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FRI 2006-MAR-31
Violating Public Trustchron.com/ ... 11:51:50A former National Security Agency computer analyst was sentenced to six years in prison Thursday for taking home classified documents and storing them in boxes in his kitchen after he left his job... [when arrested] in 2004... acknowledged he took the records.... later claimed he was framed by an ex-girlfriend....
Police Riotmiami.com/ ... 11:50:10A Broward police union put personal information on the Web about a reporter for a South Florida television station after he produced a piece called `Police Station Intimidation.'... about how police in Broward and Miami-Dade counties deal with the public... [oh, the irony!]
Disturbing Family Patternsnews.tbo.com/ ... 11:38:13NEW PORT RICHEY - When the mother first heard a neighbor had raped her 7-year-old son, she confronted the man and threatened to call police. That's when she stopped acting like a concerned parent and began negotiating, police said Wednesday. She accepted $600 in hush money and let the neighbor molest her son again.... "We don't know if this was supposed to be an ongoing arrangement," he said...
Sex can be Dangerouslocal6.com/ ... 11:37:17A 34-year-old woman in Cocoa, Fla... a mother, married with three kids... was charged with repeatedly having sex with a 14-year-old boy... would show up at the boy's home and help him sneak out of the residence to have sex with her... The boy, described by Matthews as a "good kid," ended up telling someone else about the illicit relationship... local6.com/ ... 10:51:49Owners of a strip club in Flagler County, Fla., where protesters have been taking photos of patrons and posting them on the Internet said they may tear down the club if the town allows condominiums to be built on the property... ww2.wpri.com/ ... 10:51:29NORTH SMITHFIELD, R.I. -- A [16yo] girl has been charged with conspiracy in a child pornography case involving two other teenagers.... accused of taking explicit photos of two friends, 19-year-old... and a 16-year-old girl from Lincoln whose name hasn't been released... thesmokinggun.com/ ... 10:49:45The Washington headquarters of NASA was raided this week as part of a kiddie porn probe targeting an executive with the space agency...
Violencevoanews.com/ ... 10:21:18Turkish police backed by armored personnel carriers used tear gas and truncheons to disperse a violent march Thursday by tens of thousands of Kurdish protesters in Diyarbakir. A seven-year-old boy was reported to be in critical condition after sustaining bullet wounds in his stomach. Witnesses said he was fired on by police. The reports could not be confirmed...
9/11 - still with usnydailynews.com/ ... 10:20:30Christopher Hanley: "Yeah. Hi. I'm on the 106th floor of the World Trade Center. We just had an explosion up here."
FDNY: "All right, we're there. We're coming up to get you."
C.H.: "I can see the smoke coming up from outside the windows...."
FDNY: "We're on the way, sir."
C.H.: "OK. Please hurry."
FDNY: "All right, just keep the windows open. It's going to be a while because there's a fire going on downstairs."
C.H.: "We can't open the windows unless we break them."
FDNY: "OK. Just sit tight. Just sit tight. We're on the way."
C.H.: "All right. Please hurry..." newsday.com/ ... 10:17:52After a three-year court battle, the city Friday will release eight hours of 911 calls made on the morning the World Trade Center was attacked. In CDs to be issued by the New York City Law Department, the voices of callers have been redacted and only emergency operators can be heard. Twenty-eight callers -- including one survivor -- were identified on the tapes. Those families, which include the Hanleys, were notified this week about the tapes and given the opportunity to hear their loved one's unedited call. But in a last-minute legal wrinkle, a temporary stay was granted by a State Supreme Court judge on the release of the names of callers spoken by the operators...
Threatswashingtonpost.com/ ... 10:16:11Iran's armed forces on Friday successfully test fired a domestically produced missile which can evade radar, state television reported, a development analysts said could be worrying for Western forces in the Gulf... abcnews.go.com/ ... 10:02:30Plans for a Pentagon-led experiment that involves detonating 700 tons of explosives in the desert drew criticism from state leaders and a disarmament activist... will involve nearly 40 times the amount of commercial ammonium nitrate and fuel oil explosive set off in the largest open-air, non-nuclear blast at the site to date... "I am concerned that tests of this magnitude have been planned without providing Nevadans with any information about the possible impact on their health or safety," said Demcratic Sen. Minority Leader Harry Reid in a statement Thursday... the site obtained the required state approvals and air quality permits in January... "Given the level of contamination in areas where nuclear tests were conducted, I have real concerns about the dust and other pollutants that will be released into the air as a result of this explosion," said U.S. Rep. Shelley Berkley. Disarmament activist Pete Litster said tests at the site violate international law...
Lost & Foundabcnews.go.com/ ... 10:00:24When Jill Carroll was unexpectedly released Thursday after 82 days in captivity in Iraq, the first phone call she made was to her twin sister, Katie Carroll, to say, "I'm free..." Next, she called her parents... "In a matter of hours, 48 hours or 72, this world that she's been in the last three months is going to come crashing down on her and she is going to need her mental toughness to get through this," said Jack Cloonan, a former FBI agent and now ABC News consultant... One enormous challenge former hostages must deal with is grappling with emotions about their captors. On Thursday, when Carroll gave an interview to an Iraqi TV station, she portrayed them as sympathetic, which experts say is normal... The real trick for Carroll in terms of recovery could be lowering her expectations, as James Loney, a former Canadian hostage who was released last week, has done...
Nature is Dangeroustoday.reuters.com/ ... 00:15:19TEHRAN, March 31 - A strong earthquake hit west Iran on Friday morning, killing at least 15 people and heavily damaging villages in the area, Iranian state media reported. State television reported 263 injured people were taken to two hospitals in Boroujerd, a city in the area where the quake struck.... magnitude of 6.0... preceded by two smaller tremors measuring 4.7 and 5.1...
Extraterrestrialsciencedaily.com/ ... 22:38:28Scientists with NASA's Cassini mission have found evidence that a new class of small moonlets resides within Saturn's rings. There may be as many as 10 million of these objects within one of Saturn's rings alone... could help answer the question of whether Saturn's rings were formed through the break-up of a larger body or are the remnants of the disk of material from which Saturn and its moons formed... The latest findings mark the first evidence of objects of about 100 meters (300 feet) in diameter...
Feeding Ourselvessciencedaily.com/ ... 22:27:54A novel enzyme in corn helps the plants defend themselves from voracious caterpillars by disrupting the insects' ability to digest food, and ultimately killing them... could be used in tandem with other biological pesticides such as the Bt toxin to prevent the pests from developing resistance and making the toxin more effective...
Animal Companionscommercialappeal.com/ ... 11:57:22Cat ExcitedDays with neither food nor water, the cat... was trapped behind the wall... new house under construction... heard a crying cat and spotted a paw... just enough space between the fireplace gas pipe and edge of the hole made for the pipe for the cat to push its paw through for someone -- anyone -- to see... "He had his paw out touching -- not clawing -- the whole time, like he was saying 'Come on! Come on!''... his ribs were sticking out... temporary name... Wally...
Only Naturalsciencedaily.com/ ... 22:39:19Testing by U.S. scientists finds that the Pacific Ocean is getting warmer and more acidic, while the amount of oxygen is decreasing... sciencedaily.com/ ... 22:30:52cologists have long asked, Why is the world green? In other words, why aren't herbivores, such as insects and grazing animals, more successful at eating the world's green leaves, also known as plant biomass? In the May 2006 issue of American Naturalist, Steven D. Allison (University of California, Irvine) asks the same questions a different way: Why is the ground brown? Why don't the organisms that break down the carbon in the soil consume it all?.. timesonline.co.uk/ ... 11:52:20Air temperatures above the entire frozen continent of Antarctica have risen three times faster than the rest of the world during the past 30 years...
Good is Innatesfgate.com/ ... 11:49:20Hiker finds $1 million in jewels... [in] tourists' Louis Vuitton bag on park bench... turned it over to police with all its contents... a Cartier watch, diamond and ruby rings, pearl earrings, necklaces with large diamond stones, and $500 in cash... 28-year-old son, Ali Khalili, said of the phone call. "My mom started to cry again and my dad became very emotional, too... That was a big deal. There are still good people in this world..."
