that if there were a terrorist aboard, he or she had just been given a 20- to 30-minute warning. But nothing bad happened as the plane taxied to a halt. Everyone obeyed the order to remain in our seats, with seatbelts fastened. The flight crew kept a watchful eye on the cabin....reuters.com/ ... 02:11:07One passenger was taken off the flight with an expired passport and his companion voluntarily decided not to continue traveling without him... "The one individual that was the reason that the plane was diverted in the first place was found to be traveling on an expired passport," Morrissey said. "For that reason we deemed him inadmissible."... The two men were held overnight in Bangor, Maine, and were being taken to Massachusetts to be put on a flight back to Paris

SUN 2004-NOV-21

Extraterrestrialjournalnow.com/ ... 15:23:32Observatory launched by NASA to look for emerging black holes

Digital Consequencesnewsobserver.com/ ... 14:27:59First the good news: MSN Search has a few features that go beyond Google. But it's generally disappointing.

US Executive Branchmsnbc.msn.com/ ... 14:26:43Was Colin Powell angry? He's so smooth and politic it's hard to tell. But only a week before, the man President George W. Bush once likened to George C. Marshall had been, in effect, fired. The irony was

Transportnews.bbc.co.uk/ ... 14:29:51A passenger plane with more than 50 people on board has crashed into a frozen lake in northern China... all those on board - as well as two people on the ground - died in the crash...reuters.com/ ... 03:16:20A China Eastern commuter plane crashed into a frozen lake seconds after takeoff in Inner Mongolia Sunday, killing all 53 passengers and crew... weather was clear... when the plane... crashed into the lake in the giant Nanhai Park at 8:20 a.m... the plane crashed through a park ticket office and one park worker was missing...

"Witnesses said that the plane broke into flaming fragments, a house beside the park was damaged by the falling aircraft and several yachts nearby were scorched," Xinhua s

Human Rightap.tbo.com/ ... 14:39:09Some conservatives... say marriage in America began unraveling long before the latest gay-rights push and are pleading for a fresh, soul-searching look at the institution.ap.tbo.com/ ... 14:36:21From the moment he enters the sex offender's apartment, parole officer Brian Weigel is looking for contraband. He kicks aside a blanket on the floor, peers down and spies a video game rated for mature players - complete with buxom computer-generated women on the cover. And despite protests from the man who lives here, the video game is coming with Weigel....

Only Naturalap.tbo.com/ ... 16:13:06The owner of a wildlife sanctuary was injured by a 350-pound Siberian tiger that was startled by a 14-year-old boy at a county fair, officials said Sunday....ap.tbo.com/ ... 14:39:46 A strong earthquake shook the Caribbean islands of Dominica and Guadeloupe early Sunday, destroying at least a half dozen buildings and injuring several people.news.bbc.co.uk/ ... 14:30:33A nationwide polio vaccination campaign has started in India as part of a World Health Organization initiative to eradicate the virus around the world.cnn.netscape.cnn.com/ ... 14:28:15Israel Hit by Worst Locust Plague Since 1950s

Violencereuters.com/ ... 16:09:14...undercover Israeli soldiers shot dead three Palestinian militants, in the West Bank city of Ramallah...ap.tbo.com/ ... 14:39:31Insurgents launched a deadly ambush Sunday in the guerrilla stronghold of Ramadi, killing eight Iraqi National Guardsmen and injuring 18 others ap.tbo.com/ ... 14:36:49A U.S.-Iraqi raid on the Abu Hanifa mosque - one of the most revered sites for Sunni Muslims - spawned a weekend of street battles, assassinations and a rash of bombings that changed Baghdad. The capital, for months a city of unrelenting but sporadic violence, has taken on the look of a battlefield. --Hamza Hendawi Associated Press Writer ap.tbo.com/ ... 14:35:02U.S. troops have found close to 20 "atrocity sites" used by insurgents to imprison, torture and kill hostages in Fallujah, a U.S. military officer said Sunday.... rooms containing knives and black hoods, "many of them blood-covered.".. rooms containing knives and black hoods, "many of them blood-covered.".. signs of "torture, murder, very gruesome sights.".. found numerous houses where people were just chained to a wall for extended periods of time,".. At least 34 foreign hostages have been killed by their captors in Iraq this year, including three Americans...news.bbc.co.uk/ ... 14:30:11France has scornfully rejected a claim by Ivory Coast's president and its top Roman Catholic cleric that French troops beheaded young protesters there.

Rebuildingpolitinfo.com/ ... 14:26:58Iraqis are scheduled to vote January 30th

Threatsnews.bbc.co.uk/ ... 14:32:05Minefields placed along the dividing line between the two parts of Cyprus 30 years ago, are starting to be cleared. But the buffer zone, where most of the mines are, remains out-of-bounds and the historic buildings caught in the middle are now on the verge of collapse.news.bbc.co.uk/ ... 14:31:15King Hamad also ordered the release of 13 people who had demonstrated in support of activist Abdul Hadi al-Khawaja last month. Mr Khawaja, vice-president of the Bahrain Centre of Human Rights, had pleaded not guilty to the charges. His case has raised concerns at home and abroad about democratic reform.washingtonpost.com/ ... 03:17:23 India pulled about 3,000 troops out of Kashmir Saturday in a planned withdrawal of army units from the disputed region ap.tbo.com/ ... 03:17:04A flight from Paris bound for Dulles International Airport was diverted Saturday night after U.S. Customs officials detained two passengers aboard

SAT 2004-NOV-20

Preternatural Patternsapnews.myway.com/ ... 23:52:49President Bush stepped into the middle of a confrontation and pulled his lead Secret Service agent away from Chilean security officials who barred his bodyguards from entering an elegant dinner for 21 world leaders Saturday night.arabnews.com/ ... 23:47:47....a family of 23 living in a cave on a mountaintop... we were invited into the cave. Among the boulders were 20 children, two wives and a lamb. The wives and older daughters took cover once they saw us enter...

Digital Consequencesnews.bbc.co.uk/ ... 13:01:28he newest variant in the Sober family of Windows viruses resurrects itself if some of the parts it leaves on infected machines are not deleted.

US Military Casualtiesdefenselink.mil/ ... 23:52:22

Marine Lance Cpl. Dimitrios Gavriel, 29, of New York, N.Y.

Marine Lance Cpl. Phillip G. West, 19, of American Canyon, Calf.
died Nov. 19, as result of enemy action in Al Anbar Province, Iraq.defenselink.mil/ ... 14:39:53

Marine Lance Cpl. Luis A. Figueroa, 21, of Los Angeles, Calif., died Nov. 18 as result of enemy action in Al Anbar Province, Iraq. defenselink.mil/ ... 14:39:28

Marine Lance Cpl. Michael W. Hanks, 22, of Gregory, Mich., died Nov. 17, as result of enemy action in Al Anbar Province, Iraq.

Only Naturalreuters.co.uk/ ... 12:56:40Fred Hale Sr., the oldest man in the world according to Guinness World Records, has died less than two weeks shy of his 114th birthday... born on a farm in New Sharon, Maine, on December 1, 1890... the same year Sioux Indians were massacred at Wounded Knee, South Dakota... He gave up driving four years ago... "He was a very even-keeled person," Fred Hale III told Reuters. "A lot of people could take a lesson from him, not to get so worked up about things."

Threatsworldnetdaily.com/ ... 23:54:04The new leader of the ruling Fatah movement is an al-Qaida sympathizer with close ties to such terrorist sponsors as Iran and Syria.worldnetdaily.com/ ... 23:53:46"Like fascism and communism, Kyotoism is an attack on basic human freedoms behind a smokescreen of propaganda.... Like those ideologies of human hatred, it will be exposed and defeated." -Andrei Illarionov, adviser to Russian President Vladimir Putin, on the Kyoto protocol arabnews.com/ ... 23:50:53The departure of Colin Powell, the only rational voice in the administration, and the naming by Bush of his iron-lady national security advisor, Condoleezza Rice, to replace him, is a clear message to every one that Bush is not afraid of engaging in new wars.

Aftermathnews.bbc.co.uk/ ... 12:57:13More than 800 people in northern Sweden may have developed cancer as a result of the fallout of the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear accident, a new study says.frontpagemagazine.com/ ... 01:48:54'I wish the Americans had come here the very first day and not waited eight months,' he said, trembling.frontpagemagazine.com/ ... 01:40:42 the jihadists had set up a Taliban-style dictatorship, in which women who did not cover their entire bodies, people listening to music, and members of spiritual Sufi orders -- that is, ordinary Fallujans -- were subject to torture and execution.

Violencearabnews.com/ ... 23:51:19Crown Prince Abdullah said yesterday that terrorists were responsible for tarnishing the image of Islam and Muslims around the world. “Now everybody looks at Muslims, Arabs, Saudis and others as criminals...."arabnews.com/ ... 23:50:22Chances for solving many of our problems and disagreements presented themselves time and again, but we never missed a chance to miss a chance. We were almost always ruled by dictators though they called themselves by other names. Freedom and democracy, scientific and economic liberation proved to be the way to go but we still persist in and cling to our miserable old, ways.reuters.com/ ... 13:02:39 Guerrillas stormed a Baghdad police station and ambushed an American patrol, killing a soldier and wounding nine in daylight attacks in the capital on Saturday news.bbc.co.uk/ ... 13:01:08Quil Lawrence was embedded in a US military unit during the military operation in Falluja. Here, he describes life on the front line, including an inspirational US soldier, and the tensions between different Iraqi communities.news.bbc.co.uk/ ... 12:56:58A Polish woman held hostage in Iraq since late October has been set free and flown back to Warsaw.abcnews.go.com/ ... 12:51:52Baghdad exploded in violence Saturday, as insurgents attacked a U.S. patrol and a police station, assassinated four government employees and detonated several bombs. One American soldier was killed and nine were wounded during clashes that also left three Iraqi troops and a police officer dead.washingtontimes.com/ ... 01:49:26An Islamic Web site Friday claimed two Iraqi national guardsmen were beheaded in front of a large group of people in Mosul.ap.tbo.com/ ... 01:34:22Insurgents attacked a police station Saturday in northwestern Baghdad with rocket-propelled grenades and small arms fire

Under Tyrannynewsday.com/ ... 23:54:47A factory worker who helped to organize a strike during China's 1989 pro-democracy protests has been released after nearly 15 years in prison... Chen Gang reportedly was convicted of "hooliganism" and sentenced to life in prison... released in April after the government reduced his sentence several times arabnews.com/ ... 23:51:41Pilgrims and travelers to Saudi Arabia are finding their camera cell phones to be unwelcome visitors. Security officials are conducting intensive searches for the mobile phones equipped with cameras at border points and airports. Now, many pilgrims are thinking twice about bringing their camera cell phones along after hearing of confiscations at entry points.channelnewsasia.com/ ... 01:33:43Myanmar's military government has freed the country's second most prominent political prisoner, student democracy leader Min Ko Naing

FRI 2004-NOV-19

US Election 2004foxnews.com/ ... 21:32:59John Kerry believes he lost to President Bush because of the video from Usama bin Laden that surfaced just days before the Nov. 2 presidential election.

Preternatural Patternsworldnetdaily.com/ ... 22:52:16The Washington Post's online edition has dropped the controversial political cartoons of Ted Rall reuters.com/ ... 21:37:34 A beer flavored with coffee beans may serve as a hair-of-the-dog hangover aide or pick-me-up with a kick but that's not really its purpose says the award-winning maker Meantime Brewing.reuters.com/ ... 21:36:15Thieves have stolen scantily clad garden gnomes from a gnome peepshow in an eastern German amusement park, park manager Frank Ullrich said on Thursday.cnn.netscape.cnn.com/ ... 21:34:53 A group of Greek lawyers are threatening to sue Warner Bros film studios and Oliver Stone, director of the widely anticipated film "Alexander," for suggesting Alexander the Great was bisexual.sg.news.yahoo.com/ ... 21:32:34UN staff are expected to make an unprecedented vote of no confidence in Secretary-General Kofi Annan, union sources say, after a series of scandals tainted his term in charge of the world body.sportsillustrated.cnn.com/ ... 21:30:56So Paul Tagliabue and his suits were shocked -- shocked !-- and offended that the NFL's primetime showcase would use sex to sell its product? Was that before or after the Eagles cheerleaders released its latest lingerie calendar? Please.

US Military Casualtiesdefenselink.mil/ ... 21:39:17

Army Sgt. Catalin D. Dima, 36, of White Lake, N.Y., died Nov. 13 in Baghdad, Iraq, when enemy mortar fire landed near his position.defenselink.mil/ ... 21:39:02

Marine Sgt. Christopher T. Heflin, 26, of Paducah, Ky.

Marine Lance Cpl. Louis W. Qualls, 20, of Temple, Texas
died Nov. 16 as result of enemy action in Al Anbar Province, Iraq.

Reasons for Repealreuters.com/ ... 21:37:03Swiss teenagers smoke more cannabis than their peers in every other European country, a survey said Thursday, casting a pall over the country's prim and wholesome image. [PROPAGANDA? YOU KNOW IT!]

Only Naturalusatoday.com/ ... 22:53:27A television news anchor appeared on the air nude in a first-person report about an artist's photographs, drawing a record number of viewers for the time slot... showed far away angles of her nude and some closer seminude shots, as well as other participants... Sharon Reed was one of hundreds of people who participated in Spencer Tunick's nude photo installation in Cleveland in June.... reuters.com/ ... 21:36:31 Hundreds of thousands of poisonous baby cane toads invaded an Australian national park Friday, hopping around in such numbers that the ground seemed to move, an ecologist said.

Supernaturalnews.yahoo.com/ ... 21:34:41 Fuji, a mother dolphin that lost 75 percent of her tail due to a mysterious disease, is jumping once again with the help of what is believed to be the world's first artificial fin.

Threatsworldnetdaily.com/ ... 22:52:06Loyalists to ousted Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein have hired thousands of Arab nationals to fight the U.S.-led coalition in Iraq, reports Geostrategy-Direct....cnews.canoe.ca/ ... 22:51:46Pakistan's military has been so effective in pressuring al-Qaida leaders hiding in the tribal region of western Pakistan that Osama bin Laden and his top deputies no longer are able to direct terrorist operations, a senior American commander said Thursday.seattletimes.nwsource.com/ ... 22:51:32Federal counter-terrorism agents swept down on homes and businesses in Seattle yesterday, conducting searches and charging 13 men with gun, immigration and bank-fraud violations...
In a related case in King County Superior Court, prosecutors in October filed assault and extortion charges against some individuals associated with an Islamic religious school run out of a South Seattle barbershop. The school was "training children ... in Anti American rhetoric," and "how to shoot and fight the Americans," according to court documents...worldnetdaily.com/ ... 22:50:19Iran's secret uranium enrichment site, revealed this week by an Iranian opposition group, is housed below a luxury development complex in which civilians live, military sources told WorldNetDaily.apnews.myway.com/ ... 21:33:25 Iran is spending the last few days before it must stop all work related to uranium enrichment converting tons of ore into a dual-use gas that could then be processed to make nuclear weapons, diplomats said Friday.news.xinhuanet.com/ ... 21:32:19"I support the right to intervene for reasons of security or human rights, but only within the framework of international law, which is expressed today by the United Nations," Chirac told students of the Oxford University.news.xinhuanet.com/ ... 21:31:35The US government on Friday defended Secretary of State Colin Powell's comments this week on Iranian missile projects, saying it has "solid information to substantiate clandestine Iranian efforts" in developing weapons of mass destruction.

Violenceap.tbo.com/ ... 21:35:50A Marine serving in a war zone in Iraq rushed back home to be with his pregnant wife Friday after she was wounded in an apparent random shooting in a supermarket parking lot... his mind raced at the news - "a whole whirlwind of emotions, from anger (to) fear."...worldtribune.com/ ... 21:34:23The United States has concluded that Syria helped finance the Sunni insurgency in Iraq. Officials said the regime of President Bashar Assad used the state-owned Commercial Bank of Syria to relay hundreds of millions of dollars to Saddam Hussein loyalists in Iraq. They said the money has been deployed to finance the insurgency against the U.S.-led coalition primarily in Iraq's Sunni Triangle.worldtribune.com/ ... 21:34:05 Insurgents captured in Fallujah have told Iraqi military interrogators that most of those fighting in Fallujah were former security officers for the regime of Saddam Hussein. The insurgents said Saddam organized special operations units, starting in 2001, to counter any foreign invasion in Iraq. Most of those units, the insurgents said, are still active in the Sunni Triangle.apnews.myway.com/ ... 21:33:40Iraqi forces, backed by U.S. soldiers, stormed a key Sunni Muslim mosque in Baghdad after Friday prayers, opening fire and killing at least three people, witnesses said. In the battle for control of Mosul, Iraqi forces raided several areas overnight, killing 15 insurgents, officials said.voanews.com/ ... 21:30:14The top commander of U.S. Marines in Iraq says U.S. and Iraqi troops have "broken the back" of the insurgency there by taking control of Fallujah.english.eastday.com/ ... 21:29:51Sudan's government and southern rebels on Friday signed an agreement, pledging to reach a final peace deal by the end of the year.

THU 2004-NOV-18

Yeah, Sure!sun-sentinel.com/ ... 20:17:28Tony Liotta hasn't even opened his coffee shop, but already many in Antioch want him to get his you-know-what out of town. They aren't buying the explanation that the Bad Ass Coffee Co. chain takes its name from the lovable-looking beasts used to haul beans in Hawaii. "We're not promoting any body part," Liotta, a Lindenhurst resident whose franchise will be the first in the Chicago area, said Tuesday. "It is about the donkeys," which are featured on the company's signs....

WW2 - still with usap.tbo.com/ ... 09:33:39Samuel Billison, a Navajo who as a Marine during World War II helped invent a secret code based on the tribal language to confound the Japanese, died Wednesday of a heart problem, according to the Navajo Nation... Airplanes became birds, ships became fish and weapons were named after common things. The word "bomb," for example, was replaced by the Navajo word for "egg..." The Defense Department first released information on the code talkers in 1968... Billison was a longtime president of the Code Talker Association, and also served on the Navajo Nation Council.

