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Theory of Educationdesmoinesregister.com/ ... 13:34:31Two Des Moines Roosevelt High School students say their right to free expression was violated when they were directed this week to change their anti-abortion T-shirts that administrators said might have disrupted school.washingtontimes.com/ ... 13:34:09A St. Louis charter school principal is accused of cheating on state standardized tests by ordering teachers to help students finish incomplete test sections.worldnetdaily.com/ ... 13:25:06A federal judge allowed a history teacher's lawsuit to proceed against school-district officials who barred him from providing supplemental handouts to students – including the Declaration of Independence – because the historical documents contain some references to God and religion.
1000 Wordsabcnews.go.com/ ... 13:18:36Tonya Vasilov
It really doesn't get much worse than this," said.. Hoffman Estates Police Lt. Rich Russo.. who would not discuss a possible motive for the killings. The autopsies showed that both children tried to fight off their attacker...
worldnetdaily.com/ ... 13:10:31Wilbanks & finacee
"I never ever thought that she left because she had cold feet," Wilbanks' mother, Joyce Parrish, originally told CNN, before the true circumstances were revealed. "She and John are crazy about each other. ... She told me how many times she loved John."
Modern Family Lifeap.tbo.com/ ... 12:58:31CORRY, Pa. -- ...Danielle Bimber had no names for the boys because she never intended to be their mother. But leaving the hospital without them, her job seemingly done, the surrogate mom grew uneasy. Where was the couple who had hired her? When would they come to the hospital to take the newborns home? Why had they stopped visiting after the first day?... with the hospital preparing to put the children in foster care, Danielle obtained permission to take the boys home... would soon become engaged in a bitter battle with the triplets' biological father... 63-year-old math professor said complicated paperwork was partly to blame for his early absence....ap.tbo.com/ ... 12:55:49BOULDER, Colo. - A 14-year-old girl who claimed she shot her father to death to help him commit suicide has been charged with second-degree murder... after finding him in pain after he had tried to shoot himself to death....news.bbc.co.uk/ ... 12:50:36Dhaka - A married couple who spent eight years in prison after being convicted of killing the wife's son have been freed after he turned up alive... his father - who he said had kept him hidden in different places - had lodged a false case against Ms Khatun. Ms Khatun has now taken shelter with a human rights group...
But is it Art?rogerebert.suntimes.com/ ... 12:33:48(Ebert:) Palindromes... a brave and challenging film for which there may not be much of an audience.... no heroes without flaws and no villains without virtues... no matter who you think the heroes and villains are.... The plot circles relentlessly, setting up moral situations and then pulling the moral ground out from under them. The movie is almost reckless in the way it refuses to provide us with a place to stand. It is all made of paradoxes....
Yuck!cbsnews.com/ ... 02:53:51...before and 2 1/2 years after she began using meth...
Cascading Weirdnessworldnetdaily.com/ ... 13:24:42Kids across America – as well as some young adults – are falling for an elaborate Internet hoax suggesting rap star Tupac Shakur, murdered nine years ago, is alive and well... According to a 2002 survey, 83 percent of Tupac Shakur fans believe he is still alive – or coming back in a resurrected form....nytimes.com/ ... 12:37:16A bride-to-be whose disappearance prompted a widespread search and commanded national media attention went to the police in Albuquerque early today, telling investigators that she had gotten cold feet days before her wedding and fled.... had taken a Greyhound bus from Georgia to Las Vegas, then boarded another bus on Friday to Albuquerque... "It has been determined Jennifer had some issues the family was not aware of. The family would appreciate some time and space to assist Jennifer in dealing with these issues."...cnn.com/ ... 03:00:51Wilbanks, 32, told her family she was released by the two strangers. They abducted her Tuesday night before driving to the southwestern U.S., according to Pastor Alan Jones, who was supposed to preside at her wedding Saturday in Duluth, Georgia.abcnews.go.com/ ... 02:57:02WOONSOCKET, R.I. Apr 29, 2005 — He didn't have any money. But police say that didn't stop Wayne Glaude, 22, from soliciting sex from an undercover officer Thursday night. Instead, police said, he offered steak.abcnews.go.com/ ... 02:55:57New Trike-Bike Design - No Training Wheels Needed - Could Take Fear Out of Junior's First Solo Ridecbsnews.com/ ... 02:52:02President Bush and Saudi Crown Prince Abdullah holding hands as they stroll.... When it comes to two men holding hands, America's got issues....foxnews.com/ ... 02:50:20A 32-year-old woman who vanished just days before she was to be married was found alive early Saturday in New Mexico.... no immediate details....
Transport Tragedyap.tbo.com/ ... 00:54:36....Union Pacific Railroad train operator Rod Bomberger saw the children and stopped his train in plenty of time, then radioed a warning to a second train coming from the opposite direction... The second train stopped just inches short of hitting the children...
Justice?rogerebert.suntimes.com/ ... 12:28:40(Ebert:) Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room... No matter what your politics, "Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room" will make you mad... a con game almost from the start... Strange, that there has not been more anger over the Enron scandals.... If the crisis had been created by Al Qaeda, if terrorists had shut down half of California's power plants, consider how we would regard these same events....suntimes.com/ ... 12:26:29EAST MOLINE -- Ronald Schickel, convicted of choking Michael Chambers to death after a 2000 wedding reception in Countryside, walked out of prison Thursday morning after serving just 16 months of a 54-month sentence for involuntary manslaughter... It's complicated math that allowed Schickel to go free so early....
Science Marches Onnnnnncnn.com/ ... 12:24:39RENO, Nevada -- On a farm about six miles outside this gambling town, Jason Chamberlain looks over a flock of about 50 smelly sheep, many of them possessing partially human livers, hearts, brains and other organs... "It's mice on a large scale...." falls firmly within the new ethics guidelines the influential National Academies issued this past week for stem cell research....
US Militarycbsnews.com/ ... 02:51:10Amputee GI Sets Example In Iraq
Rebuildingreuters.com/ ... 12:54:45...cooperatively owned Colors eatery in Greenwich Village which expects to open in September.... will honor the group's 73 co-workers who died when Windows On The World -- a top-floor World Trade Center restaurant -- crumbled to ashes.... will also stand as a model of justice in an industry that regularly exploits immigrants... "Our workers will be treated with dignity, working in their own business, with good pay and health benefits...."
Big City Storiessuntimes.com/ ... 12:25:57Chicago -- He's accused of ripping off 13 banks since 2003. But despite a sizable girth, prominent scarring on his face and a $5,000 reward for his capture, no one could catch the "Bandaged Bandit." Then the man believed to be the bandit did what no one in law enforcement could imagine: He walked into their path.
FRI 2005-APR-29
History - still with usturkishpress.com/ ... 12:33:40Egyptian archaeologists have discovered a number of rare Pharaonic seals of soldiers sent out on desert missions in search of red paint to decorate the pyramids, Egypt's culture minister said Thursday. The 26 matchbox-sized seals belonged to Cheops, who ruled from 2551 to 2528 BC, in whose honour the greatest of the great pyramids of Giza southwest of Cairo was built, and show Pharaonic soldiers' ranks
Digital Consequencesnews.bbc.co.uk/ ... 11:01:22Voice and video files streamed over the net could be made untappable and ultra-secure in the next few years thanks to a breakthrough by Toshiba.... Simply put, quantum cryptography involves encoding bits of encryption data onto particles of light... [oh yeah... simple...]
Theory of Educationworldnetdaily.com/ ... 12:25:11A father who protested a pro-homosexual book his 6-year-old son had been given in school spent a night in jail after being arrested by police.abcnews.go.com/ ... 10:57:42PHILADELPHIA... one child brought her mother's diabetes testing needle to school and started pricking her classmates... as many as 19 third-graders, including one who is HIV positive, were pricked by the same needle.... a substitute teacher allegedly ignored children's complaints that the little girl was stabbing them with the needle... one of the children who was stuck with the needle is HIV positive....
US Military Casualtiesdefenselink.mil/ ... 12:35:26[flag]Army Pvt. Robert C. White III, 21, of Camden, N.J., died April 23 at Kandahar Airfield, Afghanistan, of non-combat related injuries.defenselink.mil/ ... 12:35:09[flag]Army Sgt.1st Class Allen C. Johnson, 31, of Los Molinos, Calif., died April 26 in Khanaqin, Afghanistan, of injuries sustained when enemy forces using small arms fire attacked his patrol. defenselink.mil/ ... 12:34:51[flag]Army Spc. David L. Rice, 22, of Sioux City, Iowa, died April 26 in Balad, Iraq, of injuries sustained in Muqdadiyah, Iraq, when his HMMWV rolled over.
US Militarymcall.com/ ... 10:53:14"It is the unanimous decision of us all that you should be put to death,'' the jury foreman said... Akbar, a Muslim, has become the first U.S. soldier since the early Vietnam era to receive death for murdering a comrade during wartime....
Transport Tragedyap.tbo.com/ ... 19:45:39A bus carrying more than 30 people crashed into a truck in southeastern Brazil on Friday, killing at least 10 people and injuring 18, authorities said.
Viet Nam War - still with uscsmonitor.com/ ... 12:33:58Lessons of Vietnam linger for US
Violenceap.tbo.com/ ... 19:43:03A string of highway shootings since mid-March has left four people dead in Southern California and raised fears of a return to the bad old days of the 1980s, when the Los Angeles area gained a reputation for freeway gunplay.ap.tbo.com/ ... 19:42:30The mother of a 9-year-old boy and 3-year-old girl who were fatally stabbed more than 100 times each inside their suburban Chicago home was charged Friday with two counts of first-degree murder... The stabbings came five years after the couple's 3-month-old daughter died in a fire at an Elk Grove Village town house where the family then lived. The cause of the 2000 fire remains undetermined, but foul play was never suspected... Elk Grove Village Police.. will investigate that fire again....apnews.myway.com/ ... 19:38:22Insurgents set off at least 17 bombs in Iraq on Friday, killing at least 50 people, including three U.S. soldierssfgate.com/ ... 12:32:35The 45-year-old Canadian citizen killed his Vallejo host earlier this year, buried him in the backyard of his lifelong home, and then spent several weeks spending a "substantial" portion of his nest egg on trips to Texas, New York and Puerto Vallartaworldnetdaily.com/ ... 12:27:07Unidentified arsonists set fire to Jerusalem's only "gay" bar this week ahead of plans, blasted by top religious figures, to bring a world homosexual event here this Augustcbc.ca/ ... 10:50:39 At least 24 people were killed in Iraq on Friday after nine car bombings rocked Baghdad and a nearby town. Eighty-nine people, mostly Iraqi police and security officers, were injured in the attacks.
THU 2005-APR-28
Extraordinary Lifeboston.com/ ... 22:00:13An 80-year-old woman rescued her 67-year-old neighbor from an apartment fire, carrying the ailing woman down two flights of stairs.
Modern Family Lifeboston.com/ ... 22:01:48CHARLOTTE AMALIE, U.S. Virgin Islands -- Police did not arrest a woman accused of trying to run down an officer with her car because she was expected to give birth within 24 hours....boston.com/ ... 22:01:02A man hired to repossess a pickup truck drove off with a sleeping toddler in the back seat. The 2-year-old girl was found about 40 minutes later, still asleep.boston.com/ ... 21:59:39WEEHAWKEN, N.J. -- A pregnant woman traveling home in a taxi went into labor and gave birth Thursday while her cab was stuck in traffic at a tunnel toll booth.
Prehistory - still with ustheinquirer.net/ ... 15:20:48A CHAT CHANNEL spat ended when a wannabe hacker was duped into deleting his own hard drive.english.eastday.com/ ... 15:19:43Chinese archaeologists said newly found evidence proves that a valley of Qingjiang River, a tributary on the middle reaches of the Yangtze River, might be one of the regions where Homo sapiens, or modern man, originated. The finding challenges the "Out-of-Africa" hypothesis of modern human origins....
But is it Art?cnn.com/ ... 15:21:40TULSA, Oklahoma -- Eleven-year-old Thomas Adams thought Warner Bros. had gone daffy when he saw the company's plans for a new cartoon called "Loonatics," based on Bugs Bunny and his Looney Tunes pals. The grimacing, hollow-eyed, power-fisted prototypes of a futuristic Bugs, Wile E. Coyote and Road Runner struck the boy as dark and scary. In the words of Daffy Duck, he found them "dethh-picable." Now, nearly two months after starting an Internet petition drive against the TV series' fall debut, Thomas has gotten the company's attention.....reuters.com/ ... 13:53:06Norwegian police expressed skepticism about a newspaper report Thursday that thieves had burned Edvard Munch's missing masterpiece "The Scream" out of fear that investigators were closing in.
Whoops!news.telegraph.co.uk/ ... 15:18:53...His wife unwittingly discovered the camera, installed in the ceiling, after she turned on the television and saw her naked husband in the bath...ap.tbo.com/ ... 13:36:12The Chicago Tribune apologized Thursday for publishing a photo caption that misidentified a man as a high-ranking mobster, a day after a second man sued the newspaper over a picture wrongly identifying him as a mobster.
Broadcast is Deadsun-sentinel.com/ ... 15:16:14The Florida Supreme Court said Thursday it will not consider an appeal from conservative commentator Rush Limbaugh over prosecutors' seizure of his medical records during an investigation into whether he illegally purchased painkillers.worldnetdaily.com/ ... 15:15:55Randi Rhodes: "This was just a stupid, stupid bit!"news.bbc.co.uk/ ... 13:27:46Anti-TV campaigners want us to switch off the box this week... a new book in the US is challenging the notion that TV has "dumbed down" over the years...
Love is Strangethisislondon.com/ ... 13:19:56Growing numbers of teenagers are taking part in a new group sex craze known as 'daisy chaining'... Colleagues are coming across reports of groups of young people having sex in large groups. As we understand it, it involves groups of older teenagers going round to each other's homes and having sex in a similar way as swinging....' Charities warned that the practice could lead to a rise in young people contracting sexually-transmitted diseases.... [um... duh?]apnews.myway.com/ ... 13:18:26FORT RUCKER, Ala. - An Army officer was acquitted by a military judge Wednesday of raping a soldier in her barracks room... also acquitted on an adultery charge but convicted of having sex without informing his partner that he had genital herpes....
Why people go veganreuters.com/ ... 13:41:49Oregon came a step closer to bidding au revoir to foie gras after the state's Senate passed a bill to outlaw the production and sale of fattened duck and goose livers....
Theory of Justicereuters.com/ ... 13:37:27A Norwegian court has sentenced a woman to nine months in jail for raping a man, the first such conviction in the Scandinavian country that prides itself for its egalitarianism. [click here for all the smarmy details]
US Militaryap.tbo.com/ ... 13:28:24The Army honorably discharged an officer who had gone to court to challenge his assignment to Iraq, saying he had properly resigned more than a year earlier.
Viet Nam War - still with usnews.bbc.co.uk/ ... 13:24:01Veterans still feel Vietnam scars... 300,000 war veterans are homeless across America on any one night. Half of them fought in Vietnam.... "I was excited when I got the call-up, because it meant I was finally going abroad. But I don't think I was ready for what war was all about...."
Fine Diningap.tbo.com/ ... 13:35:54Miami -- Seven men... of Egyptian, Lebanese, Syrian and Palestinian descent.. doctor.. real estate agent.. insurance broker.. restaurant owner... all U.S. citizens... have sued a South Florida Denny's restaurant franchisee and one of its managers for $28 million, saying they were kicked out because of their ancestry and compared to Osama Bin Laden....
Unclear on the Conceptapnews.myway.com/ ... 13:16:10On Wednesday, the [Houston TX] City Council passed a series of library regulations.. prohibits sleeping on tables, eating, using restrooms for bathing and "offensive bodily hygiene that constitutes a nuisance to others." .. Two council members voted against the ordinance, saying it was a direct attack on the homeless... [One council member called it] "targeting a community..."
WED 2005-APR-27
Whoops!newsday.com/ ... 22:51:59FRESNO, Calif. -- A man attempting to burglarize a car over the weekend locked himself in the trunk and was swiftly arrested....
Theory of Educationnews.telegraph.co.uk/ ... 22:48:58...[UK] documentary.. shows pupils swearing in class, searching for porn on the internet, assaulting each other and refusing to co-operate with or respect their teachers.... Pupils drift into lessons, sometimes 15 minutes late. They use mobiles and hide under desks. They arrive with crisps and other food despite notices on the doors prohibiting eating or drinking during the lesson. They get up and leave lessons despite being told to sit down....timesleader.com/ ... 22:46:14WILKES-BARRE – Two Coughlin High School ninth-grade students have been suspended from school and charged with disorderly conduct after allegedly engaging in sexual activity in an empty hallway inside the school.... no one saw.. but word.. got back to faculty members... "very nice kids and high-achieving students..."abclocal.go.com/ ... 22:45:03A 5-year-old preschooler says his teacher took him to her car, made him pull down his pants and spanked him with a belt... Raleigh family is looking at legal action... Wake County deputies and school officials look[ing] into abuse allegations.... "I was crying and then she spanked me..." has bruises....reuters.com/ ... 16:50:20...a growing number of U.S. schools ..teach Chinese -- a hot language thanks to China's surging economy and growing world clout....
