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By Michael Betsch CNSNews.com Editorial Assistant September 07, 2001 (CNSNews.com) - If you've ever wondered from where environmental activists get their money, you're not alone, and a Washington, D.C. think tank is drawing a map to help follow the money. The Capital Research Center (CRC) is preparing for its Monday launch of Green-Watch.com, an online database and information service that monitors "about 500 or so different environmental groups, focusing on their funding - where their money's coming from and what they're doing with it," said CRC Director of Communications Andrew Walker. "It's constantly a work in progress," Walker commented. ...

BRITAIN'S compromise land deal with Zimbabwe appeared in jeopardy yesterday after President Mugabe failed to give his approval, preferring to keep his whereabouts a mystery while the Nigerian Foreign Minister waited in vain to brief him. The Zimbabwean leader had been in Libya last week to negotiate cheap fuel supplies for his crumbling economy from his ally, Col Muammar Gaddafi. His officials have refused to disclose his whereabouts since Thursday, when the deal was hammered out, saying only that he was abroad on a "brief holiday". Mugabe's silence fuelled fears that he will ignore the accord. Sule Lamido, the ...

My life has never been the same since I found www.freerepublic.com I was a normal kind of guy. I ate food went out for walks and even watched videos, eek! I took the wife shopping. Even talked to the wife once in awhile.Then that fateful night of Nov 7th 2000. I had to go somewhere else to to watch the election results as I do not have Cable TV. I went to the pizza joint on rt 7 and then to my secret election watch hide out.(No one to interupt)I wanted to watch Bush beat the socks off of Gore. ...

Four years -- and billions of dollars in fee awards -- after the nationwide tobacco settlement, the litigation gold rush goes on. Among attorneys mining their share, Northeastern University School of Law Professor Richard Daynard seems an unlikely candidate to be taking on two of tobacco's richest and most powerful plaintiffs' lawyers, Ronald Motley of Mt. Pleasant, S.C.'s Ness Motley Loadholt Richardson & Poole and Richard Scruggs of Pascagoula, Miss. Daynard, a career academic and tobacco crusader, claims that the pair reneged on a handshake deal to cut him in on their fees. As his suit moves forward, it is ...

The entire article is available only to subscribers, but the following excerpt was found on Gene Borio's Tobacco BBS, a major anti resource funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation: (The American Legacy Foundation, created with money extorted from smokers by the Master Settlement Agreement)Indeed, Favat is hesitant to tell me about some of his ideas for the campaign because, he says, he's worried they might not get approved by the foundation and its board of directors. "A lot of our work gets killed by lawyers," says Favat. It's not that the foundation doesn't share Favat's views on smoking or ...

XXXXX DRUDGE REPORT XXXXX SAT SEPT 08, 2001 10:21:39 ET XXXXX WASTING AWAY: WHITNEY HOUSTON'S FRAIL APPEARANCE STUNS CROWD NEW YORK -- The crowd watched in shock as a frail Whitney Houston hit the stage Friday night during the Michael Jackson concert at Madison Square Garden. As this photo shows, one of the world's most vital pop stars has become a shell of her former self in the year and half since she last publicly performed. The 37-year-old velvet-voiced wonder sang for under 5 minutes, but images of Houston completely wasting away into skeletonism -- and appearing to be at ...

The real world-class chutzpah, however, was the demand of African and Arab nations for reparations of slavery. Just who do you suppose enslaved the millions of Africans who ended up in the Western Hemisphere? It was the Africans. And who enslaved the even greater number of millions of African slaves who ended up in the Islamic world? It was the Arabs. During the era of African slavery, Europeans died like flies in tropical Africa, where diseases flourished for which they had no biological immunity and for which medical science had yet to devise a cure. Capturing people to sell into ...

LITTLE ROCK -- A House health subcommittee Wednesday endorsed what a state Health Department lawyer said was the final draft of a proposal to ban smoking in restaurants. The action by a joint House-Senate subcommittee was an important step by elected officials, said Melinda Pyle, director of the Coalition for a Tobacco-Free Arkansas, the group pushing the smoking ban. But Gov. Mike Huckabee has the final say and he appeared no closer to embracing the proposed new health regulation, even with recent changes to allow smoking on outside patios at restaurants and to exempt businesses that earn less than ...

Japan's dismal economic situation and its worsening jobless rate is proving a godsend to some companies in neighboring countries. A growing number of East Asian businesses are taking advantage of the economic slump by targeting the Japanese labor market for skilled workers. Companies in China, Hong Kong and Thailand have been actively recruiting Japanese white-collar workers, hoping to do more business with Japanese companies and affiliates, which have shifted production to those regions. PaHuma Asia Group is a staffing service company specializing in the introduction of Japanese workers to other Asian nations. Since July, the company's Tokyo office said it ...

Japan's 'parasite singles' blow their wages on a life of luxury Cherry Norton, Tokyo Big spenders: many young Japanese buy only designer gear AT £1,500 a month her income may be below average. But for Keiko Yamada, expensive accessories from European designer shops are among life's essentials. Emerging from the ultra-chic new Louis Vuitton store in Tokyo's Ginza shopping district last week, clutching a £415 bag, the 28-year-old bank clerk was unrepentant about spending the bulk of her salary on luxury goods. "I want to enjoy myself and spend my money on nice things," she said. "I've grown up with ...

