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- "Iran
quake relief effort shifts focus to plight of survivors."
... "Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Iran's supreme leader, and President Mohammad
Khatami yesterday visited Bam, the south-eastern city devastated by an
earthquake on Friday." ... "A spokesman for the provincial government said
that more than 21,000 bodies had been recovered and that "many, many more
people" were still buried." ... "President Khatami said the tragedy was
so deep that relief aid could not hope to meet "the demands of the victims"."
-By Mohsen Asgari and Gareth Smyth
-FT.com
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- Time
Magazine's Person of the Year: 2003:
"The
American Soldier: They swept across Iraq and conquered
it in 21 days. They
stand guard on streets pot-holed with skepticism and rancor. They caught
Saddam Hussein. They are the face of America, its might and good will,
in a region unused to democracy. The U.S. G.I. is TIME's Person of the
Year" ... "" -By Nancy Gibbs
-Vol.
162 No. 26 20031229-20040105
-TIME.com
- 
- "Court:
President cannot detain U.S. citizen as enemy combatant."
... "In a setback to the Bush administration's anti-terrorism policies,
a federal appeals court ruled Thursday that the president does not have
the power to detain an American citizen seized on U.S. soil as an enemy
combatant." ... "In a 65-page decision, a three-judge panel of the 2nd
U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals voted 2-1 that the U.S. government must release
Jose Padilla from military custody within 30 days."
-CNN
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Christmas
News
- "Christmas
boxes bring Afghan mob scene." ... "Attempts by Canadians
to hand out almost 2,000 Christmas gift boxes to impoverished Afghan children
Wednesday turned into a melee as some of their parents beat back the young
people trying to reach the presents and soldiers had to stop them." ...
"A Canadian Forces truck was quickly surrounded by hundreds of children
as it arrived at a hillside camp in Kabul, where internally displaced people
(IDPs, as they are known by the military) live destitute lives in makeshift
housing." -GlobeAndMail
ELECTION
2004 - "Senator
Breaux Won't Seek Re-election." ... "John B. Breaux,
a moderate Democratic senator and one of the few bipartisan dealmakers
left in Congress, announced Monday that he would not run for re-election
next year, becoming the fifth Southern Democrat to abandon the Senate."
... "Mr. Breaux, who has represented Louisiana in Congress for 31 years,
was often the senator Democrats and Republicans turned to when they needed
to cut through partisan gridlock and broker compromises, as Mr. Breaux
did on the recent Medicare legislation. His departure is seen not only
as a crippling blow to Democratic efforts to regain control of the Senate
but also as a setback to across-the-aisle cooperation, which is increasingly
rare these days." -By Jeffrey Gettleman -NYTimes
via -Google-News
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- "Hussein's
Hovel Hideaway: Desposed Leader Told Captors He Wanted
to 'Negotiate'." ... "When the deposed Iraqi leader was pulled by U.S.
troops from a dank hole adjacent to the farmhouse Saturday, he told them
in English: "My name is Saddam Hussein. I am the president of Iraq and
I want to negotiate."" ... "A U.S. Special Forces soldier replied: "Regards
from President Bush."" -By Alexandar Vasovic
-AP via -WashingtonPost
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- "Ace
in the Hole: Saddam Hussein Captured Near Tikrit By U.S. Forces."
... "Saddam was in a six-to-eight-foot-deep "spider hole" that had been
camouflaged with bricks and dirt. The soldiers saw the hole, investigated
and found him inside, armed with a pistol, said Maj. Gen. Raymond Odierno,
the commander of the 4th Infantry Division that assisted in capturing the
leader." ... "Forces from the 4th Infantry Division along with Special
Forces captured Saddam, the U.S. military said. There were no shots fired
or injuries in the raid, called "Operation Red Dawn," said Lt. Gen. Richardo
Sanchez." (1, 2,
3,
4)
-ABCNEWS.com
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- "Saddam
Captured Hiding in Hole Near Tikrit." ... "U.S. troops
captured Saddam Hussein hiding in a hole near his hometown of Tikrit in
a major coup for Washington's beleaguered occupying force in Iraq." ...
"Grubby, bearded and "very disorientated," the 66-year-old fallen dictator
was dug out by troops from a cramped hiding pit during a raid on a farm
in Ad-Dawr village late Saturday, U.S. Maj. Gen. Ray Odierno told a news
conference in Tikrit." (1, 2,
3)
-By Joseph Logan -Reuters
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- "U.S.
Airstrike Kills Nine Afghan Kids: U.S. Plane Mistakenly
Kills 9 Afghan Children in Airstrike Targeting Wanted Taliban Commander."
... "Children's hats and shoes littered a bloody field cratered by gunfire
Sunday after a U.S. airstrike, aimed at a wanted Taliban commander, mistakenly
killed nine children in an Afghan mountain village." ... "The American
warplane was targeting Mullah Wazir, once a local commander for the hard-line
Islamic militia. U.S. Ambassador Zalmay Khalilzad and a U.S. military official
said Wazir was killed in the attack, but residents and local officials
said Wazir escaped or was not in the village at all." -By
Stephen Graham -AP
via -ABCNEWS.com
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- "Bullet-riddled
body that of missing exec in Colombia." ... "A bullet-riddled
body found outside Bogota was positively identified Tuesday as 55-year-old
Chikao Muramatsu, kidnapped in February 2001 and held by leftist guerrillas."
