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BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) - In an outdoor food market under the fierce midday sun, a crowd of men and boys were watching video footage of a truck bomber seated behind the steering wheel, smiling and murmuring his last words before crashing into U.S. military vehicles on an overpass. Elsewhere, the TV set in a coffee shop was offering customers the video of foreign hostages being beheaded. In a city battered and traumatized by 17 months of violence that seems to grow worse by the day, real-life horror has become the viewing fare of choice, supplanting the explosion of pornography that...

Just this hour the Hepatologist picked up the phone and called my wife with the stunning news that she is completely virus free. Six months ago she finished the second year of Interferon chemotherapy. The first attempt failed, so the treatment was repeated with Pegylated Interferon. The good doctor was so excited that he did not wait till her appointment next week, he called my wife with the good news as soon as he read the test results. We are so grateful.

BRAZZAVILLE (Reuters) - Congolese villagers have stoned and beaten to death four teachers accused of casting an evil spell to cause an outbreak of the deadly Ebola disease that has killed nearly 70 people, a local official said Friday. The outbreak of Ebola in the districts of Kelle and Mbomo near the central African country's northern border with Gabon is thought by scientists to have been caused by the consumption of infected monkey meat. But many locals believe occult forces are at work. "In Kelle, people continue to believe that the Ebola disease is a spell that has been cast...

SADDAM Hussein's senior bodyguard has fled with details of Iraq's secret arsenal. His revelations have supported US President George W. Bush's claim there is enough evidence from UN inspectors to justify going to war. Abu Hamdi Mahmoud has provided Israeli intelligence with a list of sites that the inspectors have not visited. They include: AN underground chemical weapons facility at the southern end of the Jadray Peninsula in Baghdad; A SCUD assembly area near Ramadi. The missiles come from North Korea; TWO underground bunkers in Iraq's Western Desert. These contain biological weapons. William Tierney, a former UN weapons inspector who...

Last night Scott Ritter appeared on the Greta Van Susteren's show on Fox. She hit him with a quote that he made a decade ago. It seems his opinions on Iraq have changed since then. Scott exploded with a diatribe that was almost unintelligible. Obviously Greta had hit a hot button. He then went on to spit venom at Greta's two other guests. Greta had to shut him up twice. As I watched this character, I formed an opinion about him that had not occurred to me before. This guy is bipolar. Of course I am not a shrink (but...

LONDON (Reuters) - Hormones in semen may help to ease female depression because women whose partners don't use condoms are less likely to feel down. Scientists at the State University of New York suspect the mood-altering hormones are absorbed through the vagina and make women feel good but they stressed that their results are not an excuse for unprotected sex. "I want to make it clear that we are not advocating that people abstain from using condoms," Gordon Gallup, who led the study, told New Scientist magazine on Wednesday Clearly an unwanted pregnancy or a sexually transmitted disease would more...

BERLIN (Reuters) - U.S. tennis great Martina Navratilova criticized her adopted homeland in a German newspaper on Wednesday, saying money is the only thing that matters there. Navratilova, a Czech-born American who won 18 grand slam singles titles when she dominated women's tennis in the late 1970s and 1980s, also wrote in an article for Die Zeit weekly that she believed free speech was being suppressed in the United States. The most absurd part of my escape from the unjust system is that I have exchanged one system that suppresses free opinion for another," said Navratilova, 45, who fled Czechoslovakia...

Please help stamp out baby rape by those who think they can prevent AIDS by doing so. Logic now tells us that since the government can't afford to medicate all the pregnant HIV positive mothers, some of those babies may be HIV positive. So, you may actually get AIDS rather than protect yourself from getting it. Please help spread the word to the people who would perform such an act, that the practice is now defunct. Sorry if anyone is offended. I sure was when I read about the practice on this board. I was deeply disturbed by the story. ...

This Freeper and ZZTOP fan and GB fan would love to see ZZTOP dedicate thier great tune PEARL NECLACE to Bill and Monica.

(UPI Spotlight) Clinton talks economic assistance SKOPJE, Macedonia, June 22 (UPI) - A U.S. official traveling with President Clinton in Macedonia says (Tuesday) the need for economic assistance for the region dominated dicussions between Clinton and Albanian President Rexhelp Meidani and Macedonia President Kiro Gligorov. Clinton met with the leaders before visiting a refugee camp. Copyright 1999 by United Press International