Science Marches Onnnnnnsciencedaily.com/ ... 22:40:18In a new study forthcoming in the May 2006 issue of The American Naturalist, Mark A. Changizi and his coauthors, Qiang Zhang, Hao Ye, and Shinsuke Shimojo, from the California Institute of Technology explore the hypothesis that human visual signs have been cross-culturally selected to reflect common contours in natural scenes that humans have evolved to be good at seeing. "[We] analyzed one hundred writing systems, Chinese characters, and non-linguistic visual signs, and found that these very different types of human visual signs possess a similar shape structure," explain the researchers... sciencedaily.com/ ... 22:35:17Los Alamos scientists, working with collaborators from around the world, recently observed experimental evidence of solitary vibrations (solitons) in a solid. First observed as localized waves on the surface of water more than a century ago, the concept of solitons in solids was only theorized as possible two decades ago... Scottish scientist John Scott Russell first described the soliton in August 1834 after observing the phenomenon on the surface of water in Scotland's Union canal. In the late 1980s, scientists theorized that solitons might exist in solids and molecules, calling them intrinsic localized modes or discrete breathers, but had no physical evidence of their existence. Although the discovery will have immediate implications for uranium science and the field of solid-state physics, the potential applications of this discovery in other fields are yet to be seen. They might include new explanations of the roles that localized vibrations may play in breaking chemical bonds in biological processes. The new knowledge might also provide the scientific underpinnings for the development of future devices that exploit localized energy waves... sciencedaily.com/ ... 22:29:31IBM scientists have developed a powerful new technique for exploring and controlling magnetism at its fundamental atomic level... "We can now position atoms and then measure and control their magnetic interactions within precisely designed structures..." sciencedaily.com/ ... 22:27:24...gold nanoparticles can act as tiny, precise and powerful heaters for use in biomedical applications... a metal nanoparticle, such as gold, can be stimulated with the right frequency of laser light to heat an area up to 1,000 times its size... "What's amazing is that we're taking particles that you can't even image with a light microscope, and all of the sudden they cause a huge change in a macroscopic system..." newscientist.com/ ... 12:01:38A DEVICE that can pick up on people's emotions is being developed to help people with autism relate to those around them. It will alert its autistic user if the person they are talking to starts showing signs of getting bored or annoyed... One of the problems facing people with autism is an inability to pick up on social cues. Failure to notice that they are boring or confusing their listeners can be particularly damaging... today.reuters.com/ ... 10:53:32The company that cloned the first horse to be sold commercially said on Thursday it plans to market 22 similar animals before 2008, marking another step forward for the controversial technology...
US Military Casualtiesdefenselink.mil/ ... 22:42:02us-flagArmy Pfc. Sean D. Tharp, 21, of Orlando, Fla., died in Baghdad, Iraq on March 28, when his element came under enemy small arms fire while conducting dismounted patrol operations. Tharp was assigned to the 1st Battalion, 22nd Infantry, 1st Brigade, 4th Infantry Division, Fort Hood, Texas. defenselink.mil/ ... 10:22:43us-flagAir Force Tech. Sgt. Walter M. Moss Jr., 37, of Houston, Texas, was killed in the explosion of an improvised explosive device while conducting safing operations in the vicinity of Baghdad, Iraq on March 29. Moss was assigned to the 366th Civil Engineer Squadron, Mountain Home AFB, Idaho.
Ummm....theindychannel.com/ ... 22:25:50LAWRENCE, Ind... Councilman R. Douglas Reeser, upset at the end of a special council meeting, expressed his displeasure after he and two other Republicans were outvoted on some measures... upset because they felt they didn't get a chance to speak to their point of view... stirred controversy with a Nazi-style salute in protest...
Free Expressionhosted.ap.org/ ... 22:23:34SEATTLE -- The state Supreme Court ruled Thursday a trial judge overreached his authority when he restricted a man from posting information on a Web site. Paul Trummel was jailed for more than three months in 2002 in his free-speech standoff with the judge over the Web site he used as a forum for attacking the Council House, a federally subsidized retirement home where he once lived. Trummel posted the phone numbers and addresses of Council House staff, directors and residents - something that King County Superior Court Judge James Doerty characterized as harassment. Trummel removed the information after his release from jail, but appealed his case...
Transport Incidentnaplesnews.com/ ... 11:55:00was driving... when the pet snake he had wrapped around his neck attacked his face... crashed into several roadwork barricades...
Theory of Educationlocal6.com/ ... 11:44:11Several parents in Apopka, Fla., are upset over a surprise school "Holocaust" project that some say tormented children... eighth-graders with last names beginning with L through Z... were given yellow five-pointed stars for Holocaust Remembrance Day. Other students were privileged.... Father... said his son was forced to stand in the back of the classroom and not allowed to sit because he was wearing the yellow star. "He was forced to go to the back of the lunch line four times by an administrator.... He was crying.... I said, 'What are you crying about?' He said, 'Daddy, I was a Jew today.'.... I tried to talk to my son and I asked all of these questions and the only thing he said is, 'Daddy, the only thing I found out today is I don't want to be Jewish...'" "..they could not use the water fountains..." "some not told the rule..."
People Diewoai.com/ ... 10:52:47A woman whose 457-pound body sat in a morgue for more than a month during a dispute over the cost of her cremation will be cremated within the next few days... wasn't immediately cremated because Dallas County and the crematorium it contracts with disagreed over the extra dollar per pound charged for bodies weighing more than 300 pounds...
Digital Threatnews.ft.com/ ... 10:50:29MySpace.com, the fast-growing community website hugely popular with American teens, has removed 200,000 “objectionable” profiles from its site as it steps up efforts to calm fears about the safety of the network for young users...
Sex can be... disturbingdailymail.co.uk/ ... 10:48:08most women still believe one-night stands are immoral...
Sex can be Boringcontactmusic.com/ ... 10:47:46Legendary performer LIZA MINNELLI has declared she is through with sex and just wants to find a partner who is kind and has some integrity...
Iraqtoday.reuters.com/ ... 10:47:01U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice... "Yes, I know we have made tactical errors, thousands of them," she said in answer to a question over whether lessons had been learned since the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq in 2003. "I believe strongly that it was the right strategic decision, that Saddam had been a threat to the international community long enough," she added...
Print is Deadnydailynews.com/ ... 10:45:26Tens of thousands of New York Posts were dumped at two recycling centers yesterday morning, just hours after being printed, in a bizarre circulation ploy that has already come to the attention of newspaper circulation authorities. An executive at a Brooklyn facility where at least 10,000 Posts were dumped said the papers would be sent to China, still wrapped in their original plastic binders... The decision to dump the Posts en masse is even more puzzling as the papers had been sponsored by Nike and Jordan Brand, and were originally destined to be given away to consumers in the city...
Alcohol Was Involvedforbes.com/ ... 10:21:44Many previous studies suggesting that moderate drinking helps prevent heart disease may be flawed, says a report by a group of researchers from Australia, Canada and the United States. They analyzed 54 studies that looked at the association between drinking and risk of premature death from all causes, including heart disease. The new report concluded that many of those studies did not account for the effects of age and illness that make abstainers have higher death rates than moderate drinkers...
CD/DVD/etc is Deaddigital-lifestyles.info/ ... 10:16:58Toshiba has today released the first HD-DVD player. The Japanese release will be a big PR boost for the HD-DVD camp in their long running battle for the next-gen High Definition DVD format with Blu-ray. Toshiba said they plan to release the HD-DVD player in the US by the middle of next month and computers equiped with HD-DVD in April-June this year...
Theory of Justiceorlandosentinel.com/ ... 11:41:33...a college student who ran a red light in 2004 and killed two girls [5 & 2] as they crossed the street with their mother, has pleaded guilty to vehicular homicide... was ordered to serve 30 days in the Orange County Jail without the chance of work release... also must serve 500 hours of community service, completing 10 hours per month by speaking to young drivers about safe driving... drivers license was revoked for three years... A chief concern was whether Townsend was using a cell phone at the time of the incident... told an FHP investigator she was... cell-phone records, however, indicate she was not... forbes.com/ ... 10:06:52Profile of the judge in the Moussaoui trial, U.S. District Judge Leonie Brinkema... Brinkema, a graduate of Rutgers and the Cornell law school, has a reputation for fairness and a direct, no-nonsense style in court... Brinkema is particularly protective of her juries - she has kept the names of jurors secret in the Moussaoui trial and in other terror cases. She makes more than the usual effort to explain various legal asides to the jury to assuage their curiosity. On several occasions she has described the panel weighing evidence in the Moussaoui trial as "a good jury" for the case. She made a point of maintaining eye contact with jury members throughout the trial, even arranging seating so that a tall juror wouldn't block her view of others. She even inquired, unsuccessfully, about obtaining HOV lane passes for jurors who were worried about getting to court on time...
World Without Bordersworldnetdaily.com/ ... 22:24:21The coalition that organized an estimated 500,000 marchers in Los Angeles to protest immigration reform announced its next mass action is "an economic and labor boycott that will paralyze the U.S. economy." The radical separatist publication La Voz de Aztlan, the Voice of Aztlan, said the proposed boycott is in response to a "racist" measure in Congress... apnews.myway.com/ ... 22:24:02President Bush said Friday the United States believes it is important to enforce laws protecting borders and told the leaders of Mexico and Canada that was crucial to keeping prosperity alive. He also reiterated strong support for a "guest worker" program that would allow undocumented immigrants already in the United States to remain in the country to fill low-paying jobs that Americans won't take... azstarnet.com/ ... 10:47:26Tensions over immigration reform heightened in the Phoenix area's East Valley Thursday when students raised a Mexican flag over Apache Junction High School — and then other students yanked it down and burned it. "I know (they) shouldn't have burned the Mexican flag," said Jacob Stewart, a 16-year-old sophomore. "I heard it was raised above the American flag and that just irked me..." theglobeandmail.com/ ... 10:15:51For the top Hamas man in the West Bank, it isn't a shock that Western countries have begun cutting funding and ties to the Palestinian Authority. But it was surprising for him to see Canada go first... washingtonpost.com/ ... 00:33:35Guard the Borders -- And Face Facts, Too By George F. Will... America, the only developed nation that shares a long -- 2,000-mile -- border with a Third World nation, could seal that border... But control belongs at the top of the agenda, for four reasons. First, control of borders is an essential attribute of sovereignty...
