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CARTOON CRISIS 2006
Editorial cartoon reactions to the controversial cartoons depicting Mohammed -- and related issues -- critiqued & rated
TUE 2006-FEB-28
Disturbing Family Patternsworldnetdaily.com/ ... 09:52:19The mother of a woman arrested in a suicide-bombing attempt told a Palestinian TV interviewer she was upset by her daughter's capture, but only because it meant the 21-year-old wouldn't be able to kill Israelis targeted for attack, including children... was on her way to bomb the outpatient clinic of Soroka Hospital in Beersheba, where she had been receiving regular treatments for serious burns to 45 percent of her body from a gas stove explosion in her home. She said her greatest wish was to kill 30 to 50 Israelis, including children... attack likely would have killed or maimed the Israeli doctor who saved her life...
Internet Threatworldnetdaily.com/ ... 09:19:27In February, a 14-year-old New Jersey girl was found dead in a dumpster after arranging a meeting with a stranger on MySpace....
A 15-year-old California girl was abducted in December and found murdered in January. Her MySpace page included personal contact information and lots of activity....
Hartford, Conn., officials are investigating eight sexual assault cases after teenage girls met men on MySpace....
In Lafayette, La., four teen girls were sexually assaulted by a local pervert who found them on MySpace....
In another Louisiana case, a predator lay in wait for a teen girl in the parking lot of her place of employment, which he had found on her profile page...
Modern Family Lifeazcentral.com/ ... 09:16:35SCOTTSDALE - His blood-alcohol level was so high that it had the effects that experts say is near surgical anesthesia... was passed out at his home... 5-year-old daughter called 911... found unconscious and bleeding... a 0.345 percent blood-alcohol content, police said. At .35 coma is possible... the only food in the house was peanut butter and bread... mother was on vacation in Hawaii...
Theftbreitbart.com/ ... 09:14:40Thieves stole $92 million in last week's heist at a security warehouse in southeastern England...
Violencenewsday.com/ ... 22:14:47DETROIT -- A second victim died Monday after a man opened fire during a Sunday church service... Alarie Davis, 54, had been shot in an arm and the chest while defending his wife during a carjacking attempt by the gunman several blocks from the church...
The shooting... killed a woman and wounded a girl sitting next to her... grew out of a domestic dispute... [he] went to the church looking for JW, 19, who a family member said had refused to marry him.... [They] had a 10-month-old daughter.... the girl's mother refused to tell him where to find her daughter... The mother... 37, was killed and a 9-year-old girl was hit in the hand by a buckshot pellet....
Rev. Curtis Grant... "The sanctity of our sanctuary has been disturbed.... We're just trying to get the families and children through this tragedy...." newsday.com/ ... 22:11:22Kidnappers have freed one of two Nepalese abducted earlier this month outside Kabul.... The second died of an illness in captivity, and his body was released... newsday.com/ ... 22:03:31The leader of al-Qaida in Saudi Arabia... Fahd Faraaj al-Juwair... and two men who helped attack the world's largest oil-processing complex were among five militants killed during police raids in the capital, authorities said Tuesday. The announcement was the first acknowledgment by Saudi authorities that some attackers had escaped after Friday's attack.... local6.com/ ... 09:47:11Fla... a Disney worker claimed she was gang-raped by four co-workers at a nearby apartment complex... news.bbc.co.uk/ ... 09:44:54Two British soldiers have been killed and another injured by a roadside bomb on the outskirts of Amara, in southern Iraq... news.bbc.co.uk/ ... 09:40:55At least 35 people have been killed and scores injured by four bomb blasts in Baghdad, a day after a curfew to stop escalating violence was lifted. In the bloodiest attack, 24 people were killed when a suicide bomber blew himself up next to a petrol station in a Shia district of the city. Several others died in two car bomb blasts, while five defence ministry staff were killed by a roadside bomb... wyff4.com/ ... 09:14:06ANDERSON, S.C. -- An Anderson man is dead... his common-law wife is charged with his murder... beat and strangled [victim] with vacuum cleaner accessories...
US Militarynewsday.com/ ... 22:10:52SMYRNA, Tenn. -- Fire broke out at a National Guard maintenance hangar Tuesday, injuring 12 Guardsmen, one of them seriously...
Animal Culturenewsday.com/ ... 22:07:30FelineLOS ANGELES -- A mountain lion that wandered into an Altadena neighborhood was tranquilized Monday and removed by authorities... foxnews.com/ ... 21:56:22ChimpApes are cultured. Fifty years of research on gorillas, chimpanzees and orangutans has shown they use tools, communicate and sometimes shake their hands just because it's cool...
US Military Casualtiesdefenselink.mil/ ... 19:05:23us-flagMarine Lance Cpl. Adam J. Vanalstine, 21, of Superior, Wis., died Feb. 25, from an improvised explosive device in Ar Ramadi, Iraq. defenselink.mil/ ... 19:01:37us-flagArmy Sgt. Jessie Davila, 29, of Greensburg, Kan., died in Baghdad, Iraq, on Feb. 20, when an improvised explosive device detonated near his vehicle. Davila was assigned to the Army National Guard. defenselink.mil/ ... 19:01:11us-flagArmy Staff Sgt. Curtis T. Howard II, 32, of Ann Arbor, Mich.
us-flagArmy Sgt. Gordon F. Misner II, 23, of Sparks, Nev.
us-flagArmy Spc. Thomas J. Wilwerth, 21, of Mastic, N.Y.
died near Balad, Iraq, on Feb. 22, when an improvised explosive device detonated near their Bradley Fighting Vehicle.
Culturemsnbc.msn.com/ ... 21:58:14The Boondocks, the black comic-strip family living in white suburbia, are going on vacation... Aaron McGruder... said Tuesday he would take about six months off beginning in March... rotten.com/ ... 19:00:04As the inventor of the lie detector, William Marston wielded massive influence over the development of American society, but that was nothing compared to the impact he made when he created the comic book character of Wonder Woman. If he was writing comic books today, Marston would be eaten alive by the morality police. A college professor, Marston was fascinated by sexual bondage and lived openly in a menage-a-trois with his wife and a young student... s8.invisionfree.com/ ... 18:59:17Wonder Woman bondage... the topic is bandied about on a discussion page...
Lasting Contributionsnewsday.com/ ... 22:10:15LOS ANGELES -- Edward G. Nalbandian, the owner of Zachary All clothing whose live TV ads made him a local celebrity... died Feb. 22 in a nursing home... from Alzheimer's.... He was 78... legendary rock satirist Frank Zappa... lampooned Nalbandian's commercials in a 1972 song, "Eddie, Are You Kidding?.." news.bbc.co.uk/ ... 09:43:44Actor Dennis Weaver, best known for his roles in US TV series Gunsmoke and McCloud, has died at the age of 81... After an early appearance in an episode of the classic TV series Dragnet, he landed the Gunsmoke role, playing the lame sidekick Chester Goode. Weaver played Goode with a pronounced limp and Western drawl for nearly 10 years, from 1955 to 1964, winning an Emmy in 1959... A vegetarian and activist for environmental and charitable causes, in 1989 Weaver moved to Colorado to construct his Earthship, a solar-powered home built primarily from recycled materials...
History - still with usnews.bbc.co.uk/ ... 09:42:00More than 100,000 people died when Mount Tambora erupted on the Indonesian island of Sumbawa in 1815. Remains of a house with two occupants buried under ash have been unearthed for the first time in a discovery hailed the "Pompeii of the East". Scientists say bronze bowls, ceramic pots and other recovered artefacts shed light on an ancient Indonesian culture...
World Without Bordersnewsday.com/ ... 22:04:33TREBILL BORDER CROSSING, Iraq -- In November, the customs office at this port of entry between Jordan and Iraq collected a little over $20,000 in tariffs and government fees. Two months later, it tallied 30 times that amount, U.S. and Iraqi officials say. The difference? The port director was jailed on charges of corruption and collaboration with insurgents, and he was replaced by a tough outsider who is winning praise from U.S. commanders... newsday.com/ ... 22:04:00Israel would have a hard time stopping Iran and other Muslim nations from sending large sums of money to a Hamas-led Palestinian government to make up for a threatened cutoff in Western aid...
Whoops!newsday.com/ ... 22:06:47A woman who slipped from her boyfriend's grasp and fell to her death from a 23rd-floor apartment had been sitting on a ledge trying to touch her feet to a window one story below, the boyfriend told police... "she slipped out of his hands and fell to her death..." fell through a skylight on a portico to the pavement in front of the building... [he] was distraught and drunk when authorities arrived... has been charged with homicide... apartment was strewn with empty beer cans and wine bottles... [yes, alcohol was involved....] newsday.com/ ... 22:00:27A woman pleaded guilty Monday to attempted murder charges for trying to hire a hit man to rob and kill four men for what she thought was cocaine, but turned out to be cheese... queso fresco -- a white, crumbly cheese common in Mexican cuisine... the hit man she hired turned out to be an undercover police officer...
Repeal! Repeal! Repeal!newsday.com/ ... 21:59:32Drug traffickers are increasingly using postal services for smuggling, the U.N. drug control agency said Wednesday, urging countries to improve efforts to screen packages...
