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Race – Civil Rights Act of 1964 Color – Civil Rights Act of 1964 Religion – Civil Rights Act of 1964 National origin – Civil Rights Act of 1964 Age (40 and over) – Age Discrimination in Employment Act of 1967 Sex – Equal Pay Act of 1963 and Civil Rights Act of 1964 Pregnancy – Pregnancy Discrimination Act Citizenship – Immigration Reform and Control Act Familial status – Civil Rights Act of 1968 Title VIII: Housing cannot discriminate for having children, with an exception for senior housing Disability status – Rehabilitation Act of 1973 and Americans with Disabilities Act...

But the law that was so tough on law-abiding gun owners had quite a different impact on criminals.

For the past week my smoke detector (electric w. battery backup) has starting rapidly beeping at exactly the same time every day and then stops after 10 minutes. Twenty four hours later it starts again. My batteries are new and this is one of 3 detectors. The others are fine.

I cannot connect to one website using Firefox or Internet Explorer. All other websites go through just fine. I was able to connect with the problem website from another PC today so the problem is mine,not the site's.

A frightened dog stuck on a frozen Cambridge reservoir was rescued yesterday after spending several days on the ice evading attempts to bring her ashore.

"Burke left behind: 21 children,90 grandchildren,and 19 great-grandchildren---"

I just had to say that tonight. There,I feel better. That is all.

"Farrell's remains were discovered in 2008,when a German explosives team swept a proposed construction site--------"

"But one thing hasn't changed,as the funding plan for The Edward M. Kennedy Institute makes clear. It's propelled by the usual Kennedy attitude:The people should want what the Kennedys want"

"A few guests objected to the advertised presence of the Smoking Room.These were people who,however offended,would have held their tongues if I'd hired a belly dancer to supplement the pianist;they would have managed to overlook target practice in the backyard."

Olga Herrera MacBryde, 70, a Smithsonian botanist for more than 20 years and an international conservationist for whom two plant species and a tree are named, died of nonsmokers' lung cancer April 22 at her home in Fairfax City,

BOSTON --The state's highest court ruled Wednesday that local boards of health can ban smoking in private clubs"

Kanye West doesn’t care about black people. Neither does anyone in the Democratic Party, not even the black ones. For decades, Democrats have been pandering to black voters without delivering much in their favor. Saying pretty things like, “We understand you,” and proposing policies that openly sympathize with their historical struggle, they won over the hearts and minds of America’s blacks. Much to the disbelief of those on the left, it is the Republican Party that has continually promoted the welfare of blacks the most effectively.

A friend of mine is going to Atlanta to work and is unfamiliar with the area.

Members of a Kansas church known for staging antigay protests nationwide plan to picket on Saturday the Newton South High School,where a play about a gay murder victim is being produced.

"Amid all the punditry about whether there was an al-Qaida connection to Thursday's attacks on London commuters, it should not be forgotten that the bloody trail of blame leads straight to 10 Downing Street. The prime minister's early return to Westminster was a fitting response to the carnage unleashed on the capital. It was the only hint of personal responsibility for our entanglement in a war that has made prime targets of innocent Britons." Article continues

Coming on after the awful Matt LeBlanc

My grandaughter,out of the blue last week,said she wished that Kerry was president. When I asked her why,she really had no response,she's in third grade after all. She then said everyone in her class wished Kerry was president(no surprise there in a very liberal schools system). She then said that her teacher had told them we were at war in Iraq because Bush wanted the oil. I was stunned. I then told her that I had voted for Bush and that more people in the USA had wanted Bush for president than had wanted Kerry and that her teacher's view...

February 26, 2005 IT IS NOT surprising that dictatorial employers would fire workers for smoking even off the job (''Smoke screens," editorial, Feb. 20). ADVERTISEMENT During the last 20 years punitive and regressive taxes have been imposed on tobacco. Smoking, which is legal in the United States, has been outlawed in private businesses, and institutionalized scorn has been directed at smokers. I attended a meeting at the Harvard School of Public Health where Howard Koh, then health commissioner, said he had considered asking that every pack of cigarettes sold in Massachusetts bear the phrase, ''You are the scum of the...

Now the state of Massachusetts is going to try to prevent credit card companies to refuse to take orders from internet cigarette companies http://www.boston.com/business/articles/2005/02/22/state_targets_net_tax_evaders/