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Statewide Hunting Proposal Runs Into Unfriendly Fire Proposal Would Make 16 Minimum Age To Hunt POSTED: 5:22 pm EST December 10, 2004 In North Carolina, you must be 16 years of age to get a driver's license, but there is no age requirement to hunt deer, turkey and other game. There is now a push to change that. VANCE COUNTY, N.C. -- A hunting accident is prompting a call for a minimum hunting age, but the proposal has run into some unfriendly fire. State law allows a child of any age to shoot game as long as a parent or...

WASHINGTON - President Bush (news - web sites) will make air pollution a top priority in Congress early next year, starting with "an aggressive push" to build support for his pollution-cutting plan, senior administration officials said Saturday. At the same time, the administration will hold off until no later than March on a rule to cut pollution from power plants that would accomplish some of the same ends as Bush's anti-pollution plan, the officials told The Associated Press. The White House on Saturday told the Environmental Protection Agency (news - web sites) of its game plan, which is meant to...

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The Washington Times www.washingtontimes.com All eyes on Sen. SpecterPublished November 5, 2004 Sen. Arlen Specter had better watch out. The day after President Bush's election triumph, Republican Sen. Arlen Specter -- who is expected to be chosen chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee -- fired a warning shot across the bow of the ship of state: "The president is well aware of what happened, when a bunch of his nominees were sent up, with the filibusters. And I would expect the president to be mindful of the considerations which I am mentioning." As one of the few Republicans who opposed...

'Wealthy' Protesters Make Case Outside DNC By SIMON W. VOZICK-LEVINSON Crimson Staff Writer Published on Friday, July 30, 2004 BOSTON—As the nation’s top Democrats put on their rigorously on-message pageant in Boston this week, a wide variety of protesters gathered intermittently to pound out their own slogans in the environs of the FleetCenter. Some, scorning the Party faithful who gathered nearby, urged passersby to trust President Bush at all costs; others used the convention as an opportunity to launch a fiercer brand of anti-administration rhetoric than might have been allowed on the upbeat stage, lacing their words with righteous condemnation...

The United States Department of Agriculture (USDA), Food and Nutrition Service (FNS) is committed to lead America in ending hunger and improving nutrition and health. The FNS mission is to increase food security and reduce hunger in partnership with cooperating organizations by providing low income persons with access to food, a healthful diet and nutrition education. The Food Stamp Nutrition Education Program is intended to carry out this vision and mission for the Food Stamp Program. State of Hawaii: Department of Human Services National Food Stamps Food Stamp Nutrition Connection Secretary of Agriculture Ann M. Veneman recently announced that the...

Coffee 'can make mind go blank' By Nic Fleming (Filed: 20/07/2004) Drinking coffee can cause tip-of-the-tongue moments when the brain struggles to retrieve information, according to a study. Caffeine, widely held to make people more alert, can make the mind go blank or struggle to switch between trains of thought. It can help the brain process information rapidly but interferes once the brain tries to switch between subjects, researchers claim. Volunteers were split into two groups, with one given 200 milligrams of caffeine - the equivalent of two cups of coffee. They then answered 100 questions after reading 10 "priming...

Iowa Presidential Watch Holding the Democrats accountable Kerry's his name, and FLIP-FLOPPING's his game... The free Kerry Flip-Flop costume you can make yourself!!! That's right... no copyright troubles, as long as you "copy & paste"  and make it for non-commercial use.In other words, Iowa Presidential Watch reserves exclusive commercial rights to this artwork.We'd like to see this costume used at any worthy political event or demonstration!     costume designed by Linda Eddy Materials:SHOE: Can be cut out of foam or heavy cardboard (foam is best).SHOE STRAPS: Can be cut out of heavy weight, durable plastic or paper and...

There's a crime being committed in America. It's not murder -- although one murder is committed every 33.9 minutes, according to the FBI's Uniform Crime Report. It's not rape -- although one forcible rape occurs every 5.8 minutes. It's not robbery -- although one robbery is perpetrated every 1.3 minutes. No, the real crime is that so many of those murderers, rapists, and robbers get away with their crimes. According to FBI figures for 2001, only 62.4% of murders were "cleared" -- that is, a suspect was arrested and charged with the crime. Only 44.3% of rapes were cleared. And...

UTZ, Fla., June 12 — On the third-to-last day of summer camp, the temperature has risen to 98 degrees, and even the troupers have begun to whine. "I don't want to play strip volleyball!" complained Jane Jeffries, 13, her sunburned shoulders sagging. "I want to play regular volleyball." Halie Nelson, 14, agreed, "Yeah, I'd rather get all the clothes off, and keep all the clothes off."

Care packages of candy bars and beef jerky are a welcome taste of home to soldiers in Iraq, but an inventor has something they could really use: a way to make them invisible to the eyes of the enemy. Ray M. Alden has designed a system of tiny lenses and mirrors he says could be used to camouflage almost any object - a tank, a Humvee or an individual soldier - in any environment.With such a device,fighting forces would have less to fear from the urban combat they still face in the treacherous alleys of Iraqi cities, where they are...

(CNSNews.com) - Saddam Hussein Friday announced that all weapons of mass destruction are banned in Iraq. His decree comes on the same day that U.N. weapons inspectors were delivering a progress report on how well Iraq is complying, or not complying, with U.N. orders to get rid of its weapons of mass destruction. According to wire reports, Saddam's decree bans the production and importation of nuclear, chemical and biological weapons, including anything that could be used to make them. "All ministries should implement this decree and take whatever measures are necessary to punish people who do not adhere to it,"...

'You really do make your own luck' says scientist New research suggests people are not born lucky but create and improve their own good fortune as they go through life. Psychologist Dr Richard Wiseman spent 10 years looking for the elusive "luck factor" and trying to understand the psychology behind good fortune. Dr Wiseman, who heads a research unit at the University of Hertfordshire, studied the lives of 400 of the luckiest and unluckiest people. He found that those with charmed lives are, without realising it, using four basic principles to create good fortune for themselves. The first principle of...

WASHINGTON (AP) - Democrats plan to take one last shot at blocking one of President Bush (news - web sites)'s judicial nominees while they still control the Senate, hoping to defeat the promotion of a former aide to retiring Sen. Strom Thurmond (news, bio, voting record). AP Photo The Senate set aside most of Monday to debate the appeals court nomination of U.S. District Judge Dennis Shedd. While under its current Democratic control, the chamber has only debated an appeals court nomination when party leaders wanted to kill it. Shedd is a former assistant to the 99-year-old Thurmond, who will...

Bunkers make Saddam a difficult target Ewen MacAskill in Baghdad Tuesday September 24, 2002 The Guardian Western diplomats yesterday dismissed as negligible the chances of killing the Iraqi president, Saddam Hussein, through air strikes or some other form of assassination. President Saddam has a series of deep underground bunkers capable of protecting him from a direct hit with conventional weapons. The prospect of a military strike aimed at him and senior members of his government was reported by US newspapers at the weekend. The US defence secretary, Donald Rumsfeld, in comments consistent with the reports, said late on Sunday, on...