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MON 2005-JAN-31
Digital Consequencesnews.bbc.co.uk/ ... 14:02:11The DVD disks and the gear to play them will not be out for another year or so, and there at are still a number of issues to be sorted out. But when high-definition films do come out on the new format DVDs, it will profoundly change home entertainment... High-definition DVDs can hold up to six times more data than the DVDs we are used to... "I have heard comments from people who say the images pop off the screen."...
History - still with usnews.bbc.co.uk/ ... 13:56:58Archaeologists believe they have found the remains of Bartholomew Gosnold.. a Suffolk man who established the first English-speaking colony in America in 1607.. was born in Grundisburgh, Suffolk. To confirm their suspicions, they proposed to make cross-checks with the DNA of Gosnold's sister or niece.
Preternatural Patternsreuters.com/ ... 14:29:32It was erected without his permission by telephone operator TPSA and when he built a home on his property in 2001 he had to build around the offending object, which is how the pole ended up in his kitchen.reuters.com/ ... 14:04:08Philippine.. President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo's husband handed out free dentures to improve the confidence and public image of.. police with bad teeth...business.timesonline.co.uk/ ... 13:47:03"the brand with the most global impact"
#1 - Apple
#2 - Google
#3 - Ikea
#4 - Stabucks
#5 - al-Jazeera
wireservice.wired.com/ ... 13:39:36'illarySen. Hillary Rodham Clinton collapsed Monday during a speech on Social Security, moments after complaining about a stomach virus. "She fainted after not feeling well, got medical attention and is proceeding with her planned schedule...." [Eliciting the sympathy vote?]
US Militaryworldtribune.com/ ... 17:44:04Britain and the United States have agreed on a withdrawal plan that would see the first troops leaving Iraq as early as 2005, according to British press reports and diplomatic sources.
SUN 2005-JAN-30
Whoops!nynewsday.com/ ... 18:22:36Stolen-ID nightmare finally ends... A man spent almost 8 weeks in an Osceola jail.dailybreeze.com/ ... 18:21:54A diver who drifted for hours after a boat crew left him at sea filed a $4 million suit today against the diving company and its employees, accusing them of negligence, inflicting emotional distress and fraud.... eventually rescued by a group of Boy Scouts who happened to be boating in the area and spotted him....
Digital Threatnypost.com/ ... 18:34:54FIFTEEN-year-old Molly was blackmailed by a rival who'd taken topless cell phone photos of her — and threatened to e-mail them to a boy she hated. Thirteen-year-old Robin was called a "bitch" and told to "go f- - - yourself" via instant messages from a classmate who — after altering the text so it looked like Robin had said those things — passed out hard copies to other kids. Twelve-year-old Trisha was the victim of an online hate campaign that began as a play-date activity conceived by her "mean girl" classmate — and lasted four years. Welcome to the brutal new world of "cyberbullying."159.54.226.83/ ... 18:19:53A pair of signs proclaiming that the American Nazi Party has adopted a road in rural Salem are gone. Marion County commissioners have not changed their stance on allowing the group to participate in a volunteer litter cleanup program, but the signs were vandalized this week and won’t be replaced unless Nazi party members pay to have the county install new ones.news.com.com/ ... 18:16:23Matthew Green starts his 2005 Ford Escape with a duplicate key he had made at Lowe's. Nothing unusual about that, except that the automobile industry has spent millions of dollars to keep him from being able to do it. Green, a graduate student at Johns Hopkins University, is part of a team that plans to announce Saturday that it has cracked the security behind "immobilizer" systems from Texas Instruments. The systems reduce car theft, because vehicles will not start unless the system recognizes a tiny chip in the authorized key. They are used in millions of Fords, Toyotas and Nissans. All that would be required to steal a car, the researchers said, is a moment next to the car owner to extract data from the key, less than an hour of computing, and a few minutes to break in, feed the key code to the car and hot-wire it.
Digital Consequencesreuters.com/ ... 22:03:45 the much-hyped "Year of the Internet Phone."... Internet-based business has a number of hurdles to clear before it becomes a mainstream technology.... poised to make inroads in the United States, thanks to growing numbers of high-speed Internet connections and companies pushing Internet phone services.... nypost.com/ ... 18:35:14Get ready for a cellphone for your pet.ap.tbo.com/ ... 13:49:52Among the handiest villains in science fiction are Computers That Know Too Much... "The Matrix" .. HAL .. But in reality, even the most super supercomputer lacks the reasoning capacity of a child engrossed in a Dr. Seuss book. .. Pentagon.. granted a contract worth at least $400,000 last fall to two Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute professors who are trying to build a machine that can learn by reading....
Preternatural Patternsap.tbo.com/ ... 13:48:20Firefighters across the country are arriving to fires later each year, with barely over a third of fire departments nationwide meeting national standards for response time
US Election 2004bloomberg.com/ ... 13:36:23Billionaire investor George Soros.. spent $26 million in last year's campaign that he said was undermined by the candidate he supported... "Kerry did not, actually, offer a credible and coherent alternative.. tried to emphasize his role as a Vietnam War hero and downplay his role as an anti-Vietnam War hero [????], which he was.. Had he admitted, owned up to it, I think actually the outcome could have been different..."
Transportbreakingnews.nypost.com/ ... 18:28:43..British C-130 military transport plane crashed Sunday north of Baghdad.. At least 10 troops were killed...bloomberg.com/ ... 13:29:56A British RAF C-130 transport plane crashed outside the Iraqi capital of Baghdad today... cause.. and the extent of the casualties.. are not yet known...
