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President Obama's appointment of Francis Collins to run the National Institutes of Health is significant as a culture war statement. A devout Christian, Collins is one of the foremost advocates for the notion that science and faith are compatible. The former head of the Human Genome Project, Collins is also the author of The Language of God. He's a strong believer but he doesn't let that weaken his scientific rigor (for instance, he's been critical of Creationism and Intelligent Design). Continued

MIT's plasmatron cuts diesel bus emissions, promises better gas engine efficiency October 22, 2003 MIT's plasmatron cuts diesel bus emissions, promises better gas engine efficiency A bus in Indiana is the latest laboratory for MIT's plasmatron reformer, a small device its developers believe could significantly cut the nation's oil consumption as well as noxious emissions from a variety of vehicles. The work will be the subject of an invited talk next Thursday, October 30, at a meeting of the American Physical Society's Division of Plasma Physics in Albuquerque, NM. The researchers and colleagues from industry report that the plasmatron, used...

THE NEW BILLIONAIRES Top officers of Trial Lawyers, Inc. haul in sky-high fees for little work. Once upon a time, the average person blanched at lawyer fees that reached upward of $500 an hour at many of the best firms. But those high hourly fees are chump change compared with what Trial Lawyers, Inc. is raking in these days. From tobacco settlements to asbes-to class action suits, the industry now boasts fees that can range as high as an astounding $30,000 an hour, turning some members of Trial Lawyers, Inc. into overnight billionaires and providing the capital to bankroll new...

'Welcome patrols' counter boycott Mix of Southern heritage, white rights groups try to offset NAACP stand at borders By RODDIE BURRIS Staff Writer NORTH AUGUSTA - The signs read quot;Welcomequot; and the demonstrators held up blue and white South Carolina state flags to motorists as they sped past the I-20 Welcome Center into Aiken County on Saturday. A mixture of Southern heritage and white-rights groups opened quot;welcome patrolsquot; at seven of the state's eight welcome centers to counter a tourism boycott. The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People last weekend inaugurated quot;border patrolsquot; at the welcome centers, passing...

There is no surplus to return By ERNEST F. HOLLINGS Special to The State Reaganomics II, a tax cut of $1.6 trillion, is steamrolling through the Congress. Reaganomics I, the tax cut of $750 billion, gave us the biggest waste in history! The debt soared from less than $1 trillion to $4 trillion, now $5.7 trillion (--) with interest costs of $365 billion annually. In the last 10 years, we have wasted $3.4 trillion on interest costs, and we continue to spend each day, every day, $1 billion for nothing. But President Bush and the Republican Congress charge on wailing ...

Ezekiel David Allen is a young missionary on the Chiang Mai, Thailand mission team. He is critically ill with an unknown parasite and apparently WILL DIE WITHIN TWO MONTHS unless there is an intervention by the Lord. Please help create a global blanket of prayer for him, his wife, and their 4-month old daughter, Brianna. From: David Allen: "My condition is serious now. The body is beginning to break down because I have no more fat or nutrient reserves. My diet consists mostly of broth, Gatorade and saltine crackers. I tried homemade bread a few weeks ago and ended up ...

It's that time of year again with the Ravens facing the Giants in Superbowl XXXV. Whether or not you are a football fan, you can help your fellow man by getting involved in the Souper Bowl ministry, which was started by a local church in Columbia, SC. and is now a national event. It is a great way to get young people involved in their church, even if only for a day.If you would like to learn more about how to participate in your community, click on picture.All donations and canned goods are donated to charities in the local communities ...

I just received this by e-mail on the anniversary of a very special miracle. Even if this has been posted in the past, I think that in this season of miracles it bears repeating. On November 1, 1986 a corporate jet owned by Coca-Cola arrived at Elisabeth City North Carolina carrying the CEO and Acting-President of the Woodruff Foundation and several members of the board of directors. Shortly after they had left the airport for a meeting in town a series of events began to unfold which drove one man to create what we know today as Corporate Angel Network ...

A PARABLE I have done my shopping for a number of years at a local co-op. They carry a wide variety of goods, and while the goods may not all be top of the line, or best value for money, there is a wide selection. And the store is pretty much the only game in town. The co-op was recently audited by a major accounting firm, and they discovered that they have been overcharging their customers, on everything from soup to soap, from rakes to radios. The money had somehow built up in the balance sheet in a surplus ...

I have been suffering from acute freeper withdrawal over the past 3 days. I am a hospital based private practice physician who has an office within the hospital and has access to the internet through the hospital's server and T1 line. I use it mainly for access to on-line medical journals and PUBMED to do medical information searches. Of course I also keep up with what is going on by visiting Drudge, WorldNet Daily, and of course FREEREPUBLIC. Until 3 days ago, that is. When I tried to visit this site I got a big warning from WEBSENSE that this ...

City's perfume ban is no-non-scents, but some say it smells like Big Brother Saturday, May 27, 2000 By COLIN NICKERSON THE BOSTON GLOBE HALIFAX, Nova Scotia -- Perfume is meant to provoke passion, but not the sort stirring this historic seaport. To the horror of perfume makers worldwide, Halifax has become the first major center in North America to prohibit the wearing of all cosmetic fragrances -- from Giorgio to grandmother's lavender soap -- in most indoor public places, including municipal offices, libraries, hospitals, classrooms, courts, and mass transit buses. With little fanfare, and less public debate, a city ...

