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Men average higher IQs than women A survey of 100,000 people has concluded the average man has a higher IQ than his female counterpart. The research, conducted in Germany, has found men have an average IQ of 119 while women scored an average of 113. Participants sent in their details over the internet. The survey for a one-off television show, IQ Test, also found blondes and brunettes have exactly the same IQ - at 117. People with black hair scored 115 while redheads managed 114 on average. People with grey hair scored 108. Non-smokers scored an average of 118 while ...

<p>Northern California's Judicial Advisory Committee -- a bipartisan committee born of political necessity -- soon will begin reviewing candidates for a single federal judgeship.</p> <p>The vacancy occurred when U.S. District Judge Charles Legge of San Francisco retired June 30. Federal judges serve lifetime terms presiding over criminal and civil cases of all kinds; their rulings can set precedents for nine states -- if the rulings are upheld by the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals.</p>

Stratasys: Rapid Manufacturing On Earth Today: in Space Tomorrow? Rapid prototyping technologies may one day be central to long term space operations where spare parts could be millions of miles away Minneapolis - Sept. 7, 2001 A Stratasys customer brought the future one step closer with a recent rapid manufacturing application. When a belt-sander-pulley failure halted production in the customer's finishing area, the company rapid manufactured a replacement unit from polycarbonate on a Stratasys FDM Titan(TM) prototyping system. Instead of waiting days for an aluminum replacement part, the company designed and built its own replacement in under four hours. "I ...

LIMA, Peru (AP) - The general assembly of the Organization of American States gathered in Lima on Monday to approve a document aimed at protecting the region's democracies against assaults by ``disguised dictatorships.'' Secretary of State Colin Powell was joining 33 foreign ministers and ambassadors for the two-day special session. More than 20 of the delegates had arrived by midday Monday, with the inaugural session scheduled for 6 p.m. EDT. Powell planned to offer support for Peru's democratic reforms and meet with Colombian leaders to discuss the country's guerrilla war and anti-drug efforts under a $1.3 billion U.S. aid ...

Father Pavone Asked to Leave Priests for Life New York -- Fr. Frank Pavone, National Director of Priests for Life for the past eight years, has been asked by Cardinal Edward Egan to resume full-time work within the Archdiocese of New York and leave his present position with Priests for Life. The reason for the decision is the need for parish priests in New York, and is consistent with similar decisions of the Cardinal to call back many other New York priests who are on special assignment. Anthony DeStefano, Executive Director of Priests for Life, made the following statement: "We ...

I watched with amusement at last nite's Brokaw's "Lost Boys" ....last time I checked if I referred to a black as a "boy" I would be called a racist....I guess liberals can get away with it....I actually thought there would be a outcry from Jesse and the NAACP this morning ...but nothing....what made this story even more amazing was how these so called "lost boys" are now dealing with western culture... LOST BOYS Cindy Koser is one of those American sponsors. She knows she has many challenges ahead with these young men. They’re used to living in mud houses without ...

SACRAMENTO -- Rep. Gary Condit's career in public service entitles him to government pensions, but the earliest he could begin collecting anything would be two years from now when he turns 55. For now, amid the turmoil of the Chandra Levy case, Condit's staff insists the congressman will not resign and will run for re-election next year. Condit's latest financial disclosure statement lists no reportable assets. His only listed source of income is his congressional salary, which is $145,100 this year. Condit's adult life has been all about government. In a political career stretching back nearly three decades, Condit's resulting ...

Editor's note: The Israeli-Palestinian conflict dominates the media but offers no threat to America and the world. But a much bigger conflict is emerging over oil and natural gas that involves many more powers, great and small. If that conflict crosses the line between talk and action it could inflict a fuel crisis on America and the world that will make the last one of November-December 1973 look like a minor inconvenience. Franz Schurmann, emeritus professor at UC Berkeley, has written on oil for the last 20 years. His book "The Foreign Politics of Richard Nixon" (UC Institute of International ...

The Associated Press NEW YORK –– Frank Sesno is stepping down as CNN's Washington bureau chief, becoming the latest executive to leave the news channel as it undergoes a top-to-bottom makeover. Sesno, who had been with CNN since 1984, said Monday that his contract was coming up for renewal in mid-October and he wanted to pursue another career. He said he has not decided what to do next. CNN did not announce a replacement for him. Sesno had been the Washington bureau chief for CNN since 1996. "CNN is going through some changes, and it's going to have to figure ...

