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So where does the shifting political landscape leave Democrats? Should they elect pro-life, pro-gun, pro-war presidential candidates? Not necessarily. But they may consider doing something radical: supporting candidates in Middle America that represent the viewpoints of... well, Middle America. Zell Miller is right. The Democratic Party is a national party no more. But give Ed Gilliespie, Ken Mehlman or myself the keys of the DNC for four years and we could once again put Democrats in power in the House and Senate. That's because Republicans understand middle America-national Democrats don't. Maybe if the Party of FDR listened more to Peter...

Specter to Lead Key Panel as Industry Ally Hatch Steps Down In the final few weeks before the 2004 election, lobbyists for high-tech, entertainment and civil liberties interests were crammed into an icy room in the Dirksen Senate office building, trying to hammer out a bill that would have put Internet song-swapping networks like Kazaa and eDonkey out of business. It was a controversial measure on a difficult topic, and could have easily been lost in the end-of-year shuffle. But Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Orrin G. Hatch (R-Utah) was the lead sponsor of the measure and had ordered the warring...

Britain's drowned landscapes New underwater technology to reveal an age when the UK was linked to Europe by plains and forests Robin McKie, science editor Sunday September 21, 2003 The Observer (UK) Herds of reindeer and horses migrated across its plains, huge forests covered much of the countryside and men and women made their homes by rivers and lakes. Then came the deluge, and this ancient Arcadia - which stretched across the North Sea, and covered the Channel - was inundated. All signs of human and animal activity were covered by several hundred feet of water. Only the occasional stone...

<p>WASHINGTON -- The contours of the political landscape are becoming increasingly inhospitable to Democrats. This is partly because of what Democrats are, partly because of what they have done to themselves with campaign finance reform, partly because demographic changes are weakening one of their signature issues and partly because of a conflict between their ideology and fiscal facts.</p>

<p>WASHINGTON - The U.S. Supreme Court, both hailed and cursed for its tough positions on matters involving people accused or convicted of crimes, issued a mixed set of rulings Monday on the rights of criminals.</p> <p>The court gave the go-ahead to laws that would curtail visits to prison inmates and restrict public access to housing projects to keep criminals out. But it also instituted new limits on prosecutors who seek to force anti-psychotic drugs on mentally ill defendants.</p>

Sanchez changed political landscape BY TRICIA CORTEZ Times staff writer The post-election analysis of the Republican victory in Texas has focused on negative advertising, lower-than-expected minority turnout, continued migration of Anglo voters to the Republican Party and President George W. Bush's war on terror. As for the governor's race, some observers also point to other factors in explaining how Laredo newcomer Tony Sanchez could spend a record $60 million against Republican Rick Perry but garner less than 40 percent of the total vote. "Tony lost because of Bush's war on terror, but also because he failed to connect with the...

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Reprinted from ScienceDaily Magazine ...Source:             NASA/Marshall Space Flight Center Date Posted:    Thursday, August 01, 2002Web Address:   http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2002/08/020801080835.htm Chandra Discovers "Rivers Of Gravity" That Define Cosmic Landscape NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory has discovered part of an intergalactic web of hot gas and dark matter that contains most of the material in the universe. The hot gas, which appears to lie like a fog in channels carved by rivers of gravity, has been hidden from view since the time galaxies formed. "The Chandra observations, together with ultraviolet observations, are a major advance in our understanding of how the universe evolved over the last 10 billion...