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Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin didn’t wait long to admonish Sen. Lisa Murkowski’s write-in campaign as the senator tries to retain her seat. Minutes before Murkowski took the podium at her planned announcement Friday evening in Anchorage, Palin tweeted that the primary voters had already made their choice for her backed candidate, attorney Joe Miller. “Primary voters spoke. Listen to the people, respect their will; w/a 40-pt incumbent lead & $2.8 million war chest, voters chose Joe instead,” wrote Palin online. "My advice for Lisa is the same for anyone who sees a grizzly in the woods. DON'T RUN,” wrote...

The Fox network announced Tuesday that it has ordered a 20th season of "The Simpsons," which will tie the cartoon with "Gunsmoke" as the longest-running series in the history of prime-time television. "The Simpsons" is the longest-running prime-time animated series in history and the longest-running comedy series currently on television, with more than 400 episodes in the can. Matt Groening's groundbreaking series has won a Peabody Award and 23 Emmy Awards.

Garching, Germany (SPX) Apr 30, 2008 By an enormous burst of gravitational waves that accompanies the merger of two black holes the newly formed black hole was ejected from its galaxy. This extreme ejection event, which had been predicted by theorists, has now been observed in nature for the first time. The team led by Stefanie Komossa from the Max Planck Institute for extraterrestrial Physics (MPE) thereby opened a new window into observational astrophysics. The discovery will have far-reaching consequences for our understanding of galaxy formation and evolution in the early Universe, and also provides observational confirmation of a key...

The Qantas stewardess who claimed she rejected an amorous Ralph Fiennes on a flight to India has admitted having sex with him in an aircraft lavatory. Lisa Robertson told friends she was a big fan of the British actor and found herself luring him to the cubicle. But they apparently shared more than a 15-minute fling at 35,000ft. Miss Robertson claims they went on to share a passionate night in a Mumbai hotel - at the star's invitation. The Australian stewardess has told friends she recognised Fiennes, 44, as he soon as he settled into his business class seat, 2K,...

We can learn something about life from the Lisa Nowak story. ================ Poor Robochick! There is probably some high moral reason that I shouldn’t feel sorry for astronaut Lisa Nowak, who is now charged with attempted murder and kidnapping, but I just can’t help it. And lots of people I know are also riveted by this tale, straight out of Desperate Housewives, filled with so many kooky soap-opera touches. The wig. The pepper spray. The diaper. And maybe, worst of all, the object of her affections, a “Top Gun” pilot with the unfortunate nickname of “Billy-O.” Sure, I know that...

Murkowski asks her staff to quit NEW START: Senator says they can reapply, but some won't be rehired By RICHARD MAUER Anchorage Daily News (Published: November 25, 2004) Murkowski Lisa Murkowski said Wednesday that she will be returning to Washington in January for her first term as an elected senator with a revived confidence and such a strong desire to start anew that she has asked her entire 30-member staff to resign and reapply for their jobs. Some won't be rehired, she said. *SNIP* Murkowski said her decision to start fresh with her staff doesn't mean some of the same...

He and his wife, Lisa, go down to the eastern shore of Maryland for a getaway weekend, and then, by coincidence, they meet Hubbell and his wife down there. Hubbell, also from the Rose Law Firm, at the time the country's de-facto top law enforcement law officer because Janet Reno in effect was taking her orders from Hubbell. They go over to the estate of Michael Cardoza, who is the son-in-law of Nathan Landau, a big deal Democratic fund-raiser, and Cardoza is also the head of Clinton's legal defense fund. Supposedly, this was all poolside chit chat. Baloney, it was...

