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MON 2005-JAN-31
Digital Consequencesnews.bbc.co.uk/ ... 14:02:11The DVD disks and the gear to play them will not be out for another year or so, and there at are still a number of issues to be sorted out. But when high-definition films do come out on the new format DVDs, it will profoundly change home entertainment... High-definition DVDs can hold up to six times more data than the DVDs we are used to... "I have heard comments from people who say the images pop off the screen."...
History - still with usnews.bbc.co.uk/ ... 13:56:58Archaeologists believe they have found the remains of Bartholomew Gosnold.. a Suffolk man who established the first English-speaking colony in America in 1607.. was born in Grundisburgh, Suffolk. To confirm their suspicions, they proposed to make cross-checks with the DNA of Gosnold's sister or niece.
Preternatural Patternsreuters.com/ ... 14:29:32It was erected without his permission by telephone operator TPSA and when he built a home on his property in 2001 he had to build around the offending object, which is how the pole ended up in his kitchen.reuters.com/ ... 14:04:08Philippine.. President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo's husband handed out free dentures to improve the confidence and public image of.. police with bad teeth...business.timesonline.co.uk/ ... 13:47:03"the brand with the most global impact"
#1 - Apple
#2 - Google
#3 - Ikea
#4 - Stabucks
#5 - al-Jazeerawireservice.wired.com/ ... 13:39:36'illarySen. Hillary Rodham Clinton collapsed Monday during a speech on Social Security, moments after complaining about a stomach virus. "She fainted after not feeling well, got medical attention and is proceeding with her planned schedule...." [Eliciting the sympathy vote?]
US Militaryworldtribune.com/ ... 17:44:04Britain and the United States have agreed on a withdrawal plan that would see the first troops leaving Iraq as early as 2005, according to British press reports and diplomatic sources.
Only Naturalap.tbo.com/ ... 14:26:30She was the oldest African elephant in an American zoo when she died Jan. 17 at Lincoln Park Zoo. But her death - which came three months after a younger pachyderm named Tatima died at the zoo - has renewed complaints from animal-welfare activists that elephants do not belong in cold-weather zoos.
Party On Dudereuters.com/ ... 14:28:33China is introducing fish wine.reuters.com/ ... 14:23:35In Aztec times, pulque was the highly esteemed drink of the elders, priests and warriors, a nectar that according to myth oozed from the 400 breasts of the goddess Mayahuel. In modern Mexico, the foamy, slightly viscous and foul-smelling booze is slowly disappearing, a victim of the rising popularity of beer and of failing to shake off its image as a poor man's tipple.
Human Righttelegraph.co.uk/ ... 02:41:20'If you don't take a job as a prostitute, we can stop your benefits'
Under Tyrannyreuters.com/ ... 14:29:51China has targeted fortune-telling as its next target in a crackdown on illegal telephone content after going after phone sex.
Iraq Votesnews.yahoo.com/ ... 17:45:38Kerry... described the Iraqi elections as "significant" and "important" but said they should not be "overhyped"....thisislondon.co.uk/ ... 13:55:33Terrorists used a disabled child as a suicide bomber on election day... Police at the scene of one the Baghdad blasts said the bomber appeared to have Down's syndrome.... an Iraqi citizen.. was killed while preventing one suicide bomber from reaching a crowd of people outside a polling station...
Threatsap.tbo.com/ ... 14:27:01Jesse Jackson Jr.'s Chiding of Richard M. Daley Prompts Talk of Mayoral Challengenews.yahoo.com/ ... 13:54:10One in three U.S. high school students say the press ought to be more restricted, and even more say the government should approve newspaper stories before readers see them
Violenceap.tbo.com/ ... 14:26:45 Kuwaiti police intensified their crackdown on Islamic militants Monday, storming several suspected hideouts and arresting a reputed terror leader after a shootout that killed five peoplereuters.com/ ... 13:39:52An Arabic television channel aired a videotape Monday purporting to show insurgents firing a missile that downed a British transport plane in Iraq, and London said 10 people were missing,news.bbc.co.uk/ ... 13:38:16A car loaded with explosions blew up outside the emergencies ministry, killing the driver... Windows were blown out and several other cars set on fire by the blast. .. Tajikistan suffered a five-year civil war from 1992-97, following the break-up of the former Soviet Union, and will hold elections next month.
SUN 2005-JAN-30
Whoops!nynewsday.com/ ... 18:22:36Stolen-ID nightmare finally ends... A man spent almost 8 weeks in an Osceola jail.dailybreeze.com/ ... 18:21:54A diver who drifted for hours after a boat crew left him at sea filed a $4 million suit today against the diving company and its employees, accusing them of negligence, inflicting emotional distress and fraud.... eventually rescued by a group of Boy Scouts who happened to be boating in the area and spotted him....
Sick, Sick, Sickworldnetdaily.com/ ... 18:20:46Osama bin Laden tried to purchase the world's largest pearl, the Pearl of Allah, as a gift to Saddam Hussein "to unite the Arab cultures," and Hussein was prepared to accept, according to the pearl's owner.
Digital Threatnypost.com/ ... 18:34:54FIFTEEN-year-old Molly was blackmailed by a rival who'd taken topless cell phone photos of her — and threatened to e-mail them to a boy she hated. Thirteen-year-old Robin was called a "bitch" and told to "go f- - - yourself" via instant messages from a classmate who — after altering the text so it looked like Robin had said those things — passed out hard copies to other kids. Twelve-year-old Trisha was the victim of an online hate campaign that began as a play-date activity conceived by her "mean girl" classmate — and lasted four years. Welcome to the brutal new world of "cyberbullying."159.54.226.83/ ... 18:19:53A pair of signs proclaiming that the American Nazi Party has adopted a road in rural Salem are gone. Marion County commissioners have not changed their stance on allowing the group to participate in a volunteer litter cleanup program, but the signs were vandalized this week and won’t be replaced unless Nazi party members pay to have the county install new ones.news.com.com/ ... 18:16:23Matthew Green starts his 2005 Ford Escape with a duplicate key he had made at Lowe's. Nothing unusual about that, except that the automobile industry has spent millions of dollars to keep him from being able to do it. Green, a graduate student at Johns Hopkins University, is part of a team that plans to announce Saturday that it has cracked the security behind "immobilizer" systems from Texas Instruments. The systems reduce car theft, because vehicles will not start unless the system recognizes a tiny chip in the authorized key. They are used in millions of Fords, Toyotas and Nissans. All that would be required to steal a car, the researchers said, is a moment next to the car owner to extract data from the key, less than an hour of computing, and a few minutes to break in, feed the key code to the car and hot-wire it.
Chappaquiddickgfsnet.org/ ... 17:56:11It is not definite that Kennedy did not plan this accident, or that he hesitated to call the police to hide his embarrassment of having an affair. However, what is thought to be true, is that the reason Edward Kennedy did not run for a high ranking political position, is because of this accident. He was thought to be a scandalous and deceitful person, who would not be electable because of this. It was very suspicious that an older man was found in a car accident with a young, beautiful woman who was not his wife. This was more significant because she was found dead. This one incident gave him and his family a bad name and caused his career to derail. ["Sixties Timeline" entry]ytedk.com/ ... 17:52:36This site contains extensive coverage of the circumstances surrounding the infamous accident at Chappaquiddick July 19, 1969Text of Edward M. Kennedy: "Chappaquiddick" broadcast nationally from Joseph P. Kennedy's home on 25 July 1969
Audio MP3 of speech
Wikipedia entry
1960s TIMELINE
Digital Consequencesreuters.com/ ... 22:03:45 the much-hyped "Year of the Internet Phone."... Internet-based business has a number of hurdles to clear before it becomes a mainstream technology.... poised to make inroads in the United States, thanks to growing numbers of high-speed Internet connections and companies pushing Internet phone services.... nypost.com/ ... 18:35:14Get ready for a cellphone for your pet.ap.tbo.com/ ... 13:49:52Among the handiest villains in science fiction are Computers That Know Too Much... "The Matrix" .. HAL .. But in reality, even the most super supercomputer lacks the reasoning capacity of a child engrossed in a Dr. Seuss book. .. Pentagon.. granted a contract worth at least $400,000 last fall to two Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute professors who are trying to build a machine that can learn by reading....
Preternatural Patternsap.tbo.com/ ... 13:48:20Firefighters across the country are arriving to fires later each year, with barely over a third of fire departments nationwide meeting national standards for response time
US Election 2004bloomberg.com/ ... 13:36:23Billionaire investor George Soros.. spent $26 million in last year's campaign that he said was undermined by the candidate he supported... "Kerry did not, actually, offer a credible and coherent alternative.. tried to emphasize his role as a Vietnam War hero and downplay his role as an anti-Vietnam War hero [????], which he was.. Had he admitted, owned up to it, I think actually the outcome could have been different..."
Transportbreakingnews.nypost.com/ ... 18:28:43..British C-130 military transport plane crashed Sunday north of Baghdad.. At least 10 troops were killed...bloomberg.com/ ... 13:29:56A British RAF C-130 transport plane crashed outside the Iraqi capital of Baghdad today... cause.. and the extent of the casualties.. are not yet known...
US Militaryap.tbo.com/ ... 22:05:16A grieving Marine joined hundreds of local residents on Sunday to pay tribute to 27 Hawaii-based servicemen who were killed last week in a helicopter crash in Iraq. Lance Cpl. Buck Gates left Iraq on Jan. 8, expecting his Marine buddies to finish their tours of duty soon and follow him home. But 26 members of his company were killed when their CH-53E Super Stallion went down in western Iraq while transporting troops for security operations in preparation for Sunday's elections. A Navy corpsman stationed in Hawaii also died. "I just want to tell the families I love these guys," Gates said. "They're a part of me."
Only Naturalnews.xinhuanet.com/ ... 22:00:47Researchers have successfully coaxed human embryonic stem cells into becoming spinal motor neurons in an experiment that might help scientists repair damaged nervous systems.apnews.myway.com/ ... 13:37:23Georgia.. winter storm.. Sunday.. more than 300,000 homes remained without power...
Peace 3000news.xinhuanet.com/ ... 22:01:35CHINA - The mainland is ready to talk with Taiwan leader Chen Shui-bian as long as he agrees that both sides of the Straits belong to the one and same China, a top State leader said Friday.
Iraq Votesnypost.com/ ... 22:02:25BAGHDAD — The man replacing the mayor of Baghdad — who was assassinated for his pro-American loyalties — says he is not worried about his ties to Washington. In fact, he'd like to erect a monument to honor President Bush in the middle of the city. "We will build a statue for Bush," said Ali Fadel, the former provincial council chairman. "He is the symbol of freedom."nypost.com/ ... 18:37:15Spc. Jose Henriquez, a 17-year Army vet.. from The Bronx.. spent yesterday guarding Iraqi election officials as they brought ballots and candidate lists to polling stations in Baghdad. "In many ways, this is payback for my friend," Henriquez said of his buddy, firefighter Shawn Powell, who died at the Twin Towers.csmonitor.com/ ... 18:04:45Iraqi voters turned a long-awaited day of reckoning into a collective sigh of relief after voting in an environment of de facto martial law. With private vehicles banned to prevent car bombs, Iraqis took over the streets of Baghdad, playing soccer and going for walks - even those in wheelchairs were pushed along - as threats of catastrophic attacks failed to materialize. "Why should I be afraid?" asked Arifa Abed Mohamed, an elderly woman in a black abaya, who was first to vote at dawn on one Baghdad polling station. "I am afraid only from God."ap.tbo.com/ ... 13:55:20"The irony is the Arab regimes, who criticize the gaps in the (Iraqi) elections and demand they be honest and transparent leading to full democracy for all Iraqis, are themselves banning such elections for their own peoples," Lebanon's Al-Anwar newspaper political analyst Rafik Khoury...
"As you can see, we broke a barrier of fear," electoral commission official Mijm Towirish...
"Iraqis are walking over body parts of a bomber to vote..."
"It is hard to say that something is legitimate when whole portions of the country can't vote and doesn't vote," Sen. John "LOOOOSER" Kerry, D-Mass.
"This is democracy. This is the first day I feel freedom," Fathiya Mohammed, an elderly woman who voted in the small town of Askan south of Baghdad.ap.tbo.com/ ... 13:47:08...some streets were packed with voters walking shoulder-to-shoulder to vote at five polling stations where photographers were allowed. One elderly woman sat on a wooden cart, wheeled to the polls by a relative; another man carried a disabled 80-year-old on his back.... reuters.com/ ... 13:44:00Voters, some ululating with joy, others hiding their faces in fear, cast ballots in higher-than-expected numbers in Iraq's first multi-party election in half a century. Samir Hassan, 32, who lost his leg in a car bomb blast last year, said as he waited to vote in Baghdad: "I would have crawled here if I had to. I don't want terrorists to kill other Iraqis like they tried to kill me.".. possibly eight million had voted, which would be a little over 60 percent of registered voters....reuters.myway.com/ ... 13:33:53Some came on crutches, others walked for miles then struggled to read the ballot, but across Iraq, millions turned out to vote Sunday, defying insurgents who threatened a bloodbath.story.news.yahoo.com/ ... 13:33:13President Bush called Sunday's elections in Iraq a success and promised the United States will continue trying to prepare Iraqis to secure their own country....
Insurgents struck polling stations with a string of suicide bombings and mortar volleys, killing at least 44 people, including nine suicide bombers.... officials said turnout among the 14 million eligible voters appeared higher than the 57 percent they had predicted. Complete voting results are not expected for days.....
"The best way to demonstrate to the Iraqi people that we have no long-term designs on their country is for the administration to withdraw some troops now" Sen. Edward M. "Chappaquiddick Ted" Kennedy D-Mass
Threatsdailytimes.com.pk/ ... 18:12:10An Iraqi arrested in Germany on suspicion of plotting an Al Qaeda suicide attack in Iraq said he was sent on his mission by Osama bin Laden himself, a German magazine reported on Saturday.
Aftermathsfgate.com/ ... 18:11:45Taking a poll in some places can be dangerous. "In Iraqi society, they're not used to seeing people knocking on doors asking people what they think about politics and the government," said the former professor of business administration in Baghdad. "That's why many of my employees have been jailed and beaten."news.bbc.co.uk/ ... 13:42:19Interview with guard from Serbian torture camp
Violenceap.tbo.com/ ... 13:47:51Gunmen riding three motorcycles opened fire outside a Sunni Muslim mosque in the southern Pakistani city of Karachi on Sunday, killing a Sunni cleric who once belonged to an outlawed group suspected of committing sectarian violence and his bodyguardap.tbo.com/ ... 13:44:17A bomb exploded Sunday in a Mediterranean resort hotel in southeast Spain after a telephone warning from the Basque separatist group ETA, injuring one personnypost.com/ ... 03:28:56Authorities in Iraq have arrested three close associates of top al Qaeda ally Abu Musab al-Zarqawinews.bbc.co.uk/ ... 03:28:33A gun battle has erupted in Kuwait after police raided a building where militants were believed to be hiding.
SAT 2005-JAN-29
Extraterrestrialtheregister.co.uk/ ... 15:29:06Federal prosecutors formally dropped charges this month against an amateur astronomer who exposed a buried surveillance network surrounding the Air Force's mysterious "Area 51" air base in Nevada... exhumed as many as 40 of the boxes, noted their unique three-digit codes, then reburied and tested them..
Area 51's unofficial 50th anniversary campout [is] planned for Memorial Day weekend
Whoops!thestate.com/ ... 15:25:28A Rock Hill SC police officer received a verbal warning and was required to attend a Taser retraining course after using a stun gun on an elderly woman... investigation found.. Officer.. acted prematurely when she used a Taser on [woman] 75.. at.. retirement home... should have used the "empty-hand technique" - grabbing the suspect's arms or wrists - as the restraint method before using the 50,000-volt Taser.
Transportap.tbo.com/ ... 14:59:23Detailed accounts from the LA train wreck
Be My Valentineap.tbo.com/ ... 14:54:02Vermont - A straightjacketed "Crazy for You" teddy bear has drawn rebukes from the governor, mental health advocates and human rights groups.. $69.95.. accompanied by commitment papers, is selling well despite complaints that it insults and stigmatizes those with mental illness. Vermont Teddy Bear Co. President: ..meant as a funny Valentine's Day greeting.. "These people are Vermonters who really don't like to be told what to do." Mental health advocates: .."tasteless" ..stigmatize[s] the mentally ill. Gov. Jim Douglas called the bear insensitive and inappropriate. ...company is "truly sorry if we hurt anybody with this bear" but added that freedom of expression was at stake.... [Coming soon to a freedom of expression near you: big-lipped, oogie-eyed, black-faced sambo teddy bears in shackles with the slogan "I'm a slave to your love"?]
Supernaturallatimes.com/ ... 03:45:09He thought he was going to die. ... He was having trouble breathing. As he lay wedged under a train seat and metal debris, with whatever energy he could summon and a heartbreaking economy of words, he scrawled a farewell in blood on the seat. "I {heart} my kids. I {heart} Leslie," he printed. The blood ink seemed to be running out as he got to the second sentence.... He was discharged late Thursday and declined requests to talk with the media....
Sex can be Dangerouslivescience.com/ ... 15:32:16[no duh!]
Sex in High School Involves Long Chains of Relations... A study of sexual and romantic relations at a high school found students connected by long chains, rather than in a tight network with a core group of a promiscuous few. In the most striking chain, 52 percent of the romantically involved students were connected in a manner of student A having relations with B, and B having relations with C, and so on down the line over the 18 months of the study. Students couldn't possibly know of all the connections, the scientists conclude. "Many of the students only had one partner," Moody said. "They certainly weren’t being promiscuous. But they couldn’t see all the way down the chain."... The research reveals a semantically complex rule that seems to guide adolescent sexual conduct. Here goes: A girl is loath to date her old boyfriend's new girlfriend's old boyfriend. Adults don't generally adhere to any similar rule, so core populations of sexually active adults tend to be prime spreaders of disease. But with adolescents, the study suggests, "there aren’t any hubs to target, so you have to focus on broad-based interventions," Moody said.

Sharing of partners was rare, but many students were indirectly linked through one partner to another and another.

The unexpected result could help shape strategies for combating sexually transmitted diseases among young people.foxnews.com/ ... 03:37:55 the rates of early death and disability attributed to sexual behavior in the U.S. are triple those of any other industrialized country, and women bear the brunt of this public health burden. The study showed that sexual behavior accounted for nearly 30,000 deaths and around 20 million adverse health consequences in 1998, such as infertility, abortions, and sexually transmitted infections.
Only Naturalhealthtalk.ca/ ... 20:56:59 researchers found lean couch potatoes fidgeted more than obese couch potatoes, and the fidgeting added up to 350 more calories being burned per day as a result.timesonline.co.uk/ ... 18:36:04FEARS that cosmetic implants used in lips and cheeks could trigger vCJD, the human form of “mad cow” disease, have prompted the Government to launch an investigation.nytimes.com/ ... 18:35:45AIDS among infants, which only a decade ago took the lives of hundreds of babies a year and left doctors in despair, may be on the verge of being eliminated in the United States, public health officials say.healthtalk.ca/ ... 18:34:13Yale researchers say a chemical used to protect marine vessels against barnacles clinging to their hulls may be doing damage to the hearing of whales and other mammals... tributyltin oxide (TBT) affects the mechanical activity of the outer hair cells. The hair cells magnify the incoming sound energy to the inner ear cells... tributyltin oxide (TBT) affects the mechanical activity of the outer hair cells. The hair cells magnify the incoming sound energy to the inner ear cells....livescience.com/ ... 15:32:52A new study found that male monkeys will give up their juice rewards in order to ogle pictures of female monkey's bottoms.
Human Rightheadlines.agapepress.org/ ... 15:26:30"It seems, so far, from the people I've talked to that, as a Christian, I have no right to demand that [the pro-homosexual poster] be removed from the wall of the school...."
Great Quake of 2004chron.com/ ... 03:48:57The Houston Chronicle headlines him as Yusef Islam
Yusuf Islam to headline benefit show for tsunami victimsturkishpress.com/ ... 03:47:46The Turkish Press headlines him as "Cat Stevens"
'Cat Stevens' tours Indonesia's tsunami zoneundercover.com.au/ ... 03:46:54Yusef Islam, formerly Cat Stevens, has written and recorded his first pop song in 28 years for the tsunami victims of Indonesia. The song 'Indian Ocean' features musicians Travis drummer Neil Primrose, Magne Furuholmen from A-Ha, and Indian composer/producer AR Rahman. "It's not a return to Cat Stevens, I see it more as a natural response to express my concern as a Muslim and as an artist; I believe both can exist side by side particularly when the cause is right" he said in a statement. This weekend, he will head to Indonesia to perform at a fundraising concert in Jakarta on January 31st.
Threatsfreedomhouse.org/ ... 15:21:03a year-long study of over two hundred original documents, all disseminated, published or otherwise generated by the government of Saudi Arabia and collected from more than a dozen mosques in the United States. ...concludes that the Saudi government propaganda examined reflects a “totalitarian ideology of hatred that can incite to violence,” and the fact that it is “being mainstreamed within our borders through the efforts of a foreign government, namely Saudi Arabia, demands our urgent attention.”.... assert that it is a religious obligation for Muslims to hate Christians and Jews and warn against imitating, befriending, or helping them in any way, or taking part in their festivities and celebrations... condemn democracy as un-Islamic... Muslims.. in the lands of the unbelievers.. must behave as if on a mission behind enemy lines....
Violenceabcnews.go.com/ ... 18:33:26A political rally by the militant Palestinian group Hamas turned violent Saturday, as supporters of the rival Fatah faction opened fire, sparking a melee that left more than 25 people woundedapnews.myway.com/ ... 15:03:27Insurgents hit the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad with a rocket Saturday... A civilian and a Navy sailor, both assigned to the embassy, died and four Americans were injured....
Militants also set off explosions that killed eight Iraqis and a U.S. soldier and blasted polling places across the country Saturday
Iraqis will chose a 275-member National Assembly and provincial councils in Iraq's 18 provinces. Voters in the Kurdish self-ruled area of the north will select a new regional parliament.
Rebuildingapnews.myway.com/ ... 18:34:47Iraqi officials have predicted that up to eight million of 14 million voters will turn out for Sunday's electionarabnews.com/ ... 03:36:23Are the insurgents and their terrorist allies in the Sunni Triangle doing Iraq a favor without knowing it? The question is not fanciful. The violence unleashed by the insurgency has concentrated most minds on a single issue: Security. It has brought together communities and political parties that would otherwise be fighting one another over faith, ideology, and economic interest.
FRI 2005-JAN-28
1960s - less with usap.tbo.com/ ... 21:47:22Jim Capaldi, the legendary drummer of 1960s rock group Traffic, died Friday... He was 60.... stomach cancer... formed the psychedelic rock group with fellow musician Steve Winwood.
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Lucien Carr, a journalist and a member of the inner circle of literature's Beat Generation, died Friday. He was 79.
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Dr. Brandt F. Steele, a psychiatrist who helped pioneer the treatment of abused children and coined the term "battered child," died Jan. 19. He was 97. ...a 1962 paper.. pronounced one of the 20th century's 50 most important medical contributions by The Journal of the American Medical Association.
US Election 2004humaneventsonline.com/ ... 21:40:01...a billboard blitz "thanking" Hollywood for the reelection of President Bush will be unveiled early next week. The advertisements feature the faces of liberal Hollywood icons Michael Moore, Whoopi Goldberg, Ben Affleck, Martin Sheen, Chevy Chase, Barbara Streisand, and Sean Penn, and offer thanks to Hollywood their help getting President Bush reelected....
US Executive Branchap.tbo.com/ ... 13:19:51Bush: "Well, I quit drinking in '86. ... It's just really hard to project back into somebody else's shoes. So, no, I guess I don't see ghosts."
Whoops!ap.tbo.com/ ... 21:43:25Two computer disks that supposedly disappeared last summer, prompting a virtual shutdown of the Los Alamos National Laboratory, in fact never existed, according to report released Friday.reuters.com/ ... 12:55:41...Other leaders at the event in Poland on Thursday marking the 60th anniversary of the death camp's liberation, such as French President Jacques Chirac and Russian President Vladimir Putin, wore dark, formal overcoats and dress shoes or boots. Robin Givhan, The Washington Post's fashion writer: "The vice president, however, was dressed in the kind of attire one typically wears to operate a snow blower... looked like an awkward boy amid the well-dressed adults...."
Transportsfgate.com/ ... 12:50:19The capital murder charges filed Thursday against a driver accused of causing a fatal Los Angeles-area train wreck are a rare and perhaps unprecedented use of a century-old California law... "special circumstances''.. that make a crime eligible for the death penalty... charges appear to be legally sound but may be difficult to prove, and raise questions about the prosecutor's priorities... "In my view, capital cases should be reserved for the intentional (killing),'' said Rory Little, a professor at UC Hastings College of the Law in San Francisco and a former federal prosecutor. "It doesn't sound like this guy had any purpose to kill anybody else.''...
Digital Threatedition.cnn.com/ ... 16:44:00A teenager was sentenced Friday to 11/2 years in prison for unleashing a variant of the "Blaster" Internet worm that crippled 48,000 computers in 2003.news.zdnet.com/ ... 16:43:23A worm exploiting weak database passwords on Windows computers had essentially stopped spreading on Friday, after the systems infected with the program were cut off from the control of several central computers.computerweekly.com/ ... 12:53:24A worm has been detected that targets open source MySQL databases. It can compromise data and be used to launch a denial of service attack... thousands of MySQL databases have been infected so far.... takes advantage of weak passwords and the database's support for remote configuration... users should use stronger passwords and make sure that their databases are protected by a firewall....news.bbc.co.uk/ ... 03:31:49MS Word warning: Poor control over the editing and amending process can mean that information that should be expunged, survives final edits.
Sex can be Dangerousnews.bbc.co.uk/ ... 03:30:42A devout Baptist couple who bought a Doris Day DVD from a supermarket were shocked to find a sex film instead. .. "My wife and I were very shocked but we watched it until the end because we couldn't believe what we were seeing. The film became progressively more graphic, there was no plot to it, it was just sex."
Preternatural Patternscnnmoney.printthis.clickability.com/ ... 21:38:49Legendary investor Warren Buffett had nothing but praise Friday for Procter & Gamble Co.'s $57 billion deal to buy Gillette, which helped him make about $645 million -- in one day.news.bbc.co.uk/ ... 03:29:44A Malaysian postman.. hoarded more than 21,000 pieces of mail in his house... told reporters his salary of $150 a month was not enough to make it worth his while delivering the mail....
US Military Casualtiesdefenselink.mil/ ... 17:41:59[flag]Marine Cpl. Stephen P. Johnson, 24, of Covina, Calif.
[flag]Marine Lance Cpl. Fred L. Maciel, 20, of Spring, Texas
[flag]Marine Staff Sgt. Brian D. Bland, 26, of Weston, Wyo.
[flag]Marine Sgt. Michael W. Finke Jr., 28, of Huron, Ohio
[flag]Marine 1st Lt. Travis J. Fuller, 26, of Granville, Mass.
[flag]Marine Cpl. Timothy M. Gibson, 23, of Hillsborough, N.H.
[flag]Marine Cpl. Richard A. Gilbert Jr., 26, of Montgomery, Ohio
[flag]Marine Cpl. Kyle J. Grimes, 21, of Northampton, Pa.
[flag]Marine Lance Cpl. Tony L. Hernandez, 22, of Canyon Lake, Texas
[flag]Marine Cpl. Nathaniel K. Moore, 22, of Champaign, Ill.
[flag]Marine Lance Cpl. Gael Saintvil, 24, of Orange, Fla.
[flag]Marine Cpl. Nathan A. Schubert, 22, of Cherokee, Iowa
[flag]Marine Lance Cpl. Michael L. Starr Jr., 21, of Baltimore, Md.
[flag]Marine Capt. Paul C. Alaniz, 32, of Corpus Christi, Texas
[flag]Marine Lance Cpl. Jonathan E. Etterling, 22, of Wheelersburg, Ohio
[flag]Marine Capt. Lyle L. Gordon, 30, of Midlothian, Texas
[flag]Marine Lance Cpl. Brian C. Hopper, 21, of Wynne, Ark.
[flag]Marine Lance Cpl. Saeed Jafarkhani-Torshizi Jr., 24, of Fort Worth, Texas
[flag]Marine Cpl. Sean P. Kelly, 23, of Gloucester, N.J.
[flag]Marine Staff Sgt. Dexter S. Kimble, 30, of Houston, Texas
[flag]Marine Lance Cpl. Allan Klein, 34, of Clinton Township, Mich.
[flag]Marine Cpl. James L. Moore, 24, of Roseburg, Ore.
[flag]Marine Lance Cpl. Mourad Ragimov, 20, of San Diego, Calif.
[flag]Marine Lance Cpl. Rhonald D. Rairdan, 20, of San Antonio, Texas
[flag]Marine Lance Cpl. Hector Ramos, 20, of Aurora, Ill.
[flag]Marine Lance Cpl. Darrell J. Schumann, 25, of Hampton, Va.
[flag]Marine 1stLt. Dustin M. Shumney, 30, of Vallejo, Calif
[flag]Marine Cpl. Matthew R. Smith, 24, of West Valley, Utah
[flag]Marine Lance Cpl. Joseph B. Spence, 24, of Scotts Valley, Calif
[flag]Navy Petty Officer 3rd Class John D. House, 28, of Ventura, Calif.
all died Jan. 26, in a helicopter crash near Ar Rutbah, Iraq.defenselink.mil/ ... 17:42:35[flag]Army Spc. Taylor J. Burk, 21, of Amarillo, Texas, died Jan. 26 in Baghdad, Iraq, when an improvised explosive device struck his vehicle.defenselink.mil/ ... 17:42:18[flag]Army Pfc. Kevin M. Luna, 26, of Oxnard, Calif., died Jan. 27 in Muqdadiyah, Iraq, from non-combat related injuries.defenselink.mil/ ... 17:41:16[flag]Army Staff Sgt. Jose C. Rangel, 43, of Fresno, Calif., died Jan. 23 in Camp Arifjan, Kuwait, of non-combat related injuries.
US Militarydefenselink.mil/ ... 17:48:14The Department of Defense announced today that the team led by Lockheed Martin Systems Integration, Owego, N.Y., has been selected to build the new presidential helicopter (VXX) based on its U.S. 101 medium lift helicopter.... The fleet of helicopters that currently supports the presidential mission includes 30-year old aircraft that were designed in the 1960’s, fielded in the 1970’s and no longer has the growth capability to incorporate the equipment necessary to provide suitable presidential support in the post 9-11 environment. “The president needs a more survivable helicopter while the nation engages in the Global War on Terrorism, and we are committed to providing it as soon as possible.” [Images come to mind: Dubya in his flight suit, in the cockpit of the new Presidential Attack Helicopter, leading the charge in a battle against terrorism. "I am your commando-in-chief....!]olympics.reuters.com/ ... 12:49:13A U.S. Kiowa observation helicopter crashed in southwest Baghdad on Friday, and there was no immediate information on casualties
Great Quake of 2004ap.tbo.com/ ... 12:33:28For 25 days after the tsunami killed everyone else on his island, Michael Mangal roamed the expanse in just his underwear, waiting for death and praying for life, thinking of the spirits that terrified him and the woman who never loved him.
Human Rightap.tbo.com/ ... 03:33:57Wal-Mart.. nation's largest employer is expanding the definition of "immediate family" in its ethics policy to include an employee's same-sex partner...
Only Naturalananova.com/ ... 16:45:13A Slovak man trapped in his car under an avalanche freed himself by drinking 60 bottles of beer and urinating on the snow to melt it.news.bbc.co.uk/ ... 13:15:27A sharp rise in global temperatures about 50 million years ago may have been responsible for the evolution of bats.. This warming is linked to an explosion in the diversity of other mammals, but little was known about bat evolution....forbes.com/ ... 13:03:45...research comes from Europe, and it finds that children exposed to secondhand smoke on a daily basis have more than triple the risk of lung cancer and an increased risk of other respiratory problems later in life than those who grew up in a smoke-free environment....ap.tbo.com/ ... 03:33:26a 2,000-ton pile of burning cow manure... a dung pile measuring 100 feet long, 30 feet high and 50 feet wide that began burning about two months ago and continues to smolder despite Herculean attempts to douse it....
Threatslocal6.com/ ... 13:09:02JACKSONVILLE, Fla. -- A man accused of leaving voice mail on the City Council president's phone saying "killing 100,000 people would get people's attention," was arrested Thursday, accused of making a bomb threat... No bomb was found in his Hyde Park home...
