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WAR DEPARTMENT
ABC NEWS BLOTTER - Three days after Americans saw the Bush
administration's counterterrorism chief say the Iraq war has likely not
made the United States safer from terrorism, the official announced his
resignation, citing health reasons. In an e-mail sent to his staff
Wednesday afternoon, Adm. Scott Redd, head of the National
Counterterrorism Center, said he was stepping down to "take care of some
long-delayed surgery that I can no longer neglect.". . . A spokesman
said that Redd, 63, needed to have both of his knees replaced, which
would require a long period of rehabilitation during which he could not
work.
http://blogs.abcnews.com/theblotter/
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DRUG BUSTS
REUTERS - On an average day, nearly 1.2 million teenagers smoked
cigarettes, 631,000 drank and 586,000 used marijuana, the Substance
Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration found. Nearly 50,000
used inhalants, 27,000 used hallucinogens, 13,000 used cocaine and 3,800
used heroin, SAMHSA said in its report. "In the United States in 2006,
one-third of adolescents aged 12 to 17 drank alcohol in the past year,
one-fifth used an illicit drug and one-sixth smoked," the report reads.
http://today.reuters.com/news/articlenews.aspx?type=healthNews&storyid=
2007-10-18T081121Z_01_N17371138_RTRUKOC_0_US-DRUGS-TEENS-USA.xml
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OUTLYING PRECINCTS
KATHRYN JEAN LOPEZ, NATIONAL REVIEW - [Sandy] Berger, for the record,
wasn't stealing old lunch menus for his scrapbook. While we don't know
everything he took (and in some cases destroyed), we know he did take
drafts of what people familiar with it have described as a scathing
"after-action report" done after the intelligence community failed to
foil the millennium plot to bomb Los Angeles International Airport,
instead leaving it to an awake Customs agent to save the day. The report
was a brutal internal review of our state of unreadiness - our
vulnerability to domestic terrorism. A House Government Reform Committee
investigation revealed that Berger had unsupervised access to
uninventoried original documents on terrorism for which there were no
duplicates. . . However you view it, the facts are that the Berger case
is weird, troubling, and mishandled. It's been mishandled by the
Clintonistas, who haven't had an open-door policy on the classified
after-action report. Berger hasn't been in a rush to set the record
straight, giving up his law license rather than let the D.C. bar do a
thorough investigation. It's been mishandled by the Bush administration:
The Justice Department let Berger plea bargain, admitting guilt to a
misdemeanor handling of classified information, slapping him with a
$50,000 fine. No jail for Berger the Burglar.
http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=MDE4ZDkyY2VjMWI3ODk4M2Iw
MjY3Njk1ZWQ0ZGZjYTQ=
RADAR - Lynne Cheney has announced that her husband, Dick, and Obama
are eighth cousins and share a common 17th century ancestor. A spokesman
for the candidate jokingly responds, "Every family has a black sheep."
http://www.radaronline.com/
CINDY ADAMS NY POST - Look, I'm definitely absolutely for sure not
saying this is so. I'm only re porting a reaction to the Enquirer's
recent allegation that candidate John Edwards may have strayed. He has
denied this. All I know is, his staffers are newly nervous. Some reached
out to pros for how to deal with this. They're not just dismissing it.
They're discussing it. One who was tapped for insight puts it at,
"They're profoundly worried."
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ECOCLIPS
HEADWATER NEWS - Yellowstone National Park officials estimate that there
are 4,700 bison roaming the park, making the herd the nation's largest.
That's just 200 less than the record number of bison reported in
2005-2006, when more than 1,000 animals were captured and shipped off to
slaughter after they wandered out of the park.
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CITIES & TRANSPORTATION
LEE VAN DER VOO, PORTLAND TRIBUNE`- Launched this summer, the "Velib"
rental program in Paris seems to be a success, having logged more than 3
million rides on its 10,000-bike fleet. Portland hopes to launch its own
bike-rental service, and about 10 companies are expected to bid on it. A
bicycle fleet that would make quick trips possible from kiosks
throughout the city could hit Portland streets within a year, polishing
the city's image as one of the most bike-friendly places in the nation.
