http://www.cnn.com/2004/US/03/26/body.armor.ap/
U.S. troops buying own armor for Iraq duty
(AP) -- Soldiers headed for Iraq are still buying their own body armor -- and in many cases, their families are buying it for them -- 。。。
Dan Britt paid about $1,400 for body armor for his son, a medic stationed in Kuwait who had orders to move into Baghdad. He recently heard his son received it.
“They do have many individuals in influential positions. And that's why this is something that we need to know about.”
Alexandra Robbins, author "Secrets of the Tomb"
Apart from presidents, Bones has included cabinet officers, spies, Supreme Court justices, statesmen and captains of industry. (Photo: 60 Minutes/CBS)
(CBS) There are secrets that George W. Bush guards at least as carefully as any entrusted to a president.
Bones is not restricted to the Republican Party. Yet another Bonesman has his eye on the Oval Office: Senator John Kerry, Democrat, Skull & Bones 1966.
And that's not sitting well with relatives of the Japanese family for whom residents say the road was named. A civil liberties group is also disappointed.
CHICAGO, Illinois (AP) -- A Japanese man flying to Ohio was arrested after he was seen writing down the words "suicide bomb," but he was released without charge after explaining that it was an impromptu English exercise.
The 60-year-old man told investigators he came across the words in a newspaper and wanted to look up their meaning, police spokeswoman Alice Casanova said.
"He teaches himself English by reading newspapers," she said. "It was all just a miscommunication."
The man was aboard United Airlines flight 1184 en route to Dayton, Ohio, on a business trip Sunday when a fellow passenger spotted the words and alerted an attendant, Casanova said.
The flight returned to O'Hare International Airport, where the man was taken into custody and all of the other 120 passengers were taken off the plane and rescreened.
Investigators also searched the plane. "Nothing panned out and he was released," Casanova said.
Transportation Security Administration spokeswoman Andrea McCauley said travelers need to be mindful of how they behave on airplanes because potential security threats are treated very seriously.
"We caution people not to write about bombs because if they're going on vacation, their travel plans will be disrupted," she said.
http://abcdane.net/archives/001183.html 2004年08月01日
アナ・ニコル・スミスが受賞式で巨乳をポロリ [ 01 アメリカ発三面記事 ]
7/31にロサンゼルスで行われたG-Phoria - The Award Show 4 Gamers（アワード・ショー・フォー・ゲーマーズ）でプレゼンターとして登場した女優・モデルのアナ・ニコル・スミスが壇上で「ポロリ」をしてしまった。
アナ・ニコルは「Hottest Character （最優秀セクシーキャラ）」の発表をしているときに、衣装のドレスの紐が切れて巨乳がポロリ状態になったもよう。
ポロリのスライドショー
アナ・ニコル・スミスのコスプレ画像 この賞を主宰したG4techTVの公式サイト内の画像。 「the Hottest Character （最優秀セクシーキャラ）」にノミネートされたキャラのコスプレ。近くで見るとちょっと恐そう。
The pressure may be getting to Mr. Bush. He came up with a gem of a Freudian slip yesterday. At a signing ceremony for a $417 billion military spending bill, the president said:
"Our enemies are innovative and resourceful, and so are we.
They never stop thinking about new ways to harm our country and our people, and neither do we."
1. /i/ (the phoneme spelled ee in beet): high front vowel.
2. /I/ (the phoneme spelled i in bit): high front vowel. This vowel is articulated slightly further back and slightly lower than the preceding vowel /i/.
3. /e/ (the phoneme spelled ai in bait): mid front vowel.
4. /e/ (the phoneme spelled e in bet): mid front vowel. This vowel is articulated slightly further back and slightly lower than the preceding vowel /e/.
5. /æ/ (the phoneme spelled a in bat): low front vowel.
LOS ANGELES - A jury recommended that a vice president of legal affairs at Sony Pictures Entertainment and his wife should pay more than $500,000 in damages to a woman who claimed that they kept her as an indentured servant.
A jury on Thursday found James and Elizabeth Jackson liable for subjecting Nena Ruiz to involuntary servitude and for negligence and fraud. Elizabeth Jackson was also deemed liable for assault and battery.
"Of course, we're very disappointed in the verdict," said their attorney, Jack Daniels. He said his clients were considering an appeal.
Ruiz, 60, claimed in a Superior Court lawsuit filed last year that she often worked at least 18 hours a day and was forced to do strange household chores such as heating chicken nuggets and cutting up bananas or pears for two dogs.
She said she was paid $300 for a year's work at the couple's Culver City condominium.
Ruiz also alleged that she had to sleep in a dog bed and that Elizabeth Jackson repeatedly slapped her and pulled her hair.
http://www.capitalnews9.com/content/headlines/?ArID=91801&SecID=33
Malone, who is gay and has lost friends to AIDS, told the San Francisco Chronicle he is relieved but angry at his doctor. The paper said Malone has retained an attorney and expects to file a malpractice claim against the VA Health Care System.
http://www.nypost.com/news/regionalnews/27469.htm
NOW MUSEUM, NOW YOU DON'T
By DEVIN SMITH
August 25, 2004 -- A 20-year employee of the Nassau County Museums Division pleaded guilty yesterday to stealing more than 2,000 artifacts, including a small model of a Wright airplane that fetched more than $100,000 at auction.
The plea agreement called for Kappeler to serve 1½ to 4½ years in prison and pay full restitution in the amount of about $249,000. In exchange, Nassau prosecutors agreed to drop numerous charges from two indictments against Kappeler.
Here are a few Baghdad Bob classics from the spring of 2003 (courtesy of one of his many Web shrines), verbatim. See if you can imagine them coming out of the mouth of our president speaking to the press today.
"I will only answer reasonable questions."
"No, I am not scared, and neither should you be."
"Be assured: Baghdad is safe, protected."
"We are in control, they are not in control of anything, they don't even control themselves!"
"The battle is very fierce and God made us victorious."
"They mock me for how I speak. I speak better English than they do."
"The same situation happened with the other lady, the Vietnamese one," said Felicia Maraseseu. "That's too much."
（先日、警官がベトナム人のおばさんを射殺して問題になった。もちろんサンノゼ警察は反省してない。）
Edward R. Cookらは木の年輪に関する過去1200年分の膨大なデータを調査した。その結
果、過去1000年の間に繰り返し起こった乾期と比較して、現在の干ばつがそれほど厳しい
ものではないことが判明した。西暦900年頃に始まり、400年もの間続いた極度の乾燥は、
ほぼ「中世温暖期」に起こっていることから、少なくとも米国西部では、乾燥状態が高い
気温によって自然に起こる結果であることが示唆される。
Long-Term Aridity Changes in the Western United States
Edward R. Cook, Connie Woodhouse, C. Mark Eakin, David M. Meko, and David W. Stahle
Published online October 7 2004; 10.1126/science.1102586 http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/abstract/1102586v1
http://news.scotsman.com/international.cfm?id=1078452004
The state's first attempt to outlaw necrophilia, in response to a case of a man charged with having sex with the corpse of a 4-year-old girl in Southern California, stalled last year in a legislative committee.
"Prosecutors didn't have anything to charge these people with other than breaking and entering. But if they worked in a mortuary in the first place, prosecutors couldn't even charge them with that," Ochoa said.