Freedomnews.bbc.co.uk/ ... 21:43:16In pictures: Iraqi election views-- "I am very happy with the elections. Of course I am voting and I am voting for Allawi. He is our man. He is a strong man that the Iraqis need. All this violence will end when a strong Iraqi government is elected." ... [and more]reuters.com/ ... 13:02:47Jubilant Iraqi exiles cast their ballots in a "vote for freedom" on Friday and urged their compatriots in Iraq to defy insurgents and do the same. In Australia, Iraqis danced in the streets, twirling scarves and singing, and proudly displaying blue ink on their fingers which told the world they had cast the first votes. "This is a mark of freedom.... I didn't think I would live long enough to see this moment."... "I have been dreaming of this day to tell my grandchildren that in the first election in the history of Iraq I was the first woman to vote...." "It's a great day. I know it's an imperfect election but still we need to go ahead..." "People should not be afraid to vote," said Nassima Barzani, 68, proudly clutching an Iraqi flag as she voted in Sydney... In Iran, the largest center for registered Iraqi voters aboard with about 61,000, queues formed outside a Tehran polling station. Many were women in traditional black chadors.... In London.. People applauded as each ballot was cast... "I am voting out of loyalty for my fellow countrymen, for our great Iraq, for those buried in mass graves and for our martyrs," a weeping Adel Mijbil Qawqaz said at a polling station in the United Arab Emirates... In.. snow-covered Stockholm suburb.. Iraqis queued before dawn to vote amid tight security... "This is the first time we can vote with any freedom. I could almost cry,"... Outside the station, youths waved Iraqi flags to the beat of a hand-held drum and traditional high-pitched ululating.... In Cairo, even though Egypt was not included in the IOM program. Organizers planned to send the ballots to Iraq anyway, hoping they would count. "Even if they are not counted at least we took part in the joy of having this election today...."
Rebuildingnews.bbc.co.uk/ ... 16:46:32The map, people and politics, of post-Saddam Iraqap.tbo.com/ ... 03:34:38Sunday's vote has been painted as Iraq's introduction to democracy, but elections were held under British control, too. Some older Iraqis may have even participated in the 1954 elections, considered relatively free by some historians. But the majority of Iraq's old parliamentary elections would not pass today's Western standards, and regardless of how fair the polls were, there was no hope for a true representative democracy in a country controlled by Britain.
Violencenews.bbc.co.uk/ ... 21:40:34Coalition troops and Iraqi security forces may be responsible for up to 60% of conflict-related civilian deaths in Iraq - far more than are killed by insurgents, confidential records obtained by the BBC's Panorama programme reveal.ap.tbo.com/ ... 13:18:23A Sudanese air force bombardment of villagers in Darfur this week killed or wounded almost 100 people, a U.N. spokeswoman said Friday, calling the bombing a major violation of a fragile ceasefire in the conflict-torn region.nytimes.com/ ... 12:52:04Five American soldiers were killed in Baghdad in three separate incidents today... violence also took the lives of four Iraqi policemen and a minibus driver.... Four soldiers were the victims of roadside bombs.. Another soldier died in small-arms fire... The Iraqis died this morning when a suicide car bomber attacked a police checkpoint...voanews.com/ ... 12:48:49Iraqi officials say they have arrested three top aides to Abu Musab al-Zarqawi... Zarqawi's military advisor, his Baghdad commander and another close aide... In Baghdad Friday, insurgents killed five American soldiers in three separate attacks. Four Iraqis were also killed in a car bomb attack in southern Baghdad....reuters.com/ ... 03:32:12Iraq clamped tough security measures across the country on Friday, sealing land borders and curbing travel to foil insurgents bent on wrecking Sunday's election, but a car bomb killed four people in Baghdad.news.bbc.co.uk/ ... 03:28:53Mr Kashkarian's bid was a copycat act, police say.

They say they were told about a four-wheel drive vehicle that was parked diagonally across the tracks in Irvine.

Police say they tried to negotiate with Mr Kashkarian, but he drove off, starting a "slow speed" pursuit.

Mr Kashkarian agreed to give himself up after a 30-minute discussion with officers on his mobile phone, a police spokesman told NBC news.

Police say he told them he had planned to commit suicide by being hit by a train.
THU 2005-JAN-27
Sick, Sick, Sicknews.independent.co.uk/ ... 23:41:25A mysterious crank with advanced skills in miniature bombmaking, whose devices have several times come close to killing people, has struck again. In Italy they call him "Unabomber"... Yesterday he was back, after an absence of nearly two years... schoolchildren in the town of Treviso... spotted.. a Kinder Surprise.. a hollow chocolate egg.. [with] a yellow plastic container holding a small gift [inside].... children were passing it between each other like a football when it blew up. Luckily, none of them was injured....insidedenver.com/ ... 23:37:56A University of Colorado professor.. maintains that people killed in the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks were not innocent victims.... the hijackers.. were "combat teams," not terrorists.... "As for those in the World Trade Center.. True enough, they were civilians of a sort. But innocent? Gimme a break.".. describe[s] the victims as "little Eichmanns..."
Digital Consequencesreuters.com/ ... 19:25:48Porn star Jenna Jameson is now hawking her "moan tones."
1960s - less with usap.tbo.com/ ... 19:24:46Nick McDonald, a former policeman who arrested Lee Harvey Oswald at a Dallas movie theater after President Kennedy was assassinated in 1963, died Thursday. He was 76.
Sex can be Dangerousnews.telegraph.co.uk/ ... 23:41:42A disease that has devastated the Tasmanian devil population is probably being spread by the animal's boisterous sex lifereuters.com/ ... 19:26:12A bus driver shuttling pupils to school in northern Greece shocked their parents when he put on a porn tapereuters.com/ ... 19:26:01A mystery chemical isolated from the sweat of young women seems to act as a romance booster for their older counterparts.news.yahoo.com/ ... 19:22:03butt butt...
Future is Nownews.nationalgeographic.com/ ... 19:20:45Chinese scientists at the Shanghai Second Medical University in 2003 successfully fused human cells with rabbit eggs. The embryos were reportedly the first human-animal chimeras successfully created. They were allowed to develop for several days in a laboratory dish before the scientists destroyed the embryos to harvest their stem cells.
In Minnesota last year researchers at the Mayo Clinic created pigs with human blood flowing through their bodies.
And at Stanford University in California an experiment might be done later this year to create mice with human brains.
Scientists feel that, the more humanlike the animal, the better research model it makes for testing drugs or possibly growing "spare parts," such as livers, to transplant into humans.
Watching how human cells mature and interact in a living creature may also lead to the discoveries of new medical treatments.
But creating human-animal chimeras—named after a monster in Greek mythology that had a lion's head, goat's body, and serpent's tail—has raised troubling questions: What new subhuman combination should be produced and for what purpose? At what point would it be considered human? And what rights, if any, should it have?
There are currently no U.S. federal laws that address these issues.
Supernaturallocal6.com/ ... 23:44:01RALEIGH, N.C. -- ...medical examiner... documenting.. injuries to certify a cause of death.. noticed .. breathing.....icliverpool.icnetwork.co.uk/ ... 19:14:31RINGO STARR is to play a super-powered animated version of himself in a new cartoon series. The feature will transform the former Beatles drummer into an "evil-battling, earth-saving (though reluctant) superhero with a great sense of rhythm", according to Stan Lee's POW! Entertainment company. ... "I'm so excited to become a reluctant superhero," said Starr.. "How great to hang out with Stan and laugh, laugh, laugh, as we're in the first stages of creating this soon-to-be masterpiece. "Adding music to this adventure is something I am also looking forward to."...
WW2 - still with usedition.cnn.com/ ... 19:13:16World leaders, survivors and Russian liberators gathered in Poland on Thursday to mark the 60th anniversary of the liberation of the Nazi death camp Auschwitz. Here is what they said
Lasting Contributionsap.tbo.com/ ... 04:51:14A 17-year-old girl who was honored by Gov. Jeb Bush when she fulfilled her dream by graduating high school despite a long, painful battle with brain cancer has died
Transportreuters.com/ ... 19:23:31In what they described as a similar incident, police said they had arrested another 25 year-old man who parked his car at dawn on Thursday diagonally across rail tracks in Irvine, 30 miles south of Los Angeles, with the intention of killing himself.reuters.myway.com/ ... 04:46:29The man was found wandering the scene after the accident, muttering: "I'm sorry, I'm sorry." Police said the man, who was not injured, was in custody and would be charged with murder.nydailynews.com/ ... 04:45:26Eleven people died and nearly 200 others were injured in a fiery train wreck yesterday after a suicidal man left his Jeep on the tracks, triggering a chain-reaction crash that demolished two commuter trains.... "We know he is responsible by his own admission and a couple of independent witnesses saw him fleeing the vehicle right before the crash. . . . He was suicidal, but apparently changed his mind...."
US Militaryap.tbo.com/ ... 19:24:20He was born in Vietnam and came to America at age 6. After growing up in northern Virginia, he joined the Marines even though he was not a U.S. citizen.
Cpl. Binh Le became an American on Thursday, but he could not attend the citizenship ceremony held in the shadow of the Pentagon. Last month, he was buried nearby in Arlington National Cemetery, the victim of a truck bomb in Iraq during a voluntary second tour of duty there.apnews.myway.com/ ... 19:21:05The American military's continued presence in Iraq is fanning the flames of conflict, and signals the need for a new detailed timeline to bring the troops home, Sen. Edward M. Kennedy said Thursday.defenselink.mil/ ... 19:12:27This week, the Army announced an increase, while the Air Force, Navy and Marine Corps had a decrease in the number of reservists on active duty in support of the partial mobilization. The Coast Guard number remained the same. The net collective result is 951 more reservists mobilized than last week.ap.tbo.com/ ... 04:54:37All but three of the 30 Marines and one sailor killed when a helicopter crashed Wednesday in a desert sandstorm had been deployed from the Marine Corps base at Kaneohe Bay
US Military Casualtiesdefenselink.mil/ ... 23:47:11[flag]Marine Sgt. Jesse W. Strong, 24, of Irasburg, Vt., died Jan. 26 as a result of hostile action in Al Anbar Province, Iraq. defenselink.mil/ ... 23:46:18[flag]Marine Cpl. Jonathan W. Bowling, 23, of Patrick, Va.
[flag]Marine Lance Cpl. Karl R. Linn, 20, of Chesterfield, Va.
died Jan. 26 of wounds received as result of enemy action in Al Anbar Province, Iraq
[flag]Marine Cpl. Christopher L. Weaver, 24, of Fredericksburg, Va. died Jan. 26 as a result of hostile action in Al Anbar Province, Iraq. defenselink.mil/ ... 23:44:28[flag]Army Sgt. William S. Kinzer Jr., 27, of Hendersonville, N.C., died Jan. 26 in Ad Duluiyah, Iraq, from injuries sustained when a rocket propelled grenade hit his patrol. defenselink.mil/ ... 19:12:50[flag]Army Sgt. Brett D. Swank, of Northumberland, Pa., died Jan. 24 in Baghdad, Iraq, from injuries sustained when an improvised explosive device detonated near his position.ap.tbo.com/ ... 04:53:52 Pvt. Odell Sharpe, killed during World War II, is finally coming home. The remains of Sharpe - presumed slain on Christmas Day 1944 when he was only 19 - were recently identified from a skeleton found in a foxhole near the Belgian-German border. Now his family is preparing for something long overdue: a funeral.
Human Rightap.tbo.com/ ... 04:51:54Judi Howden went into her marriage knowing full well that one day her husband might become her wife. The couple stayed together - even as Howden's husband, Michael, underwent a sex-change operation that transformed him into Mikayla. That surgery also landed them in a murky area where gender and law collide. Their marriage - once between a man and a woman - is now between a woman and a woman, despite a ban on such unions in 40 states, including New Hampshire.
Freedomworldnetdaily.com/ ... 23:34:29Millions of Iranians, glued to their TV sets to watch President Bush's inaugural address, warmly embraced his declaration to help spread liberty to nations ruled by tyranny, according to a leading pro-democracy movement.
Rebuildingap.tbo.com/ ... 04:52:09Kurds Campaigning for Iraq Elections Go Into High Speed
Under Tyrannynews.bbc.co.uk/ ... 04:49:32The blurring of boundaries between TV and the internet raises questions of regulation, watchdog Ofcom has said. Content on TV and the internet is set to move closer this year as TV-quality video online becomes a norm.
Violenceboston.com/ ... 19:23:01British troops laughed and joked as they made two Iraqi men simulate sex acts after detaining them for looting, a soldier testified Thursday at the court-martial of three comrades accused of mistreating civilians.mirror.co.uk/ ... 19:22:48A BRITISH captive freed from Guantanamo Bay today tells the world of its full horror - and reveals how prostitutes were taken into the camp to degrade Muslim inmates.news.yahoo.com/ ... 19:22:21 Female interrogators tried to break Muslim detainees at the U.S. prison camp in Guantanamo Bay by sexual touching, wearing a miniskirt and thong underwear and in one case smearing a Saudi man's face with fake menstrual blood, according to an insider's written account.news.xinhuanet.com/ ... 19:14:48A car bomb hit an Iraqi army patrol near a polling station in the restive city of Samarra on Thursday, killing seven Iraqis and wounding five othersbloomberg.com/ ... 19:13:36A U.S. Marine and an Iraqi soldier were killed and 12 people wounded in attacks today in Iraq, the U.S. military said. The Associated Press said nine more Iraqis also were killed in violence nationwide.ap.tbo.com/ ... 04:52:29Six Iraqis and one U.S. Marine were killed Thursday as insurgents clashed with U.S. troops and blew up a school slated to serve as a polling centerreuters.com/ ... 04:50:22BAQUBA, Iraq -- A suicide car bomb aimed at Iraqi security forces in the town of Baquba on Thursday killed at least one policeman and wounded six people... On Wednesday, gunmen attacked the offices of three political parties in the town, killing a policeman....news.bbc.co.uk/ ... 04:47:41An Afghan soldier has shot dead five of his fellow troops at a coalition base in southern Helmand province... Six others were wounded before he was shot and killed. The reason for the incident is unclear.....
Threatslocal6.com/ ... 04:47:13OCALA, Fla. -- Two boys, ages 9 and 10, were charged with felonies and taken away from school in handcuffs, accused of making violent drawings of stick figures... "The officer found they were drawing these pictures for the sole purpose of intimidating and scaring the victim...."worldnetdaily.com/ ... 04:41:12The discovery in Texas of a jacket featuring an Arabic military badge and an airplane headed toward a tower with the words "Midnight Mission" is fueling fears of a possible connection to terrorism.
WED 2005-JAN-26
Transportfoxnews.com/ ... 12:31:52GLENDALE, Calif. — At least nine people were killed in a pre-rush hour, multi-train collision blamed on a vehicle parked on railroad tracks... Officials... believed the driver was in custody.... sheriff Lee Baca said. "The people riding these trains deserve better," he said angrily, speculating the person who left the car on the tracks knew the trains were coming....
Preternatural Patternsindystar.com/ ... 11:44:05The Internet has transformed drunk shamings into a public spectacle. On CollegeHumor .com and Shamings .com, two Web sites owned by an enterprising band of recent college grads, there are hundreds of pictures of guys half-naked with epithets scrawled across their chests.... The group shaming ritual is "really a social construction of dominance hierarchies," says ...a sociologist... "It's like a payback for being an idiot," says [a] founder of Shamings.com....iol.co.za/ ... 11:40:21Jerusalem - Fans of literary boy wizard Harry Potter have been beating a path to the tomb of a 19-year-old British soldier who is buried in a cemetery close to Tel Aviv... Corporal Harry Potter, a member of the Royal Worcestershire regiment, was killed 66 years ago during fighting in the southern West Bank town of Hebron and was subsequently laid to rest in a cemetery in the town of Ramle....
Whoops!timesonline.co.uk/ ... 11:39:17A SCHOOLBOY with a fascination for Poland and wildlife has uncovered several significant errors in the latest — the fifteenth — edition of the Encyclopaedia Britannica.apnews.myway.com/ ... 11:34:39Boy Scout volunteer Tom Willis knew something was wrong when he saw that 20 youngsters on the list for a scouting program all had the same last name: Doe.
Extraterrestrialnews.bbc.co.uk/ ... 11:13:52A space walk by the crew of the International Space Station (ISS) has uncovered vents encrusted with residues on the orbiting facility's exterior. ...could be linked to problems with the station's air supply system that astronauts have experienced over recent months.... not known what the brown and white residues on the vents are
WW1 - less with usreuters.com/ ... 04:19:01 Italy lost its last veteran from World War One this week when Carlo Orelli, popularly known as "the last infantryman," died at the age of 110, the government said Tuesday.
Sick, Sick, Sickreuters.com/ ... 04:18:25A New York radio station apologized on Monday for repeatedly airing a joke song that ridiculed victims of the recent tsunami in South Asia and used racial slurs, saying the piece was in poor taste.
Supernaturaldsc.discovery.com/ ... 11:37:47The Shroud of Turin, the piece of linen long believed to have been wrapped around Jesus's body after the crucifixion, is much older than the date suggested by radiocarbon tests, according to new microchemical research. Published in the current issue of Thermochimica Acta, a chemistry peer- reviewed scientific journal, the study dismisses the results of the 1988 carbon-14 dating. ... "As unlikely as it seems, the sample used to test the age of the shroud in 1988 was taken from a rewoven area of the shroud...." "A determination of the kinetics of vanillin loss suggests that the shroud is between 1,300 and 3,000 years old...."news.bbc.co.uk/ ... 04:17:04A 45-year-old man is believed to have become the last Jew in Afghanistan after the death of the caretaker of the only functioning synagogue in Kabul.
Human Rightboston.com/ ... 11:31:19The nation's new education secretary denounced PBS yesterday for spending public money on a cartoon with lesbian characters... The not-yet-aired episode of "Postcards From Buster" shows the title character, an animated bunny, on a trip to Vermont -- a state known for recognizing same-sex civil unions. The episode features two lesbian couples, although the focus is on farm life and maple sugaring.... PBS spokesman said ...has decided not to distribute the episode, called "Sugartime!," to its 349 stations. ..said the Education Department's objections were not a factor in that decision....
Reasons for Repealreuters.com/ ... 04:18:42Houston police, long thwarted in their campaign against prostitution by an internal policy that barred officers from removing their clothes, have reaped results by shedding that unwritten rule.
US Militaryreuters.myway.com/ ... 11:11:5431 Marines died when their transport helicopter went down in the deserts of the restive Anbar province of western Iraq....
Five marines died in insurgent attacks Wednesday....itv.com/ ... 04:16:44A search and rescue operation is under way in Iraq after a US Marine transport helicopter crashed in the west of the country. The US military said the crash happened shortly after midnight in the western desert close to the Jordanian border. No more details were released.
Threatsseattletimes.nwsource.com/ ... 11:29:15The FBI knows of "jihadists" who have trained in terrorist camps in Afghanistan and are now living in Oregon, the agency's Oregon chief said in an interview with The Associated Press yesterday.news.bbc.co.uk/ ... 04:20:40There is intense speculation in the corridors of Washington over where foreign policy might head in the next four years. But while Iraq and Iran may top the list, you hear almost no talk - at least at the moment - about Washington's "war on terror" against al-Qaeda.reuters.com/ ... 04:17:56The FBI said on Tuesday there was "no credibility" to a reported threat against Boston last week that spurred a manhunt for 14 people and had police using radiation sensors in the city's subway system.
Violenceusatoday.com/ ... 11:33:50His head and hands were wrapped in bandages and his uncovered face looked like bubbled tar. The young Saudi man told investigators this month that he wants revenge against the Iraqi terrorist network that sent him on the deadly mission that he survived. Ahmed Abdullah al-Shaya, 18, told Iraqi investigators during an interrogation early this month that he was recruited to drive a car rigged with explosives to Baghdad and blow it up. He said the objective was “to kill the Americans, policemen, national guards and the American collaborators.” But Shaya said he was injured even before he went on the mission when insurgents detonated a truck bomb he was supposed to leave at a target site.... Shaya told the interrogators that he regretted his mission now. “I want the Iraqi people to live in peace,” he says, and he can no longer support Osama bin Laden because “he is killing Muslims.”reuters.com/ ... 11:14:41Five marines... died in insurgent attacks Wednesday....
Guerrillas also killed 10 Iraqis in a string of bombings and raids Wednesday....reuters.com/ ... 04:17:39A car bomb exploded on the road to Baghdad's international airport on Wednesday, apparently targeting a U.S. convoy, Iraqi police said. There was no immediate information on any casualties. The U.S. military said it did not yet have details of the blast.news.bbc.co.uk/ ... 04:17:23Pakistan has handed over to the United States a key suspect in the bombings of two US embassies in East Africa in 1998, Pakistani officials say. Tanzanian Ahmed Khalfan Ghailani, an alleged al-Qaeda militant who had a $5m American bounty on his head, was arrested last July.suntimes.com/ ... 04:16:22An al-Qaida lieutenant... Sami Mohammed Ali Said al-Jaaf, also known as Abu Omar al-Kurdi,... in custody in Iraq has confessed to masterminding most of the car bombings in Baghdad, including the bloody 2003 assault on the U.N. headquarters in the capital, authorities said Monday.
Aftermathsuntimes.com/ ... 04:15:32Twenty-three terror suspects tried to hang or strangle themselves during a weeklong protest orchestrated in 2003 to disrupt operations and unnerve new guards at the U.S. military camp at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, the U.S. military said Monday.
TUE 2005-JAN-25
Digital Consequencesnewsfactor.com/ ... 19:21:28Does Google Need a Browser?ecommercetimes.com/ ... 19:20:54Rumors that Google is actively developing its own browser -- talk that Google downplayed last fall -- have gained new life as the leading search engine hired the engineer most responsible for development of the Firefox browser.
WW2 - still with usisraelnationalnews.com/ ... 13:01:21Last night featured the first Holocaust memorial ceremony ever held in the United Nations, marking the 60th anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz death camp... Though close to 150 out of 191 member nations agreed that the UN should hold the commemoration, the hall was only half-full during the ceremony.... Jordan's U.N. ambassador, Prince Zeid Ra'ad al-Hussein, the only Arab speaker, took advantage of the opportunity to knock Israel....
Speaking about the soldiers who arrived to liberate the Auschwitz death camp in early 1945, Minister Shalom said that "nothing could have prepared them for what they would witness there." He quoted one of the soldiers who wrote, "As I walked through the barracks, I heard a voice, and I turned around and I saw a living skeleton talk to me. He said, 'Thank G-d you've come.' ... Did you ever talk to a skeleton that talked back? That's what I was doing."....
UN Secretary-General Kofi Anan opened the session by saying, "The evil which murdered 6,000,000 Jews in the death camps still threatens us today." He also pointed out the "terrible things" occurring in Sudan, but said that the "tragedy of the Jewish people was unique. Two thirds of all Europe's Jews, including one and a half million children, were murdered. An entire civilization, which had contributed far beyond its numbers to the cultural and intellectual riches of Europe and the world, was uprooted, destroyed, laid waste."....
Whoops!ap.tbo.com/ ... 12:46:17One subway line serving tens of thousands of New Yorkers a day was knocked out of service and another severely limited, possibly for years, because of a trash fire that authorities said may have been set by a homeless person trying to stay warm... It will take "several millions of dollars and several years" to rebuild hundreds of relays, switches and circuits that track train signals and locations... the most serious damage to the subway's infrastructure since the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks... set in a shopping cart in or near the Chambers Street station in lower Manhattan... It ignited cables above the platform and spread to a room full of switching and signal equipment.... no suspect had been located.... [and likely never will be!]ap.tbo.com/ ... 12:44:31Jumpking Inc. is recalling about 1 million trampolines and nearly 300,000 trampoline enclosures... Welds on the trampoline frame can break, and the mounting brackets on the "FunRing" enclosures have sharp edges that can cut skin...
Supernaturalreuters.myway.com/ ... 12:40:25As many as 300 Hindu pilgrims, including women and children, may have been crushed or burned to death in a stampede and fire near a temple in western India Tuesday... fire broke out in roadside stalls when more than 150,000 people were on an annual pilgrimage to the popular Mandher Devi temple, on a hilltop near Wai, about 160 miles southeast of Bombay.... Scores were crushed to death on the steep and narrow hill path leading to the temple and many others were charred....
Lasting Contributionsmedaloffreedom.com/ ... 12:26:11Presidential Medal of Freedom Recipient Johnny Carsonen.wikipedia.org/ ... 12:25:47The Presidential Medal of Freedom is the highest civilian award in the United States. It is designed to recognize individuals who have made "an especially meritorious contribution to the security or national interests of the United States, or to world peace, or to cultural or other significant public or private endeavors."
Preternatural Patternsbroadcastingcable.com/ ... 19:23:38Ted Turner called Fox a propaganda tool of the Bush administration and indirectly compared Fox News Channel's popularity to Adolf Hitler's popular election to run Germany before World War II.

Fox spokesperson replies: "Ted is understandably bitter having lost his ratings, his network, and now his mind... We wish him well."drudgereport.com/ ... 03:25:33[Sen.] Clinton, in a speech to about 1,000 abortion rights supporters at the state Capitol, firmly restated her support for Roe v. Wade. But then she offered warm words to opponents of abortion and said that faith and organized religion were the "primary" reasons teenagers abstained from sexual relations.
Justice?thesun.co.uk/ ... 12:47:53POLICE used a helicopter AND spotter plane to nail Sarah McCaffery in court . . . for eating an apple while driving. They also sent a patrol car along her route in an operation that has cost taxpayers £10,000. Officers from a force that cracks just a THIRD of its crimes swung into action after Sarah refused to accept a £30 on-the-spot fine.
Human Rightrockymountainnews.com/ ... 12:55:20A Denver police sergeant is under investigation for allegedly threatening to arrest a woman Monday for displaying on her truck a derogatory bumper sticker about President Bush... F--- Bush" in white letters on a black background.... "He said, 'You need to take off those stickers because it's profanity and it's against the law to have profanity on your truck... If you ever show up here again, I'm going to make you take those stickers off and arrest you. Never come back into that area.'"
"The Supreme Court considered a case about 30-some years ago where a person was prosecuted for wearing a jacket that said, 'F--- the draft,' on the back. The Supreme Court said states could not prohibit people from wearing such a jacket... They said, 'One man's profanity is another man's lyric.'"wral.com/ ... 12:41:12Four employees of a health care company have been fired for refusing to take a test to determine whether they smoke cigarettes... Weyco Inc., a health benefits administrator based in Okemos, Mich., adopted a policy Jan. 1 that allows employees to be fired if they smoke, even if the smoking happens after business hours or at home....
Only Naturalananova.com/ ... 19:21:40A two-headed lamb has been born in China.healthtalk.ca/ ... 12:30:10Four cardiovascular disease risk factors have been linked to dementia... people who suffer from one or more of the following risk factors "high cholesterol, hypertension, diabetes, and smoking," during midlife, are more likely to develop dementia compared to people with no risk factors...foxnews.com/ ... 11:25:37Johnny Carson, late-night talk show host for 30 years, died from emphysema, a common lung disease.
What is emphysema?
Emphysema is irreversible destruction of the walls of the air sacs located at the end of the bronchial tubes. The damaged air sacs, called alveoli, are not able to exchange oxygen and carbon dioxide between the lungs and the blood. As a result a person develops progressive symptoms of the disease including shortness of breath, cough, and limited ability to exert him- or herself.
US Militaryap.tbo.com/ ... 03:28:20President Bush is getting ready to ask Congress for an additional $80 billion for conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistanap.tbo.com/ ... 03:27:39A Bradley Fighting Vehicle rolled into a canal during a combat patrol north of Baghdad, killing five U.S. soldiers and wounding two others
US Military Casualtiesdefenselink.mil/ ... 19:24:20[flag]Army Sgt. Leonard W. Adams, 42, of Mooresville, N.C., died Jan. 24 in Camp Bucca, Iraq, of non-combat related injuries.defenselink.mil/ ... 19:24:04[flag]Army Staff Sgt. Jose C. Rangel, 43, of Saratoga, Calif., died Jan. 23 in Camp Arifjan, Kuwait, of non-combat related injuries. defenselink.mil/ ... 03:23:21[flag]Army Capt. Joe F. Lusk II, 25, of Reedley, Calif., died Jan. 21 in Camp Buehring, Kuwait, of non-combat related injuries. defenselink.mil/ ... 03:23:03[flag]Army 1st Lt. Nainoa K. Hoe, 27, of Hawaii, died Jan. 22 in Mosul, Iraq, of wounds received when he was attacked by enemy forces using small arms fire. defenselink.mil/ ... 03:22:32[flag]Army Sgt. Kyle W. Childress, 29, of Terre Haute, Ind., died Jan. 21 in Balad, Iraq, of wounds received in Ad Duluiyah, Iraq, when his unit was attacked by enemy forces using small arms fire.
Violencefoxnews.com/ ... 13:02:31[Summarizing...] nine Iraqis — including a senior judge — were killed in a series of attacks Tuesday. Elsewhere in Iraq, the U.S. military said that five American soldiers died Monday in a vehicle accident while another died of wounds from a bomb blast. Plus, a videotape surfaced that apparently shows an American hostage pleading for his life.apnews.myway.com/ ... 12:39:26An American hostage pleaded for his life with a rifle pointed at his head in a video released Tuesdayap.tbo.com/ ... 03:27:58 Gunmen assassinated an Iraqi judge and killed his bodyguard on Tuesday as he was heading to work in eastern Baghdad
Aftermathsg.news.yahoo.com/ ... 19:19:38Viktor Yushchenko: "Frankly, I can't get used to this face, and I don't think I ever will get used to it.. But, we are men and we don't make a big deal over our scars."...reuters.com/ ... 12:43:34In harrowing exchanges before a German court, the son of a Sept. 11 victim asked an FBI agent Tuesday to detail his mother's ordeal in the "hellish" minutes before her plane hit New York's World Trade Center. "Are you able to conclude it would be akin to torture, what happened to my mother?"... at the retrial of Mounir El Motassadeq, a Moroccan man accused of aiding and abetting the attacks that killed nearly 2,800 people on Sept. 11, 2001....news.bbc.co.uk/ ... 12:42:00Two of the British prisoners returning to the UK from Guantanamo Bay reportedly spent 18 months in solitary confinement. What impact does being locked up all day, away from any other human beings, have on an individual's mind?drudgereport.com/ ... 12:41:44THE four Britons still held in Guantanamo Bay are due to fly home today as their lawyers prepare to launch a record £30million compensation claim over their 'illegal' detention.foxnews.com/ ... 11:24:02A scholar and one of the brightest stars in the U.S. military, Petraeus is measured and careful about what he says. Petraeus sat to talk about America's exit strategy. He offered no cheerleading, just a dry dose of where we are in getting out of Iraq.news.bbc.co.uk/ ... 03:27:19Twenty-three prisoners tried to hang or strangle themselves during a mass protest at Guantanamo Bay in 2003, the US military has revealed.
Threatssg.news.yahoo.com/ ... 19:19:55Russia's nationalist lawmakers have asked the prosecutor general to ban all Jewish organizations because of their "extremist" views, in a vitriolic call ahead of this week's 60th anniversary of the liberation of the Nazi death camp at Auschwitz.woai.com/ ... 12:36:46Department of Homeland Security officials forced a small plane carrying four apparently illegal Chinese immigrants and a pilot identified as a Mexican national to land at an airport in San Antonio Monday night... Authorities are trying to determine if the four passengers on board the Cessna 172-P, two men and two women, are linked to a report that several Chinese nationals were attempting to set off a 'dirty bomb' in the Boston area....nytimes.com/ ... 03:26:24an increasing effort to monitor and restrict militant imams in Britain and across Europe.
MON 2005-JAN-24
Digital Threatap.tbo.com/ ... 20:09:16 Gov. Matt Blunt banned video games from the state's prisons Monday, a month after a newspaper reported some of Missouri's most violent inmates were allowed to play games simulating murders, carjackings and the killings of police officers.news.bbc.co.uk/ ... 20:05:44Iran has accused the US government of ordering an American internet service provider to stop hosting the website of an official Iranian news agency.... The row has led to calls for Iran to develop its own satellite technology....au.news.yahoo.com/ ... 20:04:05... Italian doctors.. are telling people, particularly the young, that furious typing on mobile phones could lead to acute tendonitis....
WW2 - still with usap.tbo.com/ ... 20:11:10With calls of "never again," the U.N. General Assembly commemorated the 60th anniversary of the liberation of the Nazi death camps with a special session Monday, a stark change for a body that has been reluctant to address the extermination of the Jews during World War II.news.bbc.co.uk/ ... 19:45:17"I tell them my story to reduce the account of the death of six million to one individual, because six million does not mean anything to them...."
Whoops!seattletimes.nwsource.com/ ... 19:42:27The revelation last week that a laboratory slip-up led three Boston University scientists to become infected with tularemia, a flulike disease sometimes referred to as "rabbit fever," has fueled criticism of a plan to build a state-of-the-art research lab to study some of the world's most lethal germs in Boston's South End.
Justice?news.yahoo.com/ ... 20:01:38A trial opened Monday in a $3 million-plus lawsuit by 13 people who say they were injured or traumatized when federal agents seized a screaming Elian Gonzalez from his Miami relatives' home. The opening witness was neighbor Maria Riera, who testified that she clutched her chest and thought she was dying when an agent doused her with tear gas during the April 22, 2000, raid to reunite the 6-year-old boy with his father in Cuba. The 13 neighbors and protesters are seeking up to $250,000 each, claiming that agents used excessive force during the armed raid. A total of 108 people sued over the raid, but U.S. District Judge K. Michael Moore limited the case to people who were not on the Gonzalez family property and were beyond police barricades.
Only Naturalnews.bbc.co.uk/ ... 20:04:28Map reading and parking may prove difficult for some women because they were exposed to too little testosterone in the womb, researchers suggest.nbc13.com/ ... 19:52:27About 20 deaths are now blamed on the big storm that dumped snow from the upper Midwest to New England.news.bbc.co.uk/ ... 19:43:12Cardiff University tutor Cliff Arnalls says his formula proves 24 January is the grimmest day of the year. And many of your emails agreed. But, readers told the BBC News website, there are reasons to beat back the winter blues and be cheerful in January.
