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Psychologists Can Prescribe After Training Bill Goes Into Effect Today Posted: 7:59 a.m. MDT July 1, 2002 SANTA FE, N.M. -- New Mexico became the first state Monday to allow psychologists prescribe drugs for mental illness. Psychologists are not medical doctors but have advanced degrees. Supporters of the law said it will help New Mexico get affordable care to people. They said it will improve mental health care in a state already suffering from a shortage of psychiatrists, who are medical doctors who already had the authority to prescribe drugs. Opponents said psychologists do not have the necessary medical training...

Jenna Isaacson photo The fuse on an Exploding Bin Laden Noggin burns brightly. The fountain, a spoof of al-Qaida leader and suspected terrorist Osama Bin Laden, is among this year’s most popular fireworks. Bin Laden fountain popular By KATIE TIERNAN of the Tribune’s staff Published Sunday, June 30, 2002 Americans with a taste for vengeance this Fourth of July can take their aggressions out with a bang. "No. No. No. No. No," said Steve Nebel as he walked through the Bob’s Fireworks tent on Highway 763 last night combing the tables for a specific fountain. The object of his...

It's economic development, not peace-processing. The latest mission impossible embraced by those who would resolve the Middle East conflict is the effort to "democratize" the Palestinian Authority, an organization that has thrived on repression, violence, and aggressive irredentism. Meanwhile, a far more promising route to peace--the path of economic cooperation and development--is being neglected or given mere lip service. It's as if the only form of economic life possible for Palestinians were the one that has prevailed in the last ten years--the provision of foreign billions to huge bureaucracies that squandered or stole much of it, while lawlessness and corruption...

Mom Dies After Shooting Self, Delivering Twins Woman Reportedly Scuffled With Grandfather POSTED: 7:04 p.m. EDT June 30, 2002 UPDATED: 10:23 a.m. EDT July 1, 2002 MONROE, N.C. -- Hospital officials say a woman who shot her grandfather and herself -- and then gave birth to twin boys -- has died in North Carolina. Doctors delivered the infants by emergency Caesarean section after the shooting Saturday. They're in critical condition -- weighing about two pounds each. Their mother, Patricia Blackwell, died at about 11 p.m. Sunday night. Union County deputies say she was about eight months pregnant. The sheriff of...

Report: Mom Whose Kids Died In Car Is Pregnant Children Die After Being Left In Car For Three Hours POSTED: 9:01 a.m. EDT July 1, 2002 SOUTHFIELD, Mich. -- A Detroit mother who is charged with murdering her two children is also pregnant with a third child, according to a Detroit television station's report. Oakland County prosecutors are concerned about the safety of Tarajee Maynor's (pictured, left) unborn child. The 25-year-old woman reportedly left her 10-month-old daughter and 3-year-old son in the car Friday while getting her hair done at a Southfield, Mich., salon. The children reportedly died after...

Archives Back to Instapundit June 30, 2002 WORLD CUP INSIGHT: Reader Jonathan Singer writes: As the World Cup draws to a close, so does the latest round of pundits hectoring Americans to care more about soccer and insisting that we are missing all sorts of crucial information about the world by ignoring the sport. In that spirit, I'd like to share the insight the tournament gave me today. As I was heading to work in Boston (having gotten up early to watch the game and cheer on Brazil), I got stuck in a traffic jam caused by dozens of...

Until 1995, Cleveland public schools were a disgrace. Students left them with the worst record of academic performance in the state of Ohio, and among the worst in the nation. They had a dropout rate of almost 70 percent. As a result, most families that could afford to pulled their children out of the public schools, leaving mostly children from low-income or minority families sentenced to a life of poverty and ignorance. To solve this problem, Ohio created a financial-aid program that enables parents to lift their children out of this swamp by giving them vouchers to pay tuition at...

<p>The California Public Employees' Retirement System (CalPERS) earns its reputation as the world's corporate governance bulldog. With the annual meeting season in full swing, the nation's largest pension fund has been using its market clout to press for change at such poor performers as Lucent Technologies, Qwest Communications International, and Gateway. CalPERS' brand of activism has such a powerful impact on stock prices that finance professors have dubbed it "the CalPERS effect."</p>

With Rep. Marge Roukema (N.J.) retiring, Rep. Ben Gilman (N.Y.) finding himself without a district and Reps. Connie Morella (Md.), Nancy Johnson (Conn.), Charles Bass (N.H.), Rob Simmons (Conn.) and Shelley Moore Capito (W.Va.) facing tough challenges, Republican House moderates once again find their future uncertain. For some rank-and-file Republican conservatives, that's just fine. They refer to the moderates as RINOs (Republicans In Name Only) and would be just as happy to see liberal Democrats representing those districts. But without those moderate Republican legislators, Democrat Richard Gephardt (Mo.) would be Speaker, and President Bush would find himself in an even...

