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It’s no wonder that the American people are frustrated with the Republican Congress. Americans deserve progress, but instead are bombarded with politics driven by fear and division. They deserve action on the challenges we face as a nation - an endless and costly war in Iraq, skyrocketing gas prices and soaring health-care costs. Rather than dealing with real priorities, the Republican leadership is focused on writing discrimination into the Constitution. Just like the circus surrounding the Senate’s effort to intrude into the Terry Schiavo case, today the Senate will begin debate on the Federal Marriage Amendment - a wholly inappropriate...

Melting Ice Threatens Sea-Level Rise By RANDOLPH E. SCHMID, Associated Press Writer 19 minutes ago WASHINGTON - The Earth is already shaking beneath melting ice as rising temperatures threaten to shrink polar glaciers and raise sea levels around the world. By the end of this century, Arctic readings could rise to levels not seen in 130,000 years — when the oceans were several feet higher than now, according to new research appearing in Friday's issue of the journal Science. Even now, giant glaciers lubricated by melting water have begun causing earthquakes in Greenland as they lurch toward the ocean, other...

THE tawdry scene is depressingly familiar. A young woman reels across the dance floor, struggling to keep hold of a glass of vodka in one hand and an equally inebriated young man in the other. Her movements are overtly sexual, if clumsy, her speech slurred above the relentless throb of music. A cluster of ogling men cheers noisily as her top slips momentarily. The girl merely laughs, seemingly insensible as she half-heartedly tries to cover herself. Her escort at last leads her to a dimly-lit corner where they indulge in a crass display of kissing. No one bats an eyelid....