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Is Gray Davis running scared or WHAT? Talk
about fishing for issues…
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – California Governor
Gray Davis, seeking to bolster
[...]

Fascinating and beautifully
illustrated Archeology Blog

Migrants from Asia, Latin America and the
Caribbean, accustomed to such street workshops at home, have
set them up on New York’s sidewalks as well, whatever the legalities.
[...]

This is exactly what I look like after a night at the Disco…

Disco lights are luring baby turtles to their
deaths on the fringes of a Greek marine park.
Environmentalists say that rare [...]

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates – Saudi Arabia’s
religious police have declared Barbie dolls a threat to morality, complaining
that the revealing clothes of the "Jewish" toy already banned
in the kingdom are offensive to [...]

Recently, I was rereading Adam Curry’s essay “The Big Lie”, written on the occasion of the assassination of Pim Fortuyn (plug – Adam will be at BloggerCon next month), in which he comments on the propensity of major media, seemingly in collusion, to misstate, misrepresent and misinterpret the news. Since 90% of the developed [...]

Cosmonauts Pedro Duque (L) of Spain, Alexander
Kaleri (C) of Russia and Mike Foale of the U.S. give a thumbs-up as they
stand in gas masks, in Star City
outside Moscow, September 10, 2003. [...]

”First, I recommend that you allow the secretary and deputy secretary of defense to return to the private sector. Second, I recommend that the responsibilities for developing and implementing foreign policy that have traditionally resided in the Department of State be fully restored to that department.”
US Representative David Obey, in a letter to [...]