... "Muramatsu served as vice president of Yazaki-Ciemel Ltd., a joint
venture of auto parts maker Yazaki Corp., based in Tokyo's Minato Ward."
-By Satoshi Izumi -Asahi
Shimbun>English
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- "A
new push to clean up the world's slums: A recent
United Nations report puts the number of urban poor at 1 billion." ...
"Growing numbers of rural poor are migrating to cities around the developing
world, giving aid experts a new cause for anxiety -beyond just the deplorable
conditions of the burgeoning slums." ... "The concern goes like this: living
in such close quarters with the urban rich exacerbates the disparities
between the "haves" and the "have-nots," fueling a global explosion in
crime, street violence, and extremism. The urbanization of poverty, say
development experts, could become as much a world-security issue as the
hunt for Osama bin Laden or weapons of mass destruction." -By
Gretchen Peters -CSMonitor
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- Paul
Wellstone -
"Pilot
error caused Wellstone crash." ... "Pilots flying
too slowly on a landing approach caused the charter-plane crash that killed
Sen. Paul Wellstone, the pilots and five others last year, the National
Transportation Safety Board concluded Tuesday." ... "By voice vote, the
five-member board also adopted staff findings that the pilots lacked proper
training in crew coordination and were probably so inattentive or distracted
that they didn't react to the speed drop until too late." ... "Mild icing
from a light snowfall did not affect the descent of the twin-prop King
Air A100 before it crashed on Oct. 25, 2002, 2 miles southeast of the Eveleth-Virginia
Municipal Airport, in northern Minnesota, the panel concluded." -By
Greg Gordon -StarTribune.com
- "Massachusetts
backs gay marriage: The US state of Massachusetts
has ruled that same-sex couples are legally entitled to marry." ... "The
Massachusetts court ruled that barring same-sex couples from the benefits
of civil marriage was "unconstitutional."" ... ""Marriage is a vital social
institution. The exclusive commitment of two individuals to each other
nurtures love and mutual support. It brings stability to our society,"
Chief Justice Margaret Marshall wrote in the long-awaited ruling." ...
"The 4-3 ruling means the issue will now return to the state legislature,
which has 180 days to come up with a solution."
-BBC/News
- "Camera-phones
must 'click' in Korea." ... "The Korean government
has ruled that by next year, domestic manufacturers must ensure that mobile
phones emit a loud shutter-like click or noise when the camera is activated."
... "The move comes after a spate of reports in the country of camera users
violating the privacy of others, especially in areas such as changing rooms
and swimming pools. The image resolution of mobile phone cameras is also
increasing rapidly, adding to the problem."
-ZDNet.com.au
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- "The phone
is now peeping." ... "Armed with tiny camera-mounted
cellphones, among the hottest-selling products in South Korea these days,
voyeurs here have secretly been taking photographs of unknowing women in
public places like staircases and subways." ... "That has led to mounting
public concerns as many of these photographs have spread among pornographic
South Korean Internet sites." -By Samuel Len -NYTimes
via -IHT.com
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- "POW
Lynch was raped by Iraqi captors, biography says:
Soldier has no memory of attack, but book cites medical records." ... "Jessica
Lynch, the U.S. Army private whose capture and subsequent rescue made her
the most famous soldier of the war in Iraq, was raped by her Iraqi captors,
according to a family spokesman." ... "A new authorized biography of the
soldier accurately cites medical records showing Lynch was sexually assaulted,
said spokesman Stephen Goodwin. He said the 20-year-old former private
had no recollection of the attack. The New York Daily News obtained a copy
of the book, written by Rick Bragg and titled, "I Am a Soldier, Too: The
Jessica Lynch Story." The News published excerpts Thursday ahead of the
scheduled Tuesday release." -By William Branigin-WashingtonPost
via -SFGate.com
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- "Fox
starts diplomatic mission to three Southwestern states:
Mexican President Vicente Fox stresses the importance of dialogue on a
migration agreement with the United States." ... "In private meetings with
[Arizona] Gov. Janet Napolitano, Arizona lawmakers and mayors, Fox said
he is seeking an expanded U.S. program for Mexican guest workers and legal
status for the more than 3.5 million undocumented Mexican migrants who
now live and work in United States." -By Richard Boudreaux-LAtimes
via -Miami/Herald
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- "Colombian
leader has strong grip - and yen for yoga." ... "In
the year since he has taken office, President Álvaro Uribe has come
to mean many things to the Colombian people: Commander in chief, poncho-clad
populist, yoga enthusiast. But mostly, observers say, he has gained stature
as the strong leader many feel this nation has lacked for decades." ...
