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Last week, a SurveyUSA/WBZ poll out of Boston caused a minor earthquake in the Massachusetts political universe. The race to replace liberal Congressman Marty Meehan was supposed to be a sleepy affair leading to a walk-in-the-park victory for Democrat Niki Tsongas, the well-known wife of the late Senator Paul Tsongas. So it came as quite a surprise when the poll showed Republican Jim Ogonowski, a farmer and veteran from the Merrimack Valley, within 10 points of Tsongas. Tsongas polled just 51 percent to Ogonowski's 41 percent. In any political environment, a win by Ogonowski on October 16th would be considered...

I've been wondering if I should get my CDL. I'm 21, and not fully blind or deaf, and I live in CT. I also have no driving record, either positive or negative, 'cuz I don't own a car. I got the idea when I was going home Friday night, as I saw a lot of trucks on the road. Can anybody help a young guy out?

Archbishop Pius Ncube, an outspoken critic of authoritarian Zimbabwean President Mugabe, is being taken to court for allegedly conducting an affair with a secretary, a married woman. The outspoken critic of Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe, Archbishop Pius Ncube, is being taken to court for allegedly having an affair with one of his secretaries. The lawsuit, filed yesterday by the husband of the woman in question, Mrs. Rosemary Sibanda, asks for the equivalent of $160,000 as compensation for emotional damages and the loss of companionship. In reaction to the filing of charges against the cleric, the Archbishop’s lawyer said that the...

Atlanta named worst city for sleeping, followed by Nashville, Houston, New York and St. Louis AP) Atlanta has been the named the worst city for sleeping, according to a pharmaceutical company-funded report. The Big Peach was the pits in a ranking based on survey data and on factors that deprived people of sleep like commute times, divorce and unemployment rates. Atlanta residents reported an average of 9.7 days of poor sleep each month, more than the 8.4 average reported for the 50 metropolitan areas studied. The commute time was about 34 minutes in Atlanta, above the 30 minute average. Divorce...

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Roads and bridges built by U.S. taxpayers are starting to be sold off, and so far foreign-owned companies are doing the buying. On a single day in June, an Australian-Spanish partnership paid $3.8 billion to lease the Indiana Toll Road. An Australian company bought a 99-year lease on Virginia's Pocahontas Parkway, and Texas officials decided to let a Spanish-American partnership build and run a toll road from Austin to Seguin for 50 years. Few people know that the tolls from the U.S. side of the tunnel between Detroit and Windsor, Canada, go to a subsidiary of an...

'There's a space for everyone at the table' at Louisville festival By Frank E. Lockwood HERALD-LEADER STAFF WRITER Former U.S. Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara and National Council of Churches general secretary Bob Edgar are among those coming to Louisville for its 10th annual Festival of Faiths. The eight-day festival, which unites people of all faiths, includes about a dozen events, including a community thanksgiving service and a session on "Faith and Cooperation in a Nuclear Age" with McNamara, Edgar and arms control expert Thomas Graham Jr. Artists, musicians and academics also participate in the activities. Sacred songs and scriptures...

Could all problems cause move by US to take aggressive action. Could problems justify such moves? Maybe.

Destroying the Earth is harder than you may have been led to believe. You've seen the action movies where the bad guy threatens to destroy the Earth. You've heard people on the news claiming that the next nuclear war or cutting down rainforests or persisting in releasing hideous quantities of pollution into the atmosphere threatens to end the world. Fools. The Earth was built to last. It is a 4,550,000,000-year-old, 5,973,600,000,000,000,000,000-tonne ball of iron. It has taken more devastating asteroid hits in its lifetime than you've had hot dinners, and lo, it still orbits merrily. Go to the List >>>...

To all Freepers: We need to stand tall and weather this assault that coming from all sides. The opposition will do anything and everything to get their power back - WE MUST NOT WAIT!!! Everyone here knows what's at stake and we cannot just sit back and allow our opponents and their media cronies to bring the fight to us - bring the fight to them! Spread the word, volunteer, and pray. We can win this - we must win!!

A Modern NIV Church Version of There is Power in the Blood Would you be free your burden of sin? There’s pow’r in the HMMM, Pow’r in the HMMM, Would you o’er evil a victory win? There’s wonderful pow’r in the HMMM. There is pow’r, pow’r, Wonder working pow’r in the HMMM of the Lamb; There is pow’r, pow’r, Wonder working pow’r in the precious HMMM of the Lamb.

I think we can make posting much easier and enjoyable if people would better back up their posts with keywords. For example, if you post an article on President Bush, add a keyword called "President Bush". This would make a simple search for posts much easier when considering if a certain topic has already been posted, and give the moderators a little more free time :)

When US Is Plagued by the Mid-east Situation, China Can Get a Relatively Relaxed World Environment In the opinion of the majority, although it is not quite possible for US troops to be bogged down in the quagmire, whether or not the US government can form a stable Iraqi government after the war still remains unknown. If US troops follow the practice as they did in Germany and Japan after World War II to station in Iraq for a long time, that would cause a rise in the national sentiments of Arab countries, and the Middle East would fall into...