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Hurricane Frances Advisory Number 13 Statement as of 11:00 PM AST on August 27, 2004 ...Frances on track...eye getting larger... interests in the northern Lesser Antilles and the northeastern Caribbean Sea should closely monitor the progress of Frances over the next several days. At 11 PM AST...0300z...the center of Hurricane Frances was located near latitude 16.3 north... longitude 50.5 west or about 750 miles...1205 km... east of the Leeward Islands. Frances is moving toward the northwest near 12 mph...19 km/hr. A motion between northwest and west-northwest is expected for the next 24 hours or so. Maximum sustained winds are near...

Toward the end of 2000, when Saddam Hussein's skimming from the oil-for-food program for Iraq kicked into high gear, reports spread quickly to the program's supervisors at the United Nations. Oil industry experts told Security Council members and Secretary General Kofi Annan's staff that Iraq was demanding under-the-table payoffs from its oil buyers. The British mission distributed a background paper to Council members outlining what it called "the systematic abuse of the program" and described how Iraq was shaking down its oil customers and suppliers of goods for kickbacks. When the report landed in the United Nations' Iraq sanctions committee,...

A rare tooth-in-eye operation has enabled a Thai teenager to see again after six years of blindness, news reports said yesterday. Luck Pewnual, 19, now reads books and watches football on television after surgeons in Singapore completed a two-part operation implanting parts of a canine tooth into his right eye. His vision has improved since the second stage was performed in June, well enough for him to legally drive a car. Several patients from Malaysia, the Philippines and Mauritius in addition to Singaporeans have been lined up for the procedure. Pewnual's case is believed to be the first carried out...

SEYMOUR — An eye doctor was shot and killed by police after he shot another doctor during an argument Friday afternoon. The fatal shot by police is believed to be the first such case in Seymour Police Department's history. Doctors pronounced Dr. Dennis A. Kissel of Middlebury dead after he was taken to Griffin Hospital in Derby, police said. The motive for the shooting was unclear. Kissel, an optometrist who had an office on Tower Lane off Route 67 in Oxford, walked into the office of Dr. George Z. Tzepos shortly before 5 p.m., said Sgt. Paul Vance, state police...

Eeeyew!!!! AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - Body piercing and tattoos make way. The latest fashion trend to hit the Netherlands is eyeball jewelry. Dutch eye surgeons have implanted tiny pieces of jewelry called "JewelEye" in the mucous membrane of the eyes of six women and one man in cosmetic surgery pioneered by an ophthalmic surgery research and development institute in Rotterdam. The procedure involves inserting a 3.5 mm (0.13 inch) wide 1 piece of specially developed jewelry -- the range includes a glittering half-moon or heart -- into the eye's mucous membrane under local anaesthetic at a cost of 500 to 1,000...

Queer Eye For the Straight Guy Airs: Tuesdays 10:00 PM (Bravo) Air Times Vary 1:00 AM (NBC) Premiere Date: 07/15/2003 Premise: Five fabulous gay men, experts in the fields of fashion, food and wine, interior design, grooming and culture, are unleashed upon a straight guy whose friends or loved ones believe he needs a lifestyle upgrade. The guy is outfitted in new clothes, gets his home renovated and receives tips on other aspects of living well. Show Background: The show debuted July 15 to an audience of 1.6 million viewers, a huge improvement over what Bravo previously drew in its...

<p>HONOLULU — Up until about three months ago, Army 2nd Lt. James Harris had 20/400 vision — bad enough that without glasses or contacts, it was difficult to recognize someone across the room. And that was a concern as he prepared for a yearlong deployment to Iraq.</p>

Powell takes no offense in Bravo's 'Queer Eye' August 29, 2003 BY BILL ZWECKER SUN-TIMES COLUMNIST Advertisement The widespread popularity of ''Queer Eye for the Straight Guy'' has certainly been the surprise of the summer. Even more surprising may be how widespread the ''Fab 5's'' reach is taking them. Word has it that none other than Secretary of State Colin Powell is amused and intrigued by the hit Bravo cable show. Don't know if we can actually call Powell a closet fan, but a good source reports the nation's chief diplomat TiVo's ''QE'' each week--so as not to miss an...