US Militaryap.tbo.com/ ... 22:05:16A grieving Marine joined hundreds of local residents on Sunday to pay tribute to 27 Hawaii-based servicemen who were killed last week in a helicopter crash in Iraq. Lance Cpl. Buck Gates left Iraq on Jan. 8, expecting his Marine buddies to finish their tours of duty soon and follow him home. But 26 members of his company were killed when their CH-53E Super Stallion went down in western Iraq while transporting troops for security operations in preparation for Sunday's elections. A Navy corpsman stationed in Hawaii also died. "I just want to tell the families I love these guys," Gates said. "They're a part of me."
Iraq Votesnypost.com/ ... 22:02:25BAGHDAD — The man replacing the mayor of Baghdad — who was assassinated for his pro-American loyalties — says he is not worried about his ties to Washington. In fact, he'd like to erect a monument to honor President Bush in the middle of the city. "We will build a statue for Bush," said Ali Fadel, the former provincial council chairman. "He is the symbol of freedom."nypost.com/ ... 18:37:15Spc. Jose Henriquez, a 17-year Army vet.. from The Bronx.. spent yesterday guarding Iraqi election officials as they brought ballots and candidate lists to polling stations in Baghdad. "In many ways, this is payback for my friend," Henriquez said of his buddy, firefighter Shawn Powell, who died at the Twin Towers.csmonitor.com/ ... 18:04:45Iraqi voters turned a long-awaited day of reckoning into a collective sigh of relief after voting in an environment of de facto martial law. With private vehicles banned to prevent car bombs, Iraqis took over the streets of Baghdad, playing soccer and going for walks - even those in wheelchairs were pushed along - as threats of catastrophic attacks failed to materialize. "Why should I be afraid?" asked Arifa Abed Mohamed, an elderly woman in a black abaya, who was first to vote at dawn on one Baghdad polling station. "I am afraid only from God."ap.tbo.com/ ... 13:55:20"The irony is the Arab regimes, who criticize the gaps in the (Iraqi) elections and demand they be honest and transparent leading to full democracy for all Iraqis, are themselves banning such elections for their own peoples," Lebanon's Al-Anwar newspaper political analyst Rafik Khoury...
"As you can see, we broke a barrier of fear," electoral commission official Mijm Towirish...
"Iraqis are walking over body parts of a bomber to vote..."
"It is hard to say that something is legitimate when whole portions of the country can't vote and doesn't vote," Sen. John "LOOOOSER" Kerry, D-Mass.
"This is democracy. This is the first day I feel freedom," Fathiya Mohammed, an elderly woman who voted in the small town of Askan south of Baghdad.
ap.tbo.com/ ... 13:47:08...some streets were packed with voters walking shoulder-to-shoulder to vote at five polling stations where photographers were allowed. One elderly woman sat on a wooden cart, wheeled to the polls by a relative; another man carried a disabled 80-year-old on his back.... reuters.com/ ... 13:44:00Voters, some ululating with joy, others hiding their faces in fear, cast ballots in higher-than-expected numbers in Iraq's first multi-party election in half a century. Samir Hassan, 32, who lost his leg in a car bomb blast last year, said as he waited to vote in Baghdad: "I would have crawled here if I had to. I don't want terrorists to kill other Iraqis like they tried to kill me.".. possibly eight million had voted, which would be a little over 60 percent of registered voters....reuters.myway.com/ ... 13:33:53Some came on crutches, others walked for miles then struggled to read the ballot, but across Iraq, millions turned out to vote Sunday, defying insurgents who threatened a bloodbath.story.news.yahoo.com/ ... 13:33:13President Bush called Sunday's elections in Iraq a success and promised the United States will continue trying to prepare Iraqis to secure their own country....
Insurgents struck polling stations with a string of suicide bombings and mortar volleys, killing at least 44 people, including nine suicide bombers.... officials said turnout among the 14 million eligible voters appeared higher than the 57 percent they had predicted. Complete voting results are not expected for days.....
"The best way to demonstrate to the Iraqi people that we have no long-term designs on their country is for the administration to withdraw some troops now" Sen. Edward M. "Chappaquiddick Ted" Kennedy D-Mass
Aftermathsfgate.com/ ... 18:11:45Taking a poll in some places can be dangerous. "In Iraqi society, they're not used to seeing people knocking on doors asking people what they think about politics and the government," said the former professor of business administration in Baghdad. "That's why many of my employees have been jailed and beaten."news.bbc.co.uk/ ... 13:42:19Interview with guard from Serbian torture camp
SAT 2005-JAN-29
Whoops!thestate.com/ ... 15:25:28A Rock Hill SC police officer received a verbal warning and was required to attend a Taser retraining course after using a stun gun on an elderly woman... investigation found.. Officer.. acted prematurely when she used a Taser on [woman] 75.. at.. retirement home... should have used the "empty-hand technique" - grabbing the suspect's arms or wrists - as the restraint method before using the 50,000-volt Taser.
Transportap.tbo.com/ ... 14:59:23Detailed accounts from the LA train wreck
Sex can be Dangerouslivescience.com/ ... 15:32:16[no duh!]
Sex in High School Involves Long Chains of Relations... A study of sexual and romantic relations at a high school found students connected by long chains, rather than in a tight network with a core group of a promiscuous few. In the most striking chain, 52 percent of the romantically involved students were connected in a manner of student A having relations with B, and B having relations with C, and so on down the line over the 18 months of the study. Students couldn't possibly know of all the connections, the scientists conclude. "Many of the students only had one partner," Moody said. "They certainly weren’t being promiscuous. But they couldn’t see all the way down the chain."... The research reveals a semantically complex rule that seems to guide adolescent sexual conduct. Here goes: A girl is loath to date her old boyfriend's new girlfriend's old boyfriend. Adults don't generally adhere to any similar rule, so core populations of sexually active adults tend to be prime spreaders of disease. But with adolescents, the study suggests, "there aren’t any hubs to target, so you have to focus on broad-based interventions," Moody said.

