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Mother Sacrifices Life To Save Son Ohio Woman Killed By Minivan Posted: 10:47 a.m. EDT June 23, 2002 HAMILTON, Ohio -- A Hamilton woman was killed when she was hit by a minivan after pushing her 6-year-old son out of the path of the vehicle. Thirty-nine-year-old Susan Maus and her son were standing in the driveway of a friend's home on Thursday while Maus's van idled at the top of the steep driveway. Maus pushed her son aside when she saw the van starting to roll toward them. Police said the front end of the van knocked Maus down...

Israel examines the legal aspects of the expulsion of the families of kamikazes Sunday June 23, 2002 - 13h42 GMT JERUSALEM, June 23 (AFP) - the Israeli government decided Sunday "to examine the legal aspects" of a possible expulsion of the families of the Palestinian kamikazes, announced the secretary of the government Gideon Saar. "the government decided to examine the legal aspects (which would allow) the expulsion of the families of authors of attacks commits suicide", declared Mr. Saar, at the time of a point of press. This measurement was adopted following the attacks commits suicide Tuesday and Wednesday...

Greetings: I was asked by a friend about possible benefits regarding assistance for her husband during convalescence from hip-replacement surgery toward the end of July. Are there any programs or support structures that could provide for transportation or rehab that they could have available to them? Please answer on the thread, as they will be able to see it here. Cheers. Mike.

Politics aside, immigration, legal and otherwise,is a fact of California life that is having tremendous impact. About a third of the immigrants to the United States come to California and they and the babies born to immigrant mothers account for virtually all of the state's net population growth,About six million people each decade. Without immigration, in other words, California's population growth would be zero.For the rest of the article buy the paper cause it ain't online!

We Need Republicans Here to Give OUR Perspective, The Environmentalists want Ground Zero to be a Park and the Atheists want no mention of God on the Memorial. On Saturday, July 20, 2002, New Yorkers will come together to shape the future of Lower Manhattan.This historic gathering - called "Listening to the City" - will give 5,000 participants an opportunity to consider plans for the redevelopment of Lower Manhattan and the creation of a permanent memorial to the victims of 9/11.Using the latest in modern technology, participants will have the opportunity to voice their opinions on critical issues and vote...

A new analysis concludes that inadequate fireproofing caused the Twin Towers to collapse when they did, less than two hours after they were struck and set on fire by hijacked jets. The researchers calculated that the amount of fireproofing in the towers would have protected the steel for only 42 to 59 minutes in the South Tower, and 85 to 124 minutes in the North Tower, in a fire. Those time periods correspond with the actual time it took the buildings to collapse - 56 minutes in the South Tower and 104 minutes in the North Tower, the researchers said....

"He touched a nerve," Apthorp said. "These were people just like us, family people, and they were saying, "If he shows up on my property, I'm going to get my gun and shoot him.' These are people you don't expect to hear this from. But when you start messing with people's homes, it brings a whole different level of intensity." Don Connolly walked into attorney Chris Sanders' brick-colored conference room, approached his Chippendale reproduction table and unrolled a large map of a pricey south Pinellas County waterfront community. The map showed 61 parcels of land in Pasadena Gulf Club...

A father who lost his son in the World Trade Center attacks clings to a dream he's waiting for the New York City Fire Department to fulfill. Arnold Roma, 50, a registered nurse and retired New York City police officer, would like to see the name Keith Roma added to the official list of 343 firefighters who perished that day in the line of duty. "Every time we hear the number 343 we die all over,” said Roma, who lives on Staten Island with his wife, Rosemary. "It really should be 344.” On Sept. 11, Keith Roma, 27, a...

Second-Amendment Setup: What They Say Isn't What You Get By Aaron Zelman and Claire Wolfe Published 06. 22. 02 at 16:40 Sierra Time Who made the following statements? 1. "The broad principle that there is an individual right to bear arms is shared by many Americans, including myself. I'm of the view that you can't take a broad approach to other rights, such as First Amendment rights, and then interpret the Second Amendment so narrowly that it could fit in a thimble. But I'm also of the view that there are limits on those rights. Just as you can't falsely...

"This is free ground. All the way from here to the Pacific Ocean. No man has to bow. No man born to royalty. Here we judge you by what you do, not by who your father was. Here you can be something. Here's a place to build a home. It isn't the land--there's always more land. It's the idea that we all have value, you and me, we're worth something more than the dirt. I never saw dirt I'd die for, but I'm not asking you to come join us and fight for dirt. What we're all fighting for, in...

