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Bell Labs Geolocation Technology Pinpoints Wireless 911 Calls Within 15 Feet WHIPPANY, NJ -- Researchers at Lucent Technologies' (NYSE: LU) Bell Labs have developed the most sensitive technology yet for pinpointing the location of wireless 911 emergency calls. The approach is accurate within 15 feet when users are outdoors and 100 feet when they are indoors. The Bell Labs geolocation technology offers marked improvements over currently deployed systems for locating wireless 911 emergency calls. Moreover, it provides network operators the double benefit of meeting a 2001 federal mandate while opening opportunities for new service revenues. For example, pinpointing a ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The program to vaccinate all 2.4 million military troops with the anthrax vaccine as protection against biological warfare may be delayed while the only company that produces the vaccine figures out how to cover the costs of the shots, according to congressional critics. BioPort Corp. of Lansing, Mich., the sole producer licensed for manufacture of the vaccine in the United States, is experiencing a cash-flow crisis, a congressional memo says. The House Government Reform subcommittee on national security scheduled a hearing today on the Defense Department's reliance on the company. "The Pentagon is locked in a ...

House Rejects Bill Suggesting Prayer By CASSANDRA BURRELL Associated Press Writer WASHINGTON (AP) - After suffering a narrow defeat, supporters said they'll try again to win House passage of a resolution calling for Americans to observe a national day of prayer and fasting in response to recent violence. Despite calls for public repentance, reconciliation and moral uplift through prayer, Rep. Helen Chenoweth, R-Idaho, failed to win the two-third majority needed for passage Tuesday. A two-thirds majority is needed when legislation is considered under special rules designed to speed passage of non-controversial bills through the House. The bill failed on a ...

-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The last time Bill Clinton introduced a Health Care Plan, it took the American people a little time to realize that adopting it would be a bit like putting the fox in the chicken coop to protect the hens. His new proposal is a farce. Those of us old enough to be involved in the Medicare system are told we ought to really be excited by a plan which would pay a maximum of $1,000 a year for prescription drugs for a $288 a year premium. I compared that premium with the collision insurance on my car for ...

Report: N. Korea Deploys Missiles Wednesday, June 30, 1999; 3:13 a.m. EDT TOKYO (AP) -- Japan's foreign minister has warned lawmakers that North Korea has deployed over 10 Rodong ballistic missiles with a range of up to 800 miles, a newspaper reported today. Masahiko Komura told a parliamentary committee Tuesday that the communist nation has prepared at least 10 of the weapons for launch, the Nihon Keizai business daily reported. The report comes nearly a year after North Korea surprised the world by firing a rocket that flew over Japan and landed in the Pacific Ocean. North Korea claimed ...

Last night on Geraldo Live, the mustachioed idiot made several embarssing mistakes and asked the usual inane and leading questions. The whole interview was a real eye-roller. But it was worth it to hear the following exchange: Geraldo told Woodward that he doubted that he could have gotten all that inside skinny without breaking the attorney client privledge between Clinton and Bob Bennett. Woodward assured him that he did not - that he was able to get that information by talking to people (like Mickey Cantor) who were privvy to that intimate information but were not serving as Clinton's lawyer. ...

The Washington Times - Investigative Published in Washington, D.C.     5am -- June 30, 1999      www.washtimes.com Clinton has plans to unseat Milosevic By Bill Gertz THE WASHINGTON TIMES resident Clinton has authorized the CIA to conduct a covert action campaign to unseat Serbian President Slobodan Milosevic, according to administration and congressional officials.       The secret plan was outlined in a presidential "finding" that states the program is in the U.S. national security interest and authorizes secret operations to back anti-Serb rebels, funnel money to opposition politicians and groups, and actively disrupt his grip on power, said officials who spoke on ...

Not for commercial use. Solely to be used for the educational purposes of research and open discussion. U.S. Prisoners' Blood Fed Hep-C Infections: Ottawa Documents show for the first time that government knew about risk of supply Anne McIlroy, Parliamentary Bureau The Globe and Mail Wednesday, June 30, 1999 Ottawa -- The federal government has for the first time acknowledged that U.S. prison blood imported into Canada in the early 1980s led to more Canadians being infected with hepatitis C. The statement is in a briefing note prepared for Health Minister Allan Rock ... "Plasma from such high-risk populations may ...

