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Here's a quick guide to preventing the transmission and contraction of the "new" (as of 1955) strain of adenovirus. 1: Cover your coughs and sneezes. Nobody wants to share what's in your snot. I don't care if you are wearing an angora sweater from Niemann-Marcus. Deposit your snot on your sleeve so I don't have to share your private hell. 2: Wash your hands. We've gone there. See my previous post. 3: When in doubt, mask up. They do it in China. Ever wonder why they have so many Chinese?

More than 40 percent of women surveyed in the Seattle area reported they had been physically or psychologically abused by their husbands, dates or boyfriends, researchers said on Wednesday. And a second study showed that women who have been slapped, kicked or otherwise abused were four times more likely to report severe depressive symptoms and three times more likely to report fair or poor health. The researchers, who say their study is a snapshot but suggests a national trend, were surprised at the numbers. "This is an epidemic," said Dr. Robert Thompson of the Seattle-based Group Health Center for Health...

While CBS News coverage of the State of the Union speech showcased the bombast of New York Times columnist Tom Friedman, the ABC News coverage was the most hostile to Bush and conservative policies with its analysis delivered through a liberal prism. Anchor Elizabeth Vargas began the evening by emphasizing Bush's low approval rating fueled by "an inept response to Hurricane Katrina, and the indictment of a high ranking White House official and, of course, growing dissatisfaction with the war in Iraq." She resurrected Watergate as she highlighted how Bush's 42 percent approval level "is the worst for a President...

Fair use for education/discussion purposes: Yahoo! News News Home - Help AFP CIA renditions of terror suspects are 'out of control:' report Sun Feb 6, 5:57 PM ET WASHINGTON (AFP) - The Central Intelligence Agency (news - web sites)'s 'rendition' of suspected terrorists has spiralled 'out of control' according to a former FBI (news - web sites) agent, cited in a report which examined how CIA (news - web sites) detainees are spirited to states suspected of using torture. Michael Scheuer a former CIA counterterrorism agent told The New Yorker magazine "all we've done is create a nightmare," with regard...

IN the end, George W. Bush won the elec tion. But the net works were afraid to report that fact to us because their exit polls showed Kerry winning. Conditioned to believe that exit polls could never be wrong, the news anchors were left stuttering and stammering. [snip]Like the network anchors on election night, I concluded that Kerry would win in a walk. But then the returns came in. In state after state, it became clear that Bush was running ahead of his performance in 2000: first, Kentucky, three points better, then Indiana, Virginia, South Carolina and Georgia, all...

WASHINGTON -- The FBI considered John Kerry a "glib, cool" spokesman for Vietnam war protesters when he was attached to an anti-war veterans group, but the bureau focused on more radical elements of the organization during an investigation spanning four years, documents show. In more than 9,000 pages from the early 1970s, the FBI is seen tracking the protests, manifestos and myriad activities of Vietnam Veterans Against the War, and concluding that the group took a more extreme turn in the years after Kerry, now the Democratic presidential candidate, quit it. FBI files on the organization were released Wednesday in...

  Today: February 14, 2004 at 8:35:09 PSTFitzwater: Bush Mishandled WMD ArgumentsBy BILL DRAPERASSOCIATED PRESSLAWRENCE, Kan. (AP) -A former reporter who served as press secretary to two presidents said the Bush administration is paying the price for its handling of intelligence about weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. Marlin Fitzwater, who worked for Presidents Reagan and George H.W. Bush, said Friday that the current president should have been more careful with how he used information about Saddam Hussein's weapons program. "He got caught up in arguments he didn't need to make," said Fitzwater, who spoke at the University of Kansas...