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Wednesday December 8, 10:45 AM New TWA 800 Book Shrouded in Secrecy Freelance investigative author James Sanders has a new book coming out on the TWA Flight 800 disaster entitled Altered Evidence. But given his recent experience at the hands of federal prosecutors, Sanders has decided to take some extraordinary precautions. Why? Because when he penned 1997's The Downing of TWA Flight 800, the Clinton Justice Department went after everybody associated with the book's publication in search of evidence against Sanders and his wife Elizabeth. In an outrageous breach of his First Amendment guarantees as a working journalist, Sanders ...

Brief Summary by Rabbi Yaakov Menken, Director, Project Genesis Two young Israeli citizens have been essentially imprisoned by their father, with the active assistance of an Italian court. We need your help in order to free them! The Dulbergs married in Israel, had two daughters, and separated in Italy in 1991. For several years the mother remained the custodial parent. The mother gravitated towards observant Judaism with her daughters, while the father recently converted to Catholicism. The father was so troubled by his ex-wife's religious choices that he filed in court to have the daughters removed from their mother's care, ...

NO ROOM AT UK MILLENNIUM DOME FOR GOD? LONDON (CWNews.com) - The architect responsible for designing the spiritual segment of London's Millennium Dome believes the Cross is a symbol of suffering and that God is "irrelevant" to the millennium celebrations. Czech-born Eva Jiricna, a self-confessed agnostic, originally designed a pyramid for "quiet contemplation amid the hustle and bustle of the Dome" but this was rejected a being "too New Age." In a behind-the-scenes documentary to be broadcast on BBC2 on Thursday, Jiricna admits that "some people have been very, very abusive" about her decision not to include the Cross in ...

Share-cropping became common in the United States after the Civil War. Back then, many Southern plantations had ample land, but little money to pay wages. At the same time, a large segment of the population was left impoverished, with little prospect of earning an adequate living. So, it is was little surprise that the landed people -- those with the means of producing a product -- contracted with the poor, who had labor to offer, to produce a product from which both might profit. Share croppers normally received a home, the necessary tools, farm animals, and sometimes even some ...

I’m finishing this column on Monday afternoon, hours before the Arizona GOP "debate," but unless Gov. George Bush calls one of his competitors a bunghole onstage, or can’t remember the capital of Texas, it’s clear that he’ll be the Republican nominee and most likely the next president of the United States. The media is putting up a sickening fight for John McCain–he’s on the cover of Time this week–but slowly, perhaps unconsciously, journalists are starting to realize that the Texan is the man who’ll replace Bill Clinton. It’s not that Bush blew away the field in last Thursday’s New ...

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2/07/99- Updated 10:42 AM ET Teen drug-users more likely to have sex WASHINGTON (AP) - Teens who drink or take drugs are much more likely to have sex and at a younger age, as well as have several partners than teens who don't use alcohol or drugs, according to a study released Tuesday. Teens who are 14 and younger and drink are twice as likely to have sex than those who don't in the same age group. The risk is doubled for 14-year-old teens using drugs, said the report from the Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse at Columbia University. ...

For those of you wondering about the status of the American education system and where it's headed, consider what's becoming of history lessons. Take today for instance. December 8 has been a pretty busy day throughout history. The United States went to war with Japan in 1941, and the US and the old Soviet Union signed an agreement in 1987 to destroy medium-range nuclear weapons. George Washington beat a hasty retreat across the Delaware River in the face of advancing British troops in 1776, while Chiang Kai-shek executed a similar tactic in crossing the Straits of Taiwan to escape the ...

Honorary chairman     First lady Hillary Rodham Clinton plans to lend her name to a dinner next month for Americans for Peace Now, a group that "has long functioned as the PLO's amen corner in the United States," journalist Evan Gahr reports.     "Longtime advocates of a Palestinian state, Americans for Peace Now more recently opposed the 1995 American law to recognize Jerusalem as Israel's capital. And in a fund-raising letter this year they even railed against the 'Judaization of Jerusalem,' -- a term redolent of Arab hate literature," Mr. Gahr said.     "Americans for Peace Now, for its part, seems to want to keep a ...

Flights at the Jomo Kenyatta International Airport were temporarily disrupted last evening after a fire broke out in one of the buildings. The fire, which burnt sections of the international departures terminal, delayed 10 international departure flights. Ten arriving flights were re-routed. The fire started at Unit two immediately former US President Jimmy Carter arrived at 6.35 pm, causing a stampede. Passengers who were clearing with airport officials were forced to run for safety. It was however not clear what caused the fire but airport officials said it started in a restaurant, Kwaheri Bar. The former president had just arrived ...

