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Which troops exactly will be receiving these gifts is not known. Below are excerpts from the email from the Army officer that coordinates bulk donations, from which you may extract what clues you can. Good Afternoon Dr. XXXX Your offer of 200 Silk Scarves is accepted. ...Per my corresponding with my point of contact in theater...Command would like to distribute them to outlying sites pulling duty on holidays.... Please inform me when you are ready to ship the Scarves, and I will provide a Donation Number and the stateside ship to address. Why we choose silk scarves for the Christmas/Hanukkah/Kwanzaa ...

The Chaplain at Camp Bondsteel in Kosovo has kept me informed about the care packages that we started sending to our troops before September 11 and continued to send afterwards. He said that the most appreciated gifts were candy bars (Snickers was a big hit) and movie videos. Since then we have sent hundreds of full size bars and about 4000 pieces of Halloween candy. And we have sent over 50 videos. From his first email: JUST RECEIVED ANOTHER PACKAGE FROM YOU AND WANT TO SEND MY GREAT THANKS TO YOU FOR THE VIDEOS YOU MAILED...I GUARANTEE THEY HAVE ALREADY ...

(To the tune of "Que Sera, Sera") When I was just a little boy, My mother ask me what will I be? Will I be handsome, will I be rich? Here's what I then could see. Al Qai'da, Qai'da The Base is belong to me The future is mine, you see Al Qai'da, Qai'da. When I grew up I fell in love And loved myself more than Allah I want the power, I want the fame Here's what it means to me. Al Qai'da, Qai'da The Base longs for deviltry The future shaped twistedly Al Qai'da, Qai'da. Now I have ...

Charities stunned as NY disaster funds top 500 million dollars NEW YORK, Sept 25 (AFP) - Relief groups have been swamped with more than half a billion dollars in contributions for victims of the World Trade Center attack and are now under pressure to disburse the money quickly but wisely. The scale of the giving has dwarfed any previous US relief effort. It has also turned the spotlight on how the huge sums of cash will be handed out and led to fears other worthy causes could suffer a backlash. "It has been unbelievable, extraordinary," said Ani Hurwitz, spokeswoman for ...

Black September plea to Israel Dawson's Field: Airliners blown up in September, 1970 The late King Hussein of Jordan wanted Israel to bomb Syrian forces during the Black September crisis of 1970, according to British Government documents released on Monday. The documents, disclosed under the British Government's 30-year rule and featuring in a special BBC New Year's Day documentary, reveal the king feared that the Middle East would slide into all-out war if Jordan fell into the hands of Syrian-backed Palestinian guerrillas. That fear, at the height of an international hijacking and hostage crisis which came to define a decade ...

Help Show our Troops in Bosnia, Kosovo, and Macedonia that we care about them. Anyone who wishes to show support for our forgotten troops in the FRY (the Former Republic of Yugoslavia) may send as many first class envelops as they wish (up to 13 ounces with appropriate amount of U.S. first class postage) to our service men and women who are taking part in operation Joint Forge. Currently there are about 5000 service members in Kosovo and 800 or more in Macedonia, so we need multiple mailings from the volunteers and we need some chain mail sent to your ...

For the first time in the 20-year history of the popular 401(k) retirement savings plan, the average account lost money last year, even after thousands of dollars of new contributions. For the first time in the 20-year history of the popular 401(k) retirement savings plan, the average account lost money last year, even after thousands of dollars of new contributions. And despite some strengthening of stock prices in the last couple of months, recent estimates show, the declines persisted in the first half of this year. ... But a look at shifting account balances over the last decade shows that ...

An Ice Age, or Continental Glaciation, occurs when the average temperature over a large land mass drops so low that winter snow build-up doesn't melt. An area's average temperature is determined primarily by how much solar energy it receives, which depends on the tilt of the Earth's rotation axis and the distance between the Earth and the sun. [For those of you who don't know, the seasons are caused by the tilt of the Earth toward the sun in summer and away from the sun in winter. This is because the sun's rays have further to go (in a slant) ...

The Chinese President and President Bush have almost worked a solution where they issue a joint letter where each states their view of why the collision happened and they set up meetings between their military and ours to agree on protocols for close encounters in the future that will prevent future collisions. Our ambassador in China will sign, not Bush, but he will pass on the final wording. Regrets for loss of life, but no apology. Now those of you who wanted us to nuke China yesterday or send in the Delta Force yesterday are not happy, but could you ...

Poll is to grade Bush on his handling of the incident with China. I'd like to see more A's and B's on his score card. Thanks to any who participate

Texas rounds up wind for power Environmental News Network Friday, March 30, 2001 For the first time, the high winds that blow across Texas are being harnessed for the generation of electricity. By the end of this year, high-tech wind turbines totaling over 800 megawatts in generation capacity are expected to reap enough electricity to serve about 200,000 Texas households. The minimum renewable energy requirement adopted by the state of Texas under former Governor Geoge W. Bush is the most effective policy any state has recently adopted to promote renewable energy, according to a new survey by the American Wind ...