"But questions remain whether the president's first-year gains stem more
from his charisma than from broad reform. Even if they do represent tangible
progress, some wonder if Uribe can sustain the momentum." -By
Rachel Van Dongen -CSMonitor
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- "Free
Suu Kyi now." ... "Burma's military junta is refusing
to free Aung San Suu Kyi, the popular politician and Nobel Peace Prize
winner ambushed and arrested by the regime's thugs at the end of May. Outraged
western governments are threatening sanctions. Asian leaders say sanctions
might backfire; they want discreet talks with Burma's generals and some
even want Burma included in future Asia-Europe meetings." ... "So far,
so normal. Fortunately, there is a chance of a diplomatic denouement very
different from the usual slanging match between east and west." ... "One
reason for optimism is that not all Asian countries are playing their usual
roles. Japan has suspended new aid for Burma following the latest arrest
of Ms Suu Kyi. Malaysia, more surprisingly, has also lost patience with
the regime in Rangoon." -FT.com
- 
- "Fellowship
of the online gamers." ... "In such fantasy worlds,
players who've never met in person form tight allegiances - and the ties
are based on tests of individual character, not gender, class, or race.
While critics decry the violence in many of these games, or worry about
the social maladjustment of adolescents who spend hour upon hour playing
them, the popularity seems rooted in the fellowship of the players, not
in the virtual mayhem and carnage. In fact, even as video games become
less violent and more interactive, more and more players are logging on."
... "This contradicts the widely held belief that violent onscreen images
are what draw kids to video games." -By Elizabeth
Armstrong -CSMonitor
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- "Bush
touches down in Africa, denounces American slavery."
... "President Bush opened his five-day African trip Tuesday with a forceful
denunciation of America's slave-holding past and a pledge to
work more closely with African nations to help them build a prosperous
and peaceful future." ... "After meeting with the West African leaders
and his host for the day, President Abdoulaye Wade of Senegal, Bush rode
Wade's presidential yacht across Dakar's harbor to Goree Island, the westernmost
tip in Africa and the point of embarkation centuries ago for at least 1
million slaves." ... ""At this place, liberty and life were stolen and
sold," the president said. "One of the largest migrations of history was
also one of the greatest crimes of the century."" ... "Bush condemned slavery
in strikingly religious terms. "For 250 years, the captives endured
an assault on their culture and their dignity," he said. "The spirit of
Africans in America did not break. Yet the spirit of their captors was
corrupted. . . . Christian men and women became blind to the clearest commands
of their faith and added hypocrisy to injustice. A republic founded on
equality for all became a prison for millions."" -By
Richard W. Stevenson -NYTimes
with contributions by the -WashingtonPost
via -StarTribune.com
-
"Needed:
road map for the marital journey." ... "Convinced
that the skills needed for a successful marriage can be taught, Ms. Sollee,
a marriage and family therapist, founded the organization [Coalition for
Marriage, Family, and Couples Education] in 1996. She describes it as nonpartisan,
a blend of conservatives and liberals, "the churched and the unchurched.""
... "When she started, the term "marriage education" didn't even exist,
Sollee says on the phone, her voice still registering amazement. Now she
wants all states to follow Florida's lead in mandating marriage classes
in high school. She is also urging the federal government to create a public
education campaign, explaining the benefits of marriage and outlining what
to expect in a good marriage." -By Marilyn Gardner
-CSMonitor
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- "Bush
forced to defend rising US death toll." ... "George
Bush acted at the weekend to address increasing national disquiet over
the number of US servicemen being killed in Iraq. More than a quarter of
American casualties in Iraq have occurred since the president declared
an end to major military combat at the beginning of May." ... "Another
US soldier was killed yesterday, bringing the toll since May 1 to 56. A
total of 138 American service personnel died during the war itself." ...
"There are still 146,000 US troops stationed in Iraq, only a few thousand
fewer than during the war." -By Duncan Campbell -Guardian.co.uk
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- "Iraqis
may be given oil profits share-out." ... "Some of
the profits from Iraq's oil sales could be distributed to its citizens
as dividends, Paul Bremer, (pictured) the US civil administrator
for Iraq, said on Sunday as he set out a goal of transforming the country
into a free-market economy." -By Roula Khalaf
-FT.com
- 
- "Martha
Stewart indicted on securities fraud, obstruction of justice and conspiracy
charges." ... "Martha Stewart, the exemplar of "good
things" who built an empire as an icon of tasteful living, was indicted
Wednesday on securities fraud and obstruction of justice charges that could
result in a prison term." ... "The indictment also charged Stewart with
conspiracy and making false statements and her stockbroker, Peter Bacanovic,
with perjury and obstruction of justice." ... "Stewart and Bacanovic pleaded
innocent before a federal judge to all charges." -By
Erin McClam -AP
via -SFGate.com
- "Hillary
Clinton recounts Bill's confession." ... "Hillary
Rodham Clinton says her husband's relationship with Monica Lewinsky caused
so much pain that, at one point, Buddy the dog
was the only member of the family willing to keep President Clinton company."