Now That's Funny!reuters.com/ ... 16:48:53LOS ANGELES -...guerrilla artists have erected mock guard towers to protest what they see as a disturbing proliferation of gated communities....
Preternatural Patternsreuters.com/ ... 16:45:59A performance artist... attempts to kiss a photograph of Blair for eight hours in a marathon display of affection for the British leader....
Yuck!canada.com/ ... 22:51:13A Windsor hairstylist who suffered "recognizable psychological injury" after discovering a dead fly in a bottle of Culligan water has been awarded more than $340,000 in damages.reuters.com/ ... 16:42:53Doctors found around 50 maggots in the ears of an 84-year-old Thai man after he went to hospital complaining of an itch.
Transportnews.bbc.co.uk/ ... 22:42:42...air passengers are risking their health... oxygen levels in the blood dropped so low in 54% of passengers that they would need extra supplies....news.bbc.co.uk/ ... 16:41:51The world's largest passenger plane, the Airbus A380, has landed safely, completing its maiden flight.
Unclear on the Conceptnews.bbc.co.uk/ ... 16:41:28Togo's opposition presidential candidate has declared himself president with 70% of the vote, despite official results giving him only 38%.
US Military Casualtiesdefenselink.mil/ ... 22:54:34[flag]Army 1st Sgt. Timmy J. Millsap, 39, of Wichita, Kan., died April 25 in Baghdad, Iraq, of injuries sustained in Taji, Iraq, when an improvised explosive device detonated near his HMMWV.defenselink.mil/ ... 22:54:15[flag]Army Cpl. Kevin W. Prince, 22, of Plain City, Ohio, died April 23 in Baghdad, Iraq, of injuries sustained in Iskandariyah, Iraq, when an improvised explosive device detonated near his HMMWV. defenselink.mil/ ... 22:54:02Spc. Gary W. Walters Jr., 31, of Victoria, Texas, died April 24 in Baghdad, Iraq, when an improvised explosive device detonated near his HMMWV.
US Militarydefenselink.mil/ ... 22:53:43This week, the Army, Navy and Marine Corps announced a decrease in the number of reservists on active duty in support of the partial mobilization. The Air Force and Coast Guard had no change in their numbers. The net collective result is 1,147 fewer reservists mobilized than last week.estripes.com/ ... 22:53:23First Lt. Derek Ping and wife Jamie kiss outside of a chapel at West Point following their religious wedding ceremony April 8. They received their civil marriage certificate five months earlier, thanks to a Montana law that allows couples to be married without appearing in person.... double-proxy marriage — a legal ceremony requiring neither party to be present....
Theory of Justicesun-sentinel.com/ ... 22:51:34A Burger King customer who berated the employees when a drive-thru clerk told him the restaurant was out of french fries has been convicted of multiple charges and sentenced to 45 days in jail.wftv.com/ ... 22:43:48SEMINOLE COUNTY, Fla. -- A Seminole County judge claims he has a mental disorder and that's what caused him to send 11 people to jail for being late to his court....
Science Marches Onnnnnnreuters.com/ ... 16:49:23"It ought to send a chill through a lot of defendants to know after 32 years you can still test for DNA...."ap.tbo.com/ ... 16:47:47A tabletop experiment created nuclear fusion - long seen as a possible clean energy solution - under lab conditions... the amount of energy produced was too little to be seen as a breakthrough in solving the world's energy needs...
Rebuildingap.tbo.com/ ... 16:44:47..."We made all this happen," said Mario Arbid of the hundreds of activists who have camped in Martyrs' Square since Hariri's Feb. 14 assassination. With the last Syrian soldier walking across the border into Syria on Tuesday, camp residents say they are ready to leave. But the fight for independence has not ended, they point out, and the activists will return if necessary....
Transport Tragedyabcnews.go.com/ ... 16:36:24A passenger train rammed into a bus that tried to dash through a railroad crossing Wednesday, killing at least 35 people and injuring another 60. Witnesses said people, some of them on fire, jumped out of windows after the crash.
TUE 2005-APR-26
Unclear on the Conceptreuters.com/ ... 15:16:46Bangladeshi customs officials found luxury cars, large-screen television sets and refrigerators in a container declared to be carrying metal scrap -- so they.. used bulldozers to crush a Mercedes Benz and a Toyota car and other luxury goods at a railway container terminal in Dhaka... They wanted to befool us by saying they brought in scrapped metals...so we are giving them the same. They, or anyone like them, will not forget this"... Cash-strapped Bangladesh is trying hard to increase domestic revenue... [Wouldn't it have been a little smarter to sell the vehicles to raise that domestic revenue rather than destroy them?]
Theory of Educationreuters.com/ ... 15:12:41The University of California, Berkeley has suspended a fraternity whose members hazed a pledge by repeatedly firing a BB gun at him... shot on April 8 at least 30 times and was later treated at a local hospital for welts and bruises....
Whoops!drudgereport.com/ ... 14:56:15Galveston, Texas... President Bush: "Do you still have Splash Day? You have to be a baby boomer to know what I'm talking about. I'm not saying whether I came or not on Splash Day. I'm just saying, Do you have Splash Day?" ...Bush was unaware "Splash Day" is now a fully gay and lesbian event on the beaches....
Digital Consequencesabcnews.go.com/ ... 14:51:43Computer storage technology is getting so cheap a person could record every conversation of a lifetime and decades of photographs, but experts must improve search systems so users can make sense of such mind-boggling amounts of information, Microsoft's top research executive said Tuesday.... button-sized computers of the future that could be worn on a shirt and equipped with cameras and other sensors to record all a person's movements, activities and conversations....reuters.com/ ... 13:57:10Web search leader Google Inc. said on Monday advertisers could now choose the Web sites that carry their ads and it was introducing animated graphical advertisements.
Transportthemoderatevoice.com/ ... 13:54:27Skydiver Killed After Hitting Plane Shows Fate's Quirkinessreuters.com/ ... 13:53:57... at least 73 people killed in Japan's worst rail accident in four decades.... More than 150 of the 440 injured in the crash were in a serious condition...
Yuck!newsday.com/ ... 13:44:04CARROLL, Iowa -- City officials are perplexed over the discovery of mysterious chunks of flesh that have been clogging up city water lines.... "There was no hair and no real bone. There were varying degrees of the substance, whatever it is...." said drinking water was not affected by the blockages and is safe to drink... Chlorine levels have been temporarily increased as a precaution...
US Military Casualtiesdefenselink.mil/ ... 23:59:05[flag]Army Spc. Robert W. Defazio, 21, of West Babylon, N.Y., died April 24 in Kandahar, Afghanistan, of non-combat related injuriesdefenselink.mil/ ... 23:58:48[flag]Marine 2nd Lt. Heinz Ahlmeyer Jr. of Pearl River, N.Y.
[flag]Marine Sgt. James N. Tycz of Milwaukee, Wis.
[flag]Marine Lance Cpl. Samuel A. Sharp Jr. of San Jose, Calif.
[flag]Navy Petty Officer 3rd Class Malcolm T. Miller of Tampa, Fla.
died while on reconnaissance patrol operating near the U.S. Marine base in Khe Sanh, Quang Tri Province, South Vietnam, May 10, 1967.
defenselink.mil/ ... 23:56:17[flag]Navy Hospitalman Aaron A. Kent, 28, of Portland, Oregon, died Apr. 23, from an improvised explosive device while conducting combat operations near Fallujah, Iraq. defenselink.mil/ ... 23:55:59[flag]Army Sgt. Anthony J. Davis Jr., 22, of Long Beach, Calif., died April 23 in Mosul, Iraq, when a vehicle-borne improvised explosive device detonated near his Stryker military vehicle. defenselink.mil/ ... 23:55:42[flag]Marine Pfc. Robert A. Guy, 26, of Willards, Md., died April 21 as a result of a non-hostile incident near Al Karmah, Iraq.
Justice?apnews.myway.com/ ... 15:05:14PIKESVILLE, Md. (AP) - A herd of buffalo somehow got loose and wandered around an upscale neighborhood Tuesday, disrupting traffic and alarming homeowners before officers managed to corral them in a tennis court....sfgate.com/ ... 13:46:34An Oakland woman alleges that Berkeley police violated her First Amendment rights when an officer ticketed her last year for honking in support of a labor union's picketing outside the Claremont Resort and Spa to protest rising health care costs and other issues.news.com.au/ ... 13:40:49JUDGE Ian Dodd slept and snored through the evidence of an alleged rape victim in the fourth and most shocking case of his appalling performance on the bench. And while the judge has admitted to being asleep - and the Judicial Commission has upheld the woman's complaint - no action will be taken to discipline him. The judge has not even apologised directly to the woman....
Slow Learnersreuters.com/ ... 15:14:51A Roman restaurant owner called the police Monday after a smartly dressed customer got up and calmly declared that he didn't have any money to pay the bill. Identity checks showed that 96 complaints had been filed against the man for pulling that same stunt across Italy over the past 12 years...
Viet Nam War - still with usnews.bbc.co.uk/ ... 15:07:24Three decades since the end of the Vietnam war, the families of more than 1,800 US soldiers who went missing in action are still waiting for an end to their uncertainty.
Aftermathwashingtonpost.com/ ... 13:54:46U.S. investigators hunting for weapons of mass destruction in Iraq have found no evidence that such material was moved to Syria for safekeeping before the war
Rebuildingnews.bbc.co.uk/ ... 13:35:30...Thirty years on and you have to pinch yourself at the transformation. The jungly marshes are fast disappearing, pumped out by a steel forest of cranes and engineering equipment hired by South Korean, Taiwanese and Hong Kong development companies. The area where the Vietcong fired their 122mm rockets is now a rapidly expanding executive housing estate, decked out in the sort of pastel colours favoured in Florida coastal resorts....
MON 2005-APR-25
History - still with usnews.bbc.co.uk/ ... 16:38:25The woman featured in Robert Doisneau's classic photograph of a couple kissing outside Paris city hall has sold her original print at auction. The picture, Kiss by the Hotel de Ville, sold for 155,000 euros (£105,000) - more than 10 times what it was expected to fetch.... said she was selling her original print and other items to finance a film production company she wants to start with her husband....
Preternatural Patternsap.tbo.com/ ... 19:04:26Experts and medical groups say numerous physical and psychological changes can be a tip-off that adolescent girls are abusing anabolic steroidsgoogle.com/ ... 16:35:23Google search on "exploding frogs"local6.com/ ... 16:31:16Hamburg, Germany.. Scientists.. baffled.. strange deaths of hundreds of toads.. in and around a pond... As many as a thousand toads have died after their bodies swelled to bursting point and then exploded.... Scientists are looking at a fungus that may have been spread by foreign race horses from a nearby track...
Yawnworldscreen.com/ ... 14:15:55George Lucas... is looking to develop a live-action TV series based on.. Star Wars....
Transportabcnews.go.com/ ... 14:03:46AMAGASAKI, Japan -- A seven-car commuter train... carrying 580 passengers... behind schedule.. may have been speeding.. jumped the tracks Monday and hurtled into an apartment complex, killing 57 people and injuring 440 in Japan's worst rail accident in 40 years... inexperienced, 23-year-old driver... overshot the last station before the wreck... not clear how many of the dead were passengers or if bystanders and apartment residents were among the victims....
Only Naturalrxpgnews.com/ ... 14:15:12WHO Assessment of the Marburg haemorrhagic fever Outbreak
... an extreme test of international capacity to hold emerging diseases at bay.. Two factors make the rapid detection of outbreaks of Marburg haemorrhagic fever difficult: the extreme rarity of this disease and its similarity to other diseases seen in countries where deaths from infectious diseases are common. Neither the source nor the date of the initial cases in Angola can be presently identified with any certainty....
...In theory, the measures needed to end the Angolan outbreak are few in number and straightforward in nature. Rapid detection and isolation of patients, tracing and management of their close contacts, infection control in hospitals and protective clothing for staff work to interrupt chains of transmission and thus seal off opportunities for further spread.

Such straightforward measures are complicated by the distinct features of this disease. The sudden onset, dramatic symptoms, and rapid deterioration of patients, and the absence of a vaccine and effective treatment, invariably incite great anxiety in affected populations. This anxiety, in turn, can interfere with control operations, especially when communities begin hiding cases and bodies because of suspicions about the safety of hospitals.
In the current outbreak, such suspicions are understandable. Very few patients with laboratory-confirmed Marburg haemorrhagic fever have survived...
ohio.com/ ... 14:11:06A rare late spring snowstorm dumped over a foot of snow onto parts of northeastern Ohio and knocked out power to about 80,000 electricity customers in the Cleveland area on Sunday....
Viet Nam War - still with usnews.bbc.co.uk/ ... 16:53:01BBC--In pictures: The Vietnam War
Big City StoriesYou couldn't sell a fiction novel with stuff like this...cbs2chicago.com/ ... 14:20:48
...Joey "The Clown" Lombardo... "Tony the Ant" Spilotro, and his brother, Michael, who were buried alive in an Indiana cornfield... Among those charged were two retired law enforcement officers... The Chicago Outfit, a criminal enterprise also known as the Chicago Syndicate and the Chicago mob... Lombardo.. previously convicted.. of corruption involving the Teamsters Central States Pension Fund...
suntimes.com/ ... 14:07:10FBI agents have begun rounding up and arresting reputed mob leaders across the Chicago area as part of its case involving as many as 18 Outfit hits... expected to result in the most significant mob prosecution in Chicago history... Operation Family Secrets... M&M Amusement, an alleged illegal video poker business that Mickey Marcello runs in Cicero... Frank Calabrese, once the top mob loanshark in the city...
Currentcnn.com/ ... 16:24:40The bodies of two toddlers reported missing over the weekend were found Monday in a pond near their rural Georgia homefoxnews.com/ ... 14:08:47...2-year-old girl and her 3-year-old-brother ...reported missing Saturday evening after last being seen at their Warren County home, in east Georgia about 100 miles from Atlanta....
SUN 2005-APR-24
Yuck!sfgate.com/ ... 20:09:13The line stretched out the door. The parking lot was full. And no one seemed to be avoiding the chili. "It's still finger-licking good," said San Jose resident Jonathan Riga, 52, unable to resist the obvious in describing the most famous item on the menu at Wendy's....fool.com/ ... 20:08:10The Big Lebowski (1998)... "I can get you a toe, believe me. There are ways... I can get you one by three o'clock this afternoon... With nail polish..." ...I have to admit, that line was one of the first things that came to mind...
Theory of Educationwashingtontimes.com/ ... 11:16:02..."He came home and told me about it after school, and he said, 'I just stood there, Mom. I didn't even know what to do. We all just stood there and didn't even finish it,'" Mrs. Pulciani-Johnson said, quoting her son. Margo Lucero, the eighth-grade guidance counselor at the school, substituted the phrase "under your belief system" as she led the recitation of the Pledge on Wednesday....
US Election 2008nypost.com/ ... 11:13:56...two weeks ago... [Sen. Hillary] Clinton spoke at a Minneapolis Democratic dinner and Sen. Mark Dayton (D-Minn.) told the cheering crowd that he was introducing "the next great president of the United States." Two days later, [Sen. John] Kerry came over to Dayton on the Senate floor "with daggers in his eyes and said, 'What are you doing endorsing my 2008 presidential opponent?' . . . He was very serious...."
Digital Consequencesnews.bbc.co.uk/ ... 10:21:05One step on from virtual reality, augmented reality takes the real world and digitally distorts and transforms what we see around us... When I walked past a paper mill I could see the inner workings, and hear the sound of the mechanics thumping in my ears. In 1943 Doctor Albert Hoffman invented LSD in Basel, and there is an amazing section of the tour that plunges the user into full-blown psychedelia....
Transportapnews.myway.com/ ... 10:19:48DELAND, Fla. - A man who was skydiving in central Florida struck the wing of... the airplane that he jumped from Saturday morning... losing both his legs in the accident. ..later died... [the man's name:] Albert Wing III...
