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(excerpt).... Isaiah 14(13-15) is often referred to as the chapter that depicts the fall of Satan and his coherts, who for reasons of pride rebelled against God. What we do know though, is that a significant portion of the angels who were once charged with the administration of the law of God, became evil and true to their nature, they used the laws of God to accuse God's people and curse their lives, even all of creation. This theme comes out very clearly in our passage (Colossians 2). In the city of Colosse, there were spiritual influences affecting how the...

Ten of the 29 directors of California's new stem cell program serve on biotech or pharmaceutical firms' boards of directors or have extensive holdings in those industries, leading critics to challenge their ability to fairly represent taxpayers in doling out $3 billion in state funds. Members of the Independent Citizens Oversight Committee, created by voter passage of the stem cell initiative in November, reported interests ranging from real estate to movie production in statements of economic interest filed this week. Six members, including Sacramento physician Francisco Prieto and University of California, Davis, medical school head Claire Pomeroy, had no reportable...

Tuesday, November 26, 2002 Kislev 21, 5763 Israel Time: 01:00 (GMT+2) Last update - 22:35 25/11/2002 Israel rejects new technology proliferation code of conduct By Aluf Benn, Ha'aretz Diplomatic Affairs Correspondent Israel announced Monday that it would not join a new International Code of Conduct aimed at blocking proliferation of ballistic missile technology, saying the new ICOC does not meet the needs of the Middle East. The ICOC members met Monday night in The Hague, Holland, without Israeli representatives present. The ICOC calls on member countries to adopt "confidence building measures" and behave transparently in matters of missiles and satellite...

THE HAGUE: More than 90 countries, including the United States, Russia and Libya adopted Monday a groundbreaking code of conduct aimed at preventing the proliferation of ballistic missiles, though several nations developing such weapons were absent from a conference in The Hague. "Today a new non-proliferation instrument saw the light of day: The International Code of Conduct against Ballistic Missile Proliferation (ICOC)," Dutch Foreign Minister Jaap de Hoop Scheffer told journalists at a conference in the Dutch capital The Hague. "It is the first global non-proliferation instrument that specifically deals with systems capable of delivering weapons of mass destruction," he...