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http://www.guardian.co.uk/g2/story/0,,1864180,00.html The pregnancy police are watching you In the US, women of child-bearing age are being advised to consider themselves 'pre-pregnant' at all times, by giving up smoking, drinking and drugs. What are the implications of treating people as glorified incubators, asks Diane Taylor Monday September 4, 2006 The Guardian When Regina McKnight, of South Carolina, went to her local hospital to give birth in May 1999, she prayed that the baby would be healthy. She had good reason to worry. Since her mother had been killed by a hit-and-run driver the previous year McKnight had begun smoking crack. She was naturally de…

Chapter one Terrorism is not an Islamic or Arabic invention or Palestinian innovation. It is a unique instrument in the political turmoil in modern times. At first, terrorism was known as an expression and practiced two centuries ago. While the organized and unorganized wars are sold as human kind, terrorism did not crystallize actually until 1773. It was during the "Reign of Terror" in France in the 1790's when the English and French termed the word terrorism. During the French Revolution, Robespierre and St. Just practiced political violence on a large scale. Out of 27 million Frenchmen, 90,000 were beheaded and 300,000 were jailed. Political violence …

Navratilova soaks up the adulation of the New York crowd Martina Navratilova ended her career in style with an amazing 59th Grand Slam title as she and Bob Bryan won the mixed doubles title at the US Open. Navratilova, 49, went into Flushing Meadows saying it would be her last event as a professional player. And she got the perfect send-off as she teamed up with Bryan to beat Czech pair Kveta Peschke and Martin Damm 6-2 6-3. Navratilova won four US Open singles titles and a total of 18 Grand Slam singles titles during her career. This victory also made her the oldest US Open mixed doubles champion. "I just wanted to keep inspiring people,…

Racing legend Brock killed in car crash! Australian motor sport legend Peter Brock has died after his car hit a tree during a rally in Western Australia today. Brock was competing on the first day of the Targa West Rally when his vehicle hit a tree near the small community of Gidgegannup, about 40 kilometres east of Perth. The Confederation of Australian Motorsport says the crash happened at about midday local time. Brock's co-driver has been taken to hospital in a stable condition. Brock was 61 years old. No other cars are believed to have been involved. Known as 'Peter Perfect' and the 'King of the Mountain', Brock won the Bathurst 1000 nine times in the…

A re-make of the 1950's classic The Dam Busters Peter Jackson to film Dam Busters The Lord of the Rings director Peter Jackson is to remake classic British war film The Dam Busters, he has told film industry trade paper Screen Daily. Jackson will produce the movie, with King Kong animator Christian Rivers in the director's chair. Jackson said it would be "as authentic as possible and as close to the spirit of the original as possible". The 1954 film told the true story of how Britain developed bouncing bombs to destroy German dams in World War II. Mel Gibson was going to direct and possibly act in it Peter Jackson Jackson says he first saw the film as …

Residents revolt against wheelie-bin spies Defiant: Former Special Branch officer Martin Meeks leads the bin-bug protest in his village A huge revolt against wheelie-bin spy bugs is sweeping Britain, with thousands of defiant households removing the electronic devices and either dumping them or posting them back to their local town hall. The protesters are ignoring threats of prosecution for criminal damage in their anger at having their rubbish secretly monitored by council chiefs. One of the biggest shows of defiance has been in Bournemouth, where councillors estimate that 25,000 bugs - one-third of the total - have been unscrewed. Astonishingl…

Mother fined for swearing at neighbourhood yobs A mother was fined and could even face jail after swearing at yobs who terrorised her neighbourhood. Donna Appleyard finally snapped after two years of misery in which youths jumped over fences, trampled through gardens and shouted and swore at local residents. Ms Appleyard, 32, a mother-of-two, claims she made countless complaints to police about the gang outside her home in Coniston Place, Knottingley, West Yorks. Things finally came to a head on March 30 when she lost her temper and swore at her abusers. "I was at the end of my tether and I admit I swore at one of them. But that's nothing compared to what my n…

Watch the launch http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/help/3681938.stm Nasa officials scrutinising footage of space shuttle Atlantis' launch say some debris did hit the orbiter, but that there was no visible damage. "Not only am I not alarmed, I'm really at ease after looking through this video," Nasa's Wayne Hale said. "We are looking at nits - nothing of any remote consequence," he said. Saturday's launch was just the third shuttle mission since the orbiter Columbia broke up on re-entry after being damaged by launch debris in 2003. As part of new procedures following the Columbia tragedy, in which all seven astronauts on board died, Nasa now restricts launches to daylight …

LEESBURG, Fla. - The mother of a missing 2-year-old made a desperate plea for help on Tuesday. She said she put Trenton Duckett to bed on Sunday night, and that's the last she saw of him, WESH 2 News reported. Melinda Duckett held one of Trenton's stuffed toys as she remembered Sunday night. She said at 7 p.m., Trenton was asleep in his bed. When she checked back at 9 p.m., he was gone. "The very first thing that went through my mind was that he woke up and he was just hiding or playing or something. I looked in his room. I panicked after that. I completely turned the house upside down," Duckett said. http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/14576955/ Its so sad, his …

http://apnews.excite.com/article/20060908/D8K0G8L00.html I mean, wasn't the entire purpose of the last 3 years to put Rove in jail and show that BUSH was the most corrupt PREZ in the History of the planet ?