Only Naturalhosted.ap.org/ ... 13:47:48Alaska -- Record-setting snow depths and water-content measurements have hydrologists warning of the potential for spring floods along several major Interior rivers.usatoday.com/ ... 11:26:12vast fields of far-flung wreckage exist beneath the blue-green ocean off Hawaii.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/ ... 11:23:58...A group of monkeys descended on an Orissa village, quaffed down pots of an intoxicating brew lying in the open and then set upon the villagers, injuring three of them... The intoxicating 'pana' drink had been prepared from marijuana leaves as part of an offering to Hindu gods on the occasion of the Oriya new year Friday. The villagers had kept it in pots outside their huts to ferment, an official said....news.telegraph.co.uk/ ... 11:22:00A French computer science student has stunned the world of mathematics by working out the 13th root of a 200-digit number in his head in under nine minutes... "As this was my first attempt, I was cautious." On June 3, he will try to find the right answer in less than three minutes. In a few months, he believes that he will break the one-minute barrier. "If I do that, without being pretentious, it will probably be the best piece of mental calculation ever," he said....news.independent.co.uk/ ... 11:18:52Scientists have begun putting genes from human beings into food crops in a dramatic extension of genetic modification.... Environmentalists say that no one will want to eat the partially human-derived food because it will smack of cannibalism.... Japanese researchers have inserted a gene from the human liver into rice to enable it to digest pesticides and industrial chemicals. The gene makes an enzyme, code-named CPY2B6, which is particularly good at breaking down harmful chemicals in the body... if the gene were to escape to wild relatives of the rice it could create particularly vicious superweeds that were resistant to a wide range of herbicides....
Supernatural Threatsworldnetdaily.com/ ... 11:19:40Pope Benedict XVI will strive during his tenure to re-Christianize Europe by making the way for greater religious freedom on the continent and then converting millions of the Muslims who now populate the area, asserts geopolitical analyst Jack Wheeler.
SAT 2005-APR-23
Yuck!abclocal.go.com/ ... 15:51:43...Davila thinks justice is finally being served. Bertha Davila, bought mobile home: "I told her God sees everything, and one day I'm going to get my money back."sfgate.com/ ... 15:51:28... tests showed that the digit wasn't cooked...
...Officers raided Ayala's home around 9 p.m. Thursday and found her alone watching "Meet the Fockers" on video...
aolsvc.news.aol.com/ ... 12:24:14according to a person knowledgeable about the case who spoke on condition of anonymity, the attempted larceny charge stemmed from San Jose police interviews with people who said Ayala described putting a finger in the chili. The source said the interviews were with at least two people who did not know each other and independently told similar stories... still did not know where the finger came from....sfgate.com/ ... 12:19:25The Bush administration said Friday that it would enforce a nearly 3-year-old federal law that requires doctors to attempt to keep alive a fetus that survives an abortion.
Modern Family Lifecnn.com/ ... 12:37:35FRESNO, California -- ... the city's worst mass murder [trial]... testimony of incest, child brides, vampire aliases, coffin beds and an apocalyptic obsession that led a one-time bank teller to turn his extended family into a reclusive cult....zwire.com/ ... 12:19:01The Virginia Supreme Court on Friday ruled that the state must provide new birth certificates for children born in Virginia and adopted by gay couples in other states... "We couldn't let our son go through his life with a birth certificate that was a lie," said upstate New York resident Diane Pineiro-Zucker, who adopted her son, now 6, with her partner of 25 years after he was born in Virginia. "It's been a long, hard fight, but it was worth every bit of it."...
Theory of Educationcnsnews.com/ ... 12:16:51A conservative legal group is threatening to sue a Michigan school district over the administration's confiscation of several copies of a science book that teaches the theory of intelligent design in tandem with the theory of evolution.worldnetdaily.com/ ... 12:14:39"The ACLU is obviously engaged in religious bigotry – in cases concerning homosexual groups, they argue that Prince fully applies, but now, when it clearly applies, using the ACLU's own standard, to a religious club, they are seeking to overturn the Prince decision,"news.bbc.co.uk/ ... 11:57:30A lawyer has threatened to sue police officers who handcuffed an allegedly uncontrollable five-year-old after she acted up at a Florida kindergarten. [Video footage of the tantrum and arrest available]... Three officers rushed to the scene and handcuffed the girl, by that time apparently calm, after pinning her arms behind her back....
Preternatural Patternsap.tbo.com/ ... 03:02:28KENNEWICK, Wash. - A woman was jailed after police and wildlife agents found hundreds of wild birds - many of them dead or neglected - littering her home and yard... 400 birds - including wild magpies, hawks, owls, pheasants and quail... Some were in cages, others were perched on curtain rods and still others were in trees or bushes outside... Dead birds in various states of decay were scattered throughout the house and yard... chickens and roosters, pigeons, a goose and peacocks, as well as a couple of dogs and a cat... all.. appeared to be neglected....
US Military Casualtiesdefenselink.mil/ ... 12:10:32[flag]Army Pfc. Gavin J. Colburn, 20, of Frankfort, Ind., died April 22 along a supply route in Iraq when an improvised explosive device detonated near his convoy vehicle.
Justice?reuters.com/ ... 03:00:46Dog owners in Turin will be fined up to 500 euros ($650) if they don't walk their pets at least three times a day, under a new law from the city's council.
Disinformation Propaganda & Spinwesh.com/ ... 12:41:01Someone's posting sex offender fliers outside his house, but he's not the man on the flier and he's not a sex offenderworldnetdaily.com/ ... 12:16:33....a religious leader whose salary is paid by the PA added a new accusation, preaching that the U.S. war effort in Iraq and elsewhere, including "Palestine," attempts to force Muslims to convert to Christianity...
WW1 - still with usnews.bbc.co.uk/ ... 11:51:51Perparations are being made in Turkey to commemorate the 90th anniversary of the Battle of Gallipoli.en.wikipedia.org/ ... 11:51:38Battle of Gallipoli from Wikipediabbc.co.uk/ ... 11:50:55Battle for Gallipoli: February 1915 - January 1916eyewitnesstohistory.com/ ... 11:48:46Battle At Gallipoli, 1915
FRI 2005-APR-22
History - still with usnews.bbc.co.uk/ ... 14:16:23The Flower Portrait [of William Shakespeare] which bears the inscription 1609... is a fake which dates back to the early 19th century....
Why people go vegansignonsandiego.com/ ... 14:06:11SACRAMENTO – The powerful farm lobby yesterday blocked legislation that would have barred ranchers from killing chickens by feeding them into wood chippers....
Yuck!reuters.com/ ... 11:52:48A woman who said she found part of a human finger in a bowl of Wendy's chili last month has been arrested and charged with larceny in connection with the incident... the origin of the finger was still unknown...
Transportap.tbo.com/ ... 11:29:50A gas tanker burst into flames after colliding with a train in central Mexico state Friday, immediately killing the truck's driver
Digital Consequencesnews.telegraph.co.uk/ ... 14:08:54Welcome - not to the house of the future, but to the house of the present. For according to the software giant Microsoft, every piece of technological gadgetry installed in their west London show home is available to those in search of the ultimate in luxury.news.bbc.co.uk/ ... 11:57:14A copy of the original Electronics magazine in which Moore's Law was first published has turned up under the floorboards of a Surrey engineer.cio-today.com/ ... 11:53:47Having Microsoft's Linux support announcement come from Ballmer is an especially intriguing move, given the executive's past comments. In 2001, Ballmer stated that "Linux is a cancer that attaches itself in an intellectual property sense to everything it touches."ap.tbo.com/ ... 11:29:35Yahoo Inc. may have resolved its dispute with a family over accessing the e-mail account of a Marine killed in Iraq, but legal experts say such conflicts are bound to be more common as e-mail becomes a crucial component of our lives.
US Military Casualtiesdefenselink.mil/ ... 14:15:39[flag]Army Spc. Jacob M. Pfister, 27, of Buffalo, N.Y.
[flag]Army Pfc. Kevin S. K. Wessel, 20, of Newport, Ore.
died April 19 in Baghdad, Iraq, when a vehicle-borne improvised explosive device detonated near their dismounted patrol.
defenselink.mil/ ... 14:14:48[flag]Marine Cpl. Kelly M. Cannan, 21, of Lowville, N.Y.
[flag]Marine Lance Cpl. Marty G. Mortenson, 22, of Flagstaff, Ariz.
were killed April 20 as the result of the detonation of an improvised explosive device while conducting combat operations in Ar Ramadi, Iraq.
Clinton Era -- still with usnews.bbc.co.uk/ ... 11:54:55What happened to Elian Gonzales? "He's just a normal little boy" - is what almost everyone in this small, dusty Cuban town will tell you when you ask....
Disinformation Propaganda & Spinwashingtonpost.com/ ... 11:28:54PBS, they say, is being forced to toe a more conservative line in its programming by the Republican-dominated agency that provides about $30 million in federal funds
THU 2005-APR-21
Preternatural Patternsworldnetdaily.com/ ... 18:21:14The Federal Bureau of Investigation is preventing some information related to al-Qaida terror leader Osama bin Laden from being released, invoking a law that permits the feds to withhold data if it "would constitute a clearly unwarranted invasion of personal privacy."
Transportcnn.netscape.cnn.com/ ... 14:28:13Highway deaths on U.S. roads increased slightly in 2004 to 42,800, with sport utility rollover fatalities rising sharply
Digital Consequencescnn.netscape.cnn.com/ ... 14:31:25"The only Web site I know with a siren is the Drudge Report," Gore said.cube.ign.com/ ... 14:21:54Sony and Toshiba are expected to make an announcement later this month that they have abandoned the Blu-ray and HD-DVD formats respectively and are working on a new medium that will bring together both standards.csmonitor.com/ ... 01:40:113-D imaging - once a laughable Hollywood experiment - is reaching new levels of realism.
Whoops!boston.com/ ... 18:20:04The two Norwegians thought they had the perfect escape vehicle for their heist -- a rowboat. They overlooked one thing: Neither knew how to row a boat.nbcsandiego.com/ ... 01:36:50"Yesterday was a total screw-up in the words I used," the governor [Schwarzenegger] said at a press conference. "Because instead of closing, I meant securing. I think maybe my English, I need to go back to school and study a little bit."
US Militarydefenselink.mil/ ... 18:17:25This week, the Air Force announced an increase, while the Army, Navy and Coast Guard had a decrease in the number of reservists on active duty in support of the partial mobilization. The Marine Corps had no change in their numbers. The net collective result is 155 fewer reservists mobilized than last week.
Justice?boston.com/ ... 18:20:55BAKER, Fla. -- Two seniors at this rural Florida Panhandle community's only public school have been suspended and others were punished after they violated their principal's ban on T-shirts that read "Kiss Our Class Good-bye" or "Holy Ship, we're graduating."...csmonitor.com/ ... 14:19:10If nothing else, the bizarre trial of Zacarias Moussaoui - the only person in the US charged in connection with the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001 - may have highlighted the difficulties of trying suspected terrorists in established civilian courts... Mr. Moussaoui himself has been erratic and belligerent. He has filed rambling letters with the court... The case has also raised serious legal issues, notably the degree to which an accused terrorist can have access to the testimony of other imprisoned terrorist suspects....
US Military Casualtiesdefenselink.mil/ ... 18:17:45[flag]Army Maj. Steven W. Thornton, 46, of Eugene, Ore., died April 18 in Camp Arifjan, Kuwait, when he collapsed during physical training. defenselink.mil/ ... 18:17:02[flag]Army Cpl. Tyler J. Dickens, 20, of Columbus, Ga., died April 12 at Brooke Army Medical Center in San Antonio, Texas, of injuries sustained April 6 in Al Mahmudiyah, Iraq, when his guard tower caught fire.defenselink.mil/ ... 01:41:27[flag]Army Pfc. Sam W. Huff, 18, of Tucson, Ariz., died April 18 in Baghdad, Iraq, of injuries sustained on April 17 in Baghdad, Iraq, when an improvised explosive device detonated near her HMMWV.
WED 2005-APR-20
Digital Consequencescube.ign.com/ ... 21:29:53Namco has gained rights to use the Peanuts in video games, the company announced today. A licensing agreement with United Media gives Namco use of Charlie Brown, Snoopy, Peppermint Patty, and other characters from the classic comic strip franchise.
US Executive Branchbeta.news.yahoo.com/ ... 18:09:32Condoleezza Rice tried out her rusty Russian in a Moscow radio interview Wednesday, only to get caught out by a question on whether she might run for president.... "Da (Yes)," Rice answered in Russian, before realizing her misunderstanding and hastily adding "Nyet" (No) -- seven times....
Modern Family Lifeapnews.myway.com/ ... 18:06:44NASHUA, N.H.... Pheasant Lane Mall... In response to recent "disorderly and disruptive" incidents, ...From 6 p.m. to 9:30 p.m. on Fridays and Saturdays, mall security guards now stand outside two entrances to make sure anyone under 16 has a parent or someone over 21 with them....
Transportthisislondon.com/ ... 18:02:27New details have been revealed of plans to charge London motorists up to 80p a mile to drive on city roads.

Hi-tech satellite tracking systems are expected to be introduced in 2015 and will mean significant investment in the transport network.

However, trials of a separate system of an electronic tag and beacon system are to take place in Southwark this year.
news.scotsman.com/ ... 17:58:51An airliner carrying 157 passengers skidded off a runway into a river at Tehran’s Mehrabad airport tonight, killing a child. Several passengers were reported injured.
Viet Nam War - still with ussfgate.com/ ... 00:09:13Catherine Leroy.. In 1966, at age 21, Leroy bought a one-way ticket to Laos en route to the battlefront in Vietnam. She had only her Leica, what little money she'd saved and a will to tell compelling stories on film. "Photojournalists were my heroes..."
Todayboston.com/ ... 00:07:14ON APRIL 19th...
...1775, the American Revolutionary War began with the battles of Lexington and Concord.
...1782, the Netherlands recognized American independence.
...1933, the United States went off the gold standard.
...1943, during World War II, tens of thousands of Jews living in the Warsaw Ghetto began a valiant but futile battle against Nazi forces.
...1951, Gen. Douglas MacArthur, relieved of his Far East command by President Truman, bid farewell to Congress, quoting a line from a ballad: "Old soldiers never die; they just fade away."
...1993, the 51-day siege at the Branch Davidian compound near Waco, Texas, ended as fire destroyed the structure after federal agents began smashing their way in; dozens of people, including David Koresh, were killed.
...1995, A truck bomb destroyed the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City, Okla., killing 168 people and injuring hundreds. Timothy McVeigh was later convicted of federal murder charges and executed.
...Pop singer Mark "Flo" Volman (The Turtles; Flo and Eddie) is 58
Yuck!thekansascitychannel.com/ ... 18:05:07...a Vietnam veteran... 54... was arrested... for spitting on Academy Award-winning actress Jane Fonda during a book-signing stop in Kansas City Tuesday night....boston.com/ ... 00:04:14GLEN GARDNER, N.J. -- Discovery of a bag full of rotting animal parts hidden in the ceiling above the school lunchroom forced the closing of Voorhees High School on Monday.
Whoops!boston.com/ ... 00:01:38Proof that it does pay to recycle, a man who inadvertently cast his $4,296 federal income tax refund check into his home's recycling bin got lucky when a worker at a nearby recycling center happened upon it and returned it.....
Oh! The Irony!kansascity.com/ ... 21:28:40...When [Mort] Walker [creator of Beetle Bailey] returned home from the service after World War II, he was shocked to discover that his vast collection of comic books, big little books and meticulously clipped newspaper comic strips were “all gone.” “They just threw it away,” he said. “My mother said, ‘I thought you outgrew those, Mort.' ”....boston.com/ ... 00:01:07Providence firefighters spent part of Tuesday morning trying to subdue a stubborn blaze -- in their own fire truck. Engine 11 was completely burned....
Justice?local6.com/ ... 18:01:52...Juror No. 2386 .. had been sitting in a courtroom for two days as part of jury selection...
..."You yawned rather audibly there. As a matter of fact, it was to the point that it was contemptuous," Superior Court Judge Craig Veals said.
"I'm sorry, but I'm really bored," the juror said.
"I'm sorry?" the judge responded.
When the juror repeated his statement, he was admonished by the judge for having a "lousy" attitude.
"Your boredom just cost you $1,000 I'm finding you in contempt," Veals said. "Are you quite so bored now?"
... The fine later was reduced to $100....
Human Rightwomensenews.org/ ... 21:29:28Less than 4 percent of editorial cartoonists on major syndicates are female. That would almost be laughable, says Sheila Gibbons, if it didn't reflect such a sad and serious sidelining of women's wit and wisdom.beta.news.yahoo.com/ ... 18:03:41...New Hampshire... when a bill came up in early April to consider allowing robotic traffic cameras at the busiest crossroads, mocking laughter from the gallery preceded the measure's demise. "The idea that we were going to be photographed [by the government] was anathema to most of us," says Neal Kurk, a Republican from Weare, N.H....beta.news.yahoo.com/ ... 18:00:07The Texas House of Representatives passed a bill banning homosexuals, bisexuals and transsexuals from being foster parents.
