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WASHINGTON - Congress is taking new whacks at the cigarette industry, banning tobacco sales in Senate buildings and — more importantly — seeking a significant federal tax increase on cigarettes. The industry, once a lobbying behemoth, is quietly working against the tax bill. But it lacks the...

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan - Pakistan's deposed chief justice called on lawyers Tuesday to revolt against President Gen. Pervez Musharraf's imposition of emergency rule and a crackdown on the opposition that has left thousands under arrest. http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20071106/ap_on_re_as/pakistan

BAGHDAD - The U.S. military announced six new deaths Tuesday, making 2007 the bloodiest year for American troops in Iraq despite a recent decline in casualties and a sharp drop in roadside bombings that Washington links to Iran. http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20071106/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iraq

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan - Police and soldiers emboldened by state of emergency powers swept up hundreds of activists and opposition members on Sunday, dragged away protesters shouting "Shame on you!", and turned government buildings into barbed-wire compounds...

These emergency measures somehow remind me of two guys in Washington, also taking well calculated emergency measures. I'd really like to hear their take on this, although Condoleeza Rice in typical programed cheerleader fashion has stated the US doesn't like this. ISLAMABAD, Pakistan - Gen...

WASHINGTON - A defiant Democratic-controlled Congress voted Thursday to provide health insurance to an additional 4 million lower-income ********, and President Bush vowed swiftly to cast his second straight veto on the issue. http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20071101/ap_on_go_co/children_s_health

"Over time, we will have to shift the burden of the military fight from our ****** directly to regional ******, and we will have to play an indirect role, but we shouldn't assume for even a minute that in the next 25 to 50 years the American military might be able to come home, relax and take it...

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WASHINGTON - It's a nickname no principal could be proud of: "Dropout Factory," a high school where no more than 60 percent of the students who start as freshmen make it to their senior year. That dubious distinction applies to more than one in 10 high schools across America...

WASHINGTON - The State Department promised Blackwater USA bodyguards immunity from prosecution in its investigation of last month's deadly shooting of 17 Iraqi civilians, The Associated Press has learned. http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20071030/ap_on_go_ca_st_pe/blackwater_prosecutions

NEW YORK (Reuters Life!) - Rather than looking for their perfect match, one in four Americans say the Internet can serve as a substitute for a significant other, according to a poll released on Wednesday. http://features.us.reuters.com/techlife/news/N24603251.html

WASHINGTON — The White House severely edited congressional testimony given Tuesday by the director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on the impact of climate change on health, removing specific scientific references to potential health risks, according to two sources familiar...

Sales of existing homes plunged by a record amount in September as turmoil in mortgage markets added more problems to a housing industry in its worst slump in 16 years. http://abcnews.go.com/Business/IndustryInfo/wireStory?id=3769696

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I got this in an email, enjoy! :) Happy Halloween !!! This works better if you have sound. You are going to love it!!! Move the cursor around to find the man in the cemetery.... http://www.worldschoolphotographs.com/halloween.htm

MADRID, Spain - Nobel laureate Doris Lessing said the Sept. 11 attacks in the United States were "not that terrible" when compared to attacks by the IRA in Britain. "September 11 was terrible, but if one goes back over the history of the IRA, what happened to the Americans wasn't that...

ScienceDaily (Oct. 22, 2007) — The world has a narrow window of opportunity to save coral reefs from the destruction caused by extreme climate change, according to a unanimous statement issued today by leading Australian scientists. The call for action is the outcome of a National Forum on Coral...

In the weeks leading up to the NPC, China has taken "sexually explicit" television advertisements that feature push-up bras, shape-enhancing underwear and even contraceptives off the air. The State Administration of Radio, Film and Television (SARFT) stated, "Commercials containing sexually...

BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Microsoft Corp ended three years of resistance on Monday, finally agreeing to comply with a landmark 2004 antitrust decision by the European Commission. The defeated software giant announced it would not appeal against a decisive European Union court ruling two months ago...

The bubbles were clear. The mortgage, the low quality loans, the excess liquidity driven merger mania, and the buy out frenzy of exchanges – all these happen before major long-term market tops. But intensity of euphoria was spectacular and that gives rise to the massive bear markets...

NEW YORK - The nation's three largest banks said Monday they will team up to buy tens of billions of dollars in investments that lost value after global credit markets seized up. http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20071015/ap_on_bi_ge/banks_credit

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Despite all the recent talk by Petraeus about the improvement in Iraq from the surge, (he's paid to say that I think), I thought this was a more accurate assessment. Of course this defines it as more Vietnam like, a comparison I made from day one. ARLINGTON, Va. - The U.S. mission in Iraq is a...