Hurricane JEANNE 000 WTNT31 KNHC 232028 TCPAT1 BULLETIN HURRICANE JEANNE ADVISORY NUMBER  41 NWS TPC/NATIONAL HURRICANE CENTER MIAMI FL 5 PM EDT THU SEP 23 2004 ...JEANNE MOVING A LITTLE FASTER TO THE WEST-NORTHWEST... ...EXPECTED TO TURN WESTWARD BY FRIDAY...   A HURRICANE WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR THE NORTHWEST BAHAMAS.  A HURRICANE WATCH MEANS THAT HURRICANE CONDITIONS ARE POSSIBLE IN THE WATCH AREA WITHIN 36 HOURS.   A TROPICAL STORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR THE CENTRAL BAHAMAS... INCLUDING CAT ISLAND...THE EXUMAS...LONG ISLAND...RUM CAY...AND SAN SALVADOR.   INTERESTS ON THE FLORIDA PENINSULA SHOULD CLOSELY MONITOR THE PROGRESS OF...

May 17 - One of Alaska's top elected Republicans says Lisa Murkowski will have a hard time hanging onto her U.S. Senate seat. That's the opinion of Lt. Gov. Loren Leman, whose words surfaced last week on an Internet Web site.

<p>FAIRBANKS -- With former Gov. Tony Knowles and U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski declaring their candidacy for the seat Murkowski holds, the question on political minds becomes "Who else?"</p> <p>Democrats expect Knowles to be their only serious candidate. Republicans, however, are waiting to see whether Fairbanks businessman Johne Binkley, Anchorage union leader Jerry Hood or former Wasilla Mayor Sarah Palin will file for their party's nomination.</p>

A 46-year-old commercial pilot and retired U.S. Air Force reservist said this week he plans to run for the U.S. Senate in next year's election as an independent. Marc Millican, of Anchorage, has never run for political office, and will have to collect 2,329 signatures by the date of the primary election in 2004 to make it onto the general election ballot, according to the state Division of Elections. The number is equal to 1 percent of the votes cast in the last general election. Millican said he wants to run for the seat now held by Sen. Lisa Murkowski,...

In the first three months of the year, U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski raised $155,000 for her bid to win a full term in office, according to a filing released by the Secretary of the Senate this week. Much of the money came from executives in the Seattle-based commercial fishing industry. Various lobbyists and individuals with Alaska interests also contributed. About $43,000 came from political action committees in the energy, chemical, transportation, mining, construction and finance industries, according to the filing released Tuesday. Sen. Ted Stevens' political action committee, the Northern Lights PAC, gave Murkowski's committee $10,000, the maximum allowed by...

At some point during its 14-year run, The Simpsons turned into one of the best sitcoms on television—and that's not a compliment. At one time, to call The Simpsons the best show on Fox would have been a vast understatement; to say it was the best sitcom on television would have been inadequate; and to describe it as the greatest TV show in history would (and still does) minimize its importance by limiting its cultural impact to the small screen. Who knows when it happened—maybe it was when Homer visited the leprechaun jockeys in Season 11, or when he was...

<p>Gov. Frank Murkowski has appointed his daughter, Lisa Murkowski, to succeed him in the U.S. Senate.</p> <p>Lisa Murkowski, 45, is a Republican state representative who was re-elected last month to a third term and was selected as House Majority leader.</p>

Gravity waves analysis opens 'completely new sense' PRESS RELEASE Washington University in St. Louis St. Louis, MO. -- Sometime within the next two years, researchers will detect the first signals of gravity waves -- those weak blips from the far edges of the universe passing through our bodies every second. Predicted by Einstein's theory of general relativity, gravity waves are expected to reveal, ultimately, previously unattainable mysteries of the universe. Wai-Mo Suen, Ph.D., professor of physics at Washington University in St. Louis is collaborating with researchers nationwide to develop waveform templates to comprehend the signals to be analyzed. In...

TLC Singer Killed in Car Crash Fri Apr 26, 4:08 AM ETBy TANIA FUENTEZ, Associated Press WriterATLANTA (AP) - Lisa "Left Eye" Lopes of the top selling female trio TLC was killed in a car crash in Honduras, her record company said early Friday. Slideshows Reuters Lopes, 31, was in Honduras for a vacation, Arista Records' senior vice president of publicity Laura Swanson told The Associated Press. Lopes was reportedly among seven people in the car Thursday night and the only fatality."No words can possibly express the sorrow and sadness I feel for this most devastating loss," said Arista president...