US Militarycbc.ca/ ... 17:59:06U.S. Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld has recommended Marine Corps Gen. Peter Pace to be the next chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staffsuntimes.com/ ... 00:00:07The mysterious death of his son in Iraq has left a Portage man seeking answers from the U.S. Army... died Sunday of non-combat related injuries in Muqdadiyah, Iraq... [father] has been told that his son died in his sleep... "Tell me how he died... Don't mince words. All the 'I'm sorries' in the world isn't going to bring my son back."...
Rebuildingnews.bbc.co.uk/ ... 18:07:58Change comes to Syria's Lebanon 'home'
OKC Bombing -- still with uswashingtonpost.com/ ... 17:58:20"It's always difficult as each year comes. It all brings back a lot of memories of what happened that day," said Roy Sells, who lost his wife. "You relive it like it was yesterday. But then, in a couple of weeks, it settles down and you try to go on with your life the best you can."nytimes.com/ ... 17:56:52...Ms. Anderson is particularly honored here as the heroic nurse who rushed into the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building to give aid moments after a truck bomb exploded 10 years ago Tuesday. She was almost immediately killed by falling debris, becoming one of the 168 fatalities....
...Carrie Ann Lenz, 26, was showing sonogram pictures of her expected baby, five months along, to her colleagues in the Drug Enforcement Administration when the blast struck, Glenn and Jolene Short, friends from the Draper Park Christian Church, recalled. The name Michael James Lenz III is also etched on the frosted glass of her chair....
...A sprinkling of New York City fire and police uniforms populated the crowd, emphasizing the bond that has grown between the two very different places because of their similar tragedies....
..."I have to thank God for the experience I have had... It's a bond that maybe you wish you didn't have, but you do have. And you have an obligation to share... I'm afraid we'll have more opportunities to share... It's very heartbreaking...."
Aftermathsuntimes.com/ ... 00:00:41The largest political bloc in Iraq's new government demanded the execution of Saddam Hussein if the ousted leader is convicted of war crimes, and said Monday that President Jalal Talabani should step down if he is not prepared to sign the death warrant.
TUE 2005-APR-19
Digital Consequencessun-sentinel.com/ ... 12:13:11The Associated Press will begin charging newspapers and broadcasters to post its stories, photos and other content online, a pricing shift that reflects the growing power of the Internet
US Election 2004cnn.com/ ... 12:12:52A supporter of President Bush is suing the Republican National Committee and one of its suppliers, claiming they stole his design for the ubiquitous "W" bumper sticker logo in the 2004 campaign.
Supernaturalsuntimes.com/ ... 23:56:57Chicago... on Fullerton underneath the Kennedy... A shape on an underpass wall... attracted hundreds Monday who wanted to see for themselves if it really looked like Virgin Mary.... Mexican immigrants.. said it looked like Our Lady of Guadalupe... Polish immigrants thought it might be connected with the death of.. Pope John Paul II..reuters.com/ ... 13:06:10His choice of name seemed intriguing because the last Pope Benedict, who reigned from 1914 to 1922, subtly repudiated the strict Vatican orthodoxy practiced under his predecessor Pius X... Benedict XV also tried in vain to end World War I, opened the Vatican to international diplomacy and sent so much wartime aid to Turkey that Istanbul erected a statue to him... Ratzinger's stern leadership of the Congregation of the Doctrine of the Faith, the modern successor to the Inquisition, delighted conservative Catholics but upset moderates and other Christians whose churches he described as deficient....bloomberg.com/ ... 11:57:17Pope Benedict the 16th
As a young priest he espoused progressive ideas on theological debates, until the student revolutions of 1968 instilled a distrust of the left in him that caused him to shift to a more conservative stance.
reuters.com/ ... 11:53:36Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger of Germany has been elected pope to lead the Roman Catholic Churchnews.bbc.co.uk/ ... 11:50:06White smoke has been seen from the Sistine Chapel chimney indicating that a new pope has been elected. The bells of St Peter's Basilica rang out shortly after 1800 local time (1600 GMT) to confirm the news....capitalnews9.com/ ... 11:49:46Smoke is coming from the chimney above the Sistine Chapel -- but it's uncertain whether it's the white smoke that would signal election of a new pope.
Cascading Weirdnessbeta.news.yahoo.com/ ... 11:43:42The mother of Michael Jackson's young molestation accuser claimed that she feared her children would be spirited away from the star's Neverland Ranch in a hot air balloon.
US Military Casualtiesdefenselink.mil/ ... 12:22:49[flag]Army Sgt. Angelo L. Lozada Jr., 36, of Brooklyn, N.Y.
[flag]Army Sgt. Tromaine K. Toy Sr., 24, of Eastville, Va.
[flag]Army Spc. Randy L. Stevens, 21, of Swartz Creek, Mich.
died April 16 in Ar Ramadi, Iraq, while conducting combat operations.
defenselink.mil/ ... 12:21:55[flag]Army Pvt. Joseph L. Knott, 21, of Yuma, Ariz., died April 17 in Baghdad, Iraq, when his convoy was attacked by enemy forces using small arms fire and an improvised explosive device. defenselink.mil/ ... 12:21:42[flag]Army Pvt. Aaron M. Hudson, 20, of Highland Village, Texas, died April 16 in Baghdad, Iraq, of injuries sustained April 15 in Camp Taji, Iraq, when an improvised explosive device detonated near his patrol. defenselink.mil/ ... 12:21:28[flag]Army Pfc. Steven F. Sirko, 20, of Portage, Ind., died April 17 in Muqdadiyah, Iraq, of non-combat related injuries.defenselink.mil/ ... 12:21:15[flag]Army Spc. Aleina Ramirezgonzalez, 33, of Hormigueros, Puerto Rico, died April 15 in Tikrit, Iraq, when a mortar struck her forward operating base.defenselink.mil/ ... 12:20:59[flag]Marine Capt. James C. Edge, 31, of Virginia Beach, Va, was killed April 14 by enemy small-arms fire while conducting combat operations in Ramadi, Iraq.
OKC Bombing -- still with usfoxnews.com/ ... 12:10:24Oklahoma City Marks 10 Years Since Bombingkansascity.com/ ... 11:39:50...Jim Schuelein will likely bow his head at the base of two green aspen trees he and co-workers planted on the first anniversary of the bombing. Ten years ago he was across the street from the federal building in the state Water Resources Building as it, too, crumbled. Two co-workers, an intern and a financial analyst, were killed....
...“Every single time I move my body I feel it,” said Mayer. His injuries have prompted 54 surgeries to remove debris from the blast that still riddle his body....
kansascity.com/ ... 11:38:01P.J. now plays basketball, but only for a couple of minutes at a time before he gets winded. He swims, but can't float because of his damaged lungs.abcnews.go.com/ ... 11:36:23"It seems like another place and another time. This is a completely different city," said Mayor Mick Cornett. At first, the divorce rate tripled among rescuers who witnessed the carnage and the suicide rate jumped. Now there is a new ballpark, a new downtown and 100,000 new residents....
P.J. Allen was one of the most severely injured of those six survivors. Just 20 months old, he was thrown dozens of feet through debris and fire. No one knows how he survived. "When I was in the bombing, I was wrapped in fire," P.J. said. "I had second- and third-degree burns and they said I wasn't going to live, but God came and he healed me. "I learned what it feels to have God actually touch you."
cnn.com/ ... 11:34:45Brian Espe was working in the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building
MON 2005-APR-18
Whoops!reuters.com/ ... 15:01:26Polish prosecutors are investigating the disappearance of 20 kg (44 lbs) of cocaine from a police warehouse, where it had been replaced by an identical quantity of sugar
But is it Art?reuters.com/ ... 15:01:07A Berlin couple plan to have their first baby at an art gallery
Preternatural Patternsreuters.com/ ... 15:00:26Seattle police launched an investigation on Friday to determine how a patient undergoing emergency heart surgery caught on fire at a local hospital in 2003... went up in flames after alcohol poured on his skin was ignited by a surgical instrument... patient died after the surgery but that was due to heart failure and not the fire....
Transportap.tbo.com/ ... 14:59:27ARLINGTON, Va. - One child was killed and 15 were injured Monday when their school bus collided head-on with a garbage truck at a busy intersection
History - still with usreuters.com/ ... 14:59:07Black African Slave Legacy Lingers in Mexico
Modern Family Lifethisislondon.com/ ... 14:50:54Firms are sending out fresh sperm by courier to women for home insemination within two hours. One of the companies, SpermDirect.co.uk, based in Reading, claims that by providing fresh sperm it gets around new regulations which say donors can no longer have anonymity. The new rule only applies to frozen sperm. However, doctors said today such businesses were putting women and their children at risk as the sperm samples did not undergo testing....
Digital Consequencesnews.bbc.co.uk/ ... 14:54:25Tech giant Intel has unveiled a chip that gives access to wide-reaching wireless networks.htmlfixit.com/ ... 14:38:13Why won’t Dell offer AMD? ...If Dell were to start offering a successful Opteron based line of servers, the current AMD/Intel market share figures would significantly change almost overnight... Based upon what I have read about the respective technology in the past year, I wouldn’t even consider another Intel based system unless there was a serious price difference....
Justice?reuters.com/ ... 14:58:03The U.S. Supreme Court said on Monday it would decide whether the federal government must allow the U.S. branch of a Brazilian-based religion to import a hallucinogenic tea for use as a sacrament... hoasca tea for religious services, even though it contains an illegal, controlled substance that can be potentially dangerous. Members of the religion, O Centro Espirita Beneficiente Uniao do Vegetal, believe the tea is sacred and that using it connects them to God. The tea is made from two plants that grow in the Amazon....reuters.com/ ... 14:57:32The U.S. Supreme Court said on Monday it would decide whether one occupant may give the police consent to search a residence, even though the other occupant already has objected... the Georgia Supreme Court ruled that when two people have equal use and control of the premises, one occupant's consent is not valid when the other objects....
Disinformation Propaganda & Spindrudgereport.com/ ... 14:42:43"Why can't they just photograph conservatives straight?!" blasted this week's TIME magazine covergirl Ann Coulter. ...slammed magazine editors for fronting a photo of her, she claims, which is so distorted "my own mother would not even recognize me!"...same photographer who captured Coulter-nemisis President Clinton in the infamous "Lewinsky" power pose for ESQUIRE....
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Love is Strangeazcentral.com/ ... 19:09:03 A U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent was charged with harboring an illegal immigrant because he knew his wife was in the country illegally when he married her.
Digital Consequencescomputer.howstuffworks.com/ ... 13:17:17How does a T1 line work?news.bbc.co.uk/ ... 13:16:56...nanotech impact study... Nanotechnology's biggest impact on millions in the developing world could be in better energy production and storage methods... could also significantly improve agriculture....news.bbc.co.uk/ ... 13:11:03The fastest computer in the world now is an IBM Blue Gene system. It recently smashed its own record, clocking up 135.5 teraflops - 135.5 trillion calculations a second... "In the computing business, there has been this drive to always increase the frequency of chips - the faster the frequency, the faster the cycle, the faster the chip... The trouble is, if you get increased speed by increasing frequency, it gets to be really inefficient - you get to the point of diminishing return. It takes more and more power to get higher frequency... People across the industry are saying we are pretty much reaching the units of frequency and we need to find another way..." Blue Gene has been designed to use tens of thousands of chips.. 64 full racks, each holding 1,024 processors.. expected to reach a peak theoretical performance of 360 teraflops this year... Within two years.. petaflop speeds will be reached - a thousand trillion calculations a second....news.bbc.co.uk/ ... 12:43:36Google maps give fresh perspective
Transportapnews.myway.com/ ... 12:41:42A Swiss tourist bus carrying 27 people plunged into an Alpine ravine near the Great St. Bernard Pass on Sunday, and at least 100 rescuers descended to the wreck on ropes to try to aid the injured. Police said at least six people died....
Why people go veganmarket-day.net/ ... 12:23:34Fast food giant McDonald's celebrated its 50th birthday on Friday by opening a brand new 24,000 square foot restaurant in downtown Chicago. The new restaurant features 60-foot Golden Arches, seating for 300, a double-lane drive-thru, historic memorabilia and stunning views of Chicago's skyline....
"Every person who gets their start at McDonald's learns lifetime skills such as teamwork, leadership, timeliness, focus and discipline and attention to detail...."
Cascading Weirdnesskansascity.com/ ... 03:48:40..."all we wanted was to eat dinner at Wendy's"....Cordero and Barragan, both 20, were finishing their usual order of junior bacon cheeseburgers with fries - and sharing a bowl of chili - at about 7:15 p.m. when Cordero noticed a commotion at a table about 10 feet from them.... "They were making a lot of noise," she said. Suddenly, "all of them got up, hunched over like they were going to be sick. I'm eating the chili and she comes up and says, `don't eat the chili. There's a human finger in my chili.'".. "I spit out my food and she scooped the finger out of the chili with a spoon and rolled it on our table on a napkin," Cordero said. "I was like, `Oh my God.' I went outside and got sick."....
History - still with usnews.independent.co.uk/ ... 03:44:04Thousands of previously illegible manuscripts containing work by some of the greats of classical literature are being read for the first time using ... infra-red light.... The thousands of remaining documents, which will be analysed over the next decade, are expected to include works by Ovid and Aeschylus, plus a series of Christian gospels which have been lost for up to 2,000 years....
Oh! The Irony!apnews.myway.com/ ... 03:41:22Garry Kasparov, the world's former No. 1 chess player who quit the professional game last month to focus on politics, said Saturday he had been hit over the head with a chessboard in a politically motivated attack.
Prehistory - still with uscnn.com/ ... 03:51:57In the journal Science, Tamaki Sato describes the discovery of two shelled eggs found inside a dinosaur that died before laying them. A geologist found the fossilized remains in China's Jiangxi province....
Only Naturalnews.yahoo.com/ ... 19:05:10 A volcano erupted on the Indian Ocean Comoros islands Sunday, forcing hundreds of villagers to flee in fear of poison gas as the crater spewed ash and flung boulders over molten lava....earthquake.usgs.gov/ ... 19:02:57Magnitude 5.1 - CENTRAL CALIFORNIA 2005 April 16 19:18:13 UTC
as a regular earthquake map watcher, it seems to me that after Dec 26, Alaska and California were quavering unusually, but now California has settled down to an unsettling relative quiet of many but very little quakes... but what do I know?
news.bbc.co.uk/ ... 13:14:59...UK researchers studied dogs which had been paralysed in road accidents, or through spinal cord injuries. All had been unable to move for at least three months. The treatment uses olfactory ensheathing glia (OEG) cells, which are present at the back of the nose. They are the only nerve cells capable of constant regeneration. The cells were collected by opening the dogs' skulls. They were then multiplied in the lab, and injected into the spinal cord.... In addition to regaining some movement, one dog appeared to recover some sensation below the injury site.....nydailynews.com/ ... 12:26:55A "freak wave" more than 70 feet high slammed a luxury cruise ship steaming for New York yesterday, flooding cabins, injuring passengers and forcing the liner to stop for emergency repairs... broke a pair of windows and flooded 62 cabins... injured four passengers and terrified scores more... "The sea had actually calmed down when the wave seemed to come out of thin air at daybreak.. Our captain, who has 20 years on the job, said he never saw anything like it."
"The ocean is unforgiving; it doesn't care who is out there," said Petty Officer Bobby Nash of the Coast Guard in Florida.
apnews.myway.com/ ... 03:42:14A magnitude-5.1 earthquake struck in Southern California on Saturday and could be felt dozens of miles away in downtown Los Angeles, but there were no immediate reports of injuries or damage.
OKC Bombing -- still with usfoxnews.com/ ... 19:20:12FOX NEWS ASKS (finally): Did Oklahoma City Bombers Have Help?
