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Study Links Drinking, Brain Tissue Loss Thu Dec 4, 5:43 PM ET By RENEE C. LEE, Associated Press Writer DALLAS (AP — Low to moderate drinking may cause a loss of brain tissue in middle-age people, a study found. The researchers also found that such alcohol consumption does not lower the risk of a stroke — contradicting findings from previous studies. "I think this is an interesting study because people talk about the beneficial effects of alcohol intake on cardiovascular disease and they try to extend that to stroke," said the study's lead researcher, Dr. Jingzhong Ding, a research associate...

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Nearly 300K Jobs Created in Past 3 Months Fri Nov 7, 9:45 PM ET By LEIGH STROPE, AP Labor Writer WASHINGTON - The economy has created nearly 300,000 new jobs in the past three months after a half-year drought, pushing unemployment down to 6 percent in October and leaving little doubt that the jobs market is bouncing back. The Labor Department (news - web sites) reported Friday that payrolls grew by 126,000 last month, many more than economists had predicted. That followed a revised 125,000 new jobs in September, more than double what initially was reported. U.S. companies added 35,000...

House GOP cutting Democrats' projects from big spending bill ALAN FRAM, Associated Press Writer Friday, November 7, 2003 (11-07) 13:57 PST WASHINGTON (AP) -- House Democrats will get no projects for their home districts in a huge education and health spending bill because none of them voted for an initial version of the measure last summer, majority Republicans say. Unapologetic GOP leaders say the decision reflects standard procedure in Congress, where uncooperative lawmakers can lose out on money for roads, clinics and other prized items for the folks back home. "We're doing business as usual," House Majority Leader Tom DeLay,...

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Maybe Galileo morphed:-) http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/jupiter_dark_spot_031023.html

Go Cubs!!!

How in the heck can you give up 3 home runs in one inning?? Arghhhhhh!I'm still reeling from that. Well my TV didn't break when I threw my beer bottle at so let's get it going tonight! Prior vs Penny. Go Cubs!!!

Woods vs HamptonGO CUBS!!!!!!!

Prior vs Maddux... Go Cubs!!!

GO CUBS!!!!!! http://sports.yahoo.com/mlb/boxscore?gid=230927316

Hurricane Isabel predicted to hit U.S. Storm has top winds of 155 mph Sunday, September 14, 2003 Posted: 6:37 PM EDT (2237 GMT) (CNN) -- Hurricane Isabel dipped just below Category 5 status late Sunday morning, but the still powerful hurricane with top winds of 155 mph was forecast to hit the U.S. East Coast by the end of the week. "We feel pretty confident that someone will [get hit]," said Eric Blake, a specialist at the National Hurricane Center told Reuters. "We're forecasting a major hurricane for the United States East Coast." Hurricane center forecasters said they expected the...

N.Korea Deploys More Missiles, U.S. Wants Wide Talks Sat July 19, 2003 04:25 AM ET By Martin Nesirky and Jonathan Wright SEOUL/WASHINGTON (Reuters) - North Korea has deployed more missiles capable of reaching Japan, South Korea said Saturday, adding to concerns over Pyongyang's nuclear ambitions just as the North appears to be edging toward talks. The South's Defense Ministry said the North had also moved more artillery closer to the Demilitarized Zone that bisects the tense peninsula, putting even more firepower within reach of the South's capital, Seoul. In Washington, officials told a Chinese envoy it was time for others...

Space impact 'saved Christianity' By Dr David Whitehouse BBC News Online science editor Did a meteor over central Italy in AD 312 change the course of Roman and Christian history? About the size of a football field: The impact crater left behind A team of geologists believes it has found the incoming space rock's impact crater, and dating suggests its formation coincided with the celestial vision said to have converted a future Roman emperor to Christianity. It was just before a decisive battle for control of Rome and the empire that Constantine saw a blazing light cross the sky and...

This was posted by one of the members of an on line prayer group I belong to. I would appreciate your prayers for this baby. He was born Friday at 4:00am. His vitals are not looking good this morning. His name is pronounced Jah-Co-Bee. Thank you in advance and may God bless each of you......Urgent Prayer request for baby Jakobe Author: Tammy Posted: 05/30/03 Fri May 30 23:54:16 2003 A friend of mine from church had her baby two months pre-mature this morning and he is fighting for his life. Her placenta somehow came apart from her uterus (sp?) and...

Twister Caps Nation's Worst Tornado Week Sat May 10, 7:42 AM ET Add U.S. National - AP to My Yahoo! By JULIE E. BISBEE, Associated Press Writer OKLAHOMA CITY - Capping what may be the nation's most tornado-stricken week ever recorded, residents of Oklahoma City got a double dip of both devastation and enormous good luck. For the second time in as many nights, a massive tornado hopscotched across the city's outskirts, laying waste to homes and spraying debris through Oklahoma's highest population concentration. Yet somehow, no one was killed in either storm. Five injuries were reported — one person...

Posted on Thu, May. 08, 2003 Bush to Propose Mideast Free Trade Zone BARRY SCHWEID Associated Press WASHINGTON - President Bush, upbeat about Mideast peace prospects, will propose formation of a sprawling free-trade area across the Middle East within the next decade, administration officials said Thursday. Bush will outline the proposal on Friday in a commencement speech at the University of South Carolina, said a senior official who spoke on the condition of anonymity. Such an area will build on free-trade agreements the United States already has with Israel and Jordan and one under negotiation with Morocco, the official said....

Syria: U.S. reaffirms Golan Heights return By Thanaa Imam From the International Desk Published 5/7/2003 6:54 PM DAMASCUS, Syria, May 7 (UPI) -- Secretary of State Colin Powell renewed a U.S. commitment to Syria on the return of the Golan Heights as held by Syria in 1967 before being occupied by Israel, a Syrian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman said Wednesday. Bouthaina Shaaban also said that in talks in Damascus last Saturday, Powell renewed the U.S. commitment to a comprehensive peace in the Middle East. Shaaban denied that Powell made demands on Syria during his visit. "There were no U.S. demands but...

Blair Urges U.S., Europe to Forge 'One Polar Power' Sun Apr 27, 7:55 PM ET Add World - Reuters to My Yahoo! LONDON (Reuters) - Europe and the United States should work as "one polar power" to tackle the world's problems rather then bickering as they did over Iraq (news - web sites), British Prime Minister Tony Blair (news - web sites) said in an interview published on Monday. Speaking to the Financial Times newspaper, Blair said the best way to stop Washington acting unilaterally was to join forces with it rather than opposing it. "I don't want to see...

A billion-sun blast By Richard Macey April 2 2003 Anyone watching the sky late on Saturday night could have witnessed one of nature's most violent events since the Big Bang 13 billion years ago. In a galaxy 2 billion light years away, a giant star had exploded and collapsed, giving birth to a black hole. The blast released almost unimaginable amounts of energy. "During the first minute after the explosion," said Michael Ashley, head of astrophysics at the University of NSW, it "emitted energy at a rate more than a million times the combined output of all the stars in...