U.S. investigators want to speak with a small number of people in Paris who failed to show up for boarding flights to Los Angeles that fell under close scrutiny in a possible terrorist plot, including one pilot-trainee, a U.S. official said Friday.
The official, speaking on condition of anonymity, said investigators hope to resolve concerns that some passengers aboard those flights might have intended to use them to launch terror attacks against the United States.

The filing of nine felony counts against Jackson was orchestrated by a Hollywood public relations company, Tellem Worldwide, that is providing pro bono services to the Santa Barbara prosecutors. the company's other clients include the Cartoon Network and Nickelodeon.

The Schwarzenegger team, reeling from sexual harassment allegations by a parade of women, went after Miller with a vengeance.

I am sure they are desperately trying to place the origin of the infected cow as OUTSIDE the US.
Well, if that is true and the cow originated outside the US in BSE endemic country, then laws were violated regarding the importation of beef from BSE infected country. More then likely, they seek to blame Canada. The cow was born before Canada had discovered infected BSE cattle

The government is trying to find the herd the cow was raised with, since the cow likely was sickened several years ago from eating feed made partly from an infected cow. The incubation period in cattle is four to five years, said Dr. Stephen Sundlof of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration.

The USDA insisted the case is probably isolated and the US beef supply is safe. "I plan to serve beef for my Christmas dinner," Veneman said, "and we remain confident in the safety of our food supply."

Two government sources tell TIME that National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice is arguing over ground rules for her appearance in part because she does not want to testify under oath or, according to one source, in public

For us, the key change was this: Media went from being a casual complaint to becoming a serious issue around which people began mobilizing.

In approving the merger, the FCC required that "its Fox subsidiary offer its programming to other cable and satellite operators on the same terms as it does to DirecTV." The FCC also required that News Corp. accept "arbitration of any disputes" and must continue to provide programming while the dispute is being resolved. One problem: "the benefits of these conditions disappear without a trace after six years."


The kosher food market in the US totals some $165 billion and is growing at a rate of 15 percent annually according to Integrated Marketing Communications (IMC), a New York-based consulting firm for the kosher industry.

The most bizarre threat was of smallpox. There was not a shred of intelligence that any enemy had quantities of smallpox, let alone in weapon form. Yet ministers in their Cobra bunker went berserk. They ordered 12 regional smallpox response groups across the nation. Seventy key workers were told to receive instant vaccination to be able to cope with millions of victims. An astonishing £100 million was found overnight to buy 50 million doses of vaccine. The ability of ministers to find huge amounts of money from nowhere under political duress never fails to impress me.

Everyone knows who John Hinckley, Jr. is. This youngest Hinckley son is now being permitted unsupervised visits within the Washington, DC metropolitan area--away from his mental facility, after nearly killing President Reagan in 1981. But a much more interesting subject is, who is John Hinckley, Sr.? In 1980, Hinckley Sr. was a Texas oilman who, the records show, strove mightily to get fellow Texas oilman George H.W. Bush the Republican nomination for president. The Bushes and the Hinckleys were frequent dinner companions.

On the morning of March 30 [the day of the Reagan assassination attempt by John Hinckley, Jr.], three representatives of the U.S. Department of Energy told Scott Hinckley, John Hinckley Jr.'s older brother and Vanderbilt's vice president of operations, that auditors had uncovered evidence of pricing violations on crude oil sold by the company from 1977 through 1980. The auditors announced that the federal government was considering a penalty of two million dollars. [This, on the same day that his brother John--the youngest son of Vice President Bush's close friend--attempted the assassination!] Scott Hinckley reportedly requested "several hours to come up with an explanation" of the serious overcharges. The meeting ended a little more than an hour before John Hinckly, Jr. shot President Reagan.

"Then why does the package insert say under 'Precautions' that 'FluMist recipients should avoid close contact with immuno-compromised individuals for at least 21 days'?"

If weapons of mass destruction are a menace in unstable regions such as the Middle East, if their availability must be reduced, then logic begins to move us closer to the confrontation we never seek with the nuclear power we - let alone Messrs Bush and Blair - seldom mention: Israel.

President Bush was incensed that Mr Blair stole Washington's thunder by being the first Western leader to confirm that the former dictator had been arrested by US troops.