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Freemasons open a lodge at Buckingham Palace... but the Queen isn't amused By SARAH OLIVER - More by this author » Last updated at 23:59pm on 8th March 2008 Comments A Royal Mason: The Duke of Kent is the organisation's Grand Master A branch of the Freemasons secret society is being formed by members of the Royal Household and police who protect the Royal Family. And their decision to call it The Royal Household Lodge has put them on a collision course with Buckingham Palace – as has their plan to co-opt the royal cipher – EIIR – for their...

ROME (Reuters) - Scientists have discovered particles of cocaine and marijuana, as well as caffeine and tobacco, in the air of Italy's capital, they said on Thursday. The concentration of drugs was heaviest in the air around Rome's Sapienza university, though the National Research Council's Dr. Angelo Cecinato warned against drawing conclusions about students' recreational habits. Calling their study "the first in the world to show the presence of particles of cocaine suspended in the atmosphere of the city," the researchers said they took samples in Rome, the southern city of Taranto and in Algiers in North Africa. Nicotine and...

...In a report to be released today, the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics, which represents 100,000 educators from prekindergarten through college, will give ammunition to traditionalists who believe schools should focus heavily and early on teaching such fundamentals as multiplication tables and long division. ...The council's advice is striking because in 1989 it touched off the so-called math wars by promoting open-ended problem solving over drilling. Back then, it recommended that students as young as those in kindergarten use calculators in class ....According to their report, "Curriculum Focal Points," which is subtitled "A Quest for Coherence," students, by second...

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New York state Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver, New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg; Goldman Sachs Chairman & CEO Henry Paulson; New York Gov. George Pataki; Sen. Charles Schumer, D-NY; James Gill, Chairman of the Battery Park City Authority; and Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, D-NY, left to right, toss ceremonial shovels of dirt at the ground breaking of the $2.4 billion Goldman Sachs world headquarters, in lower Manhattan, Tuesday Nov. 29, 2005. Goldman Sachs' decision in August to build its world headquarters across from the World Trade Center site, hinged on agreements by state and city leaders to finance the project with...

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GOV. Arnold Schwarzenegger seems to be realizing that being governor of California is nothing like starring in action films. Change does not always come by blowing things up. That looks good on the silver screen, but real life requires some give and take, some finesse. Schwarzenegger has backed off one of his campaign reform efforts by withdrawing his proposal to eliminate or consolidate 88 boards and commissions, and fold many of their functions into state departments. A year ago, the governor promised to "blow up the boxes." But he shouldn't completely give up on that idea; he just needs to...

Why the Right Will Lose Conservative (right) or Liberal (left) are the terms given to the two opposing factions of society today. Neither one is accurate. The difference between the two sides is actually one of emotion. The left sees nothing as binary, except those who disagree with nothing being binary. There is no right and there is no wrong. There are no absolutes. The right sees nothing but binary, including those who disagree. There is right and there is wrong and there are choices every step of the way. Absolute choices. The reason for the difference is one of...

'We know something will happen again - and soon' By Damien McElroy in Riyadh and David Wastell (Filed: 13/06/2004) The white saloon, its boot wide open, sits on a Riyadh highway in front of an American-owned hotel for two days. The hotel security staff gaze at it but take no action. The occupants of a police car drive by and ignore it. In a city where nerves are on edge, it is a frightening spectacle - a suspect vehicle that the security forces haven't towed away. It confirms the fear of expatriates that Saudi security remains too lax to cope...

New York (dpa) - A man's body was discovered in the undercarriage of a British Airways plane after it landed in New York from London Wednesday. It is suspected that the man, a 30-year-old African, may have hidden himself in the undercarriage of the aircraft on Christmas Eve when the plane was in Lagos airport in Nigeria, television news channel CNN reported. According to U.S. security officials the man may have died on the flight to London. The first officer of the British aircraft found the body shortly after landing the Boeing 747 in Kennedy Airport. During a routine inspection...

<p>SACRAMENTO – Activists trying to slow suburban sprawl in California see reason for hope in Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger - even if the guy does drive a Hummer and received $2.5.million in campaign contributions from real estate interests.</p> <p>The Republican has been taking advice from a Los Angeles environmental group and has embraced many ideas of the "smart growth" movement, which favors mass transit, rebuilding cities and slowing development of farmland.</p>

This is a WorldNetDaily printer-friendly version of the article which follows. To view this item online, visit http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=32892 Tuesday, June 3, 2003 FAITH UNDER FIREMinister: God doesn't existSuspended for remarks, but theologian finds claims 'refreshing' Posted: June 3, 20034:00 p.m. Eastern © 2003 WorldNetDaily.com It's not unusual to hear of mainline Protestant clergy who reject fundamental Christian doctrines such as the deity of Jesus Christ, but a Lutheran minister is going a step further, claiming God does not exit. Danish pastor Thorkild Grosboel of Taarbaek, near Copenhagen, was suspended today by his bishop after stating in a recent interview "there is...

ISLENOS, CANARY ISLANDS The archipelago of the Canaries consists of seven main islands, having a total area of less than 6 percent of the size of Louisiana, lying about sixty-five miles west of Morocco in Northern Africa. They were formed as a result of volcanic activity. It is a rugged, mountainous terrain, and plains are almost nonexistent. Lack of water is a serious problem. The westernmost islands receive the most rain, while the two islands closest to the Sahara Desert and lower in elevation have some deserts. The higher elevations on some of the western islands have pleasant temperatures, and...

Copy and Paste the following letter to your State Reps (AND e-mail it to everyone in your mailbox)... For Senators -- Click here For the President: president@whitehouse.gov Dear Senator [Last Name], or Dear President Bush: As you know, liberal judges in San Francisco have declared our Pledge of Allegiance unconstitutional. And in doing so, they declared all-out war on every man, woman, and child in America who believes in our basic right to the Freedom of Religion. That is why I am asking you now -- directly and unequivocally -- to introduce and actively support a bill in the...

The Liberal SyndromeObserving the constant discrepancy between what liberals say and what they do, between their stated goals and the actual results of their policies, it becomes obvious that their purported motives are not their real ones. In fact all Leftists, whether they call themselves liberals or libertarians or socialists or communists or whatever, display the same basic pattern of behavior: professing fine-sounding ideals about freedom, equality, justice, democracy, etc., while ignoring these ideals in practice, or actively destroying them to the extent that they have already been realized. Now, the appeal of welfare-statism (the idea that the purpose of...