Freedomjournalnow.com/ ... 19:42:00Before a vast crowd of supporters holding orange balloons and doves, newly inaugurated President Viktor Yushchenko promised yesterday to steer a new course for Ukraine - away from corruption and political cronyism and into the European Union. "Ukraine will stand against all evil," Yushchenko told the crowd
Under Tyrannyreuters.com/ ... 20:06:34The U.S. Supreme Court ruled on Monday that police do not violate the constitutional right to privacy when a dog sniff of a vehicle during a lawful traffic stop turns up contraband. The justices by a 6-2 vote, in a majority opinion written by Justice John Paul Stevens, set aside an Illinois Supreme Court ruling that such searches required reasonable suspicion of wrongdoing.
Threatspbs.org/ ... 20:00:11"It might come as a surprise to many Americans," says correspondent Lowell Bergman, "But the most pressing threat to the United States is not the suspected Al Qaeda cells at home, but rather the cells operating overseas, especially in Western Europe." Home to an estimated 18 million Muslims, Western Europe has become the new and deadly battleground in the war on terror. That's because disenfranchised Muslims‹inspired by local radical imams and jihadist Web sites‹are taking up the cause of jihad. And Al Qaeda, once just a loose organization on the continent, has morphed into a powerful ideological movement.drudgereport.com/ ... 19:58:56House Ways and Means chairman Rep. Bill Thomas [R-CA] on Sunday claimed Congress should consider looking at Social Security reforms that would payout future benefits -- on such factors as race and gender!seattlepi.nwsource.com/ ... 19:54:29The Pentagon sent its top intelligence official to Capitol Hill on Monday to explain the mission and makeup of a secret battlefield intelligence group that some lawmakers suggested may have skirted congressional oversight and not been coordinated fully with the CIA.
Violenceap.tbo.com/ ... 20:16:29Officials have detained a third person in connection with the September seizure of a southern Russian school by armed militants that ended in death for hundreds of children and adults... did not release the detainee's name, but said he was of Ingush ethnicity. Last week... seven suspected accomplices had been killed in special operations, two arrested and charged, and six put on a federal wanted list....ap.tbo.com/ ... 20:14:13Police using helicopters and horses searched for the body of a kidnapped Dallas restaurateur Monday after a suspect reported that the businessman was killed hours after he was snatched from his car a week ago.reuters.com/ ... 19:41:11A suicide car bomber launched an attack on Monday near a checkpoint on a Baghdad street leading to the office of Prime Minister Iyad Allawi's party, wounding at least seven policemen and three civilians
SUN 2005-JAN-23
Watergate - a bit less with usap.tbo.com/ ... 22:13:48Rose Mary Woods, the devoted secretary to President Nixon who said she inadvertently erased part of a crucial Watergate tape that had an 18 1/2-minute gap, has died. She was 87.
Supernaturalearthtimes.org/ ... 22:13:25James Dobson says SpongeBob Square Pants is "pro-homosexual"...
Lasting Contributionsap.tbo.com/ ... 22:14:22Timeline of significant events in the life of the late Johnny Carsonforbes.com/ ... 22:10:58Johnny Carson: Legendary Late-Night U.S. TV Host Dies At 79... 30-year tenure.. more than 22,000 guests...
Mechanical Disasternews.bbc.co.uk/ ... 10:52:00At least 12 people were killed and 75 hurt when a hospital in the southern Iraqi city of Nasiriya caught fire....
Only Naturalap.tbo.com/ ... 22:18:32 A howling blizzard slammed the Northeast on Sunday with more than 2 feet of snow and hurricane-strength wind gusts, halting air travel for thousands of people, keeping others off slippery highways and burying parked cars under deep drifts.
Human Rightap.tbo.com/ ... 10:52:55 A Las Vegas law prohibiting strippers from fondling customers during lap dances is unconstitutionally vague, a judge ruled.
Violenceap.tbo.com/ ... 22:18:03A convicted sex offender wanted for allegedly kidnapping an 11-year-old boy from his school in Florida was arrested Sunday, two days after the boy was found safe.
Aftermathnews.bbc.co.uk/ ... 10:51:10Relatives of people killed in last year's Russian school siege have halted their blockade of a major highway after promises of talks with a Kremlin chief. About 100 people blocked the road into Beslan for three days, angry that those they hold accountable had not resigned.... say corrupt and inefficient authorities allowed the gangs of pro-Chechen gunmen to pass through police checkpoints and seize Beslan's school... Some protesters are also calling for an independent international investigation into the siege, as they are dissatisfied with the progress of the official Russian inquiry....
Threatsedition.cnn.com/ ... 22:07:05The Pentagon's Defense Intelligence Agency since 2002 has run an intelligence-gathering and support unit that has authority to operate clandestinely anywhere in the world where it is ordered to go in support of anti-terrorism and counter-terrorism missions, a senior defense official said Sunday.reuters.com/ ... 10:52:33Al Qaeda ally Abu Musab al-Zarqawi declared all-out war against Iraq's landmark elections Sundaynews.bbc.co.uk/ ... 10:48:50Two suspected al-Qaeda members have been arrested in Germany... accused of planning suicide attacks and of trying to buy uranium.... One... had allegedly trained at al-Qaeda camps in Afghanistan and had links with Osama Bin Laden.time.com/ ... 10:47:40By the end of February, the White House is expected to double the sum on bin Laden's head, to $50 million....news.xinhuanet.com/ ... 10:45:10Iran on Sunday warned the United States against any attack attempt, saying any aggressive maneuvers against Iran would be a great strategic mistake. "The Islamic republic is fully capable of defending itself...."
Freedomwashingtonpost.com/ ... 10:44:23Viktor Yushchenko was sworn in as president of Ukraine on Sunday, calling his inauguration "a victory of freedom over tyranny,"
SAT 2005-JAN-22
Extraterrestrialcbsnews.com/ ... 23:09:34Titan's rains appear to be liquid methane... plays the same big role on Titan as water does on Earth,... river systems and deltas, protrusions of frozen water ice cut through by channels, apparent dried-out pools where liquid has perhaps drained away, and stones — probably ice pebbles — that appear to have been rounded by erosion.... "There must be some source of methane inside Titan which is releasing the gas into the atmosphere. It has to be continually renewed, otherwise it would have all disappeared," said Toby Owen, a scientist from Honolulu's Institute for Astronomy who was charged with studying the moon's atmosphere. "We've got a flammable world, and it's quite extraordinary..."
Transportap.tbo.com/ ... 22:57:27More than 250 passengers aboard a cruise ship fell ill with a stomach virus while touring the western Caribbean, cruise line officials said Saturday.
Modern Family Lifefoxnews.com/ ... 23:05:03 there is no 'one-size-fits-all' solution to a complex and varied phenomenon like domestic violence. Answers will vary depending on specific situations.ap.tbo.com/ ... 18:29:56SALT LAKE CITY - A Republican state lawmaker countered a Senate colleague's dispersal of an anti-polygamy book by passing out materials to fellow legislators defending the practice as natural and not necessarily harmful.news.bbc.co.uk/ ... 04:57:28In some parts of India there are so few women that men are having to look away from home to secure a bride. ... Experts blame the outlawed practice of female foeticide ... almost a million girl foetuses have been killed because culture and tradition state that boy babies are preferable. ... international charity Plan teamed up with the Indian Government with financial backing from the Edward Greene charity, to produce a soap opera 'Atmajaa' (Born from the Soul) to highlight the problems and to try and change opinion.
Digital Consequencescbsnews.com/ ... 23:14:14In the future world of shopping, customers might encounter: ... Overhead cameras that beam lines of light to help shoppers navigate through store aisles. ... Salesclerks who can tell — instantly — if something is in or out of stock. ... Computers that track customers' buying preferences at department stores. ... worldnetdaily.com/ ... 04:56:09Who made VW suicide-bomber ad? Professional 'viral commercial' spreads like wildfire on Internet
Human Rightfoxnews.com/ ... 23:03:56A decision is near on whether to allow women to buy the morning-after birth control pill over the counter.news.bbc.co.uk/ ... 22:55:39"People think I am drunk because I have had a head injury. If I say I have had no alcohol then they say I must be on drugs. I have been stopped by the police and picked up for being drunk. I get nervous walking past groups of kids because they say things...."cnn.com/ ... 22:48:39Peer Larson, 17, had lined up a dream camp counselor job last June, but honors pre-calculus homework turned his summer into a headache. "It didn't completely ruin my summer, but it did give me a lot of undue stress both at home and at work...." Larson and his father sued... seeking the end of summer homework across the state. They argue that homework shouldn't be required after the required 180-day school year is over....
Only Naturalcbsnews.com/ ... 23:13:14Avalanches may look like soft and powdery snow, but their power can be awesome.... Walls of snow can travel over 200 miles an hour.... "They'll have what we call an air blast running in front of them... It's a powder cloud.... Those air blasts can be so strong, they can lift people off their feet, and throw them up into trees."cbsnews.com/ ... 23:06:54The world's largest iceberg appears to have run aground near Antarctica, posing more problems to scientific bases and penguin colonies, where tens of thousands of chicks face starvationfoxnews.com/ ... 23:03:09Researchers found major differences in the amount of gray and white matter in the brains of men and women of the same intelligence, suggesting that men and women may derive their intelligence in different ways.... The study confirms sex differences in human brains (search), with women having more gray matter than white matter. However, the study also showed that in areas related to intelligence men had much more gray matter, which is typically needed for isolated tasks, such as doing a math problem. Women, on the other hand, had much more white matter, which is necessary for integrating information.ap.tbo.com/ ... 22:57:42Avalanches killed three skiers and critically injured four others Saturday in Austria's Alps, and authorities suspended a search for a missing American snowboarder.news.bbc.co.uk/ ... 18:29:31...17-month-old from Royston, Yorkshire.. only the 33rd person ever to be diagnosed with... congenital indifference to pain, an incredibly rare condition.... could be caused by the failure of a substance called betaendorphin, which occurs naturally in the body and modulates pain sensations....
Great Quake of 2004foxnews.com/ ... 23:03:43Tsunami Deaths of Midwives Causing Obstetric Care Crisisreuters.com/ ... 22:56:15....the first giant wave sucked him out to sea before subsequent waves flung him back onto the tiny island of Pillow Panja where he discovered everyone else from his village was gone....news.bbc.co.uk/ ... 18:28:13A man has been rescued by the Indian navy 25 days after being thrown by the Indian Ocean tsunami on a remote island in the Andaman and Nicobar islands. ..first sucked into the sea and then thrown back onto the shore where he survived on coconuts... exhausted but only slightly injured.
Rebuildingalertnet.org/ ... 22:50:13Conditions for Iraq's election are far from ideal and violence is expected on the day, but the vote will go ahead on Jan. 30 and should be credible, the U.N.'s top election official in Iraq said on Saturday.news.bbc.co.uk/ ... 18:27:15Iraqis living abroad are being given more time to register in the country's election because of a low turnout.
Violencechinadaily.com.cn/ ... 04:57:54 eight Chinese hostages have been freed. ap.tbo.com/ ... 04:24:52An 11-year-old boy was found safe Friday in Georgia, three days after he disappeared with a convicted child molester who had been living with him and his father in Florida.
Threatscbsnews.com/ ... 23:06:04The Army is preparing to send 18... remote-controlled robotic warriors to fight in Iraq beginning in March or April.... SWORDS, short for Special Weapons Observation Reconnaissance Detection Systems, will be the first armed robotic vehicles to see combat...jpost.com/ ... 22:50:33Iraq's interior minister on Saturday refused to comment on rumors that the top terror leader in the country had been taken into custody.csmonitor.com/ ... 22:49:16International counterterrorism authorities are looking for a Moroccan fugitive who may have attended a pivotal meeting with the Sept. 11 plotters and is believed to have played a logistical role in the train bombings last year in Madrid, Spain. The fugitive, Amer Azizi, appears to connect a group of terror operatives and may exemplify Al Qaeda's decentralization - a trend about which US intelligence officials have warned....reuters.com/ ... 18:26:58BOSTON - FBI: ..One of the Chinese nationals sought for questioning in connection with an unspecified, unconfirmed threat against the city of Boston has been in U.S. custody for more than two months... in a U.S. Customs and Border Protection detention facility in the San Diego, California, area... "The investigation thus far does not tie her to any terrorist group."...worldnetdaily.com/ ... 04:55:36U.S. Coalition forces arrested members of an underground armed group operating in Iraq's eastern Diyala province Thursday. Among them was a senior member of the Jerusalem Force carrying $150,000 in cash, said the sources. The Iranian agent, along with an Iraqi insurgent, reportedly revealed during interrogation the location of a group of other Iranian agents working with them and admitted to having smuggled the group and their weapons through the Iran-Iraq border, avoiding security controls.ap.tbo.com/ ... 04:23:50Taser International Inc. has changed how one of its stun gun models delivers its electric charge after some police officers said some combative suspects had been able to regain partial mobility while they were being stunned, the company said Friday. The change will make the X26 stun gun about 14 percent more powerful....
FRI 2005-JAN-21
Transportap.tbo.com/ ... 22:55:31OVERLAND PARK, Kan. - A twin-engine plane with five people believed aboard crashed into a house in a well-to-do neighborhood Friday and exploded with so much force that the blast flipped over a pickup truck. There were no signs of any survivors. No one on the ground was hurt... skidded down a driveway and through a back yard, hurling debris through the windows of several homes, then struck the foundation of a house,..
Rather Embarrassedbroadcastingcable.com/ ... 15:46:46NBC Entertainment president Jeff Zucker slammed rival CBS News over the Bush National Guard scandal, insisting that the story would never have made the air at his network.
Whoops!usatoday.com/ ... 10:45:37The driver of a Dave Matthews Band tour bus was charged Wednesday with dumping 800 pounds of human waste onto a sightseeing boat on the Chicago River last summer.... maximum penalty of one year in jail and a $10,000 fine....
Sex can be Dangerousap.tbo.com/ ... 15:44:47ARVADA, Colo. (AP) - A 40-year-old woman held sex and drug parties with teenage boys, telling police she wanted to be a "cool mom..." provided marijuana, methamphetamine and alcohol to eight boys at parties she hosted at her suburban Denver home in 2003 and 2004... admitted having sex with five of the boys.... told investigators she was not popular in high school and had finally started "feeling like one of the group."...reuters.com/ ... 10:35:33OKLAHOMA CITY - A former state judge, who allegedly used a sex toy called a penis pump in court, was charged with three felony counts of indecent exposure by Oklahoma authorities on Thursday. ...could face up to 10 years in prison for each count....
US Executive Branchfoxnews.com/ ... 15:41:01President Bush's inauguration day speech was a 180-degree turnaround from the pre-2000 election campaign in which he said he didn't believe it was the United States' role to get involved in nation building. But an attack on American soil and an ongoing War on Terror (search) has forced the president to reconsider.columbian.com/ ... 15:39:50What was needed Thursday was what Bush delivered: figurative bull's eyes on the backs of terrorists. Although he acknowledged that some people "have questioned the global appeal of liberty," he stayed on the offensive, accurately linking tyranny to slavery, insisting that people everywhere have "rights and dignity and matchless value," adding "no one is fit to be a master, and no one deserves to be a slave."csmonitor.com/ ... 15:38:21...when Mr. Bush made it clear on Thursday that he was not about to "turn back from his doctrine of taking pre-emptive action, in the interests of American security (or, as he would put it, American freedom)" as the BBC characterized his speech, there was little room for noted British understatement in the headline of the Beeb's stellar roundup – "World press electrified by Bush vision."csmonitor.com/ ... 10:43:11Indeed, a new poll found that, in 18 of 21 countries surveyed, more people considered the world to be less secure because of Mr. Bush's reelection. But not in India. Here, Bush's fresh four years as president of the United States is given a firm thumbs up. And no, that doesn't mean something rude in Indian culture.reuters.com/ ... 10:37:05The unidentified man who embarrassed police by sneaking past inauguration security four years ago to get a handshake from President Bush was arrested on Thursday before he had a chance to get another presidential grip.seattlepi.nwsource.com/ ... 10:27:09Senate Democrats denied President Bush the opportunity to begin his second term yesterday with the confirmation of two major Cabinet appointees -- Condoleezza Rice and Alberto Gonzales.
the Senate moved swiftly to confirm the nominations of former Nebraska Gov. Mike Johanns to be secretary of agriculture and White House domestic adviser Margaret Spellings to be secretary of education....
Preternatural Patternsreuters.com/ ... 10:34:19A Czech man... hid in a restaurant washroom until the employees had left and then... "He had broken the door of the cooling mechanism ... and detached the hoses leading from the keg, squashed them in his mouth and literally filled himself up with beer...." Cleaning staff found him drunk and lying on the floor of the bar at the restaurant...drudgereport.com/ ... 10:32:04A Guinea pig and rabbit purchased from a Geauga County pet store ended up on plates at a Cleveland area high school. A 16-year-old student.. an active hunter.. skinned and cooked the animals during a living skills class on Wednesday, prompting student and parent complaints.... The hunt... usually doesn't take place at Pet Supplies Plus....ap.tbo.com/ ... 00:29:44Costco shoppers were offered an online deal this month - an original Picasso. The crayon-on-paper drawing of a face signed and dated by Pablo Picasso was listed for $39,999.99 on the retailer's Web site Jan. 12. It sold Wednesday
History - still with usap.tbo.com/ ... 00:28:12JPMorgan Chase & Co. is the first company to acknowledge that two of its predecessor banks had specific links to the slave trade. The filing was meant to comply with a Chicago ordinance requiring such disclosures.
1960s - still with usrealitytvworld.com/ ... 00:25:38A New York judge says Spider-Man creator Stan Lee is entitled to 10 percent of the profits from movies and toys based on the superheroes he created... Marvel says it will appeal.... Kirby? DItko? etc etc??
US Military Casualtiesdefenselink.mil/ ... 10:46:54[flag]Army Capt. Christopher J. Sullivan, 29, of Princeton, Mass., died Jan. 18 in Baghdad, Iraq, when an improvised explosive device detonated near his parked vehicle.defenselink.mil/ ... 10:46:37[flag]Army Pfc. Jesus Fonseca, 19, of Marietta, Ga., died Jan. 17 in Ar Ramadi, Iraq, when a vehicle-borne improvised explosive device detonated near his position.
Human Rightworldnetdaily.com/ ... 10:43:31German Christians who choose to homeschool their children are coming under continued enforcement action by the government, with one group of families fearful they may lose custody of their kids.
Only Naturalnews.telegraph.co.uk/ ... 10:46:07An asteroid impact did not cause the "Great Dying", when most of the planet's species became extinct 250 million years ago, scientists say today. Instead, two new studies suggest high temperatures, toxic gases and low oxygen triggered by intense volcanic activity were to blame.reuters.com/ ... 10:36:24LOS ANGELES - Hundreds of jumbo squid washed up dead over the last two days in one of southern California's most popular beach communities
Violencepost-gazette.com/ ... 22:54:05Three 11-year-old boys and a 10-year-old girl tried to hijack their school bus near Punxsutawney this morning. ...one of the boys pulled a knife from a book bag and held it near another student. He demanded [the] driver ...stop and get off the bus. .. she pulled over.. and "the knife was removed from the juvenile's possession." ..doesn't say how....reuters.com/ ... 15:52:14A group led by al Qaeda ally Abu Musab al-Zarqawi beheaded two Iraqis who said they worked at a U.S. base in Iraq and the group posted an Internet video of the killings on Friday.kold.com/ ... 15:51:30The body of his alleged victim.... 19-year old Megan Holden... was found in Stanton, Texas. Stanton is about 9 hours from Willcox. Holden was a college student working as a cashier at a Tyler, Texas Wal-Mart.wavy.com/ ... 15:36:04Iraq Hospital officials say at least four people are dead and 16 others wounded after a suicide bomber blew up an ambulance south of Baghdad. Officials say the bystanders were celebrating a wedding when today's attack happened. It's not clear whether the bride and groom are among the victims.edition.cnn.com/ ... 10:29:33Police in Tyler, Texas, said a man believed to have abducted a Wal-Mart cashier Wednesday was arrested Friday nearly 1,000 miles away in Willcox, Arizona. ...was spotted getting out of the red truck believed to belong to [the] 19-year-old [cashier]... taken into custody after he went into a Willcox hospital to be treated for gunshot wounds.... [her] whereabouts remain unknown....financegates.com/ ... 10:24:54...car bombing in Baghdad took the lives of al least 14 people and injured another 40... outside a Shiite mosque... as the Muslims were celebrating Eid al-Adha, or Feast of Sacrifice, a major holiday in Islam....news.bbc.co.uk/ ... 00:24:06Six Mexican prison guards have been found shot dead outside one of the country's maximum security prisons. Their bodies were discovered outside the Matamoros Penitentiary, on Mexico's northern border with Texas. This comes after a government crackdown on prisons over fears that drug gangs wield too much power inside jails.
Under Tyrannynews.bbc.co.uk/ ... 00:22:40China's students changed by Tiananmen
Threatsisn.ethz.ch/ ... 10:29:56US Vice-President Dick Cheney called Iran a major threat to world peace on Thursday, accusing Tehran of developing a nuclear weapons program and of sponsoring terrorism.turnto10.com/ ... 10:25:15The list of names linked to a tip about a possible terror threat against Boston continues to grow. There are now 13 Chinese nationals, two Iraqis and one man of unknown nationality being sought for questioning.reuters.com/ ... 00:21:34The FBI added 10 names to a list of four Chinese nationals it is seeking to question in connection with an unspecified potential threat to the city of Boston
THU 2005-JAN-20
Sex can be Dangerousreuters.com/ ... 14:44:59Brazil, one of the Latin American countries hardest hit by the AIDS epidemic, will hand out a record 11 million condoms to prevent the spread of the disease during its erotically charged Carnival festival when casual sex rises.reuters.com/ ... 14:43:18Antwerp will dim the bright new lights along the Belgian port city's waterfront after prostitutes complained they were putting off potential clients.reuters.com/ ... 14:42:11Police are searching for a pistol-wielding robber who stole female leather bondage gear and an inflatable sex doll from an erotica store in Milan Wednesday.
WW2 - still with usreuters.com/ ... 14:40:53Jerzy Afanasjew's body tenses and his eyes close when he recalls the day he crawled out from the overcrowded cattle train as a 14-year-old boy to begin a six-month nightmare. "What was Auschwitz? It was hell. Hell. A death factory," he says in a measured pace. "If you weren't gassed, you were exhausted to death, if you weren't exhausted to death, you starved, if you didn't starve, you died of disease." Afanasjew is one of a dwindling group of people who, by chance or cunning, cheated death at Auschwitz. ... On Jan. 27, hundreds of survivors and dozens of world leaders will commemorate the 60th anniversary of the camp's liberation by the Soviet army and pay homage to the estimated 1.5 million people, mostly Jews, murdered there by the Nazis....
Preternatural Patternsrgj.com/ ... 18:20:13..50-year-old Reno man ..castrated himself to lower his libido.. learned of the procedure on the Internet... ..called 911.. because he could not stop the bleeding....cnn.law.printthis.clickability.com/ ... 14:32:07ROSWELL, New Mexico -- A routine traffic stop Wednesday led to the discovery of more than 60 sick and hungry cats in the back of a moving van driven by a 71-year-old woman.
Whoops!reuters.com/ ... 14:45:44A crack cocaine dealer who forgot a backpack containing C$91,000 in a Winnipeg mall was arrested after he tried to reclaim the bag at the mall's lost-and-found desk.ap.tbo.com/ ... 14:41:19Boston University confirmed that three researchers who fell ill last year had been exposed to a potentially lethal bacterium, and a local health official said the city should have been notified sooner. The three scientists recovered fully after receiving antibiotics.reuters.myway.com/ ... 14:31:07Harvard University President Lawrence Summers has written a lengthy apology, admitting he was wrong to suggest women do not have the same natural ability in math and sciences as men.
Extraterrestrialspace.com/ ... 14:17:14MARS -- ...Roughly the size of a basketball, the object is mostly made of iron and nickel, and is the first meteorite of any type ever identified on another planet... calling attention to several questions, such as: How common are meteorites at Meridiani? What does the concentration of meteorites tell us about erosion rates on the plains?...
Transportcbs2chicago.com/ ... 13:23:01Chicago -- Firefighters have successfully put out a a fire on the Southwest Side after a violent explosion ripped through an oil barge that was floating in the Sanitary and Ship Canal just east of Cicero Avenue drawbridge... not known whether there any casualities...
Supernaturalnews.bbc.co.uk/ ... 14:37:55US conservative groups are up in arms over a music video featuring children's TV heroes such as the cheerful cartoon character SpongeBob SquarePants. Focus on the Family and other groups say the video - a remake of the Sister Sledge hit, We Are Family - is a vehicle for pro-gay propaganda.... SpongeBob.. is seen as an icon for adult gay men in the US, apparently because he regularly holds hands with his sidekick Patrick..... conservatives.. point to the fact that the [video's producer] is linked to a pledge being promoted by some liberal groups which includes a recognition of tolerance of sexual identity. [GASP! HOW UNGODLY!]....boston.com/ ... 14:26:46...In a speech at a fund-raising dinner for a Boston-based organization that promotes faith-based solutions to social problems, [Sen Hillary] Clinton said there has been a "false division" between faith-based approaches to social problems and respect for the separation of church of state. "There is no contradiction between support for faith-based initiatives and upholding our constitutional principles...." Clinton invoked God more than half a dozen times, at one point declaring, "I've always been a praying person."...worldnetdaily.com/ ... 13:22:24A resident of Vermont who had his request for a custom "JOHN316" license plate rejected filed a federal lawsuit against Department of Motor Vehicles officials yesterday.
US Executive Branchiol.co.za/ ... 14:41:49Full text of Bush's inauguration addresswashingtontimes.com/ ... 14:22:02Inaugural price tag in line with history... a review of the cost for past inaugurations shows Mr. Bush's will cost less than President Clinton's second inauguration in 1997... When the cost is adjusted for inflation, Mr. Clinton's second-term celebration exceeds Mr. Bush's by about 25%.... The significant majority of funding for this year's festivities... are from private donations and tickets for events... apnews.myway.com/ ... 13:20:04The Senate Foreign Relations Committee voted Wednesday to confirm Condoleezza Rice as secretary of state.... She was confirmed by a 16-2 vote with Democrats John Kerry of Massachusetts and Barbara Boxer of California voting no....
US Election 2004foxnews.com/ ... 13:17:40Two firms that conducted Election Day exit polls for major news organizations reported Wednesday that they found a number of problems with the way the polls were carried out last year, resulting in estimates that overstated John Kerry's share of the vote... Democratic challenger's supporters were more likely than President Bush's supporters to participate in exit polls interviews [and] more errors occurred in exit polls conducted by younger interviewers, and about half of the interviewers were 34 or under.
Human Rightreuters.com/ ... 14:50:18 An Italian man who slapped a young woman on the bottom while she was making a telephone call has been handed a 14-month suspended jail term by the Supreme Court... The aggressor.. told the court that the victim was a relative, who had invented the story to get revenge in a family feud.
The tough sentence made headlines in Italy where judges have been cracking down on sexual harassment with a string of ground-breaking verdicts against unsolicited advances. A man in northern Italy was fined 300 euros ($392.5) last year for sending a flirtatious text message to a woman. In the past such cases would rarely have made their way into the courts of a country renowned for its macho society....
Reasons for Repealreuters.com/ ... 14:48:43...Police in the English city of Bristol said Tuesday they have been advising pub and nightclub owners to spray [WD-40] on toilet seats and other flat surfaces in the lavatory that customers often use to snort drugs. Apparently, cocaine and spray lube don't mix... "Its not meant to be ingested. It says so clearly on the can so we wouldn't advocate it for that purpose. But people will use it how they will," said a British spokeswoman for the San Diego, Calif-based WD-40 Co.
Only Naturalnews.bbc.co.uk/ ... 14:39:13The amount of fresh water entering the Arctic Ocean from the rivers that feed it is increasing... could change the global distribution of water... could also affect the balance of the climate system itself and even possibly alter the behaviour of the Gulf Stream... All tied to "global warming" and blamed on industrial humanity as if these were proven facts, of course.apnews.myway.com/ ... 14:34:07A woman in northeastern Brazil has given birth to what one doctor called a "giant baby," a boy weighing 16.7 pounds.... healthy... "Obviously.. by Caesarean section..." "..born weighing what a six-month-old-baby normally weighs..." four [siblings].. who were born weighing between 7.7 pounds and 11 pounds.nature.com/ ... 14:18:57Moderate alcohol consumption protects women from cognitive decline.
Great Quake of 2004reuters.myway.com/ ... 13:16:08The global death toll from the Asian tsunami shot above 226,000 Wednesday after Indonesia's Health Ministry confirmed the deaths of tens of thousands of people previously listed as missing.
US Militarydefenselink.mil/ ... 13:15:43 This week, the Army, Air Force, Marine Corps and Navy announced an overall decrease in the number of reservists on active duty in support of the partial mobilization, while the Coast Guard number remained the same. The net collective result is 868 fewer reservists mobilized than last week.
US Military Casualtiesdefenselink.mil/ ... 13:14:59[flag]Army Staff Sgt. Thomas E. Vitagliano, 33, of New Haven, Conn., died Jan. 17 in Ar Ramadi, Iraq, when a vehicle-borne improvised explosive device detonated near his position.
Arrmy Pfc. George R. Geer, 27, of Cortez, Colo., died Jan. 17 in Ar Ramadi, Iraq, when a vehicle-borne improvised explosive device detonated near his position.
Under Tyrannyreuters.com/ ... 14:46:14Cuba, the land of the fine cigar, will ban smoking in enclosed public spaces starting next month.
Violencenews.bbc.co.uk/ ... 14:34:53Afghan warlord General Abdul Rashid Dostum has survived an assassination attempt by a suicide bomber. He was not hurt when the attacker blew himself up outside a mosque in the northern town of Sheberghan where the general had been praying. About 20 others were wounded. The Taleban said it carried out the attack to avenge the killing of its members.
Freedomapnews.myway.com/ ... 14:30:32Bush: spreading freedom is not "primarily the task of arms... Our goal instead is to help others find their own voice, attain their own freedom, and make their own way,"
Disinformation Propaganda & Spinreuters.myway.com/ ... 14:29:18Iraqi militants said on Thursday they would fight for "months and years" to free their country from U.S.-led occupation [Translation: They want to destroy the opportunity for Iraqi self-government which the US has created and replace it with their own Theocratic or other tyranny.]
Rebuildingnews.yahoo.com/ ... 14:24:46Vice President Dick Cheney said Thursday that he overestimated the pace of Iraq's recovery from the U.S.-led invasion because he didn't realize the lasting devastation wrought by Saddam Hussein on his people after the first Gulf War
Threatsworldnetdaily.com/ ... 13:13:13Officials in Boston are dealing with a possible nuclear terror threat after receiving word that a number of illegal aliens were smuggled into the U.S., and would be headed to the Massachusetts capital, possibly with nuclear material.
WED 2005-JAN-19
Preternatural Patternsananova.com/ ... 04:14:47Because she is officially dead the now 24-year-old girl has to wait for a court decision which will confirm she is alive while police are trying to find the real identity of the dead woman.
Modern Family Lifeabcnews.go.com/ ... 04:16:58Authorities in San Francisco are baffled by the case of an unidentified little boy found in a city playground. ...does not know his name or where he is from ...about 3 ½ years old and is developmentally delayed with speech problems.... Oct. 22.. police found him at a park with a woman they said was behaving erratically. ..took her to San Francisco General Hospital for a psychiatric evaluation. .. woman was eventually released and was told to appear in court several days later to claim her son.. she never showed up, and because she provided false names for her and the boy, authorities have no way to track her down....cbsnews.com/ ... 04:12:41They're housewives, workaholics, PTA members and ... rock stars? Women fighting to shatter the stay-at-home-mom stereotype and rediscover their youthful voice are forming bands, such as Housewives on Prozac in suburban New York, Frump in Dallas and Placenta in Oakland, Calif.
Digital Threatcanadaeast.com/ ... 04:11:17The FBI has effectively abandoned its custom-built Internet surveillance technology, once known as Carnivore, designed to read e-mails and other online communications among suspected criminals, terrorists and spies, bureau oversight reports submitted to Congress said. Instead, the FBI said it has switched to unspecified commercial software to eavesdrop on computer traffic during such investigations and has increasingly asked Internet providers to conduct wiretaps on targeted customers on the government's behalf, reimbursing companies for their costs.
Transportap.tbo.com/ ... 03:29:04An Air Force training jet and a small plane collided Tuesday over southwestern Oklahoma, killing the plane's pilot, authorities said. Both military pilots parachuted to safety.... The private plane was a crop-duster being flown from its manufacturer to its new owner in South Dakota, said a spokesman for the Texas manufacturer, Air Tractor....
Only Naturalananova.com/ ... 04:13:52A 63-year-old man who hasn't slept for more than two decades has been told there is nothing wrong with him by doctors.... "I thought it would just be a phase but its gone on for over 20 years now and I've simply had to get used to it...."
US Military Casualtiesdefenselink.mil/ ... 04:12:02[flag]Army Pfc. Francis C. Obaji, 21, of Queens Village, N.Y., died Jan. 17 in the 86th Combat Support Hospital in Baghdad, Iraq, after he was involved in a motor vehicle accident Jan. 16 in Baghdad, Iraq.