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

The unexpected result could help shape strategies for combating sexually transmitted diseases among young people.
foxnews.com/ ... 03:37:55 the rates of early death and disability attributed to sexual behavior in the U.S. are triple those of any other industrialized country, and women bear the brunt of this public health burden. The study showed that sexual behavior accounted for nearly 30,000 deaths and around 20 million adverse health consequences in 1998, such as infertility, abortions, and sexually transmitted infections.
Rebuildingapnews.myway.com/ ... 18:34:47Iraqi officials have predicted that up to eight million of 14 million voters will turn out for Sunday's electionarabnews.com/ ... 03:36:23Are the insurgents and their terrorist allies in the Sunni Triangle doing Iraq a favor without knowing it? The question is not fanciful. The violence unleashed by the insurgency has concentrated most minds on a single issue: Security. It has brought together communities and political parties that would otherwise be fighting one another over faith, ideology, and economic interest.
FRI 2005-JAN-28
1960s - less with usap.tbo.com/ ... 21:47:22Jim Capaldi, the legendary drummer of 1960s rock group Traffic, died Friday... He was 60.... stomach cancer... formed the psychedelic rock group with fellow musician Steve Winwood.
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Lucien Carr, a journalist and a member of the inner circle of literature's Beat Generation, died Friday. He was 79.
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Dr. Brandt F. Steele, a psychiatrist who helped pioneer the treatment of abused children and coined the term "battered child," died Jan. 19. He was 97. ...a 1962 paper.. pronounced one of the 20th century's 50 most important medical contributions by The Journal of the American Medical Association.
US Election 2004humaneventsonline.com/ ... 21:40:01...a billboard blitz "thanking" Hollywood for the reelection of President Bush will be unveiled early next week. The advertisements feature the faces of liberal Hollywood icons Michael Moore, Whoopi Goldberg, Ben Affleck, Martin Sheen, Chevy Chase, Barbara Streisand, and Sean Penn, and offer thanks to Hollywood their help getting President Bush reelected....
US Executive Branchap.tbo.com/ ... 13:19:51Bush: "Well, I quit drinking in '86. ... It's just really hard to project back into somebody else's shoes. So, no, I guess I don't see ghosts."
Whoops!ap.tbo.com/ ... 21:43:25Two computer disks that supposedly disappeared last summer, prompting a virtual shutdown of the Los Alamos National Laboratory, in fact never existed, according to report released Friday.reuters.com/ ... 12:55:41...Other leaders at the event in Poland on Thursday marking the 60th anniversary of the death camp's liberation, such as French President Jacques Chirac and Russian President Vladimir Putin, wore dark, formal overcoats and dress shoes or boots. Robin Givhan, The Washington Post's fashion writer: "The vice president, however, was dressed in the kind of attire one typically wears to operate a snow blower... looked like an awkward boy amid the well-dressed adults...."
Transportsfgate.com/ ... 12:50:19The capital murder charges filed Thursday against a driver accused of causing a fatal Los Angeles-area train wreck are a rare and perhaps unprecedented use of a century-old California law... "special circumstances''.. that make a crime eligible for the death penalty... charges appear to be legally sound but may be difficult to prove, and raise questions about the prosecutor's priorities... "In my view, capital cases should be reserved for the intentional (killing),'' said Rory Little, a professor at UC Hastings College of the Law in San Francisco and a former federal prosecutor. "It doesn't sound like this guy had any purpose to kill anybody else.''...
Sex can be Dangerousnews.bbc.co.uk/ ... 03:30:42A devout Baptist couple who bought a Doris Day DVD from a supermarket were shocked to find a sex film instead. .. "My wife and I were very shocked but we watched it until the end because we couldn't believe what we were seeing. The film became progressively more graphic, there was no plot to it, it was just sex."
Preternatural Patternscnnmoney.printthis.clickability.com/ ... 21:38:49Legendary investor Warren Buffett had nothing but praise Friday for Procter & Gamble Co.'s $57 billion deal to buy Gillette, which helped him make about $645 million -- in one day.news.bbc.co.uk/ ... 03:29:44A Malaysian postman.. hoarded more than 21,000 pieces of mail in his house... told reporters his salary of $150 a month was not enough to make it worth his while delivering the mail....
US Military Casualtiesdefenselink.mil/ ... 17:41:59[flag]Marine Cpl. Stephen P. Johnson, 24, of Covina, Calif.
[flag]Marine Lance Cpl. Fred L. Maciel, 20, of Spring, Texas

[flag]Marine Staff Sgt. Brian D. Bland, 26, of Weston, Wyo.
[flag]Marine Sgt. Michael W. Finke Jr., 28, of Huron, Ohio
[flag]Marine 1st Lt. Travis J. Fuller, 26, of Granville, Mass.
[flag]Marine Cpl. Timothy M. Gibson, 23, of Hillsborough, N.H.
[flag]Marine Cpl. Richard A. Gilbert Jr., 26, of Montgomery, Ohio
[flag]Marine Cpl. Kyle J. Grimes, 21, of Northampton, Pa.
[flag]Marine Lance Cpl. Tony L. Hernandez, 22, of Canyon Lake, Texas
[flag]Marine Cpl. Nathaniel K. Moore, 22, of Champaign, Ill.
[flag]Marine Lance Cpl. Gael Saintvil, 24, of Orange, Fla.
[flag]Marine Cpl. Nathan A. Schubert, 22, of Cherokee, Iowa
[flag]Marine Lance Cpl. Michael L. Starr Jr., 21, of Baltimore, Md.

