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    Thanks to the U.S. Senate's remarkable but well-known lack of backbone, nations such as Albania, Croatia, Uganda and many others now will be able to call up the U.S. Justice Department and find out as much as they would like about anything you do with your computer.     At this point, you probably wonder why you haven't read about this. Frankly, there's not much reason you would have, unless you read some relatively obscure publications that focus mostly on technology issues. Another reason you wouldn't likely have heard of it is, of course, that most major media outlets ignored the issue...

I work for the Bank Group and this is a disastrous appointment - one of the worst in a long series of bad appointments and a new low, even for Bush. Even though the Bush cabal telegraphed their intent several weeks ago I kept hoping that it was a feint or a ruse. I should have known better. He wants to run the Bank into the ground as he did with all his other business enterprises and as he is doing to the US. I truly fear for the US now in a way I never have before - heck...

The cylinder was red, about a foot tall. Pringles, it read. Through the plastic top, a brown bottle could be seen. A beer bottle, it seemed. For more than two hours, thousands of drivers were detoured from Collier County's busiest road as authorities warned East Naples residents and business owners of a possible bomb in their midst. By 1:30 p.m. Tuesday, the two empties — the glass kind and the cardboard potato chip can variety — were blown up safely by the bomb squad. The cylinder was red, about a foot tall. Pringles, it read. Through the plastic top, a...