Beginning Of The End? Genes In GM Crops Jump The Species Barrier.. http://www.voila.co.uk/News/afp/uk/000528085900.15e4xfxz.html 5-28-00 LONDON (AFP) - Research by a leading German zoologist has shown that genes used to genetically modify crops can jump the species barrier, newspapers reported here on Sunday. A three-year study by Professor Hans-Heinrich Kaatz at the University of Jena found that the gene used to modify oil-seed rape had transferred to bacteria living inside honey bees. The findings will undermine claims by the biotech industry and supporters of GM foods that genes cannot spread. They will also increase pressure on farmers across Europe to ...

Concealed weapons ownership up SLED has given 25,407 S.C. residents permission to carry firearms By CLIF LeBLANC Staff Writer Lots of South Carolinians are packing heat that you can't see. In the five years since the state liberalized its concealed weapons law by dropping a requirement that residents have a "need," 19 times as many hidden gun permits have been approved. Through mid-May, the State Law Enforcement Division has approved 25,407 permits, records show. That's equivalent to every resident of the city of Myrtle Beach having a concealed weapon. Still, that's far fewer concealed- weapon permits than gun advocates estimated ...

The heaviest element known to science was recently discovered by investigators at a major U.S. research university. The element, tentatively named Administratium, has no protons or electrons and thus has an atomic number of 0. However, it does have 1 neutron, 125 assistant neutrons, 75 vice neutrons, and 111 assistant vice neutrons. This gives it an atomic mass of 312.These 312 particles are held together by a force that involves the continuous exchange of meson-like particles called morons. It is also surrounded by vast quantities of lepton-like particles called peonsSince it has no electrons, Administratium is inert. However, it can ...

NOW chapter endorses Giuliani Johnny Chung links Hillary to illegal Chinagate money By Charles Smith © 2000 WorldNetDaily.com At a moment when Hillary Clinton's New York senatorial campaign is scrambling to bolster her sagging support among women, here comes more bad news. At least one chapter of the National Organization for Women is endorsing Rudy Giuliani over Mrs. Clinton in the highly publicized race, while charges of impropriety stemming from the first lady's involvement in the Chinagate fundraising scandal are also surfacing. "As Dulles NOW activists watched Mrs. Clinton's lifeless and seemingly perfunctory televised entry into the race, it reminded ...

The Perotestant Reformation FrontPagemag.com | February 16, 2000 by Lowell Ponte URL: http://www.frontpagemag.com/archives/ponte/ponte02-16-00p.htm IT CROSSED OUR POLITICAL HEAVENS like a comet, a "broomstar" that ancients saw as a portent of the death of kings, the fall of kingdoms. But last Saturday in Nashville what people saw dying was the Reform Party itself. Although its final convulsions have not quite ceased, the Reform Party's obituary will soon be written. Here are this journalist's speculative history of Reform Party secrets, an epitaph suggestion for the tombstone, and a wilted lily or two to perfume the stink it leaves behind. The Reform Party ...

SIGHTINGS Hillary's $100,000 New York State Rip-Off NewsMax.com 2-15-2000 The story of Hillary Clinton's $100,000 New York State rip-off was headline news in just about every newspaper just four years ago. But now that she wants the very same taxpayers she scammed back then to send her to the United States Senate, New York's mainstream reporters have suddenly developed amnesia. Reports reviewed by NewsMax.com reveal that just two years before she moved to 1600 Pennsylvania Ave., Mrs. Clinton was paid $101,630 for services rendered, from an agency funded in part by New York State taxpayers. The first lady's windfall came ...

Town of Atlantic Beach, NAACP at odds The state Conference of NAACP Branches says the town of Atlantic Beach can't have it both ways when it comes to the civil rights organization's tourism boycott of the state. The town council passed a resolution last month urging for the removal of the Confederate flag from the Statehouse dome. But the town has not canceled this year's Atlantic Beach Memorial Day Bike Festival, which usually draws about 100,000 black motorcycle enthusiasts. And Atlantic Beach isn't the only town putting economics ahead of principle. The monthlong Native Islander Gullah Celebration on Hilton ...

Lung Cancer Risk Due to Passive Smoking May Be Overestimated WESTPORT, Feb 11 (Reuters Health) - UK researchers contend in the February 12th issue of the British Medical Journal that the risk of lung cancer associated with passive smoking may be substantially lower than previously reported. Dr. J. B. Copas and colleagues of the University of Warwick, say that a previous analysis of 37 epidemiologic studies may have overestimated the excess risk of lung cancer at 24% because it did not allow for publication bias. Dr. Copas' team defines publication bias as "the possibility that published studies, particularly smaller ones, ...

SERMON ON THE MOUNT CIRCA 2000(and the next e-mail said....)Jesus took His disciples up on a mountain and gathered them around, saying:Blessed are the poor in spirit;Blessed are the meek;Blessed are you who thirst for justice;Blessed are you who are persecuted;Blessed are the peacemakers. And Simon Peter said, "Do we have to write all this down?"And Phillip said, "Will this be on the test?"And Andrew said, "John the Baptist's disciples don't have to learn this stuff."And Matthew said, "HUH?"And Judas said, "When am I ever going to use this in real life?"Then one of the Pharisees, an expert in law, ...