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Klamath Basin Farmers Get $50 Million in Aid KLAMATH FALLS, Oregon, June 18, 2002 (ENS) - Farmers in the Klamath Basin whose crops and livestock suffered last year from lack of water will benefit from $50 million in aid earmarked in the 2002 Farm Bill. Farmers in the Klamath Basin faced last summer with no water for irrigation, as all available water has been diverted to protect endangered sucker fish and threatened coho salmon. Last month, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) issued an opinion stating that the Klamath Basin irrigation system threatens two endangered fish, the Lost...

It's not just the massive acts or threats of catastrophe that do damage to our notions of civilization. What may be every bit as dangerous is the more commonplace insult or outrage that raises neither hackles nor eyebrows before passing into the record as just another increment of encroaching chaos. Such an instant came and went last week, neither earth-shaking in itself, nor definitive in any way, but still deserving mention if only to sort out whether it was worth any goosebumps or furrowed brows in the first place. It all had to do with the fact that Syria, now...

Australia is fully supporting President George W. Bush's new plan for pre-emptive strikes in the war against terrorism. Herald journalist Paul McGeough, based in New York, reports that the rest of the world is not so gung-ho. Picture the national security team at the White House yesterday morning - stabbing at their keyboards, searching for the first of the Australian on-line newspaper reports on Canberra's unqualified endorsement of George Bush's emerging "first strike" doctrine. Did National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice race off to the Oval Office with a print out, calling to Bush: "We're on the right track, Mr President...

Retired Pay Restoration Act of 2001 (Introduced in Senate)   S 170 IS   107th CONGRESS   1st Session   S. 170To amend title 10, United States Code, to permit retired members of the Armed Forces who have a service-connected disability to receive both military retired pay by reason of their years of military service and disability compensation from the Department of Veterans Affairs for their disability.   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES   January 24, 2001Mr. REID (for himself, Mr. HUTCHINSON, Ms. LANDRIEU, Mr. DORGAN, Mr. CONRAD, Mr. JOHNSON, Mr. MCCAIN, Mr. BINGAMAN, Mr. INOUYE, Mr. SHELBY,...

  18 June 2002 Vol. 4 Number 13 Dear Colleague: Countless numbers of women overseas have been abused by family planning programs. But victims of family planning also abound in the U.S. Take the case of Norplant. Despite its sometimes extreme side effects, and the payment of $54 million to settle a class action lawsuit, Norplant manufacturer Weyeth-Ayerst (now Wyeth Pharmaceuticals) continues to deny its health risks. Moreover, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration continues to carry Norplant on its list of approved drugs and devices, as an approved substance for regulating pregnancy. Abortion groups continue to aggressively promote...

HUMAN RIGHTS CAMPAIGN ANNOUNCES 3 NEW SENATE CAMPAIGN 2002 ENDORSEMENTS FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Wednesday, June 12, 2002 WASHINGTON — The Human Rights Campaign, the nation's largest gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender political organization, announced three new Senate endorsements today, bringing the total number to 18, with16 Democrats and 2 Republicans. HRC continues to watch races in Arkansas, North Carolina and other states. HRC's political action committee (PAC) is a tool of its legislative agenda and the outcome of the 2002 elections will have a significant impact on legislation promoting equality for lesbian and gay Americans, says HRC. Maintaining a well-respected...

Bad weather has forced three days of cancellations at the KSC. Scheduled to touch down on RWY 22 at 1258 Central.

WASHINGTON, June 1 (UPI) -- Binyamin Jolkovsky is a man with a mission. For five years the 33-year-old has produced his high-quality conservative Web site, Jewish World Review, from a Brooklyn attic on a wing, a prayer and three or four hours' sleep a night. Will he be able to make it financially viable before his health gives out? Jolkovsky's wife, a systems analyst in Manhattan, has given him a deadline to pay himself a salary. Maybe some day he can even hire an assistant. Testimonials to Jolkovsky's editorial skills come from far and wide, but fundraising is another matter....

Colleges need to recruit more black professors I never really took into consideration the effect of having an African-American teacher until I got into college. In elementary school, most of my teachers were African-American. During high school, I had two African-American teachers who taught two different subjects. But at Alfred University, I don't have any African-American professors. During my freshman year, it didn't really affect me because I didn't notice or care. I was just happy that I was in college. But at the beginning of my sophomore year, I felt like I was lacking minority guidance in some classes,...

