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The Federal Government has released a draft copy of its new citizenship guidelines, which include a test requiring migrants to answer questions about Australian society and culture. Among the values laid out in the document are tolerance and compassion, freedom of speech and a respect for Australia's British heritage. Migrants will be expected to correctly name Australia's first prime minister and know the year of federation. Those topics are among a list of 200 questions that will not be revealed publicly. The Federal Government says its new citizenship tests could be in use by the end of next month, if...

A state forensics scientist who said she tested her husband's underwear for DNA to find out if he was having sex with another woman has been fired by the state police. Ann Chamberlain (formerly Ann Gordon) of Okemos testified in a March 7 divorce hearing that she ran the test last September on the underwear of Charles Gordon Jr. Asked by his attorney what she found, she answered, "Another female. It wasn't me."

India Man Fails High School Exams 39 Times The Associated Press JAIPUR, India - A 73-year-old man who failed his 10th grade high school exams for the 39th time vowed Friday to try again next year in the hopes that an education will improve his job and marriage prospects. Shivcharan Jatav, a farmer from the desert state of Rajasthan in western India, had no formal education as a child. He has been trying to pass the exams since 1969, when an army recruiter told him it would improve his chances of being accepted into the military. "Since then I have...

'Give genetic test secrets to insurers' By Nicole Martin Last Updated: 1:58am BST 08/06/2007 The results of genetic tests should be passed on to insurance companies to allow them to assess the health risks of potential customers, a professor of bioethics says today. Prof Soren Holm, from Cardiff University Law School, says that genetic information is no more "sensitive or private" than other information about a person's health, including cholesterol levels and body mass index, which insurers can use to help them to set premiums. His recommendation was immediately rejected by health charities. They said greater openness could lead to...

(LEAD) N. Korea may have fired missiles: S. Korean intelligence official SEOUL, June 7 (Yonhap) -- North Korea may have fired one or two short-range missiles Thursday into the waters off its west coast, a South Korean intelligence official said. "We are confirming intelligence that North Korea fired short-range missiles into the West Sea," the official said, on condition of anonymity. "The number of missiles fired today is estimated at one or two." The launch was largely seen as a test-fire, but it's not immediately known what type of a missile the North fired from where or at what time....

MOSCOW - Russia on Tuesday test-launched a new intercontinental ballistic missile capable of carrying multiple independent warheads, and a top government official said it could penetrate any defense system, a news agency reported. The new missile would modernize Russia's stockpile at a time of rising tensions with the West. The ICBM was fired from a mobile launcher at the Plesetsk launch site in northwestern Russia, and its test warhead landed on target about 3,400 miles away on the Far Eastern Kamchatka Peninsula, a statement from the Russian Strategic Missile Forces said. President Vladimir Putin has repeatedly said Russia would continue...

YIKES! How did Schleiermacher come out so high!?! Better go back and reread Calvin..... You scored as Karl Barth. The daddy of 20th Century theology. You perceive liberal theology to be a disaster and so you insist that the revelation of Christ, not human experience, should be the starting point for all theology. Karl Barth 100% John Calvin 67% Martin Luther 67% Anselm 47% Jonathan Edwards 33% Friedrich Schleiermacher 33% Augustine 7% Jürgen Moltmann 7% Paul Tillich 0% face='Arial' size='1'>Charles Finney 0% Which theologian are you?created with QuizFarm.com

MUSLIMS are outraged that prospective citizens will have to acknowledge the Judeo-Christian tradition as the basis of Australia's values system. Australia's peak Muslim body said the proposed citizenship question -- revealed in the Herald Sun -- was disturbing and potentially divisive. Australian Federation of Islamic Councils president Dr Ameer Ali said the "Abrahamic tradition" or "universal values" would be less divisive ways of describing the nation's moral base. Dr Ali said use of the term Judeo-Christian was the result of "WWII guilt", and before 1945 Australia would have been called only Christian. "That question must be rephrased," he said. Dr...

A DNA mail order kit that checks the sex of an unborn child at just six weeks is under investigation after concerns it will lead to couples terminating unwanted children. The do-it-yourself home test can be ordered over the internet and shipped to Australia for less than $500. But the futuristic "pink or blue" kit has sparked an uproar among ethicists and anti-abortionists, who fear it will be used as a "sex select" tool.

DNA test to identify heart attack risk By Roger Highfield, Science Editor Last Updated: 2:14am BST 04/05/2007 Scientists are to develop a DNA test to determine if someone has an inherited vulnerability to heart attacks, it was disclosed yesterday. Researchers have identified a stretch of DNA as a major risk factor for coronary artery disease and heart attacks. The test will help to identify people at high risk of heart disease, enabling them to change their lifestyles. Heart disease kills more than 200,000 people in the UK each year. The studies, which involved looking at the genetic make-up of about...

Simultaneous Missile Intercepts From USS Lake Erie Make Strong Impression Fri Apr 27, 1:29 PM ET To: NATIONAL EDITORS Contact: Riki Ellison of Missile Defense Advocacy Alliance, +1-703-299-0061 BARKING SANDS, Hawaii, April 27 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Riki Ellison, President of the Missile Defense Advocacy Alliance (MDAA), was at Thursday's missile defense test that produced a successful completion of an Aegis Ballistic Missile Defense "hit to kill" intercept flight test conducted jointly with the U.S. Navy off the coast of Kauai, Hawaii at the Pacific Missile Range Facility, Barking Sands. His comments and observations include the following: "At approximately 11:33 a.m. Hawaii...

HONOLULU - The military shot down a Scud-type missile in this year's second successful test of a new technology meant to knock down ballistic missiles in their final minute of flight, the Missile Defense Agency said Friday. A ship off Kauai fired a target missile before 9 p.m. Hawaii Standard Time Thursday. Three minutes later, soldiers with the U.S. Army's 6th Air Defense Artillery Brigade launched an interceptor missile from Kauai that destroyed the target over the Pacific, according to the agency. The military says it already can shoot down missiles in their last stage of flight by using Patriot...

Paratroopers, riggers, jumpmasters will make more than 3,200 test jumps. FORT BELVOIR, Va., March 26, 2007 – The Program Executive Office Soldier is testing a new parachute system that the Army plans to use to replace the system in use since the 1950s. The new parachutes address increased weight requirements and provide additional safety benefits. Beginning in 2008, all T-10 parachutes in the Army inventory for more than 50 years will be replaced with the Advanced Tactical Parachute System T-11. Although the T-10 is a proven system, today's paratroopers face increased requirements beyond the T-10's design. Paratroopers are required to...

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Scientists in the United States have come up with a breath test which can detect lung cancer in patients even when it is in the early stages of the disease. By means of a simple colour test which shows up unique chemical changes in the breath of people with lung cancer, the disease was accurately detected in just under three out of four people with the disease.By using a sensor just slightly bigger than a coin, which is relatively cheap and easy to use, unique chemical changes in the breath of people with lung cancer could be seen with...

WASHINGTON, Feb. 13, 2007 – Testing for some of the systems slated for the first “spin out” of the Army’s Future Combat Systems program has gone well, except for one minor glitch: the soldiers testing them don’t want to give the prototypes back. The Future Combat Systems Class I unmanned aerial vehicle can be carried in a backpack and provides dismounted soldiers with new capabilities in reconnaissance, surveillance and target acquisition capability on the battlefield. U.S. Army photo  '(Click photo for screen-resolution image);high-resolution image available. “They won’t give me back my stuff,” joked Army Maj. Gen. Charles A. Cartwright, program...

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