Violenceworldnetdaily.com/ ... 19:08:09Capital murder charges have been filed against a 19-year-old illegal alien believed to be a member of MS-13, a violent El Salvadoran gang, for the shooting death of a 19-month-old Houston toddler... Not until [father] arrived at his home did he know that the toddler had been hit twice in the head.... MS-13 – has been linked to al-Qaida and other terrorist groups...axcessnews.com/ ... 19:03:49A registered sex offender has confessed to the killing of the 13-year-old Florida girl who was first reported missing a week ago....kansascity.com/ ... 19:03:29An American aid worker.. Marla Ruzicka, 28.. who helped civilians caught in the crossfire of war was killed by a suicide car bomber on the dangerous road to the airport, the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad said Sunday...ap.tbo.com/ ... 12:52:15Communist rebels in southern Nepal dragged at least 10 males from their homes, including a 14-year-old boy, and gunned them down for refusing to take up arms with the guerrilla movement....reuters.com/ ... 12:51:54KANDAHAR, Afghanistan (Reuters) - A bomb planted by Taliban rebels destroyed five trucks carrying oil for the U.S. military in Afghanistan and wounded three driverskeralanext.com/ ... 12:22:15BAGHDAD: Three American soldiers were killed and 7 others injured in a mortar attack on a U.S. base in the Iraqi city of Ramadimiami.com/ ... 12:21:39Florida... Investigators recovered from a pond the partially submerged body of Sarah Michelle Lunde, the 13-year-old girl who disappeared a week ago after a church outing... a registered sex offender Sarah's mother once dated.. [who] made an unexpected pre-dawn appearance hours after the girl was last seen... has drawn investigators' attention, but he has not been called a suspect in her disappearance...
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Albert Einstein -- still with usap.tbo.com/ ... 12:58:22A new Einstein will emerge, scientists say. But it may take a long time. After all, more than 200 years separated Einstein from his nearest rival, Isaac Newton.ap.tbo.com/ ... 12:58:06He stopped traffic on Fifth Avenue like the Beatles or Marilyn Monroe. He could've been president of Israel or played violin at Carnegie Hall, but he was too busy thinking. His musings on God, love and the meaning of life grace our greeting cards and day-timers. Fifty years after his death, his shock of white hair and droopy mustache still symbolize genius..... Around the world, universities and academies are celebrating the 100th anniversary of Einstein's "miracle year" when he published five scientific papers in 1905 that fundamentally changed our grasp of space, time, light and matter. Only he could top himself about a decade later with his theory of general relativity.....
Transportnews.bbc.co.uk/ ... 12:29:17Traffic congestion in big cities, as well as the high cost of car rental, could one day be a thing of the past, if the technological solution employed by one American company in Boston catches on... Zipcar... [digitized almost-instant car rentals with no paperwork]
Yuck!seattletimes.nwsource.com/ ... 12:08:17Somewhere out there is a woman, dead or alive, who is missing part of a well-manicured finger about 1 ½ inches long.
Letterman: "She went back there for lunch today — she's trying to collect all five..."
Leno: "Instead of a spoon, they serve it with nail clippers..."
Wendy's .. doubled its reward yesterday to $100,000 for information...
Preternatural Patternsfoxnews.com/ ... 12:17:41Fox's Roger Friedman calls for mistrial in Jackson case
Justice?news.bbc.co.uk/ ... 12:26:45Eminem.. Brain Damage, a song on 1999 album The Slim Shady LP...."Way before my baby daughter Hailey, I was harassed daily by this fat kid named DeAngelo Bailey... He banged my head against the urinal till he broke my nose, soaked my clothes in blood, grabbed me and choked my throat." .. The song also claimed the principal joined in the assault and Eminem's "whole brain fell out" of his skull... DeAngelo Bailey sued... three-judge panel upheld a decision in 2003 by a judge who composed a rap of her own to explain her opinion... "The lyrics are stories no-one would take as fact/They're an exaggeration of a childish act..." Mr Bailey's lawyer.. said he was not surprised by the ruling and would not appeal.... "I don't think [the justices] would even look at it to be honest with you," he said....
OKC Bombing -- still with usap.tbo.com/ ... 13:11:54What the Oklahoma City Bombing Took 10 Years Ago, and What Remainsap.tbo.com/ ... 13:06:07Photo of Baby in Fireman's Arms Froze Okla. Tragedy for World, but Not for Mother, Photographer
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Modern Family Lifeworldnetdaily.com/ ... 17:02:10A new Carl's Jr. ad campaign promoting spicy hamburgers features a tough-talking unborn baby threatening to rip out part of his mother's womb if she doesn't stop eating jalapeno peppers....
Cascading Weirdnessthescotsman.scotsman.com/ ... 16:56:46Michael Jackson will sell his 50 per cent stake in the Beatles’ back catalogue "in the next few days" in an effort to alleviate his financial woes, sources close to the pop star claimed yesterday....
...may-b on e-Bay? and whattabout dem bones dem bones dem elephant man bones?
grandforks.com/ ... 16:54:08...No one has a good explanation for how Allman's fingertip - which was chomped off by a spotted leopard that was living on her property just outside town - could have ended up in a bowl of Wendy's chili in San Jose, Calif. And in the latest twist, Allman now isn't sure that Wendy's finger is hers... But it seems like everyone in Pahrump is enjoying the story... "When I heard about the chili story, the first thing that popped into my mind was Sandy," said Rick Neal. "But I never dreamed it would come to this." .. "It's pretty weird, even for Pahrump," added longtime resident Mickey Tillery....
World Zookeepingbrownsvilleherald.com/ ... 16:47:45Brownsville... A protesting trio from the People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA), one of which was dressed in a chicken outfit.... manager for the KFC... "As far as I’m concerned, they are terrorists. I’m trying to make a living and they are trying to stop my people from making a living," he said just before cranking the water system at full blast, showering the protesters....
Preternatural Patternsreuters.com/ ... 11:57:33A South African zoo is trying to persuade its star chimpanzee to kick a bad smoking habit.
Yuck!wftv.com/ ... 11:45:44ORLANDO, Fla. -- A high school student was arrested for biting off part of a classmate's ear during a fight that started after he was cut off while driving into the school's entrance.timesargus.com/ ... 11:45:21A Morrisville teenager is being held on $100,000 bail after pleading not guilty to charges he raided a tomb in a cemetery and removed the head of the corpse.... 17[-year-old] faces up to 25 years in prison... lengthy "rap sheet"... seven convictions.. was on furlough... suspect allegedly talked of using the man's head as a "bong," a pipe for smoking marijuana.
Whoops!worldnetdaily.com/ ... 17:00:20A Denny's restaurant shift manager inadvertently gave a Border Patrol agent paying for his meal a receipt with the phrase "Border A-- Whole" after sharing the joke with a cook....reuters.com/ ... 12:02:46A Swedish rights group cried foul over advertisements for a liquorice ice-cream, saying the posters for "Nogger Black" were racist. Not only could the name of the ice-cream bar made by GB Glace cause offence, but the posters, with graffiti-style text, lampooned black culture....ap.tbo.com/ ... 11:51:42An 81-year-old woman preparing to take a test drive at a car dealership hit her husband, a salesman, a car and a tree before running into a wall.wftv.com/ ... 11:42:40MACON, Ga. -- A high school teacher who wore blackface at a student-faculty basketball game has resigned, saying "it was poor judgment and will never happen again."
Digital Consequencesreuters.com/ ... 11:57:04A bunch of computer-generated gibberish masquerading as an academic paper has been accepted at a scientific conference in a victory for pranksters at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.news.bbc.co.uk/ ... 11:48:02Before the cardinals file into the Sistine Chapel on 18 April, the entire area will be swept electronically to ensure nobody has planted a listening device.nypost.com/ ... 11:39:26The Wall Street Journal... Earnings plunged by 54 percent at the newspaper's parent Dow Jones & Co., with its fledgling online operations earning more money for the first time than the flagship Journal and the weekly Barron's....
Executive Thinkinginvestors.com/ ... 17:02:56...DeLuca believes that to be a good leader, you must have an objective, destination and vision that are clear to you and your employees. "You have to be able to communicate the vision to the people in your organization so that they know where and how they should direct themselves on a day-to-day basis...."
Human Rightadnki.com/ ... 16:57:57Tehran, 11 April (AKI) - An Iranian army colonel who many years ago converted to Christianity has been summoned to appear before a Tehran court on charges of apostasy, that is publicly rejecting the faith in which one has been raised. Hamid Pourmand, 47, is the first Iranian for more than ten years to be tried for this crime, which carries the death penalty. Now retired, Pourmand is a pastor with the protestant Assembly of God faith in the city of Bushehr, the site of Iran's main nuclear reactor.csmonitor.com/ ... 16:36:49Iran eases its social strictures -- In a political trade-off, leaders loosen harsh rules
US Military Casualtiescsmonitor.com/ ... 16:36:26No sooner had Prime Minister Tony Blair called Britain's election than the country was shaken by the dramatic collapse of one of its biggest industrial names. The victim was MG Rover, which filed for bankruptcy last week after a takeover bid from a Chinese automaker foundered. The demise of Britain's last major domestic carmaker is a blow to its once-proud automobile sector....defenselink.mil/ ... 16:34:47[flag]Marine Cpl. Michael B. Lindemuth, 27, of Petoskey, Mich., died April 13 as a result of wounds received from enemy mortar fire at Camp Hit, Al Anbar Province, Iraq.
US Militarydefenselink.mil/ ... 16:34:11A joint, multi-nation project arrangement between the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD), the Department of National Defence of Canada, and the Secretary of State for Defense of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland was announced today for the cooperative development of a vaccine to protect against plague. Under this agreement, the three nations will work together to develop and produce a plague vaccine that will ultimately be licensed for human use.
Bartlesville - prarie frontier townexaminer-enterprise.com/ ... 17:20:44Amid Native American pageantry, balloons, streamers and enthusiastic cheers from new employees, the world's largest employer held a grand opening ceremony for its newest facility on Tuesday. The nearly 1-million-square-foot Wal-Mart MDC 7015 (MDC stands for mechanized distribution center) was on display for a crowd of hundreds including local dignitaries and representatives of several local school districts and non-profit groups who were the happy recipients of more than $27,000 in grants from the company.....examiner-enterprise.com/ ... 17:04:26Bartlesville - ...accused of offering money for the murder of his sister... said that he would not hire anyone to kill her because he wanted to kill her himself...
Constitutional Threatrealitytvworld.com/ ... 16:52:29The sources of government or corporate news releases must now be shown by U.S. TV broadcasters, the Federal Communications Commission has ruled.
Vigilantismnews.telegraph.co.uk/ ... 16:50:18A grandmother has foiled a burglar by throwing a garden gnome at him... "He lay there and I began to scream. I went back into the kitchen and found a rolling pin in case he came down. I didn't want to break another gnome."...
OKC Bombing -- still with usap.tbo.com/ ... 11:52:01Vice President Dick Cheney will speak Tuesday at a memorial service in Oklahoma City marking 10 years since the terrorist bombing that killed 168 people.
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Digital Consequencescnn.com/ ... 21:46:24HAIFA, Israel -- Student engineers sent their gadgets whirring, spinning and buzzing across a pool of water Wednesday in a competition to re-enact the biblical Jewish crossing of the Red Sea and pour a ceremonial glass of wine -- all without anyone touching anything....reuters.com/ ... 16:12:22U.N. Video Game Encourages Kids to Feed, Not Kill
Whoops!ap.tbo.com/ ... 12:07:57American Honda Motor Co. is recalling about 200,000 all-terrain vehicles after receiving more than two dozen reports of steering rods separating, which could cause drivers to crash.ap.tbo.com/ ... 12:07:46Hoover Co. is recalling 636,000 vacuum cleaners after receiving about 250 reports of overheating that caused the handle area to smoke, melt or catch fire.
Theory of Educationwftv.com/ ... 12:03:20SAN BERNARDINO, Calif. -- A ninth-grade student has accused officials at a Southern California high school of discrimination for suspending him for wearing lipstick and eye makeup.
Transportnbc4.tv/ ... 11:59:33LOS ANGELES -- Police are investigating the second fatal shooting on the 110 Freeway in a two-week period...nbc4.tv/ ... 11:58:32GLENDALE, Calif... fatal accident.. apparently caused by a "large metal object" crashing through the windshield of a car...
Yuck!sfgate.com/ ... 16:11:34the mystery of the finger's origin
Authorities.. have found no link to a Nevada leopard attack... San Jose Police Sgt. Nick Muyo: "I guess Ms. Allman lost a little bit less of her finger than what we think we have here in San Jose. So obviously, if we have more of a finger than she lost, you might look at that on face value and say it's probably not the same...."
sfgate.com/ ... 16:09:22...the Las Vegas woman who says she found a finger in a cup of chili at a San Jose Wendy's restaurant last month, has abandoned legal claims against the Wendy's corporation and parted ways with her legal counsel....
Yuck Yuk of the Day:
Police emphasized that the leopard incident was just one of many promising tips that had been called in since the March 22 discovery of the 1 1/2-inch finger....
ap.tbo.com/ ... 11:29:48A woman who lost part of her finger in a leopard attack believes it was her body part that allegedly showed up a month later in a bowl of fast-food chili in California... wants to participate in any DNA testing of the finger, which she said she last saw packed in ice in a Las Vegas emergency room. Doctors told her it could not be reattached... hospital said it cannot account for the 3/4-inch fingertip... lost Feb. 23 in the attack at an exotic animal compound at her home.. about 60 miles west of Las Vegas... realizes her lost fingertip is only half as long as the one [litigant] claims to have found....
US Military Casualtiesdefenselink.mil/ ... 23:09:58[flag]Army Spc. Manuel Lopez III, 20, of Cape Coral, Fla., died April 12 in Baghdad, Iraq, when his HMMWV was struck by a rocket-propelled grenade. defenselink.mil/ ... 23:09:34[flag]Army Spc. John W. Miller, 21, of West Burlington, Iowa, died April 12 in Camp Ramadi, Iraq, of injuries received from enemy small arms fire while on route clearance operations in Ar Ramadi, Iraq.defenselink.mil/ ... 23:09:11This week, the Army, Air Force, Marine Corps, Navy and Coast Guard announced a decrease in the number of reservists on active duty in support of the partial mobilization. The net collective result is 4,812 fewer reservists mobilized than last week.defenselink.mil/ ... 23:08:47Vietnam War Missing in Action Servicemen Identified --
[flag]Army Col. Sheldon J. Burnett of Pelham, N.H.,
[flag]Army Warrant Officer Randolph J. Ard of West Pensacola, Fla.
defenselink.mil/ ... 23:07:16[flag]Army Pfc. Casey M. LaWare, 19, of Redding, Calif., died April 9 at Landstuhl Regional Medical Center in Landstuhl, Germany, from non-combat related injuries sustained April 6 in Al Mahmudiyah, Iraq.defenselink.mil/ ... 23:06:49[flag]Marine Sgt. James S. Lee, 26, of Mt. Vernon, Ind., died April 6 in Ghazni, Afghanistan, when the Army CH-47 helicopter he was on crashed.defenselink.mil/ ... 23:06:15WWII Missing in Action Serviceman Identified -- On Dec. 17, 1944, McKee was an aerial gunner on an 11-member crew of a B-24L Liberator that took off from Pantanella, Italy, on a mission to bomb enemy targets near Blechhammer, Germany. The aircraft crashed over Hungary, near the small towns of Böhönye and Felsosegesd, with the loss of two crewmen including McKee. The other nine were able to safely parachute from the aircraft. Following the war, the remains of the other unaccounted-for crewman were found in a cemetery in Felsosegesd.defenselink.mil/ ... 23:04:37[flag]Army Maj. Edward J. Murphy, 36, of South Carolina
[flag]Army Chief Warrant Officer David Ayala, 24, of New York, N.Y.
[flag]Army Chief Warrant Officer Clint J. Prather, 32, of Cheney, Wash.
[flag]Army Master Sgt. Edwin A. Matoscolon, 42, of Juana Diaz, P.R.
[flag]Army Staff Sgt. Charles R. Sanders Jr., 29, of Charleston, Mo.
[flag]Army Spc. Daniel J. Freeman, 20, of Cincinnati, Ohio
[flag]Army Spc. Chrystal G. Stout, 23, of Travelers Rest, S.C.
[flag]Army Pfc. Pendelton L. Sykes II, 25, of Chesapeake, Va.
died
[flag]Army Capt. David S. Connolly, 37, of Boston, Mass.
[flag]Army Sgt. Maj. Barbaralien Banks, 41, of Harvey, La.
[flag]Army Staff Sgt. Romanes L. Woodard, 30, of Hertford, N.C.
[flag]Army Sgt. Stephen C. High, 45, of Spartanburg, S.C.
[flag]Army Spc. Michael K. Spivey, 21, of Fayetteville, N.C.
[flag]Army Spc. Sascha Struble, 20, of Philadelphia, N.Y.
became unaccounted for
on April 6 in Ghazni, Afghanistan, when the CH-47 helicopter they were on crashed.
defenselink.mil/ ... 22:36:09[flag]Army Staff Sgt. Kevin D. Davis, 41, of Lebanon, Ore., died April 8 in Balad, Iraq, of injuries sustained when an improvised explosive device detonated near his HMMWV in Hawijah, Iraq.