Digital Culturesciencedaily.com/ ... 22:39:01An interdisciplinary team of researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) is studying whether RFID technology can be used as a low cost, reliable means to track firefighters and other first responders inside buildings and help them navigate under hazardous conditions... washingtonpost.com/ ... 00:35:50online experiment based on... Whack-a-Mole!.. About 1,500 people found their way to our Web site to whack away at eight celebrities, eight politicians or eight notorious dictators... Participants also took a survey that asked how they feel about the Republican and Democratic parties and about selected party leaders. To measure the cathartic effect of online whacking, half were questioned before they started pummeling; the other half afterward... washingtonpost.com/ ... 00:34:43Second Life, the trendy online universe... fast-growing, three-dimensional place where people are not only hanging out but buying land, building virtual casinos and opening other businesses that earn real dollars selling virtual stuff... Second Life's creator, a company called Linden Lab, landed an additional $11 million in financing this week from a group of high-profile investors, including Amazon.com founder Jeff Bezos and eBay founder Pierre Omidyar... marketwatch.com/ ... 00:32:27John C. Dvorak... Apple vs. Apple is an old song... In an effort to save the money, though, I would suggest that the company change its name for good. Offer a million dollars to the public-at-large in a competition to rename the company...
Culturecsmonitor.com/ ... 00:31:50'Ice Age: the Meltdown' is a family reunion that everyone can warm up to... The best parts of the film, as in the original, are the sequences with Scrat squeaking and scrambling after an elusive acorn...
Supernaturalsptimes.com/ ... 00:31:17Is it the prayer that's flawed, or is it the study? A study says heart surgery patients didn't benefit from being prayed for - but other scientists and clergy say no study could measure such a thing...
THU 2006-MAR-30
Prison Suckstennessean.com/ ... 17:32:29Large jars of peanut butter have been banned in Tennessee's 15 state prisons because inmates were hiding guns, drugs and other contraband in the 18-ounce containers, state corrections officials said. The ban came after an investigation revealed that George Hyatte, a prisoner in Knoxville, had concealed a smuggled cell phone in a jar of peanut butter at the prison where he was being held and used it to coordinate a deadly breakout while being taken to court in August...
Theftbreitbart.com/ ... 17:28:01German authorities have arrested a man who is accused of trying to extort $2 million from the Christian Science Monitor by promising to win the release of American reporter Jill Carroll, who was freed from captivity in Baghdad Thursday...
Transport Tragedyfoxnews.com/ ... 17:40:36MANAMA, Bahrain — A ferry carrying up to 150 people sank Thursday night in the Persian Gulf off the coast of Bahrain, and at least 44 bodies had been recovered... at least 52 people had been rescued... was on an evening cruise that was to last several hours. It overturned less than a mile off the coast... breitbart.com/ ... 08:42:22DogA pet owner sued American Airlines on Wednesday after his English bulldog died following a cross-country flight. Terrence Ing, 29, claims airline employees refused to provide a veterinarian and other care after the dog became sick. He is seeking unspecified damages...
Yuck!local6.com/ ... 08:35:35Signs warning of bird droppings were posted along a stretch in downtown Orlando this week after cars, benches, sidewalks, plants and even people are hit and covered by the white bird waste...
Threatsbreitbart.com/ ... 17:26:05The US military plans to detonate a 700 tonne explosive charge in a test called "Divine Strake" that will send a mushroom cloud over Las Vegas, a senior defense official said. "I don't want to sound glib here but it is the first time in Nevada that you'll see a mushroom cloud over Las Vegas since we stopped testing nuclear weapons," said James Tegnelia, head of the Defense Threat Reduction Agency... The aim is to measure the effect of the blast on hard granite structures... thenewstribune.com/ ... 08:31:37A 5-year-old Fircrest kindergartener, who got up on a chair at home, climbed on the washer-dryer and grabbed an old pistol from a cupboard, took the gun to school Monday. The boy carried the unloaded .22-caliber weapon in his backpack to Whittier Elementary School and showed it to a friend on the playground... did not make any threats with the gun, which he eventually put into a friend’s backpack. He told the principal what he’d done and was suspended for 10 days... worldnetdaily.com/ ... 08:26:42As a Los Angeles police officer for the past 32 years, I must agree that the immigration issues will lead to violence in this country. The city of Los Angeles is ripe for riots spurred by angry youths and activists... breitbart.com/ ... 08:08:24A US court sentenced Ahmed Omar Abu Ali to 30 years in prison for conspiring to kill President George W. Bush and for supporting Al-Qaeda. The Arab-American student, 25, was found guilty last November on nine counts of plotting to kill Bush, conspiracy to hijack a plane and offering to aid Osama bin Laden's terror network...
Lost & Foundkare11.com/ ... 08:33:29Two runaway teenage girls told police that a St. Paul family kidnapped them and forced them into prostitution, drugging them and pistol-whipping them when they resisted... Police arrested five people when they raided a home to rescue one of the girls. A mother and her two sons have been charged. Four other children ages 2 to 10 who lived at the home were put in protective custody... The teenagers told investigators that they were subdued by being forced to smoke crack, take sleeping pills or use methamphetamine. The Ramsey County attorney's office on Monday charged ...a 34-year-old mother, with kidnapping, aiding and abetting criminal sexual conduct and terrorizing the two girls... 16-year-old son was charged with four counts of kidnapping for aiding and abetting criminal sexual conduct. ...15-year-old son was charged, but details of that case were not released because of his age... today.reuters.com/ ... 08:06:55Journalist Jill Carroll was freed in Iraq on Thursday, nearly three months after being kidnapped in Baghdad...
Violencetelegraph.co.uk/ ... 08:34:53A doctor and his assistant have each been jailed for two years in India for using ultrasound scans for sex-selective abortions. Dr Anil Sabsani, a radiologist, and his assistant, who was not named, were trapped in the northern state of Haryana after the authorities were told that his clinic was offering illegal sex-determination tests. Dr Sabsani told a pregnant woman sent in undercover that he would reveal the sex of her child for an additional fee of 1,500 rupees (£20). After the woman paid the money, Dr Sabsani was caught on a hidden video camera confirming that the unborn child was female, saying: "But that can be taken care of..." examiner.com/ ... 08:08:03Rep. Cynthia McKinney and a police officer scuffled Wednesday after the Georgia Democrat entered a House office building unrecognized and refused to stop when asked, according to U.S. Capitol Police. McKinney, a sixth-term congresswoman who represents suburban Atlanta, struck the officer according to one account, a police official said, adding there were conflicting accounts of exactly what happened... bloomberg.com/ ... 08:00:23U.S.-led coalition forces in Afghanistan destroyed two bases of the Taliban movement after fighters attacked a coalition post in the southern province of Helmand... At least 20 gunmen were killed at the bases and weapons and materials for explosive devices destroyed in the raids... At least 12 gunmen died in the attack... news.monstersandcritics.com/ ... 07:59:30Kabul - A suicide bomber targeting Canadian soldiers killed himself Thursday and injured seven people, including a woman and two children, when he blew up his car in Afghanistan's southern province of Kandahar... The main target was a convoy of Canadian soldiers... Canadians suffered no casualties...
In southeastern province of Khost, two civilians and a policeman were injured Thursday morning in Ali-Khil district of the province after a remote-controlled device was detonated against a convoy of Afghan police...
Only Naturalwashingtonpost.com/ ... 17:42:41The brains of very intelligent children appear to develop in a distinctive and surprising way that distinguishes them from less intelligent children... children with the highest IQs began with a relatively thin cortex -- the folded outer layer of the brain that is involved in complex thinking -- which rapidly grew thicker before reaching a peak and then rapidly becoming thinner, said Philip Shaw, the lead investigator. Children of average intelligence had a thicker cortex around age 6, but by around 13 it was thinner than in children of superior intelligence...
US Military Casualtiesdefenselink.mil/ ... 19:09:16us-flagArmy Sgt. 1st Class John T. Stone, 52, of Norwich, Vt., died March 28 in Lashkagar, Afghanistan as a result of enemy mortar and small arms attacks during combat operations. Stone was assigned to the Army National Guard's 15th Civil Support Team, South Burlington, Vt. defenselink.mil/ ... 08:14:37us-flagArmy Sgt. Michael D. Rowe, 23, New Port Richey, Fla., died in Rutbah, Iraq on March 28, when an improvised explosive device detonated near his HMMWV during combat operations. Rowe was assigned to the 46th Engineer Battalion, Warrior Brigade, Fort Polk, La.
US Militarydefenselink.mil/ ... 08:14:13This week, the Air Force and Navy announced an increase in the number of reservists on active duty in support of the partial mobilization, while the Army and Marine Corps numbers decreased. The Coast Guard number remained the same. The net collective result is 628 fewer reservists mobilized than last week. This brings the total National Guard and Reserve personnel, who have been mobilized, to 112,635, including both units and individual augmentees.
