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Union support for John Kerry is no surprise, but it's not usually visible from 20,000 feet in the air. Mark McClain, who leads the Northwest Airlines pilot group at the Air Line Pilots Association, has plowed the word "Kerry" into his soybean field near the airport in Des Moines, Iowa.

"The creation of the United States of America is the central event of the past four hundred years." Thus does Walter A. McDougall of the University of Pennsylvania begin the first volume of his acclaimed new American history, Freedom Just Around the Corner (HarperCollins).Not surprisingly, this central event has evoked a wide range of opinions. Tens of millions of immigrants have voted with their feet to slough off prior allegiances and join the boisterous experiment that makes "life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness" its official goal.The result has been an astounding success. "We dominate every field of human endeavor...

Ringed planet's poles are on either side of its equator Pasadena -- The spacecraft called Cassini, now little more than a million miles from Saturn, is already establishing that the mysterious ringed planet's magnetic field is bizarrely unlike Earth's -- and more surprises are sure to come. Cassini's interplanetary course is to carry it Wednesday night into the first of 76 orbits around Saturn to begin its four-year mission, and scientists are awaiting that first close-in encounter with some anxiety.

“In 1990 they found that the Earth goes through abrupt temperature changes from deep ice samples in Greenland of about 10,000 years ago the Earth’s temperature dropped 19 degrees” (research found by weather channel) taking 5-10 years (weather channel) but from analytical data, I intend to show this could take for the most part one year (Robert T Bailey) and more shocking a large part of the temperature change will happen this year! The End of the World as we known it is coming; an ice Age will change the face of the Earth. We have a crisis here. In...

Support swells for $15 billion bond Poll results on Prop. 57 indicate bipartisan campaign is effective Governor gets positive marks in latest survey SACRAMENTO – In a dramatic turnaround, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's $15 billion fiscal-recovery bond measure on next Tuesday's ballot is supported by half the likely voters, up from one-third who backed Proposition 57 last month, according to a new poll. The results of the latest statewide Field Poll suggest the bipartisan campaign by the Republican governor and Democratic state Controller Steve Westly is working. Schwarzenegger and Westly are promoting the bond measure and a companion balanced budget amendment,...

<p>The new Field Poll out this morning has Gov. Schwarzenegger’s bond measure, Proposition 57, leading 50-36, just a month after Field and others found it trailing badly. The poll shows that the double-barreled, bipartisan campaign is working. Republicans say they are more likely, by a 39-3 margin, to support the measure once they know Schwarzenegger is backing it. And Democrats says they are more likely, by a 27-3 margin, to vote for the bond once they hear that Democratic leaders are supporting it. Also: people who intend to vote yes are, not surprisingly, more likely to think that tax increases and deeper cuts will result if the bond measure fails.</p>

<p>As Arnold Schwarzenegger celebrates his 100th day in office, a new survey shows Californians trust their new governor, even when they dislike his handling of specific issues.</p> <p>In a Field Poll released Monday, registered voters said by a margin of 61 percent to 28 percent that they believe the Republican governor makes his decisions based on "what he really believes is right" rather than "what is politically popular."</p>

Celebs Join March Against Mexico Killings By OLGA R. RODRIGUEZ Associated Press Writer CIUDAD JUAREZ, Mexico (AP) -- Actresses Jane Fonda and Sally Field marched through this gritty Mexican border city urging authorities to investigate the brutal slayings of hundreds of young women and girls. Mexican authorities say 258 women have been killed over the past decade in Ciudad Juarez, a city of some 1.3 million people. Many of the victims were sexually assaulted, strangled and dumped in the desert near Juarez, across the Rio Grande river from El Paso, Texas. "I'm here because 300 young, vibrant women are not,"...

Sun Sheds Skin And Flips Greenbelt - Nov 20, 2003 Research with the Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO) spacecraft has revealed the process that may implement the reversal in the direction of the Sun's magnetic field that is known to occur every 11 years. This newly recognized factor in the Sun's magnetic flipping is the cumulative effect of more than a thousand huge eruptions called Coronal Mass Ejections (CMEs). The CMEs blast billions of tons of electrified gas into space, carrying away the Sun's old magnetic field and allowing a new one with a flipped orientation to form. Reversal...

