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US man to amputate legs online By Team Register Posted: 03/08/2001 at 13:13 GMT A Mississippi man is to amputate his legs using a home-made guillotine and broadcast the whole grisly operation live online. Paul Morgan is paralysed from the knees down after suffering crippling injuries in a freak accident in 1986 when he was run over by a truck pulling a boat. Financial restraints have denied him the chance to remove his lower legs and replace them with artificial limbs that would enable him to run and jump again. But after 15 years of suffering he's decided to amputate ...

From RMDupree: To: everyone - the latest news I'm, sorry it has taken so long for me to get back to this thread. It was a very long night and I kept waiting for the phone to ring. It didn't. Christian is still breathing on his own and his heart continues to beat, however, his kidneys, liver and pancreas are no longer working without assistance. My family and I are all stretched to the breaking point - not knowing what to do except pray for God's will. We have already explained that he is not to be placed on a ...

Philosopher Mortimer J. Adler recently passed away, but his legacy lives on in the Great Books programs he inspired and succeeded in establishing across the nation. Mortimer J. Adler died in late June at the age of 98. Born in 1902, he was a philosopher and educator who lived through almost every year of the 20th century. But he was not a man of that century, at least not in establishment academic circles. From the 1920s until his death, Adler most often was a voice in the wilderness crying out against educational trends he saw as destructive. He fought progressive ...

Mary Sheila Gall deserves to be in charge of product safety at Commerce. She has faithfully and effectively done her job for several years. She was appointed by Scumbag but has just been shot down by pseudo wife-of-Scumbag because pseudo wife-of-Scumbag wants to damage the president and set the stage for refusing all federal bench appointments. Congress is getting set for summer vacation. It is a perfect time for Gall to be named to the position as a recess appointee. She will then be serving through the duration of this Congress --- January, 2003. Dubya, you are too kind. You ...

State legislatures are beginning to take action to rein in the widespread practice of drugging hyperactive children to control their undesirable behavior in the classroom. As the nation’s schoolchildren frolicked in the summer sun, lawmakers in the Nutmeg State spent the break tackling educational reform. The Connecticut General Assembly unanimously voted to prohibit teachers and other school officials, including counselors and psychologists, from recommending psychotropic drugs for any child. Chief sponsor of this reform, state Rep. Lenny Winkler, tells Insight, “I value the teachers in Connecticut and I think they do a wonderful job, but medical diagnoses should not be ...

After Washington public schools promised reforms, a mother and son found out firsthand that some teachers would sacrifice students’ futures to save their own jobs. The woman Insight will call “Deb” is 38, divorced and a single mother. She lives in Washington with her parents and 12-year-old son. Every day Deb struggles to balance the demands of her federal job with her determination to be an effective parent. She especially wants a good education for her boy and is worried that he may not get one in the public schools of the nation’s capital. Deb wants to believe the assurances ...

Eminent domain for private good unfair, Jackson says By Heath A. Smith Clarion-Ledger Staff Writer The Rev. Jesse Jackson on Thursday said fairness, not race, is behind his criticism of Mississippi's use of eminent domain in acquiring land for a $930 million Nissan plant. The Rainbow/PUSH Coalition leader met with property owners, state lawmakers and others while in Mississippi. Last month, he accused the state of offering white landowners more money per acre than it had offered African-American landowners. In an impromptu meeting in Jackson with The Clarion-Ledger, he said racism could be suggested because most of the landowners fighting ...

ROOSEVELT, N.J. (AP) - Less than 1,000 people live in this Monmouth County borough, where much hasn't changed since the small town was founded more than 60 years ago. There is no Wawa and no gas station. Residents usually congregate in the streets and the post office, next to the borough's only store. But a lawsuit filed by a developer who wants to build more than 260 homes in the 2-square-mile municipality has residents worried. ''We want the town to remain a town,'' resident Arthur Shapiro told the Asbury Park Press of Neptune in Friday's editions. ''Those of us who ...

President Bush’s education initiative calls for the testing of every student in the nation, but these ‘assessments’ in the past involved Big Brother-style psychological profiling. The proponents of President George W. Bush’s education initiative, called “No Child Left Behind,” believe that they can make schools accountable to parents as well as taxpayers. The centerpiece of this, as it appears in the amendments to the Elementary and Secondary School Act, still in House-Senate conference as Insight goes to press, is a massive nationwide program designed to test every student in grades three to eight in reading and math. Both House and ...

AP National AP National FBI to Probe Suburban D.C. Police UPPER MARLBORO, Md. (AP) -- The FBI has begun investigating seven more cases involving Prince George's County police, including the shooting of four unarmed men and the beating deaths of two others. The new probes, including the death of a teen-ager shot 13 times in the back while laying face down, bring to 32 the number of cases involving police officers in the suburban Washington county that the FBI is investigating. The agency's findings will be forwarded to federal prosecutors, who will decide whether to seek indictments against the ...

