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By Michael HoldenLONDON (Reuters) - Around one million British school children succeeded in causing an earthquake on Friday, jumping up and down simultaneously in the world's largest scientific experiment.Thousands of schools around Britain were asked to send children out into the playgrounds at 11 a.m. (6:00 a.m. EDT) to jump up and down for a minute in the hope of creating a measurable quake.Organizers of the Giant Jump event, held to mark the launch of the government's Science Year, said it had been a success.``We're almost sure we had a million people out there jumping for us. We got some ...

Special to World Tribune.com MIDDLE EAST NEWSLINE Sunday, September 9, 2001 TEL AVIV — Israel has been rocked by a spate of deadly bombings. In one bombing, three Israelis were killed on Sunday when a Palestinian blew himself up at a train station in the northern city of Nahariya. The suicide bomber was killed and another 40 Israelis were injured. The Palestinian was said to have infiltrated from Lebanon. More than two hours later, two bombs exploded further south at Beit Lid near Netanya. The junction is often packed with soldiers waiting for a hitch. At least one person ...

Special to World Tribune.com MIDDLE EAST NEWSLINE Sunday, September 9, 2001 TEL AVIV — Israel has been rocked by a spate of deadly bombings. In one bombing, three Israelis were killed on Sunday when a Palestinian blew himself up at a train station in the northern city of Nahariya. The suicide bomber was killed and another 40 Israelis were injured. The Palestinian was said to have infiltrated from Lebanon. More than two hours later, two bombs exploded further south at Beit Lid near Netanya. The junction is often packed with soldiers waiting for a hitch. At least one person ...

Seven Dead in Frenzy of Middle East Violence By Christine Hauser NAHARIYA, Israel (Reuters) - A Palestinian suicide bombing, car bomb explosions at a major Israeli intersection and a West Bank shooting killed seven people Sunday in a frenzy of violence that threatened efforts to convene truce talks. Deadly events unfolded by the hour and Israel retaliated with helicopter missile strikes in West Bank cities, hitting two empty offices of Palestinian President Yasser Arafat (news - web sites)'s Fatah (news - web sites) faction near Ramallah and a government building in Jericho. The Palestinian Authority (news - web sites) rejected ...

A month after the U.S. Supreme Court's 5-to-4 decision for George W. Bush in the presidential election, dissenting Justice David Souter met at the Court with a group of prep-school students from Choate. He told them how frustrated he was that he couldn't broker a deal to win over one more justice -- Anthony Kennedy being the obvious candidate. ``If he'd had 'one more day -- one more day,' Souter now told the Choate students, he believed he would have prevailed,'' according to an excerpt of an upcoming book by Newsweek Senior Writer David Kaplan.(Photo: http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20010909/HSSU002 )In the excerpt from ...

Published: Saturday, September 8, 2001 9:19 p.m. EDT Stanly to close offices for Confederate Memorial Day ALBEMARLE, N.C. (AP) -- Stanly County commissioners, who had earlier voted against a joint holiday for Martin Luther King Jr. and Robert E. Lee, have voted to close county offices on Confederate Memorial Day. Last month, the commissioners voted to recognize May 10 as Confederate Memorial Day, but not close the county offices. But at the urging of Sons of Confederate Veterans members, commissioner Gerald Efird suggested making it a full holiday, said commissioner Michael Coble. The measure passed 3-2 Thursday night. "I'm ...

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By Buck Wolf , ABCNEWS.comNever underestimate human stupidity. A 28year-old guy called 911 threatening suicide. His method? He swallowed several nitroglycerin pills, prescribed for a heart condition, and repeatedly slammed himself into the wall, trying to make himself explode.Another guy called 911 with a most peculiar feeling. "I went out to dinner and brought home my leftover pizza," he told the dispatcher. "But I left it in the car, and this morning … it was soggy … It tasted kind of funny, so I went back out to the car and noticed that the antifreeze had spilled onto my pizza. ...

With your indulgence, I've constructed a second letter to the editor regarding embryonic life. Here's my rationale for the letter which follows this short essay. While perusing a FreeRepublic.com thread on Saturday, a Freeper’s extensive scholarship offering (electron 1, thread http://www.freerepublic.com/forum/a3b99b3ca775c.htm) highlighted the following quote from Margaret Sanger’s early feminist magazine: "If a woman is to free herself effectively, she must make herself absolute mistress of her own body. She must recognize her absolute right … to suppress the germ of life. (The Woman Rebel, circa 1914) That quote struck my brain as having something in common with a recent ...

US: No plans for Bush-Arafat meeting in NYBy Melissa Radler Speaking on Meet the Press a short while ago, President George W. Bush's National Security Advisor Condoleeza Rice put to rest rumors that Bush plans to meet with Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat at the United Nations General Assembly, which opens in New York on September 24. "At this point in time, there are no plans for the President to meet with Yasser Arafat in New York," said Rice on the Sunday morning news show aired on NBC. Asked to comment on today's terror attacks that killed five Israelis, Rice told ...

