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<p>Protesters gathered in front of Sacramento's Immigration and Naturalization Service office Tuesday to call for the elimination of a special registration program that they say unfairly targets Middle Eastern and Muslim men.</p> <p>About 100 people showed at the midday rally and press conference to oppose one of the federal government's post-Sept. 11, 2001 policies, which requires men from mostly Arab and Muslim countries to be interrogated, fingerprinted and photographed by immigration officials.</p>

ISLAMABAD: Iranian President Mohammad Khatami has said the pressure on Pakistan to abandon its nuclear programme should be shifted to Israel "in possession of more than a hundred nuclear warheads." "Some countries are trying to exert pressure on Pakistan to abandon its nuclear programme inside the country. But we believe that these countries should press the Zionist regime in Israel that has announced to be in possession of more than a hundred nuclear warheads, which is a serious threat to peace and security of the world," Khatami told reporters at a joint press conference with Prime Minister Zafarullah Khan Jamali...

Astronomy Picture of the Day Discover the cosmos! Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer. 2002 September 27 Accretion Disk Simulation Credit: Michael Owen, John Blondin (North Carolina State Univ.) Explanation: Don't be fooled by the familiar symmetry. The graceful spiral structure seen in this computer visualization does not portray winding spiral arms in a distant galaxy of stars. Instead, the graphic shows spiral shock waves in a three dimensional simulation of an accretion disk -- material swirling onto a compact central object...

<p>Only a place with as many advanced degrees as Boston could come up with an idea like this one. On Monday, Boston University announced it plans to offer former African presidents a resident fellowship if they leave power peacefully and democratically.</p>

My Life As An International Arms Courierfrom mab@research.att.com (Matt Blaze) Fri, 06 Jan 95 as posted to the RISKS digest Under an obscure provision of US law, devices and computer programs that use encryption techniques to hide information from prying eyes and ears are considered ``munitions'' and subject to the same rules that govern the international arms trade. In particular, taking such items out of this country requires the approval of the State Department, which decides whether exporting something might endanger national security. In the past, these restrictions were of little concern to the average citizen; encryption found most of...

Published SaturdayMay 18, 2002Pentagon to cut back anthrax program   WASHINGTON (AP) - The Pentagon wants to abandon its policy of anthrax vaccinations for all troops and limit shots to those at the highest risk, officials said Friday. A planned announcement of the new policy two weeks ago was delayed because of questions about how much vaccine U.S. civilians might need in case of a bioterrorist attack. In trying to rebuild a program hobbled for two years by a drug shortage, officials are considering such issues as intelligence assessments, dosing requirements and other national- security considerations, said Jim Turner, the...

Thanks for asking, but no, I did not get the nomination to be a Republican Page. I know there were many of you who made phone calls and wrote letters to Congressman Nick Smith on my behalf. I felt I was the best canidate for the job, but unfortunately this state(Michigan) is very liberal. The people running the selection process here in Jackson were closet democrats and told me I was too Republican to get the job. Even Nick Smith felt I should not get it. Another teen from Jackson did get it,and unfortunately his family is very well known...

<p>Rep. Curt Weldon blames intelligence failures, not the Bush or Clinton administrations for not stopping the Sept. 11 attacks.</p> <p>WASHINGTON — An experimental computer program designed to analyze intelligence gave U.S. Special Forces a mission recommendation in 2000 that some say could have prevented the Sept. 11 attacks.</p>

<p>BOSTON (AP) Tax opponents, a potent force in Massachusetts since the late 1980s, have recently been scarce on Beacon Hill, where the Legislature this week takes up votes on the first major tax increases in a decade.</p> <p>Anti-tax forces have splintered and been largely silent in recent weeks as the House weighs dozens of new taxes to raise $1 billion or more.</p>

Project Orion: Its Life, Death, and Possible Rebirth Michael Flora The race to the moon, in the forms of Project Apollo and the still-shadowy Soviet lunarprogram, dominated manned space flight during the decade of the 1960's. In the United States, the project sequence Mercury-Gemini-Apollo succeeded in putting roughly sixty people into space, twelve of them on the moon. Yet, during the late 1950's and early 1960's, the U.S. government sponsored a project that could possibly have placed 150 people, most of them professional scientists, on the moon, and could even have sent expeditions to Mars and Saturn. This feat...

Green Light Ahead for Missile Defense Program By Linda D. Kozaryn American Forces Press Service WASHINGTON, March 22, 2002 -- The U.S. Missile Defense Agency and Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty constraints part company June 14, freeing the agency to do what President Bush decides about deployment, a senior defense official said here today. Bush announced in mid-December that the United States was withdrawing from the 1972 ABM Treaty with Russia. He said the treaty hindered America's ability to develop ways to defend against terrorist or rogue-state missile attacks. Pete Aldridge, undersecretary of defense for acquisition, technology and logistics, said DoD...