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Serve Your Community and the Nation Become a Selective Service System Local Board Member The Selective Service System wants to hear from men and women in the community who might be willing to serve as members of a local draft board. Prospective Board Members must be citizens of the United States , at least 18 years old, and registered with the Selective Service (if male). Prospective Board Members may not be an employee of any law enforcement occupation, not be an active or retired member of the Armed Forces, and not have been convicted of any criminal offense.Once identified...

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The Bill of NO RightsThe following was written by State Representative Mitchell Kaye from Cobb County, GA. We, the sensible people of the United States, in an attempt to help everyone get along, restore some semblance of justice, avoid any more riots, keep our nation safe, promote positive behavior and secure the blessings of debt-free liberty to ourselves and our great-great-great grandchildren, hereby try one more time to ordain and establish some common sense guidelines for the terminally whiny, guilt-ridden, delusional and other liberal, bed wetters. We hold these truths to be self-evident: that a whole lot of people were...

<p>CAMP LEJEUNE, North Carolina (AP) -- Suspension lines on 13 parachutes were cut before a training exercise last month, forcing three jumpers to use their reserve chutes, the Marine Corps said Tuesday.</p> <p>The tampering was discovered September 21 when five Marines jumped from a C-17 aircraft during heavy equipment parachute training at Camp Lejeune.</p>

13:50 2002-09-27 Sensation: Chernobyl Uranium On Sale! The court of Minsk, the Belarus capital, started a sensational case, which is at the same time extremely horrifying: several people charged with selling radioactive uranium rods, which highly likely came from the Chernobyl nuclear plant. The newspaper Sovetskaya Belorussiya (Soviet Belarus) reported yesterday that the investigation department of the National Security Committee (KGB) for Minsk and the Minsk region investigated crimes committed by an international criminal group. The investigation revealed that a group of criminals attempted to sell about 1.5 kilograms of uranium dioxide 235 and 238 in Belarus at the beginning...

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<p>NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - Support for the First Amendment has eroded significantly since Sept. 11 and nearly half of Americans now think the constitutional amendment on free speech goes too far in the rights it guarantees, says a poll released Thursday.</p>

Kenneth Borovina, 34, a carpenter from Dumont, N.J., has a lot to be stressed about these days. His grandmother is in the assisted-living wing of a local nursing home, and her life savings has gone from $600,000 to $250,000 in the last year because of the sagging stock market. But there's one thing that cheers him: news that yet another rogue chief executive is under investigation or, better still, arrest."They're getting what they deserve," Borovina said. "That makes me feel great."Borovina is indulging in what seems to be this summer's favorite guilty pleasure -- delighting in others' misfortune, or "Schadenfreude."...

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Cure For Cancer? Medical Breakthrough Cures 200 Lab Mice POSTED: 12:31 p.m. CDT June 21, 2002 UPDATED: 12:53 p.m. CDT June 21, 2002 FORT WORTH, Texas -- There has been a major breakthrough in the fight against cancer, according to Purdue University researchers, who said that they have cured 200 lab mice. Researchers said they have created a wonder drug concoction of ingredients that patients already take. In fact, according to the team of scientists, the drug has the potential to cure one-third of all human cancers. The promising trial results on mice are based on folate, or folic acid,...

New tape says Bin Laden is alive, planning attacks Copyright © 2002 AP Online By SAM F. GHATTAS, Associated Press Saudi dissident Osama bin Laden is seen in this undated photo. AP Photo BEIRUT, Lebanon (June 22, 2002 10:42 p.m. EDT) - Osama bin Laden and his No. 2 man are both alive and well and their al-Qaida network is ready to attack new U.S. targets, bin Laden's spokesman said in audiotaped remarks aired Sunday. The message also claimed responsibility for a deadly April fire at a Jewish synagogue in Tunisia. The Qatar-based Al-Jazeera satellite television network, which has in...