ATLANTA (Reuters) - Lipsticks tested by a U.S. consumer rights group found that more than half contained lead and some popular brands including Cover Girl, L'Oreal and Christian Dior had more lead than others, the group said on Thursday. http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20071011/hl_nm/lipstick_lead_dc

NEW YORK (Reuters) - ConAgra Foods said on Tuesday that some consumers were diagnosed with salmonella after eating its Banquet Turkey and Chicken Pot Pies. http://www.reuters.com/article/domesticNews/idUSWNAS587320071009

CRANDON, Wis. - A young sheriff's deputy who opened fire on a pizza party and ****** six people reportedly flew into a rage when he was rebuffed by his old girlfriend, and others at the gathering called him a "worthless pig." http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20071009/ap_on_re_us/wisconsin_shooting

QUEEN CREEK, Ariz. - Out on Phoenix's suburban fringes, where cement mixers are fast colonizing what's left of the hay and cotton fields, the day is winding to a close. The home hour has arrived. But sundown gives away a troubling secret: Behind dark windows and many unanswered doors, it's...

This is an online film that Coors turned me on to. It's about Walmart and their unfair even prejudicial policies regarding their employees, working conditions abroad, their exploitation of their workers and the US health and legal systems, and the scrimping of the Walton ******, the richest...

TULSA, Okla. - Twenty years ago, televangelist Oral Roberts said he was reading a spy novel when God appeared to him and told him to raise $8 million for Roberts' university, or else he would be "called home." Now, his ***, Oral Roberts University President Richard Roberts, says God is...

SEOUL, South Korea - The leaders of North and South Korea pledged Thursday to seek a peace treaty to replace the Korean War's 1953 cease-fire and expand projects to reduce tension across the world's last Cold War frontier. http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20071004/ap_on_re_as/koreas_summit

This comes out like every year. WASHINGTON - Federal employees ****** at least $146 million over a one-year period on business- and first-class airline tickets, in some cases simply because they felt entitled to the perk, congressional investigators say...

WASHINGTON - Blackwater chairman Erik Prince vigorously defended his private security company on Tuesday, rejecting charges that his staff acted like a bunch of cowboys immune to legal prosecution while protecting State Department personnel in Iraq and Afghanistan...

Video; http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QGfXwwscXRs&NR=1

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It's about time this important question was answered. :dunno:

ABC World News last night did a story last night about breaches of airline computer systems and also attempted breaches of financial network computers. They mentioned that at least a 1,000 attacks a day were coming from China, and that they believed the Chinese government must know about it...

HANOI, Vietnam - Scientists have discovered 11 new species of plants and ******* in Vietnam, including a snake, two butterflies and five orchid varieties, the Worldwide Fund for Nature (WWF) said Wednesday. http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070926/ap_on_sc/vietnam_new_species

WASHINGTON - Army snipers hunting insurgents in Iraq were under orders to "bait" their targets with suspicious materials, such as detonation cords, and then **** whoever picked up the items, according to the defense attorney for a soldier accused of planting evidence on an Iraqi he ******. Gary...

WASHINGTON - The Bush administration said in a new report Monday that Social Security is facing a $13.6 trillion shortfall and that delaying needed reforms is not fair to younger workers. http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070924/ap_on_go_ca_st_pe/bush_social_security

NEW YORK - Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad questioned the official version of the Sept. 11 attacks and defended the right to cast doubt on the Holocaust in a tense appearance Monday at Columbia University, whose president accused the hard-line leader of behaving like "a petty and cruel...

UNITED NATIONS - U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon told an unprecedented summit on climate change Monday that "the time for doubt has ******" and a breakthrough is needed in global talks to sharply reduce emissions of global-warming gases...

FANS of hit '70s sitcom The Brady Bunch have been shocked by claims clean-cut TV sisters Marcia and Jan were real-life lovers. http://www.news.com.au/dailytelegraph/story/0,22049,22464073-5001026,00.html?from=mostpop

SYDNEY (AFP) - An Australian man was conscious and spoke to his medical team during life-saving brain surgery in what doctors are claiming as a world-first procedure with cutting-edge technology. http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20070924/hl_afp/healthaustraliasurgerybrain

This is good for anyone interested in the history of WWII. Starts tonight on PBS and is also in HD. http://www.pbs.org/thewar/?campaign=pbshomefeatures_1_thewarbrakenburnsfilm_2007-09-23 Ken Burns is also known for his other multi part stories of Baseball, Jazz and The Civil War; :thumbsup...

America's Shame in Montreal Montreal Climate Conference concludes: 13 December 2005 - 7:30am The best that can be said of the recently concluded meeting on climate change in Montreal is that the countries that care about global warming did not allow the United States delegation to blow the...

BAGHDAD - Iraqi investigators have a videotape that shows Blackwater USA guards opened fire against civilians without provocation in an incident last week in which 11 people died, a senior Iraqi official said Saturday. He said the case had been referred to the Iraqi judiciary...

Ultimately, rising seas will likely swamp the first American settlement in Jamestown, Va., as well as the Florida launch pad that sent the first American into orbit, many climate scientists are predicting. http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070922/ap_on_sc/rising_seas If you recall, the Cape...

BERLIN (Reuters) - Bavaria's most glamorous politician -- a flame-haired motorcyclist who helped bring down state premier Edmund Stoiber -- has shocked the Catholic state in Germany by suggesting marriage should last just 7 years...

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WASHINGTON - The cost of a long-term U.S. military presence in Iraq similar to the peacekeeping role American troops have played in South Korea would range from $10 billion to $25 billion a year, the Congressional Budget Office said Thursday...