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Court Slams Liquor-Ad Ban Appellate judges say Utah's distinguishing between types of alcohol is 'irrational' Wednesday, July 25, 2001 BY JACOB SANTINI THE SALT LAKE TRIBUNE A portion of Utah's staunch anti-alcohol law, reaching back to 1933 and the Prohibition, was nullified Tuesday when the 10th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled wine and liquor advertisements are protected speech. An order issued by a three-judge panel in Denver cancels Utah's longtime law prohibiting advertisements for liquor in newspapers, on billboards and outside restaurants and clubs. For the moment, the ruling also relieves the ban on the mere mention of the existence ...

EPA Insiders Endorse Cabinet-Level Status, But some worry politics, not science, would rule Wednesday, July 25, 2001 BY JOHN HEILPRIN THE ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON -- Lawmakers' demands for more scientific accountability at the Environmental Protection Agency are the major stumbling block to making the agency a full Cabinet-level department, a Senate panel was told Tuesday. EPA Administrator Christie Whitman and two predecessors, Carol Browner and William Reilly, urged the Senate Governmental Affairs Committee not to let a bill elevating the agency's status get bogged down with well-intentioned efforts to also improve its science. "It is starting down a road of ...

Public Employee Growth Swells, Census: Numbers outpace Utah's gain in population Wednesday, July 25, 2001 BY PAUL FOY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS The number of government employees and teachers in Utah has grown faster than the state's population in the past decade, according to census figures released Tuesday. Utah has 59,863 full- and part-time employees of state government, a category that includes the staffs of public schools and colleges and universities as well as state liquor stores, according to a census snapshot taken in April 2000. That works out to an equivalent of 49,331 full-time state government jobs, up 32.7 percent ...

Contingency visits S.L. to promote cause of free trade By Dave Anderton Deseret News business writer As protests against globalization raged in Genoa, Italy over the weekend, a small contingency of Albanians arrived in Salt Lake hoping to further the cause of free trade. Albania, located along the Adriatic coast, is one of Europe's smallest and poorest countries. On average, people earn less than $600 a year. However, you won't hear these Albanians speaking against global markets. In fact, Albania would like to become a trading partner with Utah. Franz Kolb, deputy director of the state's International Business Development Office, ...

Democrats Press For Immediate Boost In Challenge To Bush Defense Plan By Ed Offley, Stars and Stripes Editor in Chief (Stars and Stripes Omnimedia is a privately owned news source and is in no way affiliated with the U.S. government.) A group of pro-defense Democrats in the House of Representatives did not wait long to challenge President Bush on the contentious issue of an immediate defense budget hike. Seven hours, to be precise. In his speech to military personnel and their families in Norfolk, Va., on Tuesday morning, Bush said that he intends to wait for an internal review of ...

Military Has High Hopes For Bush By Mike Allen, Washington Post Staff Writer CHARLESTON, W.Va., Feb. 14 -- For the third straight day, President Bush was showered with gleeful grunts of "Hoo-ah!" today as he completed his maiden tour as commander in chief with a pledge to deploy American troops more sparingly than the previous administration. From a damp parade ground in Georgia to a high-tech command center in Norfolk to the flag-festooned hangar here, troops said they appreciate Bush's promises to bolster their pay, fighting equipment and living conditions. And as he snapped his salutes and gave manly pats ...

Military Has High Hopes For Bush By Mike Allen, Washington Post Staff Writer CHARLESTON, W.Va., Feb. 14 -- For the third straight day, President Bush was showered with gleeful grunts of "Hoo-ah!" today as he completed his maiden tour as commander in chief with a pledge to deploy American troops more sparingly than the previous administration. From a damp parade ground in Georgia to a high-tech command center in Norfolk to the flag-festooned hangar here, troops said they appreciate Bush's promises to bolster their pay, fighting equipment and living conditions. And as he snapped his salutes and gave manly pats ...

Bush Tours A Military Mired In A Cold War Mind-Set As President Bush showers military personnel with pay raises and pep talks, his harsher message is left unsaid: no more new funds until the administration addresses the fact that the military spends too much time and money preparing for yesterday's wars. That overdue pronouncement was delivered last week so Bush could concentrate on the more popular aspect of his program during this week's tour of military bases. But it is the component that will matter most for the nation's defense. The services spend too little of the $310 billion defense ...

Subject: [heterodox] Kindergarten Curriculum in Calif. Date: Fri, Dec 29, 2000, 2:54 PM PACIFIC JUSTICE INSTITUTE PRESS RELEASE For Immediate Release December 28, 2000 Contact: Attorney Brad Dacus (916) 857-6900 "Homosexuality in Schools" Bill to Become Law in Four Days Pacific Justice Institute Counters with Opt Out Program Sacramento, CA - Beginning January 1, 2001, two bills will go into effect as California law. AB1785 requires pro-homosexual tolerance education at all public schools and all grade levels, including Kindergarten. A similar bill going into effect, AB1931 will provide taxpayer funded grants to take children on field trips to teach them ...