... "The Democratic senator from New York declares in her new memoirs that,
``As a wife, I wanted to wring Bill's neck,'' but she finally resolved
that she loved him, wanted to keep the marriage intact and supported what
he was doing as president." ... "Mrs. Clinton vividly describes her pain
over the betrayal in ``Living History,'' covering her eight years in the
White House. A copy of the book, which goes on sale next week, was obtained
by The Associated Press." -By Calvin Woodward and
Siobhan McDonough -AP
via -StarTribune.com
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- "Online
divorce grows in popularity, despite skepticism."
... "Offering a simpler and cheaper path to divorce, an ever-growing array
of dot-coms, computer-savvy lawyers and state court officials are encouraging
unhappily married Americans to arrange their breakups online." ... "For
fees ranging from $50 to $300 - a small fraction of what most lawyers charge
even for an uncontested divorce - couples are being provided with the appropriate
forms and varying degrees of help completing them." -By
David Crary -AP
via -StarTribune.com
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- "Court leaves
intact secret hearings on [deportation of foreigners]."
... "The U.S. Supreme Court said Tuesday that it would not review government
anti-terrorism policies that allowed secret deportation hearings for hundreds
of foreigners swept up after the Sept. 11 attacks." ... "At issue was a
policy change made immediately after the terror attacks of Sept. 11, 2001.
The government ordered all immigration hearings closed if the foreigner
was a "special interest" case. The government alone can decide if a case
is of special interest to its war on terrorism."
-AP via -IHT.com
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- Memorial
Day - Holiday
- -
"The
Origins of Memorial Day." [From the VA.gov]
... "Three years after the Civil War ended, on May 5, 1868, the head of
an organization of former Union soldiers and sailors - the Grand Army of
the Republic (GAR) - established Decoration Day as a time for the nation
to decorate the graves of the war dead with flowers. Maj. Gen. John A.
Logan declared it should be May 30. The first large observance was held
that year at Arlington National Cemetery, across the Potomac River from
Washington, D.C. The cemetery already held the remains of 20,000 Union
dead and several hundred Confederate dead." ... "The ceremonies centered
around the mourning-draped veranda of the Arlington mansion, once the home
of Gen. Robert E. Lee. Gen. and Mrs. Ulysses S. Grant and other Washington
officials presided. After speeches, children from the Soldiers' and Sailors'
Orphan Home and members of the GAR made their way through the cemetery,
strewing flowers on both Union and Confederate graves, reciting prayers
and singing hymns." ... "Local Observances Claim To Be First" ...
"Local springtime tributes to the Civil War dead already had been held
in various places. One of the first occurred in Columbus, Miss., April
25, 1866, when a group of women visited a cemetery to decorate the graves
of Confederate soldiers who had fallen in battle at Shiloh. Nearby were
the graves of Union soldiers, neglected because they were the enemy. Disturbed
at the sight of the bare graves, the women placed some of their flowers
on those graves, as well." ... "Today cities in the North and the South
claim to be the birthplace of Memorial Day in 1866. Both Macon and Columbus,
Ga., claim the title, as well as Richmond, Va. The village of Boalsburg,
Pa., claims it began there two years earlier. A stone in a Carbondale,
Ill., cemetery carries the statement that the first Decoration Day cere-
mony took place there on April 29, 1866. Carbondale was the wartime home
of Gen. Logan. Approximately 25 places have been named in connection with
the origin of Memorial Day, many of them in the South where most of the
war dead were buried." ... "Official Birthplace Declared" ... "In
1966, Congress and President Lyndon Johnson declared Waterloo, N.Y., the
"birthplace" of Memorial Day. There a ceremony on May 5, 1866, was reported
to have honored local soldiers and sailors who had fought in the Civil
War. Businesses closed and residents flew flags at half-mast. Supporters
of Waterloo's claim say earlier observances in other places were either
informal, not community-wide or one-time events." ... "By the end of the
19th century, Memorial Day ceremonies were being held on May 30 throughout
the nation. State legislatures passed proclamations designating the day.
The Army and Navy adopted regulations for proper observance at their facilities.
It was not until after World War I, however, that the day was expanded
to honor those who have died in all American wars. In 1971 Memorial Day
was declared a national holiday by an act of Congress, though it is still
often called Decoration Day. It was then also placed on the last Monday
in May, as were some other federal holidays." ... "Some States Have
Confederate Observances" ... "Many Southern states also have their
own days for honoring the Confederate dead. Mississippi celebrates Confederate
Memorial Day the last Monday of April, Alabama on the fourth Monday of
April, and Georgia on April 26. North and South Carolina observe it May
10, Louisiana on June 3 and Tennessee calls that date Confederate Decoration
Day. Texas celebrates Confederate Heroes Day January 19 and Virginia calls
the last Monday in May Confederate Memorial Day." ... "Gen. Logan's order
for his posts to decorate graves in 1868 "with the choicest flowers of
springtime" urged: "We should guard their graves with sacred vigilance.
... Let pleasant paths invite the coming and going of reverent visitors
and fond mourners. Let no neglect, no ravages of time, testify to the present
or to the coming generations that we have forgotten as a people the cost
of a free and undivided republic."" ... "The crowd attending the first
Memorial Day ceremony at Arlington National Cemetery was approximately
the same size as those that attend today's observance, about 5,000 people.