From "The Reliable Source" column - Posted for Discussion Purposes Only Who's Howard Wolfson, the just-hired press secretary for Hillary Clinton's Senate exploratory committee? Well, the 32-year-old Wolfson, on leave as Rep. Nita Lowey's (D-N.Y.) chief of staff to work for the first lady at roughly the same pay, isn't one to turn his life upside down for a pipe dream. "Other than reading and work, no, I have no hobbies," the Middletown, N.Y., native said yesterday in a valiant effort to fascinate our readers. "Hey, wait a minute. I do collect political posters! I got a Stevenson and a ...

Milwaukee -- It's 2008 and two terms of pro-abortion President Al Gore are nearing an end. The U.S. Supreme Court includes two or three more pro-abortion justices appointed by Gore. The prospect of that, laid out by David N. O'Steen, executive director of the National Right to Life Committee, brought a collective groan Friday from about 300 people at the Hyatt Regency Milwaukee at a session of the group's national convention, which ended on Saturday with more than 1,000 total in attendance. O'Steen wanted that reaction in hopes of building a second reaction: a commitment by pro-life leaders to be ...

When only a party line divides Front-runners Al Gore and George W. Bush echo each other as they seek the center. Linda Feldmann (feldmannl@csps.com) Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor WASHINGTON Has anyone ever seen them in the same place at the same time? Maybe Vice President Al Gore and Texas Gov. George W. Bush are the same person. Or at least it seems that way at times, as the two major parties' new standard-bearers crisscross the US, sounding strikingly similar themes in their pitches to voters. For the Republican Bush, his mantra of "compassionate conservatism" can sound a ...

Despite White House denials, it is clear that President Clinton blew his stack when Vice President Al Gore recently criticized the president's sexual conduct, writes former Clinton adviser Dick Morris. Spokesman Joe Lockhart and presidential attack-dog James Carville both zapped the veep for dissing Mr. Clinton, which never would have happened without Mr. Clinton's direct participation, Mr. Morris said in his New York Post column. "Al Gore needs to watch his back," Mr. Morris said. "What is really going on here is deadly serious and deeply neurotic," Mr. Morris added. "Clinton is sending Gore a message by shooting across ...

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As America cleans its air dramatically, it will pay a price in noticeably higher temperatures, according to a report released yesterday. The United States and other nations have cut sulfur dioxide pollution, which causes health problems and acid rain. But the same sulfur in the air also reflects the sun's heat and slows global warming, top climate scientists said. So removing the sulfur from the air is expected to raise global temperatures in the next 100 years a degree above predictions made only four years ago, said the new study by Tom Wigley, a senior scientist at the National Center ...

State Department spokesman James P. Rubin launched into yesterday's regular briefing for reporters by observing: "If you take yesterday's 12:00 briefing and today's 12:50 briefing, you have two briefings that began on time at 12:30. So we have averaged out this week to on-time performances.

Thomas Jefferson can stop rolling over in his grave now. Women's rights advocates in New Jersey, it seems, have been unsuccessful in rewriting the Declaration of Independence -- from "all men are created equal" to "all are created equal." "Far-left liberal stuff," New Jersey state Sen. Gerald Cardinale, Bergen Republican, explained in a telephone interview yesterday with Inside the Beltway. For 11 years now, the senator has been pushing a recitation bill that would require schoolchildren in his state to begin each class day with an excerpt from the Declaration of Independence. The bill already passed the state Assembly, ...

Part 2 of a 3-part series The American military has never quite recovered from winning the Cold War. Soldiers thought they'd have fewer overseas missions. Instead, they have more. Sailors and airmen thought they'd have to move their families less often. But there's been no peace dividend -- they're still vagabonds. And a military that envisioned no trouble filling jobs with a much smaller force now can't give them away, even with hefty bonuses. The military's personnel difficulties cannot be blamed solely on fallout from the Cold War. But clearly, the long slide began shortly after the Berlin Wall came ...

Teenager will be tried as adult in fatal carjacking 6/30/99 By Aimee Edmondson The Commercial Appeal SOMERVILLE, Tenn. - A 16-year-old accused of helping his cousins in a fatal carjacking two weeks ago will be tried as an adult, a Fayette County judge ruled Tuesday. After hearing evidence in a closed juvenile hearing, General Sessions Judge Weber McCraw declared that Eric Glover would be tried as an adult in the June 15 murder of 63-year-old Barbara Ann Lee. Lee was carjacked by two teenagers while she was eating lunch at the Collierville Sonic Drive-In. The two picked up a third ...