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Civil Rights Group Says Park Rangers’ Uniforms Are ‘Threatening’ To Latinos For ABSURD Reason By Jeff Rainforth A coalition of lawmakers and civil rights groups has a message for the National Park Service: your uniforms and vehicles are “very threatening” to Latinos. Maite Arce of the Hispanic Access Foundation delivered the “really tough” message during a press conference on Thursday: “It’s such a shame that something as simple as the uniform and it’s similarity to the border patrol’s uniform — in the coloring — could be very threatening to certain segments of the Latino population. So a discussion about that...

What is the most awesomely bad love song ever? The one that makes you cringe when you hear it, but you just can't turn it off. What love song makes you shake your head, roll your eyes, laugh, gag, shed a tear, or just punch something because it's so horrendously great that you love to hate it. Or is it vice versa? VH1 is counting down the 40 Most Awesomely Bad Love Songs....The kind of songs that might end a relationship rather than enhance it. You get the drift. Join us as we count down and celebrate fantastically cheesy lyrics,...

Kennedy proposes $100b health planBy William L. Watts, CBS.MarketWatch.com Last Update: 3:38 PM ET Jan. 22, 2004 WASHINGTON (CBS.MW) -- Sen. Edward Kennedy on Thursday proposed a $100 billion-a-year health plan that would provide insurance for all American workers, setting out a marker for Democrats in an election year debate over health care. President Bush, in his State of the Union speech on Tuesday, said a government-run healthcare plan is the "wrong prescription." Bush praised Congress for passage last year of a largely Republican-backed Medicare prescription drug bill and called for enactment this year of additional GOP-backed proposals to provide...

    One bubble burst, then another and another. Enron, Global Crossing, WorldCom. The rectitude of auditors--pop. Faith in corporate CEOs and stock market analysts--pop, pop. The self-righteous prestige of Citigroup and J.P. Morgan Chase--pop and pop again. The largest bubble is the stock market's, and it may not yet be fully deflated. These dizzying events are not an occasion for champagne music because the bursting bubbles have cast millions of Americans into deep personal losses, destroyed trillions of dollars in capital, especially retirement savings, and littered the economic landscape with corporate wreckage. Ex-drinker George W. Bush explained that a...