About Donating Goods to the Red Cross for Areas Impacted by Hurricane Katrina

Wednesday, August 31, 2005 -- When a disaster of the magnitude of Hurricane Katrina strikes and the news broadcasts images of broken, battered and destroyed homes, it is natural for the public to be eager to help...

FEMA: Web site open for companies to give Katrina victims relief

ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) -- Federal Emergency Management Agency has set up a Web site for companies that can offer goods and services like food, water or shelter for hurricane victims.Company officials can visit...

HOUSTONIANS YOUR HELP IS NEEDED

HOUSTONIANS YOUR HELP IS NEEDED.FOR THOSE OF YOU THAT WOULD LIKE TO EXTEND YOUR HELP TO THE VICTIMS OF THIS TERRIBLE DIASTER, PLEASE TAKE YOUR CELL PHONES AND LAPTOPS TO THE ASTRODOME AND ASSIST THESE PEOPLE WITH...

Citizens and Experts Discuss Honest Elections at Black Box Voting Forums

A week of special guests meeting on-line where all can watch and anyone can register to ask questions and participate. Topics include paper ballots, real recounts, proportional representation, being a voting...

Why Everybody Is a Reporter

Paul Chenoweth never leaves home without his digital camera or video camera. A graduate student at Belmont University in Nashville, Tenn., he shoots video and photos around town and posts them to his...

Written threat found on Southwest Airlines plane

Written threat found on Southwest Airlines plane HOUSTON (AP) A written threat was found Friday on a Southwest Airlines flight, prompting authorities to unload the airplane away from the terminal after it landed at Houston, officials said. Transportation Security...

Roger Clemens is Having One Low (ERA) Year

Baseball MusingsThrowback Season for Clemens Roger Clemens pitched another great seven innings last night, allowing 1 run and picking up his 10th victory. His ERA now stands at 1.45 after 149 innings pitched. In 1968, the year before they lowered the mound and expanded to 24...

Thousands Gather to Celebrate Megachurch - Yahoo! News

HOUSTON - America's largest church celebrated its move into the former arena for the Houston Rockets with a capacity crowd of 16,000, an upbeat sermon from its televangelist pastor and a spirited welcome from the governor of Texas. "How do you like our new home?"...

Population boom spawns super cities

In a nation where the population is booming, development is sprawling and the economy is globalizing, the most distant places ...

The School Lunch Lobby by RON HASKINS - Education Next - Summer 2005

Kids may not like the peas and carrots served up by the nation’s school lunch program, but many of the country’s leading food companies enjoy the billions of dollars in sales that bring those vegetables to their plates. Behind the overcooked vegetables and steam-table...

Antibiotics Used by the Ton in Animal Feed Every Year

According to a report released yesterday, 25.6 million pounds of antibiotics are mixed with farm animals’ food every year -- almost all of it concentrated in just 23 states, mainly in the Mid-Atlantic and the South. Nearly 70 percent of all the antibiotics used in the US...

The deserters: Awol crisis hits the US forces

JE McNeil, who heads the Centre for Conscience and War in Washington DC, a Christian group whose members also staff the GI Rights Hotline, said many troops she spoke with had been lied to by recruiters. "I had an 18-year-old who was told he did not have to serve in...

Fatal Accident Forces Officials To Close Freeway (KPRC Click2Houston.com via ...

Emergency crews were forced to shut down an east Houston freeway Monday morning after an accident killed one person, Local 2 reported.

Spring breakers find tense border (Chicago Tribune)

Chicago Tribune - As tens of thousands of students make spring-break visits to south Texas, a resurgence of drug-related violence across the border in northern Mexico is forcing the U.S. and Mexico to consider how to court these and other tourists.

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