[flag]Marine Capt. Paul C. Alaniz, 32, of Corpus Christi, Texas
[flag]Marine Lance Cpl. Jonathan E. Etterling, 22, of Wheelersburg, Ohio
[flag]Marine Capt. Lyle L. Gordon, 30, of Midlothian, Texas
[flag]Marine Lance Cpl. Brian C. Hopper, 21, of Wynne, Ark.
[flag]Marine Lance Cpl. Saeed Jafarkhani-Torshizi Jr., 24, of Fort Worth, Texas
[flag]Marine Cpl. Sean P. Kelly, 23, of Gloucester, N.J.
[flag]Marine Staff Sgt. Dexter S. Kimble, 30, of Houston, Texas
[flag]Marine Lance Cpl. Allan Klein, 34, of Clinton Township, Mich.
[flag]Marine Cpl. James L. Moore, 24, of Roseburg, Ore.
[flag]Marine Lance Cpl. Mourad Ragimov, 20, of San Diego, Calif.
[flag]Marine Lance Cpl. Rhonald D. Rairdan, 20, of San Antonio, Texas
[flag]Marine Lance Cpl. Hector Ramos, 20, of Aurora, Ill.
[flag]Marine Lance Cpl. Darrell J. Schumann, 25, of Hampton, Va.
[flag]Marine 1stLt. Dustin M. Shumney, 30, of Vallejo, Calif
[flag]Marine Cpl. Matthew R. Smith, 24, of West Valley, Utah
[flag]Marine Lance Cpl. Joseph B. Spence, 24, of Scotts Valley, Calif

[flag]Navy Petty Officer 3rd Class John D. House, 28, of Ventura, Calif.
all died Jan. 26, in a helicopter crash near Ar Rutbah, Iraq.defenselink.mil/ ... 17:42:35[flag]Army Spc. Taylor J. Burk, 21, of Amarillo, Texas, died Jan. 26 in Baghdad, Iraq, when an improvised explosive device struck his vehicle.defenselink.mil/ ... 17:42:18[flag]Army Pfc. Kevin M. Luna, 26, of Oxnard, Calif., died Jan. 27 in Muqdadiyah, Iraq, from non-combat related injuries.defenselink.mil/ ... 17:41:16[flag]Army Staff Sgt. Jose C. Rangel, 43, of Fresno, Calif., died Jan. 23 in Camp Arifjan, Kuwait, of non-combat related injuries.
US Militarydefenselink.mil/ ... 17:48:14The Department of Defense announced today that the team led by Lockheed Martin Systems Integration, Owego, N.Y., has been selected to build the new presidential helicopter (VXX) based on its U.S. 101 medium lift helicopter.... The fleet of helicopters that currently supports the presidential mission includes 30-year old aircraft that were designed in the 1960’s, fielded in the 1970’s and no longer has the growth capability to incorporate the equipment necessary to provide suitable presidential support in the post 9-11 environment. “The president needs a more survivable helicopter while the nation engages in the Global War on Terrorism, and we are committed to providing it as soon as possible.” [Images come to mind: Dubya in his flight suit, in the cockpit of the new Presidential Attack Helicopter, leading the charge in a battle against terrorism. "I am your commando-in-chief....!]olympics.reuters.com/ ... 12:49:13A U.S. Kiowa observation helicopter crashed in southwest Baghdad on Friday, and there was no immediate information on casualties
Freedomnews.bbc.co.uk/ ... 21:43:16In pictures: Iraqi election views-- "I am very happy with the elections. Of course I am voting and I am voting for Allawi. He is our man. He is a strong man that the Iraqis need. All this violence will end when a strong Iraqi government is elected." ... [and more]reuters.com/ ... 13:02:47Jubilant Iraqi exiles cast their ballots in a "vote for freedom" on Friday and urged their compatriots in Iraq to defy insurgents and do the same. In Australia, Iraqis danced in the streets, twirling scarves and singing, and proudly displaying blue ink on their fingers which told the world they had cast the first votes. "This is a mark of freedom.... I didn't think I would live long enough to see this moment."... "I have been dreaming of this day to tell my grandchildren that in the first election in the history of Iraq I was the first woman to vote...." "It's a great day. I know it's an imperfect election but still we need to go ahead..." "People should not be afraid to vote," said Nassima Barzani, 68, proudly clutching an Iraqi flag as she voted in Sydney... In Iran, the largest center for registered Iraqi voters aboard with about 61,000, queues formed outside a Tehran polling station. Many were women in traditional black chadors.... In London.. People applauded as each ballot was cast... "I am voting out of loyalty for my fellow countrymen, for our great Iraq, for those buried in mass graves and for our martyrs," a weeping Adel Mijbil Qawqaz said at a polling station in the United Arab Emirates... In.. snow-covered Stockholm suburb.. Iraqis queued before dawn to vote amid tight security... "This is the first time we can vote with any freedom. I could almost cry,"... Outside the station, youths waved Iraqi flags to the beat of a hand-held drum and traditional high-pitched ululating.... In Cairo, even though Egypt was not included in the IOM program. Organizers planned to send the ballots to Iraq anyway, hoping they would count. "Even if they are not counted at least we took part in the joy of having this election today...."
Rebuildingnews.bbc.co.uk/ ... 16:46:32The map, people and politics, of post-Saddam Iraqap.tbo.com/ ... 03:34:38Sunday's vote has been painted as Iraq's introduction to democracy, but elections were held under British control, too. Some older Iraqis may have even participated in the 1954 elections, considered relatively free by some historians. But the majority of Iraq's old parliamentary elections would not pass today's Western standards, and regardless of how fair the polls were, there was no hope for a true representative democracy in a country controlled by Britain.
