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Reprinted from NewsMax.com China Moves Closer to Placing Man in SpaceNewsmax Wires Monday, Dec. 30, 2002 JIUQUAN SATELLITE LAUNCHING CENTER, D.C., China -- China launched the fourth in a series of experimental spacecraft early Sunday, part of an extended effort to put a Chinese astronaut or "taikonaut" into space. The successful night launch of the Shenzhou IV took place at the Jiuquan Satellite Launching Center in China's Gansu Province according to the main Communist Party newspaper, People's Daily. The spacecraft was used by Chinese astronauts for training prior to its launch. The program is part of a 10-year plan, announced...

Title: PRC BJB Discusses Planned Space Exploration Document Number: FBIS-CHI-2001-1204 Document Date: 03 Dec 2001 Sourceline: CPP20011204000017 Beijing Jiefangjun Bao (Internet Version-WWW) in Chinese 03 Dec 01 p 10 Language: Chinese Subslug: Article by Zuo Saichun: "Soon we will land on the moon. Outline of China's Aerospace Development in the 10th Five Year Plan." [FBIS Translated Text] Article on Development of China's Aerospace Industry during the 10th Five Year Plan Soon We Will Land on the Moon. Outline of China's Aerospace Development in the 10th Five Year Plan When can Chinese astronauts travel in space on the "Shenzhou?" When...

<p>CHARLESTON, West Virginia (AP) -- Mike Samples doesn't like the new dress code at his state job -- so he wore a dress to work.</p> <p>Instead of his usual jeans, ball cap and T-shirt, the 32-year-old claims manager in the Workers' Compensation Division wore a polka-dot maternity dress he'd borrowed from a friend to protest the new guidelines.</p>

LAST WORD ON KENNEWICK MAN? A court ruling on the controversial remains pleases archaeologist James Chatters. On August 30, Judge John Jelderks of the U.S. District Court of Oregon ruled against the government's 1996 decision that declared the 9,400-year-old skeleton known as Kennewick Man to be Native American, a classification which would require the remains to be turned over to a coalition of tribes for reburial. James Chatters, archaeologist and author of Ancient Encounters: Kennewick Man and the First Americans (New York: Simon and Schuster, 2001), identified the remains when they were found on the banks of Washington's Columbia River...

A San Jose man suffered life-threatening injuries Friday after a man wearing a Halloween mask threw acid in his face....The man saw the masked attacker loitering near his doorway, but thought he was a friend playing a trick, Dixon said. The attacker wordlessly advanced on the man, threw a liquid into his face, and silently left, the victim told rescuers. "It appears to be a very strong, very powerful, very corrosive acid."

<p>CARY, N.C. -- During campaign season, it is not unusual to see political signs dotting the landscape. Lee Swearingen is not running for office, but he is campaigning to have all illegal signs removed from roads.</p> <p>"I view this as litter," he said. "I pick up more signs in a week than I've seen the DOT (Department of Transportation) pick up in a month."</p>

<p>MOBRIDGE, S.D. -- Accidental gunshot wounds are common during South Dakota's pheasant hunting season.</p> <p>And now a Minnesota man is recovering from a shotgun blast to the ankle that was set off by a dog.</p> <p>It happened Saturday south of Keldron just outside the North Dakota border.</p>

Radioactive man refused entry to Russia A Chinese man has been refused entry to Russia after he set off a Geiger counter at the border. Radiation levels from his body registered 200 times higher than normal. He set off the detector at the border station in the far-eastern Primorye region. Further checks showed radiation levels were highest around the man's throat. The man claimed he was taking a special radioactive medication to cure his thyroid gland problems but he was deported back to China as a safety precaution. Story filed: 09:44 Wednesday 9th October 2002

<p>SYDNEY, Australia (Reuters) --Captain Cook fans who credit the English explorer-adventurer with the formal "discovery" of eastern Australia may have to think again.</p> <p>History teacher Greg Jefferys said on Tuesday he believed he had found remains of a Portuguese warship buried under a beach in what is now the state of Queensland and he had dated the wreck to as much as 200 years before James Cook landed in Botany Bay.</p>

EDITORS NOTE OBSCENE CONTENT A young Muslim man, who refused to give his name, shows his feelings toward the media outside the Federal Court House in Buffalo, New York September 18, 2002 where he sat to show his support for the six local suspected al-Qaida supporters who appeared inside the court, September 18, 2002. The six men have been charged with providing material support to al Queda from nearby Lackwanna, New York. REUTERS/Mark Dye

Stone age man invented beer before making bread, says expert Archaeologists have found that man first discovered alcohol in 9000 BC, more than 5,000 years earlier than previously thought. According to The Sun they reckon pottery was invented because man needed a mug to hold his beer. Until now researchers have assumed the first human settlements, which appeared in the Middle East, were built around farming and growing corn for food. But archaeologist Merryn Dinely, of Manchester University, told the paper that corn was turned into malt, the main ingredient for making beer. Dr Dinely found that almost all ancient...

