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39:4-91. a. The driver of a vehicle upon a highway shall yield the right of way to any authorized emergency vehicle when it is operated on official business, or in the exercise of the driver's profession or calling, in response to an emergency call or in the pursuit of an actual or suspected violator of the law and when an audible signal by bell, siren, exhaust whistle or other means is sounded from the authorized emergency vehicle... b. This section shall not relieve the driver of any authorized emergency vehicle from the duty to drive with due regard for the...

VIENNA, April 4, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Animal rights activists and leading experts in several biological fields including primatology and anthropology are joining forces to uphold a case going before an Austrian court which seeks a declaration of ‘human status’ for a 26 year old chimpanzee. According to media reports, the chimpanzee known as Hiasl was barely one year old in 1982 when he was illegally smuggled out of his birth place of Sierra Leone and into Austria to be used, along with several other chimps, for AIDS and hepatitis research at a laboratory near Vienna. Customs officials discovered Hiasl and...

Former U.S. Sen. Gary Hart has challenged the Democratic Party to redefine its soul, but said he has no plans to be the party's messiah in the 2008 elections. The two-time presidential hopeful spoke to a capacity crowd on Sunday at the Overture Center's Promenade Hall, promoting a return to principles as outlined in his new book, "The Courage of our Convictions: A Manifesto for Democrats." The talk was part of the closing day of the Wisconsin Book Festival. Lauding the Democratic Party's stand on civil and equal rights in the 1960s and 1970s, Hart exhorted Democrats to delineate the...

If I were to tell you that I know someone who thinks that George Bush is assuming imperial powers in the same manner as Augustus Caesar in ancient Rome, you would figure the person to be a kook left member of the Democratic Underground aka DUmmies. In addition, if I were to add that this same person also believes that our social and foreign policy must first be submitted to religious fundamentalists then you could also conclude that if not a DUmmie, then this same person could also be a Koo-Koo Daily Kos type. Well, what if I told...

Zoo's New Ad Gets Some Negative Attention Monkey Exhibit Ad In Union-Tribune SAN DIEGO -- San Diego Zoo officials said their latest ad campaign was not intended to offend anyone, but it has. The advertisement promotes the zoo's newly reopened monkey exhibit. .......The latest ad has a red crayon scribble on an application for American residency. "Creating some humor, creating some fun to energize people was our intent," said zoo marketing director Ted Molter. "It think it's horrible, despicable," said one San Diego resident......

For the politically correct Bay Area parent, the "Curious George" children's books are a minefield of cultural horrors through which to tiptoe. Imperialism. Animal abuse. Bad parenting. Puh-leeeeze, George's defenders say. They're children's books, whose charm has not dimmed -- 25 million books and countless swag sold -- even if ideas about political correctness have evolved since the first George adventure was published in 1941. Sometimes a speechless, mischievous monkey is just that -- a monkey, not a metaphor. Besides, George's tales are no more un-PC than those of that royalist warmonger, Babar. Both camps are wondering how "Curious...

America risks becoming a theocracy because of the religious right's sway over politics, former U.S. Sen. Gary Hart warned Thursday in a talk in Denver. At a lunch at the Oxford Hotel sponsored by the Denver Forum, the Democrat touched on his faith journey, took a few jabs at the Bush administration's foreign policy and reassured the audience that it's all right to be a liberal. Hart, the author of some 15 books, was touting a slim new volume, "God and Caesar in America: An Essay on Religion and Politics." "The language of politics in the last 10 years has...

"Waist deep in the Big Muddy and the big fool said to push on," warned an anti-Vietnam war song those many years ago. The McGovern presidential campaign, in those days, which I know something about, is widely viewed as a cause for the decline of the Democratic Party, a gateway through which a new conservative era entered. Like the cat that jumped on a hot stove and thereafter wouldn't jump on any stove, hot or cold, today's Democratic leaders didn't want to make that mistake again. Many supported the Iraq war resolution and -- as the Big Muddy is rising...

It was revealed today that Sherry Tutor, a 26 year-old high school teacher in the Fort Albert School District, may have been participating for several years in some "out of the ordinary" activity with her students. When contacted about her alleged actions, Mrs. Tutor said that she had done nothing wrong, and referred further inquiries to her lawyer. The Fort Albert School Superintendent, Dr. Harley Docent, said that he had received complaints from several parents that Mrs. Tutor had interacted inappropriately with many of her male pupils, and several female pupils as well, hosting and promoting get-togethers after school, at...