Transportap.tbo.com/ ... 09:31:11ST. PETERSBURG, Fla - Passengers stopped a charter bus from plunging nearly 200 feet off a bridge after the driver collapsed, apparently from a heart attack.... "Grab the wheel!" 70-year-old Kenneth McAllister recalled shouting to his wife, Mary, and another woman. The women held the steering wheel until McAllister could slide into the driver's seat. He struggled to keep the bus in its lane and hit the brake. It stopped just before the highest part of the bridge... the driver... died within hours at a hospital....ap.tbo.com/ ... 09:24:46A Greyhound bus collided with a tractor trailer on an interstate, injuring 21 people, one seriously,

Digital Consequenceskatu.com/ ... 09:45:48The Internet will change the way news is provided to the world by giving consumers the power to demand and receive any sports score, analysis or breaking story instantly, the head of the world's largest news organization said. Newspapers, TV broadcasts and even fancy Web pages will have less meaning as people use Web-surfing programs and recording devices to pick and choose items from various providers, said Tom Curley, president and chief executive officer of The Associated Press. In the new media age, people will be able to dictate exactly what news they want, when they want it and on which electronic devices they want to receive it, he said.ap.tbo.com/ ... 09:28:19"Bill [Gates] literally receives 4 million pieces of e-mail per day, most of it spam...."computerworld.co.nz/ ... 09:18:56The MPAA filed an unspecified number of lawsuits in courts across the US, seeking damages and injunctions against the P2P users. Under the US Copyright Act, people can be liable for as much as US$30,000 for each movie traded over the internet, and as much as $150,000 per movie if the infringement is proven to be willful.

Preternatural Patternsboston.com/ ... 23:00:44The deathbed confession of a Massachusetts woman led to the discovery on Thursday of her husband's remains inside a freezer at a self-storage facility, where he's been for at least six years news.yahoo.com/ ... 20:09:36A British schoolteacher, attempting to motivate her pupils into making the most of each day, told them a meteorite was about to smash into the Earth and that they should all return home to say goodbye to their families reuters.com/ ... 09:34:15Camouflage was in and cross-dressing was out at a rural East Texas school district after a Christian legal group complained a long-standing school tradition of reversing social roles for a day would promote homosexuality.seattlepi.nwsource.com/ ... 09:12:40MARIETTA, Ga. -- Two 13-year-old middle school girls were held on assault charges Wednesday after being accused of serving poisoned cake to about a dozen students who became ill and went to a hospital.newsday.com/ ... 09:12:17 Brace yourself. There may be a less-than-miraculous explanation for that image of the Virgin Mary a Florida woman says appeared in her grilled cheese sandwich.

US Military Casualtiesdefenselink.mil/ ... 20:27:32

Army Pfc. Isaiah R. Hunt, 20, of Green Bay, Wis., died Nov. 15 in Baghdad, Iraq, when the driver of his military vehicle accidentally struck another vehicle. defenselink.mil/ ... 20:26:25

Army 1st Lt. Luke C. Wullenwaber, 24, of Lewiston, Idaho, died Nov. 16 in Khaladiyah, Iraq, when he was conducting a security mission and a vehicle-borne improvised explosive device detonated near his military vehicle.defenselink.mil/ ... 20:25:39

Army Staff Sgt. Marshall H. Caddy, 27, of Nags Head, N.C., died Nov. 16 in Khaladiyah, Iraq, when his military vehicle struck another military vehicle.defenselink.mil/ ... 20:25:03

Army Pfc. Jose Ricardo Flores-Mejia, 21, of Santa Clarita, Calif., died Nov. 16 in Mosul, Iraq, when an improvised explosive device hit his convoy.

Army Spc. Daniel James McConnell, 27, of Duluth, Minn., died Nov. 16 in Kirkuk, Iraq, when he was involved in a vehicle accident.defenselink.mil/ ... 20:24:09

Marine Lance Cpl. William L. Miller, 22, of Pearland, Texas.

Marine Cpl. Lance M. Thompson, 21, of Upland, Ind.
died Nov. 15 as result of enemy action in Al Anbar Province, Iraq defenselink.mil/ ... 20:23:15

Army Pfc. Cole W. Larsen, 19, of Canyon Country, Calif., died Nov. 13 in Baghdad, Iraq, when a civilian vehicle struck his military vehicle causing it to roll over. defenselink.mil/ ... 20:22:28

Marine Capt. Patrick Marc M. Rapicault, 34, of St. Augustine, Fla.

Marine Lance Cpl. Antoine D. Smith, 22, of Orlando, Fla.

Both Marines died Nov. 15 as result of enemy action in Al Anbar Province, Iraq. defenselink.mil/ ... 20:21:35

Marine Lance Cpl. Shane E. Kielion, 23, of La Vista, Neb., died Nov. 15 as result of enemy action in Al Anbar Province, Iraq.defenselink.mil/ ... 20:19:31

Marine Lance Cpl. George J. Payton, 20, of Culver City, Calif. died Nov. 14

Marine Lance Cpl. Jeramy A. Ailes, 22, of Gilroy, Calif.

Marine Lance Cpl. Travis R. Desiato, 19, of Bedford, Mass.

Marine Sgt. Rafael Peralta, 25, of San Diego, Calif.

Marine Cpl. Marc T. Ryan, 25, of Gloucester, N.J.

Marine Lance Cpl. James E. Swain, 20, of Kokomo, Ind.
died Nov. 15. All died as result of enemy action in Al Anbar Province, Iraq.

Reasons for Repealnews.bbc.co.uk/ ... 09:23:19The UN has warned that Afghanistan could become a "narco-state" after opium cultivation rose by two-thirds this year.

Only Naturalnews.bbc.co.uk/ ... 20:12:23Pierolapithecus catalaunicus -- Scientists have unearthed remains of a primate that could have been ancestral not only to humans but to all great apes, including chimps and gorillas... 13-million-year-old... probably male, a fruit-eater and was slightly smaller than a chimpanzee... one of the most complete ape skeletons known from the Miocene Epoch (about 22 to 5.5 million years ago).news.yahoo.com/ ... 09:23:06Swarms of pink locusts swept through the Egyptian capital on Wednesday, evoking the biblical description of the plagues which struck in the time of Moses.... arrived from neighboring Libya after devouring the countryside in central and western Africa in past months.

Threatssfgate.com/ ... 20:10:10Comparing pornography to heroin, researchers on Thursday called on Congress to finance studies on "porn addiction" and launch a public health campaign about the dangers.

Peace 3000ap.tbo.com/ ... 09:25:35Pope John Paul II received Muslim, Orthodox Christian and Jewish religious leaders from Azerbaijan, calling their visit Thursday a symbol of tolerance and declaring that religion must never be used for violent aims.

Violencesuntimes.com/ ... 23:00:06U.S. troops have recovered belongings of a U.S. Marine who was once feared beheaded by Iraqi insurgents after disappearing from his unit... personal effects of Cpl. Wassef Ali Hassoun were found last week in a box on the third floor of a three-story commercial building in Fallujah... an identification card, a uniform and a book.... Hassoun, of West Jordan, Utah, disappeared from his base near Fallujah in June and later turned up at the U.S. Embassy in Beirut.... remains unclear how....suntimes.com/ ... 22:58:52U.S. troops sweeping through Fallujah on Thursday said they believe they have found the main headquarters of the insurgent group headed by Jordanian terrorist Abu Musab al-Zarqawi.worldnetdaily.com/ ... 09:43:06Kevin Sites, the NBC cameraman who shot video of the controversial shooting of a Fallujah insurgent by a U.S. Marine, is an anti-war activist whose photographs of Iraqi prisoners are featured on at least one anti-war website.reuters.com/ ... 09:23:48Rebels attacked the provincial governor's office in Iraq's third city of Mosul on Thursday, killing one of his bodyguards and wounding four more kfor.com/ ... 09:15:27JERUSALEM A preliminary Israeli army investigation has found that Israeli troops apparently killed three Egyptian soldiers by mistake, thinking they were Palestinian militants along the Gaza-Egypt border.

Under Tyrannynews.nationalgeographic.com/ ... 09:46:51"Lost" Treasures of Afghanistan Revealed in Photos... What the Taliban didn't know was that many of the most magnificent objects had already been spirited away. More than 25 years ago museum staff had hidden the treasures as the bombs started to fall....reuters.com/ ... 09:35:42Defying Islamic traditions, a Bahraini woman disguised herself as a bearded Muslim sheikh to lead Friday prayers but was stopped before she reached the pulpit... Under Islam, women are not permitted to lead prayers.ap.tbo.com/ ... 09:13:18North Korean officials have removed portraits of leader Kim Jong Il from some public buildings, a dramatic change in a reclusive nation that has clung to totalitarian rule for more than half a century. Analysts speculated on Thursday that Kim may have ordered the measure himself to play down his state-sponsored personality cult, and that the change doesn't necessarily reflect an overhaul of the leadership.

WED 2004-NOV-17

Digital Consequencesreuters.com/ ... 12:48:50Hunters soon may be able to sit at their computers and blast away at animals on a Texas ranch via the Internet, a prospect that has state wildlife officials up in arms.... has invested $10,000 to build a platform for a rifle and camera that can be remotely aimed on his 330-acre (133-hectare) southwest Texas ranch by anyone on the Internet anywhere in the world....

Mechanical Disasterreuters.com/ ... 12:41:33DUSHANBE - A 23-meter (75-foot) high monument in Tajikistan called "Eternal Life" collapsed on Wednesday and nearly killed five people. ...designed as a new centerpiece heralding optimism after war in the 1990s...

Preternatural Patternsreuters.com/ ... 12:47:36A woman in New Zealand says she is breastfeeding her pet puppy because she wants it to protect her baby daughter as they both grow up... "He drinks more than the baby. It doesn't hurt, but it's a little bit ticklish."news.yahoo.com/ ... 12:34:39Bill Clinton's presidential library devotes one of 14 exhibit areas to scandal, explained in the context of Republican Party efforts to discredit Clinton.

Currentthestar.com/ ... 12:45:50As national security adviser, Rice faulted Canada for putting relations through "some difficult times" by not reflexively backing the Iraq war. When U.S. security is at stake, she said, the expected response from allies is: "Well, how can we help?"denverpost.com/ ... 12:30:48Discount retailer Kmart Holding Corp. is combining with one of the most venerable names in U.S. retailing, Sears, Roebuck & Co., in a surprise $11 billion deal that will create the nation's third largest retailer.

Only Naturalreuters.com/ ... 12:51:38Australia's iconic kangaroos and koalas could be shot with birth control darts under a program to control booming populations struggling to survive in the country's worst drought in a century.reuters.com/ ... 12:50:05Swimmers and surfers on a popular Venezuelan beach got a shock when a nearly 10-foot (three-meter) fresh-water crocodile surfaced in the Caribbean sea off the coast near Caracas reuters.com/ ... 12:49:37A deer found its way into a terminal at Chicago's O'Hare International Airport on Tuesday but was captured safely near a baggage claim area ap.tbo.com/ ... 12:46:47Torrential thunderstorms caused flash floods that drowned one woman who was swept from a bridge, and more flooding was expected as rain continued falling Wednesday. A second person was missing.

Aftermathopinionjournal.com/ ... 12:38:07...we are hearing a lot about the need to "get to the bottom" of this scandal, the biggest ever to hit the U.N. To get to that bottom will need a much harder look at the top--where Secretary-General Kofi Annan himself resides. That violates all sorts of taboos. But so, one might suppose, does a United Nations that allowed Saddam Hussein to embezzle at least $21.3 billion in oil money during 12 years, with the great bulk of that sum--a staggering $17.3 billion--pilfered between 1997-2003, on Mr. Annan's watch. ... Mr. Annan... seems to inhabit a different universe--one in which the chief problem lies not in the U.N.'s complicity, including his own, in the biggest fraud in the history of humanitarian relief, but rather in the attempts to shine any light on all that sleaze....pittsburghlive.com/ ... 12:35:57Saddam Hussein diverted money from the U.N. oil-for-food program to pay millions of dollars to families of Palestinian suicide bombers who carried out attacks on Israel

Violenceap.tbo.com/ ... 12:45:19In Fallujah, heavy machine-gun fire and explosions... U.S. Marines fought insurgents who officers said had sneaked back into the city by swimming across the Euphrates River... three insurgents were dead and one Marine was slightly injured in the hand...
A police spokesman in Karbala said a police officer from the city had reported that 31 policemen returning from training in Jordan were kidnapped over the weekend by insurgents who attacked their hotel in western Iraq...
...car bomb came during clashes in Beiji, a city 155 miles north of the capital, witnesses said. The vehicle hit a convoy and exploded, then U.S. soldiers opened fire. Ten people were killed and nine others wounded...
... Iraqi security forces, backed by U.S. Marines, freed a captive Iraqi truck driver during a raid south of Baghdad...foxnews.com/ ... 12:31:50Homemade bombs exploded at several banks in Buenos Aires Wednesday, killing at least one person and damaging property

Threatswashingtontimes.com/ ... 12:35:35A private intelligence firm hired by the United Nations to look into corruption in the oil-for-food program provided valuable leads to U.N. investigators, but they were ignored apnews.myway.com/ ... 12:32:55President Vladimir Putin said Wednesday that Russia is developing a new form of nuclear missile unlike those held by other countries... Russia is believed to be developing a next-generation heavy nuclear missile that could carry up to 10 nuclear warheads weighing a total of 4.4 tons....washingtonpost.com/ ... 12:31:28Say what you want about the recording industry's take-no-prisoners approach to combating online piracy. At least when the music czars go after someone, they target persons suspected of trading hundreds or thousands of copyrighted songs over the Internet. Not so the nation's movie moguls, who yesterday launched their own round of lawsuits against filesharers, bragging that some of the targets are people who downloaded and traded just one movie.washingtontimes.com/ ... 12:29:40About 1,000 Indian army troops began withdrawing from the embattled Kashmir district Wednesday as Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh called for peace.

TUE 2004-NOV-16

US Election 2004bocaratonnews.com/ ... 23:23:18Mental health officials in South Florida blasted Rush Limbaugh on Monday, saying the conservative talk show host’s offer of “free therapy” for traumatized John Kerry voters has made a mockery of a valid psychological problem.

Preternatural Patternsapnews.myway.com/ ... 23:22:50ABC apologized Tuesday for a steamy intro to "Monday Night Football"... spot featured a supposedly naked Nicollette Sheridan jumping into the arms of Terrell Owens....

US Executive Branchapnews.myway.com/ ... 11:35:37President Bush has selected Condoleezza Rice, his national security adviser and trusted confidant, to replace Colin Powell as secretary of state

Currentap.tbo.com/ ... 11:30:17The Walt Disney Co. has bought an innovative comic book company that sought to remake the art form but instead found itself falling on hard times. CrossGen, an Oldsmar company which filed for bankruptcy court protection in June, sold its assets to Disney for $1 million. Disney was the high bidder at last month's court-sanctioned auction.

Digital Consequencescbc.ca/ ... 11:25:45Men who spend hours staring at a computer screen may be at increased risk for glaucoma... Japanese doctors say.

Transportwashingtontimes.com/ ... 11:25:01Brisbane, Australia, Nov. 16 -- A high-speed train derailed in Australia just after midnight Tuesday on the route from Brisbane to Cairns, overturning and slightly injuring 159 people.

US Military Casualtiesdefenselink.mil/ ... 23:25:15

Marine Lance Cpl. Bradley L. Parker, 19, of Marion, W.V., died Nov. 15 as result of enemy action in Al Anbar Province, Iraq. defenselink.mil/ ... 23:24:55

Marine Cpl. Dale A. Burger Jr., 21, of Port Deposit, Md.

Marine Cpl. Andres H. Perez, 21, of Santa Cruz, Calif.
died Nov. 14 as result of enemy action in Al Anbar Province, Iraq.

Reasons for Repealrte.ie/ ... 11:34:53The British government will today outline proposals to ban smoking in all restaurants, cafes and most pubs in England.

Violenceapnews.myway.com/ ... 23:28:05Al-Jazeera television said Tuesday it received a videotape showing the slaying of a woman believed to be hostage Margaret Hassan, the longtime director of CARE in Iraq.news.bbc.co.uk/ ... 11:27:24The US military in Iraq says it has begun a big assault on insurgents in the northern city of Mosul.

Threatsjpost.com/ ... 23:22:06Yasser Arafat suffered from cirrhosis – widespread disruption of normal liver structure usually caused by alcohol abuse – although he was "a true water drinker," the French newspaper Le Monde reported Wednesday.washingtonpost.com/ ... 11:24:40Facing strong protests, China broke a week-long silence Tuesday and offered Japan its first explanation about a Chinese submarine that Tokyo said intruded into Japanese territorial waters... the submarine accidentally veered into Japanese territorial waters because of technical problems last Wednesday and that the Chinese government regrets the mistake....

MON 2004-NOV-15

US Election 2004reuters.com/ ... 15:21:22...The problem started after rumors circulated that a trio of students planned a poetry reading at the talent show using lyrics from the Bob Dylan anti-war song "Masters of War." But some parents got the impression that the students wanted to alter the words to say they wanted to see the president dead while a slide on a curtain displayed Bush's picture. Usually Secret Service agents, responsible for keeping the president safe, do not visit high schools to check on threats to the president....reuters.com/ ... 15:17:52"In time of war, if you go through a bad neighborhood, I don't want a little French poodle, I want a rottweiler on my hands." -- KISS frontman GENE SIMMONS, on why he voted for U.S. President GEORGE W. BUSH over JOHN KERRY.news.yahoo.com/ ... 14:57:29James Carville... shocked everyone on "Meet the Press" yesterday morning by smashing a raw egg on his head... To dramatize the fact that he had egg on his face after wrongly predicting that Democrat John Kerry (news - web sites) was going to win the presidential election....

