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A high-level British offer of help to clean up the Gulf of Mexico oil spill was rebuffed by America shortly after the accident, fuelling fresh fears of political tension between the two countries over the disaster. A few days after the BP-leased rig sank on April 22, the Cabinet Office made a direct offer to the US State Department to airlift half of Britain’s 1,200-tonne stockpile of chemical dispersants, The Times has learnt.

Forty thousand Nevadans soon will receive word that they might have been exposed to HIV and hepatitis strains B and C in what a federal health official called the largest notification of its kind in U.S. history.

We've all heard of the Iraqi pre-war documents,tapes,movies,and videos that described the butal reign of someone now being fawned over as "the victim of a lynching". Truth will out-even, it would seem - at CNN.

"Control the News Cycle..." I heard these words uttered by a Democrat operative shortly after polls were released showing an improvement in the President's approval numbers. His response was to the effect that the Democrats were going to counter the President by making every effort to control the news cycle in the run up to the mid-term elections. He who controls the news cycle controls the framing of the issues. Is there any wonder that Mr. Clinton would lead the way with his weekend tantrum on FNS? No big surprise to El Nuko. The Clinton spin machine has been the...

[Q: I find this an exciting section. It takes some thoughtful scrutiny to apprehend it's depth and awesomeness. But it's worth the time and effort.] The Incredible Compactness of the Isaiah 53 Cluster When we calculated the odds of a cluster similar to that of Isaiah 53 occurring by chance, we ignored a critical factor—how tightly packed many of the most improbable codes are around the longest code. If we were to reflect this in our calculation of the odds, the chances of it being a coincidence would be far more unlikely. Reflecting this is quite complicated, and the odds...