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68% of Christians favor DEATH over LIFE...? I wonder where FOX got that "fact" from.....

Schiavo recovery impossible, experts agree 21 Mar 2005 18:02:01 GMT Source: Reuters WASHINGTON, March 21 (Reuters) - Terri Schiavo, at the center of an emotional and political storm over whether she should be allowed to die, will almost certainly never recover from her unconscious condition, neurologists agree. She is in a permanent vegetative state, and no one has ever come back from such a condition, according to the American Academy of Neurology. "Approximately 10,000 to 25,000 adults and 6,000 to 10,000 children in the United States are diagnosed as being in the persistent vegetative state," the Multi-Society Task Force on...

LONDON (Reuters) - Oil prices leaped back above $50 on Wednesday as President Bush (news - web sites) edged toward U.S. election victory, a result which traders said would bolster fuel demand and underpin anxiety over security of Middle East supply. U.S. light crude by 1230 GMT rose 63 cents to $50.25, reversing part of a 12 percent pull-back over the past week. Brent crude was up 57 cents at $47.12 a barrel. White House Chief of Staff Andy Card said Bush was convinced he has won re-election but will hold off a formal victory declaration to give Democrat John...

"In retrospect, it has become obvious that too few U.S. troops were assigned to perform too many assignments in the immediate aftermath of Saddam Hussein’s downfall in Iraq. It is easy to understand how, grappling with the job of restoring order in Iraq, the overextended, undermanned occupation force should have failed to guard buildings such as government offices, hospitals and museums that were looted by vandals. What is not so easy to understand, much less forgive, is the failure to guard a particularly large and sensitive Iraqi military facility."