As it does, Portlanders also might be asked to choose between paying
public subsidies for cheap, available bikes and allowing advertising in
public spaces to pay for a bike-rental program. Following the lead of
European cities such as Paris, city Commissioner Sam Adams wants to
establish a rental fleet of 500 bikes as the first phase of a
bike-rental plan for Portland.
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HEALTH & SCIENCE
JOSH GOODMAN, GOVERNING - At Governing's management conference last
week, a former hospital administrator mentioned at dinner that some
private companies are sending employees to India for open heart surgery.
The doctors, he explained, are U.S. trained, the data shows that the
hospitals perform well, and, even after the travel costs, India is a
much cheaper option than the U.S.
http://governing.typepad.com/
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CYBER NOTES
CHRISTIAN SCIENCE MONITOR - E-mail takes up more and more of our time at
work, according to Radicati Group, a Palo Alto, Calif., research and
consulting firm. E-mails sent by a company's workers are projected to
increase 27 percent this year, to an average of 47 a day -- up from 37 a
day in 2006. And that's not the upper ranks of a company, where even
more e-mails can accumulate.
http://www.alternet.org/workplace/65380/
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FURTHERMORE. . .
BBC - Passengers could soon be using their mobile phones on planes
flying through European airspace. Plans have been developed across EU
countries to introduce technology which permits mobile calls without
risk of interference with aircraft systems. . . If given the go ahead,
the service would allow calls to be made when a plane is more than 3,000
meters high. Individual airlines would need to decide if they wanted to
introduce the technology, if the green light is given by national
regulators.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/-/1/hi/technology/7050576.stm
CITY BUSINESS - Fall will bring more flights to Louis Armstrong New
Orleans International Airport to serve the growing number of
conventioneers. The airport will have 126 daily flight departures in
October with 14,701 seats available in the market. This equates to 78
percent of the pre-Katrina flights and 71 percent of the pre-Katrina
seats.
GALLERY OF NARROW HOUSES
http://eyecandy-webcandy.blogspot.com/2007/10/skinny-houses.html
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WAR DEPARTMENT
ABC NEWS BLOTTER - Three days after Americans saw the Bush
administration's counterterrorism chief say the Iraq war has likely not
made the United States safer from terrorism, the official announced his
resignation, citing health reasons. In an e-mail sent to his staff
Wednesday afternoon, Adm. Scott Redd, head of the National
Counterterrorism Center, said he was stepping down to "take care of some
long-delayed surgery that I can no longer neglect.". . . A spokesman
said that Redd, 63, needed to have both of his knees replaced, which
would require a long period of rehabilitation during which he could not
work.
http://blogs.abcnews.com/theblotter/
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DRUG BUSTS
REUTERS - On an average day, nearly 1.2 million teenagers smoked
cigarettes, 631,000 drank and 586,000 used marijuana, the Substance
Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration found. Nearly 50,000
used inhalants, 27,000 used hallucinogens, 13,000 used cocaine and 3,800
used heroin, SAMHSA said in its report. "In the United States in 2006,
one-third of adolescents aged 12 to 17 drank alcohol in the past year,
one-fifth used an illicit drug and one-sixth smoked," the report reads.
http://today.reuters.com/news/articlenews.aspx?type=healthNews&storyid=
2007-10-18T081121Z_01_N17371138_RTRUKOC_0_US-DRUGS-TEENS-USA.xml
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OUTLYING PRECINCTS
KATHRYN JEAN LOPEZ, NATIONAL REVIEW - [Sandy] Berger, for the record,
wasn't stealing old lunch menus for his scrapbook. While we don't know
everything he took (and in some cases destroyed), we know he did take
drafts of what people familiar with it have described as a scathing
"after-action report" done after the intelligence community failed to
foil the millennium plot to bomb Los Angeles International Airport,
instead leaving it to an awake Customs agent to save the day. The report
was a brutal internal review of our state of unreadiness - our
vulnerability to domestic terrorism. A House Government Reform Committee
investigation revealed that Berger had unsupervised access to
uninventoried original documents on terrorism for which there were no
duplicates. . . However you view it, the facts are that the Berger case
is weird, troubling, and mishandled. It's been mishandled by the
Clintonistas, who haven't had an open-door policy on the classified
after-action report. Berger hasn't been in a rush to set the record
straight, giving up his law license rather than let the D.C. bar do a
thorough investigation. It's been mishandled by the Bush administration:
The Justice Department let Berger plea bargain, admitting guilt to a
misdemeanor handling of classified information, slapping him with a
$50,000 fine. No jail for Berger the Burglar.