Healing Ourselvescbsnews.com/ ... 08:02:51Blood pressure and loneliness might be related, especially in older adults...
Digital Future is Nownews.com.com/ ... 08:02:24The world's largest electronics firms have decided to use Bluetooth wireless technology to send high-quality video between devices in the home, two industry associations said Tuesday. The decision, by WiMedia Alliance and Bluetooth SIG, is expected to determine how hundreds of millions of televisions, video recorders and personal computers will be connected without wires by the turn of the decade...
Extraterrestrialspaceflightnow.com/ ... 08:01:39A Russian Soyuz rocket blasted off from the Baikonur Cosmodrome today and streaked into orbit, carrying a fresh two-man space station crew and a Brazilian test pilot making his nation's first trip off planet...
Digital Cultureblog.washingtonpost.com/ ... 17:44:22RealNetworks has issued an update to its fleet of media-player products that fixes at least three critical flaws in the applications that attackers could use to infiltrate vulnerable PCs... I long ago abandoned RealNetworks' products because I didn't like how they seemed to take over my machine's settings, generate odd pop-up screens and generally hog my bandwidth. I installed RealPlayer the other day on a PC I don't use much in order to test this update and noticed that the program still appears to have some of those same behaviors. But it occured to me that if RealNetworks can generate all of these messages, at least one of the pop-ups should remind me that I need to download a security update. Alas, RealPlayer does not do that...
Supernaturalwashingtonpost.com/ ... 17:43:23Praying for other people to recover from an illness is ineffective, according to the largest, best-designed study to examine the power of prayer to heal strangers at a distance...
That's Not Funny!foxnews.com/ ... 17:41:41...The next time you’re at the movies enjoying some comedy blockbuster, listen hard to the laughter around you. Why are all these strangers, in unison, exploding into such weird, gasping, grunting noises? Their laughs may suddenly stop seeming familiar, and more like the inhuman chatter of birds or the screeches of monkeys at the zoo. Once you start looking at laughter as behavior, it can lead to some odd questions. Why do we do it? Do animals laugh? And why do we expect that any decent James Bond villain will cackle diabolically when revealing his plan for world domination? What’s so funny?..
US Congressupi.com/ ... 17:30:37WASHINGTON, March 30 -- For the fifth time since 1993, U.S. Rep. Cynthia McKinney, D-Ga., had a run-in with Washington security personnel when an officer failed to recognize her... In 1993, Capitol Police posted a photo of McKinney on an office wall so officers could remember who she was after she complained. Then in 1995, she complained again about being stopped. In 1996 and 1998, she complained that White House security officials did not give her the same treatment as other members of Congress, at one time mistaking her 23-year-old white aide for her. McKinney is black. "I am absolutely sick and tired of having to have my appearance at the White House validated by white people," she said at the time...
Families Todaymetimes.com/ ... 08:40:00ANAND, India -- After giving birth to healthy twins, Mrs A, a young Indian woman, handed them to a US-based couple knowing that she was unlikely to see them again. "Her parents never knew what she was doing," her mother-in-law confides. "She told them she had a baby boy but he passed away." Mrs A, 27, is part of India's most prolific family of surrogate mothers, something that although not unlawful has to be kept a secret in this conservative country...
Transport Incidenttelegraph.co.uk/ ... 08:37:19A pilot who landed his passenger jet at the wrong airport in Northern Ireland... touched down his Airbus A320... at the Ballykelly military airport five miles short of his intended destination at City of Derry Airport... Soldiers from the base boarded the aircraft on landing... One passenger said: "As soon as we arrived at the military base... the pilot apologised that we may have arrived at the wrong airport. Everyone started laughing and thought it was a joke..."
Transportbreitbart.com/ ... 08:30:52KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Traffic engineers trying to ease congestion and reduce accidents in Kansas City have come up with an audacious idea for this side of the Atlantic: making people drive on the left side of the road... Planners said they modeled their "diverging diamond" design after one in use in the French city of Versailles, where motorists drive on the right. The cost will be $6 million, or about half the $11 million that competing ideas were projected to cost. The project is to be started and finished in 2007. Drivers will reach a traffic signal, then be guided to the opposite side of the road, which will be divided by a concrete median with glare screens to minimize the potentially disorienting sight of oncoming cars to the right. After about 600 to 700 feet, motorists reach another traffic signal and are returned to the right side of the road. Ramps before the first and second lights will allow motorists to enter I-435. The design spares motorists from having to turn left in front of oncoming traffic to get onto the highway...
Sportsmanshipbreitbart.com/ ... 08:29:32Teen golf prodigy Michelle Wie will test herself against male professionals here in July at the John Deere Classic, officials of the four million-dollar PGA tournament announced... No woman has made the cut at a US PGA Tour event since Babe Didrikson Zaharias in 1945...
Now That's Funny!news.kypost.com/ ... 08:38:00In all, Covington police recovered 21 lifeless lawn figurines from the yard on Blue Ridge Drive. Nobody - including the home's residents - has any idea how the outdoor knick-knacks got there. "I just woke up to it. They were right in front of the driveway here..." washingtonpost.com/ ... 08:28:44"I feel very comfortable up here," Dick Cheney said as he stood at the podium at the 62nd annual Radio & Television Correspondents' Association dinner last night at the Hilton Washington. "The lighting could be better, but I can still see the whites of your eyes," the sometime quail hunter joked. The vice president was the featured speaker at the event, and he brought along a comic slideshow. He was pretty funny, and he seemed to be having a good time. Several times he even smiled, sort of. "I know how to have fun," he said. "I'm a real party animal." That got a laugh...
Reasons for Repealansa.it/ ... 08:27:54Rome, March 27 - Mafia drug traffickers were building a submarine to bring cocaine from Colombia to Italy, Italy's anti-Mafia chief said Monday...
Theory of Sex Educationkutv.com/ ... 08:27:26FERRON- A former junior high school teacher in Emery County is charged with felony sex abuse of a minor for allegedly molesting a 15-year-old boy. Brandy Yates, 26, was a teacher at San Rafael Junior High School in Ferron. Authorities have filed a second-degree felony count of forcible sexual abuse against her because she was in a position of special trust...
Under Tyrannybreitbart.com/ ... 17:29:25BEIJING - Authorities say they are holding a Chinese filmmaker because he committed a crime, but they refuse to give any details or allow visitors, his sister said Thursday. Wu Hao, a Beijing-based documentary filmmaker, has been in police custody in the capital since Feb. 22... worldnetdaily.com/ ... 08:26:15As attention focused on an Afghan Christian convert who faced the death penalty for his conversion, Algeria quietly passed a law that punishes anyone who persuades a Muslim to leave his faith, with up to five years in prison, and banishes house churches...
Theory of Justicebreitbart.com/ ... 08:21:07Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, in a scathing letter to the editor of the Boston Herald, accused the newspaper's staff of watching "too many episodes of the Sopranos" for interpreting a hand gesture he made at a cathedral as obscene...
World Without Bordersbreitbart.com/ ... 17:28:57US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice met French President Jacques Chirac in Paris as part of a lightning tour of Europe for consultations on Iran. Rice arrived from Berlin, where she attended a meeting with foreign ministers of the major United Nations powers on how to act on Iran's nuclear program... [photo: Chirac kissing Rice] breitbart.com/ ... 17:27:39The state's highest court, which made Massachusetts the first state to legalize gay marriage, ruled Thursday that same-sex couples from other states cannot marry here... chron.com/ ... 17:27:12Reagan High School Principal Robert Pambello was ordered to remove a Mexican flag Wednesday morning that he had hoisted below the U.S. and Texas flags that typically fly in front of his school — a symbol he agreed to fly to show support for his predominantly Hispanic student body. At nearby Hamilton Middle School, a child was asked to wipe off Mexican and U.S. flags painted on his face. Hundreds of other students carried Mexican flags during walkouts Wednesday — acts of protest that they vow to continue until Congress rejects legislation that would further restrict immigration... hosted.ap.org/ ... 08:08:57CANCUN, Mexico -- The leaders of the United States, Mexico and Canada are converging in this bikini-and-beer mecca for a second annual show of North American unity. Despite the emphasis on cross-border comity and cooperation, however, the neighbors come together with no resolution of nagging issues that for years have strained U.S. relations with its two largest trading partners... worldnetdaily.com/ ... 08:07:23While debates about guest-worker programs for illegal aliens take place in the corridors of power, in the streets of America's big cities no amnesty is being offered by activists calling for the expulsion of most U.S. citizens from their own country...
But is it Art?people.aol.com/ ... 08:06:05Gallery co-owner David Kesting confirmed that calls of protest have come in from as far away as "Tokyo, England, France. Some people are upset that Britney is being used for this subject matter. Others who are pro-life thought this was degrading to their movement. And some pro-choice people were upset that this is a pro-life monument..."