KIEV, Sep 7, 2001 -- (Agence France Presse) Washington is currently negotiating with Kiev to buy Ukrainian tanks, although both countries have not reached an agreement yet, the U.S. embassy said Thursday, quoting a senior U.S. defense official. "Discussions continue but at this point we have not reached a conclusion," a U.S. defense official who recently visited Ukraine, Edward Pusey, said as quoted by the embassy. He made no other comments on the negotiations, the embassy said. Pusey visited Kiev last week for U.S.-Ukrainian talks on defense cooperation. The Ukrainian daily Segodnya reported Thursday that talks on U.S. arms ...

click on Fax Center and register (very easy) to sent the following six (6) free faxes to Congress and El Presidente to speak out against illegal immigration. The URL is www.numbersusa.org/faxcenter Fax No. 5: Stop the Republicans from instituting another serf program of ag guest-workers Send to: Democratic Senators from your state Fax No. 11: Oppose Mexican Pres. Vicente Fox's amnesty/guestworker program Send to: Your Representative and two U.S. Senators Fax No. 22: President Bush Supports Illegal Alien Amnestys Send to: President Bush Fax No. 4: Congress is No. 1 cause of worsening sprawl, traffic and congestion because of immigration ...

Games - Sunday, Sept. 9 --------------- Detroit at Green Bay, 1 p.m. Seattle at Cleveland, 1 p.m. Tampa Bay at Dallas, 1 p.m. Carolina at Minnesota, 1 p.m. Chicago at Baltimore, 1 p.m. Indianapolis at N.Y. Jets, 1 p.m. New England at Cincinnati, 1 p.m. New Orleans at Buffalo, 1 p.m. Oakland at Kansas City, 1 p.m. Pittsburgh at Jacksonville, 1 p.m. St. Louis at Philadelphia, 4:15 p.m. Atlanta at San Francisco, 4:15 p.m. Washington at San Diego, 4:15 p.m. Miami at Tennessee, 8:30 p.m. Monday, Sept. 10 ---------------- N.Y. Giants at Denver, 9 p.m. Bye: Arizona

American Land Rights Association - Land Rights Network PO Box 400 - Battle Ground WA 98604 Phone: 360-687-3087 - Fax: 360-687-2973 - Email: - http://www.landrights.org Legislative Office: 508 First St SE - Washington DC 20003 Phone: 202-210-2357 - Fax: 202-543-7126 - Email: landrightsnet@aol.com ***URGENT!!! -- ROADLESS DEADLINE MONDAY, SEPT 10 *** ALL OUT CALL TO ACTION KEEP ACCESS TO OUR FORESTS YOU CAN WIN BUT YOU MUST ACT QUICKLY - PLEASE DO YOUR PART FOREST SERVICE COMMENTS REQUIRED POSTMARKED BY MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 10TH THAT'S THIS MONDAY!! Don't fail to take action TODAY!!! The Forest Service must have public comments on ...

When does Life Begin? - At Conception, or "14 days later..."? When the discussion on stem-cell research was going strong a couple of weeks ago, I heard a brief comment on the radio concerning when life begins. Some ? genetic researcher/expert... said that life doesn't actually begin at conception/fertilization. He said ... that life begins about 14 days AFTER conception ...??? after there was a ? transfer of genetic material / or genes??...etc... My first thought is, that he is just describing a stage of development... one part of the process of the development and growth of the 'young one' ...

TRENTON, N.J. -- The New Jersey State Police and the manufacturer of new handguns that jammed repeatedly during trooper training have reached an agreement to cancel the purchase of all 3,200 service weapons, state officials said Saturday. The state police had agreed to pay Smith & Wesson Corp. $1,323,000 for the Model 99 9mm sidearms and some magazine cartridges delivered earlier this year to barracks around the state. All but $377,000 was paid, according to Roger Shatzkin, spokesman for the state Department of Law and Public Safety. State police recalled all the pistols in March because about 10 percent of ...

Sunday September 9 11:42 AM ET Clinton Warns on Global Warming SYDNEY, Australia (AP) - Former President Clinton warned Australians that global warming could cause some small Pacific nations to disappear beneath the ocean, creating a refugee crisis far worse than the one Australia has faced in the last two weeks. At a hospital fund-raising dinner in Sydney on Saturday, Clinton said hundreds of thousands of people around the world would become refugees if climate change isn't addressed. ``The science is unassailable. If the world keeps growing for the next 50 years warmer as it has for the last decade, ...

On Monday, the United States withdrew its low-level diplomats from the United Nations Conference on Racism. This cancer on the body politic of the world reveals its evil intentions with every passing day. If you had visited the official Internet site of the Conference, you would have found a photo of a stereotypical "Jew" holding a sign saying, "Authentic Jews have always opposed Zionism." This is a lie. Jews are free to hold their own opinions regarding this movement for a national Jewish state. The obvious question is, if Arabs and others are free to have Moslem states, why ...

FINALLY, a way to know what to throw-out and what to save! Perfect for this coming holiday leftover season! THE GAG TEST: Anything that makes you gag is spoiled (except if they are leftovers from a meal that made you gag in the first place). EGGS: When something starts pecking its way out of the shell, the egg is probably past its prime. By the way--"Green Eggs And Ham", is a fictional children's book, not a cook book. DAIRY PRODUCTS: Milk is spoiled when it starts to look like yogurt. Yogurt is spoiled when it starts to look like cottage ...