Preternatural Patternsreuters.com/ ... 23:18:49An Arizona woman was sentenced to seven years and three months in prison on Monday for attempting to kill her Marine husband last year at a Kuwait base in a plot she hoped would be blamed on terrorism.reuters.com/ ... 15:16:59Mormon missionaries have been handing out free copies of the book since it was first published in 1830, and more than 100 million copies have been printed since then. It can be obtained free on the Internet or in person from the Mormons. But Michelle Rapkin, vice president of Doubleday religious publishing, said previous editions were not easily found in non-religious book stores and there was a market to be tapped as Americans in general grow curious about different faiths.reuters.com/ ... 14:59:04A British house-buyer got more than they bargained for after the discovery of a badly decomposed body in an upstairs bedroom of their new home foxnews.com/ ... 14:50:39An unidentified man tried to set himself on fire outside the White House fence midday Monday... had graying hair and glasses... was heard screaming in pain....

US Executive Branchcbs.marketwatch.com/ ... 14:53:48White House National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice is "likely" to succeed Colin Powell as secretary of state canada.com/ ... 14:37:24Secretary of State Colin Powell and three other cabinet members have resigned... "I am pleased to have been part of a team that launched the global war against terror, liberated the Afghan and Iraqi people." He also said he "brought the attention of the world to the problem of proliferation, reaffirmed our alliances, adjusted to the post-Cold War world and undertook major initiatives to deal with the problem of poverty and disease in the developing world."

Digital Consequencesnytimes.com/ ... 01:15:59The Food and Drug Administration and several major drug makers are expected to announce initiatives today that will put tiny radio antennas on the labels of millions of medicine bottles to combat counterfeiting and fraud.

Transportap.tbo.com/ ... 01:20:51A couple and their granddaughter were killed Sunday when their airplane crashed en route to Illinois in a rural area of northwest Mississippi cfra.com/ ... 01:15:33Five people are feared dead after their small airplane crashed into a senior citizens apartment complex in San Antonio, Texas Sunday. ...there may be four other deaths as well.

Reasons for Repealreuters.com/ ... 15:14:21Peruvian police said on Monday they seized nearly 1,540 pounds (700 kg) of cocaine hidden in frozen giant squid bound for Mexico and the United States.

Only Naturalap.tbo.com/ ... 15:01:54A great white shark estimated to be at least 18 feet long attacked and presumably killed an elderly South African woman Monday off a beach near Cape Town... "All that was left was a little red bathing cap..." Crews later spotted the shark... "The shark is bigger than the helicopter..."

US Military Casualtiesdefenselink.mil/ ... 22:16:28

Marine Cpl. Nicholas L. Ziolkowski, 22, of Towson, Md. died supporting Operation Iraqi Freedom.defenselink.mil/ ... 22:15:50

Army Capt. Sean P. Sims, 32, of El Paso, Texas, died Nov. 13 in Fallujah, Iraq, when his unit received small arms fire while clearing a building.defenselink.mil/ ... 22:15:25

Marine Lance Cpl. Benjamin S. Bryan, 23, of Lumberton, N.C.

Marine Lance Cpl. Victor R. Lu, 22, of Los Angeles, Calif.

Marine Lance Cpl. Justin D. McLeese, 19, of Covington, La.
died Nov. 13 as result of enemy action in Al Anbar Province, Iraq.defenselink.mil/ ... 22:14:42

Army Spc. Jose A. Velez, 23, of Lubbock, Texas, died Nov. 13 in Fallujah, Iraq, while clearing an enemy strongpoint when his unit came under fire.defenselink.mil/ ... 22:14:26

Marine Sgt. Byron W. Norwood, 25, of Pflugerville, Texas, died Nov. 13 as result of enemy action in Al Anbar province, Iraq.defenselink.mil/ ... 01:27:41

Marine Lance Cpl. Justin M. Ellsworth, 20, of Mount Pleasant, Mich., died Nov. 13 as a result of enemy action in Al Anbar Province, Iraq.defenselink.mil/ ... 01:26:54

Marine Cpl. Kevin J. Dempsey, 23, of Monroe, Conn., died Nov. 13 due to enemy action in Al Anbar Province, Iraq. defenselink.mil/ ... 01:26:30

Army Sgt. James C. Matteson, 23, of Celoron, N.Y., died Nov. 12 in Fallujah, Iraq, when a rocket-propelled grenade struck his Bradley Fighting Vehicle. defenselink.mil/ ... 01:25:56

Marine Lance Cpl. Nicholas H. Anderson, 19, of Las Vegas, Nev., died Nov. 12 in a vehicle incident while conducting combat operations in Al Anbar Province, Iraq. defenselink.mil/ ... 01:25:24

Marine Lance Cpl. Wesley J. Canning, 21, of Friendswood, Texas, died Nov. 10 as result of enemy action in Al Anbar Province, Iraq.

Freedomnytimes.com/ ... 01:17:11LAS VEGAS, Nov. 14 - In what appears to be the largest mass defection of Cuban performers to date, 44 dancers, singers and musicians, here to stage a revue, plan to seek political asylum in the United States, troupe members said on Sunday. "The only thing we regret is that our families in Cuba may suffer," Puro Hernández, 31, the troupe's musical director, said in Spanish. "But the Cuban government left us no choice - they put us between the sword and a wall."

Aftermathwashingtonpost.com/ ... 14:55:41Benon Sevan, the official accused of improperly receiving lucrative rights to purchase oil from Saddam Hussein's government while he was running the U.N. oil-for-food program in Iraq, discouraged his staff from probing allegations of corruption and helped block efforts by the U.N. anti-corruption unit to assess where the program was vulnerable to abuse, according to senior U.N. officials....foxnews.com/ ... 14:54:55Saddam Hussein's regime made more than $21.3 billion in illegal revenue by subverting the U.N. Oil-for-Food program through surcharges, kickbacks and smuggling oil — more than double previous estimates, according to congressional investigators.

Threatsreuters.com/ ... 01:20:36The Bush administration is preparing with European allies to help the Palestinian Authority organize January elections and improve its security forces to crack down on terrorism washtimes.com/ ... 01:18:01It was such Dutch tolerance, pragmatism and guilt about the country's colonial past that allowed hundreds of thousands of immigrants from Muslim Indonesia (a Dutch colony from the 17th century until World War II) to flood into tiny Holland. Today, Muslims are a majority among children under 14 in the Netherlands' four largest cities.iafrica.com/ ... 01:12:41Iran pledged to the United Nations in writing on Sunday to fully suspend uranium enrichment, ending a deadlock over its response to Washington's charges that Tehran is secretly developing nuclear weapons.

Violenceap.tbo.com/ ... 23:19:39 U.S. soldiers battled insurgents in the Sunni Muslim strongholds around Baghdad and in the north of Iraq on Monday in clashes that killed more than 50 people. Some guerrillas were said to be "fighting to the death" inside Fallujah, where American forces struggled to clear pockets of resistance. At least five suicide car bombers targeted American troops elsewhere in volatile Sunni Muslim areas north and west of the capital, wounding at least nine Americans. Three of those bombings occurred nearly simultaneously in locations between Fallujah and the insurgent stronghold of Ramadi washingtonpost.com/ ... 23:19:10A Falls Church man who worked as a federal informant on terrorism set himself on fire in front of the White House yesterday, hours after announcing his suicide attempt and citing his growing despondency over how the FBI managed his case.msnbc.msn.com/ ... 23:18:32...the man was shot by a Marine who appeared to be unaware that the Iraqi was a wounded prisoner and did not pose a threat.... At the same time the incident was taking place in the mosque, a U.S. Marine was killed and five others were wounded when the booby-trapped body of a dead insurgent exploded....news.com.au/ ... 15:33:54THE death certificate issued for Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat by French authorities last week indicates his place of birth as Jerusalem and not Cairo... numerous biographers agree that he was, in fact, born in Cairo, where his father, from Gaza, owned a business.apnews.myway.com/ ... 15:28:44Iraqi Prime Minister Ayad Allawi's office confirmed Monday that two of his female relatives who were kidnapped last week have been released.abcnews.go.com/ ... 14:48:55Fierce battles between insurgents and U.S. and Iraqi forces killed at least 16 people Monday in Baqouba and south of Baghdad the latest in a wave of clashes that has swept Iraq's Sunni Muslim heartland even as American forces move against the last remaining pockets of resistance in Fallujah.seattlepi.nwsource.com/ ... 14:47:16...In one version, it was an assassination attempt. In another, a misunderstanding gone awry in a room full of guns. Either way, the incident Sunday that killed two security officers and injured five other people underscored the difficulties facing the new Palestinian leadership after the death of Yasser Arafat and highlighted fears Gaza could collapse into chaos....ap.tbo.com/ ... 01:21:38U.S. Marines have found beheading chambers, bomb-making factories and even one Iraqi hostage as they swept through Fallujah - turning up hard evidence of the city's role in the insurgent campaign to drive American forces from Iraq.... "This is better than Radio Shack."news.bbc.co.uk/ ... 01:20:20In Pictures: Battle for Falluja reuters.com/ ... 01:20:01Fresh fighting broke out in the Iraqi city of Falluja Monday after U.S. forces attacked suspected rebel targets with air strikes, artillery and mortar rounds boston.com/ ... 01:12:24US forces dropped a pair of 2,000-pound bombs early yesterday morning on a bunker complex believed to be an insurgent training facility on the southern edge of [Fallujah], where the most dedicated and best trained rebel fighters are making a last stand... set off secondary explosions that went on for 45 minutes but could not be seen above ground, persuading officers of the Army's First Infantry Division that there were large stockpiles of weapons underground....
... insurgents stormed two police stations yesterday in the strife-ridden city of Mosul, killing at least six Iraqis.

SUN 2004-NOV-14

Prehistory - still with usnews.bbc.co.uk/ ... 22:55:50Team leader Robert Sarmast said the walls appear to be sited on a flat-topped hill where the temples of Atlantis once stood. He intends to use the sonar data to make a three-dimensional computer image of the site, 1.5km below sea level, before returning for further research.thescotsman.scotsman.com/ ... 22:54:54Mr Sarmast said the dimensions and configuration of walls and a canal on a hillside above a rectangular plain on the seabed "perfectly" matched the first known description of the fabled city by the Greek philosopher Plato. "There are walls, there are trenches, there are canals," said Mr Sarmast. "We have proven this is a match that cannot be coincidental."reuters.com/ ... 22:54:39"We have definitely found it," said Sarmast, who led a team of explorers 50 miles off the south-east coast of Cyprus earlier this month. Deep water sonar scanning had indicated man-made structures on a submerged hill, including a 3-kilometer-long wall, a walled hill summit and deep trenches, he said. cnn.com/ ... 22:54:03An American researcher claimed Sunday to have discovered the remains of the legendary lost city of Atlantis on the bottom of the east Mediterranean Sea. But Cyprus' chief government archaeologist was skeptical.

WW2 - still with uswashingtontimes.com/ ... 22:53:33Stephen Norwood, a professor at the University of Oklahoma... said Sunday Harvard University was friendly with Nazi Germany after Americans became aware of the regime's crimes in the 1930s...

Future is Nowap.tbo.com/ ... 02:19:30Actor Ed Kemmer, who played the intrepid Cmdr. Buzz Corry in the popular 1950s children's television show "Space Patrol" before becoming a regular on daytime soap operas, died Tuesday after suffering a stroke on Nov. 5... "Space Patrol" chronicled the adventures of Corry, who fought intergalactic villains of the 30th century while flying around in his Terra V spacecraft with comic sidekick Cadet Happy.... ran from 1950 to 1955...

Digital Consequencesnews.bbc.co.uk/ ... 13:35:01"Data can disappear as a result of natural disaster, system fault or computer virus, but human error, including 'computer rage', seems to be a growing problem,"reuters.com/ ... 02:18:28Jes Overmaat, a mother of five, thought she had bought a sweet old-fashioned Teddy bear for a present, when it suddenly started talking. "It's tough to buy normal toys these days. Children can't even sleep with them because of the batteries bulging out,"... Boys ages 5 to 12 spend more time playing video games than with each of the traditional toy categories...

Whoopsnews.telegraph.co.uk/ ... 13:43:33An Army officer survived falling 3,500 feet from an aircraft after his parachute failed to open properly... a platoon commander in the Irish Guards, escaped serious injury when he crashed through the corrugated iron roof of a house in a shanty town in eastern Kenya... The maximum speed he would have achieved during his descent, if his parachute had failed to deploy at all, would have been 120mph, although the actual speed of his impact is unknown... cracked three vertebrae in the lower part of his back and dislocated a finger... "I was completely helpless, there was nothing I could do. I said to myself 'this is it' and I prepared to die."ap.tbo.com/ ... 02:16:55After its last pastor allegedly bilked them out of $10,000, leaders of Rejoice Ministries church thought they were being extra careful... [new pastor] hired in August, but less than a month later, he allegedly skipped town without repaying $3,344 he "borrowed" from the church for rent, trips, even a new bathtub

Reasons for Repealap.tbo.com/ ... 02:17:18SYDNEY, Australia - Police said Sunday they arrested two men and seized 3 million ecstasy tablets that the pair is accused of importing from Poland hidden inside a bakery oven.

US Military Casualtiesdefenselink.mil/ ... 02:13:41

Marine Lance Cpl. David M. Branning, 21, of Cockesville, Md.

Marine Lance Cpl. Brian A. Medina, 20, of Woodbridge, Va.
died Nov. 12 as result of enemy action in Al Anbar Province, Iraq.defenselink.mil/ ... 02:13:00

Army Staff Sgt. Todd R. Cornell, 38, of West Bend, Wis., died Nov. 9 in Fallujah, Iraq, when his unit was conducting house-to-house combat operations and they were attacked by enemy forces using rocket-propelled grenades.

Army Maj. Horst G. Moore, 38, of San Antonio, Texas, died Nov. 9 in Mosul, Iraq, when enemy mortar rounds detonated within his unit living area.

Army 1st Lt. Edward D. Iwan, 28, of Albion, Neb., died Nov. 12 in Fallujah, Iraq, when a rocket-propelled grenade struck his Bradley Fighting Vehicle.

Army Sgt. Jonathan B. Shields, 25, of Atlanta, Ga., died Nov.12 in Fallujah, Iraq, when he was accidentally struck by a tank.

Army Spc. Raymond L. White, 22, of Elwood, Ind., died Nov. 12 in Baghdad, Iraq, when his patrol encountered enemy forces using small arms fire.defenselink.mil/ ... 02:11:21

Marine Cpl. Nathan R. Anderson, 22, of Howard, Ohio, died Nov. 12 as result of enemy action in Al Anbar Province, Iraq.

Marine Cpl. Brian P. Prening, 24, of Sheboygan, Wis., died Nov 12 as result of enemy action in Babil Province, Iraq. defenselink.mil/ ... 02:10:38

Marine Cpl. Jarrod L. Maher, 21, of Imogene, Iowa, died Nov. 12 as result of a non-hostile gunshot wound at Abu Ghraib, Iraq.

Marine Sgt. Morgan W. Strader, 23, of Croosville, Ind., died Nov 12 as result of enemy action in Al Anbar province, Iraq.

Threatsap.tbo.com/ ... 13:46:55U.S. Marines on Sunday found the mutilated body of what they believe was a Western woman during a sweep of a street in central Fallujah.... Two Western women are known to have been kidnapped in Iraq. Margaret Hassan, 59, director of CARE international in Iraq, was abducted Oct. 19. Teresa Borcz Khalifa, 54, a Polish-born longtime resident of Iraq, was seized last month....ap.tbo.com/ ... 13:45:42Baghdad's international airport will reopen to civilian traffic Monday after being closed for a week under a state of emergency declared before the U.S. assault on Fallujah washtimes.com/ ... 13:35:29Police officials in Prince George's and Montgomery counties are warning officers that a Salvadoran street gang is plotting to ambush and kill them when they respond to service calls.time.com/ ... 13:23:56A key al-Qaeda operative seized in Pakistan recently... has told his interrogators of "al-Qaeda's interest in moving nuclear materials from Europe to either the U.S. or Mexico," according to a report circulating among U.S. government officials....ap.tbo.com/ ... 02:15:53A teenager accused of planning to supply a Somalian terrorist group with night vision goggles and bulletproof vests foreshadowed the charges in his high school yearbook with a note that mentions Somalia in his "plans for world supremacy."sify.com/ ... 02:15:31...."We're the very last village," said 45-year-old Lal. "They're just over there," he added, referring to Pakistani troops and pointing to a clump of trees across the Line of Control. "If the Indian troops leave, who will save us?" he asked, as members of his family carted gigantic bales of freshly-cut rice straw on their heads to the threshing area of their newly-cultivated paddies. Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Thursday announced the number of troops in Kashmir would be reduced this winter due to improved security in the state....

Violenceseattlepi.nwsource.com/ ... 22:56:31Mahmoud Abbas, the temporary successor to Yasser Arafat, escaped unharmed Sunday when militants firing assault rifles burst into a mourning tent for the deceased Palestinian leader, killing two security guards and wounding six other people... Some of the gunmen shouted slogans calling Abbas, a moderate who has spoken out against violence, an agent of the United States...boston.com/ ... 13:26:40In April, 2,000 Marines fought for three weeks and failed to take Fallujah from its insurgent defenders. This time, war planners sent six times the troops, who fought their way across the rebel city in just six days far more quickly than expected, the Marine general who designed the ground attack said Sunday.news.xinhuanet.com/ ... 13:24:31The Chairman of PLO executive committee Mahmoud Abbas, or Abu Mazen, escaped on Sunday night an assassination attempt as he was attacked by unknown militants at the mourning tent erected to receive condolences for Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat boston.com/ ... 02:14:38A U.S. officer, speaking on condition of anonymity, said Fallujah was ''occupied but not subdued.'' Artillery and airstrikes also were halted after nightfall to prevent mistaken attacks on U.S. and Iraqi forces who had taken up positions throughout the city. Irqi officials declared the operation to free Fallujah of militants was ''accomplished'' but acknowledged the two most wanted figures in the city Jordanian terror mastermind Abu Musab al-Zarqawi and Sheik Abdullah al-Janabi had escaped. U.S. officers said, however, that resistance had not been entirely subdued and that it still could take several days of fighting to clear the final pockets.