Reasons for Repealnews.bbc.co.uk/ ... 03:27:09A hallucinogenic drug popular in the 1960s... ibogaine... could help scientists find a medical treatment for alcoholism
Violenceap.tbo.com/ ... 03:29:21U.S. soldiers opened fire on a car as it approached their checkpoint in northern Iraq, killing two civilians in the vehicle's front seats, the military said Wednesday. Six children riding in the backseat.news.xinhuanet.com/ ... 03:26:08Two separate car bomb attacks rocked the Australian embassy and a police station in Baghdad on Wednesday morning, killing at least eight people and wounding several others
Threatsnews.com.au/ ... 03:26:22PALESTINIAN security forces will be deployed along the border between the Gaza Strip and Israel this week after newly-elected leader Mahmud Abbas gave orders to prevent militant attacks.washingtonpost.com/ ... 03:12:02A man threatening to blow up his van waged a standoff with authorities a short distance from the White House yesterday, triggering the evacuation of several blocks of downtown on the first day of inaugural activities. ...ended peacefully about four hours later, did not appear to be related to terrorism or the inauguration but instead to a family matter... four-hour standoff snarled rush-hour traffic downtown on the first of four days of inaugural events.... Police said that they found homemade "devices" that appeared to be hazardous in the van....
TUE 2005-JAN-18
Supernaturaldailyherald.com/ ... 21:27:36...At 9:30 a.m. Saturday, Andrew saw a clear, plastic bag about 20 feet from the entrance of the Super Target store at Winfield and Diehl roads in Warrenville. The cash -- which ultimately added up to $9,000 -- was clearly visible in the bag. "I just noticed the bag and picked it up... You could see the money inside. I was just amazed.... I walked in and the first thing I went to was customer service and dropped it right there."... the money was dropped by United Armored Services, which had made a stop at the store.... Andrew, a seventh-grader at Hill Middle School in Naperville, said he didn't even think of keeping the money. "It would leave a tarnish on your conscience the rest of your life...."
Cold War - still with usbalticsww.com/ ... 15:54:26StalinWorld
...an unlikely theme park provoking laughter—and outrage—in Lithuania. You may have thought Disneyland and Stalin-era mass deportations had nothing in common. They do now—thanks to
enterprising Lithuanian Viliumas Malinauskas....
Future is Nowjuneauempire.com/ ... 21:29:07...the humanoid machine he's building will shoot nine-inch nails from the shoulders and 20-foot flames from the forearms. "You've got to have flame-throwers!" ...red backlit eyes of his 18-foot hydraulic mecha.. will glow.. just for show. Five cameras will be the real eyes, allowing the operator riding inside the steel contraption to see via a laptop computer and flatscreen monitor rigged inside. When it's all done, he'll have a walking exoskeleton that will make him stronger than a grizzly bear....news.bbc.co.uk/ ... 15:49:49Tiny robots powered by living muscle have been created by scientists at the University of California... formed by "growing" rat cells on microscopic silicon chips... Less than a millimetre long, the miniscule robots can move themselves without any external source of power... a dramatic example of the marriage of biotechnology with the tiny world of nanotechnology....
Preternatural Patternsau.news.yahoo.com/ ... 15:33:55Modern clothes are unwearable and the fashion industry has been disfigured by big business and nudity, says legendary designer Pierre Cardin.
Justice?billingsgazette.com/ ... 15:52:29A federal judge this week convicted a Gardiner woman who encouraged her toddler daughter to smoke marijuana... faces up to 10 years in prison and a $250,000 fine... a key prosecution witness described how she photographed Durham holding a water pipe while her 18-month-old daughter put her mouth over the top... turned Durham in to authorities...
US Military Casualtiesdefenselink.mil/ ... 15:46:23[flag]Marine Cpl. Paul C. Holter III, 21, of Corpus Christi, Texas, died Jan. 14, due to a non-combat related incident at Camp Ramadi, Iraq.defenselink.mil/ ... 15:46:03[flag]Marine Sgt. Jayton D. Patterson, 26, of Sedley, Va., died Jan. 15 as result of hostile action in Babil Province, Iraq.defenselink.mil/ ... 15:45:34[flag]Army Sgt. Nathaniel T. Swindell, 24, of Bronx, N.Y., died Jan. 15 in Mosul, Iraq, from a non-combat related injury.
Only Naturalapnews.myway.com/ ... 13:20:32Thermometers registered a low of 54 degrees below zero at Embarrass, Minn.
Human Rightnews.com.com/ ... 13:15:29Harvard University's president, who offended some women at an academic conference last week by suggesting that innate differences in sex may explain why fewer women succeed in science and math careers, stood by his comments Monday but said he regretted if they were misunderstood.
Great Quake of 2004reuters.co.uk/ ... 13:12:57Earthquakes, floods and other natural disasters could kill millions in the world's teeming megacities and time is running out to prevent such a catastrophe, the United Nations point man on emergency relief said on Tuesday.
Under Tyrannynews.telegraph.co.uk/ ... 15:48:32The first known visual evidence of dissent within the world's most secretive state emerged yesterday when video footage taken in a North Korean factory showed a portrait of the dictator, Kim Jong-il, defaced with graffiti demanding freedom and democracy. ... a poster of Kim scrawled over with the words: "Down with Kim Jong-il. Let's all rise to drive out the dictatorial regime.''
Disinformation Propaganda & Spinworldtribune.com/ ... 14:44:22Media's coverage has distorted world's view of Iraqi reality -- By LTC Tim Ryan, Commander, Task Force 2-12 Cavalry, First Cavalry Division in Iraq. He led troops into battle in Fallujah late last year and is now involved in security operations for the upcoming elections. He wrote the following during "down time" after the Fallujah operation.
Threatsworldnetdaily.com/ ... 21:30:28Iran gives Cuba 20 million in euro creditreuters.myway.com/ ... 21:30:14Iran Says It Has Military Might to Deter Any Attacknydailynews.com/ ... 21:29:44Al Qaeda is "heavily damaged," constantly on the run and so financially strapped that it is having trouble making payments to the families of its dead fighters, the Daily News has learned. The terror group remains determined, however, to attack the U.S.....thescotsman.scotsman.com/ ... 15:47:07...fears emerged over the safety of aid workers in Indonesia’s shattered Aceh province. Denmark said it had information that "imminent" terror attacks were planned against aid workers in Aceh, where United States and other foreign troops have joined relief teams clearing rubble from the 26 December disaster which killed 115,000 in that province alone.indiadaily.com/ ... 13:14:18Iran has dismissed a report in the US media that US commandos are conducting missions on Iranian territory to identify targets for possible strikes.... said it would be naive to believe the report, which he called psychological warfare... [But that makes no sense... Hersh & The New Yorker have consistently been against Bush policy!]
Violenceboston.com/ ... 13:12:32A Catholic archbishop kidnapped in Iraq was released Tuesday without payment of ransom, the Vatican said. The prelate said his kidnappers didn't realize who he was... 'I am truly, and, like a son, grateful to the pope, by whom I felt strongly supported in this very new situation for me.... The kidnappers themselves told me this morning about his appeal, which I maintain was a decisive factor in my liberation.''
MON 2005-JAN-17
Modern Family Lifecanada.com/ ... 12:26:19The Grade 7 girls spent 12 hours polishing their routine to "Lady Marmalade"... Grammy-winning song by Christina Aguilera, Lil' Kim, Pink and Mya... only to have their Kerrisdale Elementary principal shut them down... Mother: "This song is a very innocent song...." At particular issue was the song's chorus in French: "Voulez vous coucher avec moi?" It translates to "Will you go to bed with me?"... "We weren't, like, doing anything suggestive"... All the songs on the radio now, you can't find one that doesn't have swearing on it. All the songs are inappropriate to principals. Our parents were all OK with us doing it to this song...." Other parents may not have been so pleased to see the 12-year-old girls dancing to a song about a prostitute from the PG-13 movie Moulin Rouge, said principal Carol Andison.
WW2 - still with usnews.bbc.co.uk/ ... 12:11:11Monday marks the 60th anniversary of the disappearance of Swedish diplomat Raoul Wallenberg, who helped to save tens of thousands of Hungarian Jews from the Nazis. More than a decade after he vanished from Budapest, the USSR acknowledged that he had been seized by Soviet troops. The authorities said he had died in a Russian prison, but the circumstances of his death are still shrouded in mystery.
Preternatural Patternsguardian.co.uk/ ... 12:09:48...the people of Birmingham are finding it difficult to laugh off the possibility that a vampire could be lurking in the city. Stories about a man who stalks the streets, sinking his teeth into passers-by, began to emerge from the Ward End area of the city last month.... "To date we have not received any reports from people stating they have been bitten. This appears to be an urban myth..." Father Anthony Rohan of the Holy Family Catholic church in Small Heath: "I'm not worried, though. I've got a lot of crucifixes in the house."
Sex can be Dangerousreuters.com/ ... 02:37:43 A 66-year-old Romanian woman gave birth to a baby girl Sunday after years of fertility treatment and was claimed by Romanian media to be the world's oldest mother ever.news.xinhuanet.com/ ... 02:36:58Dr. John Ross, of Boston's Caritas St. Elizabeth's Medical Center: Shakespeare's obsessive interest in syphilis, his clinically exact knowledge of its manifestations, the final poems of the sonnets, and contemporary gossip all suggest that he was infected with the infinite malady -- the French pox, later termed syphilis.
Transportnews.bbc.co.uk/ ... 12:10:07An Indian train fire that killed 59 Hindus and provoked deadly religious riots in 2002 was started by accident, a government inquiry has said.drudgereport.com/ ... 12:06:51Interior pix of new superjumbo AirBusnews.xinhuanet.com/ ... 02:34:54Two carriages of Bangkok subway collided at about 9:30 a.m. Monday, injuring more than 130 passengers.
Only Naturalhalifaxherald.com/ ... 12:24:11...the first time in over 20 years that giant squid have been recovered off Newfoundland...
Great Quake of 2004reuters.myway.com/ ... 12:08:07A mass e-mail posing as a plea for aid to help the victims of last month's Asian tsunami disaster is actually a vehicle for spreading a computer virus... The worm appears with the subject line: "Tsunami donation! Please help!"...drudgereport.com/ ... 12:07:34Some 12,000 residents fled the coastal Chilean town of Concepcion early Monday, on false rumors that the town was about to be struck by a tsunami. Authorities said a 68-year old woman died of a heart attack in the mass exodus overnight, after several fishermen reported said the sea appeared to withdraw from the coastline -- a sign that a tidal wave is gathering.
Under Tyrannynews.bbc.co.uk/ ... 12:10:37China is facing calls to reassess its suppression of the 1989 student protests after the death of purged Communist Party leader Zhao Ziyang.
Threatsdefenselink.mil/ ... 12:20:24PENTAGON DISPUTES HERSH NEW YORKER ARTICLE: Mr. Hersh’s article is so riddled with errors of fundamental fact that the credibility of his entire piece is destroyed. abcnews.go.com/ ... 12:06:17Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas ordered his security forces Monday to try to prevent attacks against Israel and to investigate a shooting at a Gaza Strip crossing that killed six Israeli civilians last week.nydailynews.com/ ... 12:05:56 U.S. commandos are hunting for secret nuclear and chemical weapons sites and other targets in Iran, and have a plan to turn the hard-line Islamic country into the next front in the war on terrorism. "It's not if we're going to do anything against Iran. They're doing it," an ex-intelligence official tells this week's issue of The New Yorker.... "We've declared war and the bad guys, wherever they are, are the enemy," the official tells Hersh. "This is the last hurrah - we've got four years and want to come out of this saying we won the war on terrorism."...
Rebuildingap.tbo.com/ ... 02:38:27Thousands of Iraqi expatriates were expected to head to one of five U.S. cities Monday to register for their homeland's first independent election in nearly 50 years, with some traveling hundreds of miles to participate in the historic event.
Violenceap.tbo.com/ ... 02:39:12Pakistanis were facing gas shortages on Sunday following a wave of rocket attacks blamed on ethnic militants against pipelines and other natural gas facilities in a remote southern regionap.tbo.com/ ... 02:38:53 U.S. troops staged a series of raids in Mosul and elsewhere in northern and central Iraq on Sunday, arresting dozensap.tbo.com/ ... 02:38:03Two Iraqi government auditors were shot to death after armed gunmen stopped their car in an area southeast of Baghdadreuters.com/ ... 02:37:21 Insurgents detonated a suicide car bomb at police headquarters in the Iraqi town of Baiji on Monday, killing at least seven people, and shot dead eight Iraqi soldiers at a checkpoint
SUN 2005-JAN-16
US Inauguration 2005time.com/ ... 13:04:05A document seized from al-Qaeda lays out a plan to use limos to deliver bombs
Future is Nownews.bbc.co.uk/ ... 13:02:46...Their interest in the future started when they stumbled on a 100-year-old catalogue from a department store in a place called Frankfort in Kansas, 400 miles deeper into the Great Plains, and even flatter than Wisconsin... Intrigued by the profusion of goods available in 1907 in a hick town of 1,200 people in the middle of nowhere, they investigated further... They found that 100 years ago the town of Frankfort had four department stores with huge choice... The town also had six banks, a daily newspaper, a racetrack. It had an opera house, a Scottish millionaire and its own Afro-American enclave... And the more the Draveses examined the story of Frankfort, the more they realised there was nothing unusual about it at all... Eleven miles away, there was another town, with its own stores and its own opera house... Eleven miles marked out these places across the Plains, the distance a horse and buggy could comfortably cover, and return home, in a single day.... But in about 1910, something happened to Frankfort... In faraway Detroit, Henry Ford started cranking out Model T Fords on his revolutionary new production line....
Digital Consequencesap.tbo.com/ ... 13:00:37High-tech companies don't release products anymore, they provide solutions. And those solutions don't simply run a program or play a song. Instead, they enable experiences, optimize agility or make people's passions come alive. Say what?ap.tbo.com/ ... 13:00:10Some Overused Tech Buzzwords.. Solution.. Bandwidth.. Paradigm.. Scalable.. Synergy.. Robust.. World-class, best-of-breed, bleeding-edge, state-of-the-art.. E-anything.. Win-win..
1960s - still with usap.tbo.com/ ... 03:03:19 An award-winning black journalist convicted of murder three times by all-white juries in the 1961 death of a bank teller was set free after a racially-mixed jury found him guilty of manslaughter.... allows his release for time already served... "I'm still trying to assess it... It's unreal. It's all so new."... He never denied killing his victim, who was white. His lawyers contended he panicked after a botched bank robbery and stabbed her impulsively amid Louisiana's 1960s-era climate of racial hostility....
Supernaturalnews.bbc.co.uk/ ... 03:00:34[And I would have gotten away with it, too, if it weren't for those darn kids... and that dog!] An Austrian man who came to believe his estate was haunted has found relief after a court jailed the ghost. Echoing footsteps in hallways and slamming doors late at night had made the owner increasingly jittery. He called in the police, who captured a 42-year-old Polish woman on video, masquerading as a ghost over a period of weeks, making mysterious noises....
Whoops!ap.tbo.com/ ... 20:12:27A dentist found the source of the toothache Patrick Lawler was complaining about on the roof of his mouth: a four-inch nail the construction worker had unknowingly embedded in his skull six days earlier.reuters.com/ ... 01:19:27U.S.-led forces, using Iraq's ancient city of Babylon as a military base, have caused "substantial damage" to one of the world's most renowned archaeological treasures, a British Museum report said.ap.tbo.com/ ... 01:18:03CHICAGO - A parent accused of sending out a fake press release defaming a high school baseball coach who had cut his son from the team has been ordered to pay the coach nearly $800,000.
Mechanical Disasterap.tbo.com/ ... 01:17:25ANDERSON, Ind. - Thousands of people evacuated because of a magnesium fire at a recycling plant were allowed to return home Saturday, but the blaze still could take days to burn itself out.
Only Naturalap.tbo.com/ ... 20:13:13Search teams digging through tons of snow Sunday found the body of one of five people feared buried by a powerful avalanche in an area that skiers had been warned to avoid.
US Militaryap.tbo.com/ ... 20:12:48President Bush says the U.S. military will pull out of Iraq "as quickly as possible," but he is not endorsing Secretary of State Colin Powell's statement that troops could begin returning home this year.ap.tbo.com/ ... 20:10:01A Marine who killed one town police officer and wounded another one was a gang member who was high on cocaine, not a combat veteran suffering from post-traumatic stress, police said... discounting a theory.. [of] "suicide by cop"... "we found he wasn't due to go back to Iraq, never faced combat situations and never even fired his gun..." also uncovered ties to.. gang....aberdeennews.com/ ... 03:18:27Pfc. Gunnar Becker's death article in AberdeenNews.com... had been in Iraq for 11 months, according to a statement from the family... He was a 2003 graduate of Artesian-Letcher High School....
US Military Casualtiesdefenselink.mil/ ... 03:08:11[flag]Army Pfc. Gunnar D. Becker, 19, of Forestburg, S.D., died Jan. 13 in Mosul, Iraq, of non-combat related injuries.defenselink.mil/ ... 03:07:49[flag]Marine Lance Cpl. Matthew W. Holloway, 21, of Fulton, Texas
[flag]Marine Lance Cpl. Juan R. Rodriguez Velasco, 23, of El Cenizo, Texas
died Jan. 13 from injuries received as a result of enemy action in Al Anbar Province, Iraq. defenselink.mil/ ... 03:06:41[flag]Army Sgt. 1st Class Brian A. Mack, 36, of Phoenix, Ariz., died Jan. 13 in Mosul, Iraq, when his military vehicle was hit by an improvised explosive device.
Great Quake of 2004estripes.com/ ... 13:04:33Last month’s deadly tsunami wreaked havoc underwater too: Waves smashed navigation buoys, dragged sandbars into shipping channels, lifted reefs and other obstacles hundreds of feet in some spots and tossed debris everywhere. Navy cartographers say navigation through the Indian Ocean will be problematic for years....columbiatribune.com/ ... 01:19:56The Bush administration unveiled a $37.5 million plan yesterday to erect a tsunami warning system designed to protect both the Pacific and Atlantic coasts by mid-2007.
World Without Bordersstory.news.yahoo.com/ ... 13:05:36Border Patrol agents have snared 33,000 criminals -- most of them along the 2,000-mile border with Mexico -- since the digital fingerprinting system linking immigration and FBI databases went live nationwide in early September... no would-be bombers but thousands of other criminals, including murderers, kidnappers and sex offenders...
Aftermathap.tbo.com/ ... 03:01:36About 60 Afghans held at Guantanamo Bay have been brought back to their country and will be freed on Sunday, the Afghan Supreme Court said.
Threatsnews.yahoo.com/ ... 20:10:45US Senator Edward Kennedy: America's ongoing military entanglement in Iraq has become President George Bush's Vietnam....iranfocus.com/ ... 13:04:49A photo showing Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, the Jordanian born mastermind behind the latest spate of bombings in Iraq, standing with senior commanders of Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) was seen by Jordan's King Abdullah II last month, according to an Algerian journalist.news.bbc.co.uk/ ... 13:03:27The Palestine Liberation Organisation (PLO) has called for an end to attacks by militant groups against Israel.reuters.com/ ... 12:57:33The United States has been conducting secret reconnaissance missions inside Iran to help identify potential nuclear, chemical and missile targets, The New Yorker magazine reported Sunday.reuters.com/ ... 12:57:13Saddam Hussein's former agents are funding a sophisticated alliance with foreign Muslim militants to carry out vicious attacks on polling stations during Iraq's elections, the deputy prime minister said on Sunday.news.xinhuanet.com/ ... 02:59:11The Islamic Resistance Movement, Hamas, and the Islamic Jihad Movement have agreed to strengthen internal solidarity after Palestinian National Authority chairman Mahmoud Abbas delivered a swearing-in speech on Saturday.
Violenceap.tbo.com/ ... 20:12:01Gunmen in police uniform on Sunday ambushed a car carrying a prominent female Shiite candidate in this month's general election, but she escaped injury when her bodyguards returned firesfgate.com/ ... 20:11:44...He'd just fled his Tucson apartment, leaving behind the body of 51-year-old Angela Smith.... As a baby, ..had been christened "Davidito," the young prince and future prophet of the Children of God -- a freewheeling religious sect founded in the late 1960s by Oakland native David "Moses" Berg....ap.tbo.com/ ... 12:58:11A bomb believed planted by Muslim insurgents exploded Sunday at a noodle shop in southern Thailand, killing one person and injuring 59 othersnews.bbc.co.uk/ ... 01:19:40A suspected Saudi militant has been killed and another gunman arrested in clashes with security forces in Kuwait.
Rebuildingap.tbo.com/ ... 12:57:49Almost a month after saboteurs shut down a northern Iraqi oil pipeline, the government said Sunday it should resume pumping crude from northern fields to an export terminal in southeastern Turkey by month's end.reuters.com/ ... 01:18:26 Hundreds of Taliban fighters may abandon their insurgency in Afghanistan as a result of peace talks under way between local commanders and President Hamid Karzai's government, a provincial governor said on Saturday.
SAT 2005-JAN-15
Digital Consequencesreuters.com/ ... 13:21:08Want a big-screen television set before this year's Super Bowl? Better figure out if you want LCD, DLP, PDP or CRT, and if you want your picture to be HD, ED or plain old SD.
WW2 - still with uscnn.netscape.cnn.com/ ... 13:18:30 Nazi dictator Adolf Hitler gave one of his generals a direct order to kidnap Pope Pius XII during World War Two but the officer did not obey... new details of the plot had emerged in documents presented to the Vatican... Hitler feared the Pope would be an obstacle to his plans for global domination and because the dictator wanted to eventually abolish Christianity and impose National Socialism as a sort of new global religion....
Modern Family Lifenews.yahoo.com/ ... 13:14:58BIRMINGHAM, Ala. - A woman angry with her 12-year-old daughter for having sex forced the girl to drink bleach and sat on her until the child died.... The girl's 9-year-old brother was forced to watch the attack.. "told him that if he shed a tear that she was going to kill him, too"....
Preternatural Patternsnzherald.co.nz/ ... 12:53:13Life is sweet if you're a first division winner in genetic Lotto. If you're born to very rich and privileged parents, you've got it made. Yet to observe the antics of some of the more famous rich kids in the media, you'd think they'd been cursed by a wicked godmother who hadn't been invited to the christening. Prince Harry, for example.... [Harsh but funny writing]
Transportap.tbo.com/ ... 23:10:55COCONUT CREEK, Fla. (AP) - A two-seat plane crashed into a house and burst into flames Saturday afternoon, killing the pilot, police said. No one else was injured.ap.tbo.com/ ... 02:54:00LOS ANGELES (AP) - Garrard Smock Jr., member of a clan of Pullman porters dating back to the turn of the century and a symbol of the vanished age of luxury trains, died of pneumonia Saturday at Glendale Adventist Medical Center, his daughter said. He was 86.
..Known as "Babe," Smock traveled on such legendary trains as the 20th Century Limited and served the likes of President Franklin Roosevelt during a career spanning nearly a quarter-century.
..Smock's father and two brothers already were working for the Pullman Co. when he became a porter in 1937 at the age of 18.
..At one point the family worked together on the Lark, a first-class Southern Pacific train running from Los Angeles to San Francisco. That was considered unusual enough to land them in "Ripley's Believe It or Not."
..Smock's grandfather also had been a porter for 27 years and died in 1929 while making a bed on the Santa Fe Limited.
..A photograph of Smock, his father, Garrard Sr. and brothers, Virgil and George, in uniform was on the cover of a book published last year called "Rising From the Rails: Pullman Porters and the Making of the Black Middle Class." supervisors. Smock and Virgil continued to work for Pullman until 1960.
..In 1997, Smock and his brother Virgil, then 81, went to Chicago aboard a special Pullman car in honor of Black History Month and civil rights leader A. Philip Randolph, president of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters.
History - still with usnews.bbc.co.uk/ ... 02:51:371973: Nixon orders ceasefire in Vietnam
President Nixon has ordered a halt to American bombing in North Vietnam following peace talks in Paris.
Extraterrestrialnews.bbc.co.uk/ ... 13:24:00Scientists have released the first results from the Huygens probe's journey to Saturn's moon Titan, along with amazing new images... Measurements suggest the area it landed on has the consistency of "creme brulee" and may have once been flooded... The colour image shows the surface of Titan is bright orange with a tangerine sky, with "boulders" probably formed from ice... drainage channels apparently flowing off land into what seems to be a dark ocean, possibly composed of some tarry substance... a bank of what could be methane fog shrouding the landscape... chemistry of Titan is thought to be similar to that of Earth 4.6 billion years ago... [and if one microbe from earth was carried there...?? sounds of Titan's stormy atmosphere... news.bbc.co.uk/ ... 02:51:16"If it's not a sea, it could be a lake of tar. And did one see waves?"... The sounds of Titan's stormy atmosphere were recorded with an onboard microphone, and scientists hope they might even hear lightning strikes
Only Naturalap.tbo.com/ ... 23:10:25MANTEO, N.C. (AP) - At least 22 pilot whales beached themselves on the coast early Saturday, and at least 17 of them died,gazettetimes.com/ ... 13:20:44PARK CITY, Utah — A quarter-mile-wide avalanche outside The Canyons ski resort Friday buried at least two victims in a backcountry area marked with a "skull and crossbones" warning to thrill-seekers. No bodies have been recovered, and victims were believed to be buried in snow up to 30 feet deep.
Human Rightap.tbo.com/ ... 02:52:55 An 11-month-old Japanese boy smiled and laughed in his mother's arms Friday as doctors talked of his progress from a six-organ transplant, an operation done here because children's organ donations are banned in Japan.ap.tbo.com/ ... 02:52:35A student barred from wearing a gay pride-themed T-shirt at his southwest Missouri high school withdrew his federal lawsuit Friday against the Webb City school district... [he withdrew] from Webb City High School last month....
Violenceap.tbo.com/ ... 13:12:02A U.S. Marine was killed in action Saturday south of Baghdad
Under Tyrannyap.tbo.com/ ... 13:11:20China and Taiwan agreed Saturday to allow the first direct flights between the rivals in five decadesap.tbo.com/ ... 13:06:12Forty-six members of the Palestinian election commission, including top managers, resigned Saturday, saying they were pressured by Mahmoud Abbas' campaign and intelligence officials to abruptly change voting procedures during the Jan. 9 presidential poll.ap.tbo.com/ ... 13:05:12Zhao Ziyang, the Chinese Communist Party leader who was deposed after the 1989 pro-democracy protests, is in a deep coma and may be close to death... spent more than 15 years under house arrest... fell from favor in 1989 and was purged from the party after being accused of sympathizing with the students demonstrating at Tiananmen Square....
FRI 2005-JAN-14
Sex can be Dangerousapnews.myway.com/ ... 15:36:23The principal of a Palo Alto middle school may not invite a popular speaker back to an annual career day after he told girls they could earn a good living as strippers.... "It's sick, but it's true.... The truth of the matter is you can earn a tremendous amount of money as an exotic dancer, if that's your desire." ...
Extraterrestrialspace.com/ ... 15:12:30"Fermi’s paradox"... regarding the probability of earthlike planets, the rise of highly advanced civilizations "out there", and interstellar travel... a team of American scientists note that recent astrophysical discoveries suggest that we should find ourselves in the midst of one or more extraterrestrial civilizations. Moreover, they argue it is a mistake to reject all UFO reports since some evidence for the theoretically-predicted extraterrestrial visitors might just be found there.....cnn.com/ ... 15:11:26Huygens successfully transmitted its first packet of irreplaceable data from Saturn's moon Titan this morning... "We are the first visitors to Titan and the scientific data we are collecting now shall unveil the secrets of this new world...." Huygens' batteries -- designed to last just a few minutes after touchdown -- continued to power the probe's transmitter for more than two hours after landing. The data is now streaming to Earth, via the satellite Cassini orbiting Saturn, as a worldwide network of radio telescopes captures it....
Whoops!cnn.worldnews.printthis.clickability.com/ ... 13:49:48Iraqi police searched Friday for 28 prisoners from Abu Ghraib who escaped from their custody while being transported to another facility in Baghdad
US Judicial Branchap.tbo.com/ ... 15:19:02Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist has toured the inaugural site, getting ready for his fifth, and likely final, time swearing in the president... Rehnquist was named chief justice by Reagan in 1986. By tradition, chief justices are asked to preside at swearing-in ceremonies. If Rehnquist's health keeps him away on Thursday, it would be only the ninth time in history the chief justice did not administer the oath.nypost.com/ ... 13:44:03I unexpectedly came face to face with the 80-year-old, wheelchair-bound Rehnquist as his aides pushed him down an endless series of basement corridors in the Capitol. The longtime chief justice hasn't been seen in public in several months and it was clear to me why. Rehnquist was hunched over in his wheelchair, an old hunting cap pulled down low over his ears to cover up his blotchy skin and near baldness, possibly the result of the aggressive treatment he's getting for his thyroid cancer. His eyes looked sunken and lifeless. A plastic collar was wrapped tightly around his neck, where his throat had been opened recently for a tracheotomy. I tried to make eye contact and wanted to offer a word of encouragement. Our eyes never met....
Preternatural Patternsbloomberg.com/ ... 13:45:49Bank of America Corp.'s securities unit fired Andrew Susser, a top-ranked analyst and head of its high- yield bond research group, after his face appeared superimposed on a woman's body in a report sent to clients.foxnews.com/ ... 01:57:01"...He told me to get out. He took off. So I jumped on the back and I held on for about 30 minutes," said the determined Mustang owner....
Digital Consequencesreuters.com/ ... 15:21:10A Romanian couple named their son Yahoo as a sign of gratitude for meeting over the Internetlatimes.com/ ... 01:55:54A small but growing number of frustrated computer owners are.. giving up or cutting back their use of the Internet, especially at home, where no corporate tech support team will ride to their rescue... Instead of making life easier.. the home PC of late has made some users feel stupid, endangered or just hassled beyond reason...
Supernaturalworldnetdaily.com/ ... 15:34:41...yesterday at the Vatican, Pope John Paul II commented on the Apocalypse, saying that the increase in violence and injustice in the world is the work of a furious Satan who doesn't have "much time left" and ultimately will be defeated....news.xinhuanet.com/ ... 01:56:19Rita Marley, the widow of legendary Jamaican reggae star Bob Marley, denies her intention to exhume her husband's remains and rebury him in the "spiritual resting place".news.bbc.co.uk/ ... 01:48:40A bar manager in Switzerland has announced plans to sell an oyster shell resembling the face of Jesus Christ
US Militaryreuters.com/ ... 15:14:50BAGHDAD - An American soldier was sentenced on Friday to a year in jail for the murder of a severely wounded Iraqi teenager in a Baghdad slum district during a Shi'ite uprising last year
Great Quake of 2004reuters.com/ ... 15:19:54...Two men walked into the John Holland Elementary School in broad daylight on Thursday, grabbed a large water bottle containing between $200 and $500 in cash contributions, and fled.... News of the theft spread quickly, and by Friday morning the school had been deluged with some $2,000 in pledges....sfgate.com/ ... 13:47:03Nine different women are claiming a baby boy called "Baby 81" who was brought to a hospital in eastern Sri Lanka on the day the tsunami hit last month... "Parents who have lost their children come everyday to the hospital to check... Some go back, and some stay and claim that the baby is theirs....." Children accounted for a staggering 40 percent, or 12,000, of Sri Lanka's tsunami death toll of nearly 31,000.... preliminary data indicate that nearly 1,000 children were orphaned by the tsunami in Sri Lanka and another 3,200 lost one parent....
Only Naturalstory.news.yahoo.com/ ... 15:41:50FishfaceOne of two 19-year-old fish with human-like facial features in Chongju, about 140 km (88 miles) south of Seoul on January 10, 2005. The hybrid species fish were born between a carp and a leather carp in the pond of a personal house in Chongju.... The owner of the fish said on Monday that their faces have begun to look more and more human over the last couple of years.... Photo: Reuters/Chungcheong Todaynews.com.au/ ... 15:08:40AUTHORITIES near Los Angeles evacuated more than 840 homes today as a dam began leaking under the weight of torrential storm waters that have caused havoc in California.edis.oes.ca.gov/ ... 13:40:05A LEAK HAS DEVELOPED IN THE PRADO DAM. .. THE SIZE OF THE LEAK HAS INCREASED OVERNIGHT BUT AN IMMINENT .. FAILURE OF THE DAM IS NOT ANTICIPATED AT THIS TIME. .. PRECAUTIONARY EVACUATIONS HAVE BEEN ORDERED JUST BELOW THE DAM BY THE CITY OF CORONA...AND IN FEATHERLY PARK IN ORANGE COUNTY...cnn.weather.printthis.clickability.com/ ... 01:54:57Gondolas are running aground and hotel docks hang in midair as Italy's lagoon city Venice, more commonly awash at high tide, dries out because of good weather and an unusual combination of planetary influences.dailytidings.com/ ... 01:51:46..wrestlers at [two] high schools have been diagnosed with herpes.. wrestlers apparently contracted the viral infection while competing at a tournament.. Dec. 11-12 and then spread the disease to the [other] team when they met for a dual match on Dec. 16...
Herpes Simplex Virus-1, commonly known as oral herpes... usually features lesions or "cold sores" on the lips, nose and surrounding areas... has no cure.. as much as 80 percent of the American adult population may have the virus.. more than a half-million new cases being detected each year...
Herpes Simplex-2.. affects the genital region, although HSV-1 and HSV-2 can hit both the upper and lower portions of a person's body...
World Without Bordersreuters.com/ ... 15:20:51The foreign ministry of ..Portuguese-speaking.. Brazil.. has eliminated fluency in English as a requirement to enter its school for diplomats....
