Dowbrigade

Check
out this synopis for a second-tier cable movie which appeared two months
ago (how did we miss it!). Does anyone out there happen to have a copy?
Oil
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History will deal with George W. Bush and the neoconservatives
who misled a mighty nation into a flawed war that is draining the finest
military in the world, diverting Guard and reserve forces that should
[...]

A 16-year-old boy invented a hamster-powered mobile phone charger as part
of his GCSE science project.
Peter Ash, of Lawford, Somerset, attached a generator to his hamster’s
exercise wheel and connected it to his [...]

Great essay on what’s wrong with Blondie journalism…
Does it make me a bad American if I just don’t care about Natalee Holloway (above and beyond the general concern expressed at the beginning of this story?) Is the life and death of one teenager worth more than another on the basis of her socioeconomic status? Is [...]

Those of us who fancy ourselves part-time pundits
can sometimes become so downcast and upset over the senseless violence,
moral bankruptcy, blatant lies, cruel hypocrisy and doomed hedonism of
our times, that we are [...]

PARIS
(Reuters) - Americans seem to be schizophrenic when it comes to their
opinion of France.
Arrogant is the best way to describe the French, according to nearly three
out [...]

An American Indian tribe with land along the Grand
Canyon is planning to build a glass-bottomed walkway that will jut out
70 feet from the canyon’s edge.
The horseshoe-shaped skywalk, expected to open in January, [...]

LONDON (AFP) - London Zoo unveiled a new
exhibition — eight humans prowling around wearing little more than fig
leaves to cover their modesty.
The "Human Zoo" is intended to show the basic nature [...]

A Cape Cod doctor who prescribed nearly one-third of the
painkiller OxyContin in all of Massachusetts in 2004 lost his license
to practice
medicine yesterday as state regulators declared him ”an immediate and
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He was the first anchor to take over a network evening
newscast in the 21st century, so it was probably inevitable that Brian
Williams would begin channeling his inner Gawker by getting his own daily
[...]

NEWBURYPORT — A 19-year-old man from Salisbury was
supposed to be cleaning up a cemetery last week as part of court-ordered
community work after he broke into an apartment building last fall.
Instead, officials said, Neil [...]

Brigitte
Bardot, the 1950s and 1960s film star turned animal rights campaigner,
has called on the French government to halt the reported use by fishermen
on the island of Reunion of live puppies and [...]