SAT 2004-NOV-13

Whoopsreuters.myway.com/ ... 00:58:56CBS News has fired the producer responsible for interrupting the last five minutes of... "CSI: NY," one of its top-rated shows... with a special report on the death of ...Arafat

US Election 2004news.yahoo.com/ ... 00:58:08Candidate/Electoral/States Won/Vote %/Votes
Bush/286/31/51%/60,480,193
Kerry/252/20/48%/57,122,374

Digital Consequencesweblog.infoworld.com/ ... 00:41:17...in its beta debut on Thursday the MSN Search service, found at beta.search.msn.com, hit some glitches, going down for a period after launching. Users attempting to kick the tires on the service on Thursday were greeted with "temporarily unavailable" messages until Microsoft fixed the technical difficulties later in the day....fool.com/ ... 00:39:17Can Microsoft Kill Google?...a closer look at what Microsoft's (Nasdaq: MSFT) new and improved search engine really means.computerworld.com/ ... 00:21:43Microsoft Corp. yesterday said it is investigating claims that several new vulnerabilities have been found in Windows XP Service Pack 2....news.com.com/ ... 00:20:45Google has doubled the number of Web pages it indexes from 4 billion to about 8 billion....

Preternatural Patternsap.tbo.com/ ... 13:44:05Despite Radiation Warnings, Life in Chernobyl-Contaminated Region Is Beginning to Return to Normal ap.tbo.com/ ... 13:43:24ROCHESTER, N.H. -- A woman and her boyfriend are accused of plotting to sacrifice the woman's three children on a church altar.ap.tbo.com/ ... 01:06:12GOLDEN, Colo.... 20-year-old man pleaded guilty Friday to aggravated animal cruelty for... breaking into a Colorado Humane Society shelter... stealing five puppies and burning two of them to death... could receive up to 10 1/2 years in prison and faces fines of up to $800,000 nbc4.tv/ ... 00:25:11Inspectors checking the car of a smuggler at the U.S. Mexican border found a girl hiding inside a piñata.... The girl -- who's about 4 or 5 years old -- was meticulously sealed inside but she was able to breathe. The girl's mother was curled up inside the car's trunk, and her brother, who's about 9, was underneath the collapsible back seat....local6.com/ ... 00:24:17An 11-year-old girl... a Student of the Month at San Jose-Edison Academy... in West Covina, Calif., was suspended from her school from doing "dangerous" cartwheels and hand stands during lunch time...yubanet.com/ ... 00:19:52...“What is the guy [Scott Peterson] supposed to have done again?” read the note, a passage which Judge Delucchi characterized as “astonishing.” Responding to the note, the usually reserved Delucchi appeared to be losing his patience with the jury, instructing them to “stop monkeying around” and calling them “a bunch of chowderheads.”...

Reasons for Repealfoxnews.com/ ... 13:24:35Austrian authorities said Wednesday they busted a group of older men dubbed the "Grandpa Gang" who allegedly were involved in selling cocaine... An undisclosed number of suspects ranging in age from 55 to 70 were detained by police on suspicion of involvement in the ring, including the alleged leader, a 58-year-old man....

US Military Casualtiesdefenselink.mil/ ... 13:32:32

Marine 2nd Lt. James P. Blecksmith, 24, of San Marino, Calif.

Marine Lance Cpl. Kyle W. Burns, 20, of Laramie, Wyo.
died Nov. 11 as a result of enemy action in Al Anbar Province, Iraq. defenselink.mil/ ... 01:23:26

Marine Staff Sgt. Theodore S. Holder II, 27, of Littleton, Colo., died Nov. 11 as a result of enemy action in Al Anbar Province, Iraq. defenselink.mil/ ... 01:22:58

Navy Petty Officer Third Class Julian Woods, 22, of Jacksonville, Fla., died Nov. 10 as a result of hostile fire in Fallujah, Iraq. defenselink.mil/ ... 01:21:58

Marine Cpl. Theodore A. Bowling, 25, of Casselberry, Fla., died Nov. 11 as a result of enemy action in Al Anbar Province, Iraq. defenselink.mil/ ... 01:21:36

Army Staff Sgt. Sean P. Huey, 28, of Fredericktown, Pa., died Nov. 11 in Habbaniyah, Iraq, when his unit was on patrol and a vehicle-borne improvised explosive device detonated near his HMMWV. defenselink.mil/ ... 01:21:04

Army Staff Sgt. Michael C. Ottolini, 45, of Sebastopol, Calif., died Nov. 10 in Balad, Iraq, when an improvised explosive device detonated near his up-armored HMMWV. defenselink.mil/ ... 01:20:35

Marine Cpl. Joshua D. Palmer, 24, of Blandinsville, Ill., died Nov. 8 as a result of a non-hostile vehicle incident in Al Anbar Province, Iraq.defenselink.mil/ ... 01:20:07

Army Spc. Thomas K. Doerflinger, 20, of Silver Spring, Md., died Nov. 11 in Mosul, Iraq, when his unit received small arms fire while conducting combat operations.defenselink.mil/ ... 01:19:27

Marine Cpl. Peter J. Giannopoulos, 22, of Inverness, Ill., died Nov. 11 as a result of enemy action in Babil Province, Iraq.

Marine Cpl. Romulo J. Jimenez II, 21, of Miami, Fla., died Nov. 10 as a result of enemy action in Al Anbar Province, Iraq.defenselink.mil/ ... 01:18:32

Army Pfc. Dennis J. Miller, Jr., 21, of La Salle, Mich., died Nov. 10 in Ar Ramadi, Iraq, when his unit came under enemy attack and a rocket-propelled grenade struck his M1A1 Abrams tank. defenselink.mil/ ... 01:17:58

Marine Lance Cpl. Abraham Simpson, 19, Chino, Calif., died Nov. 9 as a result of enemy action in Al Anbar Province, Iraq. defenselink.mil/ ... 01:17:36

Marine Lance Cpl. Aaron C. Pickering, 20, of Marion, Ill., died Nov. 10 as a result of enemy action in Al Anbar Province, Iraq.

Marine Staff Sgt. Gene Ramirez, 28, of San Antonio, Texas, died Nov. 10 as a result of enemy action in Al Anbar Province, Iraq.

Marine Lance Cpl. Justin D. Reppuhn, 20, of Hemlock, Mich., died Nov. 11 as a result of enemy action in Al Anbar Province, Iraq.defenselink.mil/ ... 01:15:58

Marine Lance Cpl. Erick J. Hodges, 21, of Bay Point, Calif., died Nov. 10 as a result of enemy action in Al Anbar Province, Iraq.defenselink.mil/ ... 01:15:27

Marine Sgt. David M. Caruso, 25, of Naperville, Ill., died Nov. 9 as a result of enemy action in Al Anbar Province, Iraq.

Marine 1st Lt. Dan T. Malcom Jr., 25, of Brinson, Ga., died Nov. 10 as a result of enemy action in Al Anbar Province, Iraq. defenselink.mil/ ... 01:14:02

Army Spc. Travis A. Babbitt, 24, of Uvalde, Texas, died November 9 in Baghdad, Iraq, when his patrol was attacked by enemy forces using a rocket-propelled grenade and small arms fire.

US Militarytheunionleader.com/ ... 01:01:11"If you want to write something, tell Marlboro I'm down to four packs, and I'm here in Fallujah till who knows when. Maybe they can send some. And they can bring down the price a bit." Marine Lance Cpl. James Blake Miller, 20....

Human Rightworldnetdaily.com/ ... 13:38:07Basing it on an advertisement posted at the school gym, Garneau wrote: "9 out of 10 freshman girls gain 10 – 15 pounds. But there is something you can do about it. If u live below the 6th floor takes the stairs….Not only will u feel better about yourself but you will also be saving us time and wont [sic] be sore on the eyes." Turned in by an angry residence hall director, Garneau was charged with offensiveness including "acts of dishonesty," violation of "affirmative action" policies, "harassment" and "conduct which is disorderly, lewd." He was sentenced to expulsion from student housing, given extended disciplinary probation, required to meet with a psychological counselor to discuss his "decisions, actions, and reflections" and made to write a 3000-word reflection paper about the counseling session. The school rejected any appeal by Garneau, who lived out of his car for three weeks, and he contacted the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education, or FIRE. After a protest from the North Carolina-based group, the university reduced his sentence from eviction to "relocation" to another dormitory, extended disciplinary probation and a single "ethics" meeting with UNH Judicial Officer Jason Whitney.news.bbc.co.uk/ ... 00:29:20The southern German state of Bavaria has become the latest of the country's federal states to ban Muslim school teachers from wearing headscarves.

Only Naturalap.tbo.com/ ... 13:43:07Wild elephant herds have been terrorizing India's remote northeast, killing people, flattening houses and even guzzling local rice beer supplies, prompting villagers to retaliate against the pachyderms with firecrackers and bonfires.newscientist.com/ ... 00:18:29A technique inspired by kangaroos and used mainly in developing countries could save premature babies the world over, say researchers in Colombia.

Violencecsmonitor.com/ ... 14:26:51Thursday night, forces braced for a significant counteroffensive by Iraqi insurgents - an effort coinciding with the "Night of Power," an annual Islamic holy day marked by intense spiritual devotion, which is said to cleanse sins and determine destiny... Loudspeakers from at least one mosque began what US Marine officers said was a "revving up" of militants by chants that resembled the "martyr's last rites."... "We expect an increase of suicide attacks, by cars, motorcycles, and people wearing explosive vests," said Lt. Col. Michael Ramos, commander of the 1st Battalion 3rd Marines, from Dallas.....

"It's going to get a lot worse tonight," Capt. Gil Juarez, commander of the Light Armored Reconnaissance (LAR) company told his platoon chiefs, as marines loaded their vehicles at dusk with extra ammunition.ap.tbo.com/ ... 13:44:24A suspect in a 1999 apartment-building bombing that killed 64 people and helped trigger Moscow's renewed military campaign in Chechnya was brought to Russia on Saturday after being arrested in the former Soviet republic of Azerbaijan gazette.net/ ... 13:42:20Witnesses saw a 53-year-old College Park woman park her white car in the parking lot of the Metropolitan Family Planning Center in Berwyn Heights, douse herself in gasoline and light herself on fire. She then walked toward the clinic, allegedly attempting to make a statement about abortion kentucky.com/ ... 13:41:11SAKHLAWIYA, Iraq - The fighters came to Fallujah last year with piles of cash, strange accents and a militant vision of Islam that was at once foreign and fearsome to residents emerging from nearly 30 years of Saddam Hussein's secular regime. Yet out of custom and necessity, tribal locals offered their Arab guests sanctuary and were repaid with promises to help keep American forces out of the town. This week, with U.S. troops battling their way through the Sunni Muslim stronghold, several Fallujah residents said it had been a grave mistake to trust the foreigners who turned their humble stand against foreign occupation into a sophisticated terror campaign.azcentral.com/ ... 13:40:41FALLUJAH, Iraq - The farther south the Marines push through this rebellious city, the more often they are noticing that the men shooting at them are wearing tan uniforms with a smart-looking camouflage pattern.

Those are the uniforms of the Iraqi national guard.

On Friday, after several hours of non-stop gunbattles around a mosque in south Fallujah that killed about 100 insurgents, the Marines said those tan uniforms had cost one of their own his life the day before. It happened in what they at first called an ambush but now say was a case of mistaken identity, combined with quick reflexes by insurgents who are using their wits to deadly effect as they approach their last stand.abcnews.go.com/ ... 13:40:04The U.S. Army has diverted an infantry battalion from the fighting in Fallujah and sent them back to Mosul after an uprising there by insurgents foxnews.com/ ... 13:39:53At least 1,200 insurgents have been killed since the battle for Fallujah (search) began four days ago, U.S. military officials estimate. Officials ...believe about 400 enemy fighters are still hiding out inside the Sunni Muslim stronghold, with 250 in the south and 150 in the north. U.S. and Iraqi troops were on their way to rout the remaining insurgents, and ...six battalions of Iraqi forces were successfully clearing houses and buildings within the city. Military officials expressed hope that the Iraqi forces were well on their way to becoming the core of an effective new Iraqi Security Force....reuters.com/ ... 13:36:30More bombs hit Thailand's largely Muslim south on Saturday, killing a shopper in a mainly Buddhist town and wounding 14 as Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra vowed to resolve the crisis.washingtonpost.com/ ... 13:36:23...the outcome of the battle must be judged by a less clear-cut standard: not by the seizure and occupation of ground, but by the impact it has on the political and diplomatic process in Iraq. Its chances for success in that area are highly uncertain. Will Fallujah, like the famous Vietnam village, be the place we destroyed in order to save it? Will the bulk of the insurgents simply scatter to other Iraqi cities? Will we win a tactical victory only to fail in our strategic goal of convincing Iraqis that we are making their country safe for democracy -- and specifically for elections at the end of January?...ap.tbo.com/ ... 13:24:10NEAR FALLUJAH (AP) - Four U.S. helicopters were hit by groundfire from insurgents in two separate attacks near Fallujah, but their crews were able to return to base...seattletimes.nwsource.com/ ... 13:23:43MOSUL, Iraq — Iraqi authorities and U.S. forces were struggling to maintain control of Iraq's third largest city yesterday as insurgents moved at will through large sections of the city... "We asked the central government in Baghdad, and God willing they should arrive today," said the provincial governor, Duraid Kashmoula. He said insurgents had penetrated the local security forces, hastening their partial collapse. Iraq's Interior Ministry fired the city's police chief, Brig. Gen. Mohammed Kheiri Barhawi. "It's fair to say that there are some ties to the insurgents," said Army Gen. Carter Ham, commander of U.S. forces in the area, talking about the police. "We'd be kidding ourselves if we thought that was not the case."ap.tbo.com/ ... 01:09:52A security guard shot a teenager in the foot at a New Orleans high school Friday, believing he was reaching for a weapon during a confrontation... Police found no drugs or weapons on the boy, who ran away after being shot and was caught by a second security guard....news.bbc.co.uk/ ... 01:01:23A bomb has exploded at a morning market in southern Thailand, killing a Buddhist man and wounding at least seven other people.weeklystandard.com/ ... 00:46:12The past 10 days have seen almost continuous protest. At least a dozen mosques and Muslim schools were set on fire. The subsequent firebombing of several churches fanned the fury. There were raids across the country on Moroccan, Kurdish, and Pakistani terrorist cells. At one pre-dawn arrest of two suspects in the Hague, police were met with a grenade attack, and a siege that lasted 15 hours, while the cornered suspects hollered, "We will behead you!".... After decades of trying to fight social problems with ever more tolerance, the Dutch are at a loss before terrorism.ap.tbo.com/ ... 00:30:35A Syrian found handcuffed in Fallujah and rescued by U.S. Marines was kidnapped with two French journalists in August, and has told authorities he last saw the Frenchmen a month ago - the first confirmed word on the captives since they disappeared in August.news.bbc.co.uk/ ... 00:29:35As the battle for Falluja goes on, the American military estimates 600 people, whom they describe as insurgents, have been killed as well as 18 US soldiers.news.yahoo.com/ ... 00:22:25A Venezuelan man swiped a policeman's gun while handcuffed and opened fire Friday at the foot of the Eiffel Tower, injuring a police officer and two security guards sabcnews.com/ ... 00:18:49US-led troops battling to take control of Falluja ran into clusters of fierce resistance today as aid agencies pressed for access to the Iraqi city to take food and water to civilians trapped inside.

Threatsap.tbo.com/ ... 13:43:54Pakistan Army Says Restive Tribal Region to Be Pacified by Year's End, but No Sign of Bin Laden news.bbc.co.uk/ ... 13:42:50An aid convoy has entered the war-torn Iraqi city of Falluja, amid fears of a humanitarian crisis.washingtonpost.com/ ... 13:42:38The deputy director of the CIA resigned yesterday after a series of confrontations over the past week between senior operations officials and CIA Director Porter J. Goss's new chief of staff that have left the agency in turmoil bday.co.za/ ... 13:38:42"Abu Musab al-Zarqawi and Abdullah Junabi have fled... leaving their supporters to taste death," Qassem Daoud told a news conference in Baghdad.reuters.com/ ... 13:23:54A Boeing Co.-led team has successfully fired for the first time a powerful laser meant to fly aboard a modified 747 as part of a U.S. ballistic missile defense shield ap.tbo.com/ ... 01:04:05...John Hinckley Jr.... would-be assassin of President Reagan... therapist and a senior hospital psychiatrist said Hinckley has overcome the breakup and no longer poses a danger to himself or others....channelnewsasia.com/ ... 00:42:18Japan's media has condemned the intrusion of a Chinese nuclear submarine into its waters with most newspapers saying Beijing should accept a demand from Tokyo to apologise over the incident.news.bbc.co.uk/ ... 00:26:36US commanders say they are negotiating the surrender of as many as 300 people holed up in a mosque in the Iraqi rebel stronghold of Falluja. It is unclear whether those inside are insurgents or civilians.news.bbc.co.uk/ ... 00:25:31Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat has been buried at his battered compound in the West Bank town of Ramallah amid chaotic and emotional scenes.drudgereport.com/ ... 00:22:52Osama bin Laden now has religious approval to use a nuclear device against Americans, says the former head of the CIA unit charged with tracking down the Saudi terrorist.news.xinhuanet.com/ ... 00:18:06An audiotape on an Islamic website supposedly posted by al-Qaida ally Abu Musab al-Zarqawi on Fridayurged rebels in Fallujah to continue to fight against the US forces

THU 2004-NOV-11

Transportap.tbo.com/ ... 22:25:51LOXAHATCHEE, Fla -- A bus carrying high school students overturned after colliding with a pickup truck Thursday, killing a 15-year-old girl, officials said. Two other students and both drivers were injured....oregonlive.com/ ... 22:22:24A passenger train derailed and tumbled down a ravine in the northern Philippines early Friday, killing at least 10 people and injuring nearly 120 others

US Election 2004sfgate.com/ ... 22:23:17...the apparent theft of about $350,000 in checks from a Democratic campaign committee... was traced to a private bank account ...opened by Roger Chiang, who was employed by the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee....news.yahoo.com/ ... 17:54:49The FBI and U.S. attorney's office are investigating the apparent theft of about $350,000 in checks from a Democratic campaign committee seattletimes.nwsource.com/ ... 11:01:21Conspiracy theories about presidential election flood Internet... one about more ballots cast than registered voters in the big Ohio county anchored by Cleveland. There are claims that a suspicious number of Florida counties ended up with Bush vote totals that were far larger than the number of registered Republican voters. And then there is the one that might be the most popular of all: The exit polls that showed Kerry winning big weren't wrong — they were right....