Under Tyrannyap.tbo.com/ ... 15:17:33China remains "highly repressive," with routine violations of basic rights and widespread corruption despite promises of legal and political reform, the U.S.-based group Human Rights Watch said Friday.... The one-party communist government... prohibits independent labor unions and religious groups, censors the press and interferes in court cases....cbc.ca/ ... 15:13:09 North Korea told a visiting U.S. Congressional delegation that it is ready to return to six-party nuclear talks and would treat the United States as a "friend" if Washington doesn't slander the rule of totalitarian leader Kim Jong Il.
Sick, Sick, Sickexaminer-enterprise.com/ ... 15:52:57Bartlesville -- ...police responded to... a report that a man was destroying his apartment... Upon arrival, officers noted a yellow cockatiel bird lying on the grass in front of the apartment, alive but unable to move... When [told by] officers.. the bird was in need of attention, he reportedly walked over to it and stomped the bird with his foot and ground his foot on top of the bird's body, killing it.... then reportedly told officers that he purchased the bird for his girlfriend so he could do whatever he wanted with it... sentenced to serve 18 months....freep.com/ ... 15:37:04A Dearborn school teacher who said some Arabs use the Islamic holy book as toilet paper has been moved to another school.alertnet.org/ ... 15:29:10A Brazilian man arguing with his 88-year-old mother threw her into a neighbors' yard where two pit bulls mauled her to deathnytimes.com/ ... 13:49:33Specialist Graner [alleged ringleader of Abu Gharib abuse, in an email accompanying photos of abused prisoners] wrote, "Try doing this at home, and they'll lock you up if you don't have some type of license...."
Violencevoanews.com/ ... 15:08:16Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon has ordered his government to cut all contact with the Palestinian Authority after a militant attack late Thursday killed six Israeli civilians.wftv.com/ ... 13:41:57WEST MEPHIS, Ark. -- For months, officers have been getting reports about a man making late-night runs in the buff. On Monday, police said they think they got their mystery jogger. .. arrested after he ran past a police car and failed to stop when he was ordered to do so by officers. Police chased him and were able to rein him in by using a Taser.ap.tbo.com/ ... 01:48:22A 1st Infantry Division soldier.. died Thursday while supporting Task Force Olympia operations near Mosulap.tbo.com/ ... 01:47:52The bodies of four men - all hit with multiple gunshot wounds - were discovered at an apartment complex Thursday night. Police called the carnage "a disturbance that got out of hand."
Threatsnews-miner.com/ ... 15:47:07A U.S. Army command last month issued a draft proposal asking for a study of how nuclear weapons might be used on national missile defense interceptors, but a spokesman said the idea will go no further.... Congress has outlawed research on and development of nuclear-armed missile interceptors since 2003.... The interceptors have no explosives on board. They are designed to strike an incoming enemy missile and destroy it by impact alone.nytimes.com/ ... 13:43:03IF all goes well, this year a remote-controlled portable airplane will be taking to the air over Southern California, providing a low-cost eye in the sky for law enforcement.washingtonpost.com/ ... 13:42:41...the U.S. military said it is testing a system to beam red and green lasers at aircraft in the Washington area as a warning when they enter restricted airspace. ...some area pilots ..said they were unsure whether they would be able to tell the difference between a commercial laser used by someone playing at home and one operated by the North American Aerospace Defense Command.ap.tbo.com/ ... 01:47:36A man was arrested after authorities allegedly found the deadly toxin ricin stashed in a cardboard box at his home along with a small cache of weapons... no explanation for how or why he obtained the ricin....ap.tbo.com/ ... 01:46:40 President Bush expressed misgivings Thursday for two of his most famous expressions: "Bring 'em on," in reference to Iraqis attacking U.S. troops, and his vow to get Osama bin Laden "dead or alive.".. acknowledged that his tough language "had an unintended consequence."...
THU 2005-JAN-13
Now That's Funny!abcnews.go.com/ ... 22:43:53...Kennedy also mangled the name of the Democrats' new star, Illinois Sen. Barack Obama, calling him "Osama bin … Osama … Obama."
Supernaturalfoxnews.com/ ... 22:49:45"I was driving to the gas station. He stole my car. He told me to get out. He took off. So I jumped on the back and I held on for about 30 minutes,"...csmonitor.com/ ... 22:47:59 He promotes a reformist vision of Islam that accepts Western ideas, including secular forms of government. Women, he says, are permitted by Islam to receive the same level of education as men and to fully participate in public life, even as religious, political, and business leaders. He advocates peaceful resistance to the US-led occupation in Iraq, in contrast to some clerics in Syria's Sunni Muslim heartland who have encouraged the insurgency. And he rejects what he calls the "monopoly of salvation," the belief that Islam is the only true religion.news.scotsman.com/ ... 14:38:29Reggae star Bob Marley’s widow plans to exhume his remains in Jamaica and rebury them in his “spiritual resting place,” Ethiopia.ekklesia.co.uk/ ... 14:33:44A bizarre mental syndrome that has seen scores of visitors to Jerusalem become convinced they are characters from the Bible is the subject of a new art exhibition.... Some start preaching in the streets of the city. Others display more bizarre behaviour. The syndrome is estimated to affect up to 20 people a year, almost all Christians or Jews....
Extraterrestrialantigodailyjournal.com/ ... 14:32:12...a meteor.. brought reports of the strange happenings from South Dakota across central Wisconsin... bright light in the sky... sounds that had people answering unknocked doors and peering into yards to determine who or what was lurking outside their homes... Many people heard the noise and some saw the light and in some cases, homes rattled as the meteor passed....worldnetdaily.com/ ... 14:30:20Villagers in India are in a state of shock and local officials baffled after a fireball was seen crashing Tuesday night, causing a massive explosion that "shook the Earth."
Sex can be Dangerousworldnetdaily.com/ ... 14:27:43United Nations' cartoon condoms.. Shaft, Stretch and Dick in TV ads pushing AIDS-prevention message...reuters.com/ ... 11:55:13 A Connecticut woman who was artificially inseminated with the wrong sperm gave birth to a healthy baby boyreuters.com/ ... 11:54:59 Politicians in one Australian state have been asked to lend a hand and become sperm donors to help arrest dwindling supplies at an in-vitro fertilization clinic.
Digital Threatsptimes.com/ ... 14:35:17..."She is the Internet black widow..." took control of his condominium, stole more than $18,000 and was already searching for her next victim on Internet dating sites....news.bbc.co.uk/ ... 11:51:23Many extortionists are targeting net-based betting firms and threatening to cripple their websites with deluges of data unless a ransom is paid. But now deep defences are being put in place by some of the UK's biggest net firms to stop these attacks... "Net firms are realising that it's not just about anti-virus and firewalls," said Paul King, chief security architect at Cisco. "There are more things that can be done in the network to protect data centres."..
Preternatural Patternsnews.bbc.co.uk/ ... 11:49:15The actors who voice The Simpsons for Mexican TV .. for 15 years, fear losing their jobs because the dubbing company is seeking cheaper actors... Nancy Mackenzie, the voice of Marge Simpson, said: "You get to the point where you care deeply for your cartoon character. "You love them. You go to bed with them at night. It's a sad state, and not because of the money. It's for love."nydailynews.com/ ... 11:45:18Clint Eastwood: "Michael Moore and I actually have a lot in common - we both appreciate living in a country where there's free expression... But, Michael, if you ever show up at my front door with a camera - I'll kill you." The audience erupted in laughter, and Eastwood grinned dangerously. "I mean it," he added, provoking more guffaws.... Sitting well out of range at a table in back, Moore... chuckled....
Theory of Educationcnn.com/ ... 11:40:09A federal judge in Atlanta, Georgia, has ruled that a suburban county school district's textbook stickers referring to evolution as "a theory not a fact" are unconstitutional... ruled that labeling evolution a "theory" played on the popular definition of the word as a "hunch" and could confuse students....
Digital Consequencesreuters.com/ ... 11:52:41The FBI may have to scrap a new computer program aimed at helping agents share information in the war on terror because officials consider it inadequate... could force a further delay in a four-year $500 million overhaul of the FBI's antiquated computer system...ap.tbo.com/ ... 11:27:36 A hacker broke into a wireless carrier's network over at least seven months and read e-mails and personal computer files of hundreds of customers, including the Secret Service agent investigating the hacker... traced the hacker's online activities to a hotel near Buffalo, N.Y.... arrested in October in California... released on a $25,000 bond posted by his uncle, who was ordered to keep his own personal computer locked up....
US Military Casualtiesdefenselink.mil/ ... 12:10:00[flag]Army Spc. Michael J. Smith, 24, of Media, Penn., died Jan. 11 in Ar Ramadi, Iraq, when his military vehicle was hit by a rocket propelled grenade.
Great Quake of 2004cbsnews.com/ ... 14:36:02Police have arrested a 63-year-old Sri Lankan man on charges of trying to sell his two young granddaughters after their home was destroyed and their mother killed by the Asian tsunaminews-leader.com/ ... 14:29:58Banda Aceh, Indonesia — An official document posted here says that nearly 210,000 people in Indonesia are dead or missing from the Dec. 26 tsunami, a death toll that appears to be far higher than officials have reported publicly. Rescue workers think even that number may be low.apnews.myway.com/ ... 13:37:14Malaria could kill up to 100,000 people in coming months across Indian Ocean communities devastated by the Dec. 26 tsunami if authorities do not quickly move to kill mosquitoes, a health expert warned Thursday.news.bbc.co.uk/ ... 13:36:50...some countries have lost about three-quarters of their fishing boats... "In Sri Lanka, our reports suggest to us that something like 80% of fishing vessels have been either lost or damaged, and similar levels of destruction have taken place in north-western Indonesia, that's northern Sumatra..." Of Sri Lanka's 12 major fishing ports, 10 have been seriously affected, with damage to facilities such as cold stores and slipways... Thailand [may have] lost more than 4,000 boats.... Somalia.. more than 2,000.. the Maldives... about a third of its fleet... In some regions fish supplies in markets have dropped by 90%...reuters.com/ ... 11:57:39..since the Dec. 26 tsunami, the Japanese word has appeared more than 18.5 million times and been the subject of 88,000 articles in major media... we envision that the word tsunami will be the subject of considerable discretion before being used in anything other than a most serious manner..." thousands of sports teams around the world use tsunami into their names... there are also some 10,000 products called tsunami... Newspaper headline writers also liked the colorful word...
Justice?reuters.com/ ... 11:54:42TALLAHASSEE, Fla. - The Florida Supreme Court questioned a drug-sniffing dog's track record on Wednesday in a hearing to determine how competent a canine must be to justify a police search.
Reasons for Repealap.tbo.com/ ... 11:53:37BOGOTA, Colombia - A U.S.-donated military helicopter crashed Thursday while flying in thick fog during a nighttime counternarcotics mission in southwest Colombia, killing all 20 soldiers aboard
Human Rightnews.bbc.co.uk/ ... 11:46:27Violations of human rights by the US are undermining international law and eroding its role on the world stage.. says.. Human Rights Watch...
US Militarynews.yahoo.com/ ... 22:42:49American troops will begin leaving Iraq this year as the Iraqi army, national guard and police force take on a larger security role, says Secretary of State Colin Powell... "But I cannot give you a timeline when they will all be home...."ap.tbo.com/ ... 11:34:10SAVANNAH, Ga. (AP) - A mechanic with nine years in the Army, including a role in the assault on Baghdad, has refused to return to Iraq, claiming "you just don't know how bad it is." ...faces a possible court-martial after failing to deploy Friday with his unit...
Only Naturalreuters.com/ ... 22:47:14Rescuers called off search and recovery efforts on Thursday at the site of a mudslide that killed 10 people... urged residents to leave... The huge pile of sodden earth... began moving again... 30-foot-deep mound shifted about six feet on Thursday and would likely remain unstable... "The pile may never be moved..." an estimated 1.7 million tons of earth...news.bbc.co.uk/ ... 22:41:23We are all seeing rather less of the Sun, according to scientists who have been looking at five decades of sunlight measurements. They have reached the disturbing conclusion that the amount of solar energy reaching the Earth's surface has been gradually falling. Paradoxically, the decline in sunlight may mean that global warming is a far greater threat to society than previously thought.heatherfirth.com/ ... 22:40:12Earth Erotica - Fine art photography by Heather Firththebostonchannel.com/ ... 14:44:40Another North Atlantic right whale has been found dead... about 15 miles off Cumberland Island in Georgia Wednesday morning... Four adult North Atlantic right whales have now been found dead since late November. That doesn't include a late-term fetus that one of the whales was carrying.... an estimated 300 North Atlantic right whales still alive. They were almost hunted to extinction in the early 1900s....espn.go.com/ ... 14:43:06JACKSON, Wyo. — A mountain biker on Togwotee Pass fought off a grizzly bear that repeatedly charged him until a companion drove the animal off with pepper spray... escaped without a scratch... only four dirt marks from the bear's claws on his forearm, a punctured bicycle tire and a bent rim.... "I was on the ground with the bear on top of me... I was waiting for a bone-crunching bite. I was ready to die....."app.com/ ... 11:42:16Three studies published in Tuesday's Journal of the American Medical Association... those who ate the most red and processed meat over a 10-year period had a 30 percent higher risk of colon cancer and 40 percent greater risk of rectal cancer... those whose diets included lots of poultry and fish were 30 percent less likely to get colon cancer compared with people who ate little of those foods... Diets rich in fruits and vegetables also might protect people from cancers of the stomach, esophagus, head and neck, and possibly the lungs and colon... ap.tbo.com/ ... 11:32:25"We knew the mountain was coming down..." no one knew when... was helping load camera gear into a car Monday when another neighbor.. suddenly shouted, "The mountain's coming down - get out of there now!".. '..the mountain just spewed.." Dirt and boulders spilled down the hillside, hit a berm and exploded back up into a plume of earth towering 100 feet over the three friends.. The men sprinted down the street and turned into a second street, desperately trying to outrun the roaring mudslide. ..as he ran down the street, he could see a trailer was gaining on him, pushed along by the flowing debris.. "It was up in the air and turned over. The top of the trailer was coming down on me.." dove into a space between two parked cars seconds before the trailer and mud overtook him, crushing the cars "down to the wheels..." tiny, pitch-dark crawl space.. right leg was seriously injured.. numb.. chest was bruised.. had trouble breathing.. had lost a front tooth.. Rescuers found Ray within minutes, but it took three hours to dig him out... didn't learn until Tuesday - after surgery to repair his leg - that his companions.. were found crushed to death in the debris...
Threatsnewscientist.com/ ... 22:45:24THE Pentagon considered developing a host of non-lethal chemical weapons that would disrupt discipline and morale among enemy troops, newly declassified documents reveal... an "aphrodisiac" chemical weapon that would make enemy soldiers sexually irresistible to each other... Provoking widespread homosexual behaviour among troops... weapons that attract swarms of enraged wasps or angry rats to troop positions... that caused "severe and lasting halitosis"... making troops' skin unbearably sensitive to sunlight....news.com.au/ ... 22:44:13ISRAELI security agents have boosted protection for Prime Minister Ariel Sharon by sending up a pilotless drone aircraft to track possible threats when he travelsmarinetimes.com/ ... 14:38:12Osama bin Laden has vowed to turn Iraq into the front line of his war against the United States, but Iraqi insurgents seem worried that he’s out to hijack their rebellion.
Violencenews.bbc.co.uk/ ... 22:41:58At least two Israelis have died in a Palestinian attack at a crossing point between Israel and the Gaza Strip. Israeli sources said at least another 12 Israelis were hurt. Three Palestinian militant groups claimed joint responsibility for carrying out the attack, in which two suicide bombers also died.reuters.com/ ... 11:52:00Another aide, Halim al-Mohaqeq, a cleric working in Sistani's office in Najaf, was also found dead on Wednesday. "Sheikh Halim was found drowned in his own blood. Investigations are under way,"news.bbc.co.uk/ ... 11:47:37Three Somali football fans have died after a grenade was thrown into the cinema where they were watching a match between Manchester United and Chelsea. It is not clear why the hand grenade was thrown - some reports say it followed an argument between rival fans, others blame local residents.news.bbc.co.uk/ ... 11:47:11United Nations police in Kosovo are investigating an explosion that killed a police officer driving to work in the west of the province on Thursday.news.bbc.co.uk/ ... 11:46:56A representative of Iraq's top Shia Muslim cleric has been assassinated along with his son and four bodyguards. The attack against Sheikh Mahmoud al-Madaini came after evening prayers on Wednesday in the town of Salman Pak.
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Transportlsj.com/ ... 19:58:02At least two people died and more than 25 others were injured in multiple pileups involving more than 100 vehicles in thick fog Wednesday afternoon on eastbound Interstate 96 east of Lansing
Sex can be Dangerousreuters.com/ ... 11:49:32UK advertising regulators signaled a weariness of the double entendre used by French Connection to sell its FCUK brand and warned the clothing chain again, this time over a promotion for its line of fragrances... a picture of a young couple sitting on a bed in their underwear included fold-out samples of perfume with the phrases "open here to try fcuk her" and "open here to try fcuk him."...
Digital Consequencesreuters.com/ ... 11:44:55A Las Vegas pornography operation that sent out hundreds of thousands of sexually explicit "spam" e-mail messages has been temporarily shut down in the first case of federal spam laws being used against sex marketers
Whoops!news.bbc.co.uk/ ... 19:59:27Prince Harry has apologised for wearing a swastika armband to a friend's fancy dress party... appears to be wearing a German desert uniform and a swastika armband. He is also holding a drink and cigarette...reuters.com/ ... 11:51:11...in a letter sent to 41,000 people... One digit was wrong in the telephone number for callers seeking advice on how to deal with toll gate payments... Oklahoma highway users wishing to call the state about electronic payment passes were mistakenly directed to a sex hotline.... where they could speak with "exciting people," such as lonely housewives, students and fantasy girls for $2.99 a minute....ap.tbo.com/ ... 11:43:58The California Zephyr, en route from Chicago to Nothern California with 106 people on board, struck the 12-foot-by-12-foot boulder late Tuesday just west of Grand Junction.. Six.. injured, none seriously.
Extraterrestrialnews.bbc.co.uk/ ... 11:15:49Astronomers have shown how the present pattern of galaxies in the cosmos grew from tiny fluctuations in the density of matter just after the Big Bang. The work draws on results from two scientific teams conducting sky surveys based in Australia and the US.... the clustering of galaxies is strung into vast filaments and sheets and separated by great voids.... statistical analysis of these map data has revealed how this distribution of matter has taken a particular course that was influenced by forces that were at work at the dawn of time.... [Yeah... but the still-unanswered original question is... "At the moment of birth, the Universe contained tiny irregularities, thought to have resulted from quantum, or subatomic processes..."
Preternatural Patternspost-gazette.com/ ... 19:55:31Criminal charges will not be filed against workers who allegedly tortured chickens at a West Virginia processing plant,apnews.myway.com/ ... 11:13:11A man found partly disrobed with a woman, cocaine and marijuana in the one-person restroom of an Iowa convenience store in an area known for prostitution had no absolute right to privacy, a federal appeals court ruled Tuesday.kxly.com/ ... 11:09:21Spokane International Airport... co-workers turned her in for swiping pain killers out of the bags she was supposed to be searching for explosives.... A hidden camera caught her in the act of stealing and even swallowing a passenger's pills.... Now the airport is bringing in explosive detection machines that search for compounds to power bombs, which mean fewer bags will have to be opened by screeners.cnn.netscape.cnn.com/ ... 11:07:46 A 17-year-old Amish boy was electrocuted trying to remove a power line that got tangled in his horse-drawn buggy's wheels
Blurring Lines of Realitytheaustralian.news.com.au/ ... 11:06:12Australian feminist author Germaine Greer has officially quit Britain's Celebrity Big Brother household just five days in, after coming to blows with Brigitte Nielsen - the former Mrs Sylvester Stallone - over culinary concerns.
Cold War - still with ustheglobeandmail.com/ ... 10:57:23Going by the pseudonyms of John Doe and his wife Jane, a pair of onetime defectors from a former Soviet bloc nation took their case to the U.S. Supreme Court yesterday in an effort to force the CIA to pay them the lifetime compensation they say they were promised years ago.
US Military Casualtiesdefenselink.mil/ ... 15:40:55[flag]Army Staff Sgt. William F. Manuel, 34, of Kinder, La.
[flag]Army Sgt. Robert W. Sweeney III, 22, of Pineville, La.
died Jan. 10 in Baghdad, Iraq, when an improvised explosive device hit their military vehicle.
Great Quake of 2004news.bbc.co.uk/ ... 15:46:19South African restaurant customers are complaining.. [about] the use of the word tsunami by local eateries... Mugg and Bean chain has been selling its spicy tsunami chicken burger for over a year... Johannesburg's Tsunami Seafood Emporium opened just three weeks before the giant waves devastated parts of Asia....ap.tbo.com/ ... 11:52:26 China - which has recently taken a larger role in the politics of Southeast Asia - seems strangely absent from the international response to the tsunami disaster.ap.tbo.com/ ... 11:52:02BANDA ACEH, Indonesia - The U.S. military faced tighter restrictions Wednesday as the Indonesian government sought to reassert control over foreign troops, relief workers and journalists in the tsunami-devastated region, which also has been the site of a rebel insurgency.
Only Naturalreuters.com/ ... 20:00:30Well, DUH! New eating guidelines issued by the U.S. government on Wednesday stress that most Americans are overweight and need to eat more vegetables, fruits and whole grains.cbs2chicago.com/ ... 19:58:37CHICAGO -- A man working at a CTA maintenance facility suffered a jolt after lightning struck a nearby storage building... Two schools and 160 people were also affected by lightning strikes in suburban Riverside....news.yahoo.com/ ... 19:57:40At least 12 Peruvian children have died of rabies after being bitten by bats in a remote Amazon province of Peru.. all.. under six years old.. attacked by bats between September and January in the Condorcanqui province bordering Ecuador, 860 kilometers (534 miles) northeast of Lima.. Another 2,300 people have been bitten by bats in the province.. Health Ministry has designated the province a health emergency zone... But the children who were killed were from native Aguaruna and Huambisa cultures that usually oppose modern medicine.... Health officials have to overcome the natives' religious beliefs before convincing them to take the vaccines....apnews.myway.com/ ... 15:44:28Villagers digging in China's rich fossil beds have uncovered the preserved remains of a tiny dinosaur in the belly of a mammal, a startling discovery for scientists who have long believed early mammals couldn't possibly attack and eat a dinosaur.reuters.com/ ... 11:46:43Russia's winter is so warm that a bear in a zoo has awakened from her hibernation two months early, while another hasn't gone to sleep at all
World Without Bordersmoveamericaforward.org/ ... 15:53:56Kick the UN out of the US commercials
Under Tyrannyap.tbo.com/ ... 11:55:24TEHRAN, Iran - A woman sentenced to death for killing a police official who tried to rape her has been pardoned by the victim's family.. a welcome resolution to a 7-year-old case that had garnered intense interest at home and abroad... family.. has agreed to monetary compensation of $62,500 rather than seeking the execution... In Iran, a married woman who is raped can be convicted of adultery and sentenced to death. If she kills the attempted rapist, she can be tried for murder and sentenced to death.
Threatsworldnetdaily.com/ ... 15:43:11Syria last month hosted a wedding for the son of a Hamas leader and assisted with security for the terrorists present at the event, even though Syrian officials have denied harboring Hamasap.tbo.com/ ... 12:03:40At least a dozen cases of lasers being beamed into aircraft cockpits since Christmas are being investigated by the FBI... Last week, a pilot told law enforcement officials that a green light appeared on the nose of his aircraft as it was taking off from the Burbank, Calif., airport... Last weekend, two pilots near Washington Dulles International Airport reported lasers beamed at them...ap.tbo.com/ ... 11:52:38 German police stepped up their crackdown on Islamic extremism Wednesday, detaining 22 people during raids of apartments and mosques allegedly used by a network that provided financing and other support to terrorists.reuters.com/ ... 11:46:02Two private U.S. companies have designs on building the first luxury recreational vehicle that could withstand nuclear radiation. .. "Many people enjoy the RV lifestyle, but we also live in an era when people have some level of fear about terrorism..."
Justice?reuters.com/ ... 11:18:10A divided U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday ruled that federal judges no longer have to abide by the controversial 18-year-old sentencing guidelines.
Peace 3000reuters.com/ ... 11:06:42The European Parliament overwhelmingly endorsed the European Union's first constitution Wednesday but the treaty will only come into force if all 25 member states ratify it....
Violenceap.tbo.com/ ... 12:01:23 Insurgents launched a string of attacks in the northern city of Mosul... killing two Iraqi National Guardsmen and wounding two others in a car bombing Wednesday...
A U.S. soldier assigned to the 1st Marine Expeditionary Force was killed in action in the volatile western Anbar provincecbc.ca/ ... 10:55:07 Islamic militants blew up an Israeli army jeep in Gaza, killing a Jewish settler and wounding three soldiers.. three militants died in the gun battle that followed....
TUE 2005-JAN-11
Whoops!ap.tbo.com/ ... 23:57:28A British man was sentenced Tuesday to 18 months in prison for calling in a phony bomb threat to prevent a friend from missing her plane at Philadelphia International Airport.
Mechanical Disasterap.tbo.com/ ... 23:55:15Twenty-five people were killed and nine injured at an explosion Tuesday at a fireworks factory in northern China
Sex can be Dangerousap.tbo.com/ ... 23:49:01MONESSEN, Pa. - A suspended high school teacher accused of assaulting a teenager and of encouraging male students to view online pornography in class was sentenced to three years probation.
Digital Threattimesonline.co.uk/ ... 23:41:46Children under the age of eight should not use mobile phones, parents were advised last night after an authoritative report linked heavy use to ear and brain tumours and concluded that the risks had been underestimated by most scientists.news.bbc.co.uk/ ... 17:30:37When L/Cpl Justin Ellsworth was killed in Iraq, his father decided to create a memorial to his dead son using the e-mails he wrote and received while in the Middle East. But Yahoo! is refusing to release the messages. Who owns your e-mail after you die?
Rather Embarrasseddrudgereport.com/ ... 11:45:00[Moonves changes the story:] "Dan Rather.. voluntarily moved to set a date to step down.. after examining the report and thinking about its implications...."
Supernaturalnews24.com/ ... 12:10:57Colombo - God signed His name in the tsunami that battered Sri Lanka and other countries on December 26, and sent it as punishment because humans have been ignoring His laws, Sri Lankan Muslims say. ..a satellite picture taken seconds after the tsunami smashed into Sri Lanka's west coast near the town of Kalutara and as it was receding "This clearly spells out the name 'Allah' in Arabic...." family.org/ ... 11:46:37..crosses have been banned from the inaugural parade. Critics are calling it religious discrimination and censorship... prohibited "structures" include crosses.. along with bicycles, crates, coffins, cages and statues... "It was to ban a structure that could conceal a weapon,"apnews.myway.com/ ... 11:42:17OVIEDO, Fla. -- The Rev. Jack Arnold, 69, was nearing the end of his sermon Sunday at Covenant Presbyterian Church in this Orlando suburb.. quoted the 18th century Bible scholar, John Wesley, who said, "Until my work on this earth is done, I am immortal. But when my work for Christ is done ... I go to be with Jesus..." after saying "And when I go to heaven ..." the Presbyterian minister collapsed and died... "We were stunned.. It was traumatic, but how wonderful it was he died in his own church among the people he loved the most."
US Executive Branchdrudgereport.com/ ... 11:36:18Michael Chertoff.. chief Republican counsel.. in the Senate's Whitewater investigation has been picked by Bush to head Homeland Security.. Senator Hillary Clinton.. will be among those considering Chertoff's nomination..
Extraterrestrialspace.com/ ... 17:29:19Astronomers are highly confident that they've taken the first photograph of a planet outside our solar system. Make that two photographs... does not orbit a normal star, and it is much more massive than the largest planets in our solar system.. appears to orbit a failed star known as a brown dwarf... about 1.5 times the diameter of Jupiter and about five times as massive. ..orbits the brown dwarf star at about 30 percent farther than Pluto is from our Sun... about 225 light-years away...news.bbc.co.uk/ ... 01:53:38The Cassini spacecraft's flyby of Saturn's moon Iapetus has revealed a bizarre geological feature in its images: a bulging ridge at its equator.
Great Quake of 2004timesonline.co.uk/ ... 23:48:26WHEN the survivors of Lampuuk had picked themselves up out of the mud of the tsunami, several appalling facts became clear. The first was that their town no longer existed. The second was that four out of five of its former inhabitants were dead. But it took a while to realise the strangest thing of all: that among those who made it to higher ground, or who kept their heads above the surging waters, so few were women... The reasons for this demographic tragedy are heartbreaking. Lampuuk’s men, being fishermen, were the stronger swimmers. And because of the timing of the tsunami, early in the morning, it was women who had the burden of saving the other great victims of the disaster, Aceh’s children....csmonitor.com/ ... 17:35:43After slow start, Arab countries crank up tsunami reliefap.tbo.com/ ... 11:52:16For a while, he lay on a 5-foot-long plank, weak and exhausted... "My throat was burning. The sun was hot. I had cuts all over my body. The salt water was stinging. I couldn't even find my voice to call out to other survivors. Eventually they all drifted away and I was all alone... I prayed and prayed. I told God I don't want to die. ... I worried about my elderly parents and asked for a chance to take care of them. As if my prayers were answered, a broken (boat) floated toward me a few days later." He ended up staying on the listing boat for five days before spotting a large unmanned raft with a hut on it. He swam up to it and found a gallon bottle of water aboard. On the 15th day.. awoke and saw the container ship bearing down on him. ..waving his shirt, whistling and shouting in Malay "Tolong! Tolong!" - "Help! Help!" The captain.. said he was surprised to see "a frail-looking man" emerge from the hut of the raft....news.bbc.co.uk/ ... 11:48:29Amber Mason, of Milton Keynes, Bucks, was riding Ningnong in the Thai resort of Phuket when the devastating waves struck the beach. As the wave swept in and with water up to his shoulders, Ningnong dashed out of the waves to the top of the beach, carrying Amber to safety... owner, realising that seconds were precious, said he had ordered the elephant to run... Amber's mother, Sam, believes Ningnong had been crucial in saving her daughter....
US Militarynbc5i.com/ ... 23:47:00The owner of a local convenience store.. has fired an employee who mistreated a customer who is also a U.S. Marine... in response to protests at the store as well as an e-mail campaign circulating throughout Dallas/Fort Worth... The e-mail.. tells of her brother's treatment while visiting the store.... clerk allegedly asked if Young was a Marine, and when he replied yes, the clerk left the counter and never returned....nytimes.com/ ... 23:45:27The nuclear submarine that ran aground Saturday in the South Pacific hit so "incredibly hard" that about 60 of its 137 crew members were injured and the sailor who died was thrown 20 feet by the impact, according to internal Navy e-mail messages sent by a top admiral.... a more dire picture of the accident.. than had previously been disclosed.... 'On the charts we have, this is a clear area all the way through to Australia...'nytimes.com/ ... 11:34:34[Apparently, a great deal of our world remains unmapped...
...submarine... appears to have smashed into an undersea mountain that was not on its charts...
[But... don't these guys have, like, SONAR? Are they travelling without headlights?]
...Given the vastness of the oceans, they said, there could still be small areas that were never properly charted or where earthquakes have altered the contours....
...submarines typically do not use their active sonar systems, which emit loud pings, to navigate. Instead, submarines try to operate silently, relying on undersea charts, checks with navigation satellites and passive sonar systems that pick up the noises of other vessels....starbulletin.com/ ... 11:30:57A U.S. nuclear submarine that ran aground last weekend, killing one sailor and injuring 23 others, struck something hard on the Pacific Ocean floor and had to surface suddenly... initial investigation turned up nothing to indicate the USS San Francisco struck anything but a large rock, land or other natural feature
US Military Casualtiesstarbulletin.com/ ... 11:29:50[flag]Navy Machinist Mate 2nd Class Joseph Allen Ashley, 24, of Akron, Ohio, died Sunday after suffering major head injuries after the U.S. nuclear submarine USS San Francisco ran aground last weekend.
Only Naturalreuters.com/ ... 17:31:35..Rescue crews on Tuesday pulled a fourth body from the massive pile of mud and debris covering much of a Southern California community.. up to 27 people may still be buried amid crushed homes..reuters.com/ ... 01:54:04At least three people were killed, 10 hurt and up to a dozen were missing on Monday after a hillside soaked by five days of rain collapsed onto a coastal Southern California neighborhood.
Peace 3000ap.tbo.com/ ... 23:55:53Prime Minister Ariel Sharon called Mahmoud Abbas on Tuesday to congratulate him for his landslide victory in an election to replace Yasser Arafat, signaling Israel's readiness to work with the new Palestinian team after years of boycotting Arafat. Both sides said a meeting will take place, but no date was set.
Justice?ap.tbo.com/ ... 23:56:59SANTA ANA, Calif. - A woman who pleaded guilty in 2003 to placing razor blades and nails in playgrounds was sentenced Tuesday to five years in prison for violating the terms of her probation.ap.tbo.com/ ... 23:54:48COLUMBUS, Ohio -A man accused of raping 37 women pleaded guilty Tuesday during jury selection for his trial... entered the pleas to 135 charges of rape, kidnapping, burglary and robbery. ..confessed ..he raped several dozen women in Columbus since 1987. .. prosecutor said he would recommend a 50-year sentence. [Only 50 years? Total? How many women would he have to rape to get life? Maybe if he was holding pot?