Violencenews.bbc.co.uk/ ... 21:40:34Coalition troops and Iraqi security forces may be responsible for up to 60% of conflict-related civilian deaths in Iraq - far more than are killed by insurgents, confidential records obtained by the BBC's Panorama programme reveal.ap.tbo.com/ ... 13:18:23A Sudanese air force bombardment of villagers in Darfur this week killed or wounded almost 100 people, a U.N. spokeswoman said Friday, calling the bombing a major violation of a fragile ceasefire in the conflict-torn region.nytimes.com/ ... 12:52:04Five American soldiers were killed in Baghdad in three separate incidents today... violence also took the lives of four Iraqi policemen and a minibus driver.... Four soldiers were the victims of roadside bombs.. Another soldier died in small-arms fire... The Iraqis died this morning when a suicide car bomber attacked a police checkpoint...voanews.com/ ... 12:48:49Iraqi officials say they have arrested three top aides to Abu Musab al-Zarqawi... Zarqawi's military advisor, his Baghdad commander and another close aide... In Baghdad Friday, insurgents killed five American soldiers in three separate attacks. Four Iraqis were also killed in a car bomb attack in southern Baghdad....reuters.com/ ... 03:32:12Iraq clamped tough security measures across the country on Friday, sealing land borders and curbing travel to foil insurgents bent on wrecking Sunday's election, but a car bomb killed four people in Baghdad.news.bbc.co.uk/ ... 03:28:53Mr Kashkarian's bid was a copycat act, police say.

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

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

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

Police say he told them he had planned to commit suicide by being hit by a train.
THU 2005-JAN-27
Digital Consequencesreuters.com/ ... 19:25:48Porn star Jenna Jameson is now hawking her "moan tones."
1960s - less with usap.tbo.com/ ... 19:24:46Nick McDonald, a former policeman who arrested Lee Harvey Oswald at a Dallas movie theater after President Kennedy was assassinated in 1963, died Thursday. He was 76.
Sex can be Dangerousnews.telegraph.co.uk/ ... 23:41:42A disease that has devastated the Tasmanian devil population is probably being spread by the animal's boisterous sex lifereuters.com/ ... 19:26:12A bus driver shuttling pupils to school in northern Greece shocked their parents when he put on a porn tapereuters.com/ ... 19:26:01A mystery chemical isolated from the sweat of young women seems to act as a romance booster for their older counterparts.news.yahoo.com/ ... 19:22:03butt butt...
Lasting Contributionsap.tbo.com/ ... 04:51:14A 17-year-old girl who was honored by Gov. Jeb Bush when she fulfilled her dream by graduating high school despite a long, painful battle with brain cancer has died
Transportreuters.com/ ... 19:23:31In what they described as a similar incident, police said they had arrested another 25 year-old man who parked his car at dawn on Thursday diagonally across rail tracks in Irvine, 30 miles south of Los Angeles, with the intention of killing himself.reuters.myway.com/ ... 04:46:29The man was found wandering the scene after the accident, muttering: "I'm sorry, I'm sorry." Police said the man, who was not injured, was in custody and would be charged with murder.nydailynews.com/ ... 04:45:26Eleven people died and nearly 200 others were injured in a fiery train wreck yesterday after a suicidal man left his Jeep on the tracks, triggering a chain-reaction crash that demolished two commuter trains.... "We know he is responsible by his own admission and a couple of independent witnesses saw him fleeing the vehicle right before the crash. . . . He was suicidal, but apparently changed his mind...."
US Militaryap.tbo.com/ ... 19:24:20He was born in Vietnam and came to America at age 6. After growing up in northern Virginia, he joined the Marines even though he was not a U.S. citizen.
Cpl. Binh Le became an American on Thursday, but he could not attend the citizenship ceremony held in the shadow of the Pentagon. Last month, he was buried nearby in Arlington National Cemetery, the victim of a truck bomb in Iraq during a voluntary second tour of duty there.
apnews.myway.com/ ... 19:21:05The American military's continued presence in Iraq is fanning the flames of conflict, and signals the need for a new detailed timeline to bring the troops home, Sen. Edward M. Kennedy said Thursday.defenselink.mil/ ... 19:12:27This week, the Army announced an increase, while the Air Force, Navy and Marine Corps had a decrease in the number of reservists on active duty in support of the partial mobilization. The Coast Guard number remained the same. The net collective result is 951 more reservists mobilized than last week.ap.tbo.com/ ... 04:54:37All but three of the 30 Marines and one sailor killed when a helicopter crashed Wednesday in a desert sandstorm had been deployed from the Marine Corps base at Kaneohe Bay
US Military Casualtiesdefenselink.mil/ ... 23:47:11[flag]Marine Sgt. Jesse W. Strong, 24, of Irasburg, Vt., died Jan. 26 as a result of hostile action in Al Anbar Province, Iraq. defenselink.mil/ ... 23:46:18[flag]Marine Cpl. Jonathan W. Bowling, 23, of Patrick, Va.
