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I spent the weekend at one of my best college friend's houses. She lives in a very expensive neighborhood in Connecticut, about an hour and a half from NYC, and is married to a highly educated, highly paid chemical engineer who designs and produces some of the world's most innovative and advanced industrial materials. He is extremely smart, highly motivated, exceptionally inventive, and when the topic of guns came up, as violent an opponent of the Second Amendment as I have met. Just the topic brings him to the brink of physical violence. Let me try and summarize our "discussion"...

Monday 24 June, 2002 Lobby the G8 author/source:ZWNEWS published:Mon 24-Jun-2002 posted on this site:Mon 24-Jun-2002 Article Type : News If Zimbabwe is not a test of African peer review, what is? With only days to go before the June 26-27 summit in Kananaskis, Canada of the G-8, it is essential that the leaders of the world?s most powerful nations make a return to democracy and the rule of law in Zimbabwe a FIRM condition of granting or pledging any of the billions of dollars of aid that African nations are seeking. The New Partnership for Africa?s Development (Nepad), a project...

Solar-modulated cosmic rays affect cloud cover. With fewer clouds, and therefore less rain, maximum sunspots should cause the dust level to rise. During high volcanic activity, dust levels rise even in the absence of high sunspots. With fewer clouds, and therefore less rain, sunspots should cause levels of atmospheric dust to rise. UNIVERSITY AT Buffalo scientists working with ice cores have solved a mystery surrounding sunspots and their effect on climate that has puzzled scientists since they began studying the phenomenon. The research, published in the journal Geophysical Research Letters, provides striking evidence that sunspots — blemishes on the...

<p>The fires ravaging northeast Arizona are incinerating the world's largest contiguous area of ponderosa pine, Gov. Jane Hull said Sunday. But it didn't have to be this way.</p> <p>That's because for the past century, the United States has let its forests grow thick with underbrush, creating lush, rustic landscapes that, with the right conditions, can turn into potent tinderboxes.</p>

<p>NEW YORK — Labor groups usually fight for retirement and dental plans, but a group of Philadelphia workers want somewhere to hang their clothes while they work — in the nude.</p> <p>The Philadelphia Models Guild was established by art school models fed up with unacceptable work conditions. However, unlike blue-collar workers who block gates, picket and chant for rights, the guild is trying to open up communication lines between models and the schools where they pose for art students.</p>

Angela Bassett has come out swinging against Halle Berry and her Oscar winning performance in 'Monsters Ball'-saying that iit demeaning for black actresses to play sluts.Bassett tells Newsweek she turned down a chance to play the lead because 'I wasn't going to be a prositute on film.''I couldn't do that because it's such a sterotype about black women and sexuality.'Berry made history as the first black woman to win a Best Actress Academy Award, as a waitress who has a tortured affair with the racist, death row prision guard who executed her cop killer husband.Her explicit nude romp with Billy...

Parents of 106 children notify DOE of intent to use vouchers Saturday, June 22, 2002 Associated Press TALLAHASSEE - The parents of 106 children have notified the state of their intentions to use vouchers to go to private schools this fall, an official said Friday. Some 8,900 students attend 10 voucher-eligible schools in four counties. Their parents have until July 1 to notify the state Department of Education that they plan to use a voucher. Students at those schools are eligible for vouchers because the schools earned their second failing grade in four years earlier this month. Five of the...

It is nothing you will read in the diocesan newspaper. It is nothing you will see on network TV, or in The Boston Globe. It was certainly not an issue under discussion at the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops in Dallas. But here is a fact: the bishops of the United States were granted prescient warnings of the coming Church crisis by the Blessed Mother in apparitions to an Ohio nun named Sister Mildred Mary Ephrem Neuzil, and had the bishops listened to what the Virgin requested, they would have staved off or at least greatly lessened the recent damage....

NEW YORK (Reuters) - A right-wing Jewish group is planning an armed anti-terror patrol of Jewish areas in Brooklyn on Sunday night, even if it means arms bearers will be arrested, the rabbi who heads the group said on Sunday. Rabbi Yakove Lloyd, who founded the Jewish Defense Group in 1985, said he expected between 25 and 40 people to participate in patrols of the Midwood and Flatbush sections of Brooklyn organized after FBI warnings that fuel tanker trucks could be used in possible attacks on Jewish targets. The group abandoned a plan last week for an armed patrol of...