LOS ANGELES (AdAge.com) -- Major marketers are ogling placement deals on the breakout hit Queer Eye for the Straight Guy even as NBC plots an Aug. 14 special in which they will make over Jay Leno. Highest-ever rating Audience numbers for the July 29 Queer Eye, in its fourth airing on Bravo, shot up 62% from the prior week, according to Nielsen Media Research, earning the cable network its highest-ever rating. "This is the breakout show of the summer on any network, cable or broadcast," crowed Jeff Zucker, president-NBC Entertainment. "It's out of control right now." The Queer Eye premise:...

New York City has so many things that make it unique; it makes it hard to decide where to start. Then again, the cash strapped city just opened a new high school at a cost of about 3 million dollars which doesn’t allow straight students to attend. However, if you are gay or bisexual or a transgender, welcome home. Seriously. The powers that be in NYC have decided that they have collected enough money from fining smokers in public places, and animal lovers in subways, and can now spend city money to ensure that straight people are no where in...

Americans accused of turning blind eye to killings by Kurds By Kim Sengupta in Kirkuk 23 April 2003 A bitter conflict is unfolding in northern Iraq between two minority communities, with the Americans accused of turning a blind eye to killings and ethnic cleansing. The Kurds, the victims of oppression by Saddam Hussein and previous regimes in Baghdad, are being blamed for a violent campaign of intimidation against the Turkoman population. Organisations representing the Turkomans say they want British and European troops to protect them because the Americans are acquiescing in what is taking place. Kirkuk, a city with a...

INDIANAPOLIS - Technology that astronomers developed to take the twinkle out of starlight as it enters their telescopes is now peering in the opposite direction, revealing the eye's complexities as never before. Scientists hope the detailed images of light-gathering cells they can now see will lead to early diagnoses and treatment of eye diseases to spare patients from blindness. The same system of lenses, flexible mirrors and computers is also making laser eye surgery more accurate. One day it may even allow surgeons to user lasers to zap away tiny aneurisms within the eye. "The real breakthrough is the work...

<p>IRAKLIO, Greece (AP) -- Researchers on the southern Greek island of Crete have unearthed the fossilized tusk, teeth and bones of a Deinotherium Gigantisimum, a fearsome elephant-like creature that might have given rise to ancient legends of one-eyed cyclops monsters.</p>

The radical left group moveon.org, led by irresponsible Hollywood types, is airing a remake of the outrageous LBJ v. Goldwater daisy TV ad. Let them know how you feel about these actions on their feedback form. Fill in bogus data and fill up the comment section with the TRUTH. Here is the address for their feedback form: http://www.moveon.org/nowar/volunteer.html

Source:   Rockefeller University (http://www.rockefeller.edu/) Date:   Posted 9/4/2002 Dinosaur Ancestor's Vision Possibly Nocturnal; Researchers Recreate 240-Million Year Old Protein In Test Tube Call it "Triassic Park": with statistics, instead of amber-preserved DNA, researchers at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute at The Rockefeller University and Yale University recreated in the test tube a functional pigment that would have characterized the eyes of archosaurs ("ruling reptiles") and allowed these direct ancestors to dinosaurs to see in dim light. The pigment, rhodopsin, was recreated based on the scientists "inferring" its protein sequence. Their findings, reported in the September issue of Molecular...

What Is A True Color Image? Image with intrinsic color relationships. Same image roughly convolved with the response of the human eye. What is a true color astronomical image? Is it what an astronaut would see if there was an eye piece on, say, the Hubble Space Telescope? Or is it one that captures the intrinsic colors emitted by the stars, nebulae, and gas clouds in galaxies? For the Hubble Heritage image of globular cluster, M15, we constructed an image which attempted to captured these intrinsic colors as closely as possible given Hubble Space Telescope (HST) data. The detail...