[flag]Marine Lance Cpl. Karl R. Linn, 20, of Chesterfield, Va.
died Jan. 26 of wounds received as result of enemy action in Al Anbar Province, Iraq
[flag]Marine Cpl. Christopher L. Weaver, 24, of Fredericksburg, Va. died Jan. 26 as a result of hostile action in Al Anbar Province, Iraq.
defenselink.mil/ ... 23:44:28[flag]Army Sgt. William S. Kinzer Jr., 27, of Hendersonville, N.C., died Jan. 26 in Ad Duluiyah, Iraq, from injuries sustained when a rocket propelled grenade hit his patrol. defenselink.mil/ ... 19:12:50[flag]Army Sgt. Brett D. Swank, of Northumberland, Pa., died Jan. 24 in Baghdad, Iraq, from injuries sustained when an improvised explosive device detonated near his position.ap.tbo.com/ ... 04:53:52 Pvt. Odell Sharpe, killed during World War II, is finally coming home. The remains of Sharpe - presumed slain on Christmas Day 1944 when he was only 19 - were recently identified from a skeleton found in a foxhole near the Belgian-German border. Now his family is preparing for something long overdue: a funeral.
Rebuildingap.tbo.com/ ... 04:52:09Kurds Campaigning for Iraq Elections Go Into High Speed
Under Tyrannynews.bbc.co.uk/ ... 04:49:32The blurring of boundaries between TV and the internet raises questions of regulation, watchdog Ofcom has said. Content on TV and the internet is set to move closer this year as TV-quality video online becomes a norm.
Violenceboston.com/ ... 19:23:01British troops laughed and joked as they made two Iraqi men simulate sex acts after detaining them for looting, a soldier testified Thursday at the court-martial of three comrades accused of mistreating civilians.mirror.co.uk/ ... 19:22:48A BRITISH captive freed from Guantanamo Bay today tells the world of its full horror - and reveals how prostitutes were taken into the camp to degrade Muslim inmates.news.yahoo.com/ ... 19:22:21 Female interrogators tried to break Muslim detainees at the U.S. prison camp in Guantanamo Bay by sexual touching, wearing a miniskirt and thong underwear and in one case smearing a Saudi man's face with fake menstrual blood, according to an insider's written account.news.xinhuanet.com/ ... 19:14:48A car bomb hit an Iraqi army patrol near a polling station in the restive city of Samarra on Thursday, killing seven Iraqis and wounding five othersbloomberg.com/ ... 19:13:36A U.S. Marine and an Iraqi soldier were killed and 12 people wounded in attacks today in Iraq, the U.S. military said. The Associated Press said nine more Iraqis also were killed in violence nationwide.ap.tbo.com/ ... 04:52:29Six Iraqis and one U.S. Marine were killed Thursday as insurgents clashed with U.S. troops and blew up a school slated to serve as a polling centerreuters.com/ ... 04:50:22BAQUBA, Iraq -- A suicide car bomb aimed at Iraqi security forces in the town of Baquba on Thursday killed at least one policeman and wounded six people... On Wednesday, gunmen attacked the offices of three political parties in the town, killing a policeman....news.bbc.co.uk/ ... 04:47:41An Afghan soldier has shot dead five of his fellow troops at a coalition base in southern Helmand province... Six others were wounded before he was shot and killed. The reason for the incident is unclear.....
WED 2005-JAN-26
Transportfoxnews.com/ ... 12:31:52GLENDALE, Calif. — At least nine people were killed in a pre-rush hour, multi-train collision blamed on a vehicle parked on railroad tracks... Officials... believed the driver was in custody.... sheriff Lee Baca said. "The people riding these trains deserve better," he said angrily, speculating the person who left the car on the tracks knew the trains were coming....
Preternatural Patternsindystar.com/ ... 11:44:05The Internet has transformed drunk shamings into a public spectacle. On CollegeHumor .com and Shamings .com, two Web sites owned by an enterprising band of recent college grads, there are hundreds of pictures of guys half-naked with epithets scrawled across their chests.... The group shaming ritual is "really a social construction of dominance hierarchies," says ...a sociologist... "It's like a payback for being an idiot," says [a] founder of Shamings.com....iol.co.za/ ... 11:40:21Jerusalem - Fans of literary boy wizard Harry Potter have been beating a path to the tomb of a 19-year-old British soldier who is buried in a cemetery close to Tel Aviv... Corporal Harry Potter, a member of the Royal Worcestershire regiment, was killed 66 years ago during fighting in the southern West Bank town of Hebron and was subsequently laid to rest in a cemetery in the town of Ramle....
Whoops!timesonline.co.uk/ ... 11:39:17A SCHOOLBOY with a fascination for Poland and wildlife has uncovered several significant errors in the latest — the fifteenth — edition of the Encyclopaedia Britannica.apnews.myway.com/ ... 11:34:39Boy Scout volunteer Tom Willis knew something was wrong when he saw that 20 youngsters on the list for a scouting program all had the same last name: Doe.
WW1 - less with usreuters.com/ ... 04:19:01 Italy lost its last veteran from World War One this week when Carlo Orelli, popularly known as "the last infantryman," died at the age of 110, the government said Tuesday.
US Militaryreuters.myway.com/ ... 11:11:5431 Marines died when their transport helicopter went down in the deserts of the restive Anbar province of western Iraq....
Five marines died in insurgent attacks Wednesday....
itv.com/ ... 04:16:44A search and rescue operation is under way in Iraq after a US Marine transport helicopter crashed in the west of the country. The US military said the crash happened shortly after midnight in the western desert close to the Jordanian border. No more details were released.
Violenceusatoday.com/ ... 11:33:50His head and hands were wrapped in bandages and his uncovered face looked like bubbled tar. The young Saudi man told investigators this month that he wants revenge against the Iraqi terrorist network that sent him on the deadly mission that he survived. Ahmed Abdullah al-Shaya, 18, told Iraqi investigators during an interrogation early this month that he was recruited to drive a car rigged with explosives to Baghdad and blow it up. He said the objective was “to kill the Americans, policemen, national guards and the American collaborators.” But Shaya said he was injured even before he went on the mission when insurgents detonated a truck bomb he was supposed to leave at a target site.... Shaya told the interrogators that he regretted his mission now. “I want the Iraqi people to live in peace,” he says, and he can no longer support Osama bin Laden because “he is killing Muslims.”reuters.com/ ... 11:14:41Five marines... died in insurgent attacks Wednesday....