IDF soldiers sleeping on the ground in Bethlehem on Monday. (Photo: AP) IDF troops in Ramallah on Monday morning. Prime Minister Ariel Sharon announced Monday that Israel is "preparing to launch a massive operation in the Gaza Strip against the Hamas organization, the beginning of which we witnessed today." Sharon, speaking at a Likud faction meeting in the Knesset, was referring to Monday morning's apparent assassination operation in the Gaza Strip in which missile-firing IAF helicopter gunships killed two senior Hamas military commanders and four other people. Sharon said that due to the recent increase in terror attacks and warnings...

AN ENTIRELY new generation of powerful ultra-small computers and electronics devices is one step closer, according to researchers at the University of California, Berkeley. The two groups have succeeded independently in making lattices that they say will for the first time enable nanowires to be constructed with otherwise incompatible materials. Such mixed bundles are essential to making electronic and other devices on a smaller scale. This is a major advancement in the field of one-dimensional nanostructure research. The impact could be tremendous. Based on the findings of both research groups, tiny components known as nanowires, that meld together a variety...

JERUSALEM, June 24 (Reuters) - Prime Minister Ariel Sharon said on Monday Israel was preparing "massive activities" against the Islamic militant movement Hamas in the Gaza Strip after killing four of the group's members with a helicopter missile. Israeli security sources said the Gaza attack was part of Israel's policy -- condemned internationally -- of killing militants it blames for suicide bombings and shooting ambushes during a 21-month-old uprising against Israeli occupation. "We are preparing massive activities against Hamas in the Gaza Strip and one could see the start of that this morning," Sharon told a parliamentary committee. But he...

Zelda Gilroy and NOW hag Kim Gandy Chubby, from the Little Rascals and Sen. Barbara Mikulski

by Standard Reporter Venus and Serena Williams today denied claims that they had fixed matches. As Wimbledon got under way today, with fans queuing all night for tickets, the sisters denied that they played weakly against each other or pulled out of tournaments to avoid meeting. Venus, 22, told ITV's Tonight With Trevor McDonald: "I enjoy playing Serena as much as the other competitors." Serena, 20, added: "It's said (we decide who wins) but it's not true." Asked if they ever pulled out to avoid playing each other, she said: "It never happened."

You want action. I want action. Enter Stage Right has action! This week's edition of Enter Stage Right is out now! Check it at http://www.enterstageright.com --This week's issue--> Orwell, words, politics and the war for freedom: Thomas Jefferson was a revolutionary, reactionary, progressive, radical, liberal and conservative. What does that mean? Bruce Walker says absolutely nothing because words that define political principles no longer mean anything Targeting Baghdad: Now that it appears the United States is moving against Iraq, whether covertly now or with open force later, Samuel L. Blumenfeld looks back on another attack against that rogue nation. One...

THE WAR WE HAVE joined is defined by three simple but brutal facts. Our enemy is able to penetrate our borders and strike us in our homes; he can strike us with weapons of mass destruction; and he has made clear his intention is not to change our policies or to force our withdrawal, but to obliterate us and destroy our civilization. Because of these facts, the imperative of defending ourselves as quickly and effectively as possible is more important in this war – by a factor so great as to be impossible to calculate -- than any we have...

Bus hit a pillar under an overpass..47 members of a church group on the bus...what I saw on TV is not good..looks like front half of the bus is gone..

The primary science focus on Bearfabrique is renegade science and catastrophism; evolution is a sort of a second topic. Nonetheless, there's a reason for the evolution page. Evolutionism poisons religion, ethics, and science in equal measure. There is a fabulous new world of science waiting in the wings to be born once the dead hand of evolution and the evolutionists can be removed from the picture. There are several overwhelming arguments against evolution in any form which arise from catastrophism in fact; it would be good for Christians, in particular, to become aware of those arguments. One such argument arises...

HEY, JOE Return to Corregidor By MANILA - For Everett Reamer it is a strangely perfect and idyllic setting. With the glowing late afternoon sun descending slowly into Manila Bay and the warm breeze blowing in off the South China Sea, providing a soothing respite from the scorching Philippine summer heat, he along with nearly 50 other Americans relaxes and chats in a lively manner, sipping a cold beer, nibbling on snacks as a lone guitar player walks around and serenades the crowd. He has come, as have all of those gathered here - six others like him who lived...

<p>State and Fresno Unified leaders are determining what to do with publicly funded classroom furniture bought by GateWay Charter Academy, which recently lost its charter because of questionable debt and a list of violations. California Department of Education and Fresno Unified officials are discussing how the desks, chairs, shelves and other office supplies bought with taxpayer money by GateWay could be used and who should use it.</p>