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Thought you might enjoy this pic and others of the blonde USC cheerleader. She's busy making rounds like the looter guy.

Washington, D.C.—At just past noon on Wednesday, anti-war activist Cindy Sheehan and the rest of the Bring Them Home Now tour were stopped by a pair of squad cars two blocks from the U.S. Capitol by members of the Capitol police force. Officers explained that they wanted to use bomb-sniffing dogs to inspect the caravan of three RVs and several cars. The officers said it was standard practice to inspect large vehicles in the area. “RVs aren’t allowed on Capitol Hill,” one said. “That’s standard procedure. Any trucks that come on Capitol Hill are stopped and turned around.” Campers aren’t...

A Deloitte survey reveals that 70% of large companies had dismal experiences with outsourcing projects. E-mail this article Print this article Link/reprint this article Breaking News Hardware Vendors Rally Around AMD With New Dual-Core Servers Symantec Wins $3.1 Million In Lawsuit Top Sales Exec Out As Enterasys Prepares WLAN Switch Push Ballmer Touts Interop With Sun, Trusted Computing Group EMC Adds Services To Migration Push City, County IT Initiatives Spell Opportunity For VARs Outsourcing Woes Trouble Leading Companies Microsoft To Launch, License Virtualization For Longhorn By Eric Chabrow, InformationWeek, CRN 2:44 PM EDT Wed. Apr. 20, 2005 Outsourcing IT and...

Liberally excerpted due to length; I recommend clicking the article link and reading the whole dismal thing. "VSE" stands for "Vision for Space Exploration". Telling excerpts: International Space Station: "There is no plan to handle NASA's share of the huge up-cargo and down-cargo demands of the finished ISS, except for a thin wedge labled "ISS transportation" in the famous VSE budget chart. There is no plan for a US cargo vehicle. There is no initiative to do away with the Iran Non-Proliferation Act which forbids NASA to purchase Progress launches from Russia. There is no plan to purchase ATV cargo...

Ira Nisby had his eyes on the road as he tooled down Interstate 40 in Memphis Sunday, but he should have been watching the skies. Just before noon, an out-of-gas Cessna 210 single-engine airplane with four aboard touched down on the top of his GMC Jimmy, then bounced into the lane ahead of him. "I heard a knock," Nisby said. "He came from the air. I couldn't see it," he said. Nisby, of Millington, was headed west at Covington Pike to drop off a woman passenger in his vehicle, when the airplane descended. There were no injuries. The airplane didn't...

<p>EL PASO, Texas (AP) -- The Air Force said it will pay about $12,000 in damages to a woman whose house was hit by a dummy bomb.</p> <p>Gloria Aker's west Texas home was hit last July by a bomb accidentally dropped from an Air Force F-117A Nighthawk on a practice run from Holloman Air Force Base in New Mexico.</p>

  Senate Closes Accidental AnonymizerBy Kevin Poulsen, SecurityFocus Dec 10 2002 1:24PMNever let it be said that the United States Senate has done nothing for Internet privacy. Network administrators for the U.S. government site www.senate.gov shut down an open proxy server over the weekend that for months had turned the site into a free Web anonymizer that could have allowed savvy surfers to launder their Internet connections so that efforts to trace them would lead to Capitol Hill. A proxy server is normally a dedicated machine that sits between a private network and the outside world, passing internal users'...

GONZALES -- A man trying on pants at the Tanger Outlet Center accidentally shot himself in the right leg when a .38-caliber derringer fell out of his hip pocket and discharged, Police Chief Bill Landry said Monday. Robert E. Slay Sr., 55, 11941 Parkland Drive, Lafayette, was treated at St. Elizabeth Hospital and then booked with illegally carrying a weapon, illegally discharging a firearm and simple criminal damage to property. Slay was removing his pants to try on a pair of slacks when the weapon fell out of a rear pocket, struck the floor and discharged, with the bullet striking...