Then, as now, small American flags were placed on each grave - a tradition
followed at many national cemeteries today. In recent years, the custom
has grown in many families to decorate the graves of all departed loved
ones." ... "The origins of special services to honor those who die in war
can be found in antiquity. The Athenian leader Pericles offered a tribute
to the fallen heroes of the Peloponnesian War over 24 centuries ago that
could be applied today to the 1.1 million Americans who have died in the
nation's wars: "Not only are they commemorated by columns and inscriptions,
but there dwells also an unwritten memorial of them, graven not on stone
but in the hearts of men."" -From the VA.gov's
- "VA
Articles, Reports and Speeches" - "Celebrating
America's Freedoms."
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- "Hail
to the Chicks! Dixie gives the Dixies a warm
welcome." ... "Dixie Chicks singer Natalie Maines began the band's U.S.
tour with an open invitation to heckle her. "If you're here to boo, we
welcome that because we welcome freedom of speech," she said from the stage
of Greenville, South Carolina's Bi-Lo Center Thursday night. "So we're
going to give you fifteen seconds to get whatever you have out."" ... "Instead,
the 15,000-strong crowd erupted in cheers." ... "It was the Dixie Chicks'
first U.S. concert since Maines told a London audience on March 10th that
they were ashamed the president is from their home state of Texas." -By
Andy Paras -RollingStone.com/news
- 
- 
- STEM
CELL NEWS- CLONING
NEWS
- "Stem
cell
advance may fuel cloning dispute." ... "Scientists
in the US and France have used stem cells from mice to form eggs capable
of being fertilised, an advance likely to fuel controversy over stem cell
research and cloning." ... "The technique, if successfully applied to humans,
would raise the possibility of using stem cells for fertility treatment.
Eggs produced by stem cells could be fertilised by donated sperm, creating
new life." -By Victoria Griffith
-FT.com
-
- "Last
missing soldier found dead in Iraq: South Texas
family's fears confirmed." ... "The remains of a South Texas soldier who
had been missing in action for more than a month were found in a shallow
battlefield grave in Iraq last week, family members said Monday." ... "Relatives
of Army Spc. Edward John Anguiano, 24, of Los Fresnos, the only U.S. soldier
who had not been accounted for, said they were notified on Sunday that
his death in combat had been confirmed." -By John
W. Gonzalez -HoustonChronicle.com
- -
- "Shiite
pilgrims to US: 'Thanks. Please go now.'" ... "Columns
of humanity - hundreds of thousands of pilgrims, on foot and some limping
after days on sticky hot roads - are pouring into Iraq's holy city of Karbala,
to mark one of the most sacred events in the Shiite calendar - and the
end of Saddam Hussein's ruthlessly secular regime." ... "But just as Iraq's
long-repressed Shiite majority enjoy a religious reawakening, the scale
of the event is a show of strength for Shiite clergy who are moving quickly
to fill the vacuum left by Mr. Hussein before American forces do." -By
Scott Peterson -CSMonitor
- "Every
Unhappy Family Has Its Own Bilinear Influence Function:
Researchers propose a mathematical model of marriage." ... What was modeled
"was not "marriage" per se, but the dynamics of marital conversations.
Before looking at data from any real-world couples, they [the authors of
The
Mathematics of Marriage: Dynamic Nonlinear Models (MIT Press)] began
with some very simple hypotheses: the idea, for example, that spouses will
react emotionally to the most recent comment made by their partners. At
this early stage they sketched crude "influence functions" -- calculus
equations that described a dynamic system in which a snarky comment by
one spouse would result in negative emotions in the partner, sometimes
resulting in a downward spiral. When they tested those first equations
against the Love Lab's data, however, they did not match at all." ... "The
scholars soon realized that they needed to add a constant that represented
each partner's "uninfluenced steady state" -- that is, the person's general
level of cheerfulness or gloom, independent of the spouse's behavior on
a particular day. "In retrospect, we should have thought of that at the
very beginning," says Mr. Murray. "But once we added that constant, everything
fell in just beautifully."" -By David Glenn Issue
20030425
-Chronicle/free
- "Census
count revised." ... "The 2000 census count was least
accurate in Indiana and Minnesota and most accurate in New Mexico and Colorado,
according to a state-by-state Census Bureau report that concluded the bureau
did a good job overall." ... "States in the Midwest had the highest overcounts,
while Texas and California had some of the largest numbers of people missed,
along with parts of the mid-Atlantic and rural West. Two other big states,
New York and Illinois, had overcounts." -AP
via -USATODAY
- "Billionaire
philanthropist Sir J. Paul Getty Jr. dead at 70."
