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Monday September 10 7:57 AM ET Capsized Man Phones for Help 3,500 Miles Away Capsized Man Phones for Help 3,500 Miles Away LONDON (Reuters) - A British kayaker who capsized in heavy seas off southern England used his cellphone to raise the alarm -- by calling his father 3,500 miles (5,600 km) away in Dubai, a Coastguard spokesman said on Monday.Mark Ashton-Smith, a lecturer at Cambridge University, told rescuers he knew he was in serious trouble as he clung to his upturned kayak in treacherous seas off the Isle of Wight but did not think to call nearby emergency services, ...

Labor's Loot Follow the money in the latest union scandal. This Labor Day we took note of a recent Federal Elections Commission report that concluded that such is organized labor's financial muscle within the Democratic Party that the AFL-CIO and other unions enjoyed the "authority to approve or disapprove plans, projects and needs of the [Democratic National Committee] and its state parties" in the 1996 elections. If the unions want to support the Democrats, we wrote, that's fine by us, though we have repeatedly aired our objections to their doing so in ways that violate the Supreme Court's Beck ...

WASHINGTON, Sept. 10, 2001 AP (CBS) With gloom about the economy only deepening, President Bush is facing mounting pressure to do something now to stop the slide. Republicans, worried about political repercussions from the struggling economy, are floating a perennial favorite – new tax cuts – starting with chopping the capital gains rate from 20 to 15 percent. "I think we should have a capital gains tax rate cut. It would have an immediate effect on the economy," said Senate Minority Leader Trent Lott, R-Miss. Reducing the capital gains tax on investments would open Republicans to charges of helping ...

Mad Cow fears hit Japan food shares Tokyo ends higher; Taipei, Seoul, HK ease By Mariko Ando, CBS.MarketWatch.com Last Update: 3:38 AM ET Sept. 11, 2001 TOKYO (CBS.MW) - Japanese investors spat out food shares Tuesday on fears that consumers will stay away from meat and meat-related products after officials discovered what is likely the first instance of Mad Cow disease in Japan. Despite the drag from the food sector, Tokyo's Nikkei managed to land in the positive territory, helped by gains for exporters following the yen's decline against the dollar. The Nikkei Average added 0.95 percent, or 97.26 ...

Goose hunt planned at Juniper Hill Monday, September 10, 2001By Sandy Quadros BowlesTelegram & Gazette Staff NORTHBORO-- With its low grass, abundant water supplies and wide open spaces, Juniper Hill Golf Course has everything a Canada goose could want, according to course manager Dudley W. Darling.     As a result, he said, the course has become overrun with the birds.     Next month, hunters will be allowed on the property to shoot a limited number of the birds.     “We're not doing a wholesale slaughter,” Mr. Darling said. “We're just trying to keep the levels in moderation.”     The hunt is a last resort to thin out ...

<p>Democrat leaders have been pounding President Bush over his 10-year, $1.3 trillion income tax cut.</p> <p>The steady flow of rhetoric has the tax cut favoring the rich, erasing the budget surplus and being ineffective in stimulating the economy. As for the Democrats' plan to revive the economy, Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle, D-S.D., refuses to offer any proposals, saying it's up to the president to move first.</p>

<p>WASHINGTON — Just a few months ago, it looked as if the long-running feud between the United Nations and the United States finally was coming to a close.A deal was struck in Congress to pay nearly $1 billion in back U.S. dues. U.N. members agreed to reduce Washington's share of the world body's budget. Secretary-General Kofi Annan won praise on Capitol Hill for trying to change the United Nations' image as a bloated bureaucracy controlled by Third World nations that want to beat up on the United States.</p>

<p>September 11, 2001 -- BELFAST, Northern Ireland - More than 100 Roman Catholic girls reached their besieged Belfast school in safety yesterday, as Protestants who have menaced them for the past week reserved their hostile whistles for their departing parents.</p>

<p>September 11, 2001 -- WASHINGTON - A grand jury in Rep. Gary Condit's California district rejected a request to investigate him for allegedly asking an ex-girlfriend to lie about their affair, it was revealed last night.</p> <p>The Stanislaus County civil grand jury in Modesto sent notice of its decision to the lawyer of flight attendant Anne Marie Smith Thursday, saying it would not conduct the obstruction-of-justice investigation because it wasn't authorized to issue a criminal indictment.</p>

