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MINNEAPOLIS – For John McCain and the Republicans, Hurricane Gustav carries both political peril and opportunity. ----------------------------------------------- "Had they not failed miserably three years ago in dealing with Katrina, we wouldn't be having this conversation," he said.

Man claims Subway baked knife into sandwich Thu Jul 17, 1:08 PM ET A New York man claimed in a lawsuit filed on Wednesday that he found a knife with a 7-inch (18-cm) blade baked into the bread of his foot-long "Cold Cut Trio" Subway sandwich. John Agnesini, 26, a magazine designer, said he had already taken a few bites from the sandwich in late June when he spotted the knife jutting out from the bread's crust. The lawsuit, filed in Manhattan state court, seeks $1 million. "If I didn't look at it, I don't know what would have happened,"...

From Cold War to cold meats... sailors from the US and Russian navies have tested their culinary skills in a sandwich-making competition. The contest was held during a visit by the US destroyer Stethem to the eastern Russian port of Vladivostok to mark Victory Day. Officers also joined in. A Russian cook took the prize for best-tasting sandwich while an American came top for most original presentation. Sandwiches topped with cucumber sails were among the Russian offerings. The ingredients included peppers, smoked ham, lettuce, cheese, mayonnaise, olives, cherry tomatoes and gherkins. The US winner in the individual contest got a...

As Judith Europa described how the father of her children shot and killed three people in a Woodbridge house, she clung to one positive: She and others were alive yesterday because two men were as intent on protecting those they loved as the gunman was on destroying them. Europa said she was lying with four children on the floor of her sister's bedroom Sunday when Anastacio Sanchez-Miranda, 39, slipped into the Grandview Avenue house unnoticed, his jealousy seething. She and the children watched as her sister, Rosario Europa, 24, and brother-in-law, Juan Manuel Guevara, 28, were gunned down. Guevara had...

(Greenville-AP) January 14, 2007 - US Senator Christopher Dodd calls Sunday for the removal of the Confederate flag that flies at the South Carolina Statehouse. The Connecticut Democrat was attending a Martin Luther King Junior memorial event at a Greenville church Sunday night. He says black and white young people from South Carolina are fighting under one flag in Iraq and Afghanistan. Dodd says the Confederate flag belongs in a museum. Dodd will be at the King Day at the Dome rally at the Statehouse Monday. The event was started six years ago as the National Association for the Advancement...

BOSTON -- The immigration debate is heating up in one Massachusetts town, where residents are expected to vote on a proposal that could revoke the license of any business that employs illegal immigrants. NewsCenter 5's Shiba Russell reported that the proposal has sparked an intense debate across the country, with letters and e-mails pouring into the offices of the Sandwich, Mass., board of selectmen. One selectmen said he would vote no because a yes vote would paint the Cape Cod town as "un-business friendly."

SANDWICH, Mass. --Town residents will vote on a petition that would punish local businesses that hire illegal immigrants after selectmen refused to withdraw it, despite objections from human rights and immigration advocates. The Sandwich selectmen voted 4-1 Thursday to endorse the proposal, which would deny, suspend or revoke the license of a business with illegal immigrant workers, The Cape Cod Times reported. To become law, the home-rule petition must be approved by town meeting on Sept. 25 and by the state Legislature. Selectman Douglas Dexter said workers in the country illegally were hurting local businesses who don't hire them. "It's...

I've heard that a new MRE component is being manufactured, but there seems to be limited information about it. Here's what I've found so far: Pocket Food (Includes a picture) And an older item that discusses the matter at: seabeecook The second article mentions GoodMark Foods Inc., which has been acquired by ConAgra. Anyway, I'm curious - has anyone come across such things? Who is the contractor that produces the components? How do they taste? Is there a viable (and legal) source? Yours for culinary excellence, Neutrino

Twenty years ago, as a struggling and penniless sous chef in Paris, Giorgio Locatelli once saved a month's salary simply to buy a cut of beef. But then it wasn't just any cut. It was Wagyu, and it was making its European debut as the world's most expensive meat. Yesterday he tasted it again, though this time it was free. Which was just as well, really, since the rare ingredient, imported from Japan, was the gourmet filling in Britain's most expensive sandwich - a speciality which goes on sale from tomorrow at the Sandwich Counter at Selfridge's, in Oxford Street....

Tue 17 Jan 2006 Far-right 'charity' that leaves Muslims hungry SUSAN BELLIN PARIS FAR-right groups in France are distributing ham sandwiches and pork soup to homeless people in an attempt to discriminate against Muslims and Jews, forbidden to eat pork products. Food hand-outs, which have already taken place in Paris, Nice and Nantes, and in Brussels and Charleroi in Belgium, have now spread to the eastern French city of Strasboug. At the weekend, Strasbourg's prefect banned the extreme right association Solidarité Alsacienne from distributing its soupe au cochon (pig soup) to poor and homeless people in the city centre....

Even for those not particularly familiar with the broadcast legend, it was quite a moving send-off for WOR/New York's Bob Grant this evening. Saying goodbye after decades of trailblazing talk radio entertainment, Grant was praised by some of the industry's biggest names, including Howard Stern. In a particularly fascinating radio moment, Stern revealed just how much he had influenced his own career. In addition, Howard credited Grant for the development of the modern conservative movement, calling him years ahead of nearly everyone else. Stern wondered why Grant hadn't become a major national star along the lines of Rush Limbaugh and...

