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What Was Life Like in 1930? The 1930 census offers greater insight and detail into American life in the early 20th century than virtually any other resource. And the census has just been released to the public after being sealed for 72 years (by law, individual records cannot be released to the public until 72 years after the census in which they were collected). The census records contain information on births, deaths, relationships, origins, residences, occupations, citizenship, and more. Test your knowledge of what life was like for your ancestors! 1. Today, life expectancy for those living in the United...

I heard on KABC radio in Los Angeles a report of a significant disturbance inside the theatre where they are holding the Black Entertainment Awards. The report is hostilities between Shug Knight's entourage and some other gang of criminals.

Gracious Freepers, I would appreciate some prayers for my mom. She is under some mysterious illness starting rather recently. She feels weak, feels bad after she eats (stomach probs), and has pain in her gallbladder area. She has been researching on the internet for potential diseases that could be causing this. She has had at least one doctor's appt. that I know of to get a sonogram today to check the abdominal area. She has not gotten the results back. I ask your prayers that she will get a diagnosis and healing soon. Pray for God to give her strength....

This is my first vanity post, so I hope you'll bear with me. I am trying to find a current list of email address for all of congress. Actually, I'd like to use one of the sites that allows you to email them all at once. I've searched the Web and FR, but I couldn't find a list that mentioned when it was last updated. Thanks in advance.

District Says Kids Lied About Teacher Attack EVERGLADES CITY, June 25, 2002 — The Collier County School District says it believes a group of students made up a story about a substitute teacher attacking them in class. No one argues that it was a chaotic scene in Lew Stickles’s classroom on May 16th. But whether there was just a lot of yelling going on or whether he also abused kids is disputed. Several students claimed Stickles, a substitute teacher, threw desks at them when he went berserk at the Everglades City School. But the district says the kids made...

RIYADH, — The Kingdom is studying prospects of concluding a free-trade zone agreement with Baghdad, according to a high-level Saudi source. “The decision on the matter comes under the jurisdiction of the political leadership,” the source told Arab News. The source highlighted the significance of such an agreement to promote inter-Arab trade. “A decision on this matter will be taken after studying economic and political aspects as Saudi exports to Iraq are now restricted by UN conditions,” the source said. In a previous press statement, Dr. Abdul Rahman Al-Zamil, chairman of the executive council of the Exports Promotion Center, had...

Is an aide to former horndog in chief Bill Clinton squiring supermodel Naomi Campbell so that his boss can be near her?A friend of Doug Band has been circulating the story that the 'lawyer' and 'close advisor' of Clinton is dating the dusky diva.But Band, who is merely President Clinton's personal assistant, has apparently been a conduit to Clinton's women in the past.The London Daily Mail and others reported last month that Clinton and Campbell, who'd been introduced at an AIDS fundraiser in Austria in December, has an 'intimate' lunch in the Alps and the 'hooked up' again in London...

KUWAIT — The notes arrive sporadically from the Kuwaiti prisoners held at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba. They contain brief messages, mostly asking whether a wife has given birth or how the children are doing in school. One included a despondent threat of suicide by hunger strike, while a few have snippets of wry humor. "As for me, I am in the best of states, and I swear I am not a prisoner, but rather, in a five-star hotel, thank God," wrote Abdullah Kamel, 28, an assistant engineer at the Ministry of Electricity who, like most Kuwaitis captured in Afghanistan or Pakistan,...

<p>WASHINGTON (CNN) -- The FBI searched an apartment Tuesday next to Fort Detrick, Maryland, in connection with the anthrax investigation, but so far the search has not turned up anything suspicious, a law enforcement official told CNN.</p> <p>The official said the apartment owner previously worked at the U.S. Army bioweapons laboratory at Fort Detrick but does not work there now.</p>

Criminal investigators examining the Enron debacle have expanded their inquiry to focus on activities at the commercial banks that provided billions of dollars in loans and other financial services to the company, according to current and former Enron executives and others involved in the investigation. Federal prosecutors are investigating whether individual bankers illegally benefited from deals involving Enron-related entities, potentially at the expense of their employers, people involved in the case said. A number of bankers have been questioned about such self-dealing, lawyers said, and the government is said to be weighing whether to bring charges in one such matter....