But is it Art?cbsnews.com/ ... 21:57:20A 12-year-old visitor to the Detroit Institute of Arts stuck a wad of gum to a $1.5 million painting, leaving a stain the size of a quarter...
Rebuildingabcnews.go.com/ ... 18:58:35In an exclusive interview with ABC News' Elizabeth Vargas, President Bush offered his views on a range of topics... BUSH: I don't buy your premise that there's going to be a civil war...
Ummm....kcci.com/ ... 18:56:39An investigation concluded that a Des Moines woman faked her own death to avoid paying traffic tickets...
Transport Incidentlatimes.com/ ... 18:56:09The mystery deepened Monday in the case of the puzzling crash last week of a $1-million Ferrari Enzo on Pacific Coast Highway in Malibu... Sheriff's detectives... plan to interview an unnamed person who they believe was in the car with Swedish game machine entrepreneur Stefan Eriksson... a leading Scottish bank... has informed sheriff's investigators that it may own the destroyed car... Detectives have been trying for nearly a week to sort out what exactly happened...
Under Tyrannylatimes.com/ ... 18:57:28It takes barely an hour to drive from downtown Seoul to the other side of the demilitarized zone, but the culture shock is such that you might as well be commuting to the moon. Mobile telephones, newspapers, books, videos, laptops, magazines, MP3 players and many other appurtenances of 21st century life have to be checked on the south side of the border... today.reuters.com/ ... 09:54:26The Rolling Stones will likely follow the beat of China's censors when they offer mainland fans some long-awaited satisfaction with an April concert... The Chinese Ministry of Culture told the band in 2003 it could not perform four songs -- "Let's Spend the Night Together," "Brown Sugar," "Honky Tonk Women" and "Beast of Burden." No reasons were given... "This time, they also probably will not play those songs... They know there are differences between Chinese and Western cultures. They don't want to do anything against the Chinese government..."
Theory of Educationnewsday.com/ ... 22:02:13CHESTERTON, Ind. -- A massive middle school food fight left several students suspended and the eighth-grade class footing the cleaning bill that included the cost of scraping mashed potatoes off the ceiling... could cost the students as much as $1,000... As many as 50 students might have been involved... the whole class was punished because many of the grade's 500 students knew about plans for the food fight but failed to alert administrators... [Plus, this teaches them group-guilt, generalized responsibility, and other non-real ideas....] newsday.com/ ... 21:59:10PHILADELPHIA -- A 7-year-old girl brought cocaine to her second-grade classroom and passed it around... teacher called authorities after she discovered the drugs among her students... One child told her mother that she had eaten some of the powder, but was found to be OK when examined at a hospital... tennessean.com/ ... 09:53:21"Many years ago, penmanship had a high value placed on it.... Cursive is about to be a lost art in terms of beauty. Cursive is a beautiful expression form..."
Disinformation Propaganda & Spinreuters.myway.com/ ... 18:57:03North Korea said on Tuesday it made nuclear weapons with its own technology and cash, while accusing the United States of spreading far-fetched assertions Pyongyang counterfeited currency to help finance its atomic ambitions... newsbusters.org/ ... 09:45:48In its classic "fair and balanced" tradition, CBS slanted in favor of Democrats its poll that found Bush has a 34 percent approval rating and a 59 percent disapproval rating, an all-time high for a CBS poll. On the bottom of the PDF version of the poll (page 18) it says how many Democrats versus Republicans were contacted. "Total Republicans" contacted: 272 unweighted and 289 weighted. "Total Democrats" contacted: 409 unweighted and 381 weighted. "Total Independents" contacted: 337 unweighted and 348 weighted...
Theory of Justicenews.bbc.co.uk/ ... 09:41:23Prosecutors at the trial of former Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein have presented a memo allegedly showing his approval of the execution of 148 Shias. They said he signed to approve the killings after a failed attempt to assassinate him in Dujail in 1982...
MON 2006-FEB-27
Nature is Dangeroustoday.reuters.com/ ... 10:17:52LizardJOHANNESBURG... Pieter Abrahamse has an original excuse for a lost wedding ring: a crocodile ate it, along with the arm it was attached to... But he's counting his blessings...
Nature can be Deadlysun-sentinel.com/ ... 10:08:47a bacterium known as methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus, which in its most severe form can turn into a fatal flesh-destroying scourge... For decades, the infections were found only in hospitals, where the constant use of different antibiotics, including the potent methicillin, made it resistant to many of the most powerful antibiotics... In the last few years, it has emerged in gyms, jails, schools — and just about anywhere bacteria can grow. It has become a simmering problem that is largely unknown by the general population...
Threatstoday.reuters.com/ ... 10:20:39SAN DIEGO... A radical environmental activist has been indicted by a federal grand jury for demonstrating how to build a firebomb in a speech just 15 hours after a fire that his group claimed responsibility for destroyed a large apartment complex being built nearby... today.reuters.com/ ... 10:13:56Iraqi Interior Ministry forces have captured a senior aide to al Qaeda in Iraq leader Abu Musab al-Zarqawi... Abu Farouq... as captured with five others in the Sunni insurgent stronghold of Ramadi, west of the capital... U.S. military spokespeople were unaware of the capture... israelnationalnews.com/ ... 10:10:30Sheikh Ismail Nawahda, preaching to Moslem masses on the Temple Mount in Jerusalem on Friday, has brought it out into the open: the call to restore the Moslem Khalifate, or, "Genuine Islamic Rule..." which would "unite all the Moslems in the world against the infidels..." praised the worldwide protests against the anti-Muhammed cartoons, and encouraged the Moslem public to continue such activities. He implied that those who insulted Muhammed are liable for death... worldnetdaily.com/ ... 10:07:28Robert Pfriender, president of Allied International Development, says everyone is really missing the point on port security. "The real concern," he tells Joseph Farah's G2 Bulletin, "is that if a weapon of mass destruction arrives at one of mainland ports, it will be much too late for any possible security measure to have any effect." A 12-kiloton nuclear device (small by today's standards, and similar in size to that used on Japan) detonated at the Brooklyn Redhook Terminal would likely kill 2 million people or more as the radioactive fallout rains downwind on the completely unprotected citizens of Long Island, his company estimates... And that's why Allied International Development put together a comprehensive plan for Customs and Border Protection to develop three offshore cargo container security inspection ports to inspect each and every container prior to it being cleared for entry to the U.S. mainland. The ports would be located 25 miles offshore to mitigate the effects of a detonation and so any fallout (which is minimal over water) would not pass over land...
Yuck!phillyburbs.com/ ... 10:08:54The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency won't oppose the U.S. Department of Defense and DuPont Co.'s plan to dump a wastewater byproduct of a deadly nerve agent into the Delaware River. The agency said it's assured of a safe treatment for up to 4 million gallons of caustic wastewater created in the treatment for VX, a chemical weapon with a pinhead-size potency to kill a human. DuPont is treating VX for disposal at its Newport Chemical Depot in Indiana. The agent, once neutralized, would be shipped to DuPont's Chambers Works plant in Deepwater, N.J., for discharge into the river... news.bbc.co.uk/ ... 10:03:37Australia's "Jihad Jack", convicted of receiving funds from al-Qaeda, says Osama Bin Laden does not like being kissed but is happy to be hugged...
Violencenews.bbc.co.uk/ ... 10:04:59A bomb explosion in a marketplace in the western Nepalese town of Pokhara has injured at least 12 people... news.bbc.co.uk/ ... 10:04:14Two bombs have exploded in the southern Iranian cities of Dezful and Abadan... In both cities, the devices were planted in the governor's offices... No serious injuries... the latest in a series to hit the southern Khuzestan province, at the heart of Iran's oil industry... heraldsun.news.com.au/ ... 10:02:33FIVE men linked to an al-Qaida bid to blow up the world's biggest oil plant were shot dead in a standoff with police yesterday. The men were hiding in a house in a Riyadh suburb with a cache of explosives... battled police for an hour after being surrounded in the early morning... cbsnews.com/ ... 10:01:55A suspected gunman who opened fire with a shotgun during a church service Sunday morning killed a woman and wounded two people before he shot himself... to death... a mile away.... Investigators believe a domestic dispute led to the shooting... As the gunman fled the church, he critically shot a man trying to protect his wife from a carjacking attempt...
Theftnews.ft.com/ ... 09:11:28Police investigating the robbery of up to £50m from a security depot in Kent said they had arrested two men on Saturday...
World of Culturestoday.reuters.com/ ... 10:20:08Ten years ago, a stroll through central Tokyo could leave travelers wondering what country they were in as they watched a parade of tanned, fair-haired women walking tall in precarious platform shoes. Now fashion has moved on and hairdressers say bleached blonde tresses are going the way of fake tans, although a dark brown tint still seems more popular than natural black. The only fair-haired women to be seen on the covers of Japanese fashion magazines nowadays are foreign models...
History - still with usen.wikipedia.org/ ... 09:14:14Heliopolis... was one of the most ancient cities of Egypt, and capital of the 13th Lower Egyptian nome... boston.com/ ... 09:13:48Archaeologists discovered a pharaonic sun temple with large statues believed to be of King Ramses II under an outdoor marketplace in Cairo...