Under Tyrannyap.tbo.com/ ... 23:51:31Vietnam has suspended a popular news Web site for failing to obtain a government operating license, state-controlled media reported Wednesday... Vietnam maintains tight control over the media and the Internet. There are an estimated 500 media organizations in Vietnam, all of which are state-run....
Violencefoxnews.com/ ... 17:35:24JACKSON, Tenn. — A man opened fire Tuesday at a Tennessee Department of Transportation maintenance garage, killing his wife and two others, while wounding two more people...apnews.myway.com/ ... 12:13:07Osama bin Laden and other militant leaders could be hiding in eastern Afghanistan, the commander of U.S. forces along a key stretch of the Pakistani border told The Associated Press on Monday.... Taliban leaders appear to be losing control... militant activity in the east had been "sporadic over the past six months and does not appear tied to any specific strategy or agenda."modbee.com/ ... 11:40:05...Three hours later, another gun battle erupted, this one ending in the death of a 19-year-old Marine from Modesto,suspected of shooting the two officers... a Marine who had served seven months in Iraq.. who police say seemed determined to die rather than return to Iraq, was dead.... "It was a suicide by cop."voanews.com/ ... 11:34:54at least six Iraqi policemen were killed in a car bomb explosion in the northern town of Tikrit Tuesdayap.tbo.com/ ... 01:54:35A roadside bomb that missed a passing U.S. military convoy killed seven Iraqis and injured one south of Baghdad on Tuesday
MON 2005-JAN-10
Digital Consequencesnews.bbc.co.uk/ ... 20:31:09With thousands of new technologies jostling for attention at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, the choice for gadgets lovers is overwhelming. Everything from strange exercise equipment which requires the use of your entire body, to the largest plasma screen in the world which towers at 102 inches (2.6 metre), was on show.
Transportabcnews.go.com/ ... 20:26:30INDUSTRY, Pa. Jan 9, 2005 — A tugboat and three barges sank Sunday after being swept over a dam spillway on the Ohio River by currents made stronger by heavy rains, killing three crew members. One person was missing and believed to be aboard the sunken boat.
Rather Embarrassedap.tbo.com/ ... 20:21:36Four CBS News staffers were fired Monday following the release of an independent investigation that said a "myopic zeal" led to the airing of a discredited story about President Bush's military service... CBS fired Mary Mapes, producer of the report aired Sept. 8 on "60 Minutes Wednesday"; Josh Howard, executive producer of the show; his top deputy Mary Murphy; and senior vice president Betsy West. Dan Rather, who narrated the report, was faulted for "errors of credulity and overenthusiasm," but was not disciplined by top CBS executive Leslie Moonves.
US Militarycnn.com/ ... 20:36:04The U.S. Navy submarine accident that killed one sailor and injured 24 others occurred when the vessel -- traveling at high speed -- hit an undersea mountain head-on....
Human Rightreuters.com/ ... 20:28:36The U.S. Supreme Court let stand on Monday a ruling that the Ku Klux Klan white supremacist group can take part in Missouri's "Adopt-A-Highway" program.. rejected Missouri's appeal of a U.S. appeals court ruling that declared the state had violated the Klan's constitutional free-speech rights by rejecting its request to adopt a portion of a highway. Missouri cited the Klan's history of violence and said the group's application showed it "denies membership on the basis of race, color or national origin."
Only Naturalnasa.gov/ ... 20:34:48Scientists say Slow-Motion Collision Near Antarctic Research Station Imminent -- a massive iceberg is on a collision course with a floating glacier near the McMurdo Research Station in Antarctica. NASA satellites have witnessed the 100-mile-long B-15A iceberg moving steadily towards the Drygalski Ice Tongue. Though the iceberg's pace has slowed in recent days, NASA scientists expect a collision to occur no later than January 15, 2005....news.bbc.co.uk/ ... 20:29:23It appears that only a single change to the human gene is needed to enable it to block HIV infection.channelnewsasia.com/ ... 20:26:49Olive oil can help fight breast cancer
US Military Casualtiesdefenselink.mil/ ... 20:45:10[flag]Marine Cpl. Joseph E. Fite, 23, of Round Rock, Texas, died Jan. 9 as a result of hostile action in Al Anbar Province, Iraq.defenselink.mil/ ... 20:44:45[flag]Army Spc. Dwayne J. McFarlane Jr., 20, of Cass Lake, Minn., died Jan. 9 in Baghdad, Iraq, when his dismounted patrol was hit by an improvised explosive device. defenselink.mil/ ... 20:26:01[flag]Army Pfc. Daniel F. Guastaferro, 27, of Las Vegas, Nev., died January 7 in Ar Ramadi, Iraq, when his military vehicle left the road and went into a canal.
Violencetimesonline.co.uk/ ... 20:40:35THE Pentagon is considering forming hit squads of Kurdish and Shia fighters to target leaders of the Iraqi insurgency in a strategic shift borrowed from the American struggle against left-wing guerrillas in Central America 20 years ago. Under the so-called “El Salvador option”, Iraqi and American forces would be sent to kill or kidnap insurgency leaders, even in Syria, where some are thought to shelter.apnews.myway.com/ ... 20:40:02Gunmen on Monday assassinated Baghdad's deputy police chief and his son...
a huge roadside bomb in southwestern Baghdad destroyed a U.S. armored vehicle and killed two American soldiers
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Great Quake of 2004stuff.co.nz/ ... 20:41:57Two weeks on, the Earth is still vibrating from the massive undersea earthquake off Indonesia that triggered the tsunami... the oscillation [is] fading and at current levels equated to about a millimetre of vertical motion of the earth... Immediately after the quake the oscillation was probably in the 20-30cm motion range that is typically generated in the earth by the movements of the sun and moon.sunherald.com/ ... 20:20:34A U.S. helicopter with 10 people on board crashed in a rice paddy as it was trying to land at the Banda Aceh airport Monday while on a tsunami-relief operation, injuring at least two U.S. servicemen
SUN 2005-JAN-09
Now That's Funny!theherald.co.uk/ ... 17:58:09A DRUGS expert yesterday told a court he doubted claims by a schoolboy accused of murder that he was smoking about 300 cannabis joints a week.seattletimes.nwsource.com/ ... 17:57:30WASHINGTON — Shortly before last year's Super Bowl, many news stations aired a story by Mike Morris describing plans for a new White House ad campaign on the dangers of drug abuse. What viewers did not know was that Morris is not a journalist and his "report" was produced by the government, actions that constituted illegal "covert propaganda," according to an investigation by the Government Accountability Office (GAO).timesonline.co.uk/ ... 17:57:02Doctors who have been dealing with the ill effects of cannabis smoking were therefore relieved to read in the BMJ about a recent study of cannabis use, and its ability to precipitate psychotic symptoms in young people, especially if they had already shown symptoms which suggested a predisposition to psychiatric problems. Most medical practices have had patients who were young, bright and amusingly bizarre who appeared to have a good future awaiting them, only to have it dashed once they started to smoke marijuana.
Digital Consequencesreuters.com/ ... 13:35:21One of the next big issues in which pornographers could play a deciding role is the future of high-definition DVDs.
Great Quake of 2004southcoasttoday.com/ ... 19:06:51Unlike an asteroid impact, which would send out concentric circles of energy in all directions equally, this geologic event was primarily a sideways motion. That meant that from the start, the waves it sent east and west carried much more energy than those headed north or south... That reality -- along with the fact that shorelines happened to be closer to the east and west of the epicenter than to the north or south -- helps explain why vulnerable countries to the far north and south, such as Bangladesh and Mauritius, suffered relatively little, compared with Sri Lanka to the west and Thailand to the east... the most important determinant of a tsunami's personality as it comes ashore... "Basically, it's the shape of the bottom...."worldnetdaily.com/ ... 19:03:50"No one can predict exactly when an earthquake will happen, but it was clear that this area was at relatively high risk and such an event would definitely happen one day... We told them it would kill people, wreck infrastructure and destroy livelihoods. But our warnings were falling on deaf ears. My team and I decided to bypass the national and local government and start warning people directly. I hope our efforts saved some lives... There is some evidence that the stresses on the tectonic plates south of the epicenter may now have increased and raised the chances of another major earthquake."
Wasn't the Potmontreal.cbc.ca/ ... 17:59:13A 14-year-old boy from Lévis is dead and another is in hospital with severe health effects after mixing marijuana with... a powerful painkiller called a Duragesic patch.. a strong artificial opiate...
US Militaryindiadaily.com/ ... 13:34:53A U.S. sailor died Sunday, after sustaining injuries in a submarine accident a day earlier in the western Pacific, according to a statement from the U.S. Pacific Fleet.
Threatsworldnetdaily.com/ ... 19:02:07Ashqar: In some respects, Abbas holds certain different perspectives from Arafat, but he was clearly elected as a continuation of Arafat. Abbas emphasized the same things as Arafat – a final settlement with no less than the entire West Bank, Gaza, East Jerusalem, the right of return for all refugees. And when it comes to the economy and actual reform and democratization of the Palestinian Authority, Abbas is as bad as Arafat. There will be no change. No transparency, or separation of powers. No democracy. Just more of the same.worldnetdaily.com/ ... 19:00:25Krongard is the most senior official to date to publicly question the wisdom of capturing Osama. If his views are widely shared – and the London Times reports that other U.S. officials have privately said pinning bin Laden down on the Afghan-Pakistan border is preferable to making him a martyr or trying him – they represent a break with three years of official pronouncements about bringing him to justice.
Rebuildingnews.yahoo.com/ ... 18:58:58US Secretary of State Colin Powell... said the United States could consider its mission there accomplished once a representative government and an Iraqi security force are in place.
Violencegalvnews.com/ ... 19:08:15Police are investigating the strip search of 10 students at Mainland Preparatory Academy... At least two parents, whose children were not a part of the search, withdrew their children from school... “My child isn’t even allowed to wear sleeveless shirts because of our religion... “I’m going to home school.”.. The missing $10 was never foundap.tbo.com/ ... 13:36:15A French officer serving with U.N. peacekeepers in Lebanon was killed by Israeli shelling Sunday, shortly after a Hezbollah bomb attack killed an Israeli soldier and wounded three others near the southern border, Lebanese and U.N officials said.ap.tbo.com/ ... 13:36:02 American troops opened fire after their convoy was struck by a roadside bomb at a checkpoint south of Baghdad, killing at least two policemen and three civilians, police said Sunday
Reasons for Repealnews.bellinghamherald.com/ ... 18:00:30As U.S. border protection agencies improve their smuggling savvy, illegal importers have pursued more creative ways to sneak drugs past them.chron.com/ ... 17:59:51Houston Chronicle: Reducing penalties for possession of small amounts of marijuana is a sensible idea.uk.gay.com/ ... 17:57:55HIV patients suffering from nausea adhere more closely to their HIV antiretroviral treatment regimens when using medical marijuana, according to a new study.eurekareporter.com/ ... 17:46:08Nearly $2 million of marijuana was seized in a raid Tuesday in the Alderpoint area on Dokweiler Roadabc.net.au/ ... 17:45:48The 39-year-old man has been charged with cultivating a prohibited plant, after police allegedly found cannabis plants worth about $70,000.thefreeman.com/ ... 17:45:32More than five thousand marijuana saplings were uprooted last Thursday morning by joint elements of the Balamban Police, the Intelligence Security Group of the Central Command and civilian volunteers organization in barangay Cansumoroy, Balamban town.allafrica.com/ ... 17:45:05Police in Molo yesterday netted a cannabis haul on transit from Uganda to Nairobi and arrested two suspects. The pair was arrested at a roadblock with the drug with a street value of Sh5 million.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/ ... 17:44:51An Irish lorry driver was in police custody in the south of France last night after a huge haul of cannabis with an estimated street value of €28m was seized there.oceancity.md/ ... 17:43:55An Ocean Pines couple and their son will spend 10 days in jail because a large quantity of marijuana was growing in their house. The marijuana, weighing 290 grams, was "virtually all over the house,"reuters.com/ ... 17:43:30A U.S. Border Patrol agent has been arrested on suspicion of drug trafficking after authorities found 750 pounds of marijuana in his squad car following a high-speed freeway chasetheledger.com/ ... 17:43:02Authorities on Friday seized more than 30,000 marijuana plants in one of the state's largest drug busts of its kind.chron.com/ ... 17:42:30This year, the Texas Legislature will have the opportunity to consider reducing the punishment for an individual who is caught with less than an ounce of marijuana to a Class C misdemeanor, punishable by a fine only.seattlepi.nwsource.com/ ... 17:41:58BELLINGHAM, Wash. -- U.S. border protection agencies seized more than 5.5 tons of marijuana coming into the country through Whatcom County from January through November of 2004, down from 7.7 tons the previous year
SAT 2005-JAN-08
Lasting Contributionssacbee.com/ ... 22:49:08Rosemary Kennedy.. oldest sister of President John F. Kennedy.. inspiration for the Special Olympics, died Friday. She was 86. ..third child of Rose and Joseph Kennedy.. born mentally retarded and underwent a lobotomy when she was 23... lived most of her life in a Jefferson, Wis., institution.. her younger sister, Eunice Kennedy Shriver.. founded the Special Olympics for mentally disabled athlete...
WW2 - still with usap.tbo.com/ ... 22:52:05TESUQUE, N.M. (AP) - Robert Walker, a retired California Institute of Technology physics professor who worked on the Manhattan Project, died Wednesday in his northern New Mexico home. He was 85... While on the Manhattan Project, Walker worked both at Los Alamos and the University of Chicago. He built pressure gauges to measure the size of blasts...ap.tbo.com/ ... 15:34:12 Some 5,000 residents of a Berlin suburb were evacuated from their homes Saturday while explosives experts defused a 550-pound U.S. bomb believe dropped during the last months of World War II, police said.
WW1 - still with usap.tbo.com/ ... 15:33:52The Waikiki War Memorial Natatorium, meant to stand for the ages as a memorial to Hawaii's World War I veterans, has suffered decades of neglect, leaving it crumbling and almost forgotten. Now it's at the center of a debate that pits Honolulu's new cost-cutting mayor against historical preservationists.
Whoops!desmoinesregister.com/ ... 15:23:14A 65-year-old Wal-Mart greeter has been fired for greeting customers with a computer-generated photograph of himself wearing nothing but a Wal-Mart sack... ..told customers that Wal-Mart was cutting back on expenses and that the sack represented the new employee uniform... customers complained.. supervisor told [him] not to display the picture.,, Five days later.. more customers complained... applied for unemployment benefits but was denied.. Judge.. ruled that "a reasonable person would know the act of showing a naked body wearing a Wal-Mart sack would not be good for the employer's business."... "I didn't have nothing against Wal-Mart... A friend of mine got the photo of the body off the Internet, and he had a picture of me and he put my head on it. When I first seen it, I pretty near died laughing."
Sex can be Dangerousindystar.com/ ... 15:00:46...first-graders.. caught trying to have sex... The boy and girl somehow slipped off unnoticed and ducked underneath a stairwell... older students walking up the stairs heard noises and investigated. ..had removed some clothing ..weren't engaged in sexual intercourse... "One of them may be a victim.. We're waiting for the conclusion of the two investigations. At that age, that's learned behavior."..received five-day suspensions and could be booted from classes at School 69 for the rest of the year... social services support for them and their families... "With videos and various cable TV shows, there's an awful lot that kids are exposed to. Kids will imitate what they see and hear." ..such imitation is no proof that children comprehend the full meaning of what they've done....
Supernaturaldeadlysins.com/ ... 15:04:06The Seven Deadly Sinsdeadlysins.com/ ... 14:39:01The Seven Heavenly Virtues [javascript required]
Human Rightap.tbo.com/ ... 15:41:25MONTPELIER, Vt. - [After less] than five years... after 7,364 same-sex couples from around the world have been legally joined as spouses, civil unions have become a part of [Vermont's] social fabric.
US Militaryap.tbo.com/ ... 15:35:43An Army sergeant took the stand and tearfully apologized to his family, commanding officers and subordinates Saturday, a day after being convicted of aggravated assault for ordering his soldiers to throw Iraqis into the Tigris River.ap.tbo.com/ ... 15:36:26A nuclear submarine ran aground about 350 miles south of Guam, injuring around 20 sailors, one of them critically
Great Quake of 2004ap.tbo.com/ ... 15:45:20Endangered sea turtles were also casualties of the tsunami, with the monster waves possibly hastening their extinction, a marine expert said Saturday. At least 24 turtles swept up by the waves have been found on the shores of Phuket island, some dead, others with cuts, scrapes and broken shells.ap.tbo.com/ ... 15:44:00"I was sitting in the helicopter when they told me to get out... I was distraught because my only surviving grandson was leaving me. I didn't sleep all night...." When the U.S. military heard what had happened, they set about tracking down [the grandmother] ...Navy sailors passed the boy's photograph around Sabang Island in their search for the grandmother.... "Last night somebody came and told me I had a seat on a helicopter... I'm grateful to the Americans for taking my grandson away, but it was tough being separated from him. ... I didn't know if I would see him again."...news.bbc.co.uk/ ... 15:31:25In the 1880s.. Krakatoa.. the loudest sound ever made since mankind started noting such things.... heard.. clearly.. 4,776km away.. like people in London hearing, with perfect clarity, an explosion in Baltimore... same geological suture line that caused the recent Sumatran earthquake... cataclysmic eruption.. tower of ash, cloud and fire nearly 48km high, and raining down enormous islands of pumice, which were later found floating, laden with skeletons, 6,500km away. And then.. the waves, four of them. Immensely tall, immensely fast, felt as far away as France and England. ..smashed into the shores on Java and Sumatra, laying waste to everything, killing nearly 40,000 people.... Wreckage lay uncleared for years. An iron naval patrol boat was carried nearly three miles inland, and stayed there for more than a century....
A German, the manager of a quarry.. carried off the top of his three-storey office building at the summit of a 30m high hill... carried along on the wave's green unbroken crest, watching the jungle racing below, paralysed with fear. ...saw, being swept along beside him, an enormous crocodile. .. decided the only way to save himself was to leap aboard the crocodile and try to ride to safety on its back....
US Military Casualtiesdefenselink.mil/ ... 22:49:33[flag]Army Pfc. Kenneth G. Vonronn, 20, of Bloomingburg, N.Y., died January 6 in Baghdad, Iraq, with six of his fellow Soldiers when an improvised explosive device struck their Bradley fighting vehicle. defenselink.mil/ ... 14:55:11[flag]Army Sgt. 1st Class Kurt J. Comeaux, 34, of Raceland, La.
[flag]Army Sgt. Christopher J. Babin, 27, of Houma, La.
[flag]Army Spc. Bradley J. Bergeron, 25, of Houma, La.
[flag]Army Spc. Huey P. L. Fassbender, 24, of LaPlace, La.
[flag]Army Spc. Armand L. Frickey, 20, Houma, La.
[flag]Army Spc. Warren A. Murphy, 29, of Marrero, La.
died January 6 in Baghdad, Iraq, when an improvised explosive device struck their Bradley fighting vehicle. A seventh Soldier was also killed in the incident but the information will be released separately based upon next of kin notification policies.defenselink.mil/ ... 14:53:06[flag]Army Spc. Jimmy D. Buie, 44, of Floral, Ark.
[flag]Army Spc. Jeremy W. McHalffey, 28, of Mabelvale, Ark.
[flag]Army Spc. Joshua S. Marcum, 33, of Evening Shade, Ark.
died Jan. 4 in Taji, Iraq, when an improvised explosive devise detonated near their military vehicle.defenselink.mil/ ... 14:51:48[flag]Marine Sgt. Zachariah S. Davis, 25, of Twentynine Palms, Calif., died Jan. 6 as result of hostile action in Al Anbar Province, Iraq. defenselink.mil/ ... 14:51:27[flag]Army Sgt. Bennie J. Washington, 25, of Atlanta, Ga., died Jan. 4 in Brooke Army Medical Center, San Antonio, Texas, of injuries sustained Oct. 14 in Ar Ramadi, Iraq, when his military vehicle was struck by a rocket-propelled grenade.defenselink.mil/ ... 14:51:06[flag]Army Pfc. Curtis L. Wooten III, 20, of Spanaway, Wash., died Jan. 4 in Balad, Iraq, when an improvised explosive device detonated near his military vehicle.
Violenceapnews.myway.com/ ... 22:54:00The United States military said it dropped a 500-pound bomb on the wrong house outside the northern city of Mosul on Saturday, killing five people. The man who owned the house said the bomb killed 14 people, and an Associated Press photographer said seven of them were children....
in Saddam Hussein's hometown of Tikrit ..Saturday ..gunmen abducted a deputy governor of a central Iraqi province and two other senior Sunni officials after they met with Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani, Iraq's most prominent Shiite leader, in the holy city of Najaf to discuss the elections. A fourth person also was abducted.ap.tbo.com/ ... 22:50:46More than 100 police and security agents backed by five armored personnel carriers surrounded a house Saturday in the restive southern Russian region of Ingushetia and killed five alleged militants in a shootoutcsmonitor.com/ ... 22:49:53Militants abducted three senior Iraqi officials, beheaded a man who worked for the US military and killed at least four othersap.tbo.com/ ... 15:44:44A truck dispatcher who said she was kidnapped by her ex-boyfriend managed to escape Saturday and ask for help at a convenience store,ap.tbo.com/ ... 15:44:19 A Shiite Muslim cleric was ambushed Saturday as he drove through the once serene Himalayan tourist destination of Gilgit, setting off a rampage of sectarian violence and arson that left at least 11 people dead, including a family of six that was burned alive in its home.ap.tbo.com/ ... 15:34:50Indonesia's military has stepped up patrols for separatist rebels in tsunami-stricken northern Sumatra island after isolated skirmishes in recent days raised fears the conflict could hamper the relief effort.reuters.com/ ... 15:32:35Furious residents of a northern Iraqi village said on Saturday a U.S. air strike had flattened a villa and killed 14 civilians inside... The American military.. said it was investigating....
Under Tyrannyap.tbo.com/ ... 15:32:59Former Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry met Saturday with Syria's president and said he was hopeful that strained U.S.-Syrian relations could be improvednews.bbc.co.uk/ ... 15:31:55North Korea has launched an intensive media assault on its latest arch enemy - the wrong haircut.
Threatsap.tbo.com/ ... 15:39:58North Korea said Saturday it was willing to abandon its nuclear weapons programs, but it demanded a change in American policy ... statement.. appeared to be timed for a visit by Rep. Tom Lantos, the ranking Democrat on the House International Relations Committee. ...also came a day after U.S. officials said one of Washington's harshest critics of North Korea, Undersecretary of State John Bolton, will resign his post.ap.tbo.com/ ... 15:34:29Lasers Are Regulated, but Powerful Versions Are Available Onlinenewsobserver.com/ ... 14:56:36An Iraqi militant suspected of involvement in beheadings and other bloody attacks told Iraqi authorities that his group has links with Iran and Syria, according to a tape aired Friday by an Arabic TV station funded by the U.S. government.
FRI 2005-JAN-07
Alcohol Was Involvedreuters.com/ ... 23:16:40A British man was jailed on Friday for repeatedly stabbing a long lost best friend he had traced via the popular "Friends Reunited" Web site, and the victim says he still wants to be buddies.... stabbed him seven times in a drunken rage because he mistakenly believed his friend had attacked his sister...a miracle he had survived a stab wound to the heart...
1960s - still with usap.tbo.com/ ... 23:14:42Hundreds of miles from a Mississippi courtroom where a suspect pleaded innocent Friday to the 1964 slayings of three civil rights workers, three suburban Chicago high school students received accolades for their role in publicizing the case.
Whoops!wnbc.com/ ... 23:12:25 An advertising campaign that says the mouthwash Listerine is as effective as floss at fighting tooth and gum decay is false and misleading and poses a public health risk because it can undermine the message of dental professionals, a judge has ruled.nctimes.com/ ... 13:40:55Expert joins critics of historical claims made by 'Da Vinci Code'... "numerous mistakes, some of them howlers,"... Jesus was considered a mere mortal but then voted into divine status by bishops at the fourth-century Council of Nicea, for political reasons.... the four Gospels chosen for the New Testament treat Jesus as divine only... Christianity perpetrate[d] a massive censorship conspiracy to conceal the truth about Jesus... the Bible, as we know it today, was collated by the pagan Roman emperor Constantine....
Supernaturalraidersnewsupdate.com/ ... 13:37:44...To help deal with what it sees as an increasingly disturbing phenomenon, the Pope's Regina Apostolorum University is now offering students a course on satanism and exorcism. Set to begin in February, the course is directed at novices and trainee priests attending the Rome-based Catholic university. With lecturers on a variety of subjects - from demonology to witchcraft, from "applied exorcism" to canon law and the occult - the course aims to inform priests on everything relating to the Prince of Darkness. "The idea is to help priests deal with those youths who are attracted by satanistic cults, or parents who are concerned that their children might have joined some kind of sect," Professor Carlo Climati, one of the course's lecturers, said in a telephone interview.....
Sex can be Dangerousap.tbo.com/ ... 11:57:53A prostitute turned in a customer after seeing child pornography, including a video of an apparent toddler rape
Digital Consequencesnews.bbc.co.uk/ ... 11:56:08The Blu-Ray Association said on Thursday that games giants Electronic Arts and Vivendi would both support its DVD format.news.yahoo.com/ ... 11:49:03The New York Times Co. is considering subscription fees to the online version of its flagship newspaper, which now is available for free
Transportap.tbo.com/ ... 11:58:56A passenger train and a freight train collided in thick fog Friday in northern Italy, killing 14 people and injuring dozens... Rescue officials in Rome said 14 people were killed and 80 injured, several seriously....reuters.com/ ... 11:56:45Emergency workers were trying to plug a dangerous chlorine leak from a derailed freight train car on Friday after an accident in South Carolina that killed eight people and injured more than 300.news.yahoo.com/ ... 11:48:39Passengers on Alitalia's European flights were left hungry on Friday as cabin crew refused to serve meals and drinks in a "snack strike" to protest new working conditions at the Italian carrier.boston.com/ ... 01:04:34COUER D'ALENE, Idaho -- New Year's Day... on foggy U.S. Highway 95 in the Panhandle... two women.. their car slid under the trailer of a semitruck that had swung across the road like a gate being closed and blocked three lanes of traffic.... ducked as their car went beneath the tractor-trailer, avoiding decapitation....
Modern Family Lifeboston.com/ ... 01:01:20ST. LOUIS -- A 34-year-old woman was charged Tuesday with using a hammer and pliers to punish her son for not doing his homework.
Preternatural Patternsgranma.cu/ ... 13:23:24Ernesto Yevgueni Sánchez Shaida, aged 11, the son of a Russian mother and Cuban father and resident in the Siberian region of Altai, has astounded Russia’s scientific community with various revolutionary inventions like a 3-D image television and a refrigerator that doesn’t need electricity... the child presented around a dozen industrial inventions, some of them unprecedented.... boston.com/ ... 01:03:12 Incredulous doctors made five blood tests on a drunken man to confirm he had a blood-alcohol content of 0.914, far above the usual life-threatening rangeboston.com/ ... 01:02:51Nine-year-old Joey Sinay is so interested in how toilets work that he wrote a letter to a toilet maker asking if they would produce a clear commode... In December, the little plumber from Massillon got a present from Kohler -- a state-of-the-art bulk flush toilet. Joey, who keeps a toolbox under his bed, was nearly speechless. A local plumber agreed to help the boy install his dream gift... boston.com/ ... 00:59:28FARMINGTON, Mo. -- An woman is accused of stealing the gavel from the judge overseeing her case.
Great Quake of 2004apnews.myway.com/ ... 23:10:35Flailing in the water, the teenager heard a voice. "He told me to grab his hand, that he will save me," she said. She and the stranger were swept into a muddy river. When they reached a bank, he pushed her into a bed of brambles and raped her.news.scotsman.com/ ... 13:31:14THAILAND’S earthquake bureau failed to open an e-mail which warned them of the coming tsunami, it emerged today. The warning was sent from the Tsunami Alert Centre in Hawaii at 9.04 am - an hour before the tidal waves hit southern Thailand. But officials of the Thai Earthquake Bureau, part of Thailand’s Meteorological Office were too busy sending faxes about earthquakes in the region and did not check their mail, according to the Nation newspaper in Bangkok.....newscientist.com/ ... 13:30:12The satellites saw the first two wavefronts produced by the main quake, spaced 500 to 800 kilometres apart. These reached a maximum height of 50 centimetres in the open ocean.... "These waves involve the entire depth of the ocean. Their energy is thousands of times more than a monster storm...." even though tsunamis barely ripple the surface, they speed through the water as fast as jet airliners....
US Military Casualtiesdefenselink.mil/ ... 13:05:00[flag]Marine Lance Cpl. Julio C. CisnerosAlvarez, 22, of Pharr, Texas, died Jan. 6 as result of hostile action in Al Anbar Province, Iraq.
Only Naturalreuters.com/ ... 23:17:51...The 20-meter (yard) long... 50 ton.. fin whale, second only to the blue whale in size and weight, is thought to have died of suffocation after being washed up on New Year's Eve on the beach at Bermeo in Spain's northern Basque region, once a famous whaling province. After considering blowing the body up at sea, officials have opted instead to put its skeleton on show once the body decomposes....lasvegassun.com/ ... 23:09:13"It's snowing in Las Vegas...."news.scotsman.com/ ... 11:47:47ISOLATING intensive care patients infected with MRSA does not stop the hospital superbug spreading... The study highlighted the failure of staff to wash their hands often enough in the hospitals involved as a possible cause of the problem....technewsworld.com/ ... 11:46:09African-Americans had four copies of the CCL3L1 gene, compared with two and three in European-Americans and Hispanic-Americans. Each additional copy lowered the risk of acquiring HIV by between 4.5 and 10.5 percent.boston.com/ ... 01:02:08FORT WORTH, Texas -- An original work of art by Rasha, a 7,000-pound elephant, will be auctioned off on e-Bay beginning at noon Wednesday. All the proceeds will be donated to the American Red Cross International Response Fund,boston.com/ ... 01:01:38DODGEVILLE, Wis. -- A kangaroo's frigid walkabout in Iowa County came to an end Wednesday after authorities tracked down the marsupial.boston.com/ ... 01:00:40WARSAW, Poland -- A man escaped unscathed after a boar chased him around a hospital parking lot in southwestern Poland... When the man tried to flee, the boar pursued him around a parked car for a few minutes until it apparently got bored [sic]boston.com/ ... 01:00:00BOZEMAN, Montana -- A dog survived a flight in an eagle's claws then endured a week of sometimes subfreezing weather before finding its way home
Threatsseattletimes.nwsource.com/ ... 13:31:33An extremist Islamic group with alleged links to al-Qaida has set up a relief camp in the tsunami-stricken Aceh province on Sumatra island, raising concerns its fiercely anti-American members could stir up sentiment against U.S. and Australian troops helping to distribute aid.news.xinhuanet.com/ ... 13:23:45A powerful Afghan official from the troubled southeast Afghanistan foresees mass surrender of Taliban remnants to the government side in the near future.worldnetdaily.com/ ... 12:13:00Why hasn't Osama bin Laden's terror network executed an attack on U.S. soil since 9-11? Simple, says Dr. Jack Wheele... The U.S. has threatened to nuke the Muslim holy city of Mecca should the terror leader strike America again... "Completely obliterating the terrorists' holiest of holies, rendering what is for them the world's most sacred spot a radioactive hole in the ground is retribution of biblical proportions – and those are the only proportions that will do the job.... Part of Bush's rationale for invading Afghanistan and Iraq – obviously never expressed publicly – was to convince Osama that his threat to nuke Mecca was real."ap.tbo.com/ ... 02:48:12North Korea said Friday it attached little significance to the planned visit next week by members of Congress and accused Washington of plotting to topple Pyongyang's communist regime.
Violenceap.tbo.com/ ... 23:15:39The body of a civilian truck driver missing since April has been found near the place where his convoy was ambushed in Iraq nine months ago.ap.tbo.com/ ... 23:15:11United Nations peacekeepers in Congo sexually exploited women and girls, some as young as 13, a U.N. watchdog office said Friday in a new confirmation that efforts to curb abuses by U.N. troops are not working.local6.com/ ... 23:11:47TEXAS CITY, Texas -- ...10 students... seven girls and three boys -- ages 11 and 12... were strip-searched for a missing $10 bill at an award-winning charter school in Texas.cnn.netscape.cnn.com/ ... 23:10:58 Famed music producer Phil Spector at first told police he accidentally shot B-movie actress Lana Clarkson to death at his home in February 2003, contrary to his later claim that she committed suicide, newly released transcripts of grand jury testimony show.ap.tbo.com/ ... 02:48:38Police discovered 60 homemade bombs stashed in an abandoned house in eastern Indonesian, where Muslims and Christians have a long history of violencenytimes.com/ ... 02:47:44The Pentagon is sending a retired four-star Army general to Iraq next week to conduct an unusual "open-ended" review of the military's entire Iraq policy, including troop levels, training programs for Iraqi security forces and the strategy for fighting the insurgency,
Justice?boston.com/ ... 01:00:58ST. GEORGE, Utah -- A man who drove himself to the emergency room after being shot in the calf with a nail gun was arrested at the hospital for not stopping when ordered.