Science Marches Onnnnnnnews.bbc.co.uk/ ... 12:04:41The birth of the world's second horse clone has been announced by scientists. The foal is a copy of a world endurance champion, Pieraz, an animal that has been castrated and was therefore incapable of normal reproduction....
Human Rightreuters.com/ ... 12:12:34A Nevada bill that would impose a 10 percent tax on strip club dancing will be struck down in court if lawmakers pass it, an American Civil Liberties Union lawyer said on Wednesday. "You can not have a special tax aimed at First Amendment activity based on content...."news.bbc.co.uk/ ... 12:05:26Prisoners executed by lethal injection in the US may have been aware of what was happening to them.... some suffer unnecessarily, and claim standards do not meet those for putting animals down....abcnews.go.com/ ... 11:34:11The Oregon Supreme Court on Thursday nullified nearly 3,000 marriage licenses issued to same-sex couples... said while the county can question the constitutionality of laws governing marriage, they are a matter of statewide concern so the county had no authority....
Under Digital Tyrannyapnews.myway.com/ ... 21:41:21The Chinese government has become increasingly sophisticated at controlling the Internet, taking a multilayered approach that contributes to precision in blocking political dissent... China's filters can block just specific references to Tibetan independence without blocking all references to Tibet.... effective at limiting discussions about Falun Gong, the Dalai Lama, Tiananmen Square.... Saudi Arabia.. largely controls the Internet by having all traffic flow through a central agency.. Visitors trying to access a banned site get a message saying it has been blocked.. "China is much more subtle than that... You don't know what you don't know. It's more effective than if you see it but know you can't access it."... China.. has the world's second-largest population of Internet users...
Aftermathap.tbo.com/ ... 12:09:26Reluctance by Italian investigators to accept the U.S. version of the killing of an Italian security agent by American troops in Iraq last month is holding up the conclusion of a joint inquiry into the shooting
Disinformation Propaganda & Spinnews.bbc.co.uk/ ... 12:06:52...The textbook refers to the 1937-38 Nanjing massacre, when Japanese troops killed an estimated 250,000 to 300,000 people, by the more innocuous title of "incident". It also explains that the country's actions during World War II were motivated by "self-preservation" and a desire to liberate Asia from Western control. Particularly infuriating for South Korea was the Ministry of Education's decision to make four textbook publishers refer to a disputed set of islands - called Takeshima in Japanese, and Dokdo in Korean - as Japanese territory "unlawfully occupied by South Korea"....
Epidemic Without Bordersnews.yahoo.com/ ... 11:57:24A 21-year-old woman has been infected by both the deadly HIV/AIDS virus and bird flu, the first such case in Vietnam.... Quang Ninh province bordering China has one of the highest number of HIV carriers in Vietnam, most of them drug addicts and prostitutes....
Rebuildingfoxnews.com/ ... 21:42:24A 911 dispatcher was reprimanded for responding to a mother's plea for help with an unruly child by saying: "OK. Do you want us to come over to shoot her?"....reuters.com/ ... 11:51:50Lebanon's pro-Syrian political coalition was in disarray on Thursday, with a key figure saying he could no longer work with President Emile Lahoud, another top ally of Damascus.
Violence11alive.com/ ... 23:11:43Eric Rudolph.. planned a series of bombs during the Olympics..
Calvin Thorbourne, who was struck by shrapnel in the back of his leg when the bomb exploded, says Rudolph’s apologies strike him cold. "There's nothing he can say to make me feel better about what he did, absolutely not.... My prayer is that he realizes the damage he really did and he clearly he doesn’t.”
sfgate.com/ ... 16:20:11Timeline in Eric Rudolph Bombing Casesfgate.com/ ... 16:13:30Timeline in Eric Rudolph Bombing Caseap.tbo.com/ ... 16:13:17CASTROVILLE, Texas - A man apparently disgruntled over a breakup shot and killed his ex-girlfriend, her mother and 7-year-old brother before committing suicide... also wounded two other family members of the ex-girlfriend....news.yahoo.com/ ... 12:03:38A 13-year-old pitcher was accused of clubbing a teenage friend to death with a baseball bat, moments after the friend apparently teased him at a concession stand following his baseball team's first loss of the season....wnbc.com/ ... 12:03:00WASHINGTONVILLE, N.Y. -- A 14-year-old girl is facing felony charges of making terrorist threats after authorities said she talked about shooting students at her school... to mark the sixth anniversary of the Columbine school shootings on April 20...news.bbc.co.uk/ ... 12:02:34A US hostage in Iraq has appeared on a video tape urging his government to "open a dialogue with the Iraqi resistance" to save his life.abcnews.go.com/ ... 11:52:25A pair of car bombs exploded near government offices in the Iraqi capital on Thursday, killing 18 people and wounding three dozen others, while insurgent attacks against the nation's nascent security forces left at least eight others dead.... U.S. forces detonated a third car that apparently failed to explode earlier...news.xinhuanet.com/ ... 11:33:26Israeli undercover units shot dead on Thursday a Palestinian militant, member of al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades linked to the Fatah movement, in the Balata refugee camp near the West Bank town of Nablus....krqe.com/ ... 11:31:07LAPORTE, Ind. -- There's a yellow ribbon tied around a tree in front of Jeffrey Ake's Indiana home.
Family and friends are waiting for some news of the businessman who apparently was kidnapped by Iraqi militants Monday... entire hometown is praying... an advocate of international business travel who was trying to help postwar reconstruction in Iraq... installing water bottling equipment....
WED 2005-APR-13
Preternatural Patternscanada.com/ ... 11:10:26...who the heck is Pete in the expression "for Pete's sake"? These and hundreds of other questions -- many of which you'd probably never ask -- are answered with information found in four recent books that entertain as they inform, and would be as welcome on a browser's nightstand as on a researcher's reference shelf.....
TUE 2005-APR-12
Preternatural Patternsasia.news.yahoo.com/ ... 20:16:30..We referred to this other analyst at the CIA, whom I'll try and call Mr. Smith here, I hope I can keep that straight," Bolton said at one point. Committee Chairman Richard Lugar, R-Ind., and Sen. John Kerry, D-Mass., both mentioned a name.. that had not previously come up in public accounts of the intelligence flap. It is not clear whether Armstrong is the undercover officer, but an exchange between Kerry and Bolton suggests that he may be...
Digital Consequencesap.tbo.com/ ... 20:17:51More than a half-dozen news organizations are supporting three online journalists who published articles about a top-secret technology product that Apple Computer Inc. says was protected by trade secret laws.apnews.myway.com/ ... 20:12:29A small walking man-shaped robot for home security and entertainment is going on sale in Japan for 588,000 yen ($5,450).
Human Rightreuters.com/ ... 20:19:19Two 14-year-old Singapore brothers have begun a rare campaign in the city state to free their jailed father from death row, where he faces execution for trafficking about 1 kg (2.2 lb) of marijuana.
MON 2005-APR-11
Science Marches Onnnnnnasia.news.yahoo.com/ ... 23:07:30Yale University researchers say their study that used lasers to create remote-controlled fruit flies could lead to a better understanding of overeating and violence in humans. Using the lasers to stimulate specific brain cells, researchers say they were able to make the flies jump, walk, flap their wings and fly. Even headless flies took flight...
Theory of Educationnews.bbc.co.uk/ ... 12:30:49Computers are being used to mark American university students' essays in a project which could radically alter the teaching role of academics. Qualrus, a program developed at the University of Missouri, offers instant feedback on even complex subjects.
Transportnews.bbc.co.uk/ ... 12:30:06The current fate of the Segwayap.tbo.com/ ... 12:26:44COLUMBUS, Wis. - A train smashed into a minivan at a crossing that lacked lights or gates, pushing the vehicle almost a mile down the track and killing its driver and all three passengers.
Preternatural Patternsreuters.com/ ... 12:48:29Australians in the country's Northern Territory should start smashing cane toads to death with golf clubs and cricket bats in a bid to stop the spread of the toxic creatures, a government politician urged Monday.reuters.com/ ... 12:21:34Moment of Magic Earns Tiger a Shot for the Agesarkansasnews.com/ ... 12:08:45Howard Dean called the other day and started talking about Jesus. Yes, that Howard Dean. Yes, that Jesus... he remarked that his favorite New Testament book was Job...
Whoops!reuters.com/ ... 12:47:50Albania's most wanted man fought off special police and eluded capture for years only to blow himself up while fishing with dynamite, police and newspapers said Friday.news.telegraph.co.uk/ ... 02:44:39An anti-terrorism exercise involving nearly 1,000 German emergency workers ended with 18 people taken to hospital after a train full of volunteers pretending to be injured or dead caught fire.
Digital Consequencesnews.bbc.co.uk/ ... 12:47:35Millions of news, weblogs, and ordinary websites carry easy-to-set-up RSS feeds which alert people when a site has been updated. Keen lovers of technology and the web have been using RSS for some time as a way to wade through the millions of pages on the web. It is now starting to come out of its niche; and the small, orange badges which indicate a feed is available on a site are becoming a familiar presence.iht.com/ ... 12:10:22What President Bush has on his iPod [javascript req for article]boostmarketing.com/ ... 12:03:10The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) has officially designated two new top level domain names: .jobs and .travel.news.zdnet.com/ ... 12:02:33IBM and Sanyo Electric have put together a prototype of a fuel cell system for ThinkPad notebooks. The methanol-based fuel cell is designed to work with most standard ThinkPad systems and could provide power for up to eight hoursthejakartapost.com/ ... 11:57:58watchmakers and the gadget freaks among us still seem to be obsessed by Dick Tracy's watch.sun-sentinel.com/ ... 02:57:05'Star Trek' Bit Players Cling On.. Even those with fleeting roles can live long and prosper in the world of Trekkie conventions, hawking autographs at $20 a pop... Tanya Lemani... played a belly dancer in Episode 36, "Wolf in the Fold." ... the well-preserved Lemani, clad in a belly-button-baring stretch-knit olive top and slacks, was hawking her "Bellysize with Tanya" video and talking up her soon-to-be released book, "Have Belly, Will Travel."...cnn.com/ ... 02:45:05WEST SEATTLE, Washington -- A sixth-grader and two of his friends were suspended after being accused of using phony dollar bills made on a home computer to buy food in the school cafeteria.news.bbc.co.uk/ ... 02:43:44The United Arab Emirates says it will use robots as jockeys for camel races from next season. The move comes after widespread international criticism of the use of young children to ride camels during the long and often hazardous races.
Family Patternsap.tbo.com/ ... 12:25:53CRESCENT CITY, Fla. - Members of neighboring families shot at each other, wounding six people, as part of a long-running feud that victims said peaked when a girl from one family began dating a boy from the other one.ap.tbo.com/ ... 12:25:19IRVINGTON, N.J. - The father of a 4-month-old girl shot and wounded the infant's grandfather Monday, fled in a car with the baby and her mother, and then was in a standoff with police after a chase across the state... grandfather was struck in the leg and was expected to survive...worldnetdaily.com/ ... 02:43:22...Because of your articles and all of the friends of Terri, my Aunt Mae Magouirk is now in the University of Alabama-Birmingham Medical Center and is receiving food, fluids, cardiac care and neurological help. We are overjoyed....
Justice?mirror.co.uk/ ... 12:01:57A MUM was today dramatically cleared of murdering her two children, seven years after she was jailed for the crime... originally found guilty on.. evidence from paediatrician.. whose evidence in other cases has been discredited....
US Militarydefenselink.mil/ ... 03:01:24This week, the Army, Air Force and Navy announced an increase, while the Marine Corps and Coast Guard had a decrease in the number of reservists on active duty in support of the partial mobilization. The net collective result is 1,724 more reservists mobilized than last week.
US Military Casualtiesdefenselink.mil/ ... 03:03:20[flag]Army Sgt. 1st Class Stephen C. Kennedy, 35, of Oak Ridge, Tenn.
[flag]Army Staff Sgt. Christopher W. Dill, 32, of Tonawanda, N.Y.
died April 4, 2005, in Balad Ruz, Iraq, when their patrol was attacked by enemy forces using small arms fire.
defenselink.mil/ ... 03:02:19[flag]Army Spc. Glenn J. Watkins, 42, of Carlsbad, Calif., died April 5 in Baghdad, Iraq, when a vehicle-born improvised explosive device detonated near his military vehicle. defenselink.mil/ ... 03:02:02[flag]Marine Lance Cpl. Juan C. Venegas, 21, of Simi Valley, Calif., died April 7 as a result of a vehicle accident while conducting combat operations in Al Anbar Province, Iraq. defenselink.mil/ ... 03:01:42[flag]Army Sgt. Javier J. Garcia, 25, of Crawfordville, Fla., died April 5 in Baghdad, Iraq, when improvised explosive devices detonated near his patrol. defenselink.mil/ ... 03:01:08[flag]Army Cpl. William D. Richardson, 23, of Moreno Valley, Calif., died April 3, in Baghdad, Iraq, when he came under enemy fire and fell into a canal. defenselink.mil/ ... 03:00:48[flag]Marine Lance Cpl. Jeremiah C. Kinchen, 22, of Salcha, Alaska, died April 4 from an explosion that occurred during combat operations in Al Anbar Province, Iraq.defenselink.mil/ ... 03:00:30[flag]Army Sgt. Kelly S. Morris, 24, of Boise, Idaho, died March 30, in Baghdad, Iraq, from injuries sustained from enemy small arms fire. defenselink.mil/ ... 03:00:18[flag]Army Master Sergeant Robbie D. McNary, 42, of Lewistown, Mont., died March 31, in Hawijah, Iraq, from injuries sustained while performing combat operations. defenselink.mil/ ... 02:59:57[flag]Marine Cpl. Garrywesley T. Rimes, 30, of Santa Maria, Calif., died April 1 as a result of hostile action in Al Anbar Province, Iraq. defenselink.mil/ ... 02:59:22[flag]Army Sgt. James A. Sherrill, 27, of Ekron, Ky., died April 3, in Bayji, Iraq, when an improvised explosive device detonated near his military vehicle. defenselink.mil/ ... 02:58:59[flag]Army Staff Sgt. Ioasa F. Tavae, Jr., 29, of Pago Pago, American Samoa, died April 2, in Mosul, Iraq, when his unit was attacked by enemy forces using small arms fire.defenselink.mil/ ... 02:58:38[flag]Army Sgt. Kenneth L. Ridgley, 30, of Olney, Ill., died March 30 in Mosul, Iraq, of injuries sustained when enemy forces using small arms fire attacked his unit. defenselink.mil/ ... 02:58:20[flag]Marine Lance Cpl. Tenzin Dengkhim, 19, of Falls Church, Va., died April 2 as a result of hostile action in Al Anbar Province, Iraq. defenselink.mil/ ... 02:57:57[flag]Army Spc. Eric L. Toth, 21, of Edmonton, Ky., died March 30 on a supply route when an improvised explosive device detonated near his HMMWV. defenselink.mil/ ... 02:57:32[flag]Marine Warrant Officer Charles G. Wells Jr., 32, of Montgomery, Ala., died March 30 as a result of hostile action in Al Anbar Province, Iraq.
Disinformation Propaganda & Spinreuters.com/ ... 12:17:46Reuters Spin like an Exorcist head...
In America's epidemic of gun violence, the worst of any industrialized nation, the dead make news but the wounded are soon forgotten. With firearms mayhem in the headlines almost daily... [etc etc]
Rebuildingkaaltv.com/ ... 11:58:31A healing ceremony is planned today at Red Lake High School
Threatsstory.news.yahoo.com/ ... 23:06:50Police on Monday tackled and dragged away a man with two suitcases who stationed himself in front of the west side of the Capitol and asked to see the president... investigation of the suitcases... revealed nothing threatening... 33 years old, from China and carrying no identification...worldnetdaily.com/ ... 23:04:21"I would be surprised if they did not try to acquire nuclear weapons and other weapons of mass destruction," he said. "That would be the most horrible scenario because these extremist groups – if they have the weapon, they will use it." ElBaradei said the world is in a "race against time" to prevent the spread of nuclear weapons....worldnetdaily.com/ ... 23:03:44With thousands of police deployed around the Temple Mount plaza and roadblocks slowing Jews from entering Jerusalem's Old City, a senior Hamas terrorist managed to infiltrate tight security and enter the al-Aqsa mosque, where he called on Palestinian worshipers to attack Jews who attempt to ascend the Mount.reuters.com/ ... 12:20:15Two cars driven by suicide bombers exploded at the entrance to a U.S. military camp on Monday in the western Iraqi town of Qaim, close to the border with Syria... first rammed into a checkpoint outside the camp and detonated before breaching the gate... U.S. and Iraqi troops helped the wounded after a second car bomber drove up and blew up his vehicle....