It's All in Your Mindanswers.com/ ... 09:13:25neural network also neural net n. A real or virtual device, modeled after the human brain, in which several interconnected elements process information simultaneously, adapting and learning from past patterns... ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/ ... 09:13:11Tomographic electroencephalography/magnetoencephalography. Dynamics of human neural network switching...
Animal Companionsboston.com/ ... 09:10:56FelineJoey had found a home with the McDowalls after he was dumped off at a nearby mailbox awhile back... McDowall, 87, said she was taking a nap when Joey woke her up early Friday afternoon and probably saved her life. "He was having a fit, running around the bedroom," she said. Then she saw smoke in the bedroom, got up and saw smoke coming from the basement. She and Joey got out safely... Later, the black cat was rolling and romping in the yard near smoldering mattresses that firefighters had dragged up from the basement while his owner stayed in the warmth of a vehicle... "He's a real good friend..."
Defending Ourselvesdeseretnews.com/ ... 10:12:15National Security Agency recruiters were at Brigham Young University this week, spreading the word that linguists are needed to staff a national-security center in Utah that will specialize in foreign-language translation... The recruiter invited students who specialize in Mandarin, Korean, Tagalog and Arabic to apply directly to the Utah office...
Marriage Todaynews.bbc.co.uk/ ... 10:11:47A Sudanese man has been forced to take a goat as his "wife", after he was caught having sex with the animal...
People are Bornnews.bbc.co.uk/ ... 10:05:59Being born very premature can affect a child's personality into adulthood... Premature babies, particularly girls, were found to be more likely to be anxious and withdrawn, and potentially at a higher risk of depression... had lower levels of a personality trait called 'extraversion', indicating that they may have less confident and outgoing personalities. They also had higher levels of the personality trait 'neuroticism', which indicates increased anxiety, lower mood and lower self-esteem. Girls' personalities were more likely to be affected by being born early... study did not look at why being born premature might affect personality...
Industrial Incidentnews.bbc.co.uk/ ... 10:04:47Several people have been hurt in an explosion at a major arms research facility in Israel... Early reports suggest it was caused by an accident. Medical sources said none of those injured was seriously hurt...
Digital Culturenews.com.com/ ... 10:02:51The U.S. Justice Department has denied requesting anything from Google that could threaten the privacy of the search engine's users, as the company recently contended...
Whoops!editorandpublisher.com/ ... 09:12:51new details that have emerged about President George W. Bush's bicycle accident in Scotland last July show that he, too, might have caused serious damage. The Scotsman, a leading newspaper in Scotland, reported Sunday that it had obtained a police report on the early July accident when the president crashed into a Scottish police constable while cycling in the grounds of Gleneagles Hotel during the G8 summit. At the time, the focus of U.S. press reports was on the president's injuries--a few abrasions--while noting that that the constable had suffered a "very minor" ankle injury... According to the newspaper, however, the police officer... ended up on crutches and was off work for more than three months... The road was damp at the time. As the President passed the junction at speed he raised his left arm from the handlebars to wave to the police officers present while shouting 'thanks, you guys, for comin.' "As he did this he lost control of the cycle, falling to the ground, causing both himself and his bicycle to strike [the officer] on the lower legs...
Supernaturalnews.bbc.co.uk/ ... 10:03:18A claim that Dan Brown's bestselling novel The Da Vinci Code copied the ideas of two other authors has gone before London's High Court. Michael Baigent and Richard Leigh say Mr Brown stole "the whole architecture" of research that went into their 1982 book The Holy Blood and the Holy Grail. Both books contain the idea Jesus had a child. They are suing publisher Random House, which denies the allegation... boston.com/ ... 09:09:16MANCHESTER, Conn. --Thomas Haley was unloading supplies for his job at Hardy's Hardware when he said something odd caught his eye: the face of Jesus Christ on a piece of sheet metal. Now, Haley and a co-worker are hawking the holy hardware on eBay, hoping potential bidders will agree that the blurry oil stain on the sheet metal does, indeed, resemble Jesus. "I mean, it hasn't done anything miraculous as of yet, but seeing it is kind of groovy," said Haley, 23. "Just seeing it brightens people's day..."
US Election 2008drudgereport.com/ ... 09:08:35resident Bush and his top strategist, Karl Rove, say Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton will be tough to beat in the Democratic presidential primaries of 2008 -- but not in the general election!..
SUN 2006-FEB-26
Threatsfoxnews.com/ ... 16:42:49DENVER — A 16-year-old boy was arrested Wednesday after postings on the popular Web site MySpace.com allegedly showed him holding handguns... in the same district as Columbine... foxnews.com/ ... 16:41:54Visitors to the complex that eventually will fill the World Trade Center site might have to submit to iris scans or thumb print analysis to get into buildings, while smart cameras try to match their faces to a photo database of known terrorists. Well-paid armed guards would be on patrol and sensors would test the air for lethal gases. Preliminary details of a plan to make the redeveloped 16-acre site as terrorism-proof as possible... foxnews.com/ ... 16:37:42Yemen's president is quoted in a newspaper today as saying that three Al Qaeda convicts who were among two dozen who escaped more than three weeks ago have turned themselves in...
Mass Murdering Monstersnews.bbc.co.uk/ ... 11:04:38At least eight people were killed in an attack on a civilian bus by left-wing rebels Farc in southern Colombia. Rebels shot at the bus tyres, causing it to crash, and then opened fire on passengers and attempted to set the vehicle ablaze... was travelling in a convoy under army escort but had fallen behind as it stopped to pick up passengers...
Theftnews.bbc.co.uk/ ... 10:13:16Robbers who stole up to £50m from a Securitas depot in Kent left £1.3m in one of their vehicles. The abandoned Transit van also contained guns, balaclavas and body armour...
Violencetoday.reuters.com/ ... 16:40:29Six people were killed and 38 wounded in a mortar attack on a southern Baghdad neighborhood on Sunday... foxnews.com/ ... 16:38:36DETROIT — A man opened fire inside a church Sunday, killing an 18-year-old woman and wounding her child before shooting another man outside... child did not have life-threatening injuries... Police were searching for the shooter... foxnews.com/ ... 16:36:19Bomb blasts and gunfire killed at least 27 people, including two U.S. soldiers, in Baghdad and nearby towns Sunday as an emergency daylight curfew was lifted in three provinces...
no progress in the hunt for kidnapped American journalist Jill Carroll... 28-year-old freelancer for the Christian Science Monitor... kidnapped Jan. 7... news.bbc.co.uk/ ... 11:03:18Hundreds of Afghan security forces have surrounded a notorious high-security jail where an uprising by up to 2,000 prisoners is under way... Taleban and al-Qaeda members as well as ordinary criminals are involved.... [Taleban and al-Qaeda and OTHER criminals....] seven people have been killed during the rioting... foxnews.com/ ... 10:11:31Violence broke out and police made a handful of arrests at a neo-Nazi rally Saturday before a planned march through a predominantly black neighborhood... fistfight broke out between supporters of the National Socialist Movement and counter-demonstrators who were voicing their displeasure with the group's anti-minority message. It was not immediately clear to which groups those arrested belonged... In October, the same neo-Nazi group gathered in Toledo, Ohio, for a march they said was intended to protest gangs and rising crime. The situation turned into a riot in which businesses were burned and looted and bricks were thrown at police... news.com.au/ ... 10:10:46TALIBAN and al-Qaeda inmates took control of parts of the Afghani capital's main high security prison and at least 30 prisoners were wounded in attempts to quell the riot...
Only Naturalusatoday.com/ ... 11:05:48Snow that some residents described as dark as chocolate brown was reported across parts of Colorado Thursday, a result of a wind storm in northern Arizona that kicked up dust that fell with the snow overnight...
Digital Culturesmh.com.au/ ... 10:16:05YAHOO! has changed its rules on the words it allows in email addresses after a man discovered he could not register an account because his surname contained the word Allah... Mr Callahan, who set up a webpage in protest at what he saw as discrimination against Muslims on behalf of Yahoo... Yahoo! now says it has changed its policy to allow the word. In a written statement, the company defended the previous policy as an attempt to protect users from hateful speech. "A small number of people registered for IDs using specific terms with the sole purpose of promoting hate and then used those IDs to post content that was harmful or threatening to others, thus violating Yahoo!'s terms of service," the statement said... [more proof you can't win with religious extremists no matter what]
Broadcast is Deadtoday.reuters.com/ ... 16:41:27A breakthrough in television advertising debuted without fanfare last spring as a brand-name box of crackers appeared on the CBS sitcom "Yes, Dear" for about 20 seconds, seen but hardly noticed by millions of viewers... had been digitally painted onto the top of a coffee table after the scene was filmed... first commercial use of a patent-pending innovation dubbed Digital Brand Integration, or DBI, developed by New York-based Marathon Ventures, and grew out of an unprecedented marketing deal with CBS...
