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US spells out plan to bomb Iran Ian Bruce / the Herald | May 17 2006 THE US is updating contingency plans for a non-nuclear strike to cripple Iran's atomic weapon programme if international diplomacy fails, Pentagon sources have confirmed. Strategists are understood to have presented two options for pinpoint strikes using B2 bombers flying directly from bases in Missouri, Guam in the Pacific and Diego Garcia in the Indian Ocean. RAF Fairford in Gloucester also has facilities for B2s but this has been ruled out because of the UK's opposition to military action against Tehran. The main plan calls for a rolling, five-day bombing campaign against 400 key target…

David Blaine's jungle stunt Tuesday, 16th May 2006, 12:45 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- LIFE STYLE EXTRA (UK) - Illusionist David Blaine is to live "harmoniously' in the jungle for his next stunt. The magician plans to be left "alone" in the Tanzanian jungle where 150 people are attacked by wild lions a year with just a TV crew present to film his actions. Blaine narrowly escaped death during his last stunt where he was suspended in a giant fishbowl for a week. The illusionist hoped to end this extravagant display by beating the world record for holding your breath underwater, currently held by Tom Zitas. …

It has to be The Passion of Christ...it was so graphic...it nearly made me cry!

Thursday (11-05-2006) at 11.49 a young man (18) went to a weapon dealer and bought a Marlin type 336W. I don't know much about weapons but the news said this is a gun perfect to hunt deers or kill a bear. The man walked out of the store, loaded his gun and started his deadly walk. First he saw a turkish woman (46) sitting on a bench reading a book, he shot her in the back from 6 meters distance. She's in the hospital deadly wounded. He moved on through Antwerp and saw a girl (24) from Mali looking after a belgian girl (2.5). He passes them, turns around and shoots them both in their back from 1 meter distance, they both died at the spot. He moved on but a cop came running…

Why some just cannot resist food A typical image shown to volunteers Scientists have discovered why some people just can't resist food. They used scans to show the reward centres in some people's brains are particularly sensitive to food advertising and product packaging. Greater stimulation of this area by food images is likely to encourage over-eating, and obesity. The study, published in the Journal of Neuroscience, was carried out by the Medical Research Council's Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit. This helps explain why some individuals are more vulnerable to developing certain disorders like binge-eating Dr John Beaver The researchers sho…

Japan is killing protected whales in a marine mammal sanctuary, selling illegal whale meat and buying pro-whaling votes in an international decision-making body. More than 25,000 whales have been hunted and killed since the ban on whaling was imposed. Even more shocking, this unsanctioned killing is happening in the protected waters of Antarctica’s Southern Ocean Marine Sanctuary, defying international law. How is this possible? http://www.stopwhaling.org/site/c.hhLTK0PDLqF/b.1389015/k.15/Learn_More_Whaling_Secrets_Youre_Not_Supposed_to_Know.htm Help save the haunting, poetic songs of the endangered humpback whale by creating a whale song of your own. Once hunt…

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Dont have a link, but this happened in my area.... Two 16 year old kids that go to a highschool in my area, got PASSES to go off of campus...They teenage girl DROVE the boy away from the school and to HER house, they then proceded to HER room, to get better......aquainted......:sneaky:haha and in the middle of that, the girls mother walks in and catches them. Instead of doing the motherly thing (kicking the boy out and cracking down on the girl) She calls up the school and informs THEM of the situation. The school then charges THE BOY ONLY with 10 days of suspension.........i'll let that sink in a little bit. Because the MOTHER OF THE GIRL called, they punished the …

Wife 'didn't realise husband was a woman' A transsexual whose 17-year marriage to an heiress was nullified when the wife discovered her husband was a woman is not legally a "parent" of her 14-year-old daughter born from donor sperm, the Court of Appeal has ruled. The female-to-male transsexual, referred to in court as Mr J, is now in law a man under the 2004 Gender Recognition Act and can lawfully marry a woman if he wishes. But three appeal judges held that, because at the time of his "marriage" to Mrs C in 1977 he was still a woman, he had no parental rights. The law required that when a woman conceived and gave birth through artificial insemination by donor …

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Stern unveils new plan for playoff seeds /Associated Press Posted: 5 hours ago DALLAS (AP) - Maybe this will make Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban feel better about his $200,000 fine from the NBA last week: Cuban's club has forced a likely change in the playoff format. NBA commissioner David Stern discussed a new seeding system Monday aimed at fixing the flaw the Mavericks exposed this season. The Mavs won 60 games, but were seeded fourth behind the three division winners despite a better record. That's why Dallas and San Antonio, both in the Southwest Division, are meeting in the second round despite having the two best records in the Western Conference…