http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1531304,00.html Only three pages - a good read exerpt: "But there's a big problem with Loose Change and with most other conspiracy theories. The more you think about them, the more you realize how much they depend on circumstantial evidence, facts without analysis or documentation, quotes taken out of context and the scattered testimony of traumatized eyewitnesses. "

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A football match was abandoned after an 18-year-old defender was caught in the throat and collapsed on the pitch. It is believed Hamilton player Ross McCabe suffered heart failure as a result of the challenge during the Accies versus Clyde match on Saturday. The fixture will be replayed after the referee abandoned the New Douglas Park game with 10 minutes to go. A defibrillator was used to revive the youngster who is expected to make a full recovery. Both Hamilton Academicals medical staff and Clyde doctor Frank Dunn, a consultant cardiologist, treated McCabe. Clyde press officer, John Ruddy, said: "All of a sudden both sets of players were screaming to t…

Has Geri 'sacked' her baby's father? Geri with baby Bluebell. Click enlarge to see a bigger picture As she sits in her pink-painted sitting room in Primrose Hill, North London, with her baby Bluebell Madonna sleeping quietly in a Moses basket, Geri Halliwell should be able to breathe a contented sigh. At 34, she finally has the baby she longed for, as well as every material luxury she could desire. Geri’s collection of clothes, along with gifts for her daughter, fill an entire spare bedroom, while her bathroom is full of Jo Malone products plus organic scent for the baby. In the garden is Bluebell’s miniature Mercedes. Geri is throwing herself into…

An animal welfare group has said it is hopeful of tracing a man who can be seen on an internet website biting the head off a live pet mouse. About 2,000 people have viewed the incident on the YouTube site. The incident is believed to have happened at a party in the Turf Lodge area of west Belfast. "We've had a couple of leads which my staff will be running down today," an Ulster Society for Prevention of Cruelty to Animals spokesman said. Spokesman Stephen Philpott said: "If the USPCA in this instance can prove unnecessary suffering, which is the key phrase under the Welfare of Animal Act, we will certainly be taking it further." Mr Philpott said the organisat…

Hey i was wondering how i go about chaning the theme on my Windows Ex) This one below is Black... how can i also do this :\

Allergy cure just three years away Last updated at 22:35pm on 8th September 2006 Hayfever could soon become a thing of the past A cure for allergies that affects millions including asthma and hayfever will be available within the next few years, experts have revealed. Cutting-edge research from around the world will yield a treatment for hay fever by 2009, with a cure for asthma following shortly afterwards. Treatments for potentially fatal food allergies are also in the pipeline - and vaccines capable of preventing a host of dehabilitating conditions in a single jab could be available in just ten years. The injections, pills - and even …

lol i just watched trigger happy tv for the first time in years, it was a great show. just though i'd let you know. anyone fans of this show?

Video: The moment a motorist blew up a speed camera Last updated at 12:14pm on 7th September 2006 Reader comments (15) Craig Moore was jailed for four months A man who blew up a roadside camera to destroy evidence of his speeding was today jailed for four months. Railway worker Craig Moore, 28, from Doncaster, used an explosive substance taken from his work welding railway lines to destroy the camera, Manchester's Minshull Street Crown Court heard. The explosion caused £11,700 damage to the camera, which had flashed him exceeding the speed limit in the Hyde area of the city last August. But Moore's plan backfired because photographs of his…

Boris Johnson urged to say sorry for 'cannibal' slur Last updated at 18:53pm on 8th September 2006 A diplomat today demanded that Tory MP Boris Johnson apologise for remarks linking Papua New Guinea with "cannibalism and chief-killing". The shadow higher education minister made the controversial comments in his Daily Telegraph column yesterday while revelling over the Labour Party leadership ruction. He wrote in the newspaper: "For 10 years we in the Tory Party have become used to Papua New Guinea-style orgies of cannibalism and chief-killing, and so it is with a happy amazement that we watch as the madness engulfs the Labour Party." But Jean…

Brave Nat, the wolf girl Thai girl Supatra Sasuphan, nicknamed Nat, plays with her father Samroeng Sasuphan outside her home in Bangkok. The six-year-old has the very rare Ambras syndrome, or Congenital Hypertrichosis - meaning she has excessive hair covering her face and parts of her body. There are fewer than 40 cases documented worldwide of people with this genetic condition after it was first described in Austria in 1648.

michael cutler June 01, 2006 1 million sex crimes by illegals Filed under: Borders — border @ 9:39 am I am utterly unable to understand how so many of our nation’s ”leaders” can be so unwilling to protect the citizens of our country. The immigration bill that was signed by the Senate last week is described as a compromise. The only reason that anyone who possesses even a modicum of intelligence or integrity might call that bill a compromise is because it compromises the sovereignty and security of our nation and our citizens. I have written many times about how a failure to secure our borders and restore integrity to our nation’s immigration system leaves America…

i guess you all know the feature of MSN that shows what you're listening to in the subtitle. erm.. is it possible to kinda link it that i can play my songs in iTunes? i don't wanna use the Windows Music Player.

Outcry over puppies dumped in bin Once the puppies are well enough they will be rehomed The dumping of eight puppies in a bin is being described by a council as "the worst case of neglect seen for years". The young border collies were found abandoned in bins at the Cumberland House tower block in Portsmouth. "We can't think of a more distressing case we've had to deal with," said Carol Plumbly, council kennel worker. Three of the litter have died since they were found on Sunday and the other five-week-olds were suffering from worm infestations and malnourishment. 'Shocking' The dogs are being cared for at the Portsmouth City Council kennels and new …

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