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Deadly doses

Missoula Independent (MO)

by Nick Davis

October 6, 2005

What's gone awry with the military's anthrax vaccine program?

Almost a year and a half ago, Hubbell received an e-mail from her daughter-in-law expressing concern about the anthrax vaccination program that Hubbella's son, a 27-year-old senior airman then stationed at a West Coast Air Force Base, had begun receiving prior to his deployment overseas.

UC joins Yahoo to build vast online library

Tri-Valley Herald

by Michelle Maitre

October 5, 2005

The University of California has joined an ambitious new project to digitize hundreds of thousands of books and make them free to the world over the Internet.

UC is one of the first partners in a project led by Yahoo Inc. to build a vast online library. Other participants in the project, called Open Content Alliance, include the University of Toronto, Adobe Systems Inc., Hewlett-Packard Co. and the National Archive in England, Yahoo announced Monday.

Preschoolers Overlooked In TMI Emergency Plans, Memo Says

zwire.com

October 5, 2005

HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) _ Preschool children in day care and nursery schools are at risk of being left behind...

should an emergency be declared at any of Pennsylvania's five nuclear power stations, according to a memo written by a Nuclear Regulatory Commission engineer.

U.S. prison population soars in 2003, '04

USA Today

October 3, 2005

While the U.S. crime rate has fallen over the past decade, the number of people in prison and jail is outpacing the number of inmates released, the government reports.

The population of the nation's prisons and jails has grown by about 900 inmates each week between mid-2003 and mid-2004, according to figures released Sunday by the Bureau of Justice Statistics. By last June 30 the system held 2.1 million people, or one in every 138 U.S. residents.

State threatens to close Christian ministry

World Net Daily

October 1, 2005

A Christian ministry filed a lawsuit yesterday in federal court against the state of Tennessee for forcing it to obtain a license in order to continue.

Last month, the Tennessee Department of Mental Health and Developmental Disabilities designated the non-profit group Love in Action a "mental health supportive living facility" and informed the ministry it must cease operations by Sept. 30.

Summer in the air as skiers finally soar down icy Fillmore / Thousands come to watch, but many neighbors are left cold

San Francisco Chronicle

by Carolyn Jones

September 30, 2005

It was hard to say which was more exotic, a stifling hot day in San Francisco or snow on Fillmore Street.

The two extremes converged Thursday in Pacific Heights for Icer Air 2005, as thousands of people in shorts, tank tops and sandals cheered Olympic skier Jonny Moseley and 20 other professional skiers and snowboarders as they cruised down the Fillmore Street hill, flew off a jump at Vallejo Street and landed in a pile of slush near Green Street. [View Video]

USDC To Hear 16th Amendment Fraud Issue

Give Me Liberty

September 30, 2005

Twenty-five years ago Bill Benson, a former Illinois Department of Revenue investigator, began a trip across the forty-eight states that comprised the Union in 1913 seeking documentary evidence regarding the ratification of the 16th Amendment.

This was a most important undertaking, because the government uses the 16th Amendment as its sole authority to tax an individual's wages and salaries. During his two-year trip, Benson collected thousands of certified legal documents from both state and federal archives documenting exactly how the 16th Amendment was acted on by each state legislature and handled by the office of the Secretary of State for the United States.

Cosmic Log: How to zap a hurricane

MSNBC

by Alan Boyle

September 28, 2005

Controlling the weather may be an idea whose time has passed, but some outer-space fans say a future constellation of space solar power stations just might be able to take the sting out of storms like Hurricane Katrina.

Here's the basic idea behind space solar power: Giant satellites would be placed into orbit to collect sunlight, convert it into microwave energy, then beam that energy down to receiver stations on Earth. The receiver stations would turn the microwaves back into electricity.

Scientists capture giant squid on camera

MSNBC

September 28, 2005

Japanese scientists say they've taken the first photographs of one of the most mysterious creatures in the deep ocean â€" the giant squid.

TOKYO - When a nearly 20-foot long tentacle was hauled aboard his research ship, Tsunemi Kubodera knew he had something big. Then it began sucking on his hands. But what came next excited him most - hundreds of photos of a purplish-red sea monster doing battle 3,000 feet deep. It was a rare giant squid, a creature that until then had eluded observation in the wild.

Cherokees vote to display Ten Commandments

World Net Daily

September 23, 2005

'We are sovereign nation and can pretty much post anything we want'

If you are nostalgic for the days when the Ten Commandments were posted in public buildings, you might want to consider visiting the Eastern Band of the Cherokee Indians.

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