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LOS ANGELES, Feb 19 (AFP) - Hollywood stars Wednesday opened a new front in their battle to derail US plans for a war with Iraq, unveiling plans to flood the White House and lawmakers with antiwar phone calls, e-mails and faxes. A group of stars led by Martin Sheen -- who plays the US president on the television show "The West Wing" -- and actresses Anjelica Huston and Janeane Garofalo said they would stage a "virtual march" Monday on Washington. "Our message to Washington will be clear -- 'Don't invade Iraq!' We can contain Saddam Hussein without killing innocent...

Second cloned baby to be born in Europe in next few days, Clonaid says 1 hour, 43 minutes ago PARIS - The head of the company claiming to have created the world's first cloned human told French television Thursday that a second cloned baby would be born somewhere in Europe in the next few days. Interviewed on France-2, Brigitte Boisselier said the child would be born "in Europe before Sunday." She declined to name the country. Boisselier is chief executive of Clonaid, which is linked to a religious sect that believes space aliens created life on Earth. She is also...

Does Anybody Have A Classic Caption For This Picture of the Clown-Loving John McCain?Thanks! E_C_N

Daschle's Bad Hair Day By Ted Lang© 2002 Published 09. 26. 02 at 21:14 Sierra Time xx Wasn’t it great to see Mr. Smoothie become totally unglued? Wasn’t it great to see Mr. Collected, or is it Mr. Collectivist, so totally lose it? For me, it was a high point in American politics. Talk about shaking and quaking, did you get to see the clip of the Senate’s leading old pork glutton and Dirty Byrd assailing the upper atmosphere with his bent and crooked finger shouting "…wrong, WRONG!?" I really think those two leading members of the Demagogic Party were...

WASHINGTONIt is already too late for the United States to lead the world in the fight against global warming. President Bush saw to that last year, when he abandoned his promise to make power plants reduce the amount of carbon dioxide they send into the air. But if the president won't lead the world, then the business community, the American people and their elected representatives in Congress must lead the president.This month President Bush gave up all pretense of moving forward in the effort to clean up the oldest and dirtiest power plants. First he denigrated the climate action report...

MIAMI (AP) - Gov. Jeb Bush and Florida Secretary of State Katherine Harris criticized the chairwoman of the U.S. Civil Rights Commission on Friday for saying they have not done enough to ensure Florida's flawed presidential election isn't repeated. Bush called the Mary Frances Berry's commission "a badly discredited institution" and saying it is reopening a controversy "that most Floridians have long forgotten." President George W. Bush, the governor's brother, won the White House in 2000 after a partial recount of the state's ballots."Florida is indisputably a national leader in election reform," Bush said, saying the state will spend $30...

For education and discussion only. Not for commercial use. MINNEAPOLIS -- Gov. Jesse Ventura is heading down the Mississippi River in his swimsuit to promote his state. Ventura and two friends will ride the river 1,800 miles from St. Paul to New Orleans in swim suits and life preservers and on personal watercraft made by Medina-based Polaris Industries. It will be part business, part adventure, the governor said. "We're going to bring light to the Mississippi River," he said Friday shortly before leaving for a trade mission to China. "It can't be more dangerous than jumping out of a plane,"...