Richard Vacar, Director of Aviation at Houston Airport System, recognizes the value of accommodating ALL their customers, including smokers, but he needs our help. He has spoken in favor of ending the oppressive smokefree policy at George Bush Intercontinental Airport in Houston by allowing separate smokers' lounges, but the city council has refused to look into this fair solution to the anti-smokers' pathological fear of a tiny whiff of tobacco smoke. Write to Mr. Vacar, and let him know you support fairness for all at Richard.Vacar@cityofhouston.net. If you live in or near Houston, write, fax, call or e-mail your representatives ...

You have to try on a pair of sunglasses with that stupid little plastic thing in the middle of them. The person behind you in the supermarket runs his cart into the back of your ankle. The elevator stops on every floor and nobody gets on. There's always a car riding your tail when you're slowing down to find an address. You open a can of soup and the lid falls in. The tiny red string on the Band-Aid wrapper never works for you. There's a dog in the neighborhood that barks at EVERYTHING. You can never put anything back ...

Group Cries Foul Over Alleged Liberal Agenda Textbooks By Jason Pierce CNSNews.com Staff Writer September 07, 2001 (CNSNews.com) - Are the nation''s top publishing companies inserting a liberal agenda and misinformation into junior high science textbooks? According to a report by the Texas Public Policy Foundation, top publishers like Glencoe McGraw-Hill, Prentice Hall and RonJon Publishing are doing just that. The report reveals that most of the books being considered by the Texas State Board of Education for science classes in the sixth, seventh and eighth grades contain factual errors about science, and in many cases, the report claims, ...

President Emphasizes Education Reform in Radio Address >br>Radio Address by the President to the Nation THE PRESIDENT: Good morning. This weekend in Washington, my wife, Laura, is hosting the first National Book Festival, continuing a tradition she began as First Lady of Texas. With visiting authors and special events, the Book Festival will highlight the importance of reading and libraries in our national life. A few days later, she and I will host the White House Assembly on Reading at the Library of Congress. We will bring together scholars and educators committed to the cause of teaching every child to ...

COUNT Dracula, Romania's most celebrated son, is at the centre of a bitter ownership dispute between the country of his fictional birth and the Hollywood film company that made him famous.Claim to Copyright: the classic image of Dracula, based onVlad the Impaler [left], is owned by Universal StudiosThe bloodthirsty Transylvanian noble, the creation of the Irish novelist Bram Stoker who published Dracula in 1897, has long been one of Romania's foremost tourist attractions.Based on the fearsome figure of Vlad the Impaler, the 15th-century ruler of Walachia, the Dracula legend annually attracts more than 50,000 visitors to the remote village of ...

A. Glenn Braswell, the secretive Florida-based direct-mail kingpin whose last-minute pardon by President Clinton helped create a storm of controversy about the pardon process, has been subpoenaed by a U.S. Senate committee investigating deceptive marketing practices in the health-care industry. INVESTIGATORS FOR THE U.S. Senate Special Committee on Aging tell NEWSWEEK that they have spent months looking into a labyrinthine direct-mail empire through which the 58-year-old Braswell markets a dizzying array of health care products-from “anti-aging” pills to purported sexual stimulants. Most of the marketing, investigators say, is aimed at senior citizens. At a hearing this Monday, the panel intends ...

The D.C. Chapter of Free Republic gathered in the Adams-Morgan neighborhood where California Democrat Rep. Gary Condit keeps his swinging philanderer pad to call on him to tell the whole truth about his involvement with Chandra Levy and the events leading up to her disappearance. We also urged him to resign from Congress or be expelled for bringing disgrace and disrepute on the House of Representatives.A total of eleven FReepers stood on a large traffic island at Adam's Mill Rd. and Calvert St., NW for three hours from 1 p.m. to 4 p.m. The weather was beautiful for early September--sunny ...

For those Husker fans, oh and the Notre Dumb fans as well! ;), a thread for the game tonight. Nebraska just powered it in from the 2 yard line. PAT good. They seem to be moving the ball well. ND just fumbled!

WASHINGTON If you thought it would be hard for TV to top the Summer of the Insatiable Sharks, Ravenous Bears, Killer Bees and Stampeding Lizzie Grubman, you were wrong. Two networks are racing to air prime-time specials this fall featuring mediums interviewing dead celebrities. As Lisa de Moraes reported in The Washington Post, NBC and ABC are both doing such shows for fall sweeps. "The November of the Chatting Dead," she dryly calls it. In a culture so besotted with celebrity, we were bound to run out of upright luminaries to interview. I may tune in if the mediums manage ...

Mayoral candidate Tim McCormack says AFL-CIO plan would hurt Catholic schools Reported by Tom Beres September 5, 2001 Video: Political issue or misunderstanding? CLEVELAND -- Cleveland mayoral candidate Tim McCormack says he won't sign on to a workers plan he claims would hurt Catholic schools. McCormack refused to sign the AFL-CIO workers Bill of Rights that pledges "as mayor, I will vote against public funds going to private schools." Cleveland's Catholic schools get $14 million for programs that have nothing to do with religion. "Tomorrow if this becomes policy you aren't going to have a school to go to because ...