Guerrillas also killed 10 Iraqis in a string of bombings and raids Wednesday....
reuters.com/ ... 04:17:39A car bomb exploded on the road to Baghdad's international airport on Wednesday, apparently targeting a U.S. convoy, Iraqi police said. There was no immediate information on any casualties. The U.S. military said it did not yet have details of the blast.news.bbc.co.uk/ ... 04:17:23Pakistan has handed over to the United States a key suspect in the bombings of two US embassies in East Africa in 1998, Pakistani officials say. Tanzanian Ahmed Khalfan Ghailani, an alleged al-Qaeda militant who had a $5m American bounty on his head, was arrested last July.suntimes.com/ ... 04:16:22An al-Qaida lieutenant... Sami Mohammed Ali Said al-Jaaf, also known as Abu Omar al-Kurdi,... in custody in Iraq has confessed to masterminding most of the car bombings in Baghdad, including the bloody 2003 assault on the U.N. headquarters in the capital, authorities said Monday.
Aftermathsuntimes.com/ ... 04:15:32Twenty-three terror suspects tried to hang or strangle themselves during a weeklong protest orchestrated in 2003 to disrupt operations and unnerve new guards at the U.S. military camp at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, the U.S. military said Monday.
TUE 2005-JAN-25
Digital Consequencesnewsfactor.com/ ... 19:21:28Does Google Need a Browser?ecommercetimes.com/ ... 19:20:54Rumors that Google is actively developing its own browser -- talk that Google downplayed last fall -- have gained new life as the leading search engine hired the engineer most responsible for development of the Firefox browser.
WW2 - still with usisraelnationalnews.com/ ... 13:01:21Last night featured the first Holocaust memorial ceremony ever held in the United Nations, marking the 60th anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz death camp... Though close to 150 out of 191 member nations agreed that the UN should hold the commemoration, the hall was only half-full during the ceremony.... Jordan's U.N. ambassador, Prince Zeid Ra'ad al-Hussein, the only Arab speaker, took advantage of the opportunity to knock Israel....
Speaking about the soldiers who arrived to liberate the Auschwitz death camp in early 1945, Minister Shalom said that "nothing could have prepared them for what they would witness there." He quoted one of the soldiers who wrote, "As I walked through the barracks, I heard a voice, and I turned around and I saw a living skeleton talk to me. He said, 'Thank G-d you've come.' ... Did you ever talk to a skeleton that talked back? That's what I was doing."....
UN Secretary-General Kofi Anan opened the session by saying, "The evil which murdered 6,000,000 Jews in the death camps still threatens us today." He also pointed out the "terrible things" occurring in Sudan, but said that the "tragedy of the Jewish people was unique. Two thirds of all Europe's Jews, including one and a half million children, were murdered. An entire civilization, which had contributed far beyond its numbers to the cultural and intellectual riches of Europe and the world, was uprooted, destroyed, laid waste."....
Whoops!ap.tbo.com/ ... 12:46:17One subway line serving tens of thousands of New Yorkers a day was knocked out of service and another severely limited, possibly for years, because of a trash fire that authorities said may have been set by a homeless person trying to stay warm... It will take "several millions of dollars and several years" to rebuild hundreds of relays, switches and circuits that track train signals and locations... the most serious damage to the subway's infrastructure since the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks... set in a shopping cart in or near the Chambers Street station in lower Manhattan... It ignited cables above the platform and spread to a room full of switching and signal equipment.... no suspect had been located.... [and likely never will be!]ap.tbo.com/ ... 12:44:31Jumpking Inc. is recalling about 1 million trampolines and nearly 300,000 trampoline enclosures... Welds on the trampoline frame can break, and the mounting brackets on the "FunRing" enclosures have sharp edges that can cut skin...
Lasting Contributionsmedaloffreedom.com/ ... 12:26:11Presidential Medal of Freedom Recipient Johnny Carsonen.wikipedia.org/ ... 12:25:47The Presidential Medal of Freedom is the highest civilian award in the United States. It is designed to recognize individuals who have made "an especially meritorious contribution to the security or national interests of the United States, or to world peace, or to cultural or other significant public or private endeavors."
Preternatural Patternsbroadcastingcable.com/ ... 19:23:38Ted Turner called Fox a propaganda tool of the Bush administration and indirectly compared Fox News Channel's popularity to Adolf Hitler's popular election to run Germany before World War II.

Fox spokesperson replies: "Ted is understandably bitter having lost his ratings, his network, and now his mind... We wish him well."
drudgereport.com/ ... 03:25:33[Sen.] Clinton, in a speech to about 1,000 abortion rights supporters at the state Capitol, firmly restated her support for Roe v. Wade. But then she offered warm words to opponents of abortion and said that faith and organized religion were the "primary" reasons teenagers abstained from sexual relations.
Justice?thesun.co.uk/ ... 12:47:53POLICE used a helicopter AND spotter plane to nail Sarah McCaffery in court . . . for eating an apple while driving. They also sent a patrol car along her route in an operation that has cost taxpayers £10,000. Officers from a force that cracks just a THIRD of its crimes swung into action after Sarah refused to accept a £30 on-the-spot fine.