...al-Zarqawi.. Internet statement.. "Members of al Qaeda's martyrdom brigades carried out ... heroic attacks on American sites..." [Not just psychos... dangerous mass-murderous psychos]
reuters.com/ ... 12:18:01Lebanon's Hizbollah guerrillas flew an unmanned surveillance drone over northern Israel on Monday, the guerrilla group and the Israeli army said.worldnetdaily.com/ ... 02:42:48While the death toll continues to rise in Angola from an outbreak of the deadly Ebola-like Marburg disease, there are intelligence reports that Islamic terrorists might deliberately infect themselves to spread the plague to the West
SUN 2005-APR-10
US Election 2004ap.tbo.com/ ... 22:52:55""Last year too many people were denied their right to vote, too many who tried to vote were intimidated..." -- former Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry.. Sunday...
Digital Consequencesreviews.cnet.com/ ... 12:53:03Wi-Fi is being built into a dizzying array of gadgets, and new types of networking devices are emerging that take wireless networking to the next level. Here are some of our favorites.cnet.com/ ... 12:52:41HDTV World ...where you'll get the full skinny on the different types of sets and picture-tuning tips. We'll also tell you how to get HD programming and what you can actually watch--in short, everything you need to know about HD and a bit more....
Family Patternstimesonline.co.uk/ ... 12:45:11New research suggests women who smoke while pregnant are putting their grandchildren as well as their children at risk....
History - still with usseattletimes.nwsource.com/ ... 12:44:35When Salk's vaccine was announced to the world 50 years ago, on April 12, 1955, church bells rang, fire-engine sirens blared and parents wept.
Violenceap.tbo.com/ ... 22:57:40MAKHACHKALA, Russia - A bloody brawl between rival religious groups at a mosque in southern Russia led to the detention of 200 people... blood on the floor and walls of the mosque - one of the oldest in Dagestan, the province bordering war-wracked Chechnya... "It's a controversy within Sunni groups and it is all about the election of a new imam" for the mosque....ap.tbo.com/ ... 22:56:34PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti - Police on Sunday shot and killed a prominent gang leader suspected in the killings of Haitian police officers///ap.tbo.com/ ... 22:54:38...Sunday, the terrorist group al-Qaida in Iraq, led by Jordanian militant Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, claimed to have kidnapped and killed Najaf police Brig. Gen. Bassem Mohammed Kadhim al-Jazaari while he was visiting Baghdad...sfgate.com/ ... 12:43:10Nepal's uncivil war -- silencer of the people... Hopes of democracy fade away as combatants -- Maoists and monarchy -- brutalize civilians in deadly, intensifying rebellion... The conflict has killed at least 11, 000 people since it began in 1996 -- about 8,000 in the past three years alone...abcnews.go.com/ ... 12:38:10Militants in Iraq kidnapped a Pakistani diplomat on his way to a mosque for prayers, and a previously unknown group claimed responsibility...wireservice.wired.com/ ... 12:32:08Judy Clarke... the lawyer at the center of the deal that will spare serial bomber Eric Rudolph's life has helped keep other big-name defendants off death row _ including Unabomber Ted Kaczynski.. [and] helped.. defend Susan Smith, the South Carolina mom who avoided a death sentence after being convicted of drowning her two little boys in 1995.... was assisting with the defense of Zacarias Moussaoui, the only U.S. defendant charged in the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks...walb.com/ ... 12:28:16"I was told today that they had in fact found all the devices. That he had told them where they were and saw that once all of those devices were found and destroyed, then they accepted the plea agreement," said John Hawthorne, who lost his wife, Alice in the 1996 Olympic Park bombing. Hawthorne says, agreeing to the plea bargain was the right decision, "If taking the death penalty off the table would keep anyone else from getting killed or injured, then you know, I'm okay with that...."reuters.com/ ... 12:26:31A Frenchman wounded in a bombing in a Cairo bazaar died on his way back to Paris for treatment, a French foreign ministry spokesman said on Sunday, bringing the death toll to four.....
Rebuildingwashingtonpost.com/ ... 12:26:08The United States on Sunday cancelled its blanket warning against travel to Israel for the first time since the start of a Palestinian uprising more than 4-1/2 years ago.
SAT 2005-APR-09
Digital Consequencesreuters.com/ ... 13:35:29Catholic monks living on an island off the west coast of Wales have flown in a satellite dish to watch the Pope's funeral Friday.
Whoops!reuters.com/ ... 13:35:45 The United States has postponed the launch of a missile that would have forced the shutdown of production at the huge Hibernia oil project off Canada's Atlantic coastreuters.com/ ... 13:35:09A thief who stole 25 shoes got a little less than he or she bargained for after realizing they were all for left feet....
Transportap.tbo.com/ ... 13:24:55LUSAKA, Zambia (AP) - A truck packed with high school students skidded off a mountain road in northern Zambia, killing at least 38 and seriously injuring 50....
Preternatural Patternsreuters.com/ ... 13:33:52A baggage handler wearing a camel suit taken from a passenger's luggage has left Qantas Airways red-faced, with Australia's national carrier investigating a potentially embarrassing security lapse... Passenger.. complained after he saw a baggage handler driven across the Sydney airport tarmac Wednesday wearing the camel suit that had been packed into the baggage he had checked in only minutes earlier....ap.tbo.com/ ... 13:25:26A western Kentucky police chief who had been credited by his mayor with helping combat the scourge of methamphetamine in their small town has been indicted on two meth-related charges.ap.tbo.com/ ... 13:24:29Iranian President Mohammad Khatami strongly denied shaking hands and chatting with Israeli President Moshe Katsav at Pope John Paul II's funeral... Katsav said he shook hands and chatted briefly with Khatami and the leader of another archenemy of Israel, Bashar Assad of Syria....washtimes.com/ ... 13:13:28President Bush solicited foreign policy advice from former President Bill Clinton at CIA briefings this week and even told Mr. Clinton that he liked his approach to reforming Social Security.
Yuck!reuters.com/ ... 13:34:26A Hong Kong hiker washed her face in a freshwater stream, not noticing that leech had wormed its way into one of her nostrils, according to the Hong Kong Medical Journal. Unaware she was playing host to the creature, the 55-year-old woman only consulted a doctor when her nose started bleeding intermittently about two weeks later....apnews.myway.com/ ... 13:15:33The woman who claims she bit into a human finger while eating chili at a Wendy's restaurant has a history of filing lawsuits - including a claim against another fast-food restaurant... Speaking through the front door of her Las Vegas home Friday, Ayala claimed police are out to get her and were unnecessarily rough as they executed a search warrant at her home on Wednesday. "Lies, lies, lies, that's all I am hearing," she said. "They should look at Wendy's. What are they hiding? Why are we being victimized again and again?"... The employees at the San Jose store were found to have all their fingers, and no suppliers of Wendy's ingredients have reported any hand or finger injuries...washingtonpost.com/ ... 13:09:52A former employee of Michael Jackson testified Friday that in the early 1990s he saw the entertainer inappropriately touching Macaulay Culkin while the child actor played a "Thriller" arcade game... "I was shocked and I almost dropped the french fries...."
Human Rightnytimes.com/ ... 13:16:16Arthur J. Finkelstein, a prominent Republican consultant who has directed a series of hard-edged political campaigns to elect conservatives in the United States and Israel over the last 25 years, said Friday that he had married his male partner in a civil ceremony at his home in Massachusetts.
History - still with usap.tbo.com/ ... 13:30:58After 25 Years, Mariel Boatlift Leaves a Legacy of Changed Lives.... The exodus from the small Cuban port began when Cuban President Fidel Castro sought to remove about 10,000 people who were seeking to leave the island after crashing through the gates of the Peruvian embassy April 1, 1980. Castro allowed those who wanted to leave the island to depart by boat. He also sent about 2,000 of communist Cuba's most violent criminals across the Florida Straits, along with mental patients and about 23,000 others identified by the U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service as "non-felonious criminals and political prisoners..."ap.tbo.com/ ... 13:28:59The vaccine bears his name, but Jonas Salk had plenty of help in the victory over polio, and his legacy includes researchers bitterly disappointed that he denied them their share of the glory.ap.tbo.com/ ... 13:28:4450 Years Ago, Polio Shots Ended Era of Fear, Launched Era of Vaccines.. On April 12, 1955, scientists announced they had a successful vaccine.... viral illness paralyzed tens of thousands of children in the United States and half a million worldwide each year....news.bbc.co.uk/ ... 13:23:15THIS DAY 2003: Saddam statue topples with regime
Rebuildingnews.bbc.co.uk/ ... 13:22:46In pictures: Iraqi lives two years after Saddam... "The situation is not so bad any more, but it is still not always good." .. "Electricity is already better and security keeps improving, although it is still a grave problem." .. "The corruption in Iraq is very bad now. All the ministries are stealing the wealth of Iraq." .. "I am afraid all the time." .. "My hope lies in God first, and then the government." ..
Violencereuters.com/ ... 13:34:43A woman has been arrested after she rammed a car into her neighbor's apartment in an apparent fight over a loud television....news.bbc.co.uk/ ... 13:17:53...in the province of Ituri, Hilary Andersson finds evidence of cannibalism by some rebels....azcentral.com/ ... 13:10:51CANTON, Texas - A man charged with shooting and critically wounding his son's high school football coach got the idea the day before, on his 45th birthday, and expected to be killed by officers' gunfire afterward.... "I don't think anything happened just recently to trigger this," Canton Police Chief Mike Echols said. "He thought up what he was going to do on his birthday...."azcentral.com/ ... 13:08:42Eric Rudolph ... on Friday.. struck a plea deal with the government he loathed... to plead guilty to carrying out the blasts in a deal that spares him the possibility of the death penalty and ensures that he will spend the rest of his life in prison.....sports.espn.go.com/ ... 13:05:29You'll hear the word "closure" a lot with regard to the Eric Rudolph case, and if you have no idea who Rudolph is, you're probably living a wonderful life. He's the humanoid who bombed Centennial Park at the 1996 Atlanta Olympics, bombed a lesbian night club, bombed two abortion clinics, killed two people, maimed a nurse, and injured 120 folks unlucky enough to be caught on planet Earth in the same tiny sliver of lifetime as this unbridled loser. Now Rudolph has cut a deal with federal officials under which he will go to prison for the rest of his natural life but avoid the death penalty. He also already has led authorities to more than 250 pounds of buried dynamite. It was a good trade for the government. But closure? Well, let's run that one past Richard Jewell....
FRI 2005-APR-08
Family Patternschanneloklahoma.com/ ... 19:27:08...Bobbi Parker told the FBI that Dial threatened to kill her family if she ever left... The girls were 8 and 10 when their mother disappeared....abcnews.go.com/ ... 19:26:38The prison warden's wife who vanished along with a convicted killer a decade ago returned to Oklahoma with her husband and was reunited with her daughters Thursday... Dial told reporters he abducted Parker at knifepoint in 1994 and brainwashed her into staying with him as they moved from Houston to Crockett to Nacogdoches, and then the chicken farm five years ago. He said their relationship was not romantic... Parker's boss, Martha Rash, who along with her husband owns the chicken farm where Parker and Dial lived and worked, said Parker had a truck, a highway nearby and plenty of chances to escape....
THU 2005-APR-07
Mass Madnessthisislondon.com/ ... 14:52:24Miami... One local said: 'I've been working here for 20 years and I've never seen as many sharks as this.'...story.news.yahoo.com/ ... 14:51:11Four kings, five queens, at least 70 presidents and prime ministers and more than 14 leaders of other religions will attend alongside what the Vatican expects will be two million faithful...
Preternatural Patternsreuters.com/ ... 14:58:18A Swedish woman who photographed a swan in the river outside the royal palace in Stockholm made a grim discovery when the film was developed: a hand sticking out of the ice.reuters.com/ ... 14:57:15Some 40 percent of the 640 taxi and bus drivers surveyed by Lima's San Marcos University suffered from psychological problems and showed psychopathic tendencies....reuters.co.uk/ ... 14:49:08Reports that jurors in Michael Jackson's sex abuse trial were making fun of a prosecution witness in the case have been dismissed as an "unsubstantiated rumour" by a court spokesman.
Yuck!reuters.com/ ... 14:59:53A Harvard professor who specializes in environmental economics was arrested on suspicion of trying to steal a load of manure from a Massachusetts farm... "He seemed a little befuddled standing there with a truck bed full of manure"... Weitzman, whose research interests listed on a Harvard Web site include the economics of biodiversity and global warming, did not return calls seeking comment. Casey told the Gloucester Daily Times that manure thefts had been a long-standing problem.reuters.com/ ... 14:48:30"He put the little boy's penis in his mouth," Chacon said.
"Did you actually see that?" prosecutor Tom Sneddon asked.
"Yes," Chacon replied, adding that Jackson's kisses were "very passionate" and that the singer's hands were "all over" the boy's body.
Family Patternsworldnetdaily.com/ ... 19:23:09...an 81-year-old widow, denied nourishment and fluids for nearly two weeks, is clinging to life in a hospice in LaGrange, Ga., while her immediate family fights desperately to save her life before she dies of starvation and dehydration. ... Mae Magouirk was neither terminally ill, comatose nor in a "vegetative state..." been kept sedated with morphine and ativan, a powerful tranquillizer.... in defiance of.. specific wishes.. set down in a "living will," and without agreement of her closest living next-of-kin....seattletimes.nwsource.com/ ... 14:55:46Her husband at her side, her children hours away, Bobbi Parker headed home to Oklahoma yesterday for the first time since she vanished along with an inmate after a prison break 11 years ago... authorities believe he kept Parker from escaping by threatening to hurt her family....sfgate.com/ ... 01:58:47Tulsa, Okla. -- Race officials cannot explain why Michelle "Shelly" Howard's dragster flipped over and shot backward, killing her and her son....newsday.com/ ... 01:58:01New York - A 42-year-old police officer... charged with rape, incest, endangering the welfare of a child and sexual abuse based on allegations by [his daughter] that he raped and molested her several times since 2001.... released without bail... order barring him from having any contact with his 15-year-old daughter....
Digital Consequencesworldnetdaily.com/ ... 02:04:44The FTC has canceled the proposed purchase of Hollywood Entertainment by Blockbuster, Inc. The reason given is that competition between them would be eliminated, resulting in fewer choices for DVD-video rental customers. But in reality, the blocked merger demonstrates how out of touch government regulators are with advances in technology and new business concepts....news.bbc.co.uk/ ... 01:54:19US scientists have designed a bionic eye to allow blind people to see again.
Theory of Educationtucsoncitizen.com/ ... 01:53:08A world history textbook is no longer being used by seventh-graders at a local school amid criticism of the book's focus and portrayal of Islam.... "I received a significant number of e-mails saying (the book) was Islamic propaganda and we shouldn't use it," said district governing board member Christine Schild....deseretnews.com/ ... 01:52:29At Daniels Farm Elementary School in Trumbull, Conn., Karwoski's teachers grade papers by giving examples of better answers for those students who make mistakes. But that approach meant the kids often found their work covered in red, the color that teachers long have used to grade work. Parents objected. Red writing, they said, was "stressful."
Whoops!news.yahoo.com/ ... 02:06:05The legal counsel to Sen. Mel Martinez (R-Fla.) admitted yesterday that he was the author of a memo citing the political advantage to Republicans of intervening in the case of Terri Schiavo, the senator said in an interview last night.worldnetdaily.com/ ... 01:50:42Pol: Paper made up quotes about Minutemen.. Councilman claims he never said he wants citizen patrol in New Mexico...
Netsurf Flotsamabsolutetrl.net/ ... 18:42:32This Day in Musicclassicbands.com/ ... 18:40:29Dead Rock Starsbeloit.edu/ ... 18:40:13Ethereal Messages -- A History of Beloit College Radio 1907-94, researched and written by Dave de Anguera '91, edited by Frederick Burwell
Vigilantismreuters.com/ ... 14:56:19Militia volunteers patrolling the U.S.-Mexico border held a Mexican immigrant against his will and made him hold a joke T-shirt for cameras....
Rebuildingabcnews.go.com/ ... 14:53:23Iraq's presidential council was sworn in Thursday and named Shiite Arab Ibrahim al-Jaafari as interim prime minister, the country's most powerful position, giving Iraq its first freely elected government in 50 years and further consolidating the postwar power shift.