Preternatural Patternsnews.tbo.com/ ... 22:21:33ABC aired an unedited version of the Oscar-winning film about World War II, which contains a word that many soldiers used on the battlefield but is forbidden on broadcast television. Even a new introduction by the admirable war hero Sen. John McCain didn't keep some of the network's affiliates from getting nervous. They were worried that the Federal Communications Commission might give them a hefty fine if viewers complained and the program was found to be ``indecent.''...worldnetdaily.com/ ... 18:18:30an Oklahoma woman is crying fowl over a $185 fine for dropping a sunflower seed in public. ...Tricia Morgan was pulled over five months ago after an Oklahoma City police officer saw her drop a seed on the street as she was driving her children home....reuters.com/ ... 18:09:04William Hammond survived one of the bloodiest battles of World War II but died at a parade honoring him and others on Thursday after a van at a Veteran's Day parade ran over him.news.bbc.co.uk/ ... 18:07:54US conservative groups have pledged to protest at screenings of a film about scientist Alfred Kinsey, who lifted the lid on sexual behaviour 50 years ago.... The Generation Life group said Kinsey was partly responsible for "devastating consequences of sexually transmitted diseases, pornography and abortion"....healthtalk.ca/ ... 18:04:22One of the world's leading tobacco manufacturers, Philip Morris, hid data on research into the dangers of passive smoking, alleges a paper published in the British medical journal The Lancet.ksla.com/ ... 17:53:59CBS NEWS interrupted the final minutes of Wednesday night's episode of CSI: NEW YORK in order to air a special report about the death of Yasser Arafat. CBS has apologized and says it will rebroadcast the episode, in its entirety....ap.tbo.com/ ... 01:14:21A Chicago high school teacher was in jail Wednesday, accused of giving three teenage boys money, alcohol and marijuana to have sex with her

Digital Consequencesap.tbo.com/ ... 22:23:51Marvel Enterprises Inc. is suing two firms behind a computer superhero role-playing game it claims allows players to make virtual characters that are too similar to "The Hulk," "X-Men" and other heroes in the comic book company's stable.ap.tbo.com/ ... 01:14:02U.S. Doesn't Want Its Campaign in Fallujah to Be Lost on Airwaves or Internet

US Militaryapnews.myway.com/ ... 18:05:59President Bush paused on Veterans Day to honor the "hidden heroes" in America's military who have fought in Iraq and Afghanistan during his presidency and in wars past. He also paid tribute to soldiers he said are waging a winning battle against insurgents west of Baghdad.

Human Rightfoxnews.com/ ... 17:56:00Some safety and privacy experts are reacting with apprehension, others with all out condemnation over a recent ruling by the National Transportation Safety Board to require electronic data recorders or "black boxes" in all new cars manufactured in the United States.

US Military Casualtiesdefenselink.mil/ ... 18:12:40

Army Sgt. John B. Trotter, 25, of Marble Falls, Texas, died November 9 in Ar Ramadi, Iraq, when he was on patrol and his unit came under attack by enemy forces using small arms fire.defenselink.mil/ ... 18:12:22

Army Staff Sgt. Todd R. Cornell, 38, of West Bend, Wis., died November 9 in Fallujah, Iraq, when acting in an advisory support capacity and his Iraqi unit came under attack by enemy forces using small arms fire.defenselink.mil/ ... 18:12:03

Marine Staff Sgt. Russell L. Slay, 28, of Humble, Texas, died Nov. 9 as a result of enemy action in Al Anbar Province, Iraq. defenselink.mil/ ... 18:11:43

Marine Cpl. William C. James, 24, of Huntington Beach, Calif.

Marine Lance Cpl. Nicholas D. Larson, 19, of Wheaton, Ill.

Marine Lance Cpl. Nathan R. Wood, 19, of Kirkland, Wash.
died Nov. 9 as a result of enemy action in Al Anbar Province, Iraq.defenselink.mil/ ... 11:06:12

Marine Lance Cpl. Juan E. Segura, 26, of Homestead, Fla., died Nov. 9 as a result of enemy action in Al Anbar Province, Iraq. defenselink.mil/ ... 11:05:53

Marine Sgt. Lonny D. Wells, 29, of Vandergrift, Pa., died Nov. 9 as a result of enemy action in Al Anbar Province, Iraq.

Only Naturalap.tbo.com/ ... 22:23:34A strong earthquake rocked parts of eastern Indonesia early Friday, killing six people, injuring 40 and damaging hundreds of buildings alertnet.org/ ... 10:58:38An accelerating thaw of the Arctic may open vast regions for oil and gas exploration but that brings worries of spills in the fragile environment

Reasons for Repealdrudgereport.com/ ... 17:54:22The Bush administration dismissed as 'deeply flawed' a World Trade Organization decision that the US has no right to ban cross-border gambling on the Internet. The WTO ruling, publicly released yesterday, favored Antigua and Barbuda in its fight against the US over a 43-year-old law that bans gambling payments across state lines.ap.tbo.com/ ... 01:15:34A major drug trafficking operation run by Providence's largest street gang has been broken up, law enforcement authorities said Wednesday. Officials said 21 members of the Almighty Latin Kings Nation or their associates were arrested last week. Authorities were looking for five others... the gang members and associates dealt in crack and others forms of cocaine, marijuana and guns. An undisclosed amount of drugs and $200,000 in cash and cars were seized,..

Rebuildingap.tbo.com/ ... 22:24:28Iraq can learn from the recent history of El Salvador, a country wracked by civil war that has developed into a stable democracy and close U.S. ally, Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld said Thursday.

Violenceap.tbo.com/ ... 22:25:27Police used a stun gun on a 6-year-old boy in his principal's office because he was wielding a piece of glass and threatening to hurt himself... 50,000 volts... had already cut himself under his eye and on his hand... When the boy cut his own leg, one officer shocked him with a Taser and another grabbed him to prevent him from falling...ap.tbo.com/ ... 22:24:06Iraq's interim Prime Minister Ayad Allawi defended the Fallujah assault, saying in a British tabloid newspaper Friday that the offensive has the support of most Iraqi people and is necessary to enable elections in January.reuters.com/ ... 18:09:52 Eighteen U.S. troops have been killed and another 69 wounded in this week's offensive to take control of the rebel-held Iraqi city Falluja... Five Iraqi troops fighting alongside the Americans also have been killed in the ground assault that started on Monday, while 34 Iraqi security forces have been wounded... "hundreds and hundreds of insurgents" have been either killed or captured in the assault... "hardly any, if any, civilian casualties so far" in Falluja....apnews.myway.com/ ... 18:05:24Insurgents tried to break through the U.S. cordon surrounding Fallujah on Thursday as American forces launched an offensive against concentrations of militants in the south of the city. Some 600 insurgents, 18 U.S. troops and five Iraqi soldiers have been killed in the four-day assault csmonitor.com/ ... 18:03:02 One of the most important things to remember about Attorney General-designate Alberto Gonzales is obvious: He's not John Ashcroft. A moderate conservative with a mild demeanor....local6.com/ ... 17:56:50Woman Reportedly Tortures 'Special Needs' Students [nausea warning]reuters.com/ ... 11:03:27Israeli soldiers killed four Palestinians in violent confrontations that erupted following the death of Palestinian President Yasser Arafat...reuters.com/ ... 11:02:58U.S. troops met dwindling resistance in the battered Iraqi city of Falluja Thursday, but rebels hit back with an armed rampage in Mosul and a car bomb that killed 17 people in a crowded Baghdad street... also wounded at least 20 news.bbc.co.uk/ ... 11:01:59Urban Warfare BBC article [Flash required]ctv.ca/ ... 10:58:16U.S. Marines were forced to call in four air strikes after coming under heavy fire in the centre of the city... two Marine Super Cobra attack helicopters were hit by ground fire and forced to land. The crews were not injured in the crash although there are reports one of the pilots was hit by small-arms fire... U.S. estimates 600 rebels have been killed in the offensive so far. But the campaign in this insurgent stronghold has also produced a steady stream of wounded U.S. soldiers...nbc10.com/ ... 10:57:21 U.S. soldiers and Marines launched a large attack Thursday into the southern half of Fallujah, where insurgents still holding, opening a second phase in the offensive, U.S. officials said... reports that more than 200 U.S. soldiers have been seriously hurt in the offensive and flown to Landstuhl Medical Center in Germany. .. Two planes carrying about 90 wounded Marines and soldiers were due in from Iraq today.boston.com/ ... 01:11:13 Marine staff officers are following the battle for Fallujah from a crumbling housing complex where $700,000 in U.S. reconstruction funds... was spent to fix buildings, a clinic and a mosque. But the effort wasn't enough to prevent the neighborood and the rest of the city from falling under the control of hardline clerics and their armed followers, including some religious extremists who came to Iraq to join the jihad....

Threatsworldnetdaily.com/ ... 18:17:27A top Hamas political leader accused Israel today of poisoning the late PLO leader Yasser Arafat jpost.com/ ... 18:04:54Israel Police prepared to hit the highest level of alert– essentially signifying a state of war - Thursday night, as preparations for Palestinian Authority Chairman Yasser Arafat's funeral continued in Cairo and Ramallah.apnews.myway.com/ ... 10:58:59Tens of thousands of Palestinians rushed into Gaza streets to mourn Yasser Arafat Thursday as others in the West Bank reacted with tears and tributes. Israel responded by sealing the borders of Palestinian territories.news.bbc.co.uk/ ... 01:22:16In pictures: Arafat's life reuters.com/ ... 01:13:16The hacking and identity theft tools now earning big money for mainly eastern European organized crime could be used by terrorists to attack the United States, an FBI official said on Wednesday.ap.tbo.com/ ... 01:07:13The Taiwanese president's flight to an outlying island several weeks ago was diverted because 28 Chinese fighter jets were spotted in the area, a major Taiwanese newspaper reported Thursday.washingtonpost.com/ ... 01:07:01Senior U.S. intelligence officials said yesterday that they think the English-speaking al Qaeda associate who warned of new terrorist attacks against the United States on a recently released videotape is Adam Yahiye Gadahn, a Californian in his mid-twenties who converted to Islam in 1995. But an FBI spokesman said the bureau is not ready to conclude that the man, whose face was wrapped in a headdress on the videotape, was Gadahn.news.bbc.co.uk/ ... 01:06:27The veteran Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat has died in a French hospital... doctors were unsure what caused the condition and made no official announcement about the cause of Mr Arafat's illness. Doctors were said to have ruled out cancer and poisoning....ap.tbo.com/ ... 01:05:11A videotape posted Thursday on an Islamist Web site purportedly by Fallujah militants vowed to take revenge on Iraqi Prime Minister Ayad Allawi for ordering a U.S.-led attack on their city.

WED 2004-NOV-10

Currentapnews.myway.com/ ... 14:01:01President Bush has chosen White House counsel Alberto Gonzales, a Texas confidant and one of the most prominent Hispanics in the administration, to succeed Attorney General John Ashcroft, sources close to the White House said Wednesday.

Preternatural Patternsreuters.com/ ... 10:49:48An Albany man turned himself into police after seeing himself on TV news robbing a bank but was turned away by officers who told him to come back the next day... went to a different station the following day and was charged with robbery...ap.tbo.com/ ... 10:48:12Three months after Alexandra Scott died of cancer at age 8, her goal of raising $1 million for cancer research this year by selling lemonade has been surpassed.l wftv.com/ ... 10:46:28The owner of a shaved ice business, 57, was charged with two counts of sexual battery after two 19-year-old employees claimed he spanked them for making mistakes at work... At the company headquarters in Minneapolis, sales manager Tom Novetzke described Levengood as a "very Christian person," adding that "We've never had a complaint."

Mechanical Disastermilitary.com/ ... 13:56:19LAS VEGAS - A Navy pilot ejected moments before his fighter crashed Tuesday near Nellis Air Force Base... The single-seat F-18 went down about 15 miles north of the base on the northeast side of Las Vegas....ap.tbo.com/ ... 01:21:17WALNUT CREEK, Calif. -- A construction arew struck an underground petroleum pipeline Tuesday, sparking an explosion and fire that killed two people, burned several nearby buildings and shot flames high in the air. Three others were missing.

US Militarydefenselink.mil/ ... 13:59:10Air Force Master Sgt. Steven E. Auchman, 37, of Waterloo, N.Y., died Nov. 9 from injuries received when multiple rocket propelled grenades struck his location in Mosul, Iraq. defenselink.mil/ ... 13:58:45This week, the Army and Air Force announced an increase in the number of reservists on active duty in support of the partial mobilization, while the Navy, Marines and Coast Guard had a decrease. The net collective result is 590 more reservists mobilized than last week.

US Military Casualtiesdefenselink.mil/ ... 18:00:19

Army Command Sgt. Maj. Steven W. Faulkenburg, 45, of Huntingburg, Ind., died Nov. 9 in Fallujah, Iraq, when he came under small arms fire while conducting combat operations.defenselink.mil/ ... 17:59:39

Marine Cpl. Robert P. Warns II, 23, of Waukesha, Wis., died Nov. 8 as a result of enemy action in Babil Province, Iraq. defenselink.mil/ ... 17:59:18

Marine Lance Cpl. Thomas J. Zapp, 20, of Houston, Texas, died Nov. 8 as a result of enemy action in Al Anbar Province, Iraq. defenselink.mil/ ... 13:58:19

Marine Lance Cpl. Branden P. Ramey, 22, of Boone, Ill., died Nov. 8 as a result of enemy action in Babil Province, Iraq.

Marine Staff Sgt. David G. Ries, 29, of Clark, Wash., died Nov. 8 as a result of enemy action in Al Anbar Province, Iraq.

Only Naturalreuters.com/ ... 10:52:19"Oops, I must have dropped my pants"... A couple who sparked outrage by having sex on stage in front of thousands of stunned rock concert goers in Norway shocked again on Tuesday when the man pulled down his trousers in court.reuters.com/ ... 10:47:16Vitamin E supplements, which millions take in the hope of longer, healthier lives, may do more harm than good, researchers reported on Wednesday. In fact, people taking high doses of vitamin E may in some cases be more likely to die earlier, although the reasons are not clear, said Dr. Edgar Miller of Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, who led the study....reuters.com/ ... 10:40:57A faster-than-expected thaw of the Arctic is likely to open legendary short-cut routes between the Pacific and the Atlantic but experts say icebergs and high costs will prevent any trans-polar shipping boom.

Justice?ap.tbo.com/ ... 01:20:27 A man who spent 19 years behind bars for the rape and murder of his girlfriend was released Tuesday after being cleared by DNA testing sg.news.yahoo.com/ ... 01:11:41Belgium's far-right Vlaams Blok was branded racist in a supreme court ruling that will force one of Europe's most successful anti-immigrant parties to relaunch itself. The supreme court upheld a verdict by a lower court in April that found the party to be guilty of "permanent incitement to segregation and racism".pittsburghlive.com/ ... 01:10:40A federal judge sitting in Washington has altered a basic rule of warfare long accepted by the international community. It is to the world's detriment.

U.S. District Judge James Robertson ruled Monday that military commissions established to try detainees at the U.S. Navy base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, are unlawful and might violate the Geneva Conventions. Robertson says President Bush overstepped his constitutional bounds and ignored the guidelines for the general conduct of war and prisoner treatment.... Affording terrorists "rights" they do not have can only offer terrorists a legitimacy that will embolden their terrorism. This ruling must not stand.....

Threatsreuters.com/ ... 10:46:42Al Qaeda will begin to disintegrate within two years as its various factions start to squabble and militants return to their local roots, a senior British parliamentary adviser predicted on Wednesday.washingtontimes.com/ ... 10:41:12Japan's Defense Agency suspects that an unidentified submarine sighted in Japanese waters early Wednesday was a Chinese nuclear submarine ap.tbo.com/ ... 01:16:57Japan's navy forces went on alert early Wednesday after a foreign submarine was briefly spotted in its territorial waters

Violencefoxnews.com/ ... 18:17:45"The strategy was to seal the town off before we moved in, which we did ... Because of the encirclement and coordination of all [Iraqi and coalition] forces, when [the insurgents] attempted to flee from one zone to another they were killed or captured as they moved back and forth," Sattler said. "They are now in small pockets, blind, moving throughout the city. And we will continue to hunt them down and destroy them."timesonline.co.uk/ ... 17:13:20The Black Watch battle group today saw their heaviest day of action since their deployment in support of US troops to a lawless Sunni Muslim area south of Baghdad. In four separate attacks, a pilot was shot and critically injured by a sniper while flying his helicopter, a unit was ambushed and exchanged sustained mortar fire with insurgents, and the base itself, Camp Dogwood, came under salvoes of rockets which injured a serviceman and damaged a helicopter.boston.com/ ... 17:12:04Gunmen abducted three members of Iraqi Prime Minister Ayad Allawi's family from their Baghdad home, his spokesman said Wednesday, and militants said they would be beheaded in two days if the siege of Fallujah was not lifted.ap.tbo.com/ ... 10:48:51Dutch special forces were locked in a standoff with an unknown number of suspected terrorists holed up in a house in The Hague after three officers were wounded by a hand grenade during an attempted raid Wednesday news.yahoo.com/ ... 10:44:38Iraqi troops have found "hostage slaughterhouses" in Fallujah where foreign captives were held and killed... found CDs and records of people taken captive in houses in the northern part of Fallujah...thisislondon.com/ ... 10:43:48Fresh fighting erupted today in areas of Fallujah declared "cleared" by US forces.news.bbc.co.uk/ ... 10:43:28Three Dutch police officers have been wounded in an explosion during an anti-terror raid on a house in The Hague. Two of the police officers remain in hospital after the grenade blast. Shots were also fired during the raid.drudgereport.com/ ... 10:42:57Three high school students face charges for using a bat to beat another student who taunted them about being John Kerry supporters days after the contentious election.wfts.com/ ... 10:42:42TAMPA - Some of the worst horrors of the war in Iraq were on sale right here in the bay area. Action News found a DVD featuring the beheading of two Americans being sold at a Tampa gas station, but it was not the work of Muslim extremists. The 90-minute video, titled Buried in the Sand, shows the gruesome way Saddam Hussein tortured his country. It also prominently features the end of Nicholas Berg's life -- in all, a series of brutally graphic, violent images culminating with the beheading. The DVD was on a shelf right inside the front door of a Shell station on E. Busch Boulevard. The station's assistant manager, 'Sal,' couldn't explain why the station was selling it, but he admitted the images made him sick.... The movie was actually produced by two Republicans out of California as part of the campaign propaganda, meant to counter films like Fahrenheit 9/11....airforcetimes.com/ ... 10:40:34American forces bottled up guerrillas in a narrow strip of Fallujah’s alleys and streets Wednesday after a stunningly swift advance that seized control of 70 percent of the insurgent stronghold. In Baghdad, kidnappers abducted two members of Prime Minister Ayad Allawi’s family ap.tbo.com/ ... 01:27:51A 69-year-old woman who disappeared along with her Alzheimer's-stricken husband nearly three months ago died of a gunshot wound, according to preliminary autopsy results. ....No trace has been found of husband Norman Olson, 73, but he is presumed dead....ap.tbo.com/ ... 01:27:03Students and teachers at a San Francisco middle school were rushed into a gymnasium Tuesday morning after a man armed with a handgun threatened to kill a teacher and robbed two employees.bloomberg.com/ ... 01:08:59 U.S. and Iraqi troops surged toward Fallujah's center, fighting to take the remaining two-thirds of the Iraqi city as soldiers in nearby Ramadi repelled insurgent gunfire and grenade attacks. Ten U.S. soldiers and two from Iraq's fledgling military have been killed in the operation, dubbed ``Dawn'' in Arabic....news.scotsman.com/ ... 01:07:44US troops powered their way into the centre of the Iraqi insurgent stronghold of Fallujah, overwhelming small bands of guerrillas with massive force.