... "Sir J. Paul Getty Jr., the reclusive American-born billionaire philanthropist
and art lover who became a British citizen late in life, died Thursday,
his doctor said. He was 70." ... "During more than a quarter-century of
living in Britain, the fiercely Anglophile Getty gave more than $200 million
to many causes, including the National Gallery." ... "In a rare public
statement after subsidizing the families of striking miners in 1985, Getty
said he was "privileged to be the heir to huge wealth and I regard myself
as custodian of that money for the benefit of people who need it more than
I do."" -By Sue Leeman
-AP via -SFGate.com
-
-
-
- Special
Report - "Key
people for post-conflict Iraq index." ... "The Pentagon
has named Lt Gen Jay Garner, a retired US officer, as the man they want
to be the de facto governor of post-war Iraq before an interim administration
is established." ... "The Pentagon wants to establish 23 ministries each
headed by an Iraqi but supported and directed by American "technical advisers"."
-Guardian.co.uk
-
-
- "Personality
Identification Playing Cards." The playing card deck
released by the US military of the 52 most wanted Iraqi government and
military leaders from Saddam's administration includes head shot photos
of many of the faces of those wanted. Saddam Husayn Al-Tikriti is
the ace of spades, his son Uday Saddam Husayn is the ace of hearts, his
son Qusay Saddam Husayn Al-Tikriti is the ace of clubs, and the Presidential
Secretary Abid Hamid Mahmud Al-Tikriti is the ace of diamonds. Two joker
cards are included. One includes "Arab Titles" which explains that "Qadi
- [is the] Judge for Islamic Sharia Court," and "Shaykh - [means] literally
an elder." The second joker card lists "Iraqi Military Ranks" with the
US military equivalent, for example, "Muhib" is the "General of the Army."
A 55th card showing desert camouflage is included for the back of the cards.
[20030410]
-DefenseLINK.mil/news
-
- "Seven U.S.
troops found healthy." ... "Iraqi troops released
seven U.S. POWs — some wounded but in good condition — to Marines on Sunday,
a surprise development near where U.S. troops were entering Saddam Hussein’s
hometown of Tikrit." ... "Two of the POWs — Chief Warrant Officer Ronald
D. Young Jr., 26, of Lithia Springs, Ga., and Chief Warrant Officer David
S. Williams, 30, of Orlando, Fla. - were shot down in their Apache helicopter
south of Baghdad on March 23." ... "The five others were part of the Army’s
507th Ordnance Maintenance Company whose convoy was ambushed outside the
southern city of Nasiriyah, also on March 23. They are Spc. Shoshana Johnson,
30, Fort Bliss, Texas; Sgt. James Riley, 31, Pennsauken, N.J.; Spc. Joseph
Hudson, 23, Alamogordo, N.M.; Pfc. Patrick Miller, 23, Park City, Kan.;
and Spc. Edgar Hernandez, 21, Mission, Texas." ... "All the missing members
of the 507th are now accounted for." -AP
and -Reuters via -MS-NBC
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-
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- "Proud
to be an American: Immigrant Soldier May Achieve
American Citizenship in Death." ... "More than 31,000 members of the U.S.
armed forces are not American citizens, but some of them have already given
their lives in Iraq. Army Pfc. Diego Rincon, 19, was one of them." ...
"Rincon died March 29 while manning an Army roadblock near Najaf when a
suicide bomber posing as a taxi driver detonated a bomb." ... "Officially,
Rincon was a permanent U.S. resident, not a U.S. citizen, but his family
said the events of Sept. 11, 2001, inspired him to join the military and
defend his adopted home. The Rincon family fled Colombia for the suburbs
of Atlanta when Diego was 5 years old." -Contributions
by Janice Johnston and Bill Redeker -ABCNEWS.com
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- Special
Reports - "Blair's
War: He fought in vain for trans-atlantic unity on
Iraq. Now, as the battle for Baghdad begins, his future hangs in
the balance." ... "Introduction
[Synopsis]." ... "Blair gambled everything on his ability to personally
bridge the gap between America and key players in Western Europe -- and
he failed. Now, political observers are questioning whether NATO, the United
Nations -- and Blair himself -- will survive the aftermath of war with
Iraq." ... "The
Prime Minister: A conversation with his biographer, assessments
of his character and politics, and a look at his relationship with George
W. Bush." ... "The
Fractured Alliance: Robert Kagan and Will Hutton debate the myths
and realities of the U.S.-Europe divide. Plus, comment and analysis on
the costs of U.S. unilateralism." ... "The
Liberal Divide: Paul Berman, Timothy Garton Ash, and David
Rieff discuss Blair, the liberal case for war, and the divided left." ...
"The
Failure of Diplomacy: An overview of thekey diplomatic moments
and missteps leading to war with Iraq." ... "Interviews."
... "Readings&
Links." -PBS.org
(A-Z) -Frontline
- "UN
to resume Iraq 'lifeline': The United Nations
Security Council has unanimously adopted a resolution clearing the way
for the oil-for-food humanitarian aid programme in Iraq to resume." ...
"The resolution transfers control of aid distribution directly to the UN
Secretary-General, Kofi Annan." ... "In another move, the UN on Friday
launched its biggest-ever international aid appeal, seeking more than two-billion
dollars to meet the immediate needs of the Iraqi people."-BBC/News
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- "Aid
begins to arrive in Iraq: The first shipments
of humanitarian aid to reach Iraq since war began last week have arrived."
