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Napolitano on the hot seat -- again By: Jen DiMascio December 31, 2009 04:54 PM EST After a determined effort Monday morning to walk back three disastrous words that threatened to rival “heck of a job Brownie,” Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano spent the rest of the week in Washington reviewing the department’s detection capabilities and increased security and updating President Barack Obama on the assessment Thursday morning. The president seemed to be trying to throw her a lifeline Tuesday when he made it clear that he understood that her statement that “the system worked” referred only to what transpired...

AN elderly man, his son-in-law and their wives are recovering in a French hospital after a home-made rocket-launcher the men were tinkering with exploded in the basement of a house, emergency services said. The man, aged in his 60s, lost a hand and his son-in-law, aged 40, suffered serious leg injuries in the explosion Sunday in a villa near Aubagne, east of the Mediterranean port city of Marseilles. The two women were also suffering from shock. The men appeared to have been working on a rocket in their basement, an investigator said. An explosives team was brought in to neutralise...

A disturbing story in the March 1 issue of Pravda suggests that the U. S. Government is working on the discovery of a mysterious point over the South Pole that may be a passageway backward in time. According to the article, some American and British scientists working in Antarctica on January 27, 1995, noticed a spinning gray fog in the sky over the pole. U. S. physicist Mariann McLein said at first they believed it to be some kind of sandstorm. But after a while they noticed that the fog did not change its form and did not move so...