Coral Snake Song - I've Got No Strings (Taking on TWO DemocRAT gun grabbers in one song.) Original song from Walt Disney's Pinocchio by Leigh Harline and Ned Washington(1940) Update Parody by Coral Snake (2006) Midi - I've Got No Strings Look under "Pinocchio" I've still got fangs, I won't be trod, Ted Kennedy, Christopher Dodd, In this song, you're sure to see, There are still fangs in me. Teddy the Swimmer man, I'm the safest one by far. My guns are less deadly, Then your Oldsmobile car. I've still got fangs, I won't be trod, Ted Kennedy, Christopher Dodd,...

LONDON (Reuters) - Tired of the same old lunch at your office desk? Help is at hand. A supermarket is launching the ultimate life-enhancing snack -- the musical sandwich. In a trial certain to be welcomed by the estimated one million Britons who eat their lunch at their desks each day, Tesco will use technology similar to that used in singing greetings cards to sell musical sandwiches. Opening the top of the sandwich box will activate a tiny sound module that plays a selection of music. This season's offering will be a medley of Christmas tunes including Jingle Bells, Santa...

Sailors who traditionally dumped barrels of oil into the sea to calm stormy waters may have been on to something, a new study suggests. The old practice reduces wind speeds in tropical hurricanes by damping ocean spray, according to a new mathematical “sandwich model”. As hurricane winds kick up ocean waves, large water droplets become suspended in the air. This cloud of spray can be treated mathematically as a third fluid sandwiched between the air and sea. “Our calculations show that drops in the spray decrease turbulence and reduce friction, allowing for far greater wind speeds – sometimes eight times...

WASHINGTON (Creators Syndicate) -- Why did Monday's Democratic assault on John Bolton at the Senate Foreign Relations Committee have so little to do with how he would perform as U.S. ambassador at the United Nations and so much about Cuban biological warfare? It may be partially explained by tactical considerations. But the more significant reason is Sen. Christopher Dodd's long-range goal of normalized relations with Fidel Castro.

Gyro sacrifice may extend Hubble's life 11:59 24 February 2005 Engineers are testing whether the Hubble Space Telescope should clip its own wings in an attempt to survive as long as possible without a servicing mission. Preliminary results suggest the new, scaled-down operating mode will buy the telescope an extra year of life - possibly until the end of 2008 - without sacrificing too much science. The telescope was originally designed to use three of its six gyroscopes to point and stabilise itself in space. But these devices regularly break down - astronauts have replaced them twice. Now, the 15-year-old...

Half of 10-year-old Virgin Mary sandwich back on eBay Associated Press & sun-sentinel.com Posted November 16 2004, 4:25 PM EST HOLLYWOOD -- The Internet auction house eBay Inc. reversed itself Tuesday and is allowing bids for half of a 10-year-old grilled cheese sandwich that its owner says bears the image of the Virgin Mary. Diana Duyser, of Hollywood, put the sandwich up for sale last week, drawing bids as high as $22,000 before eBay pulled the item Sunday night. The page was viewed almost 100,000 times before being taken down. An e-mail Duyser received from eBay said the sandwich broke...

Link post: to alert interested readers to the image and thread in the FR "chat" section. Please post all comments on that thread. Geology Picture of the Week, February 22-28, 2004: Mount Belinda Eruption

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SANDWICH, England (Reuters) - American rookie Ben Curtis defied almost every notion of golfing logic to win the British Open Sunday, but in one respect he was the best-prepared player at Royal St George's. The 26-year-old from Ohio, a 300-1 outsider, had played just two rounds of links course golf before the start of the week and was ranked a lowly 396th in the world. But he got in more practice than anyone else by being the first player to arrive at Sandwich, the move paying off as he held on to win the world's oldest championship by a shot....

TASTY? Bruin chews on the rudder of the U.S. submarine Connecticut. A polar bear gnawed on the rudder of a U.S. submarine and then attacked it after the sub surfaced in the ice pack during maneuvers between the North Pole and Alaska this spring, the U.S. Navy reported last week. The submarine Connecticut, a new Seawolf-class sub, had partly surfaced with its sail and rudder sticking through the ice on April 27. "When an officer looked around outside via the periscope, he noted that his sub was being stalked by a hostile polar bear," the Navy reported on its news...

May. 23, 2003. 01:00 AM Ruben's big night on Idol plays small VINAY MENON "I feel great. Thank y'all. I love y'all." After uttering those not-so-memorable words, Ruben Studdard stared ahead, almost blankly, as rivulets of sweat dribbled down his ample forehead. Inside L.A.'s Universal Amphitheater, as hot lights illuminated his stunned face, giddy fans hollered and clapped, chanting, "Ru-ben! Ru-ben! Ru-ben!" a two-syllable hallelujah to pop culture's newest demigod. The big man with the big voice was the big winner as one of television's biggest hits capped another big season. Too bad it seemed so small. In what may...

WASHINGTON -- Republicans should donate any money raised from the sale of a photograph of President Bush on Sept. 11 to victims of the terrorist attacks, said the congressman whose Manhattan district includes the World Trade Center site. "I write to you today with a heavy heart and deep disappointment over your recent decision to auction off a picture of Sept. 11," Rep. Jerrold Nadler, D-N.Y., said in a letter to Vice President Dick Cheney and others. "I ask you in the spirit of unity and bipartisanship which arose after the horrific events of Sept. 11 to donate the receipts...

The United States Military has developed the worlds most formidable sandwich.It was created by government reasearchers and is designed to stay fresh and dry for up to three years and to withstand airdrops, rough handling and extreme climates.Tasty? You bet!Project Officer Michelle Richardson raves, 'There OK, and ..highly acceptable.'These two fisted lunches will be rolled out sometime in 2004, and are expected to eventually find their way to a grocery store near you.