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6/19/02Yu, I have this friend (seriously, its a friend, not me). Anyway, he just got fired from his job because he has a sleeping disorder. The only thing he hates more than going to bed at night is getting up the next morning. His sleep schedule is about 4am to about 3pm. This has been going on for about 12 years and we (his friends) have tried about everything. Any advice would be really helpful. Erik, 25, Seattle WA Erik, That crazy! Yu good at math and that mean he sleeping 11 hours! In the entire time Yu in monastery...

TROUBLE IN THE HOLY LANDWho's winning the Net war?Backers of Israelis, Palestinians take battle to Internet Posted: June 20, 2002 By Mandi SteeleThrough the eyes of Israeli sympathizers, the Internet is a haven for those who support Yasser Arafat, the idea of a Palestinian state and Islamist ambitions for world hegemony. Through the eyes of Arab sympathizers, the Internet is a haven for those who unequivocally support the Jewish state. No matter who's right, both sides in the debate are taking the war in the Mideast to cyberspace – with plans for new sites and greater efforts at networking. The...

<p>NEW YORK (AP) -- The federal government has closed its probe -- with no charges filed -- into former President Bill Clinton's grants of clemency to four men accused of bilking the government of millions of dollars, authorities said Thursday.</p>

Police: Teacher, student used pot By REBECCA NOLAN The Register-Guard   Recommend this story to others.   A Bethel School District teacher resigned last week after it was discovered that she had smoked marijuana with a 14-year-old student at her home. Terri Elizabeth McCracken, 34, of Springfield, had taught seventh grade at the district's Meadow View School for two years. The district is in northwest Eugene. Eugene police charged McCracken on June 11 with one misdemeanor count of endangering the welfare of a minor. She was given a citation and released. When school district officials confronted her with the allegations, she...

You want to start with something crabby and angry-white-male-ish? Okay.A couple of days ago, I read a very nice article on the WWII Navajo “codetalkers,” or “windtalkers,” as they were also known. Very nice article. And I figured: This is maybe the 9,000th article I’ve read on the Navajo codetalkers. And I’ve read about 13,000 articles on Sen. Dan Inouye and those marvelous Nisei soldiers. And about 21,000 articles on the Tuskegee airmen.So now I’ve got it straight: World War II was won by the Tuskegee airmen, the Nisei, and the Navajo codetalkers.Is that an awful thing to say?...

Republican challenger Douglas Forrester trails Democratic incumbent Robert Torricelli 44–36 percent among registered voters as the New Jersey Senate race opens, according to a Quinnipiac University poll released today. Sen. Torricelli is limping along with a negative 35–37 percent approval rating, matching his low point from a July 5, 2001, poll by the independent Quinnipiac University. He also has a negative favorability rating, his first such negative this year. Democrats back Torricelli 79–6 percent, while Republicans back Forrester 79–11 percent. New Jersey’s pivotal independent voters are split 37–36 percent for Forrester. A bright spot for Torricelli is his 46–27 percent...

When the United States builds a missile-defense shield, it should leave a small hole right above Harvard University -- and Yale, Stanford, Columbia and Brown. Each of these institutions bans the U.S. Reserve Officer Training Corps (ROTC) from conducting classes on its campus. Until they let ROTC back on campus, let them defend themselves. Now, when America is under attack, it is vital that America's youth know the military personally, rather than buying professorial slander about the military-industrial complex and the "dark side" of the U.S. armed forces. Still, many top-notch universities ban ROTC. Harvard, Yale, Stanford, Columbia and Brown...

A lone Australian navy Seahawk helicopter swept towards the crew of the Russian fishing boat Lena on a gray February day this year. The rust-speckled trawler and its dozens of workers had been working in one of the loneliest places on Earth, the Southern Ocean around Antarctica, where extreme cold and rough seas discourage all but the heartiest and most determined of seamen. But the Lena certainly had incentive to be in these waters. By the time the Seahawk arrived, the Lena had in its hold an estimated $1.25 million worth of Patagonian toothfish, also known as Chilean sea bass....

The New Math of the NYT education columnist Richard Rothstein: 2 + 1+ = 2 (and not "3") By summer -- a former Dem, now an independent and a FL certified teacher "Florida has two school voucher programs" declares Richard Rothstein in the opening sentence of his June 19, 2002 NYT column on education, below. "Two" voucher programs? Wrong, Richard. Florida has THREE voucher programs. Maybe you never had a teacher who taught you simple addition, prior to becoming a regular columnist at the NYT. I will try to help you see why: 1 + 1 + 1 = 3....

Streaming video of the hearing (Windows Media only) -- watch now. Thursday, June 20, 2002 Subcommittee on Workforce Protections - LIVE Webcast 10:00 a.m. in room 2175 Rayburn House Office Building. Hearing on “An Assessment of the Use of Union Dues for Political Purposes: Is the Law Being Followed or Violated?” Witnesses scheduled to appear: Ms. Kathleen Klamut Former Member, National Education Association Mogadore, OhioMs. Janet Martinez Representing Service Employees International Union (SEIU) Local 32 B-J New York, New YorkMr. Dominick Bentiveana Member, SEIU Local 32 B-J Brooklyn, New York With Paul Pamias, Member, SEIU Local 32 B-J New York,...

