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For those who are looking to get away from the cares of the World, you will find these cabins and houses very alluring. They all give you the feeling they would be a great place to get away from the crazy cities, and even from some small towns where too many people know too much about everyones business. Some just homes nestled a perfect out of the way place, some are elaborate cabins, and some are no bigger than a one room cabin. There is one or two old run down shacks no one lives in any more. But who...

Disability advocates are on the offensive after a national group representing school administrators issued a report supporting the use of restraint and seclusion in schools.

The Islamic population in the Middle East has been caught up in a new war, but it is its own enemy in the fight over a "fatwa" that authorizes the breastfeeding of adult men. "The fatwa-issuing thugs give orders, pass judgment, and make decisions: love is forbidden; looking [at a man] is a sin; expressions of love are contemptible – [but] as for breastfeeding, that is permissible, permissible, permissible," wrote Nadine Al-Budair, a presenter for the U.S. Arabic-language television station Al-Hurra. The dispute has been monitored by the Middle East Media Research Institute, which has compiled a history of it...

U.S. sees North Korean leader's fear as asset Thom Shanker/NYT NYT Monday, May 12, 2003 WASHINGTON In the face of new evidence that Kim Jong Il, the leader of North Korea, has lived recently in fear of an American attack, Defense Department officials say they are contemplating ways to hold him and his inner circle at risk as a way of bolstering deterrence on the peninsula. According to intelligence reports, Kim vanished from public view for 50 days beginning just before the war to depose Saddam Hussein, a time when the Pentagon also moved bombers into the Korean area of...