We haven't heard the last of the Bonny Lee Bakley case. Family members of Robert's Blake's murdered wife are saying that police are telling them that an arrest in the case is "imminent.""The police said they have enough evidence for a while to make an arrest," says a source."They're just making absolutely positively sure that they have everything in order before an arrest.They're just dotting their I's and crossing their T's.They gave the impression that an arrest was very imminent.""The police were recently in New Jersey interivewing Chuck McCann, an actor who has a nightclub. He helped to introduce Blake ...

Music sales hit a sour note; no hot new genres emerge By Jennifer Ordonez THE WALL STREET JOURNAL August 3 — Boy band ‘N Sync is back in its familiar place at No. 1 on the charts, but the teen pop genre no longer rules the pop world — and no other kind of music does either. DESPITE LONG-STANDING predictions that its day had passed, ‘N Sync’s newest album, “Celebrity,” sold a strong 1.9 million copies during its first week. But that’s still about half a million copies fewer than the group’s previous album, which is believed to have had ...

The Retired Enlisted Association, through a ``special project'' group called the TREA Senior Citizens League, uses misleading information to entice elderly Americans to donate cash, and to add their names to mailing lists that TREA then rents to other organizations, according to lawmakers and federal investigators. The pitch TREA employs, to get persons over 75 to contribute money and join a Social Security ``notch victims' registry,'' is ``abhorrent and…highly unethical,'' concluded Rep. E. Clay Shaw, chairman of the Subcommittee on Social Security of House Ways and Means Committee. Rep. Gerald D. Kleczka (D-Wis.) threatened to introduce legislation that would ...

Oversight of state conflicts questioned Watchdog groups contend that revelations of energy holdings by officials show a flawed system. August 3, 2001 By STEVE JOHNSON and JOHN WOOLFOLKSan Jose Mercury News SACRAMENTO -- Recent revelations that state officials invested in energy companies doing business with their agencies underscore California's weak system for monitoring conflicts of interest. That point was brought home this week when state Sen. John Burton confirmed he held stock in energy companies, including El Paso Energy and Williams. Burton, D-San Francisco, helped put the state in the energy-buying business, which benefited both firms. "Something's fallen through ...

SEATTLE (AP) -- An insert included in a job evaluation guide in an attempt at humor -- with Superman pictured as a person who ''Exceeds Job Requirements'' and Mother Teresa as one who ''Meets Job Requirements'' -- upset some employees of a county court office. They didn't like seeing President Bush and a chimp as examples of unsatisfactory performance, either. ''I really don't think it's humorous,'' said Rob Legge, a juvenile probation counselor for 31 years at the King County Juvenile Court. ''What it says to me, literally, is the equivalent of a 'C' grade is Mother Teresa -- ...

Starting today, a power broker will manage the electricity bought and used by the Marine Corps and Navy installations in Southern California, including the Camp Pendleton Marine Corps Base, officials said. Strategic Energy, a Pittsburgh-based energy service provider, will replace San Diego Gas & Electricity Co. in supplying electricity to Camp Pendleton and other regional military bases, said Ed Rogers, facilities manager at Camp Pendleton. The 19-month contract with the firm took effect Wednesday, Rogers said. It calls for Strategic Energy to deliver to local bases each month up to 80 megawatts of electricity bought in a four-year contract ...

Schools across the country are decreasing class time, money and resources devoted to physical education, which critics claim is harming the health of U.S. children. Got P.E.? It makes a body strong. But public schools aren’t buying that and instead are slashing and terminating physical-education programs with the claim that students should spend that extra time on improving their standardized-test scores. At least 29 percent of schoolchildren do not attend gym classes, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) National Youth Survey. This is up 4 percent from four years ago. And the trend is not likely ...

Gephardt Statement on Campaign Finance Reform U.S.Newswire, 8/3/2001 12:46 To: National Desk Contact: Erik Smith or Kori Bernards, 202-225-0100 both for House Democratic Leader Richard A. Gephardt WASHINGTON, Aug. 3 /U.S. Newswire/ -- The following is a statement by Richard A. Gephardt on campaign finance reform: ''I am very pleased with the unprecedented support for the discharge petition to force a vote on Shays-Meehan, real, bipartisan campaign finance reform for the American people. In just four days, 205 Representatives have signed the petition, including 190 Democrats, giving us more names this year than in 1998 and 1999, the last two ...

Free Republic is my home page. Since yesterday, I have gotten a pop up ad, usually for a credit card when I open my IE browser. The address bar shows I am hitting FR, but there is a prefix, like "php%= - something or other. When I kill that window, I get to the home page. Is this a new feature? Or is there something in my 'puter's innards causing this? I downloaded an app which supresses the pop-up, but it still slows the download.

STURGIS -- Mayor Dan Quirey and Fire Chief Phil Edmondson, in the midst of a heated discussion Monday morning, went crashing through a city hall plate glass window and onto the sidewalk. Both sustained some cuts from the broken glass, but neither was injured seriously. Edmondson says the incident occurred when Quirey, 73, a former three-term Sturgis mayor reappointed to that post July 9, fired him from his post as town fire chief. Quirey says Edmondson remains as fire chief but is on administrative leave while the incident is under investigation by the Kentucky State Police. The mayor said because ...