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MID EAST
LA TIMES - The LAPD on Wednesday abruptly scrapped a program to map the
city's Muslim population, a major retreat for a department that said the
system was needed to identify potential hotbeds of extremism. The
reversal comes after a week of protests from Muslim groups and civil
libertarians, who equated the mapping with religious profiling. Others
questioned whether it was possible for the LAPD to accurately map the
city's far-flung Muslim community.
http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-muslim15nov15,0,6998542.story?
coll=la-home-center
ANGRY ARAB - I was walking to the library in Berkeley yesterday, and I
passed by a rally against US torture in Iraq. I counted the people in
attendance. There were 12 students.
http://angryarab.blogspot.com/
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OUTLYING PRECINCTS
RACHEL ZOLL, AP - Roman Catholics voting in the 2008 elections must heed
church teaching when deciding which candidates and policies to support,
U.S. bishops said Wednesday. And while the church recognizes the
importance of a wide range of issues - from war to immigration to
poverty - fighting abortion should be a priority, the bishops said.
"The direct and intentional destruction of innocent human life is always
wrong and is not just one issue among many," the bishops said.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20071114/ap_on_re_us/catholic_bishops?wtf
AP - Barack Obama, who's been scolding Hillary Rodham Clinton for not
hastening the release of records from her time as first lady, says he
can't step up and produce his own records from his days in the Illinois
state Senate. He says he hasn't got any. "I don't have - I don't
maintain - a file of eight years of work in the state Senate because I
didn't have the resources available to maintain those kinds of records,"
he said at a recent campaign stop in Iowa. He said he wasn't sure where
any cache of records might have gone, adding, "It could have been thrown
out. I haven't been in the state Senate now for quite some time."
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20071114/ap_on_el_pr/democrats_records
INSIDE POLITICS, WASH TIMES - "Heading into yet another TV debate, Sen.
Hillary Rodham Clinton faces a potent enemy - not onstage, but in her
own mind," Howard Fineman writes at Newsweek.com. "She has a lifelong
obsession with seeking out, and trying to control, unruly events and
people. She often fails, and harms herself trying. If she doesn't ease
up, she risks losing the race. Brainy women don't frighten voters;
control freaks do," Mr. Fineman said of the New York Democrat. "Hillary
hates surprises, yet chooses to live in the most chaotic situations
imaginable - from her eyes-wide-shut marriage to an undomesticated
Arkansan, to a race for president in today's impossible-to-tame Wild
West of bile-filled blogs and YouTube videos. "I've seen this disaster
flick before. In her husband's 1992 campaign, she turned a family
real-estate deal into a horror show by refusing to show documents about
the transaction to the New York Times. She played the reporter along;
then she stiffed him. The maneuver was too clever by half. 'Whitewater'
dogged the Clintons for years. The latest example of the Control Freak
Syndrome arose in Newton, Iowa, where her campaign planted in the
audience at least one (and maybe several) questions to be asked of her.
What on earth did she have to fear? By now she has answered thousands of
questions and is smarter and better-briefed than any candidate in the
field. Why plant an innocuous question about global warming? The answer:
because she could."
http://www.washingtontimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20071115/
NATION02/111150078/-1/RSS_NATION_POLITICS
RASMUSSEN - The latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey found
Hillary Clinton leading Rudy Giuliani by three percentage points in a
four-way race that includes Ron Paul running as a Libertarian candidate
and Ralph Nader representing the Green Party. The poll shows Clinton
earning 42% of the vote while Giuliani attracts 39%. Ron Paul is the
choice for 8%, Ralph Nader is preferred by 4% and 7% are not sure. The
inclusion of two minor-party candidates has little impact on the gap
between Clinton and Giuliani. Recent Rasmussen Reports polling shows
Clinton leading Giuliani by an average of four percentage points in a
two-way race. The gender gap is huge - Clinton leads by nineteen points
among women while Giuliani leads by seventeen among men.
