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A team of international scientists compared the temperature of cosmic gas farther away from Earth (and, therefore, farther back in time) to younger gases nearer to our planet and to the present day. According to their calculations, in the past 10 billion years, the mean temperature of these gases has increased by more than 10 times,

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Have a Threshold for Disgusting Things? Find Out – Because It Reveals a Lot About You Who do you think has a stronger stomach: a liberal or a conservative? Who is the tougher party?

Maureen Scott is an ardent American patriot who was born in Pittsburgh, PA, and retired to Richmond, VA, in 2000. Free from the nine-to-five grind of writing for employers and clients, she began writing political commentary to please herself and express her convictions, as do I. Our Pledge of Allegiance, a military band playing the National Anthem, and the wisdom of our Founding Fathers, inspire her passion and views. Her life is guided by a firm belief that truth is the most important virtue, and that God knows what He is doing with her. She is my guest writer today,...

PUT YOUR CAR KEYS BESIDE YOUR BED AT NIGHT Tell your spouse, your children, your neighbors, your parents, your sisters, everyone you run across. Put your car keys beside your bed at night. If you hear a noise outside your home or someone trying to get in your house, just press the panic button for your car. The alarm will be set off, and the horn will continue to sound until either you turn it off or the car battery dies. This tip came from a neighborhood watch coordinator. Next time you come home for the night and you start...

Catholic Church Ad Someone sent me this link to an ad from the Catholic Church.. My hat is off to the Catholic Church for this! Very well done. And very powerful! Gave me goosebumps! http://www.youtube.com/watch_popup?v=D9vQt6IXXaM&hdk I especially took note of the reference to Psalm 127:1

Government asks federal labs to develop underground nuclear bomb By DAN STOBER San Jose Mercury News SAN JOSE, Calif. — The Pentagon and the Energy Department have directed the nation's nuclear weapons laboratories in Livermore, Calif., and Los Alamos, N.M., to compete for the chance to design a hydrogen bomb that could destroy targets underground. To the dismay of arms-control proponents, the Bush administration is advocating such weapons — which would slam into the earth at high speed and then explode underground — as a means of attacking command bunkers or biological and chemical weapons facilities possibly buried in such...

The secret war. Part 2 Police believe up to 30 more 'spectaculars' are plannedThe secret war. Part 1War on Terrorism - Observer special Martin Bright, Antony Barnett, Burhan Wazir, Tony Thompson and Peter Beaumont in London; Stuart Jeffries in Paris; Ed Vulliamy in Washington; Kate Connolly in Berlin; Giles Tremlett in Madrid; Rory Carroll in RomeSunday September 30, 2001The Observer While Beghal was devising his murderous plots, other cells in Hamburg and across Germany were busy too, almost certainly unaware that their efforts were being duplicated across a continent - but pursuing the same aim. Among them was an ...

When Djamel Beghal was approached by intelligence officers in the departure lounge of Dubai airport two months ago, he looked like any other smart business traveller from the Middle East. Beghal was a devout 36-year-old Algerian who dressed in Western clothes and travelled clean-shaven in order to attract as little attention as possible during his travels between the Muslim world and the West. As a member of Takfir-wal-Hijra, an extreme and puritanical Islamist organisation financed by Osama bin Laden, he knew he had to keep a low profile, but Beghal was being cautious for a second reason. Returning to Europe ...

Wicca books brew up suspect information Email this story | Plain text for printing Wicca books brew up suspect information By CATHY KARLIN ZAHNER - Special to The Star Date: 08/12/01 00:01 Many people who love children's books don't understand why some parents worry about the witchcraft in the Harry Potter books. "It's just fantasy," they say. But while Harry's capers with hippogriffs and vicious trees are purely imaginary, the practice of modern-day witchcraft, known as "Wicca," is real. Dozens of Wicca Web sites flourish on the Internet. A glance at our local Yellow Pages reveals bookstores, a masseuse and ...

By Svein Michelsen Rana catesbeiana, the North American Bullfrog. These bullfrogs are gobbling up wildlife in France's Aquitaine region. The Other Ugly Americans French Fight Invasion of Voracious Bullfrogs From U.S. L O N D O N, April 4 — The population of France's Aquitaine region is under siege as illegally imported American bullfrogs gobble up local wildlife. Since the bullfrogs were introduced as a joke 20 years ago, local environmental authorities have definitely stopped laughing. From an initial population of just six there are now tens of thousands of what the French have dubbed "Florida frogs." The frogs, measuring ...