Free Expressionfoxnews.com/ ... 16:38:01About 25,000 people — some chanting "Death to America!" — rallied against the Prophet Muhammad caricatures in Pakistan's largest city Sunday, but police prevented a rally in the eastern city of Lahore by arresting the religious ringleader and detaining scores of supporters...
Fun can be Dangerousfoxnews.com/ ... 16:37:19A boy has been hospitalized in Florida after he fell off a wooden roller coaster at... Cypress Gardens... theme park... fell from about 15 feet from the Triple Hurricane... no indications of a malfunction... the restraint in the boy's seat was still in a locked position... is in serious condition with multiple injuries...
Rebuildingnews.bbc.co.uk/ ... 11:03:57Political and militia leaders in Iraq say they have made progress in talks aimed at curbing sectarian violence... Sunni clerics and one of the main Shia militias have agreed to work together to prevent further sectarian bloodshed. And a senior Sunni politician told the BBC that a new security plan had been worked out by Sunni and Shia leaders which could help relieve tensions...
Cascading Weirdnesstimesonline.co.uk/ ... 10:16:28THE chauffeur of the car in which Diana, Princess of Wales died was working for the French secret service, the British team reinvestigating her death has been told...
SAT 2006-FEB-25
Industrial Tragedyabcnews.go.com/ ... 21:07:26SAN JUAN DE SABINAS, Mexico (Reuters) - The 65 men trapped by a Mexican coal mine explosion six days ago cannot possibly have survived their ordeal underground and are all dead, mine owners said on Saturday... while no bodies had yet been found, tests showed there was almost no oxygen inside the mine's shafts and tunnels...
Scary Timestoday.reuters.com/ ... 20:41:02An FBI-led task force is trying find out how the deadly poison ricin wound up in a roll of coins used by a student in a University of Texas dormitory.... The chunky white powder was found on Thursday night when the student, doing her laundry in coin-operated washing machines, spilled the coins out of a paper tube onto her dorm room desk... Neither the student nor her roommate were suffering symptoms of ricin exposure... news.independent.co.uk/ ... 13:48:22In the event of all-out nuclear war, the BBC was to distract the nation by broadcasting a mix of music and light entertainment shows, secret papers released by the Home Office reveal. Hundreds of security-vetted BBC staff and a select band of unnamed radio artistes were to be clandestinely dispatched to transmission sites across the country at the first signs of international tension. Just before the first missiles had reached Britain, the BBC was to use regional centres in Birmingham, Sheffield, Bristol and Middlesbrough to broadcast a national service that the Government hoped would create "a diversion to relieve strain and stress". By 1960 the BBC had stockpiled thousands of recordings of "war" programmes and records for possible broadcast at the height of an attack...
Theftboston.com/ ... 21:05:09LITTLE ROCK, Ark. --A homeless man who police say tried to take a sheep from the Little Rock Zoo has been arrested on numerous charges... security guard... [saw] a man carrying a trash can with a sheep in it.... told [police] he was a doctor and the sheep was sick... boston.com/ ... 21:03:02SAN MATEO, Calif. --A man accused of carjacking a newlywed couple with the bride in her wedding dress still in the vehicle was sentenced to three years in prison... stopped by a Taco Bell for a snack after their wedding... [groom went inside, bride stayed in car]... who was unarmed, got into the driver's seat and drove off with Zahn still inside... boston.com/ ... 20:55:26A semi trailer loaded with cans and bottles of Miller beer was stolen from a trucking company in Richfield, according to a Washington County Sheriff's Department report. The trailer was found four days later -- sans beer -- at an Oak Creek trucking firm... news.bbc.co.uk/ ... 13:44:18Forensic experts are examining a white Transit van found in Kent with a quantity of money thought to be from the multi-million pound Securitas raid...
Violenceapnews.myway.com/ ... 03:43:50Al-Qaida purportedly claimed responsibility for the attack, the first on an oil facility in Saudi Arabia... wftv.com/ ... 03:43:30Investigators in Belleview [Fla] said slamming the door drove a man to kill his next-door neighbor in Marion County... was irritated that [victim] was slamming the door at night and waking him up...
Yuck!boston.com/ ... 20:57:57A woman who claimed she was trying to cheat on a drug test was behind a bizarre incident in which a frightened convenience store clerk thought she had microwaved a severed penis... actually microwaved a prosthetic device used to cheat on drug tests... police weren't sure why the woman was storing the urine in a device mimicking male genitalia... kdka.com/ ... 03:41:59A man walked in and asked a female clerk if she could use the store microwave to warm up something he had wrapped in a paper towel. Concerned about an unusual odor from the oven, the clerk opened the microwave to check on the item and out tumbled what appeared to be a severed human penis, wrapped up in the paper towel. Police were called immediately and the man ran out of the store empty handed. “Hopefully, they're looking for the person this belongs to,” said Sandy Furman, of McKeesport...
Disturbing Family Patternssuntimes.com/ ... 03:40:45A federal judge on Friday sentenced a former trading and investment firm executive to 190 years in prison for setting fire to his mother's house killing the 90-year-old woman inside to get the insurance money...
Animal Cultureboston.com/ ... 21:00:00SnakeBessy the Burmese python is recovering in an animal shelter after spending two weeks dodging searchers and an infrared camera in a 57,000-square-foot apartment complex...
World of Culturesavclub.com/ ... 20:43:50Interview with Boondocks creator Aaron McGruder November 23rd, 2005...
Lasting Contributionstoday.reuters.com/ ... 20:42:56Don Knotts, who won five Emmys for portraying the bungling deputy Barney Fife on the hit television program "The Andy Griffith Show," has died at age 81... His former co-star Andy Griffith was at Knotts' bedside when he died, as were Knotts' third wife, Francie, and his children, Thomas and Karen, an actress... won the Emmy award for best supporting actor five times...
Digital Culturewsoctv.com/ ... 13:51:52JACKSONVILLE, Fla. -- A Ponte Vedra Beach woman on probation on drug charges is demanding that a mug shot of her be removed from the popular commercial Web site TheSmokingGun.com.... photograph was lifted from the Florida Department of Corrections Web site and is featured with about 20 other women in a section of TheSmokingGun.com titled "Foxy Felons..." Hicks' lawyer sent a letter saying that her photo being listed under the heading "Foxy Felons" "invades her privacy ... and holds her up to public ridicule, has caused her to become fearful for her safety ... and has invited members of the public to use her picture for their own private sexual gratification..." The fact that Hicks' mug shot was lifted from the state's online database of prisoners and those on probation is central to TheSmokingGun's argument -- it's in the public domain...
US Militarypopsci.com/ ... 13:50:29The Navy’s Swimming Spy Plane It floats, it flies, it eliminates enemy targets—meet the water-launched unmanned enforcer... [dig the pic...!] designed to launch out of the Trident missile tubes...
US Military Casualtiesdefenselink.mil/ ... 03:45:27us-flagArmy Staff Sgt. Gregson G. Gourley, 38, of Salt Lake City, Utah
us-flagArmy Sgt. Rickey E. Jones, 21, of Kokomo, Ind.
us-flagArmy Pfc. Christopher L. Marion, 20, of Pineville, Mo.
us-flagArmy Pfc. Allan A. Morr, 21, of Shiawassee County, Mich.
died in Al Hawijah, Iraq, on Feb. 22, when an improvised explosive device detonated near their HMMWV during patrol operations.
Cosmologysciencedaily.com/ ... 03:40:15Scientists have determined the background is not diffuse, as many have thought. Rather, it emanates from untold hundreds of millions of individual sources dominated by a type of dead star called a white dwarf, along with stars with unusually strong coronas. If confirmed, this new finding would have a profound impact on our understanding of the history of our galaxy, from star-formation and supernova rates to stellar evolution. The result solves major theoretical problems yet points to a surprising undercounting of stellar objects, perhaps by a hundredfold...
Only Naturalsciencedaily.com/ ... 03:39:27A team of scientists has identified a cellular mechanism that may help explain the puzzle of why people of African descent are more susceptible to tuberculosis infection and why, once infected, they develop more severe states of the disease than whites... The researchers describe a novel pathway used by human macrophages that may be critical to resisting infection with certain pathogens and that turns out to be critically dependent on vitamin D. This description provides a different way to think about how human immune systems battle pathogens in general. The research team found that when Toll-like receptors in humans are stimulated by specific molecules of the tubercle bacillus, vitamin D receptors and an enzyme called Cyp27B1, which converts the vitamin from an inactive form to an active form, are dramatically increased. The result of this dual activation is the cleavage of a preexistent protein to a small peptide called cathelicidin, which can kill TB bacilli in the test tube. One of the interesting aspects of this mechanism is that production of vitamin D in humans is dependent on exposure to UV light, generally sunlight, and may not have evolved in mice since they are nocturnal animals...
Future is Nowsciencedaily.com/ ... 03:37:22Researchers at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign who recently reported that DNA-wrapped carbon nanotubes could serve as sensors in living cells now say the tiny tubes can be used to target specific DNA sequences. Potential applications for the new sensors range from rapid detection of hazardous biological agents to simpler and more efficient forensic identification...