Saturday was supposed to be the day his family celebrated James Cartier's 27th birthday. Instead, family and friends packed a church in Queens to bid him a final farewell, more than nine months after he was killed in the World Trade Center attack. “He was a boy eager to become a man, eager to make his parents proud,” said his brother Michael during a eulogy. James Cartier was an apprentice electrician working on the 105th floor of tower 2. His remains were identified two months ago. The Cartier family turned its personal tragedy into a crusade. His six brothers and...

Freddrick Mark Brito, a felon who posed as a priest at two Phoenix churches, celebrated Mass, a funeral, weddings and baptisms during his three weeks in the pulpit. Brito, 46, was arrested last week on a California warrant alleging grand theft and embezzlement. He had been an associate pastor at Immaculate Heart and St. Anthony's churches since at least May 26. A background check by The Arizona Republic uncovered a criminal record dating from 1979 that the Phoenix Diocese and, earlier, the Tucson Diocese failed to uncover. Embarrassed Phoenix diocesan officials on Wednesday were thankful no harm was done during...

What do you watch for, when you are watching the news? Signs that interest rates might be climbing, maybe it's time to refinance. Signs of global warming, maybe forget that new SUV. Signs of new terrorist activity, maybe think twice about that flight to Chicago. Or signs that the world may be coming to an end, and the last battle between good and evil is about to unfold? For evangelical Christians with an interest in prophecy, the headlines always come with asterisks pointing to scriptural footnotes. That is how Todd Strandberg reads his paper. By day, he is fixing planes...

Domestic violence - one safe place? Officer Jim Cooper has become a familiar face at the shelter. Although he comes by to check on all the women, he is particularly attentive to one: A 35-year-old Albanian woman, Luljeta. For Cooper, she has become something of a personal crusade. Luljeta's husband started beating her early in their eight-year marriage. The cables he used left scars on her back. After the sixth year he also began bringing other women into their home. Luljeta ran away twice, but each time her husband found her and brought her back. This time he has not...

A "sweet" letter

Unlike Victims, Bombers Died Without Pain By Rosie DiManno "How beautiful it is to make my bomb shrapnel kill the enemy. How beautiful it is to kill and to be killed ? not to love death, but to struggle for life, to kill and be killed for the lives of the coming generation." T WENTY-TWO-YEAR- OLD Mohammed al-Ghoul, a master's student in Islamic studies, wrote those lines. Then he went out and blew up a crowded bus in Jerusalem. Twenty dead, including the homicide bomber. At least 55 wounded. The most deadly terrorist attack in the Holy City in six...

Hamid Karzai, Afghanistan's transitional president, is a charming, easy-going man with plenty of courage; he proved that by driving alone into Taliban-controlled Afghanistan last year on his motorbike. Now that he has begun to turn his shattered, divided country into a new nation, he will need all these qualities, and more.The government he created with much effort at the loya jirga, or grand national assembly, is genuinely representative of the whole country: eight Pashtuns, three Tajiks, three Hazaras, an Uzbek and a Shiite Muslim. Mr Karzai has reduced the power of the Northern Alliance, which defeated the Taliban last...

In New York, Los Angeles and Chicago, the No. 1 network for nightly news among adults ages 18 to 34 is not ABC, CBS, NBC, Fox or CNN. It is the Spanish-language network Univision. In Houston, Univision, Channel 45, has been ranked No. 1 throughout the day among adults ages 18 to 49 for almost a year, according to Nielsen ratings. A population explosion among U.S. Hispanics is changing the television and radio landscape and creating a bright future for Univision and other Hispanic broadcast networks. Traditionally, Hispanic media networks have been considered part of a niche market as opposed...

The Future of “History”By Stanley Kurtz(Go to Print Friendly Version)This is Samuel P. Huntington’s moment. The world of cultural and religious strife anticipated by Huntington in his much-discussed (and widely excoriated) book, The Clash of Civilizations, has unquestionably arrived. Yet whether we might also someday see an alternative world — the global triumph of democracy envisioned in Francis Fukuyama’s brilliant work, The End of History and the Last Man — is also a question that seems very much before us as we contemplate what it would mean to “win” the war in which we are engaged. The question of...

WASHINGTON- Major crime increased in the United States last year for the first time in a decade, including a 3.1 percent increase in murders, a law enforcement official said Saturday. The official, speaking on condition of anonymity about contents of an annual report to be released Monday by the FBI's Uniform Crime Reporting Program, said it will show jumps in robberies, burglaries and car thefts. Overall, major crimes in 2001 were up by 2 percent from 2000, the official said. Statistics from the report were first reported by The Washington Post, which said it obtained a copy of the document....