Friday, February 2, 2007

Jan 29 2007 News

In Virginia, the Death Penalty for Gambling
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,193652,00.html

Monks Arrested In SWAT Team Action
http://www.ketv.com/news/7409792/detail.html

Wiltshire's Secret Underground City
http://www.bbc.co.uk/wiltshire/content/articles/2005/12/14/burlington_nuclear_bunker_feature.shtml

Too successful: the hospitals forced to introduce minimum waiting times
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/main.jhtml?xml=/health/2006/08/07/nhealth06.xml&sSheet=/health/2006/08/07/ixhm

X-ray cameras 'plan for lampposts'
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2007/01/29/nxray129.xml

Global Warming May Have Killed the Dinosaurs
http://www.asm.org/microbe/index.asp?bid=47684

In U.S., fear and distrust of Muslims runs deep
http://today.reuters.com/news/articlenews.aspx?type=inDepthNews&storyID=2006-12-01T142541Z_01_N30158201_RTRUKOC_0_US-USA-MUSLIMS-FEAR.xml&pageNumber=0&imageid=&cap=&sz=13&WTModLoc=NewsArt-C1-ArticlePage3
"WASHINGTON (Reuters)- When radio host Jerry Klein suggested that all Muslims in the United States should be identified with a crescent-shape tattoo or a distinctive arm band, the phone lines jammed instantly.

The first caller to the station in Washington said that Klein must be "off his rocker." The second congratulated him and added: "Not only do you tattoo them in the middle of their forehead but you ship them out of this country ... they are here to kill us."
Another said that tattoos, armbands and other identifying markers such as crescent marks on driver's licenses, passports and birth certificates did not go far enough. "What good is identifying them?" he asked. "You have to set up encampments like during World War Two with the Japanese and Germans."

New Breed Of "Dirty Dozen" To Teach Kids Code Compliance
http://www.nwaonline.net/articles/2006/12/10/news/121006fzcitycode.txt

"Fayetteville's community resources division spent $7,000 designing and printing 8,000 copies of the book. Fields said officials copied the activity book idea from similar programs in San Antonio and Corpus Christi, Texas, and then wrote and designed their own book. Half of the activity books are printed in Spanish.

Hart, a Cave Springs graphic designer, was awarded the contract to illustrate the book. He said the intent was to convey code regulations in a fun way."

The Nation's Top Drug Cop Argues Prohibition Was A Success
http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v06/n894/a06.html

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