TUE 2004-NOV-09

Whoopsreuters.com/ ... 22:44:59Organizers of South Africa's Soweto marathon have apologized for forgetting to deliver enough water to thousands of runners on Saturday, leaving them dependent on the charity of township residents.

US Election 2004heraldtribune.com/ ... 20:31:15Woman pulls off Bush T-shirt to comply with rules, cast vote bocanews.com/ ... 20:30:06More than a dozen traumatized John Kerry supporters have sought and received therapy from a licensed Florida psychologist since their candidate lost to President Bush

Currentnews.bbc.co.uk/ ... 20:20:16US Attorney General John Ashcroft has resigned from the Bush cabinet... Secretary for Commerce, Don Evans, has also quit his post...

Transportnews.bbc.co.uk/ ... 20:20:29Egypt's Suez Canal has reopened for shipping traffic, three days after a broken-down oil tanker forced the longest closure in almost 30 years.ap.tbo.com/ ... 20:16:03A truck slammed into the rear of a school bus that had just picked up a student along a highway Tuesday, injuring 10 children, three seriously.

Preternatural Patternsreuters.com/ ... 22:45:13Actor Jim Belushi says his next-door neighbor, actress Julie Newmar, is spying on him, destroying his property and calling him names behind his back.reuters.com/ ... 22:44:44After the startling success of its turkey and gravy-flavored soda during last year's U.S. holiday season, a Seattle soda company will be serving up green beans and casserole, mashed potatoes, fruitcake and cranberry flavors.thescotsman.scotsman.com/ ... 20:30:29NASA to study 'Rain Man' to explain why he is becoming cleverer worldnetdaily.com/ ... 20:28:04Dutch authorities have destroyed a piece of public art meant to memorialize slain filmmaker Theo van Gogh because it included the phrase "Thou shalt not kill."... "In the year 2004, this commandment is considered too sensitive in our multicultural society," wrote the Volkskrant.olympics.reuters.com/ ... 20:15:37A stamp honoring former U.S. President Ronald Reagan, who died June 5, was unveiled by the U.S. Postal Service on Tuesday.

Digital Consequencesreuters.com/ ... 20:21:46A Connecticut man was arrested on Tuesday on charges that he illegally sold a secret source code used for Microsoft Corp.'s Windows NT 4.0 and Windows 2000 programs ap.tbo.com/ ... 20:17:16A TV ad showing a computer-illiterate father getting chided for trying to help his Internet-savvy daughter with her homework has roused the anger of fatherhood activists, who are calling on Verizon to take it off the air linuxinsider.com/ ... 20:14:20The Mozilla Foundation today officially released its open-source browser, Firefox 1.0, but the news won't come as a surprise to a great many computer users. Since it released its preview version in September, 8 million people have downloaded the super-fast browser, a direct descendant of Netscape.

Liberty Worksreuters.com/ ... 22:45:51Heineken NV is introducing messages encouraging "responsible drinking" on its bottles and cans worldwide

US Military Casualtiesdefenselink.mil/ ... 20:36:06

Army Staff Sgt. Clinton L. Wisdom, 39, of Atchison, Kan.

Army Spc. Don A. Clary, 21, of Troy, Kan.
died November 8 in Baghdad, Iraq when a vehicle-borne improvised explosive device detonated near their convoy.defenselink.mil/ ... 20:35:24

Marine Lance Cpl. Jeffrey Lam, 22, of Queens, N.Y., died Nov. 8 as a result of a non-hostile vehicle incident in Al Anbar Province, Iraq.defenselink.mil/ ... 20:35:07

Army Spc. Bryan L. Freeman, 31, of Lumberton, N.J., died November 8 in Baghdad, Iraq, from wounds sustained earlier that day when he came under small arms fire while conducting a vehicle search. defenselink.mil/ ... 20:34:47

Marine Cpl. Nathaniel T. Hammond, 24, of Tulsa, Okla.

Marine Lance Cpl. Shane K. O’Donnell, 24, of DeForest, Wisc.
died Nov. 8 as a result of enemy action in Babil Province, Iraq defenselink.mil/ ... 20:33:09

Army Spc. Quoc Binh Tran, 26, of Mission Viejo, Calif., died Nov. 7 in Baghdad, Iraq, from wounds sustained that same day when an improvised explosive device detonated near his military vehicle while he was conducting convoy operations.defenselink.mil/ ... 20:32:39

Army Spc. Brian K. Baker, 27, of West Seneca, N.Y., died November 7 in Baghdad, Iraq, when a vehicle-borne improvised explosive device detonated near his security patrol. defenselink.mil/ ... 20:32:21

Marine Lance Cpl. Sean M. Langley, 20, of Lexington, Ky., died Nov. 7 from injuries received as a result of enemy action in Al Anbar Province, Iraq.

Only Naturalthisislondon.com/ ... 20:19:41The number of Londoners suffering sexually transmitted diseases has risen by more than a third, new figures reveal.... Of particular concern is the rise in chlamydia among the young - it can show no symptoms but leads to infertility in men and women if left untreated....news.nationalgeographic.com/ ... 20:13:45Scientists have determined that the ice in Greenland and the Arctic is melting so rapidly that much of it could be gone by the end of the century The results could be catastrophic for polar people and animals, while low-lying lands as far away as Florida could be inundated by rising sea levels....

Rebuildingnews.bbc.co.uk/ ... 22:42:09Afghan hearts and minds - US aid

Violenceap.tbo.com/ ... 22:43:56Ivory Coast security forces fired on armed attackers Tuesday as thousands of angry government loyalists massed outside a French evacuation post for foreigners, reportedly killing seven people and wounding 200 in violence pitting France against its former prize colony.news.bbc.co.uk/ ... 22:42:29US and Iraqi forces are locked in desperate street battles against insurgents in the Iraqi city of Falluja. The BBC News website spoke by phone to Fadhil Badrani, a journalist in Falluja who reports for the BBC World Service in Arabic.csmonitor.com/ ... 20:31:55Block by block, street by street, US Marines and Army troops Tuesday began seizing control of Fallujah, making unexpected gains against limited resistance, despite some chaotic delays entering the city. Despite the steady rumble of fighting, from frequent artillery and rocket explosions, to bursts of small arms fire across the city, US forces entered a veritable ghost town.....csmonitor.com/ ... 20:31:29If US forces prevail in taking the city, keeping it stable afterward may be the biggest task - and influence what happens elsewhere.nypost.com/ ... 20:29:04Car bombs at two Baghdad churches -- and outside a hospital treating the victims of those attacks -- killed at least eight people and wounded dozens last night as a wave of blasts struck the Iraqi capital.reuters.myway.com/ ... 20:28:31Senior leaders of the insurgency and al Qaeda ally Abu Musab al-Zarqawi likely escaped from Falluja before U. . Marinos stormod into ahe city a top n.S. genfral sai on Tuesday.foxnews.com/ ... 20:28:19A man demanding media attention took a female employee hostage at the Mexican consulate Tuesday before he was wounded by police outside the building. The hostage escaped unharmed.news.yahoo.com/ ... 20:19:09Ten U.S. troops and two Iraqi troops fighting alongside the Americans have been killed in the offensive to take control of the rebel-held city of Falluja ap.tbo.com/ ... 20:18:52KENTWOOD, Mich. -- A man died Tuesday after breaking into the home of a woman he had been convicted of stalking and setting off an explosive device that injured five officers.... the injured officers... All suffered some degree of what was expected to be temporary hearing loss and other minor injuries....news.bbc.co.uk/ ... 20:13:11A fire has caused major damage at an Islamic school in the Netherlands amid fresh violence in the wake of the murder film maker Theo van Gogh.... graffiti scrawled on the walls had referred to the killing....dailystar.com.lb/ ... 20:12:26U.S. forces backed by Iraqi troops surged into the heart of Fallujah on Tuesday, taking a grip on Iraq's most rebellious city after a day of intense street-to-street combat.

Threatsreuters.com/ ... 22:42:42The fate of Yasser Arafat was mired in confusion on Tuesday as Palestinian officials insisted in public he was clinging to life even as aides said privately the veteran leader had died at a Paris hospital.thedenverchannel.com/ ... 20:29:44DENVER -- Scores of missing propane cylinders have some Denver-area residents worried about a possible terrorist plot. The FBI is contacting its Joint Terrorist Task Forces in Washington and around the country... hundreds of gallons of missing liquid propane gas.seattlepi.nwsource.com/ ... 20:12:04Excerpts of opinion issued Monday in the case of Salim Ahmed Hamdan versus U.S. Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld palmbeachpost.com/ ... 19:17:36When Suha Tawil married Yasser Arafat nearly 15 years ago, the pairing was considered so scandalous that Arafat's top aides kept the wedding a secret for more than a year, fretting over what Palestinian reaction would be when word leaked out.

MON 2004-NOV-08

Netsurf Flotsamucomics.com/The Boondocks by Aaron McGruder references 1976 black comedy show
Dy-no-MIITE!

google.com/Googled "Dy-no-MIITE"annotatedmst.com/Webpage from which was derived the character (JJ) actor (Jimmie Walker) and program name ("Good Times")google.com/Googled "good times Jimmie Walker"tvparty.com/The history of the Good Times TV show

US Election 2004boston.com/ ... 11:13:13Dean is the star of a radio advertisement that parodies his shout-out of the states where he planned to campaign after he lost the Iowa caucuses.

Whoopsreuters.com/ ... 11:03:25Cotton farmers in some Indian villages are flocking to buy Coca-Cola and Pepsi, believing that the sugar in the fizzy drinks kills pests.

Digital Consequencesreuters.com/ ... 11:03:38A Colorado prisoner obtained sensitive information on a county sheriff and nearly 1,000 other local-government employees after he got a password into the county's computer system news.bbc.co.uk/ ... 11:01:15Imagine a surveillance system that also presents a virtual embodiment of a person on a screen who can react to your behaviour

Transportsuntimes.com/ ... 13:29:49...wondering if the placement of a 5-mph I-Pass lane between the plaza's manual and automatic lanes confused the out-of-state trucker into trying to change lanes at the last minute....bloomberg.com/ ... 11:00:33 U.K. police are examining whether mechanical failure or a suicide attempt by a car driver caused a train to derail in southern England killing seven people... unidentified witness [say] a man drove his car onto the crossing and waited for the train to hit it.

Preternatural Patternsnytimes.com/ ... 10:48:36Paramount's "Alfie," a remake of a romantic comedy about a roguish womanizer starring Jude Law, opened to a dismal $6.5 million in more than 2,000 theaters, far below expectations. ... "It could be the mood of the country right now," he said. "It seems to be the result of the election. Maybe they didn't want to see a guy that slept around."

US Military Casualtiesdefenselink.mil/ ... 11:19:04

Army Pvt. Justin R. Yoemans, 20, of Eufaula, Ala., died Nov. 6 at the 31st Combat Support Hospital in Baghdad, Iraq, from wounds sustained earlier that day in Baghdad, Iraq, when a vehicle-borne improvised explosive device detonated near his up-armored HMMWV defenselink.mil/ ... 11:18:46

Army Sgt. Carlos M. Camacho-Rivera, 24, of Carolina, Puerto Rico, died Nov. 5 in the 31st Combat Support Hospital in Baghdad, Iraq, from wounds sustained earlier that day in Fallujah, Iraq, from a rocket blast.

Reasons for Repealreuters.com/ ... 11:03:00A police dog let out into an empty field to answer the call of nature ended up finding an underground drugs stash. ... "This finding shows that hiding drugs in nature has become common and anyone can stumble upon a cache...."

Human Rightnews.bbc.co.uk/ ... 11:01:53Abortion nightmare in Nepal -- Every day Shanti Shresta thanks God that she is free. "I thought I was going to rot in jail," she says. "I never thought that I would be released." Four years ago Shanti was arrested and thrown into prison after the authorities accused her of having an abortion.

Only Naturalnypost.com/ ... 11:15:46A 29-year-old Connecticut woman — accused of sexually assaulting an 8-year-old boy for months — says she considers the little neighbor her "boyfriend" and hopes to marry him someday, authorities said yesterday.foxnews.com/ ... 10:44:02A 14-year-old Canadian girl who said her sense of team spirit was diminished when she was forced to start using a separate locker room from her boy teammates has successfully challenged the rule....

Under Tyrannyapnews.myway.com/ ... 11:18:18ATLANTA - - School officials in suburban Cobb County go to court Monday to defend themselves against a lawsuit accusing the district of promoting religion by requiring that science textbooks warn students evolution is "a theory, not a fact."southcoasttoday.com/ ... 11:16:43The principal of Fairhaven's Rogers Elementary School yesterday defended music teacher Rita Campoli as a "wonderful teacher and a very kind-hearted soul" who inadvertently "crossed the line" in making Election Day comments about abortion to first- and second-graders.... children framed the issue as John Kerry "killing babies," and some of them were crying and upset....reuters.myway.com/ ... 11:15:31President Bush will renew a quest in his second term for a constitutional amendment to ban same-sex marriage as essential to a "hopeful and decent" society apnews.myway.com/ ... 11:15:16GRANTSBURG, Wis. -- The city's school board has revised its science curriculum to allow the teaching of creationism....kansas.com/ ... 11:14:53One of the opening skirmishes in the [Kansas] State Board of Education's battle over whether science standards should require creation to be taught alongside evolution will be held next week....

Threatssify.com/ ... 10:57:33Three of Yasser Arafat's top lieutenants have shelved plans to visit the ailing Palestinian leader in a Paris hospital, the head of Arafat's office... Arafat's wife accused the trio of wanting to bury her husband alive....

Violencemilitary.com/ ... 13:31:12Insurgents Use Media To Fight Americans -- Associated Press -- U.S. military planners and intelligence analysts believe Iraqi insurgent leaders holed up in Fallujah will defend the city by combining scrappy fighting with a media blitz designed to provoke a worldwide outcry.apnews.myway.com/ ... 11:00:47Thousands of U.S. Marines and Army troops punched their way on Monday into two Fallujah neighborhoods where insurgents are considered the strongest, kicking off a massive assault that seeks to put an end to half a year of insurgent control of the Sunni Muslim city.abcnews.go.com/ ... 10:59:12The United Nations said on Monday it was worried about the possibility of rising tensions along the Lebanese-Israeli frontier, and urged Beirut to exercise control over its side.news.xinhuanet.com/ ... 10:58:23Two US Marines were killed overnight in Fallujah on Monday, marking the first casualties in a major offensive to retake the restive Iraqi city. .. drowned when their bulldozer flipped over into the Euphrates River...news.scotsman.com/ ... 10:51:23A bomb blast blew the front door off a Muslim elementary school in the Netherlands today and extensively damaged the building in what police suspect was a revenge attack for the killing of a Dutch filmmaker last week.... the centre ... hosted an Islamic seminar in 1999, said to have been attended by Mohamed Atta and Marwan al-Shehhi, two of the 9/11 hijackers.

SUN 2004-NOV-07

Transportsuntimes.com/ ... 23:34:18A pregnant Westmont mother and her 1-year-old son were killed and three others were injured -- one critically -- when a semitractor-trailer plowed into a Tri-State Tollway tollbooth and rolled atop their neighboring car Saturday.ap.tbo.com/ ... 23:17:43A passenger bus returning to Egypt from Saudi Apabia collided with a truck Sunday, killing 33 people

US Election 2004msnbc.msn.com/ ... 23:12:06The Endgame: In the last weeks, Rove felt 'emotional stress' about getting out the vote for Bush. And where was the 'Comeback Kerry' of campaign legend?ap.tbo.com/ ... 13:47:13The country is still close, but it has moved in a Republican direction, and this election confirmed that," Rove said on NBC's "Meet the Press."... Tactically, Kerry's decision to vote for the $87 billion in funding for troops and reconstruction in Iraq and Afghanistan, and then deciding in October 2003 to vote against it, was a bonanza for the president's campaign, "the gift that kept on giving," Rove said....