Reprinted from ScienceDaily Magazine ...Source:             University Of Texas Southwestern Medical Center At Dallas Date Posted:    Thursday, August 15, 2002Web Address:   http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2002/08/020815072837.htm Protein Transforms Sedentary Muscles Into Exercised Muscles, Researchers Report DALLAS – Aug. 15, 2002 – Researchers have discovered a second protein found in skeletal muscle that can transform sedentary muscles into energy-producing, exercised muscles. Researchers from UT Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas and Harvard Medical School reported in a study in today's issue of Nature that when the protein PGC-1Q is genetically introduced in mice, easily fatigued type II muscle fibers are transformed into fatigue-resistant, mitochondria-rich, or energy-producing, type I muscle fibers...

A man's right to chooseIs it fair that women have reproductive rights while men have reproductive responsibilities? - - - - - - - - - - - -By Cathy YoungOct. 19, 2000 | In the wake of the Food and Drug Administration's recent approval of the abortion drug RU-486, there were familiar arguments about a woman's right to choose vs. the unborn child's right to life, as well as speculation about ways in which the drug would change the terrain of the abortion wars. As usual, though, these discussions completely ignored one group of people who still have...

August 6, 2002 Skulls Found in Africa and in Europe Challenge Theories of Human OriginsBy JOHN NOBLE WILFORD wo ancient skulls, one from central Africa and the other from the Black Sea republic of Georgia, have shaken the human family tree to its roots, sending scientists scrambling to see if their favorite theories are among the fallen fruit. Probably so, according to paleontologists, who may have to make major revisions in the human genealogy and rethink some of their ideas about the first migrations out of Africa by human relatives. Yet, despite all the confusion and uncertainty the skulls...

Man seized over Singapore bomb plan By Andrew Buncombe in Washington 03 August 2002 A Canadian man accused of organising a plot backed by al-Qa'ida to blow up the British High Commission and US embassy in Singapore has been seized by the American authorities and is being questioned at a secret location. It was revealed yesterday that Mohammed Mansour Jabarah, 20, s being held at a military base in the north-east of the US as a material witness. Heng-Chee Chan, Singapore's ambassador to the US, told The Washington Post that Mr Jabarah, using the pseudonym "Sammy", was the ringleader of...

"Wives Killed!" screamed the headlines of the Monday edition of the New York Times. Reuters, Associated Press, Washington Post, Chicago Sun-Times and others all relayed the story as well. In the sleepy little community near and around Fort Bragg in Fayetteville, North Carolina, in recent weeks, four military men have taken the lives of their wives. Three of the men, as it turns out, were in the Army Special Forces unit who had been fighting in Afghanistan in recent months. Local police, army commanders and military officials say the killings had nothing at all to do with the men's assignments....

Man casts first stone Stockpiling rocks as weapons may have preceded sculpting them into tools. 21 June 2002 JOHN WHITFIELD A thrown rock can carry the force of a revolver bullet. Our instinctive feel for the ideal projectile could explain the design of hand-grenades, the collecting habits of geologists, the size of handballs and the weight of the imperial pound, says an engineer. Understanding that instinct could illuminate the lives of prehistoric hominids, believes Alan Cannell, who lives in Curitiba, Brazil. He thinks that selecting and stockpiling rocks as weapons may have preceded sculpting them into tools1. For millennia, a...

Kennewick Man saga lives on This story was published 6/17/02 By Mike Lee Herald staff writer With the fate of the ancient bones found in Kennewick six years ago remaining in legal limbo, Peter Lampson has decided to take action. It's been a year, and the judge still hasn't issued a public pronouncement about the future of Kennewick Man. But the 17-year-old Lampson isn't waiting for the ruling to make his mark. In one of a handful of developments related to the once high-profile case, Lampson is erecting a sign in Columbia Park to commemorate Kennewick's world-famous former resident, who...

It is thought by anthropologists that Man descended from the apes. This specious claim is easily disproved with one simple example. Apes of all sorts from chimpanzees to gorillas have been dressed by those who use them for entertainment purposes. They have appeared in everything from farmer's coveralls to black tie formal dress -- and except for those specifically trained to do so, none has ever......(snip)For complete article, please CLICK HERE

How does it happen? A five year old girl falls to her death from a third floor window. The entire nation has heard about it by now, but, on Mother's Day, Chicagoans were hearing the breaking news. People from across the country have waited to see if there was more to the story, but evidently there isn't. A couple who is believed to be Iraqi, or Syrian, by nationality, go for an outing. They take their other two children with them. But the little girl they have responsibility for, who also happens to be blind and roughly eighty percent deaf,...