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WASHINGTON - The increase in the number of people without health insurance has occurred largely because of illegal immigration, a study found. Researchers at the RAND Corporation, a nonpartisan think tank, analyzed data received from about 2,400 people in Los Angeles County in 2000 and 2001, and applied that information to the nation's undocumented population at large. The number of uninsured adults in the United States grew by about 8.7 million between 1980 and 2000. If the trend for Los Angeles County held true for the rest of the country, about a third of that growth can be attributable to...

Contact: Maria A. Smit smit@cshl.edu 1-516-422-4013 Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Transmission of tuberculosis is linked to historical patterns of human migration St. Petersburg, Russia – Genghis Khan and his troops may have unwittingly used more than just brute military force to conquer entire nations and to establish the infamous Mongolian empire. A report in the October issue of Genome Research suggests that Genghis Khan's invasions spanning the continent of Asia during the 13th century may have been a primary vehicle for the dissemination of one of the world's most deadly diseases: tuberculosis. In this study, a team of scientists led...

ST. LOUIS, Aug. 29, 2005 – The Defense Department has been working with both governmental and nongovernmental organizations to promote environmental conservation, because military readiness and conservation are inextricably linked, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld said here today. Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld addresses the 4th Annual White House Conference on Cooperative Conservation on Aug. 29 in St. Louis. Photo by Tech. Sgt. Kevin J. Gruenwald, USAF (Click photo for screen-resolution image);high-resolution image available. Speaking at the White House Conference on Cooperative Conservation, Rumsfeld said the DoD takes very seriously its responsibility to protect the natural resources on the 30 million...

Lost teeth linked to dementia By Fiona Govan (Filed: 20/06/2005) Losing teeth at a young age could be an early warning of Alzheimer's in later life, research suggests. A study of identical twins has found a strong link between gum disease marked by teeth loss and the brain disease. Scientists believe early exposure to inflammation, which can accompany gum disease, quadruples the risk of developing the disease in old age. However, inherited genes for Alzheimer's are a much bigger risk factor. Researchers from the University of Southern California, Los Angeles, used a Swedish registry of twins to identify 109 "discordant"...

Karen DeRome had three very important reasons for participating in the Melaleuca Freedom Celebration's National Guard Appreciation Run in St. Paul on Monday. Their names are Melissa, Michelle and Maggie. "There wouldn't be the home of the free without the brave," DeRome said Monday, standing on the Wabasha Bridge with the 2-year-old triplets as they got ready to participate in a 5-kilometer run/walk as part of the Melaleuca celebration. DeRome, her husband, Mike, and their daughters were among more than 500 people who took part in the 5K and 10K runs. Simultaneously, in Taji, Iraq, about 500 Minnesota National Guard...

SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) - San Jose police insisted that a search of the home of Anna Ayala's in-laws was not connected to the criminal case against Ayala and her claim of finding a finger in a bowl of Wendy's chili. The Tuesday night search was part of a separate probe that began seven weeks before the March 22 incident when Ayala says she bit into the finger, according to Officer Enrique Garcia. He refused to divulge any other details of the earlier investigation. But a relative said a detective asked a family friend during the search, "Do you know...

Al-Qa'eda linked to bombing in Qatar By Oliver Poole in Qatar (Filed: 21/03/2005) Authorities in Qatar were last night investigating whether al-Qa'eda was responsible for the suicide-bomb attack which killed a British expatriate at a theatre staging a Shakespeare play in the oil-rich Gulf state. Anti-terrorism experts from the Metropolitan Police will fly out this week to assist in the investigation. As Jon Adams approached the car, the driver detonated explosives The bombing, near the capital Doha on Saturday, came on the eve of the second anniversary of the invasion of Iraq. Qatar is home to the US Central Command,...

TORONTO (Hollywood Reporter) - Mel Gibson's "The Passion of the Christ" has been cited by a report as the cause of an upsurge last year in Canadian anti-Semitic attacks, now running at a record pace. The League for Human Rights of B'nai Brith, releasing its 2004 audit of anti-Semitic attacks in Canada, said last year's media coverage of Gibson's film and its alleged depiction of Jews as the "Christ killer" led to an often violent spike in attacks against the Canadian Jewish community. "Whereas only nine incidents in 2003 had religious connotations to the story of Jesus' death, there were...

Contact: Gifford Miller gmiller@colorado.edu 303-492-6962 Jim Scott 303-492-3114 University of Colorado at Boulder Arid Australian interior linked to landscape burning by ancient humans The image of a controlled burn in the interior of Australia today, featured on the cover of the January 2005 issue of Geology, illustrates how Australia might have looked 50,000 years ago. Photo courtesy Gifford Miller, University of Colorado at Boulder Click here for a high resolution photograph. Landscape burning by ancient hunters and gatherers may have triggered the failure of the annual Australian Monsoon some 12,000 years ago, resulting in the desertification of the country's interior...

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - The breast cancer rate is rising among women in Singapore and appears to be approaching that seen in Europe, researchers report. The introduction of a Westernized lifestyle and child-bearing pattern may underlie this trend, they suggest. Lead investigator Dr. Kee-Seng Chia told Reuters Health that the breast cancer incidence in Singapore will continue to increase over the next decades. "In the year 2015, one out of every 10 women is likely to develop breast cancer in her lifetime." Chia, at the National University of Singapore, and colleagues came to this conclusion after comparing data for...