Just Random Chanceboston.com/ ... 20:55:49After hearing of a newspaper account of an unclaimed $853,492 Powerball ticket from October, Steve Jones decided to do a little housecleaning. Of the three tickets he swept out from under the bed, one wound up being the prizewinner...
Business Culturesfgate.com/ ... 13:56:107-Eleven has seen the future, and it's no longer six-packs, snuff and Slim Jims. It's sliced carrots. Also bananas, lots of bananas. Put a rack of bananas by the cash register, came the word from 7-Eleven headquarters, and watch business get hotter than a bag of Flamin' Hot Cheetos... [7-11 is dead and good riddance. Quik Trip has been ahead of this game for years now....]
Sexual Equality??sun-sentinel.com/ ... 13:55:00How older women snag younger guys... At 41, Chicago comedian Tracy Tedesco is beating back guys in their 20s like she was giving away Xboxes. Tedesco is the definition of an "urban cougar." The label used to be an unflattering characterization of middle-aged, boy-hungry single women. But as more women shed the traditional taboos about age and dating, the name has been taken on as a badge of empowerment by sexy, older professional women who prefer the physical and spiritual qualities of younger men...
Family Patternsnews.telegraph.co.uk/ ... 13:52:53Older motherhood may bring with it exhaustion - and the innate fear of being mistaken for your child's grandmother - but it also brings longevity. Research suggests women who raise a family late in life tend to die later...
World Without Bordersworldnetdaily.com/ ... 13:47:31Dubai Ports World is scheduled to take over operations at 22 U.S. ports, not six as previously reported by most major media... azstarnet.com/ ... 13:47:18A high-ranking official with Mexico's National Human Rights Commission was forced to cancel a talk at the University of Arizona today after several Tucsonans who favor a crackdown on illegal immigration became disruptive because he was speaking in Spanish... worldnetdaily.com/ ... 13:46:59A Maryland organization that runs four government-funded day-labor hiring centers is training volunteer "legal observers" to videotape members of the Minuteman border security group and to picket their homes, places of work and their children's schools. "We are going to target them in a specific way," Gustavo Torres, executive director of Casa de Maryland told the Maryland Gazette, speaking of the Minutemen volunteers who have set up a surveillance site across the street to discreetly photograph contractors who pick up day laborers at the center...
Marriage Todaysltrib.com/ ... 13:43:59With pride but not defiance, Walter K. Steed canceled hearings set for today and ended his 25-year stint as Hildale's justice court judge after a Utah Supreme Court opinion found he flouted state law by openly living with three wives...
Peace 3000dawn.com/ ... 13:43:38Iraq’s most influential Shia political leader called on Friday for Sunni-Shia unity as religious figures sought to calm passions and pull the nation from the brink of civil war after the bombing of a Shia shrine two days ago and a wave of deadly reprisal attacks. The government, meanwhile, announced stepped-up security measures, including a ban on entering or leaving Baghdad and deployment of armed forces in tense areas... top Shia leader Abdul-Aziz al-Hakim, head of the Supreme Council for the Islamic Revolution in Iraq, said those who carried out the bombing in Samarra “do not represent the Sunnis in Iraq.” Al-Hakim instead blamed Saddam Hussein loyalists and followers of Al Qaeda in Iraq boss Abu Musab al-Zarqawi. “We all have to unite in order to eliminate them,” al-Hakim said in a statement. “This is what al-Zarqawi is working for, that is, to ignite sectarian strife in the country.... We call for self-restraint and not to be dragged down by the plots of the enemy of Iraq...."
Whoops!boston.com/ ... 20:58:30MILL VALLEY, Calif. --A man who allegedly mailed a half-pound of marijuana without an address label on the package was arrested after authorities returned it to its sender. Steven Coburn, 48, of Mill Valley was arrested Tuesday on suspicion of drug possession for sale and investigators found another 1 1/2 pounds of marijuana worth $10,000 at his home... thisislondon.com/ ... 03:42:24London Mayor Ken Livingstone has been found guilty of bringing his office into disrepute by comparing a Jewish reporter to a Nazi concentration camp guard. Mr Livingstone was suspended from duty for four weeks from March 1 after being found guilty of bringing his office into disrepute...
That's Not Funny!breitbart.com/ ... 03:41:20Gov. Rod Blagojevich wasn't in on the joke. Blagojevich says he didn't realize "The Daily Show" was a comedy spoof of the news when he sat down for an interview that ended up poking fun at the sometimes- puzzled Democratic governor. "It was going to be an interview on contraceptives ... that's all I knew about it," Blagojevich laughingly told the St. Louis Post- Dispatch in a story for Thursday's editions. "I had no idea I was going to be asked if I was 'the gay governor.'..."
Fun can be Dangeroussciencedaily.com/ ... 03:38:07Loud music prolongs the effects of taking ecstasy for up to five days...
Why People Go Vegantimesonline.co.uk/ ... 13:52:29FelineEVERY day thousands of cats are transported to Guangdong province in southern China. They are destined not to become the pampered pets of the country’s new rich, but to be served up at the dinner table. The trade is one that merchants seem eager to keep out of the public eye in a country where pet shops have sprung up to meet a growing demand as incomes rise... sciencedaily.com/ ... 03:36:43Though some species of fish around the world's are likely to be contaminated with mercury, PCBs and other toxins, the benefits of eating seafood continue to outweigh the risks, a panel of scientists recently said at the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
FRI 2006-FEB-24
Nature can be Deadlynydailynews.com/ ... 10:12:10As the nation's first known case of natural inhalation anthrax in 30 years, Vado Diomande's illness has created a bit of a puzzle for disease detectives. Health officials believe the dance troupe leader and drum maker breathed in the potentially deadly anthrax spores while working with tainted goat hides in a confined space. But experts said Diomande would have had to inhale a significant dose of spores to get sick, or been weakened by a pre-existing illness... goat-hair mill workers routinely inhale up to 1,000 spores a day but rarely get sick... naturally occurring spores tend to clump together. "These clumps don't find their way efficiently into the deep alveoli [air pocket] spaces in the lungs..." a person may have to inhale 8,000 to 20,000 spores to get sick with inhalation anthrax...
Industrial Tragedytoday.reuters.com/ ... 10:10:30At least 10 workers were killed and 60 injured when a fire razed a textile factory in Bangladesh's Chittagong port city on Thursday night...
Scary Timeswpherald.com/ ... 10:04:47The rapidly escalating violence between Sunnis and Shiites in Iraq is a development that raises the specter of possible imminent full-scale civil war...
Violencenews.bbc.co.uk/ ... 10:15:45Suspected Taleban rebels have killed four Afghan soldiers in the southern province of Helmand... said to have been ambushed while on a patrol in Girishk district. They returned fire but the attackers fled the scene... Violence has been on the rise in Helmand. A fierce battle between Taleban fighters and Afghan troops earlier this month left 25 dead... breitbart.com/ ... 10:12:35President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo declared a state of emergency Friday as she struggled against a reported coup plot and a possible repeat of the protests that ousted two of her predecessors. The announcement came after the military said a general had been arrested in connection with a coup plot and as people defied a ban on rallying at a shrine of the 1986 revolt that ousted Ferdinand Marcos. Clashes erupted as police tried to disperse the protesters... cbc.ca/ ... 10:05:04A man is in FBI custody after a seven-hour hostake-taking of nine people in an office tower in Phoenix, Ariz., ended peacefully... washingtonpost.com/ ... 10:04:06Iraqi forces imposed an extraordinary ban on daytime vehicle traffic in four of the country's provinces Friday to quell raging sectarian violence that erupted after the bombing of a sacred Shiite shrine, leaving the streets deserted on a day when millions of Muslims normally attend prayer services... appeared to bring to a halt the bitter sectarian violence that has claimed the lives of more than 130 Iraqis since the destruction of Samarra's gold-domed Askariya shrine on Wednesday... timesonline.co.uk/ ... 10:03:16Some of Iraq's most senior Shia leaders called for an end to sectarian killing as an unprecedented daytime curfew on Baghdad and three central Iraqi provinces kept a lid on further violence today... Some 200 Iraqis have been killed in Baghdad alone... Most of the attacks have been blamed on the al-Mahdi Army, a Shia militia loyal to the young firebrand cleric Hojatoleslam Moqtada al-Sadr... armed Mehdi militiamen have criss-crossed Baghdad with impunity, picking up Sunni males, executing them and dumping their bodies at the roadside... Hojatoleslam al-Sadr himself criticised the violence today and told his followers not to attack Sunni Muslims or their mosques. "We are not enemies but brothers," the cleric said in a statement. "Anyone who attacks a Muslim is not a Muslim and he who assaults sacraments and mosques shall get his just punishment..." chron.com/ ... 10:01:15CAIRO, Egypt — Suicide bombers in explosives-laden cars attempted to attack an oil processing facility that handles about two-thirds of Saudi Arabia's petroleum output on Friday, but were stopped when guards opened fire on them, causing the cars to explode... blast "did not affect operations..."