http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=MDE4ZDkyY2VjMWI3ODk4M2Iw
MjY3Njk1ZWQ0ZGZjYTQ=
RADAR - Lynne Cheney has announced that her husband, Dick, and Obama
are eighth cousins and share a common 17th century ancestor. A spokesman
for the candidate jokingly responds, "Every family has a black sheep."
http://www.radaronline.com/
CINDY ADAMS NY POST - Look, I'm definitely absolutely for sure not
saying this is so. I'm only re porting a reaction to the Enquirer's
recent allegation that candidate John Edwards may have strayed. He has
denied this. All I know is, his staffers are newly nervous. Some reached
out to pros for how to deal with this. They're not just dismissing it.
They're discussing it. One who was tapped for insight puts it at,
"They're profoundly worried."
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ECOCLIPS
HEADWATER NEWS - Yellowstone National Park officials estimate that there
are 4,700 bison roaming the park, making the herd the nation's largest.
That's just 200 less than the record number of bison reported in
2005-2006, when more than 1,000 animals were captured and shipped off to
slaughter after they wandered out of the park.
||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
CITIES & TRANSPORTATION
LEE VAN DER VOO, PORTLAND TRIBUNE`- Launched this summer, the "Velib"
rental program in Paris seems to be a success, having logged more than 3
million rides on its 10,000-bike fleet. Portland hopes to launch its own
bike-rental service, and about 10 companies are expected to bid on it. A
bicycle fleet that would make quick trips possible from kiosks
throughout the city could hit Portland streets within a year, polishing
the city's image as one of the most bike-friendly places in the nation.
As it does, Portlanders also might be asked to choose between paying
public subsidies for cheap, available bikes and allowing advertising in
public spaces to pay for a bike-rental program. Following the lead of
European cities such as Paris, city Commissioner Sam Adams wants to
establish a rental fleet of 500 bikes as the first phase of a
bike-rental plan for Portland.
||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
HEALTH & SCIENCE
JOSH GOODMAN, GOVERNING - At Governing's management conference last
week, a former hospital administrator mentioned at dinner that some
private companies are sending employees to India for open heart surgery.
The doctors, he explained, are U.S. trained, the data shows that the
hospitals perform well, and, even after the travel costs, India is a
much cheaper option than the U.S.
http://governing.typepad.com/
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CYBER NOTES
CHRISTIAN SCIENCE MONITOR - E-mail takes up more and more of our time at
work, according to Radicati Group, a Palo Alto, Calif., research and
consulting firm. E-mails sent by a company's workers are projected to
increase 27 percent this year, to an average of 47 a day -- up from 37 a
day in 2006. And that's not the upper ranks of a company, where even
more e-mails can accumulate.
http://www.alternet.org/workplace/65380/
||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
FURTHERMORE. . .
BBC - Passengers could soon be using their mobile phones on planes
flying through European airspace. Plans have been developed across EU
countries to introduce technology which permits mobile calls without
risk of interference with aircraft systems. . . If given the go ahead,
the service would allow calls to be made when a plane is more than 3,000
meters high. Individual airlines would need to decide if they wanted to
introduce the technology, if the green light is given by national
regulators.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/-/1/hi/technology/7050576.stm
CITY BUSINESS - Fall will bring more flights to Louis Armstrong New
Orleans International Airport to serve the growing number of
conventioneers. The airport will have 126 daily flight departures in
October with 14,701 seats available in the market. This equates to 78
percent of the pre-Katrina flights and 71 percent of the pre-Katrina
seats.
GALLERY OF NARROW HOUSES
http://eyecandy-webcandy.blogspot.com/2007/10/skinny-houses.html
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