Ashcroft to Make it Official: Clintons Are Above the Law Attorney General John Ashcroft is said to be ready to close out a key aspect of his Justice Department investigation into the Clinton pardon trading scandal, effectively confirming that both the ex-president and his New York senator wife are now officially above the law. "The Justice Department is expected within a month to shut down its probe into whether (then-President) Clinton gave clemency to four convicted felons of the Hasidic enclave of New Square after the town voted 1,400 to 12 for Hillary Clinton in her Senate election," the New...

Court Disallows Executing Retarded Thu Jun 20,10:37 AM ET WASHINGTON (AP) - A divided Supreme Court reversed itself Thursday and ruled that executing the mentally retarded is unconstitutionally cruel. The 6-3 ruling is confined to mentally retarded killers, and does not address the constitutionality of capital punishment in general. The majority's view reflects changes in public attitudes on the issue since the court declared such executions constitutional in 1989. Then, only two states that used capital punishment outlawed the practice for the retarded. Now, 18 states prohibit it. "It is not so much the number of these states that is...

I am trying to find some examples of large implementations of .net development. Since .net is barely out of the cradle, I would like to find someone who has actually implemented this technology in a company. Can anyone help?

Mary Wakefield talks to the Republican hawk Peggy Noonan, and finds her single-minded and certain in her pursuit of evil New York Peggy Noonan, one of America’s most revered Republican writers and former speechwriter for the Reagan White House, looks up from her chicken salad with an expression of baffled determination. ‘It is obvious to me, Mary, that we live in a time of extraordinary peril. But you will learn as you grow older that people just don’t listen!’ Her pale eyes gleam, not more than a foot away from my own. She would win hands down in a not-blinking...

TAMPA -- A Robinson High student who was not allowed to pose for her senior yearbook picture in a jacket and tie filed a lawsuit in federal court Wednesday, claiming the school's actions violated her constitutional rights. Nicole "Nikki" Youngblood, 17, alleges in the suit that the school's dress requirement for yearbook photos is discriminatory. All female students are required to wear a scoop-necked drape and all male students must wear a white shirt, tie and dark jacket. Youngblood, a lesbian, hasn't worn traditionally female clothes in several years. In spring 2001, when she went to be photographed by the...

TEL AVIV (Reuters) - Israeli television broadcasters are considering pulling the plug on the CNN news channel in protest at comments made by U.S. media mogul Ted Turner, officials and sources at the companies said on Thursday. Turner, founder of the 24-hour Cable News Network, was quoted on Tuesday as saying the Israeli military was engaged in "terrorism" against the Palestinians that could be compared to Palestinian suicide bomber attacks on Israelis. A senior board member at the YES satellite television broadcaster and a source close to the head of Israel's three cable providers, now engaged in a merger (...

REVEREND JERRY VINES is the PC police's enemy du jour. Vines is a past president of the Southern Baptist Convention and pastor of First Baptist Church in Jacksonville, Florida. In a June 10 address at a pastors' conference in St. Louis, he described Muhammad as a "demon-possessed pedophile." This description is theologically and historically grounded. From a Baptist perspective, Muhammad was a false prophet; the revelations he proclaimed derived not from divine guidance but satanic manipulation, hence "demon-possessed." Muhammad also considered possession as the cause of revelation in the Hadith, a collection of his sayings. Regarding the charge of pedophilia,...

<p>Washington, June 20 (Bloomberg) -- The Constitution bars executions of mentally retarded killers, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled, reversing a decision it made 13 years ago and ending a practice permitted in 20 states.</p> <p>The 6-3 decision, invoking the constitutional ban on cruel and unusual punishment, said ``evolving standards of decency'' preclude sentencing the retarded to death. The ruling came in the case of a Virginia man convicted of a 1996 murder.</p>

States’ rights protect freedom By Nathan McClintock In this day and age, States’ rights have been long forgotten. After all, is it not the federal government that takes care of everything from Welfare to Medicare to Social Security to public education? In essence, if we pay our tax dollars, then the federal government will allow us to participate in these programs. Yes, the federal government even seems to be interested in protecting your rights. Take, for example, the 1st, 2nd, 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments, which protect every citizen’s civil liberties. And if the States decide to restrict one’s freedoms,...

A new ice age is due now, says Andrew Kenny, but you won’t hear it from the Greens, who like to play on Western guilt about consumerism to make us believe in global warming The Earth’s climate is changing in a dramatic way, with immense danger for man and the natural systems that sustain him. This was the frightening message broadcast to us by environmentalists in the recent past. Here are some of their prophecies. The facts have emerged, in recent years and months, from research into past ice ages. They imply that the threat of a new ice age...