US Militaryap.tbo.com/ ... 03:28:20President Bush is getting ready to ask Congress for an additional $80 billion for conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistanap.tbo.com/ ... 03:27:39A Bradley Fighting Vehicle rolled into a canal during a combat patrol north of Baghdad, killing five U.S. soldiers and wounding two others
US Military Casualtiesdefenselink.mil/ ... 19:24:20[flag]Army Sgt. Leonard W. Adams, 42, of Mooresville, N.C., died Jan. 24 in Camp Bucca, Iraq, of non-combat related injuries.defenselink.mil/ ... 19:24:04[flag]Army Staff Sgt. Jose C. Rangel, 43, of Saratoga, Calif., died Jan. 23 in Camp Arifjan, Kuwait, of non-combat related injuries. defenselink.mil/ ... 03:23:21[flag]Army Capt. Joe F. Lusk II, 25, of Reedley, Calif., died Jan. 21 in Camp Buehring, Kuwait, of non-combat related injuries. defenselink.mil/ ... 03:23:03[flag]Army 1st Lt. Nainoa K. Hoe, 27, of Hawaii, died Jan. 22 in Mosul, Iraq, of wounds received when he was attacked by enemy forces using small arms fire. defenselink.mil/ ... 03:22:32[flag]Army Sgt. Kyle W. Childress, 29, of Terre Haute, Ind., died Jan. 21 in Balad, Iraq, of wounds received in Ad Duluiyah, Iraq, when his unit was attacked by enemy forces using small arms fire.
Aftermathsg.news.yahoo.com/ ... 19:19:38Viktor Yushchenko: "Frankly, I can't get used to this face, and I don't think I ever will get used to it.. But, we are men and we don't make a big deal over our scars."...reuters.com/ ... 12:43:34In harrowing exchanges before a German court, the son of a Sept. 11 victim asked an FBI agent Tuesday to detail his mother's ordeal in the "hellish" minutes before her plane hit New York's World Trade Center. "Are you able to conclude it would be akin to torture, what happened to my mother?"... at the retrial of Mounir El Motassadeq, a Moroccan man accused of aiding and abetting the attacks that killed nearly 2,800 people on Sept. 11, 2001....news.bbc.co.uk/ ... 12:42:00Two of the British prisoners returning to the UK from Guantanamo Bay reportedly spent 18 months in solitary confinement. What impact does being locked up all day, away from any other human beings, have on an individual's mind?drudgereport.com/ ... 12:41:44THE four Britons still held in Guantanamo Bay are due to fly home today as their lawyers prepare to launch a record £30million compensation claim over their 'illegal' detention.foxnews.com/ ... 11:24:02A scholar and one of the brightest stars in the U.S. military, Petraeus is measured and careful about what he says. Petraeus sat to talk about America's exit strategy. He offered no cheerleading, just a dry dose of where we are in getting out of Iraq.news.bbc.co.uk/ ... 03:27:19Twenty-three prisoners tried to hang or strangle themselves during a mass protest at Guantanamo Bay in 2003, the US military has revealed.
MON 2005-JAN-24
WW2 - still with usap.tbo.com/ ... 20:11:10With calls of "never again," the U.N. General Assembly commemorated the 60th anniversary of the liberation of the Nazi death camps with a special session Monday, a stark change for a body that has been reluctant to address the extermination of the Jews during World War II.news.bbc.co.uk/ ... 19:45:17"I tell them my story to reduce the account of the death of six million to one individual, because six million does not mean anything to them...."
Whoops!seattletimes.nwsource.com/ ... 19:42:27The revelation last week that a laboratory slip-up led three Boston University scientists to become infected with tularemia, a flulike disease sometimes referred to as "rabbit fever," has fueled criticism of a plan to build a state-of-the-art research lab to study some of the world's most lethal germs in Boston's South End.
Justice?news.yahoo.com/ ... 20:01:38A trial opened Monday in a $3 million-plus lawsuit by 13 people who say they were injured or traumatized when federal agents seized a screaming Elian Gonzalez from his Miami relatives' home. The opening witness was neighbor Maria Riera, who testified that she clutched her chest and thought she was dying when an agent doused her with tear gas during the April 22, 2000, raid to reunite the 6-year-old boy with his father in Cuba. The 13 neighbors and protesters are seeking up to $250,000 each, claiming that agents used excessive force during the armed raid. A total of 108 people sued over the raid, but U.S. District Judge K. Michael Moore limited the case to people who were not on the Gonzalez family property and were beyond police barricades.
Freedomjournalnow.com/ ... 19:42:00Before a vast crowd of supporters holding orange balloons and doves, newly inaugurated President Viktor Yushchenko promised yesterday to steer a new course for Ukraine - away from corruption and political cronyism and into the European Union. "Ukraine will stand against all evil," Yushchenko told the crowd
Under Tyrannyreuters.com/ ... 20:06:34The U.S. Supreme Court ruled on Monday that police do not violate the constitutional right to privacy when a dog sniff of a vehicle during a lawful traffic stop turns up contraband. The justices by a 6-2 vote, in a majority opinion written by Justice John Paul Stevens, set aside an Illinois Supreme Court ruling that such searches required reasonable suspicion of wrongdoing.
SUN 2005-JAN-23
Watergate - a bit less with usap.tbo.com/ ... 22:13:48Rose Mary Woods, the devoted secretary to President Nixon who said she inadvertently erased part of a crucial Watergate tape that had an 18 1/2-minute gap, has died. She was 87.
Lasting Contributionsap.tbo.com/ ... 22:14:22Timeline of significant events in the life of the late Johnny Carsonforbes.com/ ... 22:10:58Johnny Carson: Legendary Late-Night U.S. TV Host Dies At 79... 30-year tenure.. more than 22,000 guests...
Mechanical Disasternews.bbc.co.uk/ ... 10:52:00At least 12 people were killed and 75 hurt when a hospital in the southern Iraqi city of Nasiriya caught fire....