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Magnificent seven that keep mere mortals wondering By Christopher Howse (Filed: 03/04/2004) Only one person out of more than 600 polled could name all Seven Wonders of the World, according to a survey published today. That person's identity is unknown, since the survey was done scientifically by ICM, guaranteeing anonymity. Perhaps it was you. If not, and you want to try getting all seven, look away from this page now. How did you score? If you could name three, you were doing well. Only one person in 10 managed that. Four or more Wonders were named by only a tiny...

WASHINGTON - President Bush (news - web sites) welcomed seven former Soviet-dominated nations into NATO (news - web sites) on Monday, saying the 55-year old Western alliance would be strengthened because "tyranny for them is still a fresh memory." The expansion of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization to 26 members was celebrated as NATO signaled a willingness to play a military role in Iraq (news - web sites) if authorized by a new U.N. Security Council resolution. Standing with prime ministers in a ceremony on the South Lawn of the White House, Bush said the new members "earned their freedom...

Seven children die as mystery virus hits Nam January 08 2004 at 01:39PM Hanoi - Seven children aged between nine months and 12 have died from a mysterious respiratory disease in the Vietnamese capital, but health officials have ruled out Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome as the cause, state media said on Thursday. Since mid-October, twelve children have been admitted to Hanoi's Central Paediatric Hospital with a high fever and a chesty cough. Their symptoms have not reacted to antibiotics. Hospital doctors refused to comment Thursday on the illness, but the Nguoi Lao Dong newspaper quoted Professor Hoang Thuy Long, director...

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PHILADELPHIA (AP) - A man who confessed to killing seven people in one of the worst mass murders in the city's history was sentenced Monday to seven consecutive life terms in a case in which police originally arrested the wrong men. Shihean Black pleaded guilty in February in the December 2000 bloodbath, in which four masked men burst into a row house, told people inside to lie down and then opened fire, killing seven and wounding three. Judge Benjamin Lerner praised Black for his willingness to come forward, even when police at first did not believe his confession. Police initially...

"[The Seven Myths of Gun Control] should be in every single home. The only other thing that's more important in every single home would be a loaded gun." G. Gordon Liddy September 10, 2001 "The Lost Interview" WITH THE PAPERBACK EDITION of my book The Seven Myths of Gun Control due out in August 2003 from Crown Forum, I can't think of a more appropriate time to publish my "Lost Interview" with G. Gordon Liddy. I call it "The Lost Interview" because most of my readers never heard it, never read it and never knew it took place. National...

Hollywood Video store manager Vicky McLaughlin wasn't sure what to make of the bandit pointing a silver handgun at her and declaring, "I'm going to stand this place up." His gun looked real and he was dressed in all black, with a sweat shirt hood pulled tightly around his head. But this robber was 4 feet tall and weighed 70 pounds. He was 7 years old. And the weapon turned out to be a fake. "We're still in disbelief that somebody attempted to rob us - and it was a [7-year-old]," McLaughlin said of the Monday afternoon incident. In the...

US Marines 'kill seven Iraqis after truck fails to stop' By Andrew Clennell 05 April 2003 Seven civilians, including three children, were killed by US Marines last night after they opened fire on a truck that refused to stop at a checkpoint south of Baghdad, an American television network reported. The alleged incident was reported by an ABC News correspondent travelling with a marine unit early this morning. The civilian Iraqis were in vehicles behind a military truck that refused to stop and tried to crash through the marines' roadblock. Pentagon officials said they had no immediate details of the...

Oregon voters have rejected a temporary income tax surcharge -- handing a major victory to the state Libertarian Party, which led the fight against the proposed tax hike. On January 28, in a statewide referendum, voters rejected Measure 28 by 55%-45%. Had it passed, the initiative would have raised taxes by $725 million over three years. "We are very happy tonight," said Oregon LP Executive Director Richard Burke, as the magnitude of the anti-tax vote became clear. "We were very surprised by the margin." Just eight days earlier, a statewide poll by Portland's KATU Television had said the vote was...

Seven million Koreans facing starvation By Jasper Becker in Beijing 05 January 2003 The United Nations food agency warned yesterday that supplies for some seven million people, a third of North Korea's population, will run out early next month without furtheraid. The news could worsen the crisis over North Korea's nuclear threats. "We only have firm commitments for 35,000 tons. This will be finished in early February, and then we might have to close shop," said Gerald Bourke, the spokesman for the UN World Food Programme (WFP) in Beijing. South Korea stopped food deliveries two months ago, after Pyongyang admitted...

Ettie G'alyah, 49, was buried in her hometown of Kokhav HaShachar this afternoon. Survived by her husband and seven children, Ettie was shot in the head by one or two Palestinian terrorists waiting in ambush as she drove home yesterday near Rimonim. MK Rabbi Benny Elon tearfully eulogized her: "Historians will yet analyze the character of the woman, the leader of this entire Yesha enterprise. This was a woman who represents the commander of this entire settlement campaign. A woman who raised seven children, all of them 'men of valor with fear of G-d,' a house, a home of faith...

Seven Charged with Murder in Chicago Mob Beatings Sat Aug 3, 3:24 PM ET By Kim Dixon CHICAGO (Reuters) - A 16-year-old boy and six men ranging in age up to 47 were charged with first-degree murder on Saturday in the Chicago mob beating and slaying of two men whose van skidded out of control and hurt three women. Authorities said they were considering seeking the death penalty against the seven, who were charged with two counts apiece of first-degree murder and several counts each of mob action. Because of the brutality of the crime and multiple victims, "this could...

Moscow - A flight from Paris to Tokyo was forced to make an emergency landing on Saturday in the Siberian city of Khabarovsk following the deaths of seven people on board, Interfax quoted airport officials as saying. The plane requested to make the emergency landing in the far-eastern Russian city following the death of one passenger, but during its descent six other people fell ill and died, the officials said. The report said the plane "has been placed in quarantine", but gave no further details.

http://baltimoresun.com/news/opinion/perspective/bal-pe.bush21apr21.story?coll=bal%2Dperspective%2Dheadlines Seven myths about George W. Bush The president has managed to refute many of the assumptions made about him before and after he entered the Oval Office. By Paul West Sun National Staff April 21, 2002 THE Democratic presidential hopefuls are already scrapping for a chance to take on George W. Bush in 2004. They all are operating on the assumption that Bush, like his father, is destined to be a one-term president. Yes, Bush's poll numbers are slowly drifting down from last fall's meteoric levels. But his vulnerability might be a mirage. If so, it will join at...