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According to the latest estimation of Western military experts, India has now possessed 30-60 nuclear weapons and the barium raw material for the production of over 70 nuclear bombs, by 2005, India will be able to further produce more than 100 nuclear bombs. According to the military of Pakistan, India now has a total of 200 nuclear missiles. For a long time, some top Indian personages, while formulating diplomatic and defense policies, have invariably been influenced by what Indian media called "anxiety about China" factor. Such view and psyche have an audience in India's think-tank and many media. Media ...

Education/discussion only.....Would-be senators counting their cash In race for Gramm's seat, candidates may need $20 million to win 09/09/2001 By WAYNE SLATER / The Dallas Morning News AUSTIN – The race to replace Sen. Phil Gramm could cost a candidate more than $20 million. At least nine politicians are pining for the job, and some have an edge in the fund-raising sweepstakes. The ability to collect what Mr. Gramm once called a campaigner's best friend – ready money – has emerged as a key calculation among a cluster of big-name Republicans and Democrats. Several congressmen have expressed interest in ...

NEW YORK (AP) - To help soldiers survive, the U.S. Army is developing a new generation of combat uniforms using tiny, doctored fibers that let air through while blocking toxins from chemical and biological weapons. The "chemical protective overgarment," expected to ship in as little as two years, is one of the early uses of nanotechnology: the science of manipulating single atoms and molecules to create new products. While nanotechnology won't be ready to build tiny machines or computer processors for at least 10 years, researchers in materials science are already using it to change the properties of plastics, oils ...

Newsweek Cover: 'The Secret Vote That Made Bush President' Justice Souter: With 'One More Day' Gore Might Have Prevailed Before U.S. Supreme Court In Private Gathering With Russian Judges, U.S. justices reveal Personal Agony on Decision Breyer: Decision Was 'The Most Outrageous, Indefensible Thing' the Court Had Ever Done Ginsburg: 'Are We So Highly Political After All?' Stevens: 'I'm So Tired. I Am Just So Exhausted.' Kennedy Defends Majority: 'Sometimes You Just Have to Step Up to the Plate' Gore Called Erin Brockovich to Ask Her to Help Collect Florida Ballot Horror Stories NEW YORK, Sept. 9 /PRNewswire/ -- ...

Snared Shark Gets Revenge, Bites Captor Last Updated: September 09, 2001 11:39 AM ET MIAMI (Reuters) - A shark took revenge on its captor, biting a fisherman who had caught it in the sea off the Florida Everglades but then fell into the water, the Miami Herald reported Sunday. The 44-year-old fisherman was airlifted to Miami's Jackson Memorial Hospital Saturday night, where he was treated for a bite to his left leg and several fingers of his left hand, a hospital spokesman said. He was in good condition and the wounds were "very superficial," spokesman Thomas Ellison told Reuters. ...

If you can't find a screwdriver, use a knife. If you break off the tip, it's an improved screwdriver. Try to work alone. An audience is rarely any help. Above all, if what you've done is stupid, but it works, then it isn't stupid. Work in the kitchen whenever you can ... many fine tools are there, its warm and dry, and you are close to the refrigerator. If it's electronic, get a new one ... or consult a twelve-year-old. Stay simple minded: Get a new battery; replace the bulb or fuse; see if the tank is empty; try turning ...

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The decision sealed the fate of 2-month-old Wesley Lucas. D.C. social workers were assigned to protect Wesley from his neglectful, cocaine-addicted mother. So they allowed the baby to stay with his mother's boyfriend. The 69-year-old man was dying from lung cancer, but the workers promised to provide a caretaker to help. Another oxymoron from the government!

WILLIAMSPORT, Pa. — Parole officer Bob McCullough likes what he sees on his laptop screen: a green dot motionless on a computer map of the city. The dot is not trying to harm its ex-girlfriend, or escape across state lines. It is, McCullough observes, behaving itself. That green dot is a 54-year-old contractor who in January allegedly dragged the woman he was dating into his cellar, repeatedly punched her in the face, loaded a rifle, and threatened to shoot her and her son. Now he’s out on bail. At one time, her only protection until his trial in the fall ...

9.08.01 UPDATE: Capitol Hill sources have stated to AheadNews.com that Richard Gephardt wanted to remove Gary Condit from his sensitive position on the House Intelligence Committee but after that deadline had passed he is unsure if there is precedent for removal during a session. Meanwhile, the tabloids are beating major crime news media outlets this week quoting a staffer of Gary Condit bragging about his Mafia Connections (that you first head here on AheadNews) and saying to his girlfriend "with one phone call I can make you disappear." AheadNews was the first to report that Gary Condit's bodyguard, Vince Flamini, ...

Former US President Bill Clinton warned Australia overnight that it faced a flood of refugees if global warming continued unabated. Clinton, who was addressing a fundraiser for a children's hospital here late Saturday, also spoke of his regret at not being able to cement a peace deal between Israel and the Palestinians. He said Australia's current debate over how to deal with a rising tide of asylum seekers would pale into insignificance as global warming triggered one of the greatest movements of people in history. "The science is unassailable. If the world keeps growing for the next 50 years warmer ...