Flights at the Jomo Kenyatta International Airport were temporarily disrupted last evening after a fire broke out in one of the buildings. The fire, which burnt sections of the international departures terminal, delayed 10 international departure flights. Ten arriving flights were re-routed. The fire started at Unit two immediately former US President Jimmy Carter arrived at 6.35 pm, causing a stampede. Passengers who were clearing with airport officials were forced to run for safety. It was however not clear what caused the fire but airport officials said it started in a restaurant, Kwaheri Bar. The former president had just arrived ...

Bits and Pieces, Odds and Ends   By E.L. Core December 8, 1999   Part IX of the series "What's Wrong with the Way the World Thinks about Y2K" Y2K is not a bug, Y2K is a systemic design flaw; politicians — including senators and White House officials — industry associations, and the mainstream media have conditioned the public to think that serious Y2K problems have been precluded, though a considerable body of evidence must be ignored to come to that conclusion; indeed, surveys and polls of large organizations have consistently belied the Big-Business-Will-Make-It mantra. The public — thus ...

"HATCH: Look, I'm for any tax plan that will simply this awful tax code. I'm on the Senate Finance Committee; I deal with these matters every day. And I've got to tell you anybody in this room could be indicted for violations of the tax code because no two tax preparers in the IRS can compare -- prepare the same return."

Flights at the Jomo Kenyatta International Airport were temporarily disrupted last evening after a fire broke out in one of the buildings. The fire, which burnt sections of the international departures terminal, delayed 10 international departure flights. Ten arriving flights were re-routed. The fire started at Unit two immediately former US President Jimmy Carter arrived at 6.35 pm, causing a stampede. Passengers who were clearing with airport officials were forced to run for safety. It was however not clear what caused the fire but airport officials said it started in a restaurant, Kwaheri Bar. The former president had just arrived ...

"HATCH: Look, I'm for any tax plan that will simply this awful tax code. I'm on the Senate Finance Committee; I deal with these matters every day. And I've got to tell you anybody in this room could be indicted for violations of the tax code because no two tax preparers in the IRS can compare -- prepare the same return."

Bits and Pieces, Odds and Ends   By E.L. Core December 8, 1999   Part IX of the series "What's Wrong with the Way the World Thinks about Y2K" Y2K is not a bug, Y2K is a systemic design flaw; politicians — including senators and White House officials — industry associations, and the mainstream media have conditioned the public to think that serious Y2K problems have been precluded, though a considerable body of evidence must be ignored to come to that conclusion; indeed, surveys and polls of large organizations have consistently belied the Big-Business-Will-Make-It mantra. The public — thus ...

Flights at the Jomo Kenyatta International Airport were temporarily disrupted last evening after a fire broke out in one of the buildings. The fire, which burnt sections of the international departures terminal, delayed 10 international departure flights. Ten arriving flights were re-routed. The fire started at Unit two immediately former US President Jimmy Carter arrived at 6.35 pm, causing a stampede. Passengers who were clearing with airport officials were forced to run for safety. It was however not clear what caused the fire but airport officials said it started in a restaurant, Kwaheri Bar. The former president had just arrived ...

Bits and Pieces, Odds and Ends   By E.L. Core December 8, 1999   Part IX of the series "What's Wrong with the Way the World Thinks about Y2K" Y2K is not a bug, Y2K is a systemic design flaw; politicians — including senators and White House officials — industry associations, and the mainstream media have conditioned the public to think that serious Y2K problems have been precluded, though a considerable body of evidence must be ignored to come to that conclusion; indeed, surveys and polls of large organizations have consistently belied the Big-Business-Will-Make-It mantra. The public — thus ...

Flights at the Jomo Kenyatta International Airport were temporarily disrupted last evening after a fire broke out in one of the buildings. The fire, which burnt sections of the international departures terminal, delayed 10 international departure flights. Ten arriving flights were re-routed. The fire started at Unit two immediately former US President Jimmy Carter arrived at 6.35 pm, causing a stampede. Passengers who were clearing with airport officials were forced to run for safety. It was however not clear what caused the fire but airport officials said it started in a restaurant, Kwaheri Bar. The former president had just arrived ...

Leading Role for Chelsea Seen filling in for mom By KENNETH R. BAZINET Daily News Washington Bureau WASHINGTON helsea Clinton is set to take over some First Lady duties when her mother jumps into the New York Senate race early next year, well-placed sources said yesterday. The sheltered First Daughter is eager to assume some of Hillary Rodham Clinton's social responsibilities when her busy college schedule permits, said a White House aide who requested anonymity. "She's very anxious to fill in for her mother," the aide said. Hillary Clinton has said she will curtail her White House duties when ...