Whoopsnews.bbc.co.uk/ ... 13:41:35A anti-nuclear protester has died after his leg was severed by a train carrying atomic waste from France to Germany.

Preternatural Patternsap.tbo.com/ ... 23:23:19 ...manager of the Sleep Inn, held the bus... of Special Olympics athletes... at gunpoint for 10 minutes Friday while the children lay on the floor because he did not want the bus parked in the motel's small lot...reuters.com/ ... 13:35:02The advertisements that ran on about 200 buses across the city in recent months carried posters displaying a suggestively posed woman in hot pants kneeling among a pile of books beside the snappy slogan "Read Books, Get Brain." What unhip, unsuspecting local transportation officials did not know was that "get brain" is street slang for oral sex.newsday.com/ ... 13:34:10Distraught over the re-election of President George W. Bush, a Georgia man traveled to New York City, went to Ground Zero and killed himself with a shotgun blast

Digital Consequencesnews.xinhuanet.com/ ... 23:12:25Supermarket giant Tesco launches a new digital download store today, becoming the latest entrant in the music downloading market news.bbc.co.uk/ ... 13:33:24Some believe the internet is struggling to survive under the strain of technical limitations, government interference and the proliferation of malware. But in the US, a new, improved internet is already being worked on. Audio and video may one day be delivered to our desktops 1,000 times faster than today's consumer broadband services....

Only Naturalchannels.netscape.com/ ... 23:12:51 Over 40 percent of all bird species in Europe face an uncertain future and some are so threatened that they may disappear soon due to intensive agriculture and climate change, scientists said on Monday.edition.cnn.com/ ... 23:11:09A magnitude 5.8 earthquake has rocked northern Japan near the area where the country's deadliest earthquake in years struck in October.www2.chinadaily.com.cn/ ... 16:06:51Middle class becomes rising power in China wired.com/ ... 15:56:18Sending a weak electrical impulse through the front of a person's head can boost verbal skills by as much as 20 percent, according to a new study by the U.S. National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke.iol.co.za/ ... 15:54:06A leading Indonesian scientist on Saturday challenged the widely publicised theory that fossilised bones found on the eastern island of Flores were from a previously unknown species of human.hindustantimes.com/ ... 15:53:42The universe will last for another 26 billion years and not collapse in a "big crunch" within 11 billion years from now as predicted earlier...

Under Tyrannynews.telegraph.co.uk/ ... 16:06:43For 60 years the skeletal remains of more than 200 people, discovered in 1942 close to the glacial Roopkund Lake in the remote Himalayan Gahrwal region, have puzzled historians, scientists and archaeologists.... Now, the first forensic investigation of one of the area's most enduring mysteries has concluded that hundreds of nomads - whose frozen corpses are being disgorged from ice high in the mountain - were killed by one of the most lethal hailstorms in history....thedesertsun.com/ ... 16:04:50Far from finding a communist paradise, four American soldiers suspected of deserting to North Korea in the 1960s were forced to live together in a tiny house under constant surveillance, to scrounge for food and to study the works of "Great Leader" Kim Il Sung for up to 16 hours a day. Two died before ever again seeing the outside world. Shedding new light on a bizarre Cold War tale, former U.S. Army Sgt. Charles Jenkins told a court-martial this week that he and the others lived for years as a tightly knit -- if not always harmonious -- group honed by hardship, poverty and frequent beatings.....

Violencetechcentralstation.com/ ... 23:29:59The Challenge - and Puzzle - of Falluja by Ralph Kinney Bennett... Fallujah promises to be a bloody, vicious fight. One press report led with a U.S. Marine surgeon's alleged statement that the American casualty rate "probably will reach levels not seen since Vietnam."...news.bbc.co.uk/ ... 23:13:12US and Iraqi forces appear to be making their first moves into Falluja ahead of a major offensive on the restive city. They have reportedly taken control of the hospital, and explosions from US artillery and the crackle of rebels' small-arms fire echo across the city.worldnetdaily.com/ ... 15:51:52As 10,000 American troops stand ready to launch a much-anticipated assault on the city of Fallujah, the U.S. military is reporting that an Iraqi military commander deserted one day after receiving a full briefing on the battle plan to take the city.news.bbc.co.uk/ ... 13:40:38Iraq's government has declared a 60-day state of emergency in response to the escalation of violence by militants.washingtontimes.com/ ... 13:40:28Mobs using machetes in Abidjan, Ivory Coast, conducted house-to-house searches Sunday to find and attack French citizens and steal their property.indolink.com/ ... 13:33:45...at least 45 people were killed in four car bomb attacks and clashes in Samarra during the past 24 hours...news.bbc.co.uk/ ... 13:32:20At least two Palestinians have been killed in an Israeli helicopter strike near a Jewish settlement in Gaza. The Israeli army said the men - Islamic Jihad militants - were suspected of carrying explosives....reuters.com/ ... 13:32:00Police said insurgents attacked a police station in Haditha, 200 km (125 miles) northwest of Baghdad, at dawn with rocket-propelled grenades and mortars. After a 90-minute battle, in which six policemen were wounded, the attackers captured 21 policemen, took them away and killed them in execution-style shootings. Police said Brigadier Shaher al-Jughaifi, security chief in western Iraq, was also shot dead in an attack on a police station in the nearby town of Haqlaniya. The assaults followed suicide bombings and attacks on police stations in the city of Samarra that killed 34 people, most of them members of Iraqi security forces, on Saturday. Jordanian militant Abu Musab al-Zarqawi's Al Qaeda Organization of Holy War in Iraq claimed responsibility for the Samarra attacks and other bombings in Ramadi and Baghdad.... Marines expect to face 1,000 to 6,000 insurgents and foreign fighters in what they say could be the biggest U.S. military offensive in Iraq since Saddam Hussein fell last year.....

Threatssuntimes.com/ ... 23:35:35 India on Sunday tested a nuclear-capable ship-launched missile off its eastern coast washingtonpost.com/ ... 13:30:41An unprecedented level of security will frame President Bush's second inauguration, with officials planning to use thousands of police from across the country, new screening technology for inaugural guests and a military contingent that could include a combat brigade of up to 4,000 troops.... the first inauguration since the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks....

SAT 2004-NOV-06

Whoopsguardian.co.uk/ ... 22:59:26A Libertarian who lost a race for Congress on Tuesday has been arrested for evading $87,000 in federal income taxes. Arthur L. Farnsworth, 42, had vowed on his Web site that he would "never file an individual federal income-tax return again." A federal grand jury alleged the electrical engineer failed to pay taxes for three years on more than $221,000 in income and tried to conceal his earnings by transferring assets to fraudulent trusts and overseas bank accounts.....

Transporttimesonline.co.uk/ ... 22:56:27AN X-RAY machine that sees through air passengers’ clothes has been deployed by security staff at London’s Heathrow airport for the first time. ...produces a “naked” image of passengers...
graphic nature of the black and white images it generates... has raised concerns about privacy both among travellers and aviation authorities....abcnews.go.com/ ... 22:55:33UFTON NERVET, England (Reuters) - A British high-speed passenger train crashed into a car at a level crossing and flew off the rails on Saturday, killing six people and injuring scores.

Preternatural Patternsfoxnews.com/ ... 22:58:19[man] filed a new federal civil complaint ...seeking financial damages against [Michael] Jackson, alleging that the entertainer sexually abused, battered, falsely imprisoned and caused severe emotional distress to him when he was 18 years old... more than 20 years ago... The lawsuit also alleges Jackson and his employees subjected the accuser to physical force, intimidation and duress to enable and cover up what was going on....app1.chinadaily.com.cn/ ... 16:27:40LISA Simpson, the spiky-haired US cartoon character, may just be the spark that revives an ancient language and fuels a tiny political movement at the tip of Britain's southwest coast.abcnews.go.com/ ... 16:27:26A man whose leaking luggage closed the Fort Wayne International Airport for 10 hours in August will not have to pay a $22,000 bill for hazardous material cleanup.reuters.com/ ... 00:56:26Texas education officials on Friday approved health textbooks for high school students that extol the virtues of sexual abstinence but only make passing mention of contraceptives

Digital Consequencesnewscientist.com/ ... 00:49:31A complex supercomputer being constructed for the US government has demonstrated double the power of the long-reigning supercomputing champion, despite being only partially built.

US Election 2004cnsnews.com/ ... 22:58:41Bloggers on the liberal Democratic Underground website have overwhelmingly labeled Nov. 3, 2004, the day after Election Day, "more depressing" than Sept. 11, 2001 in a poll of online members.nytimes.com/ ... 22:55:07..."We dodged a bullet this time, but the problems remain... We have problems with the machines, problems with the patchwork of regulations covering everything from recounts to provisional ballots, and problems with self-interested party officials deciding which votes count."...nypost.com/ ... 16:28:30Former President Bill Clinton, in his first comments on President Bush's re-election, yesterday urged Democrats not to "whine" about the outcome mtv.com/ ... 00:52:02P. Diddy says he got off on the wrong foot when it came to his political endeavors in 2004. If he could do things over again, he wouldn't have yelled for folks to get George W. Bush's "ass out of office." "I was a little reckless with my comments, to be honest... Instead of attacking Bush, it would be better to light a flame under young Americans and let them make the decisions....."slate.msn.com/ ... 00:51:15Slate: Why Americans Hate Democrats—A Dialogue: The unteachable ignorance of the red states. by Jane Smiley.... The election results reflect the decision of the right wing to cultivate and exploit ignorance in the citizenry. I suppose the good news is that 55 million Americans have evaded the ignorance-inducing machine. But 58 million have not.apnews.myway.com/ ... 00:48:36An error with an electronic voting system gave President Bush 3,893 extra votes in suburban Columbus... Deducting the erroneous Bush votes from his total could not change the election's outcome, and there were no signs of other errors in Ohio's electronic machines....

US Military Casualtiesdefenselink.mil/ ... 01:01:51

Army Spc. Cody L. Wentz, 21, of Williston, N. D., died November 4 in Iraq when an improvised explosive device detonated near his military vehicle while on patrol.

Reasons for Repealsfgate.com/ ... 16:27:12In January a new law takes effect in Switzerland aimed at rehabilitating the reputation of absinthe, whose distillation, distribution and sale were banned after an absinthe-besotted factory worker killed his wife and two children nearly a century ago.wired.com/ ... 16:26:38The war on Colombia's drug lords is losing ground to an herbicide-resistant supershrub. Is it a freak of nature - or a genetically modified secret weapon? ... supercoca, la millonaria. Here in the southern region it's known as Boliviana negra. The most impressive characteristic is not that it produces more leaves - though it does - but that it is resistant to glyphosate. The herbicide, known by its brand name, Roundup, is the key ingredient in the US-financed, billion-dollar aerial coca fumigation campaign that is a cornerstone of America's war on drugs....ap.tbo.com/ ... 00:56:42More than 37 tons of cocaine, with an estimated street value of $2.3 billion, were confiscated during five seizures at sea this fall, the Coast Guard said.

US Militarydrudgereport.com/ ... 16:27:56Marines turn to God ahead of anticipated Fallujah battle reuters.com/ ... 00:56:09A U.S. Army Reserve captain who sued the government for trying to force him into service in Iraq after he resigned has won an honorable discharge reuters.com/ ... 00:54:51A U.S. federal judge declined on Friday to release an Army National Guardsman from an order returning him to Iraq, despite a complaint that his time under arms was extended wrongly without his consent.

Only Naturallocal6.com/ ... 00:53:54Authorities in St. Croix, Wis., condemned a house after 250 cats were found dead and alive inside a filthy house with floors covered with feces... Inspectors said the house must be razed once all the animals are removed....

Violencectv.ca/ ... 22:55:48Al Qaeda's Iraq affiliate has taken responsibility for a series of deadly attacks there, according to an unverified Internet statement.news.bbc.co.uk/ ... 16:30:47At least 33 people have been killed in car bombs and other attacks in Samarra, north of Baghdad... Two blasts went off outside the mayor's office. A US convoy thought to be trying to reach the scene was also hit... There are also reports that militants attacked three police stations, killing and wounding a number of policemen....news.bbc.co.uk/ ... 16:30:17The BBC News website spoke by phone to a reporter in Falluja, who described how people left in the city live on through siege and bombardment.apnews.myway.com/ ... 16:28:15Twenty American soldiers were wounded in the Sunni Triangle city of Ramadi on Saturday, the U.S. military said without elaborating. Residents of that insurgent stronghold, located 70 miles west of Baghdad, reported clashes and explosions throughout the day.reuters.com/ ... 00:55:18An Afghan militant group holding three U.N. workers hostage extended their deadline until Saturday night to allow the Afghan government and the United Nations to hold talks...

Threatsnews.telegraph.co.uk/ ... 22:59:39A BBC correspondent's on-air admission that she cried at Yasser Arafat's departure from Palestine was a "misjudgment", the corporation said yesterday after it was inundated with complaints.nation.ittefaq.com/ ... 22:55:18Palestinian President Yasser Arafat has partially emerged from his coma in a French hospital, opening his eyes and communicating with his doctors, an Israeli newspaper Web site said Saturday citing Palestinian sources.washtimes.com/ ... 16:28:47The Dutch government yesterday vowed tough measures against what a leading politician called "the arrival of jihad in the Netherlands" after a death threat to a Dutch lawmaker was found spiked with a knife to the body of a slain filmmaker by his radical Muslim attacker.newsday.com/ ... 01:01:26The U.N atomic watchdog has discovered plutonium particles near an Egyptian nuclear facility and is trying to determine if they are evidence of a secret weapons program or simply the byproduct of peaceful research reuters.com/ ... 00:55:54President Bush's point man for international terrorism policy has quit several months after botching a major report... Cofer Black, the State Department's coordinator for counterterrorism, caused an embarrassment this year when the administration had to revise a faulty report he oversaw that had been used to argue Bush was winning the war on terrorism....news.bbc.co.uk/ ... 00:54:10The Dutch government has vowed to take tough action against Islamic radicalism after the murder of a film maker.asia.news.yahoo.com/ ... 00:49:14More than 700 people were arrested on immigration violations and thousands more subjected to FBI interviews in an intense government effort to avert a terrorist attack aimed at disrupting the election. As with past unrealized al-Qaida threats, law enforcement officials said Thursday they don't know for sure whether any of those arrests or interviews foiled an attack.cnn.netscape.cnn.com/ ... 00:48:51 One reactor at a Russian nuclear power station was closed down after a malfunction, but there was no leak of radiation at the site near the city of Saratov on the Volga river, Russian news agencies reported on Friday.villagevoice.com/ ... 00:47:54If hundreds of thousands of black African lives in Darfur are to be saved, it will take an international force, outside the U.N., made up of countries that do not savage their own people and are committed to stopping genocide in Darfur and preventing it everywhere else. This country could help organize such a force. But can the survivors in Darfur depend on the White House and Congress? It's up to the rest of us to pressure those bodies to act. --Nat Hentoff

FRI 2004-NOV-05

WW2 - still with usexpatica.com/ ... 12:01:01Herbert Herden says he would do it all over again: Risking his life to save Polish Jews during the Holocaust. "I risked every day of my life for four long years," the 89-year-old German says at his home in the Rhineland town of Flossenburg. "But I was able to save a few lives, so it was worth every risk that I took." On Thursday, a diplomatic entourage from Israel's embassy in Berlin will go to Flossenburg to confer upon Herden the title "Righteous Among Nations". His name will be inscribed at Yad Vashem, Israel's national Holocaust memorial....

US Election 2004worldnetdaily.com/ ... 11:45:29County-by-County breakdown of Presidential election results

Digital Consequenceszwire.com/ ... 11:05:04Although the jury for the nation's first felony spam trial recommended Wednesday that defendants Jeremy Jaynes serve a nine year prison term and his sister, Jessica Degroot, pay $7,500, defense attorneys say the fight is far from over.forbes.com/ ... 11:04:27The movie industry announced yesterday it will file its first wave of lawsuits later this month against those it alleges are illegally sharing copyrighted films on the Internet, joining the music industry in its fight against piracy.

Whoopsnytimes.com/ ... 23:14:52Senator Frank R. Lautenberg of New Jersey... asked that the Air National Guard in Washington immediately suspend training operations in the state pending a full investigation... Military officials quickly complied, but said there was still no explanation for the cannonading of the school in Little Egg Harbor Township on Wednesday night, which caused no injuries or major damage. The school's officials said that 970 children would return to classrooms on Monday, with bullet holes patched up and with official assurances that no warplanes would be streaking overhead....local6.com/ ... 01:00:55 Officials at a North Texas school say an Election Day civics lesson for some third-graders ... a lesson on the three branches of government.... inadvertently included a sexually explicit videotape.nytimes.com/ ... 00:59:44New Jersey township Wednesday night... an F-16 warplane had strafed the school with cannon fire.

Four More Yearseditorandpublisher.com/ ... 00:49:38With the campaign pressure off, and with neither "side" having to worry about an embarrassing flub, the president and the press pack enjoyed a little bantering.apnews.myway.com/ ... 00:49:03 Contending Americans have embraced his conservative agenda, President Bush pledged Thursday to aggressively pursue major changes in Social Security, the tax code and medical malpractice awards, working with Democrats if they are receptive and leaving them behind if they're not.