World of Culturescontactmusic.com/ ... 17:32:00HARRISON FORD hates the internet, because it means anyone can spread malicious gossip about him... "Any kind of rubbish goes on the internet and it can have a f**king life of its own..." [said the foul-mouted star....] chron.com/ ... 08:01:05Lawyers for Apple Computer Inc. on Thursday asserted the company's right to distribute music through its iTunes music store, rejecting claims by The Beatles' Apple Corps Ltd. that doing so violated a 1991 trademark agreement. Apple Computer lawyer Anthony Grabiner said the "distribution of digital entertainment content" was permitted under the agreement, in which the two companies promised not to tread on the other's sphere of business. Grabiner said "even a moron in a hurry" could distinguish between the computer company's online music business and a record label like Apple Corps...
Opposing Tyrannycanada.com/ ... 07:58:09Canada shuts out Hamas Canada became the first country to sever relations and cut tens of millions of dollars in aid to the new Palestinian government yesterday for its refusal to renounce violence and recognize Israel. "There will be no contact and no funds, period," Foreign Affairs Minister Peter MacKay said after a meeting with the Conservative caucus. "We cannot send any direct aid to an organization that refuses to renounce terrorist activity, refuses to renounce violence..."
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9/11 - still with usbreitbart.com/ ... 13:50:14Construction workers cleaning toxic waste from a vacant skyscraper near the World Trade Center site have found more bone fragments and human remains... city medical examiner's office plans to extract DNA from the latest remains to be recovered from the former Deutsche Bank building and try to match it against a database of the 2,749 people killed at the trade center on Sept. 11, 2001...
Sex can be Dangerousgulf-news.com/ ... 13:47:13Dubai: A lawyer has asked the Dubai Public Prosecution to reconsider the case of a gang-raped flight attendant and charge her with drinking and having an illicit relationship...
Scary Timesbreitbart.com/ ... 13:35:48A 13-year-old boy has been charged with a felony for sending two e-mails threatening President George W. Bush ahead of his upcoming visit to Cincinnati, Ohio... was allowed to remain in his mother's custody ahead of an upcoming court appearance... "He is extremely well versed in the history of President Bush," Florence, Kentucky Police Captain Linny Cloyd told the Cincinnati Enquirer. "In talking with him, you can tell this is a hot-button topic with him." An investigation was launched when the town's mayor received an anonymous e-mail threatening the president, who is expected to throw the first pitch for the Cincinnati Reds baseball team on Monday. A second e-mail was also sent to the White House, Vice President Dick Cheney and the Pentagon. "We asked him what brought him to this point," Cloyd said. "He didn't have an answer he was willing to share with us..." breitbart.com/ ... 13:34:57Authorities charged two teenagers in connection with a break-in at a water facility and expected to charge a third as more than 9,000 area residents waited Wednesday to hear if their drinking water had been contaminated... authorities do not yet know what, if anything, was put into the water... teens became suspects after talking about the incident at school... breitbart.com/ ... 13:34:15BLACKSTONE, Mass. Residents of two towns were ordered to stop using water from their taps after someone broke into the area's supply facility and left behind a 5-gallon container that had an odor. Authorities have ruled out terrorism, and the FBI has decided not to pursue the case... The ban remained in effect while the container and water were being tested for biological or chemical contaminants...
Animals can be Dangerousapnews.myway.com/ ... 13:32:17CatFAIRFIELD, Conn. - Residents of the neighborhood of Sunset Circle say they have been terrorized by a crazy cat named Lewis. Lewis for his part has been uniquely cited, personally issued a restraining order by the town's animal control officer. "He looks like Felix the Cat and has six toes on each foot, each with a long claw..." a neighbor said... "They are formidable weapons..."
Violencemarshfieldnewsherald.com/ ... 13:46:51A 38-year-old Spencer man was charged Monday in Marathon County court with the murder of his wife after authorities suspect he suffocated her by shoving a ceramic Easter bunny-shaped plate down her throat... seattlepi.nwsource.com/ ... 13:18:50RIYADH, Saudi Arabia -- Saudi authorities arrested 40 suspected members of al-Qaida - including some allegedly involved in last month's attempted bombing of a key oil complex - and seized a large cache of weapons and explosives, the official Saudi Press Agency reported Wednesday. ...security forces carried out simultaneous operations in the holy cities of Mecca and Medina, and Qassim in the north and Asir in the south...
Only Naturalhosted.ap.org/ ... 13:58:14As the heavens and Earth moved into rare alignment, all that could be seen of the sun were the rays of its corona - the usually invisible extended atmosphere of the sun that glowed a dull yellow for about three minutes, barely illuminating the west African nation. Automatic street lights flickered on, authorities sounded whistles and schoolchildren burst into applause across Ghana's capital, Accra. Many in the deeply religious country of Christians and Muslims said the phenomenon bolstered their faith. "I believe it's a wonderful work of God, despite all what the scientists say," said Solomon Pomenya, a 52-year old doctor. "This tells me that God is a true engineer..."
Healing Ourselvesthestar.com/ ... 13:17:10KANDAHAR, Afghanistan -- Canadian troops fought a long and deadly battle early today in the desert sands northwest of here, leaving a 22-year-old soldier dead and three other soldiers wounded... In addition to the Canadian casualties, a U.S. serviceman and at least eight Afghan National Army soldiers also died in the battle. The dead Canadian was identified as Pte. Robert Costall, a new father who went to Afghanistan to "make a difference"... The Canadian general commanding coalition forces said the young soldier died defending his comrades... theadvertiser.news.com.au/ ... 13:10:14STEM cells harvested from the brains of mice can restore some walking ability in laboratory rats with spinal-cord damage, Canadian scientists reported yesterday. The findings are the latest success in rodent experiments to improve movement using a type of stem cell, an immature cell that can turn into different cells and tissues. Researchers hope to eventually test stem-cell therapies in people who are paralysed and help them walk again...
Supernatural Threatsbreitbart.com/ ... 13:51:18Authorities moved to quash panic among mobile phone users in eastern India after a rumour that "devil calls" from certain numbers have led to death and illness. People started turning off their handsets after a rumour swept Orissa state of phones exploding like bombs killing their owners when they answered the calls... "What I suspect is it could be the handiwork of vested interests to subsequently market anti-virus software for mobile phones. We will investigate," said Sunil Agarwal, general manger of Bharat Sanchar Nigam in Bhubaneswar city...
People are Bornbreitbart.com/ ... 13:48:46Surgeons operated on a 2-month-old Pakistani girl Tuesday to remove two fetuses that had grown inside her while she was still in her mother's womb...
Big Whoops Cascadeavpress.com/ ... 13:56:53When George Beane went to his neighborhood Burger King on Tuesday afternoon, he got four burgers his way... the charge to his debit card for two $1 Whopper Jrs. and two $1 Rodeo cheeseburgers at the drive-up window... was $4,334.33 instead of the $4.33 it should have been... Because the debit card was linked to Beane's checking account at Bank of America, the electronic charge "went through and left us penniless," Beane's wife, Pat, said Friday. Their mortgage payment was due at the time, and her fear was that they not only would have no money to pay new bills, but the checks sent for their old ones would bounce, she said... palmbeachpost.com/ ... 13:47:44A Boca Raton police sergeant left her loaded service handgun in a public bathroom at the Boca Raton Resort & Club shortly before Vice President Dick Cheney was set to arrive for a GOP fund-raiser...
Digital Culturetoday.reuters.com/ ... 13:46:31A California man in the process of getting a divorce said on Monday he was suing a popular online dating service that barred him from joining until his marriage is officially over...
Disinformation Propaganda & Spinajc.com/ ... 13:46:02"The officer asked if I knew I had a lewd decal on my car and I thought, 'Oh gosh, what did my kids put on my car?' " As it turns out, the decal was an anti-Bush bumper sticker Grier slapped on her 2001 Chrysler Sebring last summer. The bumper sticker — "I'm Tired Of All The BUSH—" — contains an expletive. The officer "said DeKalb had an ordinance about lewd decals and wrote me a ticket" for $100, said Grier, an oncology nurse at Emory University Hospital who lives in Athens. Grier said she thanked the officer — and vowed to see him in court. "This is all about free speech," Grier said in a telephone interview Monday. "The officer pulled me over because he didn't agree with my politics. That's what this is about, not whether I support Bush, not because of the war in Iraq, but about my right to free speech..." worldnetdaily.com/ ... 13:45:11"I am exposing the frauds Hillary directed, and I witnessed, that won her seat in the Senate on her march to the White House," Paul told WorldNetDaily. "It has become my penance to warn the American people of the real threat to our republic posed by this power-hungry sociopath..."
Hurricanes Aftermathbreitbart.com/ ... 13:38:16Starved for cash, the New Orleans school district is taking a long shot and hoping to sell its flooded, unsalvageable school buses on eBay. Some submerged to their roofs in the black flood waters, the yellow school buses were widely photographed in the days after Hurricane Katrina and have become an icon of the city's devastated school system...
Digital Theory of Educationhosted.ap.org/ ... 13:37:32A University of Memphis law professor has banned laptop computers from her classroom...
Unclear on the Conceptbreitbart.com/ ... 13:36:30Democrats are stepping up their effort to cut into the public perception that Republicans are stronger on national security... Congressional Democrats vow to provide U.S. agents with the resources to hunt down Osama bin Laden...
