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Amid growing skepticism inside and outside the administration the emerging package of extra troops, economic assistance and political benchmarks for Baghdad will not make more than a marginal difference in stabilizing the country.
In the opening battle of a major drive to tame the violent capital, the Iraqi army reported it killed 30 militants Saturday in a firefight in a Sunni insurgent stronghold just north of the heavily fortified Green Zone.
Momofuku Ando, the Japanese inventor of instant noodles — a dish that has sustained American college students for decades — has died. He was 96. In 1958, his "Chicken Ramen" — the first instant noodle — was introduced after many trials.
As the pre-trial hearing began for Lt. Ehren Watada, the first U.S. commissioned officer to refuse deployment to Iraq, over a hundred supporters rallied at the gates of Ft. Lewis Army Base. Braving the cold, supporters began arriving in the early m
[Getting the message yet, Speaker?] Over one thousand protesters lie down on the sands of San Francisco's Ocean Beach - new Democratic Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi's district - in order to spell out the message "IMPEACH!"
Media critic "Spocko" took issue with on-air comments made by right-wing talk show hosts at an ABC affiliate radio station. He posted audio files of hosts' comments on his Web site, and notified advertisers who fled the station.
The new technology attaches nanoparticles to clothing fibers using microwaves. Then, chemicals that can repel water, oil and bacteria are directly bound to the nanoparticles. These two elements combine to create a protective coating on the fibers of
Scientists have discovered a second species of bat with adhesive organs, or suckers, attached to its thumbs and hind feet, allowing the creatures to climb and cling upright to smooth tree leaves.
Astronomers have mapped the positions of vast, invisible isles of dark matter in the sky, within which normal "bright" matter galaxies are embedded like glittering gems. The three-dimensional map spans not only space, but also time, and str
The discovery of several large, metal-poor stars located far from the center of the Andromeda galaxy suggests our nearest galactic neighbor might be up to five times larger than previously thought. The newfound stars are massive, bloated stars kno
[Gosh, and I thought her position at the CIA was minor.] A CIA panel has told former officer Valerie Plame she can't write about her undercover work for the agency, a position that may threaten a lucrative book project with her publisher,
Within 3 years, soldiers could begin testing futuristic devices that make them each "an army of one" by granting them unprecedented capabilities, such as the ability to see through walls and super-protection and super-strength conferred by
Russia accused the US of illegally imposing sanctions on some Russian military firms which Washington says were cooperating with Iran and Syria. "This is by far not the first time the U.S. resorts to illegal attempts to spread its internal legis
American "peace mom" Cindy Sheehan called for the closure of the U.S. military prison in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, as she and other activists arrived here Saturday to draw attention to the nearly 400 terror suspects held at the remote site.
Police shootout in front of my house.
ISRAEL has drawn up secret plans to destroy Iran’s uranium enrichment facilities with tactical nuclear weapons. Two Israeli air force squadrons are training to blow up an Iranian facility using low-yield nuclear “bunker-busters”,
Reflexiones Libertarias
Al inicio de la década de los años 70, mi buen amigo Ernesto Yberri y yo, recién desempacados del Tecnológico de Monterrey, anclábamos en la ciudad de México para debutar profesionalmente.
If, as expected, George Bush next week announces his intention to "surge" some 20,000 additional US troops to Iraq to pacify Baghdad and Sunni-dominated Anbar province, he may find himself in a tougher fight than he expected even a week ago
A month after President Pervez Musharraf of Pakistan proposed a four-point formula to resolve the troubled question of Kashmir jointly with India, exploratory contacts between the two governments have gathered momentum.
ABC News decided to survey the views of the senators who served in 2002. The survey indicates that those senators say that if they knew then what they know now, President Bush would never have been given the authority to use force in Iraq.
The regime in Iraq has been changed. Yet victory will not be declared: not only does the war go on, it's about to escalate. Obviously the turmoil in Iraq is worse than ever, and most Americans no longer are willing to tolerate the costs, both hum
Her actual record is far less presentable. After all, she is a major architect of the Bush administration's foreign policy, including the Iraq war. It wasn't supposed to be this way.
Victory has a thousand fathers, but defeat is an orphan, said a rueful John F. Kennedy after the Bay of Pigs. George W. Bush knows today whereof his predecessor spoke. For his erstwhile acolytes have begun to abandon him to salvage their own tattered
It's Bizarro World-style democracy, where the will of the people is studiously and pointedly ignored. In spite of using the war issue to take control of the House and the Senate, Democrats for the most part oppose any kind of timetable for withdr
This required a "genuine and serious" offer on reducing U.S. farm subsidies and developing states also needed to bring something to the table, an EU spokesman said before a visit by EU President Jose Manuel Barroso and Trade Commissioner Pe
Chirac said the conflict, which the US still describes as part of the "war on terror," had "offered terrorism a new field for expansion." It had "exacerbated the divisions between communities and threatened the very integrity
The instrument of destruction was a flash-bang diversionary grenade the cops now admit they tossed into the house before they found an armed Salvador Celaya trying to defend his property from intruders. The grenade, which is not supposed to be deploy
Sonia Celaya stared at the ground, her hands smudged with black, her face hard. The Phoenix house her parents lived in for 35 years stood behind her, gutted and charred after being burned to the ground due to the criminally negligent actions of Gilbe
The White House and the Secret Service quietly signed an agreement last spring in the midst of the Jack Abramoff lobbying scandal declaring that records identifying visitors to the White House are not open to the public.
The U.S. military expects to file revised charges against a group of Guantanamo prisoners by February and present the first evidence against them at trials in the summer, the tribunals chief prosecutor said.
