The report has been received with responses as ...

The report has been received with responses as mixed as the situation on the ground in Iraq. This is from the usually conservative San Diego Union (San Diego is the home port of the US Navy's Sixth Fleet): The report was designed as an interim assessment of the...

Paris Hilton's "Burger Defense" will inspire millions

NP editor and master reblogger Victoria Revay knew what she was doing when she posted a Reuters story about the celebrity's run-in with LA cops early Thursday morning.The money-moment quote? "I had one margarita...

OUTLOOK: In the Information Age, why are so many illiterate?

Friday September 8 is International Literacy Day. As UNESCO puts it, "September 8 is an occasion to give hope to the millions of women, men and children who cannot read or write even their own names. ...

NY Post: Warren Buffett fires granddaughter

NYPost - Page 6:September 7, 2006 -- AN infuriated Warren Buffett has renounced one of his granddaughters - telling her she is no longer his relative "legally or emotionally" because she took part in a documentary about the lives of the very rich. Nicole Buffett, the...

Watching a Single Thought Form in the Brain

Remember the film, Minority Report ? In it, police of the future can anticipate the workings of the criminal mind, and arrest a bad guy when a crime is just a gleam in his evil eye. Just science fiction? Read on,...

Bush Acknowledges Secret CIA Prisons

"San Francisco (KCBS) -- President Bush on Wednesday acknowledged the existence of previously secret CIA prisons around the world where key terrorist suspects have been held and questioned. He said the...

Controversy Over 9/11 Film Hits Press -- Here Is Sneak Preview

Editor & Publisher has a remarkable first peek at "The Path to 911" - an ABC movie due to be broadcast Sept. 10. Extremely interesting..."NEW YORK Just bubbling up from the blogs into the mainstream press –...

Google "News Archive" service a boon to citizen journalists

It used to be that only reporters working for the biggest news organizations had the luxury of having a news archive. These used to be called "morgues" - a ghoulish, self-mocking term for 'dead news'. And yet the ability to access the past is what makes journalism come...

Facebook is watching you

More controversy is swirling around Facebook.com, the social network of students and professionals. Yesterday it launched a new, improved site, but many of its users now worry that their privacy is being...

Lebanon says to break blockade in 48 hours

"CAIRO, Sept 6 (Reuters) - Lebanese Foreign Minister Fawzi Salloukh said on Wednesday his country would break Israel's blockade by force if it is not lifted in a 48-hour timeframe indicated by U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan. "We will wait for the 48 hours given by Kofi...

Person With Vagina Delivers News: America Reacts To Katie Couric

This was the catty headline in Gawker - a review of Katie Couric's first night behind the anchor desk at CBS."So, last night marked a huge turning point in the struggle for American equality: Someone with ovaries...

Nude Teenagers Are OK With Us, Says Town Politicians

"BRATTLEBORO, Vt. - Mother Nature, not an ordinance, will draw the covers over public nudity in Brattleboro. The town's Select Board decided Tuesday to take no action on an anti-nudity ordinance that was...

Iceland to begin killing whales for whalemeat

The slaughter of whales for profit is to begin again in the Atlantic...this news from BBC will undoubtedly alarm environmentalists everywhere."Iceland is to begin exporting whalemeat from its scientific whaling...

BREAKING NEWS: Bush to unveil proposal on Guantanamo detainees

"WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President George W. Bush plans to unveil proposed legislation on Wednesday to set a structure for conducting trials of foreign terrorism suspects held at Guantanamo Bay, White House officials said.The Supreme Court in June rejected as illegal the...

Pet python squeezes owner to death in woodshed

"The Kentucky Medical Examiner’s office determined that 23-year-old Patrick Von Allmen died of asphyxia caused by constriction of the neck and shoulders, but was not bitten by the snake. The Courier-Journal An...

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