CNN - During an afternoon tea party at the elegant governor's mansion
in the capital of South Carolina, former Arkansas first lady Janet
Huckabee told CNN she is pretty handy with a grenade launcher. Huckabee,
the wife of Republican presidential candidate Mike Huckabee, said in an
interview that she once shot a grenade launcher at a National Guard
training camp in Arkansas. "I have fired a grenade launcher and hit the
target two out of three times, so I think that's pretty good odds for
me," she said, noting that she had a special interest in military
matters and has also jumped out of an airplane, flown in an F-16 and
shot an MP5 submachine gun. . .
http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2007/11/15/mrs-huckabee-2-for
-3-with-a-grenade-launcher/
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HEALTH & SCIENCE
INDEPENDENT, UK - Scientists have found a way of producing a potent
cancer vaccine which could be manufactured from a patient's own cancer
cells and used to treat their tumor. The technique involves the use of
ultra-violet light to trigger the vaccine in a process known as
photo-dynamic therapy. Tests on mice have shown that the technique
produced a personalized vaccine with the same power as one grown in the
laboratory, but in much less time. . .
http://news.independent.co.uk/health/article3157784.ece
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WAR DEPARTMENT
RAW STORY - Across the total US veteran population of 25 million, CBS
found that suicide rates were more than twice as high as for
non-veterans
http://rawstory.com/news/2007/Report_predicts_veteran_suicide_rate_100_1113.html
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IMMIGRATION
AP - The executive director of the Memorial Institute for the Prevention
of Terrorism says Oklahoma's new immigration law does little to make the
state or country safer from terrorism. "We should remember that the 9/11
terrorists ... all had visas and entered this country legally," Don
Hamilton said Wednesday in an interview after speaking to members of the
Council of State Governments. . .
About half the illegal immigrants in the United States entered legally
but overstayed their visas, he said. "If you put death rays on the
border with Mexico that were 100 percent effective, you would only have
solved less than half of the illegal immigration problem," he said.
http://www.tulsaworld.com/news/article.aspx?articleID=071115_1__OKLAH15268
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WAR DEPARTMENT
TELEGRAPH, UK - Train passengers face routine airline-style bag checks
and body searches as part of a new counter-terror crackdown announced by
Gordon Brown. He conjured up visions of ''Fortress Britain" as he
unveiled a succession of security measures at airports, railway
stations, sports venues and other public places. Tanks at Heathrow
Airport In 2003 tanks were deployed to Heathrow Airport because of a
suspected plot to shoot down an airliner
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2007/11/15/nfortress115.xml
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FURTHERMORE. . .
GALLERY: URINALS AROUND THE WORLD
http://www.xinjo.com/funny/top-7-funny-urinals-around-the-world/
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MID EAST
LA TIMES - The LAPD on Wednesday abruptly scrapped a program to map the
city's Muslim population, a major retreat for a department that said the
system was needed to identify potential hotbeds of extremism. The
reversal comes after a week of protests from Muslim groups and civil
libertarians, who equated the mapping with religious profiling. Others
questioned whether it was possible for the LAPD to accurately map the
city's far-flung Muslim community.
http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-muslim15nov15,0,6998542.story?
coll=la-home-center
ANGRY ARAB - I was walking to the library in Berkeley yesterday, and I
passed by a rally against US torture in Iraq. I counted the people in
attendance. There were 12 students.
http://angryarab.blogspot.com/
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OUTLYING PRECINCTS
RACHEL ZOLL, AP - Roman Catholics voting in the 2008 elections must heed
church teaching when deciding which candidates and policies to support,
U.S. bishops said Wednesday. And while the church recognizes the
importance of a wide range of issues - from war to immigration to
poverty - fighting abortion should be a priority, the bishops said.
"The direct and intentional destruction of innocent human life is always
wrong and is not just one issue among many," the bishops said.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20071114/ap_on_re_us/catholic_bishops?wtf
AP - Barack Obama, who's been scolding Hillary Rodham Clinton for not
hastening the release of records from her time as first lady, says he
can't step up and produce his own records from his days in the Illinois
state Senate. He says he hasn't got any. "I don't have - I don't
maintain - a file of eight years of work in the state Senate because I
didn't have the resources available to maintain those kinds of records,"
he said at a recent campaign stop in Iowa. He said he wasn't sure where
any cache of records might have gone, adding, "It could have been thrown
out. I haven't been in the state Senate now for quite some time."
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20071114/ap_on_el_pr/democrats_records
INSIDE POLITICS, WASH TIMES - "Heading into yet another TV debate, Sen.