<p>MANILA, Philippines -- A spy who led soldiers to a Muslim rebel leader believed killed by Philippine troops has been given a $100,000 reward for his efforts.</p> <p>President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo presented the informant -- who goes by the pseudonym of Gardo Ibrahim and was a trusted bodyguard for the rebel chief -- a check at a ceremony at the presidential palace on Tuesday.</p>

WASHINGTON, June 25 — President Bush decided to call for Yasir Arafat's removal after receiving intelligence information last week showing that the Palestinian leader had authorized a $20,000 payment to a group that claimed responsibility for the most recent suicide attack in Jerusalem, senior administration officials said today. As a result, the officials said, the aggressive diplomacy that had originally been expected to follow the president's speech — including an immediate trip to the region by Secretary of State Colin L. Powell and a Middle East peace conference — will now be delayed. Instead, officials acknowledged today that they would...

Canadians do not have election dates. The prime minister decided the last election in 2000 because of an upcoming Auditor General's report. He has virtually put all provinces east of Ontario on federal welfare through "equalization" payments. This puts the economies of these provinces to be completely dependent on the federal government in Ottawa. Guess which way they vote?

<p>ISTANBUL, Turkey (AP) -- Anyone who doubts that Turkey's fractious coalition government is held together largely by one man need only look at what has happened in Bulent Ecevit's absence.</p> <p>It is close to two months since Ecevit, 77, has been well enough to work properly. But while the premier recovers at home after a string of ailments, his coalition government appears equally frail. Nationalists in the government threaten to block reforms, like lifting the death penalty and granting Kurds wider rights, that are crucial for Turkey's long-term goal of European Union membership.</p>

The star witness against the Government of Iraq hobbled into the room, her legs braced with clumsy metal calipers. "Anna" had been tortured two years ago. She's now four years old. Her father, Ali, was a thick-set Iraqi who used to work for Saddam's psychopathic son, Uday. Some time after the bungled assassination of Uday, Ali fell under suspicion. He fled north, to the Kurdish safe haven policed by western fighter planes, but leaving his wife and daughter behind in Baghdad. Four year old "Anna" was tortured two years ago So the secret police came for his wife. "Where is...

NEW YORK, June 25 (PNS): Seven members of a Pakistani family were burnt to death in their apartment located in the Brooklyn area of New York city on Sunday. The ill-fated family included the family head Muhammad Nadeem (43), his wife and five children, ageing eight months to 11 years. The cause of fire is under investigation, however, sources said that the fire started in the kitchen of another Pakistani family, residing in an apartment at the lower floor of the same building. The fire soon spread to the upper floor where Muhammad Nadeem and his family were residing in...

Congressman Flake on Hunt for Solar-Powered Chainsaw Flake Will Scour Hardware Stores This Weekend Washington, D.C. - Arizona Congressman Jeff Flake, who represents the state's First District and is a member of the House Resources Committee, couldn't help but chuckle at the suggestion that forest thinning be done with solar-powered chainsaws. "We all know that some radical environmentalists have too much influence on our forest policy," said Flake. "But it's clear that some also have too much time on their hands. "Since the beginning of the devastating fires in Colorado and Arizona many environmentalists finally conceded that some forest thinning...

Adelphia is filing for Chapter 11 By Deborah Solomon THE WALL STREET JOURNAL NEW YORK, June 25 — Adelphia Communications Corp. is in the process of filing for bankruptcy court protection in New York, according to people familiar with situation. The company has secured $1.5 billion in debtor-in-possession financing. THE BANKRUPTCY FILING, which had been expected for about a week, was preceded late last week by a deal that gave Adelphia financing of as much as $1.5 billion to allow it to continue operating. The lender banks, which include J.P. Morgan Chase & Co., Citigroup Inc. and Bank of America...

      EAST HAMPTON, NY—Richard Kowalcyk, 36, who for several years has been stalking author, magazine publisher, TV personality, and house-and-home guru Martha Stewart, told reporters Monday that he can barely keep up.   Above: Stewart attends a fundraiser at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Inset: Kowalcyk.       "Today was pretty busy," said Kowalcyk, downing a multi-vitamin and a Red Bull energy drink. "We went from her house in the Hamptons to her midtown Manhattan office, then to a business meeting with the marketing VP of Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia, then on location to upstate New...

Adelphia Filing for Chapter 11 Bankruptcy Protection Tuesday By Bill Bergstrom The Associated Press Published: Jun 25, 2002 PHILADELPHIA (AP) - Adelphia Communications was in the process of filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection Tuesday in the midst of financial troubles that have grown ever deeper and more tangled since the company revealed billions of dollars in off-the-books borrowing by the family of founder John J. Rigas, according to a source. A source familiar with the matter, speaking on condition of anonymity, said the filing was under way Tuesday evening. The nation's sixth largest cable television company had been scrambling...