Freedomvoanews.com/ ... 14:53:05Ukraine's newly-elected president, Viktor Yushchenko, has thanked the United States for supporting Ukraine as it begins a series of democratic and economic reforms. VOA's Victoria Cavaliere reports that the Ukrainian leader is also asking the U.S. Congress for more financial support.
Violenceapnews.myway.com/ ... 19:20:08CANTON, Texas -- The father of a high school football player shot... AK-47 rifle in the chest... and wounded the coach with an assault rifle Thursday and fled in a pickup loaded with weapons, claiming to have a hit list... captured a few hours later, after his truck was found abandoned near a golf course outside Canton... [victim's] condition was not immediately released....indystar.com/ ... 14:50:24A conservative activist who criticizes what he calls the leftist domination of college campuses.. David Horowitz, president of the Center for the Study of Popular Culture, had just started a lecture at Butler when he... was struck with a pie Wednesday night at Butler University.... "There's a wave of violence on college campuses, committed by what I'd call fascists opposing conservatives," Horowitz said. "It's one step from that to injury."...reuters.com/ ... 14:45:50A man on a motorbike threw a bomb in the central historic area of Cairo on Thursday, killing up to four people, including an American and a French citizen.. wounded -- four French, three Americans, an Italian, a Turk and nine Egyptians... no immediate indication of.. motive....worldnetdaily.com/ ... 01:49:28Hidden explosives tie FBI to OKC destruction?... The news spin, at least what little surfaced in a period of predictable news frenzy, was that the FBI was embarrassed for not having found this old material 10 years prior. As has happened all too often in the past, however, seeming FBI incompetence provides a cover for a much more troubling story.....
WED 2005-APR-06
Whoops!reuters.com/ ... 12:46:08...According to The Washington Post on Tuesday, gamblers [on the next Pope] can back Cardinal Dionigi Tettamanzi of Italy at odds of 11 to 4. "Or they can take their chances on Father Dougal Maguire of Craggy Island, Ireland, a long shot at 1,000 to 1." But the Post's reporter was unaware of a key detail that, generous odds aside, would make canny bettors take a pass on Father Dougal. ...McGuire.. appears in the hit British television comedy "Father Ted," which follows the antics of an eccentric group of Catholic priests on a small island off the west coast of Ireland.
Legislative Ethicsap.tbo.com/ ... 12:42:01Freshman Sen. Tom Coburn will go ahead with his fight to retain his medical practice while serving in Congress, even though the Senate Ethics Committee has rejected his request.
Slow Learnersobserver.com/ ... 12:32:37...Ms. Huffington, Mr. Beatty and Co., however, are aiming not at the margins but at the center of the media scrum: the news cycle itself, now being deftly nudged, goosed and spun by Mr. Drudge—daily, hourly, instantly. "As the day follows the night, Drudge will inspire its opposite," Mr. Beatty said.
Digital Consequencesmaps.google.com/ ... 23:43:30http://maps.google.com/thedenverchannel.com/ ... 23:43:03Online search engine leader Google Inc. has unveiled a new feature that will enable its users to zoom in on homes and businesses using satellite imageswebpronews.com/ ... 12:12:21Starting next Tuesday, April 12, machines running Windows XP without Service Pack 2 installed will no longer be able to block delivery of the much-discussed update.
Preternatural Patternsdrudgereport.com/ ... 23:41:25En route to Rome, Clinton told reporters the pope.. "i's like all of us - he may have a mixed legacy.”....reuters.com/ ... 12:47:51...he was lifted off the floor by giant fishhooks pierced through the skin on his shoulders... body suspension practitioners... To hang cost $100; just to watch cost $15 ...reuters.com/ ... 12:46:37"Incredible Popeman" -- Pope John Paul II is being reborn in a Colombian comic book as a superhero battling evil with an anti-Devil cape and special chastity pants.reuters.com/ ... 12:43:59 Italy's leading news agency has denied reporting that al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden would attend Pope John Paul's funeral Friday after a story attributed to it circulated widely on the Internet.drudgereport.com/ ... 12:17:50...a Juror was overheard by two reporters [one fron UK's SKY TV] saying, "Oh boo-hooo, Michael Jackson tickled me." That statement was followed by laughter from other Jurors.... Jurors 8 and 9 have been observed laughing during the latest witness testimony, frequently cupping their mouths and talking during testimony....obviousnews.com/ ... 02:17:26Macaulay Culkin shared a bedroom with Michael Jackson. Britney Spears‘ future choreographer... ... about eight... shared a shower with the singer. So said Jackson‘s former maid as the hits kept coming Tuesday at the singer‘s molestation trial....
Human Righttimesonline.co.uk/ ... 02:22:24A European directive controlling the sale of some vitamins and other food supplements, which is due to become law this year, was declared illegal by a top judge yesterday. The health food rules, which affect thousands of products on sale in Britain, were seriously deficient and broke basic legal principles, an Advocate-General at the European Court of Justice in Luxembourg said.
Rebuildingwpherald.com/ ... 12:11:15...Talabani promised "to spare no effort to achieve the will of the Iraqi people." He also vowed to restore Iraq's independence and sovereignty.....
....Adel Abdul Mahdi, a prominent Shiite Arab politician, and Sheik Ghazi al-Yawar, the Sunni Arab president of the interim government, were appointed vice presidents.....
ksbitv.com/ ... 12:09:08SADDAM'S SEAT HELD BY KURD
Iraq's new transitional assembly took an expected but historic step Wednesday, electing Kurdish leader Jalal Talabani as the nation's president
Disinformation Propaganda & Spinwashtimes.com/ ... 12:35:06All 55 Republican senators say they have never seen the Terri Schiavo political talking-points memo that Democrats say was circulated among Republicans during the floor debate over whether the federal government should intervene to prolong her life. ...every Republican said the memo was not crafted or distributed by him or her. Every one of them said he or she had not seen it until the memo was the subject of speculation in major news organs, particularly ABC News and The Washington Post.bloomberg.com/ ... 02:23:48South Korea protested Japan's latest edition of school textbooks, saying they distort events during World War II and the 1910-1945 Japanese colonial era, the Foreign Ministry said in a statement. The South Korean government expressed its ``regret'' the textbooks for 2006 that passed the Japanese government's approval process yesterday claimed sovereignty over two islands that lie east of South Korea, the ministry said.chinadaily.com.cn/ ... 02:23:14The Japanese education ministry yesterday sanctioned its textbooks. Among them is a new history book submitted by the right-wing History Textbook Reform Society.... Japanese middle school children can now be taught from a book that re-asserts the wartime ideology that Japan's invasions of China, the Korean Peninsula and Southeast Asia were justified acts of self-defence. Apparently, it assisted Asia's liberation from European and American domination....
TUE 2005-APR-05
Digital Consequencesnews.bbc.co.uk/ ... 02:46:56..."audio clouds" to control gadgets using movement and sound.... could make using mobile devices on the move safer and easier... responds to movements... also already testing 3D audio systems for devices.... "We hope to develop interfaces that are truly mobile, allowing users to concentrate on the real world while interacting with their mobile device as naturally as if they were talking to a friend while walking." ....
Preternatural Patternsnydailynews.com/ ... 12:34:1610 things you probably didn't want to know about Jane Fondaap.tbo.com/ ... 02:45:20OKLAHOMA CITY - A convicted killer together with an assistant warden's wife who both disappeared almost 11 years ago were found alive Monday by investigators acting on a tip from a viewer of "America's Most Wanted...."
Currentdrudgereport.com/ ... 12:31:12This morning, Peter Jennings told his senior staff at World News Tonight that yesterday afternoon he was diagnosed with lung cancer.money.cnn.com/ ... 12:21:28ChevronTexaco Corp. may sell Unocal Corp.'s North American onshore fields and Asian power plants for an estimated $2 billion after it closes the purchase of its smaller California rival, a source close to the plan said Tuesday.reuters.com/ ... 02:44:30ChevronTexaco to Buy Unocal for $16.4 Bln
US Militarywtoctv.com/ ... 12:30:40Some top honors to a Third Infantry Division soldier killed in Iraq. Sgt. 1st Class Paul Smith fought his way to Baghdad with Third ID. Two years ago yesterday, he and his troops held a position near the Baghdad airport. Iraqi troops counter attacked. Outnumbered and outgunned, Smith fought back, covering his soldiers and killing dozens of Iraqi troops until he was mortally wounded. Yesterday, President George Bush posthumously presented Smith's Congressional Medal of Honor to his 11-year-old son, David, and honored his efforts.
MON 2005-APR-04
AmerIndians Todayseattlepi.nwsource.com/ ... 12:28:50Nearly a thousand places across the country - rivers, buttes, meadows, mountains - are named "squaw," and most American Indians want them to be called something else... American Indians' heightened sensitivity to the word came about in 1992 after an activist announced on a television talk show that squaw is derived from a vulgar Mohawk word. Linguists maintain "squaw" means "woman" in the language of the Massachusett tribe, which once lived on the East Coast.... survey of American Indian tribes.. majority wanted the squaw name to go, [but] each tribe wanted to replace it with a word from its language,
Preternatural Patternsnydailynews.com/ ... 12:37:28If Michael Jackson ever left the country, he could live out his days on a tropical island paradise - thanks to his friend Marlon Brando.entertainment.news.com.au/ ... 12:33:30MICHAEL Jackson has been crowned the US's most foolish person for the third consecutive year, snatching the dishonour from the likes of President George W. Bush and society heiress Paris Hilton.chron.com/ ... 01:56:40Why spring forward? It's the law [says] HINTS FROM HELOISE
Transportnytimes.com/ ... 01:55:11The engine of an Amtrak train derailed Sunday in a gorge in southern Washington, sending at least 26 passengers to hospitals
US Militarynews.telegraph.co.uk/ ... 12:03:42British and American nuclear warheads carried by submarines are so poorly designed that they may fail to detonate if fired
Aftermathreuters.com/ ... 20:07:26Cambodia has privatized a mass grave where thousands of Pol Pot's political enemies were clubbed to death, sparking anger among relatives who say the Khmer Rouge's 1.7 million victims are being traded for profit.
SUN 2005-APR-03
Digital Consequencesnews.bbc.co.uk/ ... 15:59:21blogs are rocking the boat both East and West.
Preternatural Patternsnewkerala.com/ ... 15:53:56Most have no idea why we save daylight... Wall Street preferred having fewer hours between the markets being open in New York and London and stores found they had more shoppers while it was still light....
Disinformation Propaganda & Spinkesq.com/ ... 16:22:30When John Paul created new cardinals in 2003, he said he was keeping one name secret.. until the pope announces it or leaves instructions for that to be done... could be a prelate from China... John Paul's faithful secretary -- Archbishop Stanislaw Dziwisz (ZHEE'-vich) -- has also been mentioned as the possible secret cardinal....internetpirate.com/ ... 16:21:08Newsday (New York).. April 5, 1991.. He was one of the two richest members of the United States Senate and one of its most liberal Republicans....Henry John Heinz III...seattlepi.nwsource.com/ ... 16:17:57The Rumor Mill News Reading Room -- JOHN HEINZ WAS MURDERED & HIS SENATE PAPERS SEALED TOO...seattlepi.nwsource.com/ ... 16:17:28Sen. John Heinz III had about $423 million in cash, stocks, trusts and other property when he died in a 1991 plane crash, according to documents released Friday after a newspaper challenge.
SAT 2005-APR-02
History - still with usnews.bbc.co.uk/ ... 16:01:48....Around 650 Argentines were killed in the Falklands war. Their names are all etched into a black, marble memorial in downtown Buenos Aires. An orange flame burns alongside it, and two guards stand to attention in honour of the country's fallen soldiers. Argentina's Falklands veterans wish that they had been treated with similar respect.....
Transportap.tbo.com/ ... 00:20:46The engine of a jetliner caught fire Friday evening as pilots revved up the aircraft for takeoff, forcing the crew to abort the flight and evacuate 131 passengers using an emergency inflatable slide....
Disinformation Propaganda & Spinnews.bbc.co.uk/ ... 16:02:53The US military is planning to win the hearts of young people in the Middle East by publishing a new comic.
Aftermathnews.bbc.co.uk/ ... 16:02:10The twin intelligence failures of Iraq and 9/11 have prompted both the US and British governments to shake up their intelligence services.
FRI 2005-APR-01
April Foolishnessreuters.com/ ... 20:34:04Canada's top tax collector had the citizens of Ottawa up in arms on Friday morning when he announced a plan to force them to file their taxes electronically if they wanted a refund before Christmas.washingtonpost.com/ ... 12:07:46NEW GOOGLE GULP: "Think a DNA scanner embedded in the lip of your bottle reading all 3 gigabytes of your base pair genetic data in a fraction of a second, fine-tuning your individual hormonal cocktail in real time using our patented Auto-Drink technology, and slamming a truckload of electrolytic neurotransmitter smart-drug stimulants past the blood-brain barrier to achieve maximum optimization of your soon-to-be-grateful cerebral cortex. Plus, it's low in carbs!"... and other April Foolishness....
Currentguardian.co.uk/ ... 20:28:31John Paul II was slipping towards the close of his momentous 27-year papacy last night, his breathing shallow and his heart and kidneys close to failing.reuters.com/ ... 02:34:37Pope John Paul was in a "very grave" condition on Friday and appeared close to death after suffering heart failure... had received the "Holy Viaticum" -- a special communion that is offered for those near death....news.bbc.co.uk/ ... 02:30:14Vatican: "This morning, the Holy Father's health condition is very grave. Yesterday afternoon, 31 March, as has been already announced, following a urinary infection, a state of septic shock and cardio-circulatory collapse set in...."
US Militarynews.xinhuanet.com/ ... 11:58:25The bodies of nine people killed when a US military aircraft crashed in central Albania on Thursday night were recovered Friday
Only Naturalthescotsman.scotsman.com/ ... 23:37:49EARLY birds who cannot stay up late and are wide awake before dawn have a defective gene, scientists revealed yesterday.dsc.discovery.com/ ... 23:37:34Geologists and mathematicians have been teaming up to create specialized computer models that predict where fast-moving flashfloods of rock and cinder might go, long before they bury whole cities... already identifying safer zones where people can run if a searing "pyroclastic" flow or mudflow charges down a mountain....story.news.yahoo.com/ ... 23:36:41...an Australian expert warned... Indonesia... faced the prospect of a "super volcano" eruption that would dwarf all previous catastrophes.... the world's biggest super volcano was Lake Toba, on Indonesia's island of Sumatra, site of both the recent massive earthquakes... Toba last erupted 73,000 years ago in an event so massive that it altered the entire world's climate... super volcanos represent.. the greatest potential hazard on earth, "the only greater threat being an asteroid impact from space... A super volcano will definitely erupt... It could be in a few, 50 or another 1000 years but sooner or later one is going to go off."expressnewsline.com/ ... 02:31:32The U.N.'s World Health Organization announced the rising death toll from the deadly Marburg disease, which comes from the same family as the Ebola virus, in Rome Thursday. The agency said 132 cases were so far recorded in Uige Province, in northern Angola. The previous highest death toll occurred in Congo between 1998 and 2000, when 123 people out of 149 cases died.news24.com/ ... 02:29:22A United Nations official said on Friday the latest estimates from a massive earthquake which struck north-western Indonesia earlier this week put the death toll as high as 1 300.
OKC Bombing -- still with usthescotsman.scotsman.com/ ... 20:28:18SPANISH police yesterday arrested 12 people in connection with last year’s Madrid train bombings. Six Moroccans, three Syrians, one Egyptian, one Palestinian and one Algerian were held in Madrid.abcnews.go.com/ ... 20:27:56Tipped they may have missed evidence a decade ago, FBI agents searched the former home of convicted Oklahoma City bombing conspirator Terry Nichols and found blasting caps and other explosive materials apparently related to the 1995 attack....
Aftermathky3.com/ ... 11:56:40The United States' pre-war intelligence on Iraq was dead wrong, according to the president's Commission on Weapons of Mass Destruction.... Missouri's senior U.S. senator... Bond.. a member of the Select Committee on Intelligence... notes that the commission cleared the Bush administration of manipulating the intelligence for political purposes... “The Clinton administration cut the intel budget by 20 percent. The Director of Intelligence got rid of spies -- human intelligence that we badly needed in the war against terror....”guardian.co.uk/ ... 02:33:48A presidential commission investigating the intelligence debacle that preceded the Iraq invasion reported yesterday that the damage done to US credibility would "take years to undo".... American intelligence was described by the report as being in chaos, often paralysed by the rivalry of 15 different spy agencies and affected by unchallenged assumptions about Baghdad's supposed weapons of mass destruction.... occasionally descends into farce, particularly over an Iraqi defector codenamed Curveball.. fabricated tales about mobile biological laboratories and their influence on US decision-makers...
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