<p>September 11, 2001 -- The GOP congresswoman probing a scandal-scarred housing program that Democratic gubernatorial hopeful Andrew Cuomo oversaw as federal HUD secretary was hit with an ethics complaint yesterday - from one of Cuomo's allies.</p> <p>Charlie King - who was a regional director of Housing and Urban Development under Cuomo and is now seeking the Democratic nomination for lieutenant governor - claims Westchester Rep. Sue Kelly is trying to embarrass his ex-boss with a "witch hunt."</p>

<p>September 11, 2001 -- The former minister who allegedly received a $5 million refund from the state by claiming he made a quarter of a billion dollars last year didn't flee the country because he was waiting for millions more from the federal government, a prosecutor charged yesterday.</p>

Monkey madnessbringing experts,smiles to Danville By JASON SCHREIBER Union Leader Correspondent Hampstead resident Carol Persson sticks a banana on a tree limb yesterday to lure the errant Danville monkey. Below, Elaine Bernard posts pictures resembling the monkey on a utility pole in Danville. (Jason Schreiber Photos) DANVILLE — Kerry Pedato thought she was going bananas when she noticed what appeared to be a monkey perched on the roof of a pump house near her Danville home. “It was sitting in a squatting position with his hand on his face,” recalled Pedato, who saw the primate Aug. 28 but didn’t ...

<p>2:30 p.m. — Treasury Department releases weekly three-and six-month bill auction results. Location: 15th St & Pennsylvania Ave NW. Contact: 202/874-9890.</p> <p>5 p.m. —American Petroleum Institute releases weekly report on petroleum inventories. Location: 1220 L St NW. Contact: 202/682-8000.</p> <p>8 a.m. — Health and Human Services Department, Public Health Service, Food and Drug Administration holds a meeting of the Oncologic Drugs Advisory Committee. Location: Holiday Inn, Versailles Ballroom, 8120 Wisconsin Ave., Bethesda. Contact: 301/827-7001.</p>

<p>The House Budget Committee today will consider legislation that would cut spending in fiscal 2002 to make up for amounts borrowed from the Social Security surplus in fiscal 2001.</p> <p>The idea was conceived by committee chairman Rep. Jim Nussle, Iowa Republican, and got the green light last night from House Speaker J. Dennis Hastert, Illinois Republican.</p>

"...we hold that a federal criminal gun_control law does not violate the Second Amendment unless it impairs the state's ability to maintain a well_regulated militia."

<p>Who says federal civil servants don't know how to handle money? Not the people who handle the feds' money, that's for sure.</p> <p>In fact, since mid-June federal and postal investors have moved more than $14 million they had in outside tax-deferred retirement plans into the federal Thrift Savings Plan.</p>

<p>U.S. Sen. George F. Allen, who as Virginia governor pushed through his plan to abolish parole in the state, said yesterday that this year's Republican gubernatorial candidate Mark L. Earley was an important supporter of the policy, while Democratic candidate Mark R. Warner was part of the opposition.</p>

<p>By Sally Satel. Dr. Satel, a fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, is the author of "PC, M.D. -- How Political Correctness Is Corrupting Medicine" (Basic Books, 2001).</p> <p>Andrea Yates, the Houston mother who drowned her five children last June, is the newest feminist icon. The National Organization for Women is rallying around her. Diana Lynn-Barnes of the Center for Postpartum Health sounded the battle cry: "Women are mad as hell and they are not going to take it anymore. There's a vast amount of compassion for Andrea Yates because... they can see how one could go down this road. She's a victim of a culture that says women come last." Newsweek columnist Anna Quindlen invoked the "insidious cult of motherhood" to explain Yates' actions.</p>

<p>"New York Post columnist Rod Dreher questioned the good taste of 22-year-old singer Aaliyah's funeral procession down Fifth Avenue: 'A traffic-snarling, horse-drawn cortege in honor of a pop singer most people have never heard of? Give us a break!'</p> <p>"In response [the Rev. Al] Sharpton called for a boycott of the Post and its advertisers. 'It was ugly and divisive. She was degraded,' he said.</p>

<p>This Labor Day we took note of a recent Federal Elections Commission report that concluded that such is organized labor's financial muscle within the Democratic Party that the AFL-CIO and other unions enjoyed the "authority to approve or disapprove plans, projects and needs of the [Democratic National Committee] and its state parties" in the 1996 elections. If the unions want to support the Democrats, we wrote, that's fine by us, though we have repeatedly aired our objections to their doing so in ways that violate the Supreme Court's Beck decision against the use of compulsory union dues for political purposes. This week, as the prosecution wraps up its case in the perjury trial of former Teamsters President Ron Carey, it's becoming ever more clear that the status of Democratic power-brokers may have tempted some union officials to divert their organizations' funds for internal union politics as well.</p>