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...hosted Alabama-Huntsville of College Hockey America this weekend to begin its season...
Rules governing benefits for laid-off workers vary widely among the states. In Alabama--which along with Mississippi provides the lowest weekly benefits in the country ($190)--to be eligible for unemployment benefits, a worker must have earned $9,120 in the first four of the last five quarters he or she worked, the so-called base period. A worker in Massachusetts, which offers the highest weekly benefit in the country ($477), must have earned at least $14,310 in the total base period. Restrictions vary so much that in Florida, only 26% of the state's unemployed...
...director George Tenet in trouble? Alabama Senator Richard Shelby, for one, is lobbying for the CIA director?s removal, telling reporters last week, "I believe there have been too many failures on his watch...
...Republican from Alabama, I was shocked to hear Gore so eloquently express views that I share with regard to possible U.S. responses to the recent terrorist acts. It is precisely because I hold human life so dear—not for revenge or out of fear—that I would support and be willing to die for a cause that would prevent senseless deaths like those on Sept. 11. Gore flatly rejected the No-War-At-All-Costs attitude aired since the attacks and said there has never been a more obvious time for a swift, precise military strike...
...used to something we have never seen: the regular sight of soldiers on our streets, in the airports, at the malls. In Los Angeles security guards were searching old ladies' pocketbooks as they arrived at the Tony Bennett concert. There are no more public tours of the Alabama Army depot where they store 2,254 tons of nerve-gas shells. There are no White House tours either...