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ISS appears normal after capsule leak January 13 2004 at 04:06PM By Reuters By Sonia Oxley Moscow - Air pressure has stabilised aboard the International Space Station (ISS) after astronauts found a tiny hole that probably caused the ISS to fall for three weeks, Russian and United States space officials said on Tuesday. The orbital platform had been slowly losing pressure since December 22. On Monday, astronauts removed a hose in the window of a US onboard laboratory, which was the likely source of the leak. "My understanding is that the air pressure levels have stabilised," Jim Newman, director of...

Worm Suspect Said Just a Normal, Fun-Loving Teen Sat Aug 30, 6:28 PM ET By Todd Melby HOPKINS, Minn. (Reuters) - A friend of a Minnesota high school student charged with unleashing a new strain of the Blaster Internet worm that infected computers around the world described him on Saturday as "just a kid" who is likely innocent. Mike Heldt, who once worked with suspect Jeffrey Lee Parson, 18, at a local movie theater, told Reuters he and Parson like to shoot billiards, rent movies, play video games and "just sit around and joke like other kids." "I don't think...

What the hell is happening in America? Every perversion and "choice" is being presented to us as "normal," as though challenging us to disagree and confess we think they're abnormal. Such a confession would earn us one of those labels meant to silence us (bigot, homophobe, redneck, intolerant, or just plain "not with it"). The Supreme Court's endorsement of sodomy was bad enough, but we should worry as much about the gradual intrusions that the gay, lesbian, bisexual, sadomasochist, transgender, transvestite, and other members of the "sexual rights" gang and their cohorts make on decent American society. The Baltimore Sun...

HBO's 'Normal' and Showtime's 'Soldier's Girl' bring the lives of transgendered people to the small screen BY GLENN GARVIN ggarvin@herald.com The conversation would have made Calpernia Addams wince, if she hadn't already heard it a thousand times before. Walking down the street at Sundance Film Festival, the center of the hip filmmaking universe, the phrase floated out of the cloud of deal-cutting babble: . . . and then the transsexual prostitute. . .''In Hollywood, it's like the two words go together, transsexual and prostitute,'' says Addams, who owns a video production company -- and is also transsexual. ``They don't even...

Baghdad on slow path to normalcy Public workers return; hunt for Hussein's cohorts continues04/20/2003 From Wire Reports BAGHDAD, Iraq – With the fighting largely over and the roundup of members of Saddam Hussein's regime slowly building, Baghdad showed its strongest signs of a return to normalcy Saturday as thousands of public employees returned to work. "I don't know what to think," said Nawal Abdel Karim, who shook her head at the scattered papers, computer disks and mangled furniture in the Supreme Audit Bureau, where she has worked for 19 years. "I can't believe Iraqis could do this. This cannot be...

In Detroit, the world's second oldest profession is taking aim at knocking out the world's oldest profession. Never mind that many people who have received, or are receiving, a paycheck from city government are or have been involved in prostitution in some way. The hunt is on. Except, in this case they are not exactly going after the prostitutes, per se. Hassling the working girls seems to be a lost cause. They pop up faster than spring dandelions on city owned property. And, like the dandelions, there seems to be a large bumper crop of new young ones every year....