May 15, 2006 Knicks May Be Looking for Way to Part With Brown By HOWARD BECK and LIZ ROBBINS The Knicks are tethered to Coach Larry Brown by a contract guarantee of more than $40 million, and as the franchise ponders its next move, that hefty sum may be the main hurdle to a divorce. Distraught over their worst season in 20 years, and over Brown's erratic leadership, Knicks officials have been mulling Brown's future for weeks. But they have yet to decide his fate, presumably because of the millions they owe him over the next four years and because of the picture of defeat a buyout of his contract would represent. The team's discontent with Brown is considerable…

About 250 ferry passengers and crew are stranded on ships after a 500lb (227kg) bomb was found in the River Mersey. The explosive, thought to be from World War II, was discovered by the Royal Navy at Twelve Quays dock, Birkenhead. The Mersey Viking and Dublin Viking, travelling from Dublin and Belfast, were ordered to wait further up the Mersey when they arrived on Tuesday. The Wallasey tunnel was closed for a short time when Navy divers began to move the device out to sea. Merseytravel said the closure was only short and that traffic disruption had been kept to a minimum. The German penetration bomb is being moved to be detonated in deeper water in the …

A 15-year-old boy is being prosecuted in connection with the case of a girl who fell pregnant at the age of 11. The girl from West Lothian - who would become one of the UK's youngest mothers - told a newspaper that she was looking forward to having her child. The teenage boy is due to appear in court in July charged with rape because of the age of the girl, who is now 12. The case has prompted calls for a better teenage sexual health strategy in Scotland. Green MSP Patrick Harvie said it showed that deficiencies in Scottish sex education must be addressed. The Scottish Sun said the girl, who has not been named, had unprotected sex with the boy on a night…

Reaction to UK 'core values' idea What is Britishness? An appreciation of "core British values" could be incorporated into citizenship classes in schools under proposed government plans. Will it help tackle extremism? In response to last year's London bombings, ministers want to review the current citizenship classes in schools, in an attempt to make society more unified. Education minister Bill Rammell hopes a debate about the values shared by all communities across society - such as freedom, fairness, civil responsibilities and democracy - will help to tackle extremism and discrimination. A second review will look at the teaching of Islam in universities. …

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Birmingham tops web porn search Google says searches for "porn" reached an all-time high in 2005 Web surfers in Birmingham are more likely than those in any other city to search for pornography, according to internet search engine Google. Google Trends analyses the type of searches made from different cities around the globe. Manchester came second, followed by Brisbane, Perth, Sydney and Melbourne. Brentford, in Middlesex, was seventh. The facility showed that the amount of searches on the word "porn" reached an all-time high in 2005. Google Trends works by sampling all searches matching a single word and determining the cities from which it received …

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First drought order for 10 years issued The first drought order for 10 years in England and Wales was imposed today as worries deepened over the growing water crisis in parts of the UK. The order granted to Sutton and East Surrey Water by Environment Minister Ian Pearson will allow the company to limit or ban non-essential uses of water in its region. Water firms have a range of measures available to help maintain supplies for essential use. A non-essential use ban is the logical next step beyond a hosepipe ban as a drought intensifies. An independent inspector sent a report to the Environment Secretary with a recommendation following a hearing where objections …

Goodbye to the Goat!" SHAUN Goater is heading home for Bermuda but his love affair with City is far from over. The Blues legend retired from English football last weekend when he helped Southend land the League One crown and a place in the Championship. Fittingly he said goodbye against another of his former clubs, Bristol City, but it was the tribute from Manchester fans that finally brought a tear to his eye. "There were around 400 Blues at the game and they were absolutely awesome, I can't thank them enough," said the striker who ironically was a boo boy target when he first arrived in Manchester. "When I was doing the lap of thanks around the ground and…

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Well im not sure if there is a thread for this already, this is not about Bush's ammendment to illegalize gay marriage. This is a thread simply to try to instill some sense into people. This is a thread where people can recognize that gay people in the United States are people too. They eat, breathe, and function just like any other human being, just because their preferences are different, why should they be treated like second class citizens?? or not even people! The constitution garuntee's equal rights to everyone, not just straight people. DISCUSS!

US military, intelligence officials raise concern about possible preparations for Iran strike Larisa Alexandrovna / Raw Story | May 12 2006 Concern is building among the military and the intelligence community that the US may be preparing for a military strike on Iran, as military assets in key positions are approaching readiness, RAW STORY has learned. According to military and intelligence sources, an air strike on Iran could be doable in June of this year, with military assets in key positions ready to go and a possible plan already on the table. Speculation has been growing on a possible air strike against Iran. But with the failure of the Bush administr…

A new six-part BBC series, starting this week, looks at the newest research from around the world to find out what could it be that makes us happy. We all want to be happy but the problem has always been that you can't measure happiness. Happiness has always been seen as too vague a concept, as Lord Layard, Professor of Economics at the LSE and author of "Happiness - lessons from a new science" points out. "There is a problem with the word happiness. "When you use the word happy, it often has the sort of context of balloons floating up into the sky or something frivolous." Now scientists say they can actually measure happiness. Neuroscientists are measuring …