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WASHINGTON, Oct. 9, 2007 – Thousands of U.S. troops took to the streets of the nation’s capital and to makeshift routes laid out on military outposts around the world during the Army Ten-Miler on Oct. 7. Army 1st Lt. Anthony R. Calingo finishes first in the Logistics Support Area Adder Ten-Miler in Iraq. Photo by Spc. Jamie Avila, USA  (Click photo for screen-resolution image);high-resolution image available. “This is the first 10-miler I’ve ever run,” Army Spc. Matthew Davis said after completing a “shadow” event at Logistics Support Area Adder, about 225 miles south of Baghdad. “It’s probably one of the...

'Afro-tunnel' may still be a bridge too far By Jon Clarke and Colin Freeman (Filed: 30/04/2006) Like every other great plan to link one continent with another, it has spent an age gathering dust. A bridge between Africa and Europe has been dreamt of since the Moorish conquest of southern Spain, but the political will and hard cash to build it have always been lacking. Now, in an effort to overcome that inertia, regional officials in southern Spain have turned to an eccentric American architect. Eugene Tsui, whose oddball designs have attracted controversy, has been commissioned by officials in Cadiz,...

Scientists are over the moon at the W.M. Keck Observatory and the California Institute of Technology over a new discovery of a satellite orbiting the Solar System's 10th planet (2003 UB313). The newly discovered moon orbits the farthest object ever seen in the Solar System. The existence of the moon will help astronomers resolve the question of whether 2003 UB313, temporarily nicknamed "Xena," is more massive than Pluto and hence the 10th planet. A paper describing the discovery was submitted to the Astrophysical Journal Letters on October 3, 2005. "We were surprised because this is a completely different type of...

USSURIISK, Russia - In the mosquito-infested fields of Russia's Far East, Chinese pick tomatoes. In the markets, they sell cheap jeans and backpacks and fix shoes. At construction sites, they rebuild cities. As China and Russia embark on a new stage of cooperation by holding joint military exercises launched from the Pacific port of Vladivostok, the Chinese presence is growing in this hardscrabble region thousands of miles from Moscow. It's too early to talk of an imminent Chinese takeover, local experts say, despite such worries by some Russian politicians. Still, they acknowledge that China's hunger for resources and territory as...

The national defense budget could be cut by nearly a quarter and still leave the United States military in shape to take on all likely threats and fulfill its role in the war on terrorism, says Charles Pena, director of defense policy studies at the Cato Institute. Furthermore, the United States is outspending the rest of the world at an astounding rate. According to the International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS), in 2003: Total U.S. defense expenditures were $404.9 billion, an amount exceeding the combined defense expenditures of the next 13 countries and more than double the combined defense spending...

For Some, the Race Remains Far From Over 47 minutes ago By Sam Howe Verhovek Times Staff Writer COLUMBUS, Ohio — Clifford Arnebeck won't let it go. He can't let it go. Not, he says, while America refuses to recognize that John F. Kerry was elected president Nov. 2. Arnebeck, a Democratic lawyer here and co-chairman of a self-styled national populist alliance, is petitioning the state's highest court to throw out official results that favor President Bush and instead hand Ohio's 20 electoral votes — and thus the White House — to Kerry. Or, at least, order a revote. The...

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Jubilant Haider looks for return to power of the far Right By Michael Leidig in Vienna (Filed: 08/03/2004) Austria's far-Right nationalist Jörg Haider's Freedom Party looked set to grasp a surprise victory in an election in the Alpine province of Carinthia, according to early returns yesterday. Polls had predicted that Haider might lose his power base but a partial count reported on Austrian state television, based on more than a quarter of votes cast, showed that Mr Haider's party had won 43 per cent of the vote to the Socialist Party's 38 per cent. Jörg Haider looks set to retain...

So how far did the Phoenicians really go in the region?In one of the early adventures of Asterix and Obelix, a Phoenician trade ship takes the world’s funniest Celtic warriors from the Gaul’s last village free from Roman rule to Queen Cleopatra in the land of the Nile. Now, of course this is but an image in a comic book, but still, is it possible that the Phoenicians, generally known as the greatest seafarers of antiquity, actually reached Brittany, or even further? There’s no doubt that Phoenicians were well established all over the Mediterranean. Archeological remains prove they lived in...