The ‘Accidental President’ Exclusive excerpt: The vote in Bush v. Gore was arrived at in secret conference. But this one determined who would be president. We didn’t know just how close it was—until now. NEWSWEEK’s David A. Kaplan goes behind the scenes NEWSWEEK Sept. 17 issue — As both campaigns and the entire country awaited the U.S. Supreme Court ruling in Bush v. Gore, the vice president couldn’t sit still. The vote would decide who’d win Election 2000. The process kept starting and stopping. Now, Gore needed to vent his emotions, with whatever degree of optimism he could muster.for the ...

Opposition members of the Armenian parliament walked out of the chamber earlier today in protest after an address on Ngorno-Karabakh by the head of the Council of Europe's parliamentary assembly, Lord Russell-Johnston. Twenty MPs left after Lord Russell-Johnston told them that the assembly's former speaker, who was killed in 1999, had struck an agreement to give territories occupied by Armenian forces in the predominantly Armenian enclave, to Azerbaijan. The former speaker, Karen Demirchian, was killed in October 1999 along with the prime minister and six others when an armed group opened fire inside the parliament building.

<p>While Southwest Florida reels from news that yet another mother is accused of killing her child, a handful of doctors and researchers say the link to antidepressant drugs cannot be ignored.</p> <p>Leslie Wallace, 39, of North Fort Myers, is one of a startling number of people whose unexpected acts of violence are being correlated to depression and the drugs prescribed to curb it.</p>

Tuesday, September 11 12:19 AM SGT First Israeli Arab suicide attack leaves Israelis questioning loyaltyJERUSALEM, Sept 10 (AFP) - Mohammad Salah Hbeishi, the first-ever Israeli Arab to carry out a suicide bombing, has sparked fresh doubts in Israel about the loyalty of the nation's million-strong Arab minority. The 48-year-old from the Arab town of Abu Sanan in the northern Galilee, who killed three others and wounded 36 at a crowded train station on Sunday, is one of a number of Israeli Arab activists linked to radical Palestinian groups which have sprung up in recent weeks. "For much of the ...

<p>WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Air Force said Sunday it will be sending fighter aircraft to locations in Alaska and Northern Canada to monitor a Russian air force exercise in the Russian arctic and North Pacific Region.</p> <p>The North American Aerospace Defense Command, based at Colorado Springs, Colo., said in a statement it conducted a similar operation during the first two weeks of December last year in response to a similar, but smaller Russian deployment of long-range bombers at northern Russian air bases.</p>

Jeremy Lott, senior editor of Spintech Magazine. "I guess I'm a Democrat with my head screwed on straight," says three term Seattle city attorney and current mayoral candidate Mark Sidran. Asked to handicap this year's race, Sidran downplays the ideological differences between the candidates: "The real issue is going to be, Who's most likely to be able to deliver results?" But the "results" mantra is more practical than strictly true. Sidran takes a much more hard-bitten approach to politics than his very gummy Democratic opponents in this one-party town. Stump speeches and interviews are sprinkled with references to the ...

Click on ‘Send’ Michael Freund 10 September 2001 Sporting a new determination to impose some order on my life, I finally began cleaning out my computer, erasing the hundreds of messages, unsolicited advertisements and other assorted clutter that fills up my e-mail system. So if you are still waiting for me to reply to a message you sent last February, don’t give up hope - it should be coming any day now. Cleaning out my word processor files has proven to be even more eventful, as I have found a couple of recent letters I wrote that I never got ...

How to Win the Culture War &nbsp; How to Win the Culture War Peter Kreeft &nbsp; To win any war, the three most necessary things to know are (1) that you are at war, (2) who your enemy is, and (3) what weapons or strategies can defeat him. You cannot win a war (1) if you simply sew peace banners on a battlefield, (2) if you fight civil wars against your allies, or (3) if you use the wrong weapons. Here is a three point checklist for the culture wars. I assume you would not be reading a magazine called ...

WASHINGTON - An overwhelming majority - 85 percent - of foreign-exchange students find their courses in U.S. high schools easier than back home, according to a survey released Monday. In addition, 56 percent of foreign teens said American students spent less time on schoolwork than their foreign counterparts. The findings also highlight sharp cultural differences: A whopping 67.2 percent of the exchange students said success in sports is more important at American high schools than at their home schools, according to the survey by the Brown Center on Educational Policy at The Brookings Institution. And, in sharp contrast to ...

SKOPJE, Macedonia (Reuters) - Macedonia may bow to international pressure and accept a long-term foreign military presence to prevent new ethnic violence once NATO's mission ends in late September, government officials said on Monday. They insisted that a purely NATO force was out of question but said Skopje was ready to accept a mission including NATO troops under a U.N. mandate -- something several European Union ministers rejected over the weekend. "There is a lot of pressure, so we can expect a modification in our current resolute position of having no (extended) foreign military presence," a senior government source, who ...