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Mark Grasmueck can see underground and, without hardly anyone noticing, he has been peeking below downtown Miami. Grasmueck, a University of Miami geophysicist, is quietly working with archaeologists on the planned One Miami development in the heart of Miami just north of the Dupont Plaza hotel -- a site that almost certainly harbors ancient treasure. What he sees as far as 20 feet under the asphalt -- and how he sees it -- could revolutionize archaeology, help experts assure the purity of our drinking water and reveal new details of South Florida's 120,000-year-old limestone foundation. ''The deeper you go, the...

Details about an undersea site reportedly containing ancient city walls more than 10,000 years old will soon be unveiled as the government announced its support for an exploratory project yesterday. Huang Yung-chuan, deputy director of the National Museum of History, announced the project in a press conference. The site, located between Hsichi island and Tungchi island, which belong to Penghu County, has attracted the attention of a group of experienced divers since August because of local legend regarding an undersea temple. "After numerous attempts, we finally discovered the stone walls at the northeast side of Tungchi island at the end...

Sniper suspect John Muhammad fits the profile of a disaffected outcast who becomes increasingly radicalized under the influence of Islamism, say terrorism analysts and investigators, who suspect he is connected with the radical Islamist group, al-Fuqra. According to Christian M. Weber, contributing editor for Soldiers for the Truth, an organization headed by Col. David Hackworth, Muhammad seems to follow the model of John Walker Lindh, Richard Reid and Jose Padilla, men exposed to Islamism who become disenchanted with the movement's pace and progress and who take the road to jihad. "As one traces John Muhammad's life from his conversion to...

A biological weapons laboratory in Iraq is said to be making a deadly strain of virus code named Blue Nile, which American intelligence officials believe is the Ebola virus. Washington is trying to pinpoint the location of the laboratory, revealed by defectors and Iraqi exiles. They described underground test chambers, tight security and a staff of 85 people working to equip Iraqi's military with biological agents powerful enough to inflict heavy casualties on any American invading force.

Sure, it's the 21st century and all, but many single, professional women of a certain age still sweat over the lethal mix of a dearth of educated, successful bachelors and the cruel march of Father Time. Believe it or not, ladies, the situation appears to be getting bleaker. Women now comprise 57 percent of all college graduates in the United States. Among Hispanics, the gender gap is even greater ? only 40 percent of college graduates are male. Among blacks, two women earn bachelor's degrees for every man. Some demographers and labor studies experts fear this trend portends ominously for...

A group of eyewitnesses to the Nov. 12 crash of American Airlines Flight 587 are charging that the National Transportation Safety Board has engaged in deliberate cover-up; complaining that investigators have ignored their accounts of a fiery midair explosion and even tried to persuade some of them to change their story. "The plane was definitely on fire. It was in the middle of the plane," said Maureen Hager, a flight attendant who watched Flt. 587 crash from her apartment window in Belle Harbor, New York. She told the New York Daily News that crash investigators tried to get her to...

DUAL CITIZENS FIGHT DOUBTS OVER LOYALTY Americans are expected to ride the wave of post-Sept. 11 patriotism when they mark the Fourth of July. But even as the commemoration crests Thursday, a little-noticed statistic is sparking debate over national identity and the obligations of citizenship. As many as 40 million Americans -- one in seven of the population -- could be dual citizens. They include those born in the United States as well as immigrants who have become naturalized. "We do not know what the consequences of dual citizenship are. We have never been in this circumstance before," said Stanley...

There has been intensive covert research in many countries, in an attempt to produce modifications in disease-producing viruses. Russia and Iraq have been at the forefront of these researches. There have emerged several major threats to mankind in the form of lethal viruses and bacteria. Among these are smallpox (variola), hemorrhagic viruses such as Ebola, and the encephalitis viruses. Ebola is extremely susceptible to sunlight, heat and drying. It is difficult to handle and deliver while still viable and infectious. Nonetheless, it is highly lethal and effective in large enclosed spaces such as auditoriums (?) and, probably, stadiums. Most of...

Hospitals are usually eager to tout their expertise in treating various diseases. But there is little upside, it seems, in becoming St. Smallpox.Across the country, state and local officials developing smallpox-response plans at the behest of the federal government are discovering that hospitals are reluctant to be tapped for the duty. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommends that planners identify a "Type C," or facility for contagious smallpox patients, in each community or region, to be activated in the event of an outbreak. Such centers would house confirmed and probable cases.Hospitals, though, see little advantage in being designated...

