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Good Morning!! Free the Senate! No Senate, no justice, no peace. Trust you all have not eaten breakfast yet. If you have, sorry: The media's attempt to undo the election continues. Newswreck has published a piece that contends if Algore had just one more day, he would have prevailed in the Supreme Court. As the basis of their story, they use an interview with Justice Souter - who voted on the "losing" side of the talley. This is the cover to hit the newsstands today: Polling data shows Americans clearly opposed to amnesty for illegal aliens. TROPICAL WEATHER UPDATE MAJOR ...

READING BY [AGE] NINE Mix of languages taxes teachers By Pamela Mercer and Scott Powers | Sentinel Staff Writers Posted September 10, 2001 KISSIMMEE -- Brenda Santos knows what the Tower of Babel might have sounded like. None of the 28 third-graders in Miss Santos' reading class speaks English at home. The Latin American children know Spanish. A boy from Morocco has spoken French all his life. One Pakistani girl talks in Urdu; a second uses a language with a name the teacher confesses she cannot pronounce. The class does not always understand Santos. Trying to decipher strange words ...

Predator Attacks Escalate as Americans Encroach on Wildlife Habitat Joan Lowy It has been a year of jaws and claws: Sharks biting surfers, alligators dragging away toddlers, bears mauling campers, and cougars attacking skiers and bicyclists. Actually, 2001 is not much different from last year despite several high-profile incidents, but the trend over the past decade is strikingly clear: Close encounters of the predator kind are on a definite upswing and so are injuries and deaths. Grizzly Bear Grizzly bears, like this one in Yellowstone National Park, have been responsible for 18 deaths in the last decade. The 1990s was ...

"CARA sux & so does all confiscatory policy," said National Rifle Association Director and gonzo rocker Ted Nugent Saturday evening, adding, "I will fight it with you." Nugent, lifetime NRA member and author of "God, Guns, and Rock and Roll", made the statement in response to an advice request from a conservative high school teacher. The exchange appears in a topic discussion board on Nugent's TNugent.com, the website of Ted Nugent United Sportsmen of America. The board's URL is www.tnugent.com/ubb/Forum1/HTML/010390.html. CARA is the Conservation and Reinvestment Act, HR 701, a controversial 15-year, $47 billion appropriations bill now pending before Congress. ...

Gary and Chandra and Ted and Mary Jo An adulterous member of Congress, a missing girlfriend, a cover-up... Close to midnight on July 18, 1969, Massachusetts Senator Ted Kennedy ran his car off Dike Bridge on Chappaquiddick Island. He escaped from the submerged car and swam to safety, leaving behind Mary Jo Kopechne, who'd worked for his brother Robert and with whom Ted had had a sexual relationship. Kopechne died, after possibly spending several hours trying to free herself from the car. Kennedy told friends what had happened, and two of them accompanied him to the scene where they tried ...

<p>One year after officials celebrated the end of the $4.1 billion Boston Harbor cleanup, the major beaches are not significantly cleaner than they were in the 1990s, and the most popular beaches have remained closed on roughly 20 percent of summer days due to pollution, state records show.</p>

Monday, September 10 4:20 PM SGT Pacific army chiefs meet to map out stategies KUALA LUMPUR, Sept 10 (AFP) - Army chiefs from the United States, Japan and 15 other Pacific countries met here Monday to map out strategies for facing future challenges together. The theme of a five-day Pacific Armies Chiefs Conference, the second in a biennial series, is "Challenges of Inter-Operability in the New Millennium". Other army chiefs attending are from Australia, Malaysia, New Zealand, Bangladesh, Philippines, Papua New Guinea, Canada, Mongolia, Brunei, India, Korea, Singapore, Indonesia, Tonga and Thailand. Malaysia's army chief General Mohamad Hashim Hussein told ...

Intelligence: Russia to export new advanced cruise missile to China Moscow has begun production of a new cruise missile that U.S. intelligence officials believe will be exported to China as part of a cooperation agreement signed in July. The Russians announced Aug. 23 that they are moving ahead with a upgraded version of the X-22M cruise missile, which Russian officials have insisted is the only missile of its type in the world. The X-22M is a supersonic anti-ship cruise missile with a conventional warhead and active radar guidance system. The missile will be able to destroy ships as well ...

Texas Democrats who believe they are on the verge of a historic comeback opened verbal fire Saturday night on the nation's top Republican. At a banquet that wrapped up a two-day meeting of the Texas Democratic County Chairs Association, U.S. Rep. Martin Frost of Dallas and Democratic political consultant Paul Begala traded derisive one-liners about President Bush. Frost, in line to become majority leader if the Democrats retake the House, noted that he was on hand last week when Mexican President Vicente Fox visited Bush in Washington. "There was more than one person who thought, 'Wouldn't it be nice if ...