Cleric With Iranian Ties Leads Shiite Group BAGHDAD, Iraq — A cleric with links to Iran leads the candidate list of a powerful coalition of Iraq's mainstream Shiite Muslim groups for next month's election, an aide said Friday. The list also includes former Pentagon favorite Ahmad Chalabi (search) and some followers of radical cleric Muqtada al-Sadr.Abdel-Aziz al-Hakim — the head of Iraq's largest Shiite party, the Supreme Council for the Islamic Revolution — would stand to take a central position in the assembly that will create Iraq's next government and constitution, if the coalition takes most of the parliament seats in the...

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Sacramento -- An obscure political committee funded by some of state Sen. Don Perata's top donors paid money to people under scrutiny by federal authorities for their financial ties to the Oakland lawmaker. Concerned Citizens for California took in the bulk of its money from three donors who gave $25,000 each. The fund then spent most of its money paying close associates of Perata, D-Oakland. Timothy G. Staples, Perata's college roommate, was paid $33,000 by the committee for what was described on state filings as campaign consulting and is owed another $12,000. Staples, through a company he owns, has paid...

Secretary of State Kevin Shelley's top aide told election workers part of their job was to find people to raise money for the Democrat's future campaigns, according to two people who were in the meeting. Undersecretary Mark Kyle's directions to senior staff members last year, at a meeting Shelley attended, were so overtly political and partisan that Dawn Mehlhaff, who supervised all outreach activities in the office, said she immediately demanded to be switched to another job. "Kyle told them, 'Your job is to identify people at events and in your regions who can do campaign events and raise money...

Tanzanians not linked to Brazil terror plan September 10 2004 at 02:43PM Rio de Janeiro - Two Tanzanians have been arrested on immigration charges near a cache of photographs of the United States Consulate, prompting interrogation about whether they were planning a terrorist attack, a newspaper reported. The US Embassy and the Brazil's Federal Police said they did not believe the men were connected with the photos. Salim Nassir Salim and David Jhon Pama were arrested in Rio on September 1 on immigration violations and are still in detention, the Federal Police said in a statement. A press officer at...

Bisexual Viking Linked to Seahenge By Jennifer Viegas, Discovery NewsStatue Of Odin Aug. 27, 2004 — An ancient wooden carving of the bisexual Viking god Odin suggests the prehistoric timber circle monument Seahenge and another, even older, structure might have included totem pole-like carvings, according to archaeologists who have excavated the over 4,000-year-old British wood monuments. Because Odin was a mythological figure in prehistoric religion, the possible link between the carving and the monuments could mean that the mysterious circles held religious, funerary, or magical significance for the late Neolithic people who constructed them on Holme beach in Norfolk, England....

Madrid bomb suspect linked to UK extremists Richard Norton-Taylor and Rosie Cowan Wednesday March 17, 2004 The Guardian (UK) The Metropolitan police and security services were last night investigating links between a prime suspect in the Madrid bombings and Islamist extremists in London. A senior police source told the Guardian there were definite links between terrorists in the two cities. Intelligence officers also believe that Jamal Zougam, arrested by Spanish police in connection with the bombings, has contacts with a number of individuals of north African origin who are at large in the UK. "It is known there are well-established...

Cell phone linked to deadly crash Tuesday, January 13, 2004 5:33PM EST The Associated Press A truck driver fumbling for a cell phone plowed his tractor-trailer into a stopped school bus near Maxton today, killing a 5-year-old girl and injuring her mother and more than a dozen other children, troopers said. The wreck happened just after 7 a.m. on two-lane N.C. Highway 71 near the North Carolina-South Carolina line. Pre-kindergartener Sheila Hernandez was struck and killed as she attempted to board the bus. Maria Hernandez, 25, was severely injured as she stood nearby, watching her daughter. Trucker Gary Kendall Garnett,...

U.S. Freezes Funds of 3 Linked to al-Qaida Tuesday December 23, 2003 12:46 AM By JEANNINE AVERSA Associated Press Writer WASHINGTON (AP) - The Bush administration acted Monday to financially paralyze two foreign entities and an individual believed to be providing money for al-Qaida's terror network. The Treasury Department added to its list of suspected terrorist financiers: Vazir, a nonprofit organization headquartered in Travnik, Bosnia; a key representative of the group, Safet Durguti; and Hochburg AG, a company located in Vaduz, Liechtenstein. The department's designation freezes any of the three's financial assets in this country. It also means they are...

Freeper Investigation Exposes Direct Coordination Between MoveOn.org and the DNC (Foreign $$$ funneled to DNC Petition Drive)We have discovered a direct link between the Democrat National Committee (DNC) and MoveOn.org, the organization of choice for donations and activism of the Democrats. Recently there was a Joint Petition Drive to protect America's Courts by DNC and MoveOn.org. This directly links MoveOn.org to the DNC. Drudge revealed this week (below) that foreign money is flowing into MoveOn.org. With the direct link between DNC and MoveOn.org established, MoveOn.org money from foreign sources is funneled to DNC. Nov 13, 2003 More than 300,000...