June 17, 2002Microtel to Build LindowsOS BoxesBy Thor Olavsrud After successfully duking it out with Microsoft Corp. for the rights to its name, Lindows.com Inc. Monday forged a deal with Microtel Computer Systems and WalMart.com (NYSE:WMT) to make computers pre-installed with the Lindows operating system available to the public for less than $300. LindowsOS, a hybrid of the Windows and Linux operating systems capable of running applications for both platforms, will be available on eight different Microtel computers, each offering varying speeds and capabilities. Each of the PCs will also feature an e-mail client, word processor, Web browser/file manager, address...

Senate to Vote On So-Called "Hate Crimes" BillBy Greg HoadleyArmed with 50 co-sponsors, Senator Ted Kennedy (D-MA) hopes the Senate will pass his "Local Law Enforcement Act" or bill number S625. While the title seems innocent enough, pro-family activists fear this is a dangerous bill that threatens the rights of Christians. "Should this bill become law, homosexuals would be given a special protected status under federal law. The same crime committed against a homosexual would be deemed worse, and deserving of more punishment than the same crime against your grandmother or a small child," said Janet Folger, national director of the...

Bush was Warned about Pretzel Choking Hazard  FBI Memo urged president to eat dry snack foods “slowly”, and to “chew thoroughly”     Washington, DC – An F.B.I. memo dated December 20, 2001 warned president Bush and other White House staffers to chew dry snack foods, such as pretzels, slowly, or risk choking.  The memo was distributed in an attempt to avoid “potentially hazardous” scenarios approximately three weeks before the President did indeed choke on a pretzel.  While President Bush was not named specifically in the document, sources inside the White House tell The Blue Brick that the Commander In...

EU quota likely for flatulent cows Belching cows are contributing to greenhouse effect Gas emissions from flatulent cows could soon be restricted by a EU quota system as penal as that imposed on milk production, an agricultural expert has predicted. Environmental scientist Professor Frank Convery claims cows breaking wind and belching account for 35% of Ireland's green-house gas emissions. These have been linked to global climate change. "When you have an agricultural economy - we have over eight million cows in the Republic of Ireland - you end up producing a lot of greenhouse gas. It's similar in Northern...

1. A three letter acronym for the address of a document on the World-Wide Web. (*) 2. The lobbying group that shut down popular music-sharing website Napster. (**) 3. These infamous Arizona lawyers wrote the book on Spam in 1994 (**) 4. A tool one uses to login to another computer on the Internet. (**) 5. A mailing list manager with a military moniker. (**) 6. An escalating sequence of rude or angry newsgroup postings. (*) 7. How many food items are mentioned in the TOURBUS FAQ? (**) 8. What does an ASCII artist use for a paintbrush? (**) 9....

<p>CAIRO, Egypt — Cheese-flavored Yasser Arafat potato chips — five cents a bag.</p> <p>Vendors report brisk sales of the new product. The maker of the chips says it donates five cents — 25 pisaters — to the "Palestinian cause" for every 50 packages sold.</p>

Ice reservoirs found on Mars The findings were made by the Mars Odyssey spacecraft By Dr David Whitehouse BBC News Online science editor Water-ice has been found in vast quantities just below the surface across great swathes of the planet Mars. Ice shows up blue on the gamma-ray spectrometer The finding by the American space agency (Nasa) is undoubtedly one of the most important made about the Red Planet. It solves one of its deepest mysteries, points the way for manned exploration and reignites the question of whether life may exist on the planet. Insiders suggest that, partly as a...

According to the Department of Justice, aggressive tax avoidance plots are on the rise nationwide--and they're not limited to Posse Comitatus members and kooks living in Idaho shacks. Turns out there are many wealthy Americans who believe that income tax is voluntary or that the government does not have the right to tax citizens. Another popular tax evasion scheme--involving the claim that tax is only owed if income comes from a foreign corporation--was cited by actor Wesley Snipes in a bizarre bid to secure an unwarranted $7.4 million tax refund, according to documents filed Tuesday (5/21) in federal court in...