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Quoting the first paragraph only: "AUSTIN — More than 50 Democratic House members, intent on breaking a legislative quorum, shut down the House today after leaving Texas on Sunday night to hide out until the end of the week."

What if you sign a paper and later want a copy of it?

I cannot read Spanish, so I do not know what this website, www.webislam.com says, but if I were a gambler I would bet it is pro-Islam. This leads to a question, and perhaps it is important since we share a border with Mexico: Are there a lot of Muslims in Mexico? And more importantly, are there a lot of the "fundamentalist/kill all infidels" type Muslims in Mexico? I am guessing this page of the website is an interview with Osama bin Laden putting a nice spin on Osama. Our country has not in the past been too successful about controlling ...

A POPULATION explosion among Germany’s wild pigs is reaching crisis levels with the large and dangerous animals wreaking havoc in towns and cities across the country. In Berlin, the pigs are spreading out of their woodland habitat into gardens and cemeteries. The huge tusked foragers smash gravestones in their hunt for worms and mice, eat flower beds and overturn dustbins. Pet dogs have been gored to death and others injured.

THE hijacker who flew the first aircraft into the World Trade Centre left a will barring women from his funeral and ordering those touching his body to wear gloves. He said that mourners should remain at his grave for an hour to keep him company after burial and pray that he be forgiven. In the document, found in a car at Boston’s Logan airport, Mohammed Atta ordered: “No one should cry for me, scream or tear his clothes and beat his face — those are foolish gestures.” The will, written in 1996 and leaked to the German magazine, Der ...

I called the Florida speaker's office at 850-488-1450. I urged a special session of the Florida legislature to deal with this election/supreme court fiasco. The woman I spoke to said these phone calls REALLY WILL MAKE A DIFFERENCE.... So everyone call now PLEASE and spread the word....pick up a phone to save our republic!

Text of script of advertisement urging people to lobby Congress for trade with China: 1. EARTH IN SPACE A spinning earth fills the frame. We pass from the North American continent to the Asian mainland. ANNOUNCER With 1.3 billion people, China is the world's largest marketplace. 2. CHINA MONTAGE The background image dissolves to images of modern China. We see people in western dress living a modern lifestyle. Across these images float the words Opportunity and Unlimited Potential. A new trade agreement opens China's markets to our goods and services, We see the word Values move on the screen. their ...

Vietnam has criticized Republican presidential candidate John McCain for claiming he was tortured during 5½ years as a prisoner of war in the infamous "Hanoi Hilton" and using derogatory terminology for Vietnamese. "John McCain's words and statements, which lack goodwill, have hurt the Vietnamese and Asian peoples," Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Phan Thuy Thanh said in a statement issued Monday in response to queries from Hanoi-based foreign correspondents.