Prehistory - still with ussciam.com/ ... 10:09:22A new fossil from China proves that the mammals that lived during the Jurassic era were more diverse than previously thought. The 164-million-year-old creature, dubbed Castorocauda lutrasimilis, had a tail like a beaver, the paddling limbs of an otter, seallike teeth and probably webbed feet. And although most Jurassic mammals discovered thus far were tiny, shrewlike animals, C. lutrasimilis, would have weighed in at approximately a pound. Roughly the size of a small, female platypus, it is the largest mammal from this time period on record...
Sex can be Dangerousnews.bbc.co.uk/ ... 10:15:11A bicycle courier in Colombia has been given a four-year jail sentence for grabbing a woman pedestrian's bottom... courier had cycled off after groping her, but had been caught by passers-by. When he was arrested, she was given the option of slapping him, letting him go, or filing a complaint. She had chosen to set a precedent that would stop sexist behaviour, she said...
Digital Threattoday.reuters.co.uk/ ... 10:10:09Swiss and Belgian police have shut down a major component of the eDonkey file-sharing network, used mainly to trade copies of copyrighted movies and music, the Motion Picture Association said on Wednesday. Razorback 2 was the biggest server on the eDonkey peer-to-peer (P2P) network, which transfers data from user to user. Music companies have blamed P2P piracy for causing a drastic downturn in sales, and Hollywood is trying to prevent a similar impact on the movie business...
World - Energytoday.reuters.com/ ... 10:01:52Oil jumped more than $2 on Friday after reports of an explosion and shooting at the huge Abqaiq oil facility in Saudi Arabia, which triggered worries about supply from the world's top crude producer...
THU 2006-FEB-23
Transport Tragedybreitbart.com/ ... 12:21:16The impact sheared the red Italian sports car in half, and the entire front section separated from the rest of the shredded vehicle. "For a million dollars, you get a very good passenger-safety system, and apparently, in this case, it did work..."
Threatsynetnews.com/ ... 12:15:24Security officials estimate that 2006 is the "target year" set by the global al-Qaeda terror network to carry out a mega-terror attack in Israel, the country's leading newspaper Yedioth Ahronoth reported Thursday... worldnetdaily.com/ ... 12:15:00Abu Abir, spokesman for the Popular Resistance Committees, an umbrella organization consisting of several Palestinian terror groups... Every Israeli target is a legitimate target. Wherever there is an Israeli soldier or settler they will find our rockets. Jerusalem, Ben Gurion International Airport, Tel Aviv and every Israeli point can be part of our goals. Whenever it is needed, rockets will be fired against every Israeli settlement, city or neighborhood. We know that Israeli central cities are more sensitive targets and they contain more sensitive targets, but we will not hesitate to fire rockets everywhere against the Zionist enemy...
Nature can be Deadlytoday.reuters.com/ ... 11:53:40The strongest earthquake to hit southern Africa in 100 years killed at least two people in northern Mozambique on Thursday and sent residents across the region frightened by strong aftershocks into the streets. The magnitude 7.5 earthquake was felt as far south as Johannesburg and Durban in South Africa...
Violenceforbes.com/ ... 23:49:18FBI officials raised repeated objections to aggressive interrogation tactics at the US 'war on terror' prison in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, including some they said were approved at high levels of the Defense Department, new documents show... forbes.com/ ... 23:48:42...14-year-old freshman... shot and wounded another student at school Thursday, then fled to a restaurant, where he put the gun to his head before surrendering... victim... was shot twice in the abdomen and once in the chest. A bullet also grazed his left elbow... "is doing very well, better than can be expected considering the bullet wounds..." surgeons had repaired intestinal damage caused by the most serious of the wounds... forbes.com/ ... 23:47:34UK police hunting a gang of armed robbers who stole up to a record 50 mln stg from a security depot have arrested... a 29-year-old man and a 31-year-old woman.... alertnet.org/ ... 12:04:52Israeli troops killed five Palestinians on Thursday during the biggest raid against West Bank militants for months... Medics said three gunmen were among the dead in Nablus on Thursday. Two other men were shot dead when Palestinians confronted troops with stones and petrol bombs. The army said its forces had opened fire when they came under attack as they tried to arrest wanted militants planning to strike Israel. Two Israeli soldiers were wounded... canada.com/ ... 11:53:06BAGHDAD - Gunmen shot 47 civilians Thursday and left their bodies in a ditch near Baghdad as militia battles and sectarian reprisals followed the bombing of a sacred Shiite shrine. Sunni Arabs suspended their participation in talks on a new government. At least 47 other bodies were found scattered across Iraq.... hardline Sunni Clerical Association of Muslim Scholars said 168 Sunni mosques had been attacked, 10 imams killed and 15 abducted since the shrine attack.... Interior Ministry... confirm[ed]... Baghdad... 90 mosques... attacked, one cleric... killed and one abducted.... at least 110 people had been killed across the country.... Three journalists working for Al-Arabiya television... viewed in Iraq as favouring the United States... were found dead in Samarra....
Industrial Tragedywashingtonpost.com/ ... 11:50:35The snow-covered roof of a Moscow farmers market collapsed early Thursday morning killing at least 47 people, mostly traders and municipal workers.... At least 29 people were injured and an unknown number of people remained trapped under the rubble Thursday afternoon.... About 700 rescue workers were digging through the rubble, turning off their equipment periodically in an attempt to zero in on survivors who were "knocking and crying out...."
Nature is Dangerouswebmd.com/ ... 11:42:39Federal health officials have confirmed that anthrax bacteria caused the respiratory illness of a 44-year-old New York man... suspect animal hides that he reportedly transported to New York from the Ivory Coast... he handled and scraped the hides while preparing them for use in drum making... listed in fair condition in a Pennsylvania hospital...
US Military Casualtiesdefenselink.mil/ ... 23:45:52us-flagMarine 2nd Lt. Almar L. Fitzgerald, 23, of Lexington, S.C., died Feb. 21 at Landstuhl Regional Medical Center, Germany from wounds received Feb. 18 as a result of an improvised explosive device while conducting combat operations against enemy forces in Al Anbar Province, Iraq.
History - still with usbeliefnet.com/ ... 12:30:14The first translation of an ancient, self-proclaimed "Gospel of Judas" will be published in late April, bringing to light what some scholars believe are the writings of an early Christian sect suppressed for supporting Jesus Christ's infamous betrayer... argues that Judas Iscariot was carrying out God's will... manuscript's owner says he has cut a deal with the National Geographic Society to release the English translation with a multimedia splash after Easter... Monsignor Walter Brandmuller, president of the Vatican's Committee for Historical Science, called it "a product of religious fantasy..."
Digital Future is Nowin-forum.com/ ... 12:29:02North Dakota State University will partner with MIT and HP technology to begin research this spring that could lead to spray-on computer displays... $4.5 million federally funded collaboration to study nanoscale computer technology will go on for four years. One of the goals of the new partnership is to create a “wallpaper computing display.”...
Digital Culturewired.com/ ... 12:28:10Go to Google Maps... Zoom in [all the way]... Crispel's 53-acre Shamrock "K" Horse Center sits just north of the Coffeyville Country Club in an out-of-the-way spot that has the distinction of being the center of the world -- according to Google...
Only Naturalforbes.com/ ... 12:22:35New research adds a twist to the debate on the origins of sexual orientation, suggesting that the genetics of mothers of multiple gay sons act differently than those of other women. Scientists found that almost one fourth of the mothers who had more than one gay son processed X chromosomes in their bodies in the same way. Normally, women randomly process the chromosomes in one of two ways -- half go one way, half go the other...
US Militarytoday.reuters.com/ ... 12:36:45Seven U.S. soldiers were killed in two separate incidents in Iraq on Wednesday when roadside bombs struck the vehicles in which they were traveling... Four U.S. soldiers were killed in the Iraqi town of Hawija while on patrol... Three U.S. soldiers were killed near the Iraqi town of Balad when their vehicle struck another roadside bomb... abcnews.go.com/ ... 12:03:36Several Marines from Camp Pendleton have been arrested in San Diego on charges of providing stolen body armor — intended for troops in Iraq — that was later sold on the Internet... Nine people have been arrested... The ongoing investigation has identified 12 other Marines and several civilians as suspects... several of those Marines suspected are currently serving duty in Iraq... Erika Jardine... sentenced today to six months in prison by a federal judge... first drew the attention of investigators in June 2004 after they discovered she had been selling the vests on... eBay. Customs investigators said Jardine sold 18 of the vests to customs agents posing as international arms dealers... As a result of the investigation, $63,000 worth of stolen gear has been recovered, including 104 protective ceramic plates, 14 outer tactical vests, seven Kevlar helmets, two gas masks and M-16 ammunition... [Treason!] washingtonpost.com/ ... 11:57:02A military judge Wednesday found a Marine Corps swim instructor not guilty of negligent homicide in the drowning of a recruit last year. Staff Sgt. Nadya Lopez had been accused of failing to recognize or ignoring signs that Jason Tharp, 19, was too tired or incapable of continuing before he drowned during training in a pool on Feb. 8, 2005...