America's Way Is to Help Thy Neighbor By Charles W. Colson January 31, 2001 Colson commentary featured in Los Angeles Times and copied from his website at http://www.christianity.com/CC/article/1,1183,PTID2230|CHID0|CIID247142,00.html Prison Fellowship - This week I returned to the White House - not for nostalgic reasons, but to meet with religious leaders and witness a landmark event in American politics: President Bush's unveiling of his plans for promoting faith-based and community solutions. The president is sincere; he knows from his own life and from experiences as governor of Texas that faith makes all the difference. Three years ago, then-Gov. Bush gave my ...

TORONTO -- You say you don't like browser cookies? You're not quite sure if that program you download from the Net is revealing more about you than it should? Well, here's something to make you really nervous: In the United States, it may be illegal to disable software that snoops on you. Everybody's got issues in Politics The folks who came up with this idea turn out to be the large corporations that helped to draft the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA), which restricts some forms of tampering with copyright protection devices. In some cases, that means you won't be ...

Friday March 03 10:30 PM EST The Net As Red-Light DistrictThe Net As Red-Light DistrictBy Matt Carolan, Inter@ctive Week From a first-of-its-kind survey conducted on the MSNBC Web site, researchers are concluding that the Net may pose a danger for sexual compulsives.We need a scientific study to tell us that?   •Top headlines on ZDNN •Financial news and market view •Killer downloads in AnchorDesk Actually, we don't have a scientific study yet. The survey in question, conducted in 1998, allowed visitors to MSNBC.com to answer questions about their time spent online in pursuit of sexual material. But, as critics have ...

Cash and the 'Carry Tax' by Declan McCullagh3:00 a.m. 27.Oct.99.PDTWASHINGTON -- US currency should include tracking devices that let the government tax private possession of dollar bills, a Federal Reserve official says. The longer you hold currency without depositing it in a bank account, the less that cash will be worth, according to a proposal from Marvin Goodfriend, a senior vice president at the Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond. Also: 'Want a Loan? What's Your Race?' More Infostructure in Wired News In other words, greenbacks will get automatic expiration dates. "The magnetic strip could visibly record when a bill ...

GRAND TETON NATIONAL PARK, Wyoming -- Americans often seem to view the US Federal Communications Commission as something between a benign nuisance and an antediluvian bureaucracy. But is the FCC really a group of modern-day Don Corleones who run a protection racket complete with threats to kowtow to government demands or else? That's how one FCC commissioner views his colleagues. "They are engaged in shakedowns, extortions, and things that fall outside the formal regulatory process," Harold Furchtgott-Roth said Tuesday at a Hudson Institute conference in Jackson Hole, Wyoming. "The commission has been very effective in shaking down companies [and ...

September 27, 1999 5:05 AM PT In a new take on Internet taxation, Utah and other states plan to charge access fees to companies laying cable for Internet and other telecommunications services along interstate highways. Add your comments to the bottom of this page. Utah's Rights of Way Task Force earlier this year recommended a one-time $500-per-mile charge for telecom firms installing cable along right-of-way strips bordering interstates. But Utah governor Michael Leavitt has rejected the recommendation and has publicly suggested an annual fee of $1,000 per mile. Still, some observers in Utah say fees under consideration run as high ...

BlankGo to Page 2 >Where to Watch Y2K Ready or Not There’s a documentary called ‘Y2K Ready or Not’ playing on a TV screen near you. The show features AnchorDesk Tech Director Jon DeKeles, reason enough for me to call it to your attention. (Go to Page 2 for air dates around the U.S.) But there’s another reason I recommend the program. I’ve told you for months now about Y2K hysteria. Click for more. Told you why the real Y2K scare may be beyond our control. Click for more. And kept you clicking to the latest Y2K headlines, such as: ...

The Little Engine that Might by Leander Kahney 3:00 a.m.  9.Sep.99.PDT Taking on the world's giant energy business, a tiny startup is set to launch an engine that requires no fuel, produces no pollution, and is free to run. Naturally, the experts think it's too good to be true -- although they can't exactly say why. See also: Plasma-Powered Trip to the Stars Entropy Systems, a seven-person startup based in Youngstown, Ohio, is scheduled to launch the Entropy engine early next year, said the technology's inventor, Sanjay Amin, a mechanical engineer and co-founder of the company. The Entropy engine acts like a ...