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Possible Meteor Over Western Washington Thursday, June 03, 2004 SEATTLE — Bright flashes and sharp booms were reported in the skies over the Puget Sound (search) area early Thursday, and aviation officials said a meteor (search) may have been the source. An early report that a meteor might have hit near Chehalis, about 90 miles south of the city, turned out to be false, a University of Washington scientist who specializes in meteorites said. Toby Smith, a lecturer in astronomy, told The Associated Press scientists were looking into the cause of the skybursts reported over a wide area about 2:40...

Builders Boycott Abortion Clinic AUSTIN, Texas, Nov. 14, 2003 Abortion foe and building contractor Chris Danze is shown at a stack of foundation braces outside his contracting office in Austin, Texas. (Photo: AP) "This is going to be a battle. God does not want this thing built." Chris Danze, Boycott Leader (AP) Weeks into the project, the contractor hired to build an abortion clinic hit a brick wall: Plumbers and carpenters would not work for him. Drywall installers and heating subcontractors would not do business with him. Cement suppliers for miles around would not touch the job. He had been...

<p>SARS Shuts Toronto School, 6,400 in Quarantine Reuters Wednesday, May 28, 2003; 5:24 PM By Rajiv Sekhri TORONTO (Reuters) - Concern about SARS shut down a Toronto-area high school on Wednesday, sending staff and students into quarantine and raising fears the virus may have spread from hospitals to the broader community.</p>

U.S. Mulled Series Of Sanctions Against Israel WASHINGTON [MENL] -- The Bush administration has prepared a list of sanctions against Israel should it refuse to comply with a plan for a Palestinian state by the end of the year. U.S. government and congressional sources said the list was prepared by the State Department and relayed to the National Security Council in April amid the administration's effort to press Israel to agree to the so-called roadmap. The roadmap, drafted by Washington as well as the European Union, United Nations and Russia, calls for an end to the Israeli-Palestinian war and the...

Toronto set to go back on WHO disease list By Ken Warn in Toronto Published: May 25 2003 21:48 | Last Updated: May 26 2003 0:09 Toronto looks set to go back on the World Health Organisation's list of Sars-affected areas after city authorities revealed eight new probable and 26 suspected cases of the disease on Sunday. The apparent new outbreak of severe acute respiratory syndrome comes less than two weeks after Toronto was removed from the WHO's list of affected areas. The WHO's advisory against visiting the city was lifted earlier. The development represents a severe setback for medical...

SARS Travel Alert Reinstated for Toronto By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/hea...to-Warning.html May 23, 2003 Filed at 6:15 p.m. ET WASHINGTON (AP) -- Federal health officials are again telling Americans to take precautions against the SARS virus if they travel to Toronto. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention cited a possible cluster of new cases of severe acute respiratory syndrome in Canada's largest city in reinstating its travel alert on Friday. An alert warns Americans to take precautions when traveling to a particular area -- but stops short of the next step of advising against the trip. CDC's advice for...

The Danger Within By Cal Thomas Washington Times | May 21, 2003 http://www.frontpagemag.com/Article...cle.asp?ID=7958 Government officials warn that the United States remains in danger from al Qaeda and other terrorist operatives who wish to destroy us. This is not a one-front war, because we also face dangers from within our democratic institutions. Suppose our enemies have invaded the United States through immigration for the express purpose of organizing themselves politically? Suppose they present themselves as benign and seek to register voters, becoming politically active in order to elect their people to office and change U.S. policy in the Middle East? What...

The suffering Palestinians http://www.NewsAndOpinion.com | In 1867, Mark Twain visited the Holy Land and was dismayed at what he found, "a desolate country whose soil is rich enough, but is given over wholly to weeds -- a silent, mournful expanse. . . . A desolation is here that not even imagination can grace with the pomp of life and action. . . . We never saw a human being on the whole route. . . . There was hardly a tree or a shrub anywhere. Even the olive and the cactus, those fast friends of the worthless soil, had almost...

Since Peter Arnett has decided to be the mouthpiece for Iraq, now's the time to tell him he can stay there and don't bother to come back to the U.S.

Industrial-scale mortuaries being sought for mass terror fatalities By Geoffrey Lean, Environment Editor 09 March 2003 Ministers are secretly scouring the country for mortuaries to take thousands of civilian bodies from a terrorist attack after war breaks out with Iraq. David Blunkett, the Home Secretary, has appointed one of Britain's leading coroners to spearhead the search for huge temporary mortuaries, such as aircraft hangers. Richard Sturt, who retired as the East Kent Coroner two years ago, is touring the country meeting planning chiefs to assess how they could cope with "mass fatalities". But emergency planners are criticising the search as...