Archive for June, 2005
Monday, June 27th, 2005
Alaska In The News
from the June 28, 2005 edition - http://www.csmonitor.com/2005/0628/p02s01-uspo.html In Alaska, 68 miles of contentious asphalt A controversial $300 million road would connect Juneau to the outside world by car. By Todd Wilkinson | Correspondent of The Christian Science Monitor JUNEAU, ALASKA - In a few weeks, Steve Vick, a swimming coach from Haines, Alaska, will […]
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Monday, June 27th, 2005
African Anglicans Make New Push to Split Over Homosexuality Issue
By Stephen Mbogo CNSNews.com Correspondent June 27, 2005 Nairobi, Kenya (CNSNews.com) - Anglicans in Kenya, Nigeria and Uganda have started a process that could lead to a split within the “mother” Church of England over the homosexuality dispute. Church leaders in Kenya have signed a document on the Anglican Global Initiative (AGI), which envisages the […]
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Monday, June 27th, 2005
No Women In Combat? 2
Women’s Combat Role on Front Burner The Atlanta Journal-Constitution June 27, 2005 Washington - With more than 200,000 women serving in the U.S. military, Americans have long been accustomed to seeing them marching in combat boots right alongside men. But none of that prepared the nation for the grim news that at least four female […]
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Monday, June 27th, 2005
Poll: Optimism on Iraq Is Premature
washingtonpost.com Most Americans Dispute White House Assessment of Weakened Insurgency, Post-ABC Survey Finds By Richard Morin Washington Post Staff Writer Monday, June 27, 2005; 8:42 AM A majority of Americans reject claims by the Bush administration that the insurgency in Iraq is weakening and are divided on whether victory over the insurgents will have a […]
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Monday, June 27th, 2005
I Love These!!!!
This image of the familiar M51 Whirlpool Galaxy is just the beginning of a new, massive survey scanning the sky in infrared light. A team of British astronomers are conducting the UKIRT Infrared Deep Sky Survey (UKIDSS) with the world’s most powerful infrared survey camera. Known as the Wide Field Camera (WFCAM), the imager pulled […]
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Monday, June 27th, 2005
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Monday, June 27th, 2005
Rights groups detail ‘Kafkaesque’ U.S. detentions
By Kevin Johnson, USA TODAY WASHINGTON — The government detained at least 70 men, all but one a Muslim, as material witnesses and abused their civil rights in a largely secret operation launched by the Justice Department after the Sept. 11 attacks, Human Rights Watch and the ACLU allege in a report out today. The […]
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Monday, June 27th, 2005
No Women In Combat?
In this undated photo provided by Kerry Clark, Regina Clark, left, of Centralia, Wash., is shown during her 2003 deployment in Kuwait City with an unidentified buddy, right. Clark, 43, a Naval reservist was killed in Iraq when a suicide car bomber attacked.
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Monday, June 27th, 2005
Justices issue mixed rulings on Ten Commandments
By James Vicini 43 minutes ago A divided U.S. Supreme Court declared on Monday it was unconstitutional to post framed copies of the Ten Commandments in county courthouses but permissible to have a commandments monument on the grounds of a state Capitol. The two 5-4 rulings on the politically charged issue involving Ten Commandments displays […]
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Sunday, June 26th, 2005
A Glide Path to Ruin
June 26, 2005 By NICHOLAS D. KRISTOF The biggest risk we Americans face to our way of life and our place in the world probably doesn’t come from Al Qaeda or the Iraq war. Rather, the biggest risk may come from this administration’s fiscal recklessness and the way this is putting us in hock to […]