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BOSTON - A spokeswoman for Sen. Edward Kennedy says he is conscious and talking to family after he suffered a seizure in his Cape Cod home and was flown to a Boston hospital. The 76-year-old Massachusetts Democrat fell ill at his home Saturday morning and was rushed to a local hospital. He later was flown to Massachusetts General Hospital to determine the cause of the seizure. Spokeswoman Stephanie Cutter said he is "conscious, talking, joking with family." His wife, children and niece Caroline Kennedy are among those with him at the hospital. The second longest serving member of the Senate...

Shoot It, Sister! Just saw Sandy Froman speak. For those of you who don't know, that's Sandy Froman-- a Jewish native of San Francisco, graduate of Stanford undergrad and Harvard law, and President of the NRA. She said she gets this reaction a lot: "What's a nice girl like you doing involved with guns?" And she admits she might not have been involved with guns had a 3 a.m. break-in not forced her to get involved. Froman was a 20-something lawyer in L.A. when she woke up to a strange noise at her front door. She looked through the peephole...

United States Department of DefenseNews ReleaseOn the web: http://www.defenselink.mil/releases/2003/nr20030616-0102.html Media contact: media@defenselink.mil or +1 (703) 697-5131 Public contact: http://defenselink.mil/faq/comment.html or +1 (703) 428-0711   No. 419-03 IMMEDIATE RELEASE June 16, 2003 Pentagon Spokeswoman Steps Down Secretary of Defense Donald H. Rumsfeld announced today that chief Pentagon Spokeswoman Victoria Clarke would step down from her post as assistant secretary of defense for public affairs on June 20. Citing personal reasons for her departure, Clarke said, "I depart sadly, because this has been the best professional experience of my life. It has been a true honor working for the men and...

<p>When Victoria "Torie" Clarke was a shy teenager at Sewickley Academy, she would beg her English teacher to excuse her from addressing the class. Clarke would even lay her head down on her desk in dread, her mane of long, 70s-style hair tumbling forward and concealing her blushed face.</p>

Signaling that Israel has reached the end of its preparation for a possibly imminent attack by Iraq, IDF Spokeswoman Brig.-Gen. Ruth Yaron publicly urged Israelis on Wednesday to prepare sealed rooms and get new gas mask kits. "Whoever has not yet acquired the correct equipment should do so. This is the time to make those purchases," Yaron said in an interview with Israel Radio. "As of now I want to emphasize get ready, renew your gas masks, and finish buying equipment for sealing rooms." In response, hundreds of people reportedly swamped gas mask distribution centers Wednesday, fearing an imminent attack....