THU 2005-JAN-06
Digital Threatwafb.com/ ... 23:32:18...the situation started when a 15-year-old female student created a website called "Loranger's biggest queer.com." ...featured pictures of a 14-year-old male student. He responded with his own web site, which.. included a list of students he called "The Preps," and poems so graphically violent, investigators say "they crossed the line." .. "It sort of was like bullying on the Internet that got even worse, and we're lucky it didn't escalate to something even worse.".. Both students were arrested, as well as 18-year old.. who was charged with contributing to the delinquincy of a minor... helped the younger male set up and maintain his website... [Note: in this story, in a quote, the phrase "another columbine" is used without capitalization... it has entered the language in lower case]
Transportapnews.myway.com/ ... 20:51:55A freight train struck another train early Thursday, spilling a hazardous chemical. At least one person, a motorist in a nearby car, was injured, and decontamination sites were set up to treat people exposed to hazardous fumes... One of the train cars struck a tree, knocked it onto a car and trapped a woman inside for about two hours... at least three hazardous chemicals on the train, including chlorine gas...
US Election 2004realcities.com/ ... 20:50:18WASHINGTON -Two Democratic lawmakers raised a rarely used objection Thursday to delay Congress' certification of the 2004 presidential election results, but they ultimately succumbed to a bipartisan tide eager to put the election behind them... 286 for Bush, 251 for.. Kerry.. and one vote for Kerry's running mate, John Edwards
Disinformation Propaganda & Spinworldnetdaily.com/ ... 20:32:31what was disaster and tragedy becomes political fodder and propaganda ..reports Al-Jazeera, the popular Arab news service... Some think the U.S. and Indian militaries deliberately caused the tsunamis with electromagnetic pulse technology....
The Final Frontierlocal6.com/ ... 19:41:43The oxygen generator on the International Space Station is working again
Modern Family Lifenbcsandiego.com/ ... 19:43:24Couple Who Locked Boy In Trunk Avoid Prison.. 7-Year-Old Said He Was Locked In Trunk 11 Timespublicopiniononline.com/ ... 19:42:41Mother used tot as lookout during burglaryfoxnews.com/ ... 11:13:01By court order, 3-year-old Evan Parker Scott of Jacksonville, Fla., is being separated from his adoptive parents and returned to the biological mother who surrendered him at birth. Why? Because something was missing from the adoption process: the father’s consent.... By ignoring the father’s rights at the outset of an adoption proceeding, courts set the stage for this kind of needless tragedy....
Preternatural Patternsfoxnews.com/ ... 11:11:13Great Falls, Mont. ... about 1 a.m. Dec. 25... Gibson Park.. a 19-year-old man stuck in one of the park's plastic toddler swings — very upset, very naked and, given the 20-degree temperature, very chilly... cops ...tried to pull him out of the swing. No luck... firefighters.. fared no better... The swing and its hapless occupant were cut down and transported to the nearest firehouse.... a hacksaw.. failed to make much of a cut. Bolt cutters didn't work either... Nor did a tub of cooking grease... Finally, someone brought in a steel grinder... "It was way more torture than he deserved for what he did..." Neither the police nor the firefighters would name the man, who was not charged with anything.... never did fully explain how he got into his predicament....ap.tbo.com/ ... 10:51:29Warnings About Toilet Brush, Rectal Thermometer Win Wacky Awards -- sign on.. toilet brush..: "Do not use for personal hygiene."... a label on a children's scooter that said, "This product moves when used."...warning from a digital thermometer that said, "Once used rectally, the thermometer should not be used orally."rogerebert.suntimes.com/ ... 10:35:32The opinion of Roger Ebert, generally not considered a homophobic Christian coalitionist, on Alexander: ...an ambitious and sincere film that fails to find a focus for its elusive subject. namct.com/ ... 10:32:53Oliver Stone points the blame at the American audiences and critics for the poor box office performance of his latest film “Alexander”....
Digital Consequenceswashingtonpost.com/ ... 19:37:09... annual speech at CES by Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates ... an Internet television that runs on super high-speed lines, allowing you to switch channels without that customary two-second pause many HDTV watchers get today....
...A [Microsoft] staffer was on stage talking about the sweet features of a new Xbox race-car game.... Without warning, the screen went deep blue....thisislondon.com/ ... 10:40:20...for most British working women, "information overload" is a major cause of stress. More than half - 59 per cent - say being swamped by unnecessary information, including text messages, voicemail and emails, hampers their ability to run their lives as they wish....asia.news.yahoo.com/ ... 10:38:12South Korean scientists said they had developed the world's smartest robot able to think and learn like a human.... the first wireless network-based human-like robot....democratandchronicle.com/ ... 00:35:46Eastman Kodak Co. is unveiling a [wireless] camera today that ... will allow users to send their favorite images to friends and family – or to printers – directly from the back of the camera... unprecedented levels of on-board photo storage, the largest LCD screen of any digital camera on the market...
Sex can be Dangerousnews.yahoo.com/ ... 23:33:28A Bay City high school teacher was arrested and charged with having sex with a student.. had a sexual relationship with the 16-year-old male student in December 1999 and January 2000 but it did not come to light until 2004...nbcsandiego.com/ ... 19:40:58ORANGE, Calif. -- An Orange middle school teacher accused of having sexual contact with two 13-year-old boys who were former students was arraigned Thursday.... An attorney.. said she is "embarrassed."...usatoday.com/ ... 00:33:46While many small towns often have the reputation for being speed traps, citing pedal-to-the-metal motorists, Ardmore (Tenn) is becoming known for using the Web to attract alleged would-be child molesters to town.
History - still with usstuff.co.nz/ ... 00:32:13A small wooden tea chest has returned to Boston more than 230 years after rebellious colonists dumped it overboard during a famous protest that helped set the scene for the American War of Independence. Or at least that's what the new owners would like you to believe.
US Militaryamericasupportsyou.mil/ ... 11:01:46On Nov. 19, 2004, the Department of Defense launched a nationwide program, “America Supports You,” and new Web site to showcase the many activities taking place across the nation in support of the troops. The Web site, which highlights organizations and individuals coordinating local and national support efforts... reuters.co.uk/ ... 09:52:35 U.S. troops threw two Iraqi civilians into the Tigris River and laughed as one of them drowned, the survivor says, although American soldiers say the teenager may have faked his death.defenselink.mil/ ... 00:40:11This week, the Army and Navy announced an increase in the number of reservists on active duty in support of the partial mobilization, while the Air Force, Marine Corps and Coast Guard had a decrease. The net collective result is 1,875 more reservists mobilized than last week.
US Military Casualtiesdefenselink.mil/ ... 20:56:55[flag]Army Pvt. Cory R. Depew, 21, of Beech Grove, Ind., died Jan. 4 in Mosul, Iraq, when his Stryker military vehicle was struck by a rocket-propelled grenade.defenselink.mil/ ... 20:56:28[flag]Army Staff Sgt. Robert K. McGee, 38, of Martinsville, Va., died June 30, in Manila, Republic of the Philippines, of non-combat related injuries.
[flag]Army Sgt. 1st Class Otie J. McVey, 53, of Oak Hill, W.V., was medically evacuated from Baghdad, Iraq, on Sept. 23 for treatment of a non-combat related illness. He died Nov. 7 in Beaver, W.V.
[flag]Army Sgt. Foster Pinkston, 47, of Warrenton, Ga., died Sept. 16, in Eisenhower Army Medical Center in Augusta, Ga., from a non-combat related illness. defenselink.mil/ ... 00:39:45[flag]Marine Sgt. Thomas E. Houser, 22, of Council Bluffs, Iowa, died Jan. 3 as result of enemy action in Al Anbar Province, Iraq.defenselink.mil/ ... 00:39:20[flag]Army Sgt. Jeremy R. Wright, 31, of Shelbyville, Ind., died Jan. 3 in Asadabad, Afghanistan, when his military vehicle hit an improvised explosive device.
Only Naturalreuters.com/ ... 10:52:59A 120-year-old giant tortoise living in a Kenyan sanctuary has become inseparable from a baby hippo rescued by game wardens... the hippo's chances of survival in another herd were very slim, predicting that a dominant male would have killed him.... The sanctuary plans to place Owen with Cleo, a lonely female hippo....news.bbc.co.uk/ ... 10:45:06Owen, a baby hippopotamus that survived tsunami waves on the Kenyan coast snuggles up to its new adopted "mother", a century-old male giant tortoise, in Mombasa. [Scroll down to picture #6]reuters.myway.com/ ... 10:43:21South Africa's Nelson Mandela, one of Africa's most committed campaigners in the battle against AIDS, announced that his only surviving son had succumbed to the disease on Thursday.... "Let us give publicity to HIV/AIDS and not hide it, because the only way to make it appear like a normal illness like TB, like cancer, is always to come out and to say somebody has died because of HIV/AIDS. And people will stop regarding it as something extraordinary," said a frail-looking Mandela, surrounded by his grandchildren and other family members....ap.tbo.com/ ... 09:59:43A huge storm spread a smear of ice and snow from the Rockies to the Northeast on Wednesday, snarling highway and airline traffic, causing record-low temperatures in the Midwest and snapping power lines serving tens of thousands of people.usatoday.com/ ... 00:38:50ALTAMONT PASS, Calif. — The big turbines that stretch for miles along these rolling, grassy hills have churned out clean, renewable electricity for two decades in one of the nation's first big wind-power projects. But for just as long, massive fiberglass blades on the more than 4,000 windmills have been chopping up tens of thousands of birds that fly into them, including golden eagles, red-tailed hawks, burrowing owls and other raptors.freep.com/ ... 00:37:17UCI virologist Luis Villarreal contends viruses are largely responsible for shaping how we look, how we speak, even how we think... "persisting viruses..." are, in essence, the engines of evolution....
Repeal! Repeal! Repeal!iol.co.za/ ... 00:34:11An Italian woman trying to smuggle cocaine into Europe died on a flight arriving at Paris when one of 77 latex bags filled with the drug she had swallowed burst in her stomach
Under Tyrannynews.bbc.co.uk/ ... 10:48:08...clerics like Hojatulislam Kariminia can study transsexuality - unlike homosexuality which is completely forbidden in Islam and illegal in Iran.cnn.netscape.cnn.com/ ... 10:37:25A baby boy delivered in a Beijing maternity ward early Thursday became China's 1.3 billionth citizen, the government said, using the occasion to tout its contentious one-child policy.
Violencesuntimes.com/ ... 23:28:43More than 40 years after one of the most notorious crimes of the turbulent civil rights era-- the "Freedom Summer" slayings of three young civil rights workers-- a reputed Ku Klux Klansman was arrested Thursday on murder charges in the case.... Edgar Ray Killen was arrested at his home without incident. Myers said there would be more arrests in connection with the killings, which were dramatized in the 1988 movie "Mississippi Burning."...Nineteen men-- including Killen and many of them Klansmen-- were indicted. Seven were convicted of federal civil rights violations in 1967 and sentenced to prison terms ranging from three to 10 years... Killen was freed after his trial on federal conspiracy charges ended in a hung jury... But the state never brought murder charges against any of the men and none of those who were convicted served more than six years... Killen's arrest followed a grand jury session Thursday that apparently included testimony from individuals believed to have knowledge of the slayings. Myers said Killen, a 79-year-old preacher, was being held on three counts of murder....apnews.myway.com/ ... 19:39:49...A roadside bomb killed seven U.S. soldiers in northwest Baghdad and two Marines were killed in western Iraq on Thursday... commander of U.S. ground forces in Iraq acknowledged that security is poor in four of 18 Iraqi provinces....
The soldiers.. were on patrol Thursday evening when their Bradley fighting vehicle hit the explosive... Everyone inside.. was killed....
The two other U.S. Marines killed in action Thursday were both members of the 1st Marine Expeditionary Force and lost their lives in Anbar province...aljazeera.com/ ... 10:36:52The bodies of 18 Iraqi Shiite men were discovered near a farmland in the northern Iraqi city of Mosul... killed last month when they were on their way from their Baghdad Shiite district to work at a U.S. military base in Mosul.... gunmen shot dead the head of police in Baghdad’s Shiite district of Sadr City... a senior official in the Iraqi communist party, identified as Hadi Saleh, was found strangled to death....
Justice?ap.tbo.com/ ... 23:37:37A prisoner whose home was bombed by U.S. forces because a high-ranking Taliban member was suspected to be inside spoke Thursday before a military review tribunal in Guantanamo Bayap.tbo.com/ ... 23:36:51Police said they are investigating an incident in which an officer pepper-sprayed an 85-year-old man during a traffic stop... a World War II veteran... said officer.. also beat him after he took too long to stop his car... alleged that race was a factor..ap.tbo.com/ ... 23:34:32A man who died shortly after police zapped him with a Taser was a victim of a cocaine overdose, not the stun gun, officials said Thursday.reuters.com/ ... 10:55:37U.S. Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer reported for jury duty this week in Massachusettsreuters.com/ ... 10:54:05 judge gave him an extra fine for storming out of the court and slamming the door hard... "Apparently the panes shook, he slammed it so hard. That displeased the judge."...cnn.com/ ... 10:31:49 A Texas appeals court in Houston on Thursday ordered a new trial for Andrea Yates, the woman who confessed to drowning her five children in a bathtub, citing the false testimony of a prosecution witness.... an expert witness for the state, Dr. Park Dietz, presented false testimony when he said Yates may have been influenced by an episode of the "Law & Order" television program. Such an episode did not exist....
Threatsap.tbo.com/ ... 23:34:12A Malaysia Airlines flight bound for Japan was grounded after maintenance crew found hydraulic oil spilled on the instrument panel in the cockpit. It was the national carrier's fourth aircraft to be grounded "under unusual circumstances" over the past two years,washingtonpost.com/ ... 10:35:50Iraq's U.S.-backed government said on Thursday it was extending emergency powers equivalent to martial law for a further 30 days to try to safeguard Jan. 30 electionsap.tbo.com/ ... 09:58:13Officials with airline pilots unions say the government should be doing more to alert them to incidents involving lasers and to provide guidance about how best to protect themselves against beams that can blind. At least eight recent incidents...
Great Quake of 2004ap.tbo.com/ ... 23:37:50quake mapAftershocks from the massive earthquake that sent killer waves crashing ashore in southern Asia continue to trigger occasional panic, but the seismic activity doesn't necessarily portend another major quake, seismologists said Thursday.csmonitor.com/ ... 20:55:04....as parents come to terms with the calamity, children here are sharing stories of survival. And they're making a common request: It would be wise, they say, to create an early-warninging system - should a tsunami come again.... "I gave up everything and without thinking I selected the most important thing in my life - my girl," he says. "It made things very clear to me, at that level."foxnews.com/ ... 11:19:15Political Vultures Unclear on Geology
...executive director of Greenpeace UK after quake: "No one can ignore the relentless increase in extreme weather events and so-called natural disasters, which in reality are no more natural than a plastic Christmas tree."
...Friends of the Earth director: "Here again are yet more events in the real world that are consistent with climate change predictions."
...spokesperson for the Indonesian arm of Friends of the Earth: "We can expect in the coming years similar events happening as a result of global warming and therefore help and prevention are the responsibility of the Northern countries as well."
Insurer Munich Re used the event as an opportunity to renew its call for action to fight global warming, which the insurance industry has recently started to blame for natural disasters. Concerned about large payouts for natural disaster claims, insurance companies are very eager to establish global warming as a contributing factor to those disasters, so they can sue deep-pocket businesses supposedly responsible for that global warming....
Earthquakes aren't caused by the weather or greenhouse gas emissions; they're caused by tectonics — that is naturally moving geological faults. While tectonics may cause climate changes, the reverse is not true.ap.tbo.com/ ... 09:58:53Twelve days after a tsunami devastated areas of Asia, some 2,900 Americans are still missing.ap.tbo.com/ ... 09:56:10[Duh!] Among Muslims and Arabs, Suspicion Meets America's Aid to Tsunami Victims.... U.S. generosity has been noted by some Muslims, even in unexpected quarters. "I give them (Americans) credit for helping the tsunami victims," said Hassan al-Aali of Bahrain's National Committee for the Support of Iraqi People, who has organized several protests against the American occupation of Iraq. "I believe their help is genuinely for humanitarian reasons," al-Aali said, adding that the U.S. has no vested interest in the disaster-struck areas because "there is no oil there."ap.tbo.com/ ... 09:53:46The Nicobarese are the largest of the tribes in India's Andaman and Nicobar islands, where 9,682 people have died and another 5,914 are missing and feared dead. survivors among the estimated 30,000-strong tribe have shown courage and resilience in the face of the tragedy, a trait they say came from deep community bonds and centuries of traditions of sharing joy and sadness. "We have a peaceful mind in the island. It's in our nature. Even when we have trouble, we never say we have trouble," said Henry. "We are good Christians. If we are starving, we are starving. If we have food, we will share. We share everything. Sorrow, sadness, everything."news.scotsman.com/ ... 00:22:43...Tamil Nadu... scores of local women died when their long hair become caught in trees, gripping them in the path of the giant wave.... thousands of pilgrims died as they visited the shrine town of Velankanni, the site of the famous Roman Catholic Church of Our Lady of Good Health. “There had just been a service and people were wandering down to the beach along a passage way lined with shops. Three thousand people were killed when the waves hit...
WED 2005-JAN-05
Mechanical Disasterap.tbo.com/ ... 16:11:39The maker of the Dirt Devil is recalling about 20,000 Sweeper Vac battery-powered upright vacuums because they can overheat and start a fire.
Digital Consequencesap.tbo.com/ ... 16:10:06Working with the basic material of computer chips, Intel Corp. researchers have constructed an all-silicon laser that could lead to computers one day harnessing light waves rather than electrical currents to shuttle data swiftly.news.bbc.co.uk/ ... 16:08:34Thousands of technology lovers and industry experts have gathered in Las Vegas for the annual Consumer Electronics Show... About 50,000 new products will be unveiled as the show unfolds... the next generation Xbox... latest trends in digital imaging, storage technologies, thinner flat screen and high-definition TVs, wireless and portable technologies, gaming, and broadband technologies....
Future is Nownews.bbc.co.uk/ ... 16:07:27Einstein Year has been launched in the UK and Ireland to inspire the next generation of physicists.
Disinformation Propaganda & Spinwashingtonpost.com/ ... 15:48:52Office-supply retailer Staples Inc. is pulling its advertising from news programming on Sinclair Broadcast Group Inc. television stations, saying the decision was fueled in part by e-mails from customers angry at what they consider to be the broadcaster's right-wing bias in news and commentary.
The Final Frontierlocal6.com/ ... 15:37:27The International Space Station's main oxygen generator has failed, forcing astronauts to use an emergency back-up air supply... not in any immediate danger and engineers are confident that some backup procedures and in-flight repairs can keep the two astronauts breathing easy...
Preternatural Patternsworldnetdaily.com/ ... 02:52:00We often hear the claim that our nation is a democracy. That wasn't the vision of the founders. They saw democracy as another form of tyranny.ananova.com/ ... 02:48:09A Serbian woman has been jailed for 18 months for marrying a dead man.
Supernaturalnypost.com/ ... 02:47:25The retired father of five was riding a bus past his regular lottery outlet two weeks ago when an "inner voice" urged him to get off and purchase a ticket — even though he already had three entries tucked away in his wallet. ...a few nights later the 61-year-old former MTA worker watched in stunned disbelief as his lucky seven numbers rolled across the screen... sole winner of New York Lottery's end-of-year $40 million jackpot....expatica.com/ ... 02:46:09A grieving mother told a court in Germany how psychics told her who killed her 16-year-old daughter and where to find him.
Sex can be Dangerousbristolnews.com/ ... 20:05:11BRISTOL, Va. – A Virginia Middle School teacher has been accused of having oral sex with one of her 13-year-old studentscnn.com/ ... 02:38:51..Consumers Union says.. the seven top types of condom they studied did not burst despite vigorous testing, and all models met international standards. ..top brand, able to take the most punishment, was the Durex Extra Sensitive Lubricated Latex, according to the report... A melon-colored model distributed by Planned Parenthood performed the worst.... "You end up with a balloon 3 feet tall and a foot wide. They can really stretch an amazing amount...."
Only Naturalseattletimes.nwsource.com/ ... 16:04:36Moisture-laden storms from the north, west and south are likely to converge on much of America over the next several days in what could be a once-in-a-generation onslaught... a series of warm, wet storms heading east from Hawaii, drenching Southern California and the far Southwest, already beset with heavy rain and snow. Flooding, avalanches and mudslides are possible.... a mass of cold air chugging south from Alaska and Canada, bringing frigid air and potentially heavy snow and ice to the usually mild-wintered Pacific Northwest... warm, moist storm system from the Gulf of Mexico drenching the already-saturated Ohio, Tennessee and Mississippi valleys. Expect heavy river flooding and springlike tornadoes... "There's going to be weather in the headlines this weekend, that's for sure."...news.yahoo.com/ ... 15:51:34Parts of Alaska Turned Into Soggy Mess... South-central Alaska is so warm, an annual winter dog weight-pulling contest in Anchorage has been canceled because there's not enough snow. Kenai Peninsula roads have taken a beating with constant freezing and thawing.... The towns of Homer and Palmer had high temperatures of 46 degrees Tuesday, and it reached 43 degrees in Anchorage....
Repeal! Repeal! Repeal!reuters.com/ ... 16:10:58Colombian drug traffickers surgically hid heroin in puppies' bellies in a plan to evade international customs controlswashingtonpost.com/ ... 15:48:10At 61, Longtime Marijuana Lobby Leader Keith Stroup Is Finally Leaving the Joint... He founded NORML back in 1970 and now, 34 years later, he's retiring at 61 as the pot lobby's executive director....
Great Quake of 2004reuters.com/ ... 16:09:00An Indonesian woman who was plucked from the sea after clinging to a palm tree for five days in the wake of a devastating tsunami heard Wednesday that she is 18 weeks pregnant with her first child.reuters.com/ ... 16:08:46The United Nations warned on Wednesday Asia's tsunami death toll could double to about 300,000 unless survivors received clean water and other basic services by the end of the week to prevent disease.news.bbc.co.uk/ ... 16:06:59Tsunami aid pledges top $3bnnews.bbc.co.uk/ ... 16:06:40In the wake of the Asian tsunami, the BBC News website received tens of thousands of emails from anxious friends and relatives of people caught up in the disaster. Many were able to trace their missing loved ones through comments and appeals that appeared on our special message boards.news.bbc.co.uk/ ... 16:06:13An Indonesian man has been found floating on tree branches in the Indian Ocean, eight days after... said he was initially swept out to sea with other survivors and family members, but that one by one they drowned.... he survived eating floating coconuts.... drank rainwater, and ate coconuts, which he reportedly cracked open with a doorknob....worldnetdaily.com/ ... 02:54:32Dr. Rowan Williams, the archbishop of Canterbury, says the earthquake and tsunamis in South Asia should and will shake the faith of all Christians.... I don't know why Williams feels qualified to speak for all Christians. But clearly he doesn't speak for me. My faith is not shaken. Is yours?...ap.tbo.com/ ... 02:29:28Cartographers on Wednesday began studying whether the tsunami redrew India's southern archipelago - breaking, tilting or even sinking the islands... Separately, anthropologists focused on the fate of the region's indigenous tribes... some islands breaking up, land masses tilting and underwater coral reefs emerging above the sea... Anthropologists say only about 400 to 1,000 members are still alive from the five primitive tribes of the Great Andamanese, Onges, Jarawas, Sentinelese and Shompens, who originated in Africa and migrated to India through Indonesia tens of thousands of years ago....
US Militaryreuters.myway.com/ ... 20:10:34U.S. Marine Cpl. Wassef Ali Hassoun, charged a month ago with desertion in a mysterious case in which he left his unit in Iraq only to turn up in Lebanon, has failed to return to his base in North Carolina, the Marine Corps said on Wednesday.news.bbc.co.uk/ ... 02:26:49more than 10,000 US military personnel have been wounded in Iraq since the beginning of the conflict there... Nearly half of the wounded have been able to return to duty, but more than 5,000 have not.... Advances in military medicine and body armour mean that many have survived wounds that they would not have done in previous conflicts.... many are left with serious injuries such as lost limbs and sight....
Human Rightapnews.myway.com/ ... 02:17:53A Family Court judge who last year stirred debate about parental responsibilities ordered a second drug-addicted woman to have no more children until she proves she can look after the seven she already has
Threatsap.tbo.com/ ... 16:09:40 Britain closed its embassy in Yemen on Wednesday because of "specific security concerns" and warned that terrorists were in the end stage of planning assaults against British targets in the country.channels.aimtoday.com/ ... 15:39:32North Korea has ordered its citizens to be ready for a protracted war against the United States, issuing guidelines on evacuating to underground bunkers with weapons, food and portraits of leader Kim Jong Il. [If all else fails, they can always eat the portraits?]boston.com/ ... 15:38:47WASHINGTON -- Federal authorities searched Wednesday for a man using a Middle Eastern name and possibly bogus construction credentials to try to purchase large quantities of an explosive ingredient used by Timothy McVeigh to blow up the Oklahoma City federal building.worldnetdaily.com/ ... 02:57:44China is attempting to justify its inevitable invasion of Taiwan with some legal maneuvering – an anti-secession law. The free world's response to this grotesque violation of human rights and militaristic, imperialistic threat should be to recognize Taiwan once and for all as an independent, free and sovereign nation-state.news.bbc.co.uk/ ... 02:39:09Some 70,000 people received weapons training and religious instruction in al-Qaeda camps, German police says.
World Without Bordersworldnetdaily.com/ ... 02:36:39Bill O'Reilly... last night endorsed Bill Clinton to replace Kofi Annan as secretary-general of the United Nations....No American has ever been U.N. secretary-general even though the United States serves as host country and the major contributor to its budget.... Clinton's fund-raising prowess is viewed in some quarters as a real incentive for the U.N....
Violencenews.bostonherald.com/ ... 20:11:04A burgeoning East Boston-based street gang made up of alleged rapists and machete-wielding robbers has been linked to the al-Qaeda terrorist network, prompting Boston police to ``turn up the heat'' on its membersfoxnews.com/ ... 15:36:14Between 20,000 and 30,000 terrorists are operating throughout Iraq, led by Syria-based former regime leaders, Iraq's intelligence chief told Wednesday's edition of a pan-Arab newspaper. Maj. Gen. Mohammed Abdullah al-Shahwani told Asharq Al-Awsat that he expected the armed attacks would decrease and end within a year....reuters.com/ ... 15:35:20HILLA, Iraq - A suicide bomber killed 15 people at a police academy graduation Wednesday... The bomber rammed an explosives-packed car into a compound in the town of Hilla, south of Baghdad, in a lawless area known as the "Triangle of Death," and blew it up...ap.tbo.com/ ... 02:30:10A car bomb exploded in Baghdad's western district of Amiriyah Wednesday, killing two people and wounding 10... car was following a convoy of U.S. and Iraqi troops when it exploded near a gas station... All the casualties were Iraqi civilians....
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Transportboston.com/ ... 21:51:47ERWIN, Tenn. -- With winter's full wrath still to be felt, Unicoi County is already having a cold-weather crisis: It lost all three of its salt trucks during a single traffic accident....
New Year 2005boston.com/ ... 21:35:23...For the second straight year, the parents are the winners of the first baby contest at Sturdy Memorial Hospital... daughter ..born 9:37 p.m. on New Year's Day. A year ago, big sister ..born at 12:16 a.m. Jan. 2, 2004. "I'm still shocked that it actually happened the second year in a row -- no planning, no nothing," said mom Terri Gavel, 30. "It's a little unreal right now, still."apnews.myway.com/ ... 11:47:33Motley Crue rocker Vince Neil to bandmate Tommy Lee during live New Year's Eve broadcast of "The Tonight Show With Jay Leno.": "Happy f@¢*ing New Year, Tommy!"... "The network has not received any calls regarding the incident...."
History - still with usap.tbo.com/ ... 20:26:23A brother and sister who were separated in 1975 during the Mexican government's crackdown on leftist activists have been reunited after 30 yearscbc.ca/ ... 11:42:21 Chile's top court has upheld murder and kidnapping charges against Gen. Augusto Pinochet
Modern Family Lifenews.bbc.co.uk/ ... 12:04:42Children exposed to passive smoking are likely to do worse at school than their peers, research suggests. Exposure to even low levels of tobacco smoke in the home was linked to lower test results for reading and maths.elitestv.com/ ... 11:39:51WRAZ-TV in Raleigh, North Carolina has decided not to air the new Fox reality television show 'Who's Your Daddy?' "We just don't think adoption is a game show..." The show has an adopted woman try to choose who her biological father is from a group of eight strangers. If she guesses correctly, she would be awarded $100,000. If she guesses incorrectly, the man fooling her would take home the money. The National Council for Adoption encouraged television stations not to air the new show.
Preternatural Patternsreuters.com/ ... 12:14:08A group of young South African men taking part in coming of age rituals due to include circumcision turned on their male nurse and killed himap.tbo.com/ ... 00:50:31The only Scott Peterson related item BlogHeaped: The book also features dozens of photographs of Frey - including a glamour shot taken when she was 18 and two dozen black-and-white frames from a "2000 modeling shoot" that show a short-haired Frey in a see-through negligee.
Lasting Contributionssun-sentinel.com/ ... 17:01:52picspiritWill Eisner, the artist who revolutionized comic books.. died Monday at Florida Medical Center of complications from quadruple bypass heart surgery last month, said agent Denis Kitchen, who also was Eisner's publisher for three decades... "He was absolutely the greatest innovator the industry ever saw..."willeisner.com/ ... 17:11:32Will Eisner websiteeditorandpublisher.com/ ... 17:03:58Eisner received the 1995 Milton Caniff Lifetime Achievement Award and the 1998 Reuben Award as cartoonist of the year from the National Cartoonists Society.comicbookresources.com/ ... 17:03:02Will Eisner... his body of work having influence over generations of creators and revered for his spirit and ingenuity. The Eisner Awards, considered by many to be the most prestigious award distributed in comics, are named in his honor and have been given out annually since 1987. Eisner was always in attendance at the awards, happily shaking the hand of every winner in attendance.ap.tbo.com/ ... 00:48:43picalfredFrank Kelly Freas, an influential illustrator who produced sleek, stirring images for science fiction and fantasy books and helped shape the image of Mad Magazine mascot Alfred E. Newman, died Sunday, his wife said. He was 82... received 11 Hugo awards.. spent seven years as the main cover artist of Mad Magazine... [drew] the official patch of NASA's 1973 Skylab 1.. the cover of Queen's 1977 album "News of the World,".. a picture of a werewolf that appeared in the movie "Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban."torcon3.on.ca/ ... 00:57:48 Frank Kelly Freas "most popular sf artist in the history of the field"kellyfreas.com/ ... 00:57:00FRANK KELLY FREAS website
Digital Consequencesnews.bbc.co.uk/ ... 12:04:16"dooced" means "losing your job for something you wrote in your online blog, journal, website, etc."wjactv.com/ ... 11:38:06Online shoppers in the United States spent spent $23.2 billion during the 2004 holiday season... 25 percent higher than.. 2003 total of $18.5 billion.. figures do not include money spent on holiday travel.. $3.8 billion.. on apparel and clothing... Toys and video games.. $2.5 billion... Consumer electronics.. $2.3 billion in revenue... Jewelry, flowers and computer hardware all saw big jumps from 2003: 113 percent, 59 percent and 30 percent increases, respectively.reuters.com/ ... 00:44:11TiVo Inc., maker of television recording technology, on Monday said it has started shipping "TiVoToGo," a service upgrade that allows some subscribers to view recorded programs on a computer or laptop.
Sex can be Dangerouswashingtonpost.com/ ... 00:40:06At a time when the medical community has been heartened by a decline in risky sexual behavior by teenagers, a different problem has crept up: More adult women are forgoing birth control, a trend that has experts puzzled -- and alarmed about a potential rise in unintended pregnancies.
Future is Nowhealthtalk.ca/ ... 00:39:22Researchers have reversed some symptoms of Parkinson's disease in monkeys by transplanting monkey embryonic stem cells into the areas of the brain where their neurons had degenerated.
Extraterrestrialenglish.chosun.com/ ... 00:38:52Two U.S. robot rovers are still gathering scientific data about the history of water on Mars, one year after the first one landed. It is about nine months longer than the robots were expected to last.
US Military Casualtiesdefenselink.mil/ ... 16:49:17[flag]Army Sgt. 1st Class Pedro A. Munoz, 47, of Aquada, Puerto Rico, died Jan. 2 in Shindand, Afghanistan, of injuries sustained Jan. 1 when his patrol encountered enemy fire.defenselink.mil/ ... 16:48:44[flag]Army Sgt. Damien T. Ficek, 26, from Pullman, Wash., died Dec. 30 in Baghdad, Iraq, when his patrol was attacked by enemy forces using small arms fire. defenselink.mil/ ... 16:47:03[flag]Army Spc. Jeff LeBrun, 21, from Buffalo, N.Y., died Jan. 1 in Baghdad, Iraq, when his military vehicle was struck by an improvised explosive device. defenselink.mil/ ... 16:41:29[flag]Marine Lance Cpl. Brian P. Parrello, 19, of West Milford, N.J. died Jan. 1
[flag]Marine Lance Cpl. Jason E. Smith, 21, of Phoenix, Ariz. died Dec. 31
both as result of hostile action in Al Anbar Province, Iraq. defenselink.mil/ ... 14:22:46[flag]Army Spc. Craig L. Nelson, 21, from Bossier City, La., died Dec. 29 at the National Naval Medical Center in Bethesda, Md., of injuries sustained Dec. 16 in Baghdad, Iraq, when an improvised explosive device detonated near his military vehicle.