Tax Money Will Fix Alllatimes.com/ ... 13:33:34If terrorists come to tiny Dillingham, Alaska, security cameras will be ready. But privacy concerns have residents up in arms... DILLINGHAM, Alaska — From Anchorage it takes 90 minutes on a propeller plane to reach this fishing village on the state's southwestern edge, a place where some people still make raincoats out of walrus intestine. This is the Alaskan bush at its most remote... pop. 2,400... So eyebrows were raised in January when the first surveillance cameras went up on Main Street. Each camera is a shiny white metallic box with two lenses like eyes. The camera's shape and design resemble a robot's head... By mid-February, more than 60 cameras watched over the town, and the Dillingham Police Department plans to install 20 more — all purchased through a $202,000 Homeland Security grant meant primarily to defend against a terrorist attack...
Transportmyrtlebeachonline.com/ ... 13:25:13After a three-year run, Myrtle Beach's homegrown airline, Hooters Air, is bowing out of regularly scheduled air service...
Sex -- always attractivepugbus.net/ ... 13:22:19"...lips are the new cleavage..."
--FHM's interactive editor, Harry Groughton
World of Culturesmanagement.silicon.com/ ... 13:18:06As the two Apples - the Beatles' record label and the maker of iPods - head to court today, the question in most people's minds is not 'will they settle?' but 'for how much?'... chron.com/ ... 13:17:51Profanity getting worse? You bet your @&*# Almost 75% of Americans say they hear it in public frequently, poll finds... This is a story about words we can't print in this story... [dang!]
World Without Bordersnst.com.my/ ... 13:15:43An Afghan Christian who faced the death penalty for converting from Islam arrived in Italy from Kabul, Italy's Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi announced... nst.com.my/ ... 13:15:21Former Liberian president and war crimes suspect Charles Taylor, captured in Nigeria, left Liberia for Sierra Leone aboard a United Nations helicopter afternoon, AFP correspondents at Monrovia airport said...
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Threatsdailymail.co.uk/ ... 16:39:51A British terror cell planned to smuggle the ingredients for a bomb from Pakistan into the UK using shampoo bottles and bags of dried fruit, the Old Bailey heard today. The vital ingredients for the explosive device were aluminium powder, ammonium nitrate and detonators...
9/11 - still with ustoday.reuters.co.uk/ ... 15:35:55Top al Qaeda operatives and others in U.S. custody said in testimony on Tuesday that Zacarias Moussaoui was untrustworthy and not part of the September 11 attacks...
Disturbing Family Patternsconcordmonitor.com/ ... 15:35:36A North Carolina mother charged with abducting her two children was accused of posing as a man while on the run. And authorities say the heavyset woman with cropped hair and a slight mustache even had the kids calling her "Daddy..." said it was all a misunderstanding...
Violencebreitbart.com/ ... 16:34:40PHILADELPHIA Two teenagers taunted a man rummaging through a trash bin and then killed him after he bared his buttocks at them... seattletimes.nwsource.com/ ... 15:34:49In Montana, the mother of a quiet young man turned mass murderer is shocked: "It's so unbelievable and overwhelming," a distraught Mary Kay Huff told the Whitefish Free Press. "At this point, I don't know what to think ... we didn't see this coming..." They found nothing in his apartment that indicated he was capable of what Deputy Chief Clark Kimerer called "homicide mayhem..." His computer... yielded no clues. His identical twin brother, Kane, with whom he shared a Northgate-area apartment, police said, was stunned and baffled by Huff's rage... today.reuters.com/ ... 15:27:39The gunman who shot and killed six young people before committing suicide arrived at the weekend house party with an arsenal of weapons and uttered "there's plenty for everyone" during the murderous rampage... police do not know the motive...
Only Naturalnews.yahoo.com/ ... 16:39:12ACCRA, Ghana - Tourists and scientists were gathering at spots around the world for a solar show — the first total eclipse in years, which will sweep northeast from Brazil to Mongolia, blotting out the sun across swathes of of the world's poorest lands... Wednesday's eclipse will blot out the sun in highly populated areas, including west Africa, where governments scrambled to educate people about the dangers of looking at the eclipse without proper eye protection. In Togo, authorities imported hundreds of thousands of pairs of special glasses that consumers cleared rapidly from shelves in the capital, Lome. But villagers in the interior won't have access to the eyewear and officials called on them to stay home...
Digital Animal Culturestuff.co.nz/ ... 16:37:26DogThe Government has snubbed farmers and their lobbyists by refusing to exempt farm dogs from rules that dogs first registered from July must be microchipped... Prime Minister Helen Clark told a press conference yesterday that Cabinet would not be changing the law, which it authorised yesterday...
Healing Ourselveswebmd.com/ ... 16:30:36Most U.S. adolescents are falling short on sleep
  • One in five adolescents get the optimal amount of sleep for their age group (nine or more hours per night).
  • Nearly half (45%) get an insufficient amount of sleep (less than eight hours per night).
  • High school students are more likely to have a sleep shortfall than those in middle school.
Adolescents with sleep shortfalls are more likely to report crankiness, school tardiness, and drowsy driving...
Culturedesmoinesregister.com/ ... 15:28:33Skyler Bartels, a Drake University sophomore from Harvard, Neb., decided to spend his spring break at the Wal-Mart in Windsor Heights... flooded with e-mail and phone calls. Some of the correspondence included requests for national media appearances and interviews. First to get in touch was a representative from "The Late Show with David Letterman..."
Supernatural Threatsnews-journalonline.com/ ... 16:46:40The most memorable moment of Terica Washington's 30th birthday Monday was looking into the sky and seeing an airplane towing a black banner with words written in white: "6/6/06 You have been warned". She was alarmed enough to call the FBI. "It made me feel really creepy, especially in this day and age," said Washington, who works at Ocean Walk Resort. Noting that June 6 is a Tuesday, she drew the connection to Sept. 11, 2001, also a Tuesday. "I thought it might be terrorists," she said... [photo]
Under Tyrannyapnews.myway.com/ ... 16:44:39KABUL, Afghanistan - An Afghan man who had faced the death penalty for converting from Islam to Christianity quickly vanished Tuesday after he was released from prison, apparently out of fear for his life with Muslim clerics still demanding his death...
Fun can be Dangerousstartribune.com/ ... 16:40:28Devin Haskin isn't the first little boy to find the inside of a toy machine too enticing to resist. When the 3-year-old Austin boy crawled through the discharge chute of a Toy Chest claw machine at a Godfather's Pizza here, he ended up on the other side of the glass surrounded by stuffed animals... [photo!]
World Zookeepingdetnews.com/ ... 16:38:34SUPERIOR TOWNSHIP ---- The bodies of two more dogs... two pit bulls... have been discovered in eastern Washtenaw County, bringing to nine the number that have been found in 11 days... Neither of the young male dogs was decapitated like four of the other seven dogs... reward for anyone helping solve the case has risen to $13,000... Besides the dogs, more than 30 foxes, coyotes and deer have been discovered in the same three-mile area since January. Most were skinned and some beheaded. The humane society believes the skinnings and decapitations are connected but still have many questions about the case, including how and where the animals died...
World Without Borderstoday.reuters.com/ ... 16:35:53London's rambunctious mayor, already fighting suspension for comparing a Jewish journalist to a concentration camp guard, landed in fresh hot water on Tuesday for likening the U.S. ambassador to a "chiseling little crook." Mayor Ken Livingstone has been quarrelling with the U.S. embassy since last year, when it announced it would not pay the "congestion charge" fee imposed on cars entering the city center. The embassy says the charge is a tax and that diplomats are immune under treaty. Livingstone says the charge, one of his flagship policies, is a road toll which diplomats have to pay...
Disinformation Propaganda & Spinnews.yahoo.com/ ... 16:35:17Iraq on Monday accused powerful Shi'ite groups of moving the corpses of gunmen killed in battle to encourage accusations that U.S.-led troops massacred unarmed worshippers in a mosque... rejected the accusations of a massacre that prompted the Shi'ite-led government to demand U.S. forces cede control of security but declined to spell out which group he believed moved the bodies...
1980s - less with uswashingtonpost.com/ ... 16:44:06Lyn Nofziger, 81, the rumpled, irreverent political strategist and public affairs adviser who served at Ronald Reagan's right hand both in the California capitol and in the White House, died yesterday of cancer at his home in Falls Church... An offbeat figure who wore Mickey Mouse ties with the knot pulled down, Mr. Nofziger won a reputation as a shrewd, two-fisted political battler, who blended loyalty, cantankerousness and pungent phrasemaking. He was known as one of the key staff members involved in Reagan's rise from the California governor's chair to the pinnacle of American power... today.reuters.com/ ... 16:34:22Caspar Weinberger, who as Ronald Reagan's defense secretary oversaw a massive U.S. military buildup, died on Tuesday at age 88... As head of the Pentagon, Weinberger strongly opposed concessions to Moscow in arms control negotiations and pushed hard for increased defense spending, such as Reagan's Strategic Defense Initiative, a program to develop a land-and space-based missile shield commonly known as "Star Wars..." Weinberger became caught up in the Iran-Contra scandal that bedeviled the Reagan administration. He resigned the defense secretary job in 1987 and afterward was indicted on felony counts of lying to the independent counsel investigating the administration's program for selling missiles to Iran and giving the proceeds to the right-wing Contra forces fighting Nicaragua's socialist Sandinista government. He was pardoned by the first President Bush in 1992 days before he was to go on trial...
