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Here is a list of the 12 “fence-sitter” Senate contacts for EVERYONE to email regarding immigration. Many offices are putting calls straight to voicemail and they can just trash faxes that are being sent (and letters take weeks to get through due to security).

ALGIERS (AFP) - Algeria has 10 million free condoms to distribute but there are no takers, a senior medical official in the conservative Muslim country said Wednesday. "In Algeria, where AIDS spreads mainly through sexual contact, 10 million free condoms are waiting in warehouses of the national pharmacy but there are no takers," said Mohamed Mesbah. Some 19,000 of this north African country's 33 million people -- 0.05 percent of the population -- live with AIDS, according to the UN agency UNAIDS. Algerian authorities offer dramatically lower estimates. At the end of last year, it said there were 746 AIDS...

An Australian hotel popular with gay men has won the right to refuse entry to heterosexuals and lesbians, officials and the owner said Monday. The Peel Hotel in Melbourne won an exemption from the Equal Opportunity Act to prevent insults and abuse directed toward gays in its bars and nightclubs, owner Tom McFeely told AFP. "The hotel predominantly markets itself towards homosexual males, towards gay men and we want to protect the integrity of the venue as well as continue to make the men feel comfortable," McFeely said. "When large numbers of heterosexuals or even lesbians are in the hotel...

German authorities use scent tracking to keep tabs on G-8 protesters May 22 2007, 16:04 BERLIN (AP) - German authorities are using scent tracking to keep tabs on possibly violent protesters against next month's Group of Eight summit - a tactic that is drawing comparisons with the methods of former East Germany's secret police. Scent samples have been taken from an undisclosed number of people believed to be a possible danger to the upcoming summit so that police dogs can pick out the perpetrators if there is violence, the Hamburger Morgenpost reported Tuesday. Andreas Christeleit, a spokesman for federal prosecutors,...

Wednesday Partly sunny skies. Highs near 50. Temps will settle into the 40s for the Sox game. Thursday Incredible.......wet snow at times mixed with rain along the coast, 6" could be possiblew 30s. Friday Sunny skies after a few morning clouds. Highs near 50. Saturday Lots of clouds. Showery with highs near 50.

News tips & feedbackHouse passes seatbelt bill By TOM FAHEY State House Bureau Chief Friday, Apr. 6, 2007 CONCORD – The New Hampshire House yesterday passed a mandatory seatbelt bill, requiring anyone in a moving car to be belted. The bill, which passed 153-140, would allow a police officer to stop and ticket anyone for driving without a seatbelt, or for having an unbelted passenger. The offense carries a $50 fine for a first offense, $100 for a second offense. New Hampshire is the last in the country without a law requiring all adults to wear a seatbelt. It also...

This past week in the Florida legislature a bill was passed 115 to 1 to move the states Presidential primary to Jan 29 to be the “first in the nation” primary. It was explained to me that by an intern working at my state reps office that this would be good because of the diversity of the population of the state. He went on to say that New Hampshire and Iowa do not make up the flavor of America. My response, “you’re lost and so are the 115 that voted for this”. The purpose of the primary is to hear...