By Patrick E. Tyler The New York Times Sunday, September 9, 2001 ST. PETERSBURG, Russia -- For nearly 400 days since two mysterious torpedo room explosions ripped open the nuclear submarine Kursk, causing the deaths of all 118 Russian crewmen, the 505-foot vessel has been nestling into the sediments on the bottom of the Barents Sea. Periodically, Russian warships on guard above the wreck have thrown hand grenades into the water, to ward off any prying foreign submarines that might be interested in scavenging the Kursk's weapons, codes or electronics. Now, a fleet of high-tech salvage vessels is taking over ...

Anti-Taliban military leader reported victim of terrorists MOSCOW (Itar-Tass) - Well-informed sources in Dushanbe said Vice-President of Afghanistan Ahmad Shah Masood, the chief military commander of the anti-Taliban Northern Alliance died last night from wounds sustained in an assassination attempt in his headquarters in Northern Afghanistan. Reports denying the death have been released by some news agencies. According to one of the versions, the attempt of Shakh Masood's life had been made by two men posing as Arab journalists. They had said they had arrived in Takhar province from a Taliban-controlled area. An explosive device is believed to have ...

Secret US germ tests threat to treaty Roland Watson THE Pentagon has secretly built a germ factory capable of producing enough deadly bacteria to kill millions of people, it was revealed yesterday. The project is one of a number of covert biological initiatives pursued by the United States over recent years. One proposal awaiting final approval is to manufacture a more potent version of anthrax using genetically engineered biological agents. Last night, Donald Rumsfeld, the US Defence Secretary, confirmed that the Administration planned to proceed with these tests. The disclosure suggests that the US has been severely testing the ...

BELGRADE, Yugoslavia, Sept. 8 (UPI) -- The ethnic Albanian commander of the Kosovo Protection Corps, Gen. Agim Ceku denied he is a war crimes suspect for involvement in conflicts in the former Yugoslavia. He also dismissed suggestions that the conflict in Macedonia might now spill over into Montenegro in his first interview with Serbian media published Saturday. The KPC was set up by the U.N. administration and the international peacekeeping force in Kosovo to replace the Albanian Kosovo Liberation Army at the end of the conflict with Yugoslavia in 1999. Ceku was promoted to the rank of general in the ...

Macedonia Balks at EU Pitch for NATO Security Force September 09, 2001 07:48 PM ET By Mark Heinrich SKOPJE (Reuters) - A row brewed between Macedonia and the EU over NATO's future role in the shaky Balkan state as alliance troops collected more arms from rebels in a voluntary disarmament scheme dismissed by many Macedonians as a sham. Insecure about its sovereignty and convinced a Western-sponsored peace plan rewards Albanian aggression, the government signaled through senior sources on Sunday that a NATO-led security force proposed by European Union foreign ministers earlier in the day was a non-starter. The ministers were ...

<p>SANTA BARBARA, Calif. - Today we're learning about the ''short I'' sound, Mrs. Schwyzer tells her second-graders in their second week of classes. Pig. Dip. Slip. Tim hid the stick.</p> <p>The words go up on the blackboard. Hands go up in the air. Children with names like Marina, Blanca, and Umberto vie to spell the words. Two years ago, most of Carol Schwyzer's pupils at Harding Elementary spoke no English. Most came to kindergarten from Spanish-only homes. But unlike past generations, the youngsters were not eased into a second language. They were immersed in it, forced to grab onto English or sink among all the unfamiliar words.</p>

<p>Second thoughts about the death penalty seem to be paying off in fewer executions in the United States.</p> <p>So far this year, 48 people have been executed in the United States. With 14 scheduled before the end of the year, the total number would still be a third less than two years ago when the nation reached a high of 98 executions.</p>

Beijing and America’s leftwing fifth columnists by Peter Zhang TNA News with CommentaryMonday 10 September 2001 Any military man will tell you that no matter how well-equipped an army is what ultimately matters is its Will. Without this technology becomes nothing but an expensive accoutrement. What struck about the attack on Serbia Beijing was not the fact that it was social democrats who ordered it (the same people who never condemned a communist regime) but their obvious fear of suffering casualties. Many people have been deceived into thinking that because Clinton and Blair forced NATO into attacking Serbia this ...

Editorial: Radar love -- and hate / Pennyslvanians simply don't trust their local police Monday, September 10, 2001 Tina Turner famously sang of her small hometown in Tennessee that visitors had to beware: Nutbush City Limits, where "25 was the speed limit, motorcycle not allowed in it." Because Pennsylvania has its share of Nutbushes, each with its own little police department on the lookout for speeders, a legislative committee last week heard testimony on a proposed bill that probably isn't going anywhere fast. Unique among the states, Pennsylvania allows only the State Police to use hand-held radar to catch motorists ...

In his election book "The Accidental President," David Kaplan also reveals an earlier, scrapped, secret plan hatched by Al Gore while his aides were trying to figure out how they could collect enough horror stories to convince a judge that the Florida ballot was confusing, Kaplan writes. The Kaplan report confirms earlier reports that Gore, using his Blair House residence as his war room, personally directed a campaign of intimidation and sleaze to capture Florida's electoral votes. "Gore had not only been thinking about the problem, but he'd done something about it. He'd called Erin Brockovich ... the real Erin ...