Extraterrestrialscience.monstersandcritics.com/ ... 11:41:14A Johns Hopkins astrophysicist and colleagues have confirmed Pluto -- the most distant planet in our Solar System -- has three moons... Scientists have known for nearly 30 years Pluto had one moon -- Charon -- about half as wide as the planet itself... tentatively reported the existence of the two additional moons last year and now... confirmed... exact size is hard to gauge... between about 30 and 100 miles across, compared with Charon`s diameter of about 750 miles. The researchers estimate P1 orbits Pluto once every 38 days, and P2 every 25 days...
In the Line of Dutynewsday.com/ ... 11:39:44NEW YORK -- A man convicted of fatally shooting two police detectives in a confrontation outside his mother's home received two sentences of life in prison without the possibility of parole, one for each officer killed... convicted on Feb. 2 of killing Detectives Robert Parker and Patrick Rafferty on Sept. 10, 2004, after his mother called police to report an ongoing dispute with him over her car... was sitting inside the car when Parker and Rafferty arrived at the Brooklyn scene. During a struggle with Parker, Legere snatched the gun from the detective's waistband and shot both victims...
World Without Borderstoday.reuters.com/ ... 12:37:06A leading world science body denounced tougher U.S. visa policies on Thursday after its Indian-born president said he failed to get permission to enter the country on charges he was hiding information that could be used for chemical weapons...
Policing Ourselvessun-sentinel.com/ ... 12:34:41Dennis Crouch had already slashed himself. And when he refused to drop his knife, Daytona Beach police Officer Betsy Cassidy decided she had no choice. "Taser! Taser!" Cassidy shouted as she sent a two-pronged wire, packing 50,000 volts, at Crouch's chest. What happened next stunned everyone. A Taser probe pierced the pocket of his khaki shirt -- and ignited the butane lighter inside. Cassidy's pocket exploded in flames. "The subject," recounted Sgt. Al Tolley in a subsequent report, "immediately dropped the knife..."
Modern Family Lifehappynews.com/ ... 12:31:12The Schepplers' children all have presidential names. There's Tyler, Grant, McKinley, Kennedy, Harrison, Madison and Regan _ although Regan's name is spelled differently than Ronald Reagan and wasn't intended as a reference to the 40th president...
Transport Near-Tragedyclickondetroit.com/ ... 12:20:10Federal investigators are trying to figure out why an air traffic controller directed three planes onto the same runway at Los Angeles International Airport last week.... "It was pretty close...."
Sex -- always attractivebayofplentytimes.co.nz/ ... 12:17:54Some female students are selling sex in Tauranga to pay off tertiary debt - with one recently making $5000 in one night... "My girls don't walk out of here with less than $500 a day." Student prostitution has gone on in the Bay since the practice was decriminalised in 2003...
Under Tyrannyvariety.com/ ... 12:22:09StoogesJessica Rabbit isn't welcome in China -- and Michael Jordan shouldn't show up with any of his Looney Toons pals. In one of the more bizarre orders from China's State Administration of Radio, Film and Television, TV shows and films featuring human thesps with animated companions will be banned... news.yahoo.com/ ... 12:17:04A German court on Thursday convicted a businessman of insulting Islam by printing the word "Koran" on toilet paper and offering it to mosques. The 61-year-old man, identified only as Manfred van H., was given a one-year jail sentence, suspended for five years, and ordered to complete 300 hours of community service, a district court in the western German town of Luedinghausen ruled... worldnetdaily.com/ ... 12:13:45A community college student in Massachusetts faces possible disciplinary action for shouting "Remember Chappaquiddick!" during an on-campus speech by Democrat Sen. Edward Kennedy yesterday... news.bbc.co.uk/ ... 12:13:20A Chinese man jailed over the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests has been released from jail but is severely mentally ill, his family has said. Yu Dongyue was sentenced to 20 years in jail for throwing paint at a portrait of China's former leader Mao Zedong. He was freed on Wednesday, after 17 years in prison, but family members said he did not recognise them and spoke unintelligibly. Human rights groups have alleged Yu was tortured by guards in prison... mg.co.za/ ... 12:05:12China warned outspoken Hong Kong Bishop Joseph Zen on Thursday not to mix politics and religion, after Pope Benedict XVI named him a cardinal...
Human Righttoday.reuters.com/ ... 11:54:25South Dakota became the first U.S. state to pass a law banning abortion in virtually all cases, with the intention of forcing the Supreme Court to reconsider its 1973 decision legalizing the procedure... The law, which would punish doctors who perform the operation with a five-year prison term and a $5,000 fine, awaits the signature of Republican Gov. Michael Rounds and people on both sides of the issue say he is unlikely to veto it...
Justice?detnews.com/ ... 12:18:34A neighborhood squabble that wound up in front of the U.S. Supreme Court finally ended Tuesday in a case that reaffirmed beach-walking rights along all 3,200 miles of Great Lakes shoreline in Michigan. The nation's highest court refused to take the case, letting stand a July 2005 Michigan Supreme Court ruling that allows Michiganians to stroll along a narrow strip of lakefront property no matter who owns the land leading up to the water... usatoday.com/ ... 11:41:32A Pennsylvania woman who fell over a stack of packages and letters left on her porch can sue the Postal Service for her injuries, the Supreme Court ruled Wednesday...
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Prison Suckssignonsandiego.com/ ... 11:39:36SAN QUENTIN – Concern over whether health care providers can ethically play a role in putting condemned inmates to death and legal uncertainty over whether lethal injections are unconstitutionally cruel prompted California prison officials to postpone the execution of a convicted killer for the second time in less than a day. An hour before Michael Morales was scheduled to be strapped to a gurney in the death chamber at San Quentin State Prison, Warden Stephen Ornoski called off the execution Tuesday evening. He said officials were unable to comply with a judge's order that only a licensed medical provider could administer the sedative that would kill Morales... “We were not able to find a licensed professional that was willing to inject medication intravenously, ending the life of a human being,”...
Violencenews.bbc.co.uk/ ... 18:48:29More than £25m in cash has been stolen from a depot in Kent after its security manager and his family were kidnapped by armed robbers posing as police... suntimes.com/ ... 18:44:36Two children were injured when multiple bullets intended for a man went through him and struck the children as the man was helping secure them into their car seats at 43rd Street and Princeton Avenue on Wednesday morning... shooter fled the scene on foot... 6-year-old boy was shot in the foot and the 8-year-old girl was shot in the thigh... man suffered a gunshot wound and was in critical condition... forbes.com/ ... 11:38:31A large explosion destroyed the golden dome of one of Iraq's most famous Shiite shrines Wednesday, sending protesters pouring into the streets. The third major attack against Shiites in as many days threatened to enflame sectarian passions at a time when talks on a coalition government have bogged down. Shiite leaders called for calm, but scattered attacks occurred against Sunni mosques in Baghdad. U.S. and Iraqi forces deployed around major Sunni mosques, and 500 Iraqi soldiers were sent to Sunni neighborhoods in the capital to prevent clashes between Shiites and Sunnis...
Threatsknoe.com/ ... 18:47:35TV 8 News has learned FBI agents and local law enforcement authorities are conducting a raid of service stations and businesses owned by Middle Easterners in Northeast Louisiana. Agents executed search warrants today at 10 businesses in Tallulah, Delhi, Monroe and Ruston. The FBI says the raids are part of "an ongoing criminal investigation..." possible money laundering and counterfeiting... Department of Homeland Security is said to be taking part... suntimes.com/ ... 18:43:36Three men from the Middle East but living in Ohio were charged Tuesday with plotting terrorist attacks against U.S. and coalition troops in Iraq and other countries. One of the men, a citizen of both the United States and Jordan, was also accused of threatening to kill or injure President Bush. And another of the men, Marwan Othman El-Hindi, is accused of having at least two "training recruits" in Chicago, although neither of those men were named or charged in the indictment... worldnetdaily.com/ ... 11:50:18Hamas Political Bureau deputy head Musa Abu Marzouq affirmed to an Egyptian interviewer that the terrorist group that won the recent Palestinian Authority elections believes the entire Jewish state must be eliminated... worldnetdaily.com/ ... 11:49:54In the latest indication Palestinian terror groups are seeking to launch missiles at major Jewish cities, the Israeli army today discovered a Qassam rocket in the West Bank, which borders Jerusalem and Tel Aviv. Today's find follows a planned mortar attack against Jerusalem that was thwarted earlier this week... foxnews.com/ ... 10:46:44A federal grand jury on Tuesday indicted three Ohio men for their role in assisting terrorism on U.S. targets overseas, specifically American military personnel and their allies in Iraq... On at least two separate occasions, among other charges, at least one of the men verbally threatened to kill or inflict bodily harm on President Bush...
US Military Casualtiesdefenselink.mil/ ... 18:49:18us-flagMarine Staff Sgt. Jay T. Collado, 31, of Columbia, S.C., died Feb. 20 from an improvised explosive device near Baghdad, Iraq.
US Militarydefenselink.mil/ ... 11:59:40This week, the Navy announced an increase in the number of reservists on active duty in support of the partial mobilization, while the Marine Corps had a decrease. The Army, Air Force and Marine Corps numbers decreased. The Coast Guard remained unchanged. The net collective result is 635 fewer reservists mobilized than last week. This brings the total National Guard and Reserve personnel, who have been mobilized, to 126,494, including both units and individual augmentees.