Transport Incidentboston.com/ ... 15:29:16A city street collapsed under a sports utility vehicle early Monday, leaving the vehicle nose down into a deep sinkhole that officials said was caused by a water main break. The driver of the SUV escaped without serious injuries... From street level, the vehicle was barely visible inside the 12-foot-wide hole...
Theory of Sex Educationnbc10.com/ ... 15:27:18A New Jersey community is outraged to learn about inappropriate sexual behavior among kindergarten students on their school bus... several incidents involving inappropriate touching... "There was some sexual curiosity going on and once the school district was apprised of it, we asked the children to stop and they stopped..."
Defining Ourselvestoledoblade.com/ ... 16:46:08A 14-year-old central Toledo girl told police she was abducted at gunpoint yesterday by a man seeking sex, but escaped after she hit him in the groin area with a hammer she found under his car seat... told police she had previously learned in school that, if something like this were to happen, to search for a weapon. So the teen told the abductor she had dropped her ring in the suspect's car and was searching for it... "That was good thinking on her part," Sgt. Richard Murphy said of the victim... worldnetdaily.com/ ... 15:26:36What does the shape of a Minneapolis stripper's naked bottom have in common with a landmark of English finance? And how is it possible that the color of the roadside prostitutes in Italy can harbor any implications for the ability of a New York woman to stay home with her children? The point of commonality, as it happens, is historical patterns of migration. In 1990, Umberto Eco wrote an article titled "Migrazioni," which was published in L'Espresso. In that essay, he presciently noted that what Europe was undergoing at that time was not a phenomenon of immigration, but of migration. The difference is significant and one of degree – an individual can immigrate or emigrate, but only a people migrate....
Under Digital Libertywashingtonpost.com/ ... 15:25:14In a unanimous vote yesterday, the Federal Election Commission left unregulated almost all political activity on the Internet except for paid political advertisements. Campaigns buying such ads will have to use money raised under the limits of current federal campaign law. Perhaps most important, the commission effectively granted media exemptions to bloggers and other activists using the Web to allow them to praise and criticize politicians, just as newspapers can, without fear of federal interference...
MON 2006-MAR-27
Threatstoday.reuters.com/ ... 23:09:18investigators were able to easily enter the United States with enough radioactive material to make two so-called dirty bombs...
Violencenews.bbc.co.uk/ ... 22:10:40Several people have died during a police operation to quell a revolt by prisoners at a jail in the former Soviet republic of Georgia. The justice ministry said seven inmates were killed. But the authorities have not yet given a final casualty figure... a group of inmates tried to stage a mass breakout... Georgia's reformist President Mikhail Saakashvili has launched a campaign against organised crime and corruption in the country's prisons, which house about 9,000 inmates. Breakouts are common... breitbart.com/ ... 11:41:59BOULDER, Colo... a party turned violent, leaving blood "in almost every room of the house..." rape and robbery... Six men were arrested... a seventh suspect was being sought... The victim, whose name was withheld, became acquainted with the suspects through MySpace... knew only their first names but their pictures were posted on MySpace... nysun.com/ ... 11:32:35The new documents suggest that the 9/11 commission's final conclusion in 2004, that there were no "operational" ties between Iraq and Al Qaeda, may need to be reexamined in light of the recently captured documents... apnews.myway.com/ ... 11:31:33As new violence flared Monday in northern Iraq with 40 dead in a suicide bombing, Shiite leaders cut off political talks and denounced the United States over a weekend raid that they said killed worshippers in a mosque... Although the United States said no mosque was attacked, Shiites blamed the military for killing 22 people Sunday... forbes.com/ ... 11:12:00A suicide bomber attacked a joint U.S.-Iraqi military base in northern Iraq in Monday, killing at least 15 people and wounding as many as 30... forbes.com/ ... 11:08:48Three explosive devices detonated at the homes of aviation industry employees in western Colorado were similar to a device that exploded at a company's corporate headquarters in Tennessee last month... cbc.ca/ ... 11:07:51The gunman who went on a shooting rampage after a zombie rave in Seattle early Saturday morning was invited to the party by one of the guests... party called "Better Off Undead." Some of the guests were "made up to look as if they were dead..." Most of the youths were asleep...
Disturbing Family Patternsbuffalonews.com/ ... 10:59:05CORTLAND - Police raiding a house for suspected illegal drugs found a 5-year-old boy weighing just 15 pounds, suffering from Down syndrome and sitting in diapers full of his own waste. Lice covered his body... home was littered with bags of garbage, dirty diapers and cockroaches... an 11-year-old girl and a 12-year-old boy in the home also suffered from malnourishment and neglect...
Transport Tragedyapnews.myway.com/ ... 10:51:13At least 20 vehicles crashed on a rural Wyoming interstate in blizzard conditions Sunday, killing at least six people... undetermined number of injured... Troopers at the scene reported zero visibility... Interstate 80 was closed for about 100 miles... crash.. involved semitrailers and passenger vehicles...
Feeding Ourselvestoday.reuters.com/ ... 23:10:30The diet of preschoolers may influence the risk of breast cancer during adulthood... researchers used a 30-item food frequency questionnaire to obtain early diet information... Women who frequently consumed French fries at preschool age had an increased risk of breast cancer. The increased risk of breast cancer for one additional serving of French fries per week was 27 percent. Consumption of whole milk was linked to a slightly decreased breast cancer risk -- for each additional glass of whole milk per day, the risk decreased by 10 percent. No association was found between nutrient levels and the risk of breast cancer... cautioned against over-interpreting the results...
World Zookeepinglocal6.com/ ... 22:08:56PENSACOLA, Fla. -- Two men face felony charges of animal cruelty after they allegedly dragged a donkey behind their pickup... deputies said they found the donkey laying on the ground gasping for air with several severe open wounds. The animal had a rope tied around its neck with the other end tied to the bumper of a truck... Panhandle Equine Rescue transported the donkey to a veterinarian in Atmore, Ala., for treatment...
Only Naturallivescience.com/ ... 22:07:24A city-sized iceberg has broken off an island near Antarctica... about 8 miles wide and 15 miles long... Last year, a larger wandering iceberg named B-15A rammed into the continent and single-handedly ripped two other new city-sized icebergs free...
Digital Future is Nowlivescience.com/ ... 22:06:32European researchers have developed "neuro-chips" in which living brain cells and silicon circuits are coupled together... squeezed more than 16,000 electronic transistors and hundreds of capacitors onto a silicon chip just 1 millimeter square in size. They used special proteins found in the brain to glue brain cells, called neurons, onto the chip... the proteins... "provided the link between ionic channels of the neurons and semiconductor material in a way that neural electrical signals could be passed to the silicon chip..." Electrical signals from neurons were recorded using the chip's transistors, while the chip's capacitors were used to stimulate the neurons...
US Military Casualtiesdefenselink.mil/ ... 22:04:02us-flagArmy Spc. Frederick A. Carlson, 25, Bethlehem, Pa., died in Taqqadum, Iraq on March 25, from a non-combat related cause. Carlson was assigned to the Army National Guard's 228th Forward Support Battalion, 2nd Battalion, 28th Infantry Division, Bethlehem, Pa. The incident is under investigation. defenselink.mil/ ... 15:32:09us-flagArmy Staff Sgt. Christopher L. Robinson, 36, Brandon, Miss., died in Sangain District, Afghanistan on March 25, when his HMMWV came under enemy small arms fire during combat operations. Robinson was assigned to the Army National Guard's 2nd Battalion, 20th Special Forces Group, Jackson, Miss.
It's All in Your Minddailynews.att.net/ ... 11:37:05Woman With Perfect Memory Baffles Scientists... a woman now known only as AJ wrote him a letter detailing her astonishing ability to remember with remarkable clarity even trivial events that happened decades ago... her degree of recall is so much greater than any other person's in the scientific literature...
Culturedesmoinesregister.com/ ... 10:58:15Iowa... living at the Windsor Heights Wal-Mart for three days. Really living there. Eating, sleeping, checking out the DVDs, never leaving. The plan was to spend his entire spring break there. Under the radar... Could the biggest, most successful discount store in the world really meet his every need? Twenty-four hours a day? That's what the TV spots were telling him. "That was the goal," he said. "To buy everything I needed at Wal-Mart..." lived off energy drinks, doughnuts, yogurt and Subway sandwiches... figures he slept four hours out of the 41... a few minutes whenever he could - in a Subway booth or a restroom stall, which isn't recommended, especially with the night stockers bursting in every five minutes... best place for dozing was lawn and garden, where the lights weren't so bright. Nobody worked there between 2 and 4 a.m. Bartels found a lawn chair, kicked back and wondered how life could be better... By Tuesday morning, not even halfway through the great experiment, the store was on to him...
