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Maybe it would make them stop. Maybe seeing an edict in the form of "Thou shalt not- - " would discourage a kid from resorting to violence to resolve conflicts. At least that's what Jon Padro-Arroyo, 12, hopes would happen if the government decides to let teachers post the Ten Commandments in their classrooms. "If they were thinking about doing something crazy, they might read it and think about it and stop," the Fort Worth boy said. Then again, several area students said, a poster of the Ten Commandments might, at best, go ignored and, at worst, alienate their non-Christian ...

CONNAUGHT LABORATORIES LIMITED INTER-OFFICE MEMORANDUM &nbsp &nbsp &nbsp &nbsp &nbsp &nbsp &nbsp &nbsp &nbsp &nbsp &nbsp September 6, 1983 Memo to: Mr. J. D. Sparkes From: J. C. W. Weber Subject: Review of suitability of plasmapheresis centre &nbsp &nbsp &nbsp &nbsp &nbsp I have studied the Inspection Report on the Centre at the Arkansas Department of Correction which you received through FOI. I find the report raises sufficient serious questions that you or whoever in your group reviewed it should have done additional investigation before approving the Centre. &nbsp &nbsp &nbsp &nbsp &nbsp The receipt of an FOI report ...

A GANG of KLA fighters were accused yesterday of beating to death a 70-year-old man who they claimed was a Serb collaborator. German troops with Nato's Kfor discovered a KLA torture chamber when they moved into the former police headquarters in Prizren. There they found the old man tied to a chair and KLA men standing around the bloodstained room. He had been beaten for several hours before he died. On the ground were knives, chains and a baseball bat with a nail in it. In other rooms the peacekeepers found another 20 elderly ethnic Albanians, all of whom had ...

WIRE:June 19, 11:16 a.m. ET Republican senator pushes for nuclear security body AP News Service WASHINGTON (AP) _ Congressional Republicans pressed their case Saturday for a reorganization of the Energy Department in response to the continuing controversy over the safeguarding of America's nuclear secrets. Using the weekly GOP radio address, Sen. Jon Kyl, R-Ariz., accused the Clinton administration of taking ``half measures'' in dealing with security at nuclear weapons laboratories. Kyl is one of three GOP senators who have proposed putting nuclear weapons programs under a largely autonomous agency within the Energy Department _ an idea also urged this week ...

A federal appeals court ruled Friday that a woman who dissented from the findings of a White House panel led by Vice President Al Gore has the right to the same information as other commissioners. M. Victoria Cummock, appointed by the president to a special commission on aviation safety in the wake of the TWA Flight 800 air disaster, sued Gore and others on the panel, saying she was denied access to a "classified annex," and never got the document despite her security clearance. Cummock also said she was denied access to almost all of an inch-thick briefing paper that ...

Gun-Rights Groups Win With Money And Members News/Current Events News Keywords: GUN CONTROL Source: Reuters Published: Saturday June 19 12:41 AM ET Author: Thomas Ferraro Posted on 06/19/1999 06:14:23 PDT by walkin man Gun-Rights Groups Win With Money And Members By Thomas Ferraro WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Gun-rights groups, which defeated gun-control advocates on Capitol Hill Friday, contributed 15 times more than them in the last election, federal records reviewed by a public interest group show. Records also showed gun-rights activists, led by the National Rifle Association, shelled out 20 times more than gun-control forces in lobbying Congress and the White ...

Disc jockey rapist given four life sentences By Sue Clough, Courts Correspondent DISC jockey Richard Baker, the serial sex attacker, sobbed yesterday as he was given four life sentences and described by a judge as "a truly depraved and wicked man" who presented a continuing danger to women. His brother Kevin, whose call to police ended Baker's eight-month reign of terror against lone women in London, Essex and Brighton, watched and wept in the public gallery. Kevin Baker's action, which has estranged him from the rest of the family, was praised by Mr Recorder David Stokes. "Your brother's action in ...

New evidence from Spain suggests that Stone Age man was not averse to eating human flesh, discovers Ian Shaw THERE can be few more familiar images in popular archaeology than that of the Stone Age hunter in hot pursuit of a herd of bison or deer, but recent studies of early human remains have begun to suggest a rather more grisly scenario. At many Stone Age sites, human bones with clear butchery marks have been found. This raises the distinct possibility that early humans were regularly slaughtering, processing and eating not only deer and bison but also people. The new ...

SAN DIEGO, June 18 - We had received the following column by Col. David Hackworth, America's most decorated living soldier, before today's Russian-American agreement on Kosovo's "peacekeeping" became public. With that as a preamble, many of "Hack's" comments are still as valid today as they were on June 15, when he wrote this piece: "Wait a military minute. We spend 4 billion bucks, risk our Green Berets'and jet jockeys' lives, and the Ruskies do an end run and march into Kosovo before us? They get the parades, flowers and cheers that were beamed by television around the world -- and ...

CONFIDENTIAL CONNAUGHT LABORATORIES LIMITED INTER-OFFICE MEMORANDUM &nbsp &nbsp &nbsp &nbsp &nbsp &nbsp &nbsp &nbsp &nbsp &nbsp &nbsp October 3, 1983 Memo to: FILE NOTE From: J. C. W. Weber Subject: Meeting with Dr. Louis Greenberg re Cryosan Plasma &nbsp &nbsp &nbsp &nbsp &nbsp We met in Dr. Greenberg's hotel room and he outlined the sequences of events as he saw them: &#186 Dr. Henderson of the Health Management Associates (HMA) and Medical Director of Arkansas Department of Corrections (ADC) had explained to him that Cutter use to run these centres, but got out of it and Dr. Henderson then started ...