Hillary Rodham Clinton faces a potent enemy - not onstage, but in her
own mind," Howard Fineman writes at Newsweek.com. "She has a lifelong
obsession with seeking out, and trying to control, unruly events and
people. She often fails, and harms herself trying. If she doesn't ease
up, she risks losing the race. Brainy women don't frighten voters;
control freaks do," Mr. Fineman said of the New York Democrat. "Hillary
hates surprises, yet chooses to live in the most chaotic situations
imaginable - from her eyes-wide-shut marriage to an undomesticated
Arkansan, to a race for president in today's impossible-to-tame Wild
West of bile-filled blogs and YouTube videos. "I've seen this disaster
flick before. In her husband's 1992 campaign, she turned a family
real-estate deal into a horror show by refusing to show documents about
the transaction to the New York Times. She played the reporter along;
then she stiffed him. The maneuver was too clever by half. 'Whitewater'
dogged the Clintons for years. The latest example of the Control Freak
Syndrome arose in Newton, Iowa, where her campaign planted in the
audience at least one (and maybe several) questions to be asked of her.
What on earth did she have to fear? By now she has answered thousands of
questions and is smarter and better-briefed than any candidate in the
field. Why plant an innocuous question about global warming? The answer:
because she could."
http://www.washingtontimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20071115/
NATION02/111150078/-1/RSS_NATION_POLITICS
RASMUSSEN - The latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey found
Hillary Clinton leading Rudy Giuliani by three percentage points in a
four-way race that includes Ron Paul running as a Libertarian candidate
and Ralph Nader representing the Green Party. The poll shows Clinton
earning 42% of the vote while Giuliani attracts 39%. Ron Paul is the
choice for 8%, Ralph Nader is preferred by 4% and 7% are not sure. The
inclusion of two minor-party candidates has little impact on the gap
between Clinton and Giuliani. Recent Rasmussen Reports polling shows
Clinton leading Giuliani by an average of four percentage points in a
two-way race. The gender gap is huge - Clinton leads by nineteen points
among women while Giuliani leads by seventeen among men.
CNN - During an afternoon tea party at the elegant governor's mansion
in the capital of South Carolina, former Arkansas first lady Janet
Huckabee told CNN she is pretty handy with a grenade launcher. Huckabee,
the wife of Republican presidential candidate Mike Huckabee, said in an
interview that she once shot a grenade launcher at a National Guard
training camp in Arkansas. "I have fired a grenade launcher and hit the
target two out of three times, so I think that's pretty good odds for
me," she said, noting that she had a special interest in military
matters and has also jumped out of an airplane, flown in an F-16 and
shot an MP5 submachine gun. . .
http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2007/11/15/mrs-huckabee-2-for
-3-with-a-grenade-launcher/
||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
HEALTH & SCIENCE
INDEPENDENT, UK - Scientists have found a way of producing a potent
cancer vaccine which could be manufactured from a patient's own cancer
cells and used to treat their tumor. The technique involves the use of
ultra-violet light to trigger the vaccine in a process known as
photo-dynamic therapy. Tests on mice have shown that the technique
produced a personalized vaccine with the same power as one grown in the
laboratory, but in much less time. . .
http://news.independent.co.uk/health/article3157784.ece
||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
WAR DEPARTMENT
RAW STORY - Across the total US veteran population of 25 million, CBS
found that suicide rates were more than twice as high as for
non-veterans
http://rawstory.com/news/2007/Report_predicts_veteran_suicide_rate_100_1113.html
||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
IMMIGRATION
AP - The executive director of the Memorial Institute for the Prevention
of Terrorism says Oklahoma's new immigration law does little to make the
state or country safer from terrorism. "We should remember that the 9/11
terrorists ... all had visas and entered this country legally," Don
Hamilton said Wednesday in an interview after speaking to members of the
Council of State Governments. . .
About half the illegal immigrants in the United States entered legally
but overstayed their visas, he said. "If you put death rays on the
border with Mexico that were 100 percent effective, you would only have
solved less than half of the illegal immigration problem," he said.
http://www.tulsaworld.com/news/article.aspx?articleID=071115_1__OKLAH15268
||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
WAR DEPARTMENT
TELEGRAPH, UK - Train passengers face routine airline-style bag checks
and body searches as part of a new counter-terror crackdown announced by
Gordon Brown. He conjured up visions of ''Fortress Britain" as he
unveiled a succession of security measures at airports, railway
stations, sports venues and other public places. Tanks at Heathrow
Airport In 2003 tanks were deployed to Heathrow Airport because of a
suspected plot to shoot down an airliner
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2007/11/15/nfortress115.xml
||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
FURTHERMORE. . .
GALLERY: URINALS AROUND THE WORLD
http://www.xinjo.com/funny/top-7-funny-urinals-around-the-world/
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