Sex can be... disturbingtoday.reuters.com/ ... 23:15:41Young men who feel good about their looks are more likely than their peers with a less positive body image to engage in risky sexual behavior...
People Dietoday.reuters.com/ ... 23:14:31AHMEDABAD, India - A jobless alcoholic burned himself to death after his wife refused to serve him meat for dinner...
Marriage Todaytoday.reuters.com/ ... 23:13:34A Muslim couple in India has been told by local Islamic leaders they must separate after the husband "divorced" his wife in his sleep... Sohela Ansari told friends that her husband Aftab had uttered the word "talaq," or divorce, three times in his sleep... The couple, married for 11 years with three children, were told they had to split. The religious leaders ruled that if the couple wanted to remarry they would have to wait at least 100 days. Sohela would also have to spend a night with another man and be divorced by him in turn...
Motherhoodtoday.reuters.com/ ... 23:11:41Hemorrhage and high blood pressure are the leading causes of maternal deaths in poor countries in Asia, Africa and Latin America... Each year about 8 million women suffer pregnancy-related complications and over half a million die, but many of the deaths could be prevented...
Ummm....today.reuters.com/ ... 23:13:47Up to a third of telephone users in Britain make calls in the nude, with men more prone to do it without clothes than women... news.bbc.co.uk/ ... 22:11:10The government in India's most lawless state, Bihar, has come up with a new approach to crime. It is paying criminals to surrender and give up their weapons. A murder takes place every two hours, a rape is committed every six and a bank is looted every day in Bihar, according to police records. Now a desperate state government is offering 10,000 rupees ($222) to every criminal to turn themselves in...
Digital Threatnews.bbc.co.uk/ ... 22:09:25No_ieMicrosoft has urged consumers to be wary as three newly discovered bugs leave people open to attack while using the internet. All three flaws affect the software giant's Internet Explorer browser...
Under Tyrannyreuters.myway.com/ ... 22:08:10Chinese police have detained a Chinese-born film maker who is a permanent U.S. resident, a family member said on Monday, weeks before President Hu Jintao visits the United States. Hao Wu, who returned to China in 2004 after living in the United States for 12 years, had been missing since February 22 after interviewing human rights lawyer Gao Zhisheng, while making a documentary about an underground Christian congregation... An officer at the Beijing Public Security Bureau confirmed Wu's detention last week, but declined to give a reason or say where he was being held...
9/11 - still with usbreitbart.com/ ... 22:05:00Al-Qaida conspirator Zacarias Moussaoui testified Monday that he and would-be shoe bomber Richard Reid were supposed to hijack a fifth airplane on Sept. 11, 2001, and fly it into the White House. Moussaoui's testimony on his own behalf stunned the courtroom. His account was in stark contrast to his previous statements in which he said the White House attack was to come later if the United States refused to release an Egyptian sheik imprisoned on separate terrorist convictions... knew the World Trade Center attack was coming and he lied to investigators when arrested in August 2001 because he wanted it to happen. "You lied because you wanted to conceal that you were a member of al- Qaida?" prosecutor Rob Spencer asked. "That's correct," Moussaoui said. Spencer: "You lied so the plan could go forward?" Moussaoui: "That's correct..." told the court he knew the attacks were to take place some time after August 2001 and bought a radio so he could hear them unfold. Specifically, he said he knew the World Trade Center was going to be attacked, but he asserted he was not part of that plot and didn't know the details...
That's Not Funny!newsday.com/ ... 11:43:01ALBANY, N.Y. -- It was just a joke, potential Republican challenger Kathleen Troia "KT" McFarland said Saturday after the New York Post reported her saying Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton's camp was spying on her... "This is a perfect example of what is happening in American politics. One misinterpreted joke and your opponents are smearing you in the press.... I continue to believe that we can be better than that. But, I've got to tell you, it's not easy..."
Police Riotchron.com/ ... 11:40:16AUSTIN - The state has ordered its troopers to cover up any tattoos in a move intended to preserve the officers' clean-cut image...
Digital Theftnews.yahoo.com/ ... 11:40:00[male], 32, pleaded guilty this week in Winnebago County to remotely accessing someone else's computer system without permission... has the dubious distinction of being the first person to face the charge in Winnebago County, and prosecutors say they're taking the crime seriously...
Defending Ourselvespalmbeachpost.com/ ... 11:38:51WEST PALM BEACH — For two months, they spent their nights as volunteer security guards in their burglary-plagued house of God. The vigilance paid off early Friday when a suspected burglar broke through a window and encountered a half-dozen church members wielding baseball bats and broom handles...
Supernatural Threatsworldnetdaily.com/ ... 11:31:00Could the Roman Catholic Church's sex abuse crisis be tied to embedded Satanic and occultic imagery in its artwork – some of it hundreds of years old? That is the seemingly incredible thesis of a new documentary, "Rape of the Soul," made not by anti-Catholic bigots, but by devout followers of the Church. "Rape of the Soul" is in theatrical release in major cities, including New York and Los Angeles... [ad]
Theory of Sex Educationbuffalonews.com/ ... 11:44:04Laura Murphy planned on attending her prom at Villa Maria Academy. She paid the $100 deposit, scheduled a limousine rental and asked her date. She ran into a snag, however, and it has nothing to do with what shoes to wear. Administrators of the private, all-girls Catholic high school school don't like Murphy's choice of companion, and they've told her to find someone else or come alone. Murphy, a senior who is openly lesbian, wants to bring her girlfriend of six months, Lindsey Shelton, and believes school administrators are discriminating against them... morningjournal.com/ ... 11:43:39Lorain school officials this week executed an ''emergency removal'' of an 8-year-old boy who they say sexually harassed a girl in gym class... worldnetdaily.com/ ... 11:29:39popular middle school teacher, 43-year-old Pamela Diehl-Moore, had tearfully pleaded guilty to having sex with a child – a 13-year-old male student who had just completed 7th grade... New Jersey Superior Court Judge Bruce A. Gaeta... "I really don't see the harm that was done here," the judge proclaimed, "and certainly society doesn't need to be worried. I do not believe she is a sexual predator. It's just something between two people that clicked beyond the teacher-student relationship... Maybe it was a way for him, once this happened, to satisfy his sexual needs.... People mature at different rates... I don't see anything here that shows this young man has been psychologically damaged by her actions. And don't forget, this was mutual consent. Now certainly under the law, he is too young to legally consent, but that's what the law says. Some of the legislators should remember when they were that age. Maybe these ages have to be changed a little bit..." " Clicked"? With a 13-year-old?.. Five years probation – no jail time...
U.S. District Judge J. Thomas Marten in Kansas... "Where is the clear, credible evidence that underage sex is always injurious? If you tell me because it is illegal, I reject that..." worldnetdaily.com/ ... 11:26:42The ever-increasing list of teachers having sex with students...
World Without Borderswashingtonpost.com/ ... 11:06:45a case that, had the Bush administration acted responsibly at any time in the past 4 1/2 years, would not even be in court. The case is a challenge to the military commissions the administration has set up at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, to try war-crimes suspects. It poses a bewildering array of difficult legal questions: Are the commissions legal? What procedural rights must they guarantee to comply with statutes, treaties and the Constitution? After a congressional move to strip the courts of jurisdiction over litigation from Guantanamo, does the court even have the power to hear this case? But these questions confront the justices only because of the administration's insistence on pursuing a strategy that has failed in all respects... newsday.com/ ... 11:06:09The Republicans' election-year push for immigration reform was supposed to be a boon for the party, coupling tough border protections with a humane guest-worker program to bring 12 million undocumented immigrants out of the shadows. Instead, that effort, which comes to a head this week in the Senate, has splintered the Republican ranks, pitting pro-business moderates and the White House against hard-liners eager to tap voter anger on the issue...
Theory of Educationtoday.reuters.com/ ... 11:05:34taught real estate finance and development at the university, stole at least $1.5 million in the first 10 months of 2005, telling students and other investors he would buy land in Chicago and Las Vegas and then sell it for large profits...
World of Culturessfgate.com/ ... 11:05:02More than 25,000 evangelical Christian youth landed Friday in San Francisco for a two-day rally at AT&T Park against "the virtue terrorism" of popular culture, and they were greeted by an official city condemnation and a clutch of protesters who said their event amounted to a "fascist mega-pep rally..."
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Transport Tragedybreakingnews.nypost.com/ ... 11:01:35ALAMO, Nev... 26-year-old woman drifted off the road and lost control of the van just before 4 a.m... truck driver, a 59-year-old male, attempted to swerve but crashed into the van nearly head on... truck driver was uninjured... killing the van's pregnant driver and five children... between the ages of 2 and 11... The sole survivor in the minivan was the driver's 50-year-old mother...
Digital Threatwashingtonpost.com/ ... 10:53:59For almost two years, intelligence services around the world tried to uncover the identity of an Internet hacker who had become a key conduit for al-Qaeda. The savvy, English-speaking, presumably young webmaster taunted his pursuers, calling himself Irhabi -- Terrorist -- 007. He hacked into American university computers, propagandized for the Iraq insurgents led