Preternatural Patternscnn.com/ ... 11:59:37"It's essentially a dish with 60 electrodes arranged in a dish at the bottom.... Over that we put the living cortical neurons from rats, which rapidly begin to reconnect themselves, forming a living neural network -- a brain" ... capable of flying a virtual fighter plane and could enhance medical understanding of neural disorders such as epilepsy.iol.co.za/ ... 11:53:15They are 2,2m tall, weigh more than 90kg and are fond of lion for breakfast. They make their home in the darkest reaches of the Congolese jungle and hunt in packs, silently stalking their prey for hours, then breaking cover and overcoming the terrified creature before it has a chance to flee. Wildlife experts and scientists are baffled: are they simply a more aggressive family of gorillas with a propensity for violence? Or are they a new species - a new great ape and one of the most sensational zoological discoveries for decades?...news.telegraph.co.uk/ ... 11:48:59A C of E school has been told to drop the word "saint" from its name in case it offends other religious groups. The practice of calling schools after saints or bishops alienates people from other faiths and non-believers, say officials and councillors in Islington, north London.news.bbc.co.uk/ ... 11:19:50There are growing fears that Russia is facing a population crisis that could see the country lose up to 50 million people in the next 50 years.tucsoncitizen.com/ ... 11:17:26....Through the 1990s, the average weight of Americans increased by 10 pounds, says the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The extra weight caused airlines to spend $275 million to burn 350 million more gallons of fuel in 2000 to carry the additional weight....ap.tbo.com/ ... 00:50:12Mexico unveiled a new 1,000 peso bill Thursday, the largest denomination available in the currency. 'The'biln, equivalent to $87 images.thesun.co.uk/ ... 00:47:16Boo ..bs

Reasons for Repealthescotsman.scotsman.com/ ... 11:56:10Researchers presented tantalising evidence that cannabinoid drugs can help treat amyotrophic lateral sclerosis - known as ALS or Lou Gehrig’s disease - Parkinson’s disease and obesity. Other researchers are studying whether the compounds can help victims of stroke and multiple sclerosis.ap.tbo.com/ ... 01:03:10Hamid Karzai pledged Thursday to use his five-year term as Afghanistan's first elected president to crack down on warlords and the re-emerging country's booming drug economy.

US Military Casualtiesdefenselink.mil/ ... 11:41:06

Marine Cpl. Jeremiah A. Baro, 21, of Fresno, Calif.

Marine Lance Cpl. Jared P. Hubbard, 22, of Clovis, Calif.
died Nov. 4 from injuries received as a result of enemy action in Al Anbar Province, Iraq. defenselink.mil/ ... 00:51:25

Army Sgt. Charles J. Webb, 22, of Hamilton, Ohio died Nov. 3 in the 31st Combat Support Hospital in Baghdad, Iraq, from wounds sustained earlier that day when an improvised explosive device detonated in Baghdad, Iraq.

Only Naturalnews.bbc.co.uk/ ... 11:53:39Babies survive the period immediately after birth by feeding on the content of their own cells, research suggests. Right after birth babies face sudden and severe starvation as they have lost their nutrient supply from the placenta, but have yet to drink milk. It appears they bridge the gap by breaking down cells, and releasing essential nutrients....jointogether.org/ ... 11:05:16New animal research indicates that a single molecule may be linked to nicotine dependence news.bbc.co.uk/ ... 00:49:55A spectacular volcanic eruption under an Iceland glacier has forced airlines to divert flights to avoid flying through gas emissions from the blast.

Violencereuters.com/ ... 11:20:18"Two Marines assigned to the I Marine Expeditionary Force were killed in action and four others were wounded in action yesterday while conducting increased security operations in the Al Anbar province...."news.bbc.co.uk/ ... 11:19:30Two Palestinian children... seven-year-old Ahmed al-Smari and his eight-year-old cousin, Mohammed, died when a tank shell hit their home in Khan Younis....news.bbc.co.uk/ ... 11:17:37Iraq's interim Prime Minister Iyad Allawi has vowed to "liberate" Falluja, amid growing speculation that a major assault is imminent.washingtontimes.com/ ... 11:16:45Afghan militants have hinted they might release a Filipino hostage, one of three U.N. workers kidnapped last week, as his country has no troops in Afghanistan.olympics.reuters.com/ ... 11:16:24U.S. troops urged civilians to flee Falluja on Friday reuters.co.uk/ ... 11:04:01An Iraqi interpreter who died in a suicide attack against British troops had been due to marry just a few hours later, after delaying the ceremony to redeploy with his unit to a dangerous area near Baghdad.ap.tbo.com/ ... 01:02:07 A man suspected of trying to illegally hook up electrical service died after police shocked him with a stun gun when he was found hiding at an apartment complex

Aftermathap.tbo.com/ ... 00:50:35U.S. Military Offers Most Detailed Accounting of Eight Cases of Detainee Abuse at Guantanamo AP File Photos

Threatsnachos.net/ ... 11:41:44The Very Mysterious Deaths Of Five Microbiologists by Ian Gurney 20-Dec-2001 news.bbc.co.uk/ ... 01:01:23A letter left on the body of murdered Dutch film-maker Theo van Gogh contained death threats against a Dutch politician... Nine suspects, all believed to be radical Islamists, have been arrested in connection with the murder....ap.tbo.com/ ... 00:48:34The government is warning U.S. citizens about the potential for terrorist attacks in Uzbekistan.worldtribune.com/ ... 00:46:40The problem is that Arafat is still the only Palestinian official who can pay the bills. And it is unclear who, if anyone, has access to the estimated $2-3 billion in his personal Swiss bank accounts news.yahoo.com/ ... 00:46:12Political leaders in Israel and the West Bank steeled themselves for the end of the Yasser Arafat era... French medical sources said Arafat was technically still alive, they added that he was "brain dead"

THU 2004-NOV-04

Preternatural Patternsworldnetdaily.com/ ... 13:16:48The Canadian foreign ministry says it hasn't seen any increase in online traffic on the Washington embassy's immigration website, and housing brokers doubted they'd see a surge in business from Americans.reuters.com/ ... 13:04:48"Kemosabe," the name given to the Lone Ranger by his friend Tonto in the 1950s TV western, is not a racist term, a Canadian court has found.reuters.com/ ... 13:04:11"Jesus will save you!" the 46-year-old man shouted at two African lions lounging under a tree a few meters away. "Come bite me!" he said with both hands raised... One of the lions, a large male with a shaggy mane, bit the man in his right leg before zoo workers drove it off with water hoses and tranquilizer guns.....reuters.com/ ... 12:57:28 France suspended hunting in the western Pyrenees Wednesday to save a bear cub orphaned when his mother, the last female bear native to the region, was killed by hunters earlier this week.reuters.com/ ... 12:57:12 A Canadian man, angry that he was refused a plane ticket to Australia at Los Angeles International Airport, stripped naked, sprinted across the tarmac and climbed into the wheel well of a moving jumbo jet... was coaxed out of the wheel well and arrested for trespassing....

History - still with usathens-olympics-2004.newkerala.com/ ... 12:51:20London -- Cosmetic face cream used by fashionable Roman women was discovered at an ongoing archaeological dig in London, in a metal container, complete with the lid and contents. ...found to be composed of refined animal fat, starch and tin....

US Election 2004csmonitor.com/ ... 13:11:24

tabloidcolumn.com/ ... 13:06:00In a not-so-surprising move on the part of CNN employees, they placed an image of President Bush and his wife Laura on their homepage, and named the photo image 'asshole.jpg.' The photo has since been renamed and by 9:30AM, asshole.jpg was removed from their server.... in yet another example of un-biased CNN reporting found by Free Republic comes in the form of a second photo removed from CNN/Netscape's server at 11:07AM this morning: Moron.jpg....reuters.com/ ... 13:03:12President Bush's victory over Massachusetts Sen. John Kerry in the U.S. presidential race took the wind from the sails of a whole host of beloved election superstitions.news.bbc.co.uk/ ... 12:43:25In full: Bush's victory speech bbc.co.uk/ ... 12:43:15Video of Bush acceptance and Kerry concession speeches on BBC news.bbc.co.uk/ ... 12:42:26In full: Kerry's concession speech

Korean War - still with usnews.bbc.co.uk/ ... 12:40:08A US soldier has been found guilty of deserting to North Korea in 1965 and given a 30-day prison sentence... He pleaded guilty to desertion, saying he wanted to avoid "hazardous" duty on the Korean peninsula and in Vietnam... He also admitted aiding the enemy by teaching English in North Korea, but denied encouraging disloyalty... "I knew 100 percent what I was doing but I did not know the consequences," said Jenkins. "I should have asked for... a discharge, but I didn't. It was a mistake."

US Militarydefenselink.mil/ ... 13:23:14This week, the Army announced an increase in the number of reservists on active duty in support of the partial mobilization, while the Air Force, Navy and Marines had a decrease. The Coast Guard number remained unchanged. The net collective result is 3,550 more reservists mobilized than last week.defenselink.mil/ ... 13:22:21The Department of Defense announced today the continued suspension of the “Any Servicemember” mail program. Accordingly, the general public is urged not to send unsolicited mail, care packages or donations to service members during the holiday season.

US Military Casualtiesdefenselink.mil/ ... 13:22:54

Army Spc. James C. Kearney, III, 22, of Emerson, Iowa, died Nov. 1 in Salerno, Afghanistan, from injuries sustained in Sharan, Afghanistan, when his convoy was attacked by enemy forces using rocket propelled grenades.defenselink.mil/ ... 13:20:58

Air Force Col. Theodore E. Kryszak of Buffalo, NY;

Air Force Col. Harding E. Smith of Los Gatos, Calif.;

Air Force Lt. Col. Russell D. Martin of Bloomfield, Iowa;

Air Force Chief Master Sgt. Harold E. Mullins;

Air Force Chief Master Sgt. Luther L. Rose of Howe, Texas,

Air Force Chief Master Sgt. Ervin Warren, of Philadelphia.
died June 3, 1966... flying a nighttime armed reconnaissance mission over southern Laos. ...missing in action from the Vietnam War have been identified and are being buried as a group at Arlington National Cemetery Friday with full military honors. defenselink.mil/ ... 13:17:49

Marine Pfc. John Lukac, 19, of Las Vegas, Nev., died Oct. 30, due to enemy action in Al Anbar Province, Iraq.

Only Naturalworldnetdaily.com/ ... 13:16:08an Indian scientist who proposes breeding headless humans to be used for harvesting organs and other forms of commercial exploitation.reuters.com/ ... 12:58:26A British television channel is seeking a terminally ill volunteer to donate their body after death so it can be filmed as it decomposes.reuters.com/ ... 12:57:59 A British woman stands to collect a check for 12,650 pounds ($23,300) on Friday after betting she would live to 100.

Reasons for Repeallocal6.com/ ... 12:53:14Nearly 100 fruit juice boxes containing liquid heroin were intercepted Wednesday in a shipment from Colombia... The 6-ounce boxes, labeled "Hit Fruit Drink," contained a total of 38 kilograms, or about 84 pounds, of heroin worth $1.7 million....

Threatsreuters.myway.com/ ... 12:52:07Palestinian President Yasser Arafat was declared clinically dead on Thursday in a French hospital, Israeli television said citing French sources. But Palestinian Prime Minister Ahmed Qurie denied the report, saying: "I have just spoken to the officials in Paris and they say the situation is still as it was. He is still in the intensive care unit."

Violencereuters.com/ ... 12:56:29A German, his slumber interrupted by noises from a nearby sadomasochism parlor, inflicted his own punishment on a patron by shooting him with a pistol in a bid for peace and quiet ap.tbo.com/ ... 12:55:40Nine Buddhists, including two policemen, were killed in a series of shootings in southern Thailand's bloodiest 24 hours since a government crackdown on a riot last week left 85 Muslims dead.ap.tbo.com/ ... 12:54:00Three British soldiers in the Black Watch regiment, the forces moved closer to the Iraqi capital to back up American troops, have been killed in an attack olympics.reuters.com/ ... 12:51:38U.S. artillery shelled Falluja on Thursday after overnight air and tank attacks killed five people in Iraq's most rebellious city, braced for an all-out offensive now the U.S. presidential election is over.news.bbc.co.uk/ ... 12:40:30Three Iraqi guardsmen have been beheaded by militants

Rebuildingnews.bbc.co.uk/ ... 12:40:44Hamid Karzai has been officially declared the winner of Afghanistan's landmark presidential election.

TUE 2004-NOV-02

Whoopsreuters.com/ ... 02:25:14A Polish taxpayer died from a heart attack after a demand for immediate payment in full of 80,000 zlotys ($23,560) following a mistake by the tax office.

Future is Nowap.tbo.com/ ... 02:23:56For telephone company CEO Norm Mason, a vegan and lifelong animal lover, there was never any doubt what he'd offer at his company cafeteria. Soy steaks and soy sloppy joes, veggie burgers, nachos and other meatless, eggless, butter-free delicacies are cooked daily using heavy bags of texturized vegetable protein.....

US Election 2004worldnetdaily.com/ ... 19:55:58The first documentary evidence that Vietnamese communists were directly steering John Kerry's group Vietnam Veterans Against the War has been discovered in a U.S. archive, according to a researcher who spoke with WorldNetDaily.foxnews.com/ ... 19:51:36With a quick computer key stroke, space station astronaut Leroy Chiao (search) became the first American to vote for president from space, casting an encrypted ballot via e-mail and urging fellow countrymen to go to the polls Tuesday.nbc10.com/ ... 10:46:54An apparent hazardous material incident at a South Jersey elementary school has closed voting polls there and forced an evacuation of students.... A witness at the scene said a person apparently entered the building, threw a white substance into the air and fled....drudgereport.com/ ... 10:45:35Before voting even began in Philadelphia -- poll watchers found nearly 2000 votes already planted on machines scattered throughout the city.... The Kerry Campaign says reports of votes already on machines is 'false.'...clubforgrowth.net/ ... 02:17:29“The most devastatingly funny TV ad of the season!”

Human Rightreuters.com/ ... 02:26:05 Voters in Alaska will decide on Tuesday whether to make their state the first in the country to legalize the sale, possession or use of marijuana by adults.

Only Naturalasia.news.yahoo.com/ ... 10:47:41Monkeys lurking at an ancient Hindu temple in India's northeast have attacked up to 300 children over three weeks... "They hide in trees and swoop on unsuspecting children loitering about in the temple premises or walking by, clawing them and even sucking a bit of blood...."reuters.com/ ... 02:26:19 A pack of wild boar wandered onto a German motorway, causing a five-car pileup and leaving one motorist injured and eight of the animals dead reuters.com/ ... 02:24:51German police detained a naked 25-year-old woman and her 23-year-old partner who were engaged in sexual intercourse on the pavement in the middle of a busy shopping district

US Military Casualtiesdefenselink.mil/ ... 02:20:34

Marine Lance Cpl. John T. Byrd II, 23, of Fairview, W.V.

Marine Sgt. Kelley L. Courtney, 28, of Macon, Ga.

Marine Pfc. Andrew G. Riedel, 19, of Northglenn, Colo.
died Oct 30, due enemy action in Al Anbar Province, Iraq. defenselink.mil/ ... 02:19:47

Marine 1st Lt. Matthew D. Lynch, 25, of Jericho, N.Y., died Oct. 31 from enemy action in Al Anbar Province, Iraq. defenselink.mil/ ... 02:19:21

Marine Lance Cpl. Travis A. Fox, 25, of Cowpens, S.C.

Marine Cpl. Christopher J. Lapka, 22, of Peoria, Ariz.
died Oct 30, due to enemy action in Al Anbar Province, Iraq. defenselink.mil/ ... 02:18:41

Marine Lance Cpl. Jeremy D. Bow, 20, of Lemoore, Calif.

Marine Lance Cpl. Michael P. Scarborough, 28, of Washington, Ga.
died Oct. 30, due enemy action in Al Anbar Province, Iraq. defenselink.mil/ ... 02:18:01

Army Pfc. Stephen P. Downing II, 30, of Burkesville, Ky., died Oct. 28 in Ar Ramadi, Iraq, from small arms fire while conducting combat operations.

Violenceapnews.myway.com/ ... 19:55:15A car bomb exploded Tuesday near the Ministry of Education in a busy Baghdad commercial area, killing at least eight people and wounding 29 others, officials said. In the north, another car bomb killed at least four people in the city of Mosul.reuters.com/ ... 10:51:47 Police in Saudi Arabia administered 10 lashes to a Filipina teacher in front of her students for striking a schoolgirl... with a high-heeled shoe during an argument with the girl's British father at the International Philippine School in the Gulf city of Al-Khobar last December.reuters.com/ ... 10:50:06The U.S. military said Tuesday a cameraman killed in the Iraqi city of Ramadi while on assignment for Reuters had died in a gunbattle between Marines and insurgents.apnews.myway.com/ ... 10:47:09A Dutch filmmaker who had received death threats after releasing a movie criticizing the treatment of women under Islam was slain in Amsterdam on Tuesday ap.tbo.com/ ... 02:24:14MADISON, Wis. (AP) - Police in riot gear used pepper spray early Sunday to clear thousands of Halloween revelers out of downtown Madison after members of the crowd started a small fire.reuters.com/ ... 02:22:24 U.S. forces battled rebels in Ramadi and pounded Falluja on Monday, but there was no sign that an all-out American-led offensive to retake the insurgent-held cities had begun on the eve of the U.S. presidential election. Kidnappers armed with assault rifles and rocket-propelled grenades seized an American, a Nepali and two Arabs from their Saudi company's office in Baghdad, the Interior Ministry said.reuters.com/ ... 02:21:52Two Iraqi security guards said on Tuesday they were freed by kidnappers overnight but that the gunmen were still holding an American and a Nepali also seized from a villa used by a Saudi company in Baghdad.reuters.com/ ... 02:21:38A suspected car bomb exploded outside the Education Ministry in central Baghdad on Tuesday, killing at least five people, two of them women.

Under Tyrannyinternetnews.com/ ... 02:21:20The Chinese government shut down 1,600 Internet cafes between February and August of this year, according to China Radio International. The government also levied fines totaling more than $12 million for violations, including giving minors access to violent games and adult content.

Threatsreuters.myway.com/ ... 10:46:20A Russian atomic scientist surrendered eight containers filled with arms-grade nuclear material to police Tuesday after keeping it in his garage for eight years washingtontimes.com/ ... 10:41:49The complete transcript of Osama bin Laden's most recent videotape reveals his intention to attempt to bankrupt the United States.reuters.com/ ... 02:26:47Why not? With my way of thinking, you always shoot for the top."
-- Austrian-born California Gov. ARNOLD SCHWARZENEGGER, asked on "60 Minutes" whether he favors amending the U.S. Constitution to allow naturalized citizens like himself to run for president.abcnews.go.com/ ... 02:08:25Security was tighter around the U.S. embassies in Finland and Latvia on Monday amid a U.S. warning that Americans living and traveling in the Nordic and Baltic nations should be on guard against a possible terrorist strike