Election: Vice president and rival Democrat blame congressional Republicans, and their party in general, for future bloodshed. GOP front-runner Bush counters. Temporarily united by a common target, the competing Democratic candidates for president lashed out Friday at congressional Republicans who blocked efforts to restrict sales at gun shows, effectively blaming them for future carnage on America's streets and in its schools. "What is the Congress doing?" a heated Vice President Al Gore rhetorically demanded, speaking in Los Angeles before several hundred Fairfax High School students and supporters in a midday rally in the school's gymnasium. "Why don't they wake ...

I would support a candidate who promised to abolish all unconstituional departments and cabinet positions, and who would propose a constitutional amendment authorizing a Department of Perverse Incentives. This department's fulltime task would be exposing and denouncing perverse incentives wherever they could be found: tax laws that encourage publishers to shred books, "conservation" laws that encourage the government to denude its own forest lands, tax laws that encourage employers to provide unneeded benefits rather than salary, laws that encourage shacking up, abandonment of children, etc., etc.

Nicholas Lassonde was barred by school officials from giving parts of his graduation speech Friday, but his case could become part of a loud legal debate over the rights of students to express their religious beliefs at school. It's an issue on which Christian conservatives — desperate to gain a moral toehold in public schools — are pitted against advocates for a strict separation of church and state. Although most conservative legal groups concede they've lost the battle over school-sponsored prayer, they contend that a religious speech delivered by a student is protected under the First Amendment — even if ...

ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — Hillary Rodham Clinton became serious about running for the Senate from New York partly because of doubts about life as a former first lady, her top political adviser says. "She understands how short the half-life of a 'former' is,'' Harold Ickes said. "Many of her friends were saying to her, 'Oh, the world is your oyster, Hillary, there are so many options, why would you even consider being the United State senator?''' Answering the question, Ickes said, "One, she thinks being a United States senator is a big deal and it's a very attractive alternative ...

LONDON (AP) - Thousands of demonstrators attacked police in central London on Friday with bottles, bricks and cement blocks, and damaged a McDonald's restaurant during a protest against capitalism. About 46 people were taken to hospital, including four police officers and two demonstrators knocked down by police vans, a spokesman for the City of London police said. None of the injuries were considered serious, and a hospital spokeswoman said only one person was admitted. Fifteen people were arrested as 4,000 protesters rampaged through London's financial district as part of the ''Carnival Against Capitalism.'' The protest was timed to coincide ...

PACOIMA--Occasionally shouting and interrupting, about 50 community members voiced their opposition Thursday afternoon to a proposal to rename Pacoima Elementary School after Cesar Chavez. Staff and students at one of the oldest elementary schools in the San Fernando Valley recently voted to rename the school after the late civil rights activist. The new name would honor the labor leader, a hero to many Mexicans and Mexican Americans, and would inspire hope in a community plagued by poverty and violence, they said. The school plans to submit the proposal to the Los Angeles Board of Education, possibly by summer's end. ...

For education and discussion only. Not for commercial use. Steelers' fans who showed up for Friday's groundbreaking ceremony want more than just a winning team when the stadium opens for the 2001 season. Why not faux smokestacks that belch fire when the team scores a touchdown? asked Tom DeBlasis, 29, of Perrysville. "It's a good opportunity to honor the history of steel making," he said. Or "a special section for the really crazy fans, like the Dog Pound in Cleveland, but with cheap beer," suggested Brad Bilsky, 24, of Belle Vernon. Bilsky and DeBlasis were among about 3,000 fans, officials, ...

The Cox Report is out, and the Media is ignoring it. (like usual) FRee Republic is not going to allow this to go away. With your help Free Republic is going to go where no web site has gone before. We have set our sights on appearing before Congress and give our Testimony on this TREASON that has taken place. We can do this, we can make a difference. We need YOUR help to accomplish everything we need to do to prepare for this historic effort. We are putting out the call for Freepers to step up and be counted. ...

FAIRBANKS - Just when an old dog like Dick Mackey thinks he's seen everything, Alaska supplies an unexpected chill. "It isn't every day you stand in your living room in your skivvies and shoot a bear coming through the screen door," said Mackey, a 66-year-old former Iditarod champion, hours after grabbing a loaded rifle and dispatching Thursday's hairy prowler. Neighbors in his neck of the woods, off the Parks Highway a few miles north of Nenana, have been glimpsing both a grizzly and a black bear in the area for weeks. On Wednesday, Dick and his wife, Cathy, returned from ...

Deep Throat's stenographer, Bob Woodward, has written another book about scandals, laced with the usual purported statements from scores of unnamed sources. And The Washington Post ran excerpts on its front page for three days, which has generated considerable interest among political and media elites. I recall, however, that when Gary Aldrich's book, "Unlimited Access," hit the bookstores, the mainstream media all but ignored his shocking accounts of high-level misconduct. Instead, they questioned the unnamed sources of some of his information. Tremendous latitude was granted Mr. Woodward when he wrote a book in which he recounted wide-ranging discussions with former ...