Al Gore's Big-Time, All Nude Election Dance Party Bill's Bedtime Confessions

IT IS TIME FOR THEM TO GO! THEY ARE GOING!! GOODBYE!!! Happy days are here again The skies above are clear again Let us sing a song of cheer again WE'LL BE XLINTON FREE AGAIN!! HEY ALGORE! TWO WORDS! RYDER RENTS!!

IT IS TIME FOR THEM TO GO! THEY ARE GOING!! GOODBYE!!! Happy days are here again The skies above are clear again Let us sing a song of cheer again WE'LL BE XLINTON FREE AGAIN!! GET OUT OF CHENEY'S HOUSE!!

We stand at a crossroads in this nation. What are we to do? We see the Democrat Party's criminal operatives waltz into Florida to engage in obvious election fraud. We see their sycophants on the tube, the Tim Russerts, the Cokie Roberts, the Jim Lehrers, all pretending to be evenhanded when, even to the most obtuse, they are partisan misinformation outlets for the ever more fascistic Democrats. Their toadies in the press support them. Their cowardly hired hitmen, the Begalas, the Carlsons, the Carvilles, the Stephanopolises, all spew forth their insults calling us rednecks, Nazis, bigots and murderers while in ...

VALENCIA -- Fidel Castro appeared on President Hugo Chavez's radio talk show Sunday, praising Chavez's efforts to change Venezuelan society and joining his host in a sing-along to a popular ballad. Decidedly off-key, the two leaders sang the chorus of "Venezuela" at the end of a four-hour program that was at turns jocular and studious, mournful and combative. It was a demonstrative show of the close friendship between the 74-year-old Cuban president and the 46-year-old Chavez. Castro has been on a visit to Venezuela since Friday. He and Chavez were to sign an oil assistance pact today before he ...

Despite Evidence, We Want to Think the Best of North Korea's Uncle Kim GEORGIE ANNE GEYER UNIVERSAL PRESS SYNDICATE WASHINGTON -- What an unspeakable relief it is to know that, overnight, he is no longer the "unpredictable madman" of the Korean Peninsula. How much better we can sleep now, knowing that the man likes to make jokes, toss down a glass of wine, and chat about the Internet and globalization (just like everybody else). Madeleine Albright found North Korean leader Kim Jong Il to be "very decisive and practical and serious," as she reviewed 100,000 of his subjects dancing and ...

Clinton to visit Vietnam site being searched for MIA pilot New York Daily News WASHINGTON — President Clinton has agreed to visit a site in Vietnam being searched for the remains of a U.S. pilot who crashed during the war the president avoided. At the request of the Pentagon, Clinton will go to an excavation site outside Hanoi next month, when he will make the first trip to Vietnam by a president since the communist takeover in 1975. Clinton "is planning to go to a (search) site, absolutely," said retired Air Force Col. P.J. Crowley, the White House national security ...

THE TIMES OF LONDON FRIDAY OCTOBER 20 2000 US Election 2000Labour activists go to work for Hillary FROM JAMES BONE IN NEW YORK THE Labour Party fought off charges that it was interfering in the American election yesterday after it emerged that a contingent of party workers had crossed the Atlantic to campaign for Hillary Clinton. About eight staff, most of them in their twenties, who normally work as researchers for Labour MPs took time off to join Mrs Clinton's campaign for a Senate seat in New York and stayed in spartan conditions in a South Bronx convent for more ...

Guns Remain in Homes of Depressed Teens NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Even after being told by a health professional that keeping a gun at home may increase the likelihood that a depressed child will attempt suicide, most parents of depressed teens do not remove firearms from their homes, according to a new study. ``The high proportion of families who, after receiving information, continued to keep a gun in the house is concerning, given the apparent risk for suicide conveyed by a gun in the home and the 30-fold increased risk for suicide conveyed by adolescent depression,'' Dr. David ...

CALIFORNIA¹S PREDATOR-PROTECTION BILLS AB 1785 LABELED ³HATE CRIMES² & ³SEXUAL ORIENTATION² A Work in Progress By Judith A. Reisman, Ph.D. President, The Institute for Media Education and Author, Kinsey, Crimes & Consequences Research Advisor, California Protective Parents Association, Sacramento, California Action Item: Repeal all ³sexual orientation² and ³hate crime² bills as predator protection legislation. Under California¹s AB 1785, et al., children who commit ³hate² by resisting sexual orientations such as sadism, masochism, homosexuality, voyeurism, etc., may be retrained by State sex authorities. Investigate credentialed State sex trainers for fraudulent credentials and for proselytizing schoolchildren via an anti-Judeo-Christian, pansexual religious cult, ...

Depressed Kids May Have Atypical Symptoms NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - About 16% of depressed children and teens have symptoms that do not fit the typical definition of depression, according to new study findings. So-called atypical depression is known to occur in some depressed adults, but the study is one of the first to evaluate the condition in children. To be diagnosed with atypical depression, a person must first display mood reactivity, meaning that his or her spirits can be lifted in reaction to some external situation, according to the study's lead author, Dr. Douglas E. Williamson, of the ...