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...Those who feel they've missed out always try to maneuver and manipulate others to get something better." In recent weeks, the tides of plot and counter-plot have swept Cabinet ministers into Opposition and Opposition members into government, and raised doubts over who rightly holds the posts of Speaker and Governor- General. There have been legal appeals, claims of intimidation, rowdy scenes in Parliament and armed guards at its gates. What there hasn't been is law-making. "This isn't about issues of policy - no one has even mentioned the word," says Mike Manning, head of P.N.G...
...Suhayb, could be just the kind of prospective terrorist that intelligence analysts in Washington are most concerned about these days--a personification of what Attorney General John Ashcroft calls the changing face of al-Qaeda. Gadahn, 25, is an American through and through, born and bred in California, a speaker of unaccented English, intimate with the country's habits and thus able to move about without arousing suspicion. Brought up and homeschooled on his parents' goat farm, Gadahn was an introspective teenager who went looking for meaning and found it in Islam. Eventually, he also found his way to Pakistan...
...Andrew Weil, the final speaker of the night, said Americans should focus on the ?quality of food, not the quantity of food.? According to him, that shift in behavior is necessary at the personal level but he still believes that the obesity epidemic is a ?matter of collective responsibility and not just an individual choice.? According to Weil, grassroots organizations, the government, industries, and the individual all have to work together to end the epidemic. That's something we all could agree...
...Among the points made by speaker Dr. William Dietz of the CDC was that while 30% of American adults are now obese, the numbers are even worse for certain segments of the population. Among Mexican-American women, he said, the figure was 40%; among African-American women, it's 50%. These figures were more than enough to get the conversation started...
...want to see sacrifice, John McCain ought to visit our young men and women at Walter Reed and Bethesda." DENNIS HASTERT, Speaker of the House, responding to Senator McCain's comment that there had been little U.S. sacrifice for the war in Iraq; McCain, a former POW, said he was referring to the fact that civilians have not been asked to sacrifice...