WorldCom's plight sent the U.S. capital markets reeling in another wave of accounting shock. It was a jittery week on Wall Street when mere rumors of accounting irregularities were enough to send share prices plummeting. Clearly, the entire telecom sector is on investors' radar screens, but even industrial-era icon General Motors found itself victimized by the rumor mill on June 27, 2002. According to an account published by the Wall Street Journal, rumors were flying that GM was planning to hold a conference call to discuss accounting issues at its financing unit, General Motors Acceptance Corporation. These rumors caused imbalances...

<p>SOUTHFIELD, Michigan (AP) -- A mother accused of leaving her children to die inside her sweltering car while she went to have her hair done has been charged with first-degree murder.</p> <p>Tarajee Maynor, 25, of Detroit, remained jailed without bond early Monday. She faces life in prison without the possibility of parole if convicted.</p>

<p>THE Silicon Valley is about to be hit with a new wave of innovation that could have more of an impact on our lives, and the region's economy, than did the creation of the Internet. It could greatly expand the use of wireless communications, or bring about much more effective treatments for cancer.</p>

American strategy in the greater Middle East is at a turning point. The hesitant, at times contradictory, efforts by President Bush and his aides to calm the Israeli-Palestinian conflict have produced nothing of substance. The administration must now pursue other methods of preventing the region from becoming a chaotic platform for greater global terrorism. That means more reliance on U.S. military might to support diplomacy. Events pull Bush toward a strategy of transforming the region by establishing a greatly expanded and intrusive U.S. military presence there. American forces would stay for years to help develop and shield new and democratic...

<p>SACRAMENTO - Perhaps the most important piece of paper in the Capitol last week was the one tucked inside the suit coat pocket of an obscure state senator from Redding.</p> <p>The marked-up list of budget proposals, which Republican Maurice Johannessen shopped around, turned out be the key to breaking California's budget deadlock.</p>

On Fox News Sunday yesterday, Secretary of State Colin Powell told host Tony Snow, "We have been very appreciative of the role that Saudi Arabia has played, and especially Crown Prince Abdullah, in putting forward a vision for the Palestinian people of how we can find a solution to this crisis."Powell's remark was bizarre enough, but even more so when put into context. It was in response to a question from Snow about the Saudis giving money explicitly to the families of Palestinian homicide bombers — a charge the Secretary of State all but acknowledged. The best he could...

With Carl Limbacher and NewsMax.com Staff For the story behind the story... Monday, July 1, 2002 9:15 AM EST Reagan Admitted Hundreds of POW's Left Behind A top aide to President Reagan who is today a member of Congress told NewsMax that Reagan admitted to him that hundreds of American POWs were left behind in Vietnam and were still alive as late as 1988. The former Reagan aide recounted to NewsMax his last private meeting with the president in the Oval Office. When the aide said he was concerned about the possibility that American GIs were left behind after the...

Cops Called To Baby-Delivery Find Drugs New Dad Ends Up In Jail Posted: 10:57 a.m. EDT June 30, 2002 Updated: 11:07 a.m. EDT June 30, 2002 ROELAND PARK, Kan. -- It started out as a call for help when his wife went into labor, but it landed a new dad in jail on drug charges. Police in the Kansas City suburb of Roeland Park went to the man's house after he called 911. The door was open, so they went in. They didn't find anyone there -- but they did find thousands of dollars worth of cocaine. Police obtained a...

Despite special assurances it would not be politically targeted by a new war crimes court, Israel has withdrawn its support and will not ratify its signature on the United Nations treaty creating the court, officials said Monday. The world's first permanent war crimes court came into existence Monday in the Netherlands. The cabinet, following the United States' lead, decided Sunday not to join the court even though it had been among countries behind the drive to establish it. Israel is concerned that an expanded list of war crimes put forward by the International Criminal Court could throw into question the...

Some Alabama Residents Swear By Manure Tea Legislator: Each Batch Tasted Different Posted: 10:23 a.m. EDT July 1, 2002 Updated: 10:30 a.m. EDT July 1, 2002 MOSSES, Ala. -- It's an herbal cure that could be worse than the disease. But some in rural Alabama swear by a home cold remedy known as Many Weed Tea. The main ingredient is dried cow manure. Veteran state legislator Hank Sanders of Selma remembers his mother serving it to him when he was a boy, affiliate WDSU-TV in New Orleans reported. He said each batch tasted a little different, depending on what the...

Hundreds Of New State Laws Take Effect Monday Some Laws Zany, Some Serious Updated: 7:34 a.m. EDT July 1, 2002 Some are zany, some are serious -- a host of new laws are set to take effect Monday. Smokers in six states will have to cough up more for their habit under a new cigarette tax taking hold Monday. The law will see smokers in Vermont shell out 49 cents more per pack. Nudity with "artistic value" will no longer be off-limits to minors in Utah. The state has rolled back a law banning any public nudity that might be...