A 22-month old girl named Miracle survived for up to 10 days on whatever food she could find in her home after her pregnant mother died in their US apartment in Atlanta, police say. Police responding to a report of a foul smell and a swarm of flies broke down the door on the weekend and found the toddler standing next to her mother's body, which was so decomposed that the woman had to be identified by fingerprints. An autopsy indicated Lawarna Stevenson, 26, died from complications of diabetes and high blood pressure. Miracle was in a stable condition at...

When Megan Gaffey got her school ring last month, she said she took it as a sign that she belonged at Kellenberg Memorial High School. Yesterday, the honor student was officially told not to come back to the private Catholic school for her senior year after she refused to sing a medley of songs that she and her family consider blasphemous. As part of the spring concert, the school's chorus sang several selections from the Tim Rice and Andrew Lloyd Webber rock opera "Jesus Christ Superstar." But Gaffey, a member of the Orthodox Presbyterian Church in Franklin Square, said the...

The much-publicized administration split over the fate of a possible Iraq invasion has given way to adoption of the hawks' timetable and message by President George W. Bush, meaning an October surprise could be in the offing. The nation's capital has been buzzing with Iraq speculation following the Washington Post article over the weekend stating that Bush had signed an order earlier this year for the Central Intelligence Agency to use lethal force, if necessary, to effect "regime change" in Iraq. Although the story, which many administration officials believe was leaked by CIA Director George Tenet, may have been intended...

       SLIGHTLY MORE than half of all American Catholics and a larger majority of non-Catholics said they disapproved of the policy passed by the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops last week in Dallas, which would permanently bar abusive priests from all church-related public duties but would not automatically remove them from the priesthood.        Two-thirds of Catholics said the bishops’ guidelines fail to do enough to address the problem of child abuse by priests, a view shared by three-fourths of the general public. Just pulling them out of the public eye won’t do it at...

It has been less than 48 hours since we learned that U.S. Forest Service employee Terry Barton intentionally started a forest conflagration which has burned more than 100,000 acres of precious forest land in the pristine Rockies. Known as the Hayman Fire, it has already cost an estimated 52 million dollars and is just 25% contained. But the vindication of this female arsonist has already begun. She is not only being portrayed as merely a caring person who made an unfortunate mistake, but as of this morning (June 18) The Denver Post, under the headline "Forest Job Sustained Barton As...

A controversy has erupted over a proposal to use a large steel cross found in the rubble of the World Trade Center in a memorial to victims of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks. Construction worker Frank Silecchia found the cross two days after the collapse of the twin towers. The cross was from World Trade tower One, and was found in World Trade building Six. The only complete story I´ve located about the cross, written at the time it was found, comes from Bible Network News in an (October 10, 2001 article. "Silecchia, a Christian, found several crosses standing upright...

By Scott Hogenson CNSNews.com Executive Editor June 19, 2002 Nickelodeon's June 18 special on homosexual parenting was not a sensitive presentation on a delicate issue; it was a slick piece of cultural propaganda designed to intimidate kids. In airing the program, the nation's preeminent cable TV channel for children has traded on its brand to provide a new avenue for advocacy of homosexuality. Aired without commercial interruption after rumors that advertisers didn't want to touch this 30-minute teenage gabfest with a 10-foot pole, the show went to considerable lengths to promote homosexuality and portray even measured, rational disagreement with...

<p>Probably the smallest surviving baby ever born in Nashville - who entered the world four months ago at Centennial Hospital weighing the same as a regular-sized soft drink - went home yesterday.</p> <p>From an initial 12 ounces on Feb. 10, Olivia Grace Reimers had gained another 4 pounds, 14 ounces, by the time she left Centennial with her parents, Elizabeth and Dan Reimers of Winchester, Tenn. Hospital spokespeople said she was released with good prospects for a normal life.</p>

(CNSNews.com) - Very few communities refuse federal funding, but it may happen tonight in a conservative corner of Kentucky, where pro-life sentiment is very strong. The Northern Kentucky Independent District Health Board is debating whether to refuse Title X funding, federal taxpayer dollars that are used, in part, to pay for contraception for poor women. Northern Kentucky Right to Life is running newspaper advertisements that say certain contraceptives - IUD, the pill, the morning-after pill, Norplant - cause abortions, because they may prevent fertilized eggs from implanting in the womb. Wire services quote the group's president, Robert Cetrulo, as saying...

<p>Bill Simon is launching his general election campaign against Gov. Gray Davis today with an appeal -- in Spanish -- to Latino voters.</p> <p>Simon's ads, airing on Spanish television, cable and radio, criticize Davis, a Democrat, for failing to improve schools. They say that Simon, a Republican, will do a better job.</p>