Heard around 12:25 pm on Fox News Alert: the CDC, in a panel of twelve "experts", have announced that no widespread vaccinations of Americans will be conducted.

http://www.NewsAndOpinion.comWhile Muslim terrorists penetrate our borders with surface-to-air missiles and make every air traveler a potential target, and while INS screw-ups show daily that we have no borders and no real ability to keep any of our enemies out, a surreal battle is taking place within the ranks of the hostage population itself. The debate is whether Attorney General John Ashcroft and the FBI should have given agents license to keep an eye on suspected terrorists and their ideological supporters if they have not yet blown up a plane. The trigger of the debate is the recent decision of the...

WASHINGTON - A $24,000 sofa and armchair; an $1,800 pillow; and $45,800 in silver and china - such accoutrements would cause little surprise if found in the abodes of the wealthy and well-known. But government auditors discovered these pricey items - and many more - not in a mansion but at Air Force and Army bases in Saudi Arabia, the rest of the Persian Gulf, Europe and the Balkans. In a just-released report, the General Accounting Office informed Congress that its auditors found a number of "seemingly unneeded expenditures" made by the Air Force and Army in 2000 and 2001....

WATCH YOUR POCKETBOOKS! BONO WANTS TO PLAY ROBIN HOOD!!Rock star Bono made a grab for America's purse strings as a four-nation aid and debt factfinding tour with US Treasury Secretary Paul O'Neill reached South Africa. "He is the man in charge of America's wallet," Bono said of Mr O'Neill. "And it's true, I want to open that wallet." The comment came as the dynamic do-good duo arrived in Pretoria for talks with South African President Thabo Mbeki. "All three of us have a passion for seeing the world's living standard increase quickly for people who have been poor too long,"...

Federal Zoning Act passed in Committee by stealth! The United States Senate Environment and Public Works Committee (EPW Committee) yesterday, April 25, met IN SECRET and voted to approve S. 975, the Federal Zoning Act!!! Because of growing public opposition to S.975, the committee leadership decided to HIDE from the public and meet in a closed session!!!!!! This is the SAME committee that hid from the public last December and approved S. 990, the "Son of CARA" land acquisition bill. When the public doesn't like what they are doing, the EPW Committee shuts out the public and votes in secret!...

<p>Palestinian sympathizers in Europe and the Arab world called yesterday for the Israeli government to be investigated for war crimes, raising the prospect that leaders of the Jewish state could be among the first targets of the new International Criminal Court.</p>

San Juan Unified School District officials show no sign of yielding in their truancy case against a home-schooling family and, to the contrary, are taking steps to crack down on all home-schooling. Joseph Tucker, the district coordinator of the Student Attendance Review Board plans to address the issue with state education officials next month, seeking to reform and clarify California compulsory education laws, according to the Sacramento Bee. A call to Tucker was not returned. As WorldNetDaily reported last month, Tucker referred the case of Sandra and David Sorensen to the Sacramento County district attorney's office for prosecution. The Sorensens...

Jewish leaders in France yesterday demanded urgent government action after an unprecedented wave of attacks on synagogues and Jewish-owned property around the country. A synagogue in Marseille, destroyed by fire along with its Torah scrolls and other sacred books on Sunday night, was the third to be hit by arson since Friday, prompting the central consistory of French Jews to compare the violence to the Nazi-led Kristallnacht, or Night of Broken Glass, in Germany in November 1938. President Jacques Chirac issued a call for "dialogue, respect and tolerance". In a statement, the president urged the government to increase police protection...

<p>In a major shift in public health policy that underscores government concerns about bioterrorism, federal health officials are gathering enough smallpox vaccine to inoculate the entire country and are considering a widespread vaccination campaign.</p> <p>By December, according to public health leaders in Washington D.C., the U.S. government will have more than 100 million doses of the vaccine in hand, an amount they say could be effectively diluted to make the shots available to everyone in the country. An inoculation effort using the sometimes risky vaccine would be new to millions of Americans born after the United States stopped offering the shots in 1972.</p>

A patent was granted on March 26, 2002 for "The Motionless Magnetic Generator," MEG) US Patent 6,362,718, which is likely to become the first commercially available free energy device in history in about one year from now. The machine will provide free electricity from the vacuum, for the life of the device, which should be a very long life since it has no moving parts. You can see a picture of scientist Jean Louis Naudin's MEG replication model at: http://jnaudin.free.fr/html/meg.htm. It has strong magnets, coils, and a controller unit with the electronics. Naudin made the announcement to the MEG-builder's Yahoo...

WASHINGTON, D.C. -- In the movie "A Few Good Men," Jack Nicholson, playing a crusty Marine Colonel at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, angrily tells Tom Cruise: "Truth! You can't handle the truth." The same might be said of those populating the corridors of power when truth "happens" in our nation's capital. Unfortunately for the potentates on the Potomac, the war on terrorism has prompted an unprecedented wave of "near truth experiences" that has official Washington in a tizzy. Their concern? If it keeps up, the American people may be subjected to the Cold Hard Truth about terrorism -- and no one...