BERKELEY -- If former Colorado Senator Gary Hart had his way, this year's presidential campaign would look a lot different. The noted author of 13 books was on the UC Berkeley campus this week to promote his latest book, The Fourth Power: A Grand Strategy for the United States, and to issue a foreign policy challenge to all candidates vying for president in the upcoming November elections: "sit down for half a day and come up with a grand strategy for the U.S," he declared. In a presentation at International House, Hart, an advisor to the campaign of Senator John...

Hall Center lecturer criticizes polls, Bush - Humanities series to open with former U.S. senator It's true the polls show President Bush leading Democratic challenger John Kerry. But the polls are off, said Gary Hart, a former U.S. senator from Colorado who sought the Democratic Party's nomination for president in 1984 and 1988. "At this point in time, they're not very accurate," he said, noting that many of his moderate Republican friends have assured him privately they'll not be voting for Bush. "They're not going to show up in the polls," said Hart, who has advised the Kerry campaign in...

Touchscreen Hack Effort Called 'Monkey Business' Wednesday, September 22, 2004 By Joseph Bacchus and Stacy Kaper Critics of the Diebold (search) touch-screen voting machines turned their attention Wednesday from the machines themselves to the computers that will tally the final vote, saying the outcome is so easy to manipulate that even a monkey could do it. And they showed video of a monkey hacking the system to prove it. In the minute-long video produced by Black Box Voting (search), Baxter the chimp is shown deleting the audit log that is supposed to keep track of changes in the Diebold central...

Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry (news - web sites), left, jokes with former U.S. Senator Gary Hart during Kerry's campaign stop in Denver, Monday, June 21, 2004. (AP Photo/David Zalubowski)

WASHINGTON - Former Sen. Gary Hart likely won't run for the Senate this year, the Democratic Party's top Senate recruiter said Tuesday. "Gary Hart has made it clear he probably won't run," said Sen. Jon Corzine of New Jersey, chairman of the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee. In a brief interview with The Denver Post, Corzine said Hart's reservations boiled down to "economics." He did not offer further specifics. Although Hart is a Denver lawyer who travels all over the world, he is not known to be wealthy. Corzine's comments confirm what Democratic officials have been saying privately for weeks. It...

Monkeys Demand Equal Pay 12:27 p.m. EDT September 17, 2003 A fair shake is a fair shake -- whether you're a human or a monkey. A recent study shows brown capuchin monkeys refused to play along when they saw another monkey get a better payoff for performing the same work. The monkeys were trained to trade a granite token for a piece of cucumber. When the reward was the same for both monkeys, they took the cucumber 95 percent of the time. But it was a different story when one monkey was given something better -- namely, a grape. Then,...

Monkey clue to male sex appeal By Helen Briggs BBC News Online science reporter Rosy cheeks seem to be crucial in the dating game, for monkeys at least. Females of a common primate, the rhesus macaque, prefer males with red faces, a study has shown. Females preferred the face on the right It signals high levels of testosterone which, in many male animals, mean a healthy immune system and good genes. A rosy glow might also act as a similar cue in humans, says lead author Corri Waitt of Stirling University, UK. It could explain why women apply cosmetics to...

Breaking . . Gary Hart decides against seeking presidency...

A former Colorado senator said he may want to make a run at the White House in 2004. But it's not the first time he's had presidential aspirations. Hart launched a new Web site over the weekend -- GaryHart2004.org. The Web site does not blatantly say he's throwing his hat in the ring but it certainly leaves little doubt. It's a scenario few would predict following his failed 1988 presidential bid when a disgraced Hart pulled out of the race amid a sex scandal. But a new millenium has wrought a new reality for the Democrats, which is why Hart's...

Former Senator Gary Hart compared himself to Winston Chucrhill yesterday. 'I would love to be President,' he told reporters. 'I would have been a very good president. In many ways I would be a better one now.''Why now, he was asked? Why did Winston Churchill come back after 10 years out of office? Times change,' he replied.David Lightman writes that Harts were politely recieved by a Capitol Hill crowd yesterday, but pointed out the lack of enthusiasm from the Democratic quarter for a Hart redux.Hart has a January 22 Iowa visit scheduled. Iowa supporters of the one time Democratic Presidential...