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Companies Rated on Their GLBT Policies Tuesday, August 26, 2003 Twenty-one companies received a perfect score from the Human Rights Campaign for their treatment of gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender employees and consumers, almost doubling the number of companies with the same distinction last year. "What we see this year is improvement in every category measured, from written nondiscrimination policies to domestic partner health insurance benefits and beyond. Corporate America continues to be a leader in the quest for GLBT civil rights," says HRC Education Director Kim I. Mills, who oversees HRC WorkNet, the organization's workplace project. "The bottom...

TOKYO (AP)--Japan's space agency announced Friday it has decided to postpone the launch of its second pair of spy satellites to late September to conduct additional preparatory work. The rocket with the satellites aboard is now scheduled for launch on Sept. 22, instead of Sept. 10, according to an announcement by the Cabinet's Satellite Information Center. Two spy satellites were successfully put into orbit by Japan for the first time in March. The second launch had to be delayed because additional work needed to be done, according to the center. Officials refused to elaborate, but Japanese media have reported that...

American businesses continue to march in lock step with homosexual ideals.America's top corporations continue to take on policies pleasing to homosexual activists. A new ranking shows more companies than ever are rewriting employee manuals to include gay ideals. The Human Rights Campaign Foundation found that two out of every of three companies on the Fortune 500 list of America's top corporations now specifically protect sexual orientation in their employee codes. The group rated companies on seven criteria, such as offering domestic-partner benefits or diversity training. More than 20 companies scored a perfect 100, representing a 91 percent increase over last...

<p>Intel Corp. plans to invest more than $200 million in a new semiconductor-chip facility in central China, highlighting the country's increasingly central role in the global electronics supply chain and delivering a much-needed boost to Beijing's campaign to channel investments into China's hinterland.</p>

Maher 'Mike' Hawash holds his five-month-old daughter Sarra Hawash in their family home in Hillsboro, Ore., in this May 1998 family handout photo. Hawash, a software engineer pleaded guilty Wednesday, Aug. 6, 2003, to a charge of aiding the Taliban, agreeing to testify against other suspects in exchange for the dropping of other terrorism charges. (AP Photo/Hawash Family) Ore. Engineer Pleads to Terrorism Charge By ANDREW KRAMER, Associated Press Writer PORTLAND, Ore. - A software engineer who unsuccessfully tried to enter Afghanistan to fight against U.S. troops pleaded guilty Wednesday to aiding the Taliban and agreed to testify against other...

PORTLAND, Ore. — A software engineer pleaded guilty Wednesday to a charge of aiding the Taliban (search), agreeing to testify against other suspects in exchange for the dropping of other terrorism charges. Maher "Mike" Hawash (search), one of the so-called "Portland Seven," will serve at least seven years in federal prison under the deal, which was approved by U.S. Attorney General John Ashcroft (search). Hawash pleaded guilty to conspiring to provide services to the Taliban. Prosecutors agreed to drop charges of conspiring to levy war against the United States and conspiring to provide material support for terrorism. "You and the...

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) -- A software engineer pleaded guilty Wednesday to a charge of aiding the Taliban, agreeing to testify against other suspects in exchange for the dropping of other terrorism charges. Maher "Mike" Hawash, one of the so-called "Portland Seven," will serve at least seven years in federal prison under the deal, which was approved by U.S. Attorney General John Ashcroft. Hawash pleaded guilty to conspiring to provide services to the Taliban. Prosecutors agreed to drop charges of conspiring to levy war against the United States and conspiring to provide material support for terrorism. "You and the others in...

PORTLAND - Maher "Mike" Hawash, one of the so-called "Portland Seven" charged with terrorism related crimes, pleaded guilty this morning to conspiring to provide services to the Taliban, but will not face other charges in exchange for testimony against other suspects. Hawash, a 39-year old software engineer who worked for Intel, had initially pleaded innocent to charges of conspiracy to wage war against the United States, conspiracy to provide material support to al-Qaida and conspiracy to contribute services to al-Qaida and the Taliban. In exchange for testimony, federal prosecutors agreed to drop charges of conspiring to levy war against the...

Task Force 20 began scouring the country for Iraqi officers and personnel involved in concealing the forbidden weapons or secreting them out of the coutry to Syria. The force recieved hundereds of leads. By the time a team arrived at a suspect location, it was invariably bare of contents.The Bush Administration is still hunting for solid proof of Saddams possession of WMD since testimony by top his regieme officials and scientists will not satisfy the skeptics.Many of the officers and men of the Special Republican Guards listed as operators of chemical and biological warfare systems, who denied knowledge of the...

Prescott, the next big desktop chip from Intel, is slated to come out at 3.4GHz, while Dothan, an energy-efficient chip for slim notebooks, will have a server-size cache and is expected to debut at 1.8GHz, according to computer industry sources. The Santa Clara, Calif.-based chipmaker is gearing up for a busy second half of the year with a slew of new chips and price cuts, according to an Intel presentation forwarded to CNET News.com as well as industry sources. Details about future server chips also came out. Competitors Advanced Micro Devices and Apple Computer will also tout new high-end...

