Effort to accommodate Muslim women's modesty spurs debate
• USA TodayMuslim women in the USA have been asking the public to accommodate their religious beliefs about modesty, a trend that some Muslims worry will provoke a backlash.
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Its 'Happy Days' promises from the Democrats this election
• USA Today[What would it be like now if you had elected libertarians 4 years ago?] Democratic House and Senate leaders are planning to reduce the cost of student loans and prescription drugs, raise the minimum wage and develop alternative fuels if they win ba
Somalia's last major warlord hangout falls to Islamists
• AFPIslamic militia captured the Somali town of Jowhar on Wednesday as fighters from a United States-backed alliance of warlords fled one of their last strongholds in the war-ravaged country.
George Bush singing "Sunday Bloody Sunday"
• GoogleVideo3 minute music video
House approves line-item veto power
• Associated Press[Election time again, and we have spent ourselves out of office.] Congress is moving to give President Bush and his successors greater power to try to weed bills of certain spending, though the new power would pale compared with the line-item veto la
"Nanog" could be key to master cells
• ReutersA gene named after the mythical Celtic land of the ever young could help explain how to reprogram adult cells into embryonic stem cells to treat diseases. A gene they called Nanog helped to transform adult mouse cells into embryonic stem cells after
Superhero civil war: Spiderman outs himself to the press
• AFPFollowing a showdown between a group of superheroes and supervillains in which hundreds of innocent civilians are killed, the government passes the Super-Hero Registration Act, requiring all superheroes to reveal their identities and register as
Anarchist elected to City Commision
• In These TimesIn 1996, Cara Jennings, then 19, and her sister Aimee started the Radical Cheerleaders in their hometown of Lake Worth, Fla, a town of 35,000 north of Ft. Lauderdale. Their fishnet-stocking, punked-out leather outfits and shredded garbage bag pom-po
Congress gives itself a raise!
• WCVB-TV (Boston)Despite record low approval ratings, House lawmakers Tuesday embaraced a $3,300 pay raise that will increase their salaries to $168,500. The 2 percent cost-of-living raise would be the 7th straight for membres of the house and Senate.
9/11 Vendetta
• You Tube (Video Link)A short video which combines scenes from the movie "V for Vendetta", and what's going on in the world today, and who is shaping this world right now. Must never never forget what happenend.
75,000 troops attack Baghdad
• Associated PressIraq's prime minister launched the biggest security crackdown in Baghdad since the U.S.-led invasion, with tens of thousands of security forces deploying throughout the capital on Wednesday and increased checkpoints causing some traffic jams.
Huge anti-Taliban operation under way in Afghanistan
• AFPCoalition and Afghan forces are conducting their biggest counterinsurgency operation since the Taliban regime fell in late 2001 and are preparing to move into new insurgent strongholds. Involving 11,000 coalition troops -- including from Britain, Can
Many London police officers shocked by anti-terror raid
• AFPMany London police officers have been shocked by an anti-terror raid in which two brothers were arrested, including one who was shot, before being freed without charge, a senior police officer said.
Mercenaries take billions of tax dollars on Iraq front line
• CNNPrivate military contractors are earning billions of dollars in Iraq -- much of it from U.S. taxpayers. Business is booming for those willing to tackle one of the most dangerous jobs on Earth. Lucrative U.S. government contracts go to firms called
Katrina funds embezzled
• Associated pressThe government doled out as much as $1.4 billion in bogus assistance to victims of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita, getting hoodwinked to pay for season football tickets, a tropical vacation and even a divorce lawyer, congressional investigators have fou
Military will not classify interrogation tactics
• Associated PressUnder pressure from Congress, the Pentagon has dropped plans to keep some interrogation techniques secret by putting them in a classified section of a military manual, defense officials said. There will not be a classified section of the Army Field M
Yahoo! Answers launches
• PC magazineYahoo! Answers, an online community where people can ask and answer questions on any topic, has kicked off an "Ask the Planet" campaign to herald the service's graduation from beta testing.
Scientists to Reassemble Maimonides' Works
• Associated pressScientists at a British university hope to use digital technology in reassembling some 300,000 tiny fragments of an 800-year-old Jewish philosopher's oeuvre. The life works of Moses Maimonides, a scholar and writer whose findings were hugely inf
Month long economic slide costs investors over $2 trillion
• ReutersThe month-long slide in global stocks has wiped out at least $2 trillion in wealth, leaving investors few alternatives to preserve their holdings aside from bonds and money markets. Investors have been dumping stocks, commodities and emerging mark
Doctors sue Kentucky Fried Chicken
• Associated PressA doctor and a consumer group have sued KFC in an effort to stop the chicken chain from cooking with high-fat partially hydrogenated oil. Dr. Arthur Hoyte, a retired physician from Rockville, Md., and the Center for Science in the Public Interest,
Bush Admin. no longer able to ignore Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac
• Associated PressThe Bush administration is starting special reviews of the financial operations of mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. The government-sponsored companies have been roiled by accounting scandals in recent years, already have be
Republican turned anti-war Democrat wins primary in Virginia
• ReutersJames Webb, a former Navy secretary during the Reagan administration, won a rough Democratic primary fight. Webb, a former Republican who switched parties over his opposition to the Iraq war, defeated Democratic lobbyist Harris Miller after winning t
Mexican political parties promise civility in election
• ReutersMexico's political parties agreed to play by the electoral rules in a close-run presidential race, but failed to restrain a fierce war of words between them that has marred campaigning. The main parties vowed to follo
AMA wants warning labels on high-salt food
• Associated pressThe American Medical Association voted to urge the government to require high-salt foods to be labeled and also vowed to push the food industry to drastically cut the amount of salt in restaurant and processed foods. The goal would be 50% less salt w
House passes another $94.5 billion for Iraq war, hurricane relief
• Associated PressThe House passed a $94.5 billion bill Tuesday to pay for continuing U.S. military operations in Iraq and Afghanistan, hurricane relief, bird flu preparations and border security at home. The House-Senate compromise bill contains $66 billion for th
US condemns music video on killing Iraqis
• ReutersThe Marine Corps condemned on Tuesday as "clearly inappropriate" a music video purporting to show a Marine strumming a guitar and singing a song about killing Iraqis, to the laughter and cheers of other troops. "We're looking in
New Iraq al Qaeda leader vows vengeance
• Reuters"The day of vengeance is near and your strong towers in the Green Zone will not protect you," said the statement posted on a Web site often used by Islamist militants and signed by the new leader Abu Hamza al-Muhajir.
US officials seeing new home-grown terror cells
• ReutersU.S. intelligence and law enforcement authorities are discovering new home-grown cells of Islamist radicals in the United States that draw inspiration and moral support from al Qaeda, officials said.
How do flies walk on ceilings?
• LiveScience.comWalking upside-down requires a careful balance of adhesion and weight, and specialized trekking tools to combat the constant tug of gravity. Each fly foot has two fat footpads that give the insect plenty of surface area with which to cling. The ad
Google Earth updated to Version 4
• TG DailyGoogle released an updated version of its Google Earth satellite imagery application. The company says that more than 20 percent of the landmass of the entire globe is now covered with high-resolution satellite imagery, allowing about one third of th
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