Gun Advice Needed for a Shootin’ Newbie Though I’ve appreciated guns for a long time, it’s only in the last six months or so that my interest has “gelled” enough that I’ve decided to get into the shooting sport seriously. So, I’ve spent some time researching guns and visiting gun shows. I’ve decided that my primary interests are pre-’64 Winchester ‘94’s, some various military rifles, (Lee Enfield’s, etc.) and the ever-popular Colt M1911A1 .45ACP. As well, I’m interested in any unusual, or just plain interesting pistol or long gun that strikes my fancy (and the target). I’m going to be ...

BATF's $760 Million Budget Put to Nefarious Use -- Again from Angel ShamayaKeepAndBearArms.com September 8, 2001 If you've been following the Bob Stewart case over this last 15 months, this won't come as much of a surprise to you. (If you haven't a clue who Bob Stewart is or how he's being railroaded by the BATF Thugocracy, links at the bottom of this page will fill you in.) The judge who restored Bob Stewart's firearms rights on August 20, 2001 just stamped an order to undo the restoration, alleging "good cause" as the reason. And the order to vacate was ...

Children's Drug is More Potent than Cocaine The children's drug Ritalin has a more potent effect on the brain than cocaine, a study has found. Using brain imaging, scientists have found that, in pill form, Ritalin - taken by thousands of British children and four million in the United States - occupies more of the neural transporters responsible for the 'high' experienced by addicts than smoked or injected cocaine. The research may alarm parents whose children have been prescribed Ritalin as a solution to Attention Deficit Hyperactive Disorder. The study was commissioned to understand more about why Ritalin - which ...

The Neverending StoryAn ongoing debate on Scripture, Tradition, History and Interpretation. Threads 1-99 Thread 100 Thread 101 Thread 102 Thread 103 Thread 104 Thread 105 Thread 106 Thread 107 Thread 108 Thread 109 Thread 110 Thread 111 Thread 112 Thread 113 Thread 114 Thread 115 Thread 116 Thread 117 Thread 118 Thread 119 Thread 120 Thread 121 Thread 122 Thread 123 Thread 124 Thread 125 Thread 126 Thread 127 Thread 128 Thread 129 Thread 130 Thread 131 Thread 132 Thread 133 Thread 134 Thread 135 Thread 136 Thread 137 Thread 138 Thread 139 The Neverending Story (The Christian Chronicles) -- ...

Almost 75 residents of one of the city's oldest areas came to the Las Vegas Planning Commission Thursday to protest the Stratosphere's plans for a $20 million thrill ride that a lawyer for the casino said would enhance the neighborhood. After more than two hours of debate between neighbors and hotel officials, the commission voted 3-2 against the hotel's site approval request for the 740-foot ride. In the end, it was the project's aesthetic quality, along with the concerns of nearby residents, that prompted Chairman Craig Galati to cast the deciding vote against the project. He said the decision ...

The News Report,Issue 377 "During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes arevolutionary act." George Orwell Index   1. Thought for the day:  Georges Clemenceau - F/w Shondra Briton  2. Request: 3. Opinion:   Labour Shortages - Antonia Feitz 4. Opinion:   Self verifying and self falsifying beliefs - Antonia Feitz 5. Article:    Stock markets: US going the way of Japan by Orlin J Grabbe - F/W Karolyn Martin. Additional comment - Neil Baird 6. Article:    Nice guys get illegal immigrants by John Derbyshire, VDARE - F/w Karolyn Martin 7. Article:    The Milosevic defence that no one was allowed to hear by Joel Skousen - F/w Karolyn Martin 8. Article:    National outpouring over boat people - Jeremy Lee 9. Article:    The ...

George Kohli rolls up the door to storage lot 136 and confronts the remains of the boom economy. Forty-eight identical striped couches, stacked floor to ceiling, fill a dimly lit mini-storage compartment the size of a large two-car garage. Across the way, mattresses are stacked on end. And in yet another compartment, dozens of TVs and VCRs are piled high. Kohli's collection of domestic debris is a graveyard of sorts. All this furniture was, until very recently, in the homes of the tech elite. They came to Silicon Valley from cities in India such as Kolkata (formerly Calcutta) and Mumbai ...

The search for work from the streets of Silicon Valley has turned desperate for hundreds of men who gather each morning hoping they'll be picked to crush concrete, paint fences or plant flowers. As quickly as the region's economy has slowed, so has the flow of contractors and homeowners pulling to the side of the road looking for day laborers. Competition on corners is fierce as workers worried about supporting families in Mexico and Central America sprint toward any minivan or pickup truck that stops. ``Whoever opens the door first gets the job,'' said Mario Morales, a 36-year-old trying his ...