<p>FOX just had the familys attorney for Gulf War I vet Scott Spiecher shot down over Iraq and missing for 13 years.</p> <p>They said that Senator Nelson told them that he is for the first time 'optimistic' of resolving the case after hearing a new Security Intelligence briefing from Baghdad.</p>

Intel says that its Tri-Gate transistor, a futuristic transistor that will let electricity flow more freely inside chips, is moving closer to reality. The Tri-Gate transistor, one of the tools that may let Intel continue to follow Moore's Law in the second half of the decade, has been placed on the "pathfinder" development path at Intel, said Ken David, co-director of components research in the Technology Manufacturing Group at Intel. That means that it is one of a select few design alternatives that will get incorporated into chips by 2007. "We've moved beyond the research stage and are in the...

Exile leader says information on Iraq's weapons program was accurate BY JONATHAN S. LANDAY Knight Ridder Newspapers NEW YORK - (KRT) - Iraqi political leader Ahmad Chalabi on Tuesday denied allegations that he supplied the United States with flawed intelligence on Saddam Hussein's nuclear, biological and chemical-warfare programs. Chalabi's comments came in his first U.S. appearance since questions have arisen about President Bush's charges that Saddam hid stockpiles of chemical and biological weapons and a program to develop nuclear warheads. Those allegations were Bush's main justification for invading Iraq. But American forces haven't uncovered any unconventional weapons there in two...

LATEST NEWS 2:11 PM PDT Monday Intel ships billionth chipRemember the 8086? That was Intel Corp.'s first microprocessor for personal computers in 1978, back when a "hand-held" was a transistor radio, computers were immobile mainframes, and the Internet was a project by a handful of research scientists. A quarter-century later, Intel has shipped its 1 billionth computer chip, according to figures compiled by semiconductor industry analyst firm Mercury Research and verified by Intel. "From the 8086 to today's Intel Pentium 4 processor, Intel Xeon and Intel Centrino mobile technology, the Intel architecture has brought the benefits of digital intelligence...

June 5, 2003 The Bush administration has a grave problem in the matter of the weapons of mass destruction (WMD). Jim Lacey, a Time correspondent embedded with the l0lst Airborne Division, summarizes his analysis in National Review. He writes that "there are some simple truths that many seem to be forgetting: (l) At one time, Saddam had an extensive WMD program and enough chemical weapons and toxins to annihilate the eastern United States; (2) in the past, he used those weapons against his enemies, internal and external; and (3) he was an aggressive dictator who tortured and massacred his own...

Microsoft, Intel and IP to Bring Changing of the Guard in VOD Server MarketsCompanies that make Distributable Servers are expected to take over the VOD server market with lower cost points and smaller form factors.In-Stat/MDR Research HighlightMay 19, 2003With Video On Demand (VOD), Subscription Video On Demand (S-VOD), Network Personal Video Recorders (N-PVR), and "Anything On Demand" (X-VOD) all being made ready for wide spread deployment by service providers throughout the world, the market for VOD Servers is heating up, reports In-Stat/MDR (http://www.instat.com). The high-tech market research firm expects that efforts on the part of Concurrent Computer Corporation, SeaChange International,...

Article origin: http://www.nybooks.com/authors/277 Note: this article serves as a place holder since Charlie Rose's Andy Grove interview transcript isn't available yet. The two of them discussed Paul Kennedy's "Rise and Fall" at one point.Paul Kennedy Paul Kennedy, the J. Richardson Dilworth Professor of History and Director of International Security Studies at Yale is the author and editor of fifteen books, including The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers and Preparing for the Twenty-First Century. (November 2002) November 7, 2002: The Modern MachiavelliThe Tragedy of Great Power Politics by John J. MearsheimerNo Virtue Like Necessity: Realist Thought in International...

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) -- The leader of Portland's biggest mosque sits on the board of an Islamic charity that's being investigated for terrorist links, federal tax records show. The Oregonian reported Tuesday that Alaa M. Abunijem has served on a three-person board in charge of the Michigan-based Islamic Assembly of North America since at least 1999, according to federal documents reviewed by the Portland newspaper. An FBI agent testified in an Idaho federal court last week that the bureau's evidence "clearly points" to the Islamic Assembly's role in promoting terrorism. Abunijem and other directors of the Islamic Assembly have not...

<p>Just caught this update on Gretas show, and that Aziz may have some information on the Captains location.</p> <p>CBS Radio had said that Saddam may have taken Scott to North Tikrit or Syria.</p>

PORTLAND — Federal prosecutors on Monday (April 28) charged a former Intel Corp. engineer with allegedly conspiring to aid Al Qaeda and the Taliban, as part of a move to “levy war” against the United States, according to a report in the San Jose Mercury News on Tuesday (April 29). The ex-Intel engineer, Maher “Mike” Hawash, was arrested in March and has been held by the U.S. government without charge as part of what the report called a “secret investigation.” Hawash, 38, a U.S. citizen of Arab descent, worked for Intel from 1992 to 2001, when he was laid off....