Only Naturalboston.com/ ... 21:54:18...Oshmyansky graduated from high school in 2002 and from the University of Colorado at Boulder in 2003. He is in his second year of medical school at Duke University. This fall, he'll pursue a doctorate in mathematical biology at Oxford University as one of 40 Americans awarded a Marshall Scholarship from the British government.... on his way to becoming a brain surgeon so he can study the mathematical modeling of the brain's pathways.... He is 20....boston.com/ ... 21:48:53A 12-foot alligator weighing more than 400 pounds and described as among the largest ever caught near downtown Miami.. Hardwick and others wrapped a rope around the middle of the gator and attached the other end to a ladder fire truck, which hoisted the reptile out of the water, over a 4-foot fence and a row of parked cars.... Then Hardwick and two wildlife officers sat on the gator while an assistant secured its jaws shut with duct tape. "He used the entire roll..." The alligator likely swam downtown years ago, when it was smaller, and lived the canal system draining the Miami Civic Center, emerging only to snatch raccoons and opossums from the bank, Hardwick said. But most of the food was delivered straight to the gator. Hardwick said the reptile likely grew fat on carcasses of animals tossed into the creek as religious sacrifices. "They farm-raised this big boy on Santeria and voodoo," Hardwick said.thekcrachannel.com/ ... 11:35:57...40-mile stretch of [California's].. main north-south highway.. still closed... new storm.. snow in the mountains.. hail in the Los Angeles area.local6.com/ ... 00:41:15A Central Florida teen is recovering Monday after a flesh-eating bacteria forced doctors to amputate most of his leg... also had to remove the infection from Dooley's muscles around his hip and upper leg....
Justice?biz.yahoo.com/ ... 21:56:04Macomb County Prosecutor Eric Smith authorized criminal charges today against a sixteen-year-old Richmond male accused of terminating his girlfriend's pregnancy with a souvenir baseball bat... the youths intentionally caused the death of the fetus by striking the mother's abdomen with the twenty-two inch bat over the course of two weeks... According to that law, only the person making the intentional conduct against the pregnant individual is criminally liable. The pregnant individual herself, however complicit in the termination, is not.....reuters.com/ ... 12:12:39An Iranian who beheaded his two sons after they witnessed him murder a woman was sentenced to hang Tuesday by a Tehran court.. received two death sentences for killing the adults. Under Iran's Islamic law a father need only pay blood money for killing his children... Adultery is punishable by death in Iran....
Threatsapnews.myway.com/ ... 17:05:14A man who initially claimed his daughter aimed a laser at a helicopter was charged after he told federal agents that he pointed the light beam at two aircraftworldnetdaily.com/ ... 14:14:59U.S. military warplanes flew over Iranian air space, raising Tehran's concerns preparations are being made to knock out its nuclear facilities, according to Iranian news media reports... U.S. military was silent on the veracity of the reports...reuters.com/ ... 12:06:31Kuwaiti military personnel detained last week for plotting attacks against U.S. troops had planned to strike during joint exercises
Violenceguardian.co.uk/ ... 16:58:28ANDAHUAYLAS, Peru -- More than 100 fighters in an armed nationalist group that seized a remote Peruvian police station and took officers and soldiers hostage surrendered to authorities Tuesday and freed their 17 captives.. Former army Maj. Antauro Humala turned himself in... xenophobic fringe group... wants to establish a nationalist indigenous movement modeled on the ancient Incan Empire... members of Humala's group... believed responsible for ambushing police reinforcements as they crossed a bridge Sunday, killing four officers....reuters.com/ ... 12:06:01Gunmen killed Baghdad's governor in Iraq's highest-profile assassination in eight months and a suicide bomber killed 11 people at a police checkpoint on Tuesday... Insurgents also killed three U.S. soldiers in a roadside bomb attack in Baghdad; another soldier in a bomb blast in Balad north of the capital; and an American Marine in western Iraq....drudgereport.com/ ... 11:45:22U.S. military and intelligence sources are denying print and broadcast reports that terrorist Abu-Musab al-Zarqawi has been arrested in Iraqreuters.com/ ... 01:09:56 Israeli soldiers shot dead five Palestinians in north Gaza on Tuesday after mortar fire from Palestinian militants wounded two people in a nearby Jewish settlementap.tbo.com/ ... 01:09:18A suicide car bomb detonated near an Iraqi National Guards barracks Tuesday in western Baghdad, killing six people and wounding 40
Great Quake of 2004photos.reuters.com/ ... 22:19:04sea of outstretched handscanada.com/ ... 20:23:01A Buddhist abbot stunned his Burnaby congregation on Saturday when he announced they would be selling a temple worth more than $500,000 to give all the proceeds to Asia's tsunami victims.cnn.com/ ... 14:22:07Thai expert.. Samith Dhammasaroj said Monday he was sure a tsunami was coming as soon as he heard about the massive December 26 earthquake.. "I tried to call the director-general of the meteorological office, but his phone was always busy.. I tried to phone the office, but it was a Sunday and no-one was there... I knew that one day we would have this type of tsunami. I warned that there would be a big disaster... Everyone laughed at me and said I was a bad guy who wanted to ruin the tourist industry... I feel very sorry for the people who died... I will make sure this thing does not happen again." The early warning system for Thailand.. would be ready in six months, Samith promised. "We will make the system very efficient..."
...Preliminary investigations by a team of six Japanese experts showed that the wall of water hit beaches along the Thai coast at different speeds and heights, with the phenomenon exacerbated by a high tide that fed the tsunami as it neared land.... waves up to 10.5 meters (34 ft) high... roared up Khao Lak's gently sloping beach at speeds of up to 8 meters a second (29 kilometers an hour)... a network of underwater sea monitors which might cost as little as $20 million to build... Warnings of imminent inundations would be sent out automatically on television and radio and by text messages to mobile phones....reuters.com/ ... 12:16:52Rescuers failed for a second day to save two rare dolphins in tsunami-hit Thailand Tuesday after a local official and environmentalists argued about how best to save the mammals... "They want to catch them like fish, but these are mammals and if they get tangled up in the net they will drown," said Jim Styres of the Myanmar Dolphin Project, a conservation group based in Thailand. .. Ignoring pleas from the environmentalists to give them the net, the official ordered his 100-strong team to push ahead... the net snagged on debris littering the bottom... "They seem to be okay, but they are probably suffering from dehydration.." dolphins get their fluids from feeding on live fish.reuters.com/ ... 12:10:39A 10-year-old Indian girl survived for four days alone in the jungle, living off berries and coconuts, after the tsunami swept away her familynews.bbc.co.uk/ ... 11:58:50An Indian helicopter dropping food and water over the remote Andaman and Nicobar Islands has been attacked by tribesmen using bows and arrows. There were fears that the endangered tribal groups had been wiped out... But the authorities say the attack is a sign that they have survived. The Andaman and Nicobar archipelago is home to several tribes, some extremely isolated. .Officials believe they survived the devastation by using age-old early warning systems. They might have run to high ground for safety after noticing changes in the behaviour of birds and marine wildlife. Scientists are examining the possibility to see whether it can be used to predict earth tremors in future.news.bbc.co.uk/ ... 11:55:49Aid workers in Indonesia's Aceh province have been discovering the full horror of the devastation wreaked by the Asian tsunami... villages where as many as 80% of the population were killed... About 40,000 died in and around the Aceh town of Meulaboh alone... barely a building left standing in many neighbourhoods near the coast... criminal trafficking groups were active in Aceh, with some using text messaging to offer children for adoption... in the town of Banda Aceh 3,000 displaced people were sharing just four toilets...drudgereport.com/ ... 11:43:23 CNN chief Jonathan Klein.. told USATODAY that CNN was "able to flood the zone immediately."... "..could there be a worse choice of words to use after 150,000 people just died in an epic flood of waves?"edition.cnn.com/ ... 11:42:00India's government on Tuesday halted the mass evacuation of island survivors whose homes were smashed by tsunamis, focusing instead on bringing relief directly to the victims as demanded by aid groups... government.. did not issue any change to its policy of barring international aid groups from the remote Andaman and Nicobar islands, citing concerns for indigenous tribes living there and security at a military air base....ap.tbo.com/ ... 00:52:38An Australian hailed as a hero for allegedly rescuing more than a dozen tsunami victims in Thailand was arrested Monday as he returned home by police who recognized him as a suspected burglar.news.bbc.co.uk/ ... 00:43:33The airport in Banda Aceh was closed early on Tuesday after a plane carrying supplies hit a cow on the runway.... The military say the engine and the landing gear are badly damaged and without heavy lifting gear, of which there is none, the airport remains closed to fixed wing aircraft.....
An Indian helicopter dropping food and water over the remote Andaman and Nicobar Islands is attacked by tribesmen using bows and arrows....cbsnews.com/ ... 00:08:52Seafood prices plunged in Sri Lanka on Sunday because of fears that fish may have fed on thousands of human corpses washed into the sea by the region's tsunami.cnn.com/ ... 00:08:32Family dog saves boy from wavesfoxnews.com/ ... 00:08:15Schoolgirl Saves Nearly 100 Lives... Tilly learned about tsunamis in a lesson with geography teacher Andrew Kearney at Danes Hill School, a private school in Oxshott. "It is an incredible coincidence that our class were learning about this type of tsunami just two weeks before Christmas," Kearney was quoted as telling the newspaper. He added that Tilly "was particularly captivated by this force of nature and its effects."worldnetdaily.com/ ... 00:06:54Don't blame God for Asian casualties.. Rabbi David Lapin.. "What sort of God would have let this happen?" is one example of the wrong question. First, it is a perfect example of narcissism. The questioners, including one columnist from the Guardian, convert an international human tragedy of mind-staggering proportions into a maudlin expression of their own spiritual angst. This question escalates self-indulgence to new heights of obnoxiousness.
MON 2005-JAN-03
Now That's Funny!reuters.com/ ... 12:32:14Custodians of Michelangelo's David are thinking of blasting air at dusty, sweaty tourists to stop them sullying the Renaissance sex symbol.
Preternatural Patternsreuters.com/ ... 12:35:15Former Cambodian king Norodom Sihanouk says an astrologer warned him that an "ultra-catastrophic cataclysm" would strike, but that his country would be spared if proper rituals were conducted. "My wife and I decided to spend several thousand dollars to organize these ceremonies so our country and our people could be spared such a catastrophe," Sihanouk, who abdicated last year, wrote on his Web site at www.norodomsihanouk.info. [Digital Consequences: the former king of Cambodia has his own blog!]ap.tbo.com/ ... 12:30:50MILFORD, Kan. - A fisherman found a heavy machine gun on the ice of a creek near Fort Riley, and sheriff's deputies later found two more.... three Browning .50-caliber guns.. all in working condition... none was loaded....
History - still with usreuters.com/ ... 12:36:51 Aleida Gallangos met her brother in Washington last week for the first time since he was kidnapped by Mexican police 30 years agonytimes.com/ ... 12:10:11Shirley Chisholm had guts
Shirley Chisholm, the first black woman to serve in Congress and the first woman to seek the Democratic presidential nomination, died on Saturday night at her home in Ormond Beach, Fla. She was 80.... "I've always met more discrimination being a woman than being black," she told The Associated Press in December 1982, shortly before she left Washington to teach at Mount Holyoke College in Massachusetts. "When I ran for the Congress, when I ran for president, I met more discrimination as a woman than for being black. Men are men."... She mentioned her hospital visit to George C. Wallace, the Alabama governor who built his political career on segregation, after he had been wounded in an assassination attempt in 1972. "Black people in my community crucified me," she recalled. "But why shouldn't I go to visit him? Every other presidential candidate was going to see him. He said to me, 'What are your people going to say?' I said: 'I know what they're going to say. But I wouldn't want what happened to you to happen to anyone.' He cried and cried and cried." ... When she left Washington, she said she did not want to go down in history as "the nation's first black congresswoman" or, as she put it, "the first black woman congressman." "I'd like them to say that Shirley Chisholm had guts," she said. "That's how I'd like to be remembered."
Digital Consequencesnews.bbc.co.uk/ ... 12:22:38The relentless pace of development in the hi-tech world and rampant competition in many of its sectors, particularly among mobile phone firms, all suggests that 2005 is going to be a very good year. .. third-generation (3G) mobile phones.. [with] video messaging and other multimedia capabilities. .. multi-megapixel.. camera phones... ... Wimax.. wireless.. data transmission [at] speeds up to 75 megabits per second.. works over distances of up to 30 miles.... Bluephone.. uses the mobile networks when you are out and about but switches back to the fixed line when you are at home.... phone that works with.. iTunes... cost per megabyte of memory will plummet... every gadget will be able to do almost anything...pcworld.com/ ... 11:53:29Blog readership jumped 58 percent between February and November, and comprised 32 million U.S. citizens in 2004. More than 8 million U.S. citizens have created a Web-based diary, and one in 10, or around 14 million U.S. Internet users, has contributed thoughts or comments to a blog.
Only Naturalnews.scotsman.com/ ... 23:33:35High-altitude kites could be used to generate clean energy at a cost comparable with that of polluting power stations
Great Quake of 2004worldnetdaily.com/ ... 23:44:41Pat Buchanana... Thus, what Egeland does for a living is to preside over the distribution of aid and money conscripted from Americans, while denouncing them as "stingy" and preening as a great humanitarian. He is a dispensable parasite who insults the nation responsible for his exalted lifestyle.news.telegraph.co.uk/ ... 23:40:27A week.. after.. corpses by the thousand lay uncollected yesterday in the rubble or the open fields of Indonesia's largest island... In the blazing sun and 90F heat, they litter the landscape for miles... authorities have stopped counting after the total believed to have perished reached almost 80,000. Officials suspect that the eventual total could be double that... It is a vision of Hell. Arms, knees and heads stick out from the carnage... villages.. up to half a mile or more inland.. have been levelled. Often there are no bodies here at all. They were not cleared away; they were just sucked into the sea.reuters.com/ ... 12:36:31Christopher Pierson pleaded guilty to sending more than 30 emails to worried relatives, saying their loved ones had been confirmed deadreuters.com/ ... 12:29:03..exhausted dolphins, one of which appeared to be injured, were dumped in a 600-by-900-foot lake left by the wall of water that struck Thailand's Andaman Sea coastline on Dec. 26... about 1,500 yards from the sea... had probably been without food since they were trapped. Rescuers.. tossed fish... Indo-Pacific Humpback.. "are very rare and that is a second reason to get them out and back into the sea,"reuters.com/ ... 12:27:05 Relief workers flew helicopters and cajoled elephants to find and feed survivors and shift the rubble of razed towns Monday, eight days after tsunamis changed the map of Asia... UNICEF.. estimates about 50,000 children died across the region... Tens of thousands... orphaned... 1.8 million survivors need.. food...
...workers raced to save two dolphins trapped for eight days in a small lake.. more than a kilometer inland...
In Malaysia, the crew of a fishing boat docked carrying an Indonesian woman they had rescued four or five days after she was dragged out to sea. The woman, from Aceh, clung to a floating sago palm and survived on its fruit. "She said she had felt cold, but her will to survive was very strong," a local official said.
Human Rightnydailynews.com/ ... 12:12:34The most successful black women's magazine, Essence, is in the middle of a campaign that could have monumental cultural significance. Essence is taking on the slut images and verbal abuse projected onto black women by hip hop lyrics and videos. The magazine is the first powerful presence in the black media with the courage to examine the cultural pollution that is too often excused because of the wealth it brings to knuckleheads and amoral executives.
Aftermathjpost.com/ ... 23:34:36A videotape found in a pile of documents in Baghdad following the collapse of Saddam Hussein's regime shows a former manager of the Al-Jazeera satellite channel thanking one of Saddam's sons for his support and telling him that "Al-Jazeera is your channel,"
Threatswztv.com/ ... 12:17:44Sunday -- United Airlines Flight 7136 from Nashville to Chicago ... flashed by a laser while it was about 3,000 feet above ground... landed safely. ...
World Without Bordersnytimes.com/ ... 12:16:22The meeting of veteran foreign policy experts in a Manhattan apartment one recent Sunday was held in strict secrecy.... The mission, in the words of one participant, was clear: "to save Kofi and rescue the U.N."...
Violencereuters.com/ ... 12:33:17The Iraq war has spawned its very own alphabet soup of abbreviations and battlefield buzzwords intelligible only to the military and war correspondents trying to make sense of it all... "Well Ma'am, MNF and ISF engaged with AIF, who were planting IEDs, after coming under small arms fire..."olympics.reuters.com/ ... 11:47:18Insurgents killed 17 Iraqi police and National Guards Monday in another bloody spree of ambushes, bombings and suicide attacks...
suicide bomber posing as.. taxi driver.. killed two policemen and a civilian near interim Prime Minister Iyad Allawi's party headquarters...
In west Baghdad.. explosives-laden car tried to ram through a checkpoint on a road leading to Allawi's party offices but hit a police pick-up truck and blew up, setting nearby vehicles ablaze and sending up plumes of black smoke... also wounded 25 people...
SUN 2005-JAN-02
WW2 - still with usap.tbo.com/ ... 21:40:06BETHESDA, Md. - Democratic Rep. Robert T. Matsui of California, who spent time in an internment camp for Japanese-Americans as an infant during World War II and went on to serve 26 years in Congress, died Saturday of complications from a rare disease, his family said. He was 63.
Digital Consequenceswired.com/ ... 15:43:15podcasting, a rapidly growing technology that allows anyone to subscribe to and automatically download audio content feeds to an MP3 player.
New Year 2005sacbee.com/ ... 13:17:02Dave Barry's final column before he starts an open-ended sabbaticalsacbee.com/ ... 13:16:24Dave Barry's 2004 Review
Sex can be Dangerousnews.bbc.co.uk/ ... 12:11:24The adult movie industry in Los Angeles generates nearly half as much revenue as mainstream Hollywood
US Election 2004drudgereport.com/ ... 12:04:48Kerry speaks on what went wrong
Only Naturalhealthcentral.com/ ... 12:00:16A Wisconsin teenager who is the first person known to survive rabies without a vaccination returned to her home Saturday, after nearly 11 weeks in the hospital... has regained much of her weight, strength and coordination, but she still needs additional physical and occupational therapy...
Great Quake of 2004peroutka2004.com/ ... 16:41:57...The issue here is not whether America is “stingy.” And the issue is certainly not whether Americans are a “generous” people. We are. The real issue here is whether such so-called Federally-funded disaster “relief” is Constitutional....cbsnews.com/ ... 15:38:58Legs folded, smiling serenely, several Buddha statues of cement and plaster sit unscathed amid collapsed brick walls and other tsunami debris. To many residents, the survival of the 10-foot-high figures is a divine sign.israelnationalnews.com/ ... 15:38:14Chief Rabbi Shlomo Amar commented on the catastrophe in southeast Asia, saying we must increase good deeds and pray for Divine mercy. Three Israeli victims have been identified.timesonline.co.uk/ ... 15:37:57He told of his desperate ploy — using beach towels to hold his loved ones in place...
and other stories good and illreuters.com/ ... 12:18:56A handful of tourists had Thai elephants, and their apparent sense for disaster, to thank for their lives.... The animals felt the earthquake and sensed the tsunamis coming, their keepers said. They began to trumpet inconsolably, making a sound akin to crying, disobeyed orders to calm down and ran to the safety of high ground....reuters.com/ ... 12:16:40Full Extent of Indonesia Disaster Slowly Revealed... A week after... the water is only just beginning to drain off... "I've never seen anything like this. We've seen bodies 20 miles out to sea. You just cannot describe it... Above the water line, there are people standing there waving flags trying to signal us. There are so many, you just can't stop for all of them...." a nightmarish landscape of sludge, flattened homes and tangled corpses is exposed. The stench is overpowering.... Calang, 94 miles south of Banda Aceh... would be abandoned after 70 percent of its population of 10,000 were killed.. "It's not going to be a living area any more..." reports were coming in of children starting to die of pneumonia.guardian.co.uk/ ... 12:11:52About 100 prisoners who were released from their Sri Lanka cells to escape the tsunami have voluntarily surrendered. Two hundred others remain at largetimesonline.co.uk/ ... 11:50:58Sunday Times interview with Michael Crighton, more about his de-liberalized environmental views than about his prescient new book about a massive earthquake-tsunami and the resultant disaster
World Without Bordersnytimes.com/ ... 23:52:38The mission, in the words of one participant, was clear: "to save Kofi and rescue the U.N."azcentral.com/ ... 21:42:51The Mexican government is giving out a colorful new comic book with advice for migrants, but immigration-control advocates worry that some of the tips may encourage illegal border crossers.
Threatswashtimes.com/ ... 21:51:33...in a New Year's editorial published in North Korea's three major newspapers ... Pyongyang warned the danger of nuclear war on the Korean peninsula is growing....dailyrecord.com/ ... 21:42:12...showing his daughter a common laser pointer that he had purchased on the Internet... "At one moment he was in the backyard playing with his daughter... and 10 minutes later 12 police cars descended and he was whisked away by authorities and interrogated until 4 a.m." ... He has not been charged....
Supernaturalbellaciao.org/ ... 15:42:39U.S. Marine Cpl. Joel D. Klimkewicz says he’s willing to clear land mines and risk his life for his country. He’s just not willing to pick up a gun. Because of his new-found religious faith, the Birch Run native is spending his holidays behind bars as a conscientious objector, convicted by military superiors who see him as a disobedient soldier. "I couldn’t see Jesus Christ taking human life...." Seventh-day Adventist... joining the church a year ago...
Violenceolympics.reuters.com/ ... 15:39:32A man holding a knife to his own throat and screaming in Chinese in front of the entrance to the United Nations, was arrested by New York police on Saturdaynews.bbc.co.uk/ ... 12:19:30Peru has declared a state of emergency in a southern Andean region where dozens of army reservists have seized a police station. Ten policemen have been taken hostage and seven people were injured in the incident in the town of Andahuaylas, in Apurimac region. The group, led by a retired army major, is demanding the resignation of President Alejandro Toledo.reuters.com/ ... 12:17:22...guerrillas killed three policemen on patrol close to.. Samarra, and shot dead a member of the city's governing council as well as his driver and bodyguard....news.bbc.co.uk/ ... 12:05:22At least 19 Iraqis, 18 of them National Guardsmen, have been killed in a car bomb explosion.. suicide bomber set off the explosion next to an Iraqi security force bus near the town of Balad, north of Baghdad...signonsandiego.com/ ... 11:53:20the Belgium-owned Hotel Mille Collines in the Rwandan capital of Kigali. It catered to government officials, corporate elite and European tourists before Hutu extremists took to the streets in the spring of 1994, systematically massacring their minority Tutsi neighbors and moderate Hutus. For three months, the Mille Collines was a sanctuary for the terrified and targeted, as Rusesabagina used his wits, international contacts and even the swimming pool's rationed water to keep the refugees alive.... "Hotel Rwanda," he repeatedly emphasizes, is a teaching tool. "The message of our movie is to say – look, this happened in Rwanda 10 years ago. The people of the world were not informed. Now today you are informed and again it is happening – are you not going to take action? Please do take action because it is happening in Sudan. It has been happening in the Congo for the last eight years – about 3½ million people have been killed. The world does not start and end in America and Europe. It goes beyond." His voice is heavy with despair. "The politicians keep saying, 'Never again, never again.' Those two words are the most abused words in the world."news.bbc.co.uk/ ... 11:38:44Suspected left-wing rebels in Colombia killed 17 peasants at a party to celebrate New Year's Eve... opened fire after saying the villagers were co-operating with right-wing paramilitaries.... victims included four children and six women....
SAT 2005-JAN-01
Whoops!ap.tbo.com/ ... 14:41:28...more than 100 children ages 12 to 19 attending a Youth for Christ event gathered at a high school around 4 a.m. to slide down a hill using sleds built out of cardboard boxes. A sign posted on the hill prohibited sledding. The children and Youth for Christ staff piled eight to 12 passengers on the sleds, then went down the hill in quick succession, Black said. "The sleds struck rocks, a light pole and each other," he said.
New Year 2005newsday.com/ ... 13:37:59"It was peaceful, it was safe, there were virtually no incidents whatsoever... Everyone had a great time and then you wake up the next morning and it's like it never happened when you look at the streets...." Roughly 50 sanitation workers spent the night sweeping and hosing down Times Square and the surrounding area, said Sanitation Superintendent Myron Priester. Crews collected nearly 50 tons of noisemakers, confetti, paper hats and other trashfoxnews.com/ ... 04:11:19Timeline for 2004 (Fox)nytimes.com/ ... 04:03:27Last night, 100 years after the first organized New Year's celebration in Times Square, close to 1 million people crowded Times Square to welcome 2005. The weather was unusual. The temperature at midnight was 50 degrees, and there was no rain, sleet or snow, just showers of confetti.
US Military Casualtiesdefenselink.mil/ ... 16:49:33[flag]Army Pfc. Oscar Sanchez, 19, from Modesto, Calif., died Dec. 29 in Mosul, Iraq, when a vehicle-borne improvised explosive device struck his observation post.
Human Righttheledger.com/ ... 17:03:01A judge has refused to grant a divorce to a pregnant woman trying to leave her husband two years after he was jailed for beating her, ruling instead that she must wait until the child is born.suntimes.com/ ... 17:02:45He teaches biology and evolution at a fundamentalist Christian college... ''It pains me to suggest that my religious brothers are telling falsehoods'' when they say evolutionary theory is ''in crisis'' and claim that there is widespread skepticism about it among scientists. ''Such statements are blatantly untrue,'' he argues. ''Evolution has stood the test of time and considerable scrutiny... Denying science makes us look stupid.''...ap.tbo.com/ ... 14:51:53In 50 years, he says, he has married 58 women and has forgotten the names of most of them. He knows he has had 10 sons, but ask about daughters and he counts on his fingers: 22. No, no, 28. No, that's too many. He settles on 25.ap.tbo.com/ ... 14:44:28ATLANTA -- A country club sued the city after it was fined for refusing to extend spousal benefits to the partners of two gay members.... The lawsuit claims the four-year-old city ordinance overreaches the city's authority and violates the state Constitution by granting rights to gays that are reserved for married couples. It cites a new constitutional amendment - passed overwhelmingly by voters in November - barring gays from marrying in Georgia....
Disinformation Propaganda & Spinjpost.com/ ... 17:08:53Persian-accented Hebrew has been flowing across the airwaves as the Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcast Corporation recently began broadcasting a Hebrew radio station which can be accessed through the internet.... in a blatant break with state rhetoric, the "Kol David" radio website refers to Israel by name. Its news articles, which appear to be copied in some instances from the Israeli Hebrew press, never use the more common Iranian phrase "Zionist entity."...reuters.com/ ... 15:09:42The actual news:
President Bush... called on Saturday for flags to be flown at half-staff next week to honor victims of the disaster...
The same news as spun by a Reuters reporter:
President Bush, seeking to bolster America's humanitarian image after the Asian tsunamis, called on Saturday for flags to be flown at half-staff next week to honor victims of the disaster....
The administration initially pledged $15 million ...but upped that to $35 million under political pressure.
Violenceduluthsuperior.com/ ... 17:07:50...the Homeland Security Department will ban all cigarette lighters beyond airport checkpoints beginning Feb. 15.... may also expand the banned-items list to include matches...sacbee.com/ ... 17:05:58A soldier home after a year in Iraq was shot in the head and critically injured and another man was wounded by a resident who became enraged because they were part of a group toilet-papering homes in his neighborhood....ap.tbo.com/ ... 15:02:26BUFFALO, Mo. - A man apparently upset over his share of a family inheritance shot and killed his sister and brother-in-law and then killed himself....ap.tbo.com/ ... 14:59:08Two men accused of invading a couple's home and forcing an elderly man to withdraw cash from his bank were arrested after tellers noticed a bruise on the 73-year-old man's forehead and alerted police.ap.tbo.com/ ... 14:58:52Security forces have arrested a Tajik suspected of organizing the deadly car-bombing of a U.S. security firm in the Afghan capital and believe he was acting on the orders of al-Qaida
Threatsedition.cnn.com/ ... 04:02:38Law enforcement officers were questioning a Parsippany, New Jersey, man who they say may have pointed a laser beam at an airborne police helicopter Friday night and a Cessna aircraft two nights before
Great Quake of 2004worldnetdaily.com/ ... 17:01:10We have a video of sunbathers following the receding water out for a swim. I keep picturing the mother and 2-year-old girl who were the last group that I warned as I climbed up the steps from the beach to the parking lot. Her comment was, "Oh, thanks. I'll watch for it."bradenton.com/ ... 16:56:06...each of the four major religions in the region - Islam, Buddhism, Hinduism and Christianity - possesses a distinct theology that eventually will help people put the calamity in perspective and move forward in its wake. But it will take time, they say, for survivors to reclaim their lives and recover their faith....nationmultimedia.com/ ... 16:55:02Phuket - Authorities have installed microchips in about 1,000 bodies that have been autopsied pending claim by their relatives. The microchip stores key data about the victim’s identity, so it will be easier for relatives to claim the bodies later. An IT centre has also been opened with high-speed Internet links to the Public Health Ministry and Foreign Ministry and other government agencies that can offer information about the dead victims....edinburghnews.scotsman.com/ ... 16:54:20Nearly 2000 tourists have been found dead on a single Thai holiday beach... in Khao Lak, part of a 20-mile stretch of beach north of Phuket where 3500 corpses have washed up....quake maphindustantimes.com/ ... 16:52:55Aftershocks of last week's killer quake off Sumatra are moving northwards and can potentially trigger a major earthquake in Assam, scientists in the United States have cautioned the Indian government.laksamana.net/ ... 16:52:16Seismological agencies around the globe today noted an upturn in the intensity of aftershocks from Sunday’s killer quake.worldnetdaily.com/ ... 16:51:54...discovered 72 of his relatives are missing and presumed dead.... "They are gone. A whole generation wiped out," the Sri Lankan native told the Vancouver Province. "My eldest sister and her two daughters are gone. My grandmom is gone. My brother's wife and three children are gone. We have lost 10 families...."news.bbc.co.uk/ ... 15:25:39Arjuna Seneviratna, a 40-year-old IT consultant from Sri Lanka, lives in the capital Colombo but was staying in Beruwela on the south-western coast when the tsunami wave struck. He witnessed the tsunami, and told the news and current affairs programme The World about the harrowing experience....
But what is more important is not how you manage to survive a 30-second burst of a wave, it's how you manage to survive what comes afterwards, when you see men looking for their wives, when you see mothers looking for their children and screaming their names, when you see people that you have danced the night before away with, not accounted for.

That is when reality strikes.reuters.com/ ... 15:03:25The United States will dispatch up to 1,500 marines and a mini aircraft carrier carrying some 20 helicopters to Sri Lanka to assist in relief and reconstructionap.tbo.com/ ... 14:58:08"There was no proper grip and I was slipping. After one hour, I lost all strength and dropped the two younger kids. I cried and cried, thinking I had killed my children," he said, shuddering at the memory... After a few hours, rescuers reached Veerappan, and pulled the father and his 6-year-old daughter to safety as the waters began to recede. When Veerappan came ashore, rescuers told him they had also found his two younger sons, ages 4 and 2. Unconscious and barely breathing, they had been discovered at the water's edge, half buried under sludge... "Nobody can explain how my children survived... I am still wondering why God chose to save my children when he chose to let so many other children die."...
Within minutes, the waves had flattened his home... "I used my machete. I started hacking the bushes. I didn't even look back to see if my house was there or gone.... On the third day, they dragged themselves through the forest, walking more than 10 miles with blistered feet....
"The last thing I saw was my mother drowning while crying out my name, and I didn't even see my little sister," said the boy... The father said the boy had a vision of his mother after her death and couldn't sleep until a Quran was put under his pillow.... Only about 20 percent of the people in the neighborhood survived. Of the boy's 60 schoolmates, only four are still alive....ap.tbo.com/ ... 14:38:31Spiritual Community Dedicated to Unity Was Among the First to Respond When Tsunami Struck India.... Auroville, located on a high plateau just outside Pondicherry on India's southeast coast, grew out of the spiritual retreat, or ashram, founded by guru Sri Aurobindo, well-known in the 1950s and 1960s for advocating a mission of helping humanity....ap.tbo.com/ ... 14:37:30As she fled the killer waves swallowing her island, Namita Roy gave birth to a boy in a forest. On another island, 8-month-old Michael Jeremiah slipped out of his mother's arms and sank into the sea until his father saw his toe poke up from the waves and brought him back to life. The babies' tales will become part of the folklore of miraculous survivals of Sunday's catastrophic earthquake and tsunamis.nypost.com/ ... 14:27:25...10-year-old Tilly Smith... warned the doubting adults at a resort that a massive tidal wave was about to strike.... Tilly's family, from Surrey, England, was enjoying a day at Maikhao Beach last Sunday when the sea rushed out and began to bubble. The adults were curious, but Tilly froze in horror. "Mummy, we must get off the beach now!... I think there's going to be a tsunami." The adults didn't understand until Tilly added the magic words: "A tidal wave." Her warning spread like wildfire. Within seconds, the beach was deserted — and it turned out to be one of the only places along the shores of Phuket where no one was killed or seriously injured..... "Last term, my geography teacher, Mr. Kearney, taught us about earthquakes and how they can cause tsunamis. I was on the beach, and the water started to go funny. I recognized what was happening and had a feeling there was going to be a tsunami."
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