900-year-old ship, found in rice field, draws experts to India V.M. THOMAS Associated Press Posted on Thu, Oct. 23, 2003 COCHIN, India - A sailing vessel that experts believe sank off the coast of southern India 900 years ago has been found buried in a rice field and is attracting the attention of international marine, archaeology and conservation experts. The ship is made of local Indian wood but the craftsmanship is not, leading experts to suggest it was made by ancient Chinese, Japanese, Egyptians or Arabs. The government of southern Kerala state finished excavating the 22-meter long, 5-meter wide (72-foot...

Just four days before Tuesday's recall election, Californians by an increasingly wide margin want to replace Democratic Gov. Gray Davis with Republican actor Arnold Schwarzenegger, a Field Poll released today says. A survey conducted from Monday through Wednesday showed 57 percent of voters supporting the recall of Davis, while 39 percent are opposed. In the race to replace Davis, Schwarzenegger leads Lt. Gov. Cruz Bustamante 36 percent to 26 percent, according to the poll, which is the third this week to show the actor gaining momentum and Davis losing ground. The poll shows that support for the recall and for...

<p>LOS ANGELES — The latest statewide poll in California's recall election shows Gov. Gray Davis (search) trailing by 18 points and Arnold Schwarzenegger (search) leading Democratic Lt. Gov. Cruz Bustamante (search) by 10 points, Democratic and Republican strategists told Fox News.</p>

<p>The purpose of the closed-door meeting at the Capitol, to be presided over by Senate President Pro Tem John Burton, was to give senators a chance to talk openly about the upcoming recall campaign and whether they should continue their unilateral support of the unpopular governor.</p>

WASHINGTON, July 11 — The Transportation Security Administration spent $6.9 million to outfit the federal air marshal corps with voice-capable wireless handheld computers for in-flight use and then subsequently banned any voice usage because of potential interference with cockpit functions, according to interviews with several air marshals. THE HANDHELD DEVICES, made by Palm Inc. and commonly known as “personal digital assistants” (PDAs), have become a running joke, in part because they are unwieldy to use, according to interviews more than a dozen air marshals and administrators within the air marshal program due to the unwieldy nature of their use. Although...

<p>A proposal to rename Henderson Field on Guadalcanal after Japan's national flower — the chrysanthemum — has angered Marines, who say the "revisionist history" dishonors Americans who fought and died for the pivotal airfield.</p> <p>Guadalcanal, part of the Solomon Islands, was the site of the Allies' first Pacific offensive during World War II. After taking the island from the Japanese in 1942, the 1st Marine Division completed construction of what is now an international airport for the Solomon Islands.</p>

Astronomy Picture of the Day Discover the cosmos! Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer. 2003 February 23 A Twisted Solar Eruptive Prominence Credit: SOHO Consortium, EIT, ESA, NASA Explanation: A huge eruptive prominence is seen moving out from our Sun in this condensed half-hour time-lapse sequence. Ten Earths could easily fit in the "claw" of this seemingly solar monster. This large prominence, though, is significant not only for its size, but its shape. The twisted figure eight shape indicates that a complex...

Astronomy Picture of the Day Discover the cosmos! Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer. 2002 November 25 The Earth's Magnetic Field Credit & Copyright: Gary A. Glatzmaier (UCSC) Explanation: Why does the Earth have a magnetic field? The electrical conductivity of the molten plasma of the Earth's core should be able to damp the current magnetic field in only thousands of years. Yet our five billion year old Earth clearly causes magnets to point to (defined) north. The mystery is still being...

Astronomy Picture of the Day Discover the cosmos! Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer. 2002 May 20 East of the Lagoon Nebula Credit & Copyright: Jean-Charles Cuillandre (CFHT), Hawaiian Starlight, CFHT Explanation: To the east of the Lagoon Nebula is a star field rich in diversity. On the lower left are clouds rich in dark dust that hide background stars and young star systems still forming. Dark clouds include LDN 227 on the left and IC 1275 on the right, with a...

Posted on Tue, Apr. 23, 2002 Field of archaeological dreamsA Crawford County group unearths stone weapons and knives near Pittsburg that could be up to 10,000 years old. Associated Press PITTSBURG, Kan. --To the untrained eye, the rocks in Susie Stelle's hand look like nothing special. But she knows otherwise. "These are core stones," she explained. "They would strike flakes off these when they were making their stone tools. I've found lots of flakes, but these are the first core stones I've found." "They" were aboriginal people, perhaps American Indians or their ancestors. This field southeast of Pittsburg was home...