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"So far, we have gotten calls from as far away as California from people wanting boots for the Inauguration," said Walter Pie, president of the Pinto Ranch Fine Western Wear, just down the road from where former President George Bush lives in Houston. "Especially from women." "The boots sell for between $1,000 and $3,000, with the all-alligator skin model going for $6,000." Indeed!! How can we as a Nation look ourselves in the mirror while plans are coming together to squander millions and millions of dollars -- both public and private -- on galas; parades; travel, meal, and lodging expenses;...

The White House Office of the Press Secretary For Immediate Release January 28, 2003 State of the Union Excerpts Tonight, President Bush will talk about the challenges our country is facing both at home and abroad, and call on the American people to confront them as we always have - with resolve and confidence: "This country has many challenges. We will not deny, we will not ignore, we will not pass along our problems to other Congresses, other presidents, and other generations. We will confront them with focus, and clarity, and courage." He will outline four specific domestic goals for...

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Montgomery County, MD Police Chief Moose just told the world that he is asking (waving letter for the cameras) the U. S. Department of Justice and everyone else who is listening to help him crack the recent mass murders (5 people) and non-fatal sniper shootings. The Mongomery County DA just referred to the "cold-blooded murderer of a 13-year-old boy" (who, as far as everyone knows, still is alive and stabilized). Spokespersons from the ATF, the U.S, Attorney, and others are promising to work with the MC police to solve the case which, thanks to local and national mediawhores (one word),...

<p>AURORA, Colo. -- In a case that lays bare deep divisions on immigration, a Colorado congressman is urging immigration officials to deport an honors student who spoke out about the difficulties of undocumented youths trying to attend college in the United States.</p> <p>Tancredo asked immigration authorities to remove 17-year-old Jesus Apodaca and his family from the country earlier this month after the youth was featured in a front-page story by The Denver Post about the dilemmas undocumented teenagers face when trying to go to college. The family has lived illegally in the United States for five years.</p>

An annual survey of church demographics released this week shows The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is now the fifth-largest denomination in the United States. But a top LDS leader doesn't expect a growth spurt because of attention to the faith during the Olympics. "I don't think we'll see a great surge in convert baptism but a great surge of better understanding and appreciation for what the Mormon Church really is," said Elder M. Russell Ballard of the church's Council of the Twelve Apostles. The National Council of Churches' 2002 "Yearbook of American and Canadian Churches," believed by ...

Text of e-mail to me: [name and organization omitted] I thought this worthy of sharing. This is a piece written by an author friend of mine. It is not very comforting but soberly poignant and likely true: "Today I had the fortuitous experience to have breakfast with a Muslim who was a former antiterrorist soldier from Afghanistan. Can you believe this? I will share with you his comments that I found quite interesting. He said this operation took years to pull off, the planning, the coordinating, the execution. He would guess that it cost around 200 million. They train a ...

NORFOLK, Va. -- A monument to the 17 people killed in the terrorist bombing of the USS Cole will be dedicated at the Norfolk Naval Station on Oct. 12, exactly one year after the attack. The memorial, featuring a 10-foot-tall monolith encircled by 17 granite slabs, is being built on a site overlooking Willoughby Bay. "This memorial is a fitting tribute to the 17 brave men and women in USS Cole who gave their lives in service to our country," Adm. Robert J. Natter, commander of the Atlantic Fleet, said Tuesday. "Their dedication and sacrifice will be appropriately honored and ...

The company that supplied controversial face-recognition technology to scan people on the streets of Tampa, Fla., is working with commercial partners in China to supply the same technology there. Face-recognition software analyzes the spaces and angles of as many as 80 key points on a person's face. Data from only 14 to 20 such points are enough to create a unique digital "face print" that can then be compared with an existing database of face prints, derived, for example, from pictures of wanted criminals. When used with surveillance cameras, the monitoring system can scan the faces in a store, on ...

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NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH National Institute of Child Health and Human Development FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Monday, July 2, 2001 PLEASE NOTE: The embargo time for this release has been broken. The original embargo time, established by the American Academy of Pediatrics, was for 5 p.m. today, July 2. Please feel free to broadcast this story, post it on your website, or otherwise disseminate it as you see fit. National Study Examines Sites Where U.S. Children Drown Infants are most likely to drown in bathtubs, toddlers in swimming pools, and older children in other freshwater sites such as rivers and ...

