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Famine Stalks the Beloved Land 14th June 2002 We all remember the BBC pictures in the early 1990’s of a child dying in its mother arms from hunger in Ethiopia. The images flashed across the world and money and aid poured into agencies that suddenly had to scramble to catch up. I was a part owner of a ranch in Zimbabwe in that era and in 1992, the rains here simply did not happen across vast swathes of the country. The sugar cane crop died in the field as water dams dried up and the summer cropping programme was almost...

w w w . h a a r e t z d a i l y . c o m Ben-Eliezer: IDF has until Sun. to dismantle 10 illegal outposts Defense Minister Benjamin Ben-Eliezer said Saturday morning that he has ordered the security services to take down ten illegal outposts by Sunday evening. "And afterward I intend to take action to take down other outposts," he said. Ben-Eliezer, who is also Labor Party chairman, made the comments during an appearance before the Labor youth committee, at the Holiday Inn in Jerusalem. He told those attending the meeting that most...

              www.jsonline.com               Return to regular view Original URL: http://www.jsonline.com/news/metro/jun02/55103.asp Man shot during robbery, police say By JAMAAL ABDUL-ALIMof the Journal Sentinel staff Last Updated: June 27, 2002 Greenfield - A man who tried to rob a Greenfield gun shop at knifepoint Thursday afternoon was shot in the chest by the shop owner, police said.The victim, identified only as a 57-year-old Greenfield man, was taken to Froedtert Memorial Lutheran Hospital in Wauwatosa, according to police. Police have yet to interview the victim because the shooting left him unconscious,...

June 29, 2002Solemnity of Peter and Paul, apostlesDuring the Day Psalm: Saturday Week 29 Reading I Responsorial Psalm Reading II Gospel Reading IActs 12:1-11 In those days, King Herod laid hands upon some members of the church to harm them.He had James, the brother of John, killed by the sword,and when he saw that this was pleasing to the JewsHe proceeded to arrest Peter also.--It was the feast of Unleavened Bread.--He had him taken into custody and put in prisonunder the guard of four squads of four soldiers each.He intended to bring him before the people after Passover.Peter thus was...

Doth any man doubt, that if there were taken out of men's minds, vain opinions, flattering hopes, false valuations, imaginations as one would, and the like, but it would leave the minds, of a number of men, poor shrunken things, full of melancholy and indisposition, and unpleasing to themselves? Francis Bacon So much of what goes on in the world is nothing more than fraud and buncombe.But without it, what would be left?That is the problem, dear reader. For, take away the spiff, the vanity, and the pretensions and do you have any world at all? Strip off his...

For education and discussion only. Not for commercial use. CARSON CITY, Nev. (AP) — Battle Mountain residents thought they took an unfair hit last year when a national magazine listed their rural northeast Nevada town as the nation's armpit. Now, many hope that story was opportunity knocking. Reacting to the Washington Post Magazine article, the community is holding a ``Festival in the Pit'' — with new events such as a deodorant toss replacing the old-fashion egg toss. ``You know, when you talk about armpits, you think it was an awful, horrible thing to be called,'' says Shar Peterson, executive director...

Hakan Sukur hit the fastest goal in World Cup finals history after 11 seconds and Ilhan Mansiz added two as Turkey beat South Korea 3-2 to claim third place. A forward ball from Ilhan sent Hakan Sukur clear, who then spun his veteran marker Hong Myung-bo and beat goalkeeper Lee Woon-jae with a left-foot shot from 16 metres straight from the kick-off. It was a disappointing end for South Korea's extraordinary campaign which has sparked unprecedented support from their countrymen. The match was also the perfect hors d'oeuvre for Sunday's World Cup final in Yokohama between Germany and Brazil. The...

The country has been waiting for several years now to see how the Supreme Court would rule on school vouchers. Yesterday, in a 5-to-4 decision, the court issued a sweeping ruling upholding Cleveland's school voucher program. It was a bad decision on constitutional grounds, and a bad one for American education. In theory, Cleveland's voucher program allows children to use state stipends to go to any school they want. In practice, the choice it offers them is between a failing public school system and the city's parochial schools. This is not a choice that the Constitution intended public tax money...

If God ended up saving all mankind in the end, would you be upset? If upset, why? I'm new here and so would like to introduce myself with the above question.

For education and discussion only. Not for commercial use. RENO, Nev. (AP) — Archaeologists digging at the site of a black-owned saloon in a historic Old West mining town have unearthed a 130-year-old bottle of hot sauce. The oldest style of Tabasco bottle known to exist was reconstructed from 21 shards of glass excavated from beneath the site of the Boston Saloon of Virginia City. The bottle suggests that the saloon — which was owned by a black man from Massachusetts and catered to blacks and whites from 1864-75 — was among the first eateries to introduce the now-popular spicy...