... "Food, water and other aid supplies are being distributed to civilians
in the southern town of Safwan, after seven lorries crossed into Iraq by
road from Kuwait City on Wednesday, escorted by US troops." ... "Sandstorms
forced aid workers to reduce the size of the convoy, which was originally
scheduled to have 30 vehicles." ... "A British ship, Sir Galahad, is expected
to arrive in the southern port of Umm Qasr with nearly 200 tons of food
and more than 90 tons of bottled water."-BBC/News
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- "U.S.
identifies four Marines killed in helicopter crash:
Maj. Jay Thomas Aubin [36, Waterville, Maine], Capt. Ryan Anthony Beaupre
[30, was from Bloomington, Illinois], Cpl. Brian Matthew Kennedy [25, Houston,
Texas] and Staff Sgt. Kendall Damon Watersbey [29, Baltimore, Maryland]
were the four Marine crew members killed aboard the U.S. CH-46 Sea Knight
helicopter that crashed early Friday in Kuwait, according to a statement
from the Department of Defense." ... "The eight British military personnel
aboard also were killed in the crash, which occurred as the helicopter
was flying through heavy wind and a sandstorm" ... "Watersbey's father
angrily blamed President Bush for his son's death." ... ""George Bush,
take a good look at this man, cause you took my only son away from me,"
Michael Watersbey said, holding up a picture of his son."
-CNN
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-
- "The
clock is set." ... "After President Bush's ultimatum
Monday, I expect to find people on edge. Not so. Training missions continue,
people do laundry, and I see fliers proclaim, "War is coming and so is
the ... talent show."" ... "The calm within this camp [in Kuwait] testifies
to an uncanny confidence in the US troops. I can only wonder about morale
on the other side of the border." "Assignment:
Kuwait: Life with the 332nd Air Expeditionary Group."-By
Ben Arnoldy -CSMonitor
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-
- "President
Bush Addresses the Nation." ... "10:16 P.M. EST."
... Excerpts: "THE PRESIDENT: My fellow citizens, at this hour, American
and coalition forces are in the early stages of military operations to
disarm Iraq, to free its people and to defend the world from grave danger."
... "On my orders, coalition forces have begun striking selected targets
of military importance to undermine Saddam Hussein's ability to wage war.
These are opening stages of what will be a broad and concerted campaign.
More than 35 countries are giving crucial support -- from the use of naval
and air bases, to help with intelligence and logistics, to the deployment
of combat units. Every nation in this coalition has chosen to bear the
duty and share the honor of serving in our common defense." ... ... "I
want Americans and all the world to know that coalition forces will make
every effort to spare innocent civilians from harm. A campaign on the harsh
terrain of a nation as large as California could be longer and more difficult
than some predict. And helping Iraqis achieve a united, stable and free
country will require our sustained commitment." ... ... "Our nation enters
this conflict reluctantly -- yet, our purpose is sure. The people of the
United States and our friends and allies will not live at the mercy of
an outlaw regime that threatens the peace with weapons of mass murder.
We will meet that threat now, with our Army, Air Force, Navy, Coast Guard
and Marines, so that we do not have to meet it later with armies of fire
fighters and police and doctors on the streets of our cities." -Read
U.S. President George W. Bush address to the nation or watch
the webcast: -WhiteHouse.gov
-Iraq
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- Special
Reports - "Bush
War Room." -ABCNEWS.com
- "[Elizabeth]
Smart Was Forced to Depend on Captors." ... "Trapped
in the hills above her anguished family's home for the first two months
of her disappearance, Elizabeth Smart may have been kept from escaping
or crying out for help by the growing influence of her captors, police
said Thursday." ... "Frightened at first by her abduction at knifepoint,
Elizabeth was forced to depend on her captors during her nine-month disappearance,
authorities said. When found by police, the 15-year-old vehemently denied
her identity when asked if she was Elizabeth Smart and told officers that
the couple she was with were her parents."
-AP via -Guardian.co.uk
- "‘Miracles
Do Exist’: Elizabeth Smart Found Alive With Drifter;
Two People in Custody." ... "Elizabeth Smart, the Salt Lake City teen kidnapped
at gunpoint from her bedroom nine months ago, was found alive today with
a drifter who once worked for her family as a handyman." ... "Elizabeth,
[now] 15, was found in Sandy, Utah — just about 15 miles from her home
— with drifter Brian David Mitchell and a woman identified as Wanda Eileen
Barzee, police said. The girl's blond hair was concealed by a veil and
a wig, police said." -ABCNEWS.com
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- "'Texas
general [Tommy Franks] takes sharpest of minds into Iraq conflict."
... "He is a diplomat who has vacationed at the seaside palace of Jordan's
royal family. He's a student of history who quotes the teachings of ancient
military strategist Sun Tzu. He's a college dropout who joined the Army
at 20 because he knew he needed to grow up." ... "As leader of the military's
Central Command, Franks is working with Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld
to draw up war plans for Iraq, trying to keep order in postwar Afghanistan
and coordinating U.S. military operations in 23 other nations stretching
from the Horn of Africa into Central Asia."