NEW YORK -- Body ID tags were accidentally switched at a funeral home, and one woman wound up being buried in the other woman's grave. "Lord knows I'm sorry it happened," said Clifford James, general manager of the Unity Funeral Chapels. One of his employees mistakenly switched body tags last week, misidentifying 70-year-old Elizabeth Woods and 76-year-old Ruth Ross. Woods was buried in Ross' grave at the Rose Hill cemetery in Linden, N.J., while Ross' body remained at the funeral home. James recalled one Ross relative saying "that doesn't look like Mama," but he said mourners initially accepted an ...

JUNE 3rd ACTION: Will You Join Us? For more information, please go to http://www.aidsaction20.org THE MARCH: Sunday, June 3, 2001 @ Noon Assemble: Lafayette Park (across from the White House) March begins: 12 Noon Route of March: North on 15th Street past the Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers Association, east on L Street, south on Vermont Avenue, south on 15th Street, east on the Mall to the Capitol. Total distance: 2.3 miles Bring drinking water and sunscreen. VIGIL/READING OF NAMES Begins at dawn, Friday, June 1 Lafayette Park Please sign up now to read names, contact Joanie Juster at: DCReaders@aol.com NEW ...

Lawyers for Tom Welch and Dave Johnson are preparing a court motion based on revelations that federal agents withheld thousands of documents in the case of Oklahoma City bomber Timothy McVeigh. According to Johnson's lawyer, the motion will document the defense's attempts to obtain specific information in the Olympic bribery case and the government's response in the event that "something goes awry and we end up on appeal." "The government claims they have turned over everything they have," attorney Max Wheeler said Tuesday. "This McVeigh thing obviously makes you wonder if that is true." Wheeler was referring to the 3,135 ...

A federal judge has ordered the U.S. government to pay $1.1 million to the family of a prisoner found dead in his cell at an inmate-transfer prison in Oklahoma City nearly six years ago. The family of Kenneth Michael Trentadue -- including his Utah brother -- suffered severe emotional distress, which federal prison officials "intentionally" inflicted on family members seeking answers to Trentadue's death, the judge ruled. Jesse Trentadue, a Salt Lake City lawyer, called Tuesday's ruling "a small step" in his quest to bring to justice the guards or prisoners he believes tortured and killed his brother. Once ...

A frequently asked question by visitors to Ellis Island in New York is: "Where can I find my family's immigration records?" That answer will be readily available soon — even on the Internet — thanks to a key role by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in developing the American Family History Immigration History Center at the Ellis Island Immigration Museum. A grand opening and dedication of the facility is planned for April 17. Scott Trotter, manager of LDS Church public affairs in New York, said the project was a joint venture with The Statue of Liberty-Ellis ...

TITLE: The fate of human sperm-derived mtDNA in somatic cells. AUTHORS: Manfredi G; Thyagarajan D; Papadopoulou LC; Pallotti F; Schon EA AUTHOR AFFILIATION: H. Houston Merritt Clinical Research Center for Muscular Dystrophy and Related Disorders, and Department of Neurology, Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York, NY 10032, USA. SOURCE: Am J Hum Genet 1997 Oct;61(4):953-60 CITATION IDS: PMID: 9382109 UI: 98018455 ABSTRACT: Inheritance of animal mtDNA is almost exclusively maternal, most likely because sperm-derived mitochondria are actively eliminated from the ovum, either at or soon after fertilization. How such elimination occurs is currently unknown. We asked whether ...

Deseret News, Tuesday, December 19, 2000 SLOC denies snubbing Scouts over gay stance By Lynn Arave Deseret News staff writer Salt Lake Olympic organizers and local leaders of the Boy Scouts of America say suggestions that the Scouts have been snubbed as volunteers for the 2002 Winter Olympics because of the organization's stance against homosexuality are false. Olympic and local Scouting officials said the boys can't be regular volunteers for the 2002 Winter Olympics because they don't meet the minimum age requirement of 18 years. The organizations responded to postings on two Web sites Monday that said the Salt Lake ...

A SENIOR Democrat gave the first indication last night that Al Gore might be preparing to abandon his fight for the presidency as the odds of success in his legal battles lengthened and public pressure to concede mounted. With time running out for the Democrats to overturn the result in the courts, Warren Christopher, appointed by Mr Gore to oversee his legal challenge for the White House, said: "When the time comes, [the Vice-President] will concede in a very gracious way." Mr Christopher was careful to state that a number of lawsuits were continuing and "this is far from ...

American Citizen Arrested in Syria for "Involvement In" Bombing of USS Cole....... Judge Saul to speak in 40 Minutes (4:30 pm EST)... George Bush Sr. to Have Hip Replacement Surgery Tomorrow at Mayo Clinic..... All reported within the past 5 minutes.....