Second Volcano Intensifies Alarm in Indonesia

A second Indonesian volcano has sprung to life after a series of terrifying quakes, intensifying fears that the archipelago's violent geological forces will unleash a new disaster.
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Dinosaur eggs found whole in mother's belly

The fossil "is absolutely stunning",
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Courting Armageddon

the Pentagon unearthed over 2,000 tons of hazardous biological waste in Maryland, much of it undocumented leftovers of an abandoned germ warfare program. Nearby, the FBI was draining a pond for clues into 2001's anthrax attacks.
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Row deepens over UN oil scandal

The US and Britain have rejected allegations by UN chief Kofi Annan that they turned a blind eye to oil smuggling by Saddam Hussein's regime.
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Slime-mould bugs named after US statesmen

US President George W Bush, Vice President Dick Cheney and Secretary of Defence Donald Rumsfeld can now also be called bushi, cheneyi and rumsfeldi, or simply slime-mould beetles.

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So tonight I spied on Area 51. Actually...

...maybe I should explain a little more, before I lead with such a tempting sentence.

John Bolton vs. Democracy

Bolton was one of the pack of lawyers for the Republican presidential ticket who repeatedly sought to shut down recounts of the ballots from Florida counties before those counts revealed that Gore had actually won the state's electoral votes and the presidency.

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Not Quite A Wrap

Democrats began to ponder the notion that Arnold may not be invincible if he decides to run for re-election in 2006.
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The art of Abu Ghraib

The images from Iraq's most notorious prison have inspired Colombia's best-known painter to create his own versions as a form of protest. Elizabeth Nash reports
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Look out for giant triangles in space

Instead of listening for alien radio broadcasts, a better strategy may be to look for giant structures placed in orbit around nearby stars by alien civilisations.
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25,000 villagers flee rumbling Indonesian volcano

Up to 25,000 villagers have been evacuated from the slopes of a rumbling volcano on Indonesia's Sumatra Island ..
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A renegade who won't back down

Muqtada al-Sadr, the renegade Shia Muslim cleric who has instigated two rebellions against American forces, is again positioning himself as one of the fiercest opponents of the U.S. military presence in Iraq.
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CodePink

Members of CodePink: Women for Peace Unfurl Banners and Speak Out Against Bolton Nomination During Senate Confirmation Hearing.
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Beer giant threatens boycott over 'medicinal' grain

Anheuser-Busch Cos., the nation's No. 1 buyer of rice as well as its largest brewer, says it won't buy rice from Missouri if genetically-modified medicinal crops are allowed to be grown in the state.
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Labs race to destroy deadly virus

Health experts have begun to destroy samples of a potentially lethal flu strain sent to laboratories around the world by a US testing organisation.
who makes this kind of mistake?

How should Bush fill his iPod?

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t r u t h o u t - MultiMedia

Check out Boltens views on the United Nations....in his own words.
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Baghdad Burning: Girl Blog from Iraq

The thing that strikes me most is the fact that the news is so... clean. It's like hospital food. It's all organized and disinfected. Everything is partitioned and you can feel how it has been doled out ...
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Cydonian Imperative

The short of it: It's still a face.


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Kerry: Trickery Kept Voters From Polls

Earlier this year, Kerry joined Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, D-N.Y., in filing voting reform legislation. The Count Every Vote Act would create a federal holiday for voting, require paper receipts for votes and authorize $500 million to help states upgrade voting systems and equipment.

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Larry Flint To Publish Major 911 Skeptic Article

Larry Flynt features renowned theologian Dr. David Ray Griffin in a four-page Hustler interview/article entitled "What if Everything You Knew about 9/11 was Wrong?"
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Japan in plan to expand whaling

Japan is proposing to expand its controversial whaling research programme.
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Lightning and strong winds kill 13 in China

About three-inches of rain has fallen and hail up to one-inch in diameter has pounded 20 cities in southern China's Sichuan province...
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Theocracy 101: "Our job is to reclaim America for Christ, whatever the cost"

Meet the Dominionists?biblical literalists who believe God has called them to take over the U.S. government. As the far-right wing of the evangelical movement, Dominionists are pressing an agenda that makes Newt Gingrich?s Contract With America look like the Communist Manifesto.
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Iraqis Protest on Anniversary of Saddam's Fall

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Pharmacists 'denying birth control'

"In essence, I would be causing a chemical abortion, and as a Christian, I am impelled not to do anything that destroys life."
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