-AP via -USATODAY
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- "The
Goodbye Girl: Sarah Michelle Gellar: Why I
quit ''Buffy.''" ... ""''Buffy, in this incarnation, is over.''" ... "With
those words, Sarah Michelle Gellar drives a stake into the hearts of ''Buffy
the Vampire Slayer'' fans everywhere. After seven years --five on The WB,
the last two on UPN -- the young ''Scooby-Doo'' star (a.k.a. Mrs. Freddie
Prinze Jr.) is leaving the cult pop sensation that made her a household
name." (1, 2)
-By Jeff Jensen -EW.com
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- "Iranians
arrested for net dating: Dozens of young Iranians
have been detained for "unlawful actions" after using a website to arrange
dates, officials say." -BBC/News
- Law
Enforcement News
- "Ridge's
Rise from Adviser to 'Mr. Secretary': As Some
Questioned His Power, He Quietly Shaped Future of Homeland Security." ...
"This week, as nearly 180,000 employees join the new Department of Homeland
Security that he has directed since Jan. 24, Ridge has become one of the
four or five most powerful figures in the Bush administration, a man in
charge of the president's most crucial domestic initiative." ... "Bush
has staked considerable credibility and some of his political fortune on
his old friend's success in protecting Americans from terrorist attacks.
The president has given Ridge enormous clout that is comparable to the
sway commanded by the heads of the Justice, Defense and State departments,
administration officials and government experts said." -By
John Mintz -WashingtonPost
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-
- "Saddam
On Exile: 'We Will Die Here'." ... "In an exclusive
interview with CBS News Anchor Dan Rather, Iraqi President Saddam
Hussein said he will not set his country's oil wells ablaze if the United
States leads an invasion to unseat him." ... ""Iraq does not burn its wealth
and it does not destroy its dams," Saddam said. In a warning to his adversaries,
he added: "We hope that, however, that this question is not meant as an
insinuation, so that the Iraqi dams and the Iraqi oil wells will be destroyed
by those who will invade Iraq in their possible invasion of the country."
... "The interview, Saddam's first meeting with an American journalist
in a decade, will air on a special edition of 60 Minutes II on Wednesday
night (9 pm ET, 8 pm CT)."
-CBSNews
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-
- "‘A Life-or-Death
Issue’: Some in Washington worry that Roh Moo
Hyun is naive about the dangers posed by North Korea. Roh worries that
America could ignite a devastating war." Newsweek.com
interviews South Korea's President Roh Moo Hyun. ... "He promised to keep
economic and diplomatic channels open to Pyongyang. And he vowed he would
never “kowtow” to America, but would demand to be treated as an equal."
-Interview with George Wehrfritz and B. J. Lee
-MSNBC / 20030303
ed. -Newsweek
- "Transplant
Patient Has Brain Damage: Teen Who Got Second
Heart-Lung Transplant After First Was Botched Has Severe Brain Damage."
... "The teenage girl who underwent a second heart-lung transplant after
the first was botched has suffered severe brain damage that appears to
be irreversible, hospital officials said Friday." ... "A brain scan early
Friday, less than 24 hours after the second transplant, showed 17-year-old
Jesica Santillan's brain had swelled and was bleeding."
-AP via -ABCNEWS.com
- "New
dating game: Hit the keyboard, checklist in hand."
... "... if some used to believe romance was "in the stars," today it is
apparently in the stats. In a web-linked world, a $25 subscription fee
provides instant access to tens of thousands of eligible singles - and
the digital tools to sift candidates based on height, age, income, or a
penchant for macramé. Love remains an art, but the rise of online
personal ads is bringing a new level of science to the realm of romance."
... ""I'm calling it digital Darwinism," says E. Jean Carroll, an advice
columnist for Elle magazine. "It has really, truly, right in front of our
eyes revolutionized sexual selection."" -By Amanda
Paulson -CSMonitor
- "Son
of Saddam: Odai Hussein Brutal to Iraqis, Behind
Torture of U.S. Prisoners." ... "... 20/20 uncovered evidence linking Odai
with the torture and interrogation of some 20 American prisoners captured
during the 1991 Gulf War, including former Navy Cmdr. Jeff Zaun, who was
forced at gunpoint to appear on Iraqi television and forced to denounce
his country." -By Brian Ross -ABCNEWS.com
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- "Unlikely
Allies Influenced Bush To Shift Course On AIDS Relief."
... "An unlikely coalition of Christian evangelicals and liberal activists
joined forces to help persuade President Bush to announce a remarkable
turnabout this week in his administration's approach to the international
AIDS crisis -- a tripling of U.S. spending on AIDS relief." ... "Bush surprised
even many Republicans when he used his State of the Union address on Tuesday
to call on Congress to spend $15 billion over the next five years to help
countries in Africa and the Caribbean fight the pandemic." -By
Mike Allen and Paul Blustein-WashingtonPost