New campaign warns of far right's 'rising threat' Mark Oliver Tuesday February 3, 2004 Unite Against Fascism, a major national campaign aiming to alert voters to the "rising threat" of the far right, particularly the British National party, was launched today. Campaigners hope to damage the BNP's chances in the European, local and London mayoral and assembly elections, all of which are scheduled for June 10. London's mayor, Ken Livingstone, Trevor Phillips, chairman of the commission for racial equality, Brendan Barber, the general secretary of the TUC, and Holocaust survivor Henry Guterman were among those speaking at the London launch....

Far Right poised for success in Swiss poll By Fiona Fleck in Geneva (Filed: 18/10/2003) Switzerland's populist far Right could become its biggest party in a general election tomorrow after a campaign targeting "criminal foreigners" and "asylum scroungers". Led by Christoph Blocher, a billionaire industrialist, the Swiss People's Party's anti-immigration policies have seen it reach 25 per cent support in opinion polls. Leading up to the vote, the party ran full-page advertisements in newspapers across the country accusing "pampered criminals, shameless asylum-seekers and a brutal Albanian mafia" for what it said was "an increase in assassinations, rapes and violent attacks"....

Republicans far from 'grand prize' By Rupert Cornwell in Washington 09 October 2003 America's four most populous states - California, Texas, New York and Florida - all now have Republican governors. But that does not mean that California, the biggest presidential prize of all with 55 electoral college votes, is about to swing behind George W Bush. For one thing, the party of a governor is no guide to presidential voting in his state. New York, Maryland and Massachusetts all have Republican governors but are three of the most reliable Democratic strongholds. Conversely Virginia, Republican in every presidential election since...

Sound advice, when you consider that about 30 percent of the adult population is inactive, federal officials say, despite a constant bombardment of public health messages about the value of physical activity. But sometimes the exercise gurus must turn their attention to those Americans who've taken the physical fitness gospel too far. They are the committed exercisers who overtrain to the point of burnout — even injury. Or well-intentioned couch potatoes who embrace a workout program too aggressively, only to fall victim to injury. While burnout is difficult to describe, experts know it when they see it, says Cedric X....

There are small pockets in the United States, most notably on the Left and Right Coasts, where folks really think Martin Sheen is the president and George Bush the pretender. For millions of Americans, what happens every Wednesday night on NBC's "The West Wing" is more important than events in the actual White House. Americans share an almost mythic fascination with everything entertainment and a disgust with everything political. Hollywood celebrities make 10 to 100 times more a year than Congress members for doing a lot less, and your average voting-age American is more apt to know the stars of...

(IsraelNN.com) A survey taken ahead of next week's observance of International Women's Day shows that in most Israeli homes, 60%, the woman is responsible for washing the dishes. According to the survey, in 14% of homes in Israel the husband does the dishes and in 20% of homes, they alternate. The children do dishes 4% of the time and in 2% of the time, a hired person is responsible for dishwashing. The survey was taken among 500 families that do not own a dishwasher. On a related note, 46% of Israeli homes have dishwashers the survey reports.

Deadly Dance: Giant Planet Found Orbiting Huge Star By Robert Roy Britt Senior Science Writer posted: 07:00 am ET 23 January 2003 A large planet recently found orbiting a distant star serves as a preview for the likely frying fate that awaits our own planet. The star, called HD 47536, is more than 23 times the diameter of our Sun. It is the largest star ever found to harbor a planet. The discovery was announced Wednesday. The planet is five to 10 times heavier than Jupiter and orbits the star more than twice as far as Earth is from...

Hubble can see further than ever before Friday, 10 January, 2003, 22:09 GMT Hubble's 'zoom lens' probes deeply The impressive Advanced Camera for Surveys (ACS) aboard the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) has used a natural "gravitational lens" far off in space to boost its view of the distant Universe. The image obtained by the HST offers an unprecedented and dramatic new view of the cosmos, promising to shed light on galaxy evolution and dark matter. Though gravitational lensing has been studied previously, with Hubble and ground-based telescopes, this phenomenon has never been seen in such detail. Astronomers will spend...

Schröder calls on EU leaders to quell far right Germany's chancellor, Gerhard Schröder, has warned the leaders of Europe that they must pay urgent attention to the issue of law and order if they are to stem the rise of the far right John Hooper and Edward Pilkington in Berlin Saturday May 11, 2002 The Guardian Speaking at the end of a tumultuous week in the continent's affairs that saw the anti-immigration Dutch politician, Pim Fortuyn, assassinated and nearly six million French people vote for an overtly xenophobic Jean-Marie Le Pen, the chancellor said: "In France, and possibly also in...