Animal Companionsnews.tbo.com/ ... 11:49:27HUDSON - Pasco County officials are seeking to remove nearly 100 cats and dogs from a rat-infested, feces-fouled mobile home on Kitten Trail in a case being described as the worst investigators have seen... pets were crammed in cages, fed from a dirt floor and deprived of clean water. Rats the size of Nerf footballs roamed freely. Feces and garbage were caked on surfaces, and cobwebs stretched from ceiling to floor... investigating the condition of several horses, a donkey and a mule on the property...
Only Naturalnews.bbc.co.uk/ ... 11:42:44A bottle-green Australian frog may hold the key to future mosquito repellents... secretions of the dumpy tree frog are effective at warding off mosquitoes... mice given the secretions remained bite-free for four times longer than those not...
Healing Ourselveslifesite.net/ ... 18:48:45Just after Hurricane Katrina devastated New Orleans rumors circulated that at least one hospital had euthanized patients during the mayhem... statesman.com/ ... 18:46:58The retired doctor, Max Wells, kept coming back, the lawsuit says — and kept losing money. By the fall of 2005, Wells had lost $7 million, the lawsuit says. By January, another $7 million. Now Wells is suing the casinos and a major drug company, claiming that the prescription drugs he was taking for Parkinson's disease set off a compulsive gambling spree...
Science Marches Onnnnnnlivescience.com/ ... 18:45:57scientists have discovered a mutant chicken with a full set of crocodile-like chompers... The mutant chick, called Talpid, also had severe limb defects and died before hatching. It was discovered 50 years ago, but no one had ever examined its mouth until now... researchers recently created more Talpids by tweaking the genes of normal chickens to grow teeth... news.bbc.co.uk/ ... 18:45:00Forensic scientists could use DNA retrieved from a crime scene to predict the surname of the suspect, according to a new British study. It is not perfect, but could be an important investigative tool when combined with other intelligence. The method exploits genetic likenesses between men who share the same surname, and may help prioritise inquiries...
Only Rock n Rolltoday.reuters.com/ ... 11:57:27Ruling death by misadventure, the court said evidence "points to the deceased unintentionally falling out of the window to his death when he was hyped up with exhilaration, jumping up and down on the bed placed against an open window while mimicking a rock guitarist...."
Yuck!today.reuters.com/ ... 11:55:39Elsa... A Bavarian village was flooded... a tank containing... 240,000 litres of pig manure... burst... Sewage rose to 20 inches in the courtyards and streets... "...the mother-of-all muck..."
Sex -- always attractivetoday.reuters.com/ ... 11:53:40Serial kissers at Brazil's racy Carnival parades can now swap saliva with even more revelers thanks to a mouth spray designed to fight germs, just one of many weird products companies have launched to profit from traditionally libidinous revelry...
Human Rightgreenvilleonline.com/ ... 11:52:28...Starbucks coffee will no longer be served... at Greenville's Bob Jones University.... "They were supportive of homosexual events and causes... That would be a problem for our constituency...."
Free Expressionheadlines.agapepress.org/ ... 11:51:24Thanks to the efforts of a persistent grandmother and advice from a pro-family legal group, a four-year-old student at a Head Start program in one Oregon city can now talk about his faith with classmates. An instructor had initially muzzled the youngster's religious speech at school. Recently, a four-year old, "Zachariah," who attended a Head Start early childhood development program in Baker City, Oregon, was talking to a classmate during non-instructional time when a teacher overheard his comments about Christianity. The instructor proceeded to inform the child that he could not talk about religion at school, an action that prompted the boy's grandmother to contact the American Family Association Center for Law and Policy (AFA Law Center)...
World Without Bordersketv.com/ ... 11:46:27LINCOLN, Neb.... Seven men and one woman pooled their money to buy the ticket... won the biggest Powerball jackpot ever... The group choose the one-time $124.1 million lump sum option, and each took a check for $22.1 million home... today.reuters.com/ ... 11:44:17DUBAI - U.S. lawmakers' strident opposition to a Dubai company controlling major seaports reflects a Western phobia of Arabs which could scare off other Middle East investors, Arab analysts said... "This is Arab phobia and it is clearly politically motivated..." hosted.ap.org/ ... 11:43:34President Bush was unaware of the pending sale of shipping operations at six major U.S. seaports to a state-owned business in the United Arab Emirates until the deal already had been approved by his administration, the White House said Wednesday... news.bbc.co.uk/ ... 11:43:02The spread of protests against the cartoons of Muhammad is another manifestation of globalisation...
Digital Cultureout-law.com/ ... 11:40:16The publisher of adult website and magazine Perfect 10 has won a partial victory in its attempt to prohibit Google from copying and displaying Perfect 10’s copyrighted images in the results pages of its image search tool. Judge A Howard Matz of the Central District of California ruled that “Google’s creation and public display of 'thumbnails' likely do directly infringe P10’s copyrights” and that he will grant a preliminary injunction on this aspect of the case on 8th March. Judge Matz also found that Perfect 10 was unlikely to succeed on broader claims that Google was liable for providing links to websites that were using Perfect 10’s copyrighted images without authorisation. He therefore refused to grant a preliminary injunction on this front...
Whoops!news.bbc.co.uk/ ... 11:41:47James Bond fans angered by the decision to cast actor Daniel Craig as 007 have launched a website threatening to boycott the new film Casino Royale... today.reuters.com/ ... 10:47:56Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld said on Tuesday he was mistaken when he stated last week that the U.S. military had stopped paying Iraqi newspapers to publish pro-American articles...
Rebuildingvoanews.com/ ... 10:47:39Australia is to almost double its troop numbers in Afghanistan. It will send a 200-strong reconstruction team to the country's volatile southern region. The Australian contingent will work alongside Dutch soldiers as part of a force preparing to expand peacekeeping and rebuilding operations...
Now That's Funny!chaser.com.au/ ... 10:47:15And among the swastikas, a little Aussie flag was flying... NewsJunkies everywhere, we have a new national champion to personify our dreams and to globalise our ambitions. Take a bow, Lady Michele Renouf – former society wife, beauty queen, academic, self-styled "anti-Zionist", socialite, Australian and moron...
Families Todaycalendarlive.com/ ... 10:46:08(www.n7w.com). It has become a full-fledged pro-monument movement involving engineers, academics, architects and former government functionaries, as well as 19 million others with three things in common: telephones, a yearning to vote on something obscure and an interest in some particular place on Earth. Over the last few years, voters nominated a number of man-made sites, and the 77 top vote-getters advanced. They were narrowed to 21 in January by a panel of seven world-famous architects. Results will be announced in 2007, and if you've begun to spot the numerical symbolism, you've got the idea. Since Philon of Byzantium named the original Seven Wonders of the World in 200 BC, the Western world has relegated them to an awed mental pedestal — and then promptly forgot what was on the list. (Name them now without skipping down. Try it.) In those centuries, astonishingly, six of them vanished. Still with us are the Pyramids at Giza. And, believes Weber — the sort of visionary explorer undaunted by skepticism — a powerful need to name a New Seven...
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Transport Tragedynbcsandiego.com/ ... 16:42:32The driver of a red Ferrari Enzo... estimated to have been worth up to $1 million... lost control of the exotic car at high speed on Tuesday morning on Pacific Coast Highway in Malibu, and the vehicle disintegrated after striking a power pole... driver ran into the hills... passenger suffered a cut lip... and... stayed behind.... newsday.com/ ... 16:34:07A 25-year-old man died when he fell while trying to climb out of an elevator stuck between floors Monday night... five people had been inside... believed that they had called for help before prying open the elevator doors. "The first four were out; the fifth individual got out of the elevator and somehow fell backward into the elevator shaft... ." newsday.com/ ... 16:33:26ROLLA, Kan. -- A pickup truck carrying 19 illegal immigrants from Mexico crashed on a rural highway after a rear wheel came off, killing three people and injuring 16...
Violenceabclocal.go.com/ ... 16:40:49Police blasted out a 20th story window and stormed a room at a Las Vegas Strip hotel-casino Tuesday, arresting a suspected gunman who authorities say killed another man and shot at police and paramedics during a six-hour standoff... the casino remained open during the standoff... newsday.com/ ... 16:36:17MESA, Ariz. -- Police found five people dead in a suburban home Tuesday morning while investigating calls about screams and gunshots coming from the area... Neighbor: "It's shocking for this to happen in this community... We've never had any problems with crime or theft. You wouldn't expect it to happen here." newsday.com/ ... 16:35:09Two teenagers were arrested in connection with a weekend church fire, but police say it doesn't appear to be part of the string of arsons that damaged or destroyed 10 other rural Alabama churches... newsday.com/ ... 16:34:53A kidnapped Jordanian embassy driver has been released in Baghdad... worldnetdaily.com/ ... 09:45:30At least six Christians have been gunned down at their homes by alleged Muslim terrorists in the Philippines... at least five terrorists believed to be linked to al-Qaida murdered six or more Christians by gunfire after asking them if they believed in Christ on the front doorsteps of their homes..