TEL AVIV — A string of cars marks northern Tel Aviv's Tel Baruch Beach, renowned for its posh seafood restaurant, Blue, but also for the dozens of prostitutes who flock here looking for business. Many of them are from the former Soviet Union. Some of them are slaves. About 3,000 women are bought and sold in Israel each year. Amid calls from international organizations and pressure from the United States to curb the sale, trade and barter of women, Israel has begun to crack down on this billion-dollar-a-year industry. Both police and state prosecutors call ending the slave trade one...

Standard rant from the losing side, clinging to a discredited ideology based on fraud and false hopes. "Republicans are America's Taliban, blah, blah.(yawn)." Plus, the predictable "quotations" from the 1st ammendment..."Of course it's unconstitutional as it violates the First Amendment and the founding father's assertion that the separation of church and state must be observed." Of course the phrase "under God" doesn't violate the first amendment, the 9th court's ruling however does. He does draw back his clumsy foot before stepping in it by not claming that the 1st amendment actually uses the term "separation of church and state". He...

EWTNews 26-Jun-2002 -- Vatican Information Service HOLY SEE ADHERES TO CONVENTION AGAINST TORTURE VATICAN CITY, JUN 26, 2002 (VIS) - Today, "International Day of support for torture victims", declared by the United Nations, the Holy See decided to adhere - in the name of the City State of the Vatican - to the Convention against torture, other punishment and inhumane and degrading cruel treatment. According to a note published today, this Convention was adopted by the general assembly of the United Nations on December 10, 1984 and enacted on June 16, 1987. Up until now, it was been ratified...

<p>He ranted. He railed. He really let 'em have it.</p> <p>Al Julius scorched officeholders, practitioners of political correctness and anyone or anything else that ticked him off during his tenure as a commentator on KDKA-TV.</p> <p>But his most enduring legacy may be the annual Thanksgiving turkey drive that began with a $10 donation from a Washington County woman who asked him, "Would you see that a needy family gets this?" and grew into an enterprise that has raised more than $8 million.</p>

Over the last 20 years, the Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit has developed a reputation for being wrong more often than any other federal appeals court. In recent years, in cases involving medical marijuana, assisted suicide, disabilities and more mundane issues, dozens of the court's decisions have been reversed unanimously by the Supreme Court. "In the 1996 term, for example, the Ninth Circuit was reversed in at least 24 cases — a staggering number — and at least 16 of them were 9-0 reversals," Akhil Amar, a law professor at Yale, wrote in an online commentary. "When you're...

ASHINGTON, June 29 — Federal authorities have issued a secret alert to state and local law enforcement agencies warning them of the possibility of a terrorist attack in the United States around the Fourth of July holiday, senior government officials said.The message from the Federal Bureau of Investigation, like others issued in recent weeks, was not made public because intelligence analysts concluded that the threat was too vague to justify a public warning, the officials said."The F.B.I. possesses no information indicating a specific and credible terrorist threat related to the July 4 Independence Day time frame," said the message, which...

WASHINGTON, Jun 29, 2002 (AP Online via COMTEX) -- President Bush transferred presidential powers to Vice President Dick Cheney for more than two hours Saturday during a routine colon screening that ended in a clean bill of health. It was only the second time in history that the Constitution's presidential disability clause was invoked. Bush was sedated during the 20-minute procedure. "The president continues to be in outstanding health," said Air Force Col. Richard Tubb, the White House physician who led the examination. "No polyps were found, no abnormalities were found." The procedure, a colonoscopy, was done at the...

Rosie Sees Backlash in Adoption Fight Thursday, 27 June 2002 MIAMI -- Rosie O' Donnell told some 200 participants at the two-day Wise Women Weekend retreat in Miami Beach on Sunday that she's experiencing a reactionary backlash in response to her advocacy on behalf of gay adoption. She told audience members that a medical association recently rescinded an invitation for her to speak at their convention. "They said they were afraid of protesters," O'Donnell said. "I'm not used to being considered controversial." -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "I'm not used to being controversial." -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Overview of this issue > Adoption Other Data Lounge stories...

Dear Heavenly Father, I thank You for this day and for the many blessings You have given us. I thank You for Your love and Your grace which astound us. I thank You for the gift of life which You give so freely and abundantly, and I thank You for the friends and family You have surrounded me with which prove to be a blessing with each new day. Father, I lift up to You today President Bush, first thanking You that his colonoscopy went well. I thank You that Vice President's two and 1/2 hours as "president" were relatively...

Co-Adoption Battle Rages in Michigan Thursday, 27 June 2002 DETROIT -- The ongoing legal drama over second-parent adoptions in Michigan took another unexpected turn on Monday when Washtenaw County Chief Judge Archie Brown refused to remove himself from hearing adoption petitions taken away from Circuit Judge Donald Shelton. The Detroit Free Press reported on June 13 that the American Civil Liberties Union of Michigan sent Brown a letter asking him to rescind his order banning second-parent adoptions, most of which are granted to gay couples. The ACLU questioned Brown's authority to issue his June 4 directive without an actual case...