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The healthy choice Cheers to Claude Peck for his candid appeal to ban smoking in Minneapolis restaurants and bars. We are quickly falling behind the rest of the nation in protecting our entertainment workers and patrons from the third-leading killer in America. Smoke-free ordinances are sweeping the nation. Breathable indoor air is now a right in El Paso, Texas; Boston; Dallas; Tempe, Ariz.; Boulder, Colo.; Eugene, Ore.; Albuquerque, N.M.; New York, and hundreds of other cities. Will Minneapolis compete or retreat? A smoke-free city ordinance doesn't mean smokers cannot smoke; it just means they cannot do it where they can...

The Associated Press Thursday, September 5, 2002; 7:13 PM ALEXANDRIA, Va. –– A bankruptcy judge will allow US Airways to walk away from leases on 57 airplanes it no longer uses because of a reduced flight schedule. The ruling Thursday reaffirmed a previous order. US Airways parked 57 aircraft after the Sept. 11 attacks, when a slowdown in air travel forced the airline to reduce its capacity by 23 percent. When the airline filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection Aug. 11, it sought to terminate the lease agreements on those aircraft. At the time, a judge issued a conditional order...

The Hildabeast started it, I think, with HILLARY! I've seen WELLSTONE! There may be JEB! Post your sightings here. Maybe that should be HERE!

F&SF subscribers, read the story and comment. Non-subscribers, buy the magazine, read the story and comment. Is this the future? Can you see it not happening?

C.Chung: Senator, how has your life changed since the recent unpleasantness in the Senate Ethics Committee? R.T.: You see, you know the trouble with now having to live half way up a cliff is you feel so cut off. You know it takes me two hours every morning to get out onto the moors, collect m' berries, chastise m'self, and two hours back in the evening.

A birthday card we sent to our daughter the other day was just returned to us with this label attached:Return to Sender 11c postage due for nonstandard surcharge Because this mailpiese is not a standard size, an 11-cent surcharge is required in addition to the postage and fees already paid. Nonstandard mail is First-Class Mail (and certain international mail) whose weight is 1 ounce or less and: a. whose dimensions exceed any of these measurements: height-6-1/8 inches, length-11-1/2 inches, thickness-1/4 inch; orb. whose length divided by height is less than 1.3 or more that 2.5.To remail, affix 11c additional postage...

Update: Mon Mar 11 11:14:15 AST 2002 We apologize for the delays. Things are taking a bit longer than expected, but we do expect to have online CD ordering for PhotoPoint accounts some time prior to Monday, March 25th. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Update: Sun Mar 3 18:12:17 AST 2002 We have arranged for having members' accounts burned to CD. Online orders for these CD's at should be available here some time this week. Pricing will be $24.95 plus shipping and C.O.D. charges. Please stay tuned.

Is anyone using Pegasus/Direcway two-way satellite internet access? I'd like to know more about it but can't find a dealer with a demo set up.

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Guess it's been around for a few years, but I saw the doctored photo of Oswald's shooting by Jack Ruby for the first time today. ROTFLMAO. Don't know how to post the picture, but follow the link below for the site.

GO HERE for a comprehensive list of image hosting sites. Each is rated and has links to the author's albums on them so comparisons can easily be made. Site is current as of the 16th.

"The parent of online photo site PhotoPoint.com shut down last month and is liquidating its assets, but it expects to announce a plan to return photos archived with the service within one or two weeks, the company's president said Monday." Entire article HERE

Tom Hanson, Chaska (MN) magazine publisher, says, "The continuing problems of blatant liberal bias at the Star Tribune can be solved very simply .... Start staffing the newsroom with professional journalists instead of professional advocates." He sent three examples of "blatant liberal bias": "Rush Limbaugh's July 9 radio show noted how newspapers have managed to lose their stylebooks when it came to identifying Gary Condit." Rep. Condit, D-Calif., is the central figure in stories about the April 30 disappearance of Chandra Levy, 24-year-old intern. "Condit was being identified simply as a representative instead of a Democratic congressman from California as ...

PhotoPoint is still coming up "page cannot be displayed". Does anyone know what's going on? I have many albums there and even paid their membership fee. Zing at least gave notice before they folded.

From what's being posted on FR about Delta Force, I'm getting the feeling that BillyBub may not be able to slip out of this one. Do you suppose that right now he's checking out political asylum in, say, Britain or France? Both Tony and Jacques are his buddies. I don't know about Britain, but isn't France littered with any number of former dictators who had to leave home in a hurry? I believe that Baby Doc Duvalier is there. Now that I think of it, isn't Pinochet of Chile in Britain seeking asylum?