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U.S. forces gird for Fallujah battle http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6403689/ Arafat, in a coma, clings to life http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6402008/ Bush reaches out, vows to fight http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6420745/ http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20041107/ap_on_go_pr_wh/bush&cid=544&ncid=716 Over 30 killed in Iraq insurgent attacks http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20041107/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iraq&cid=540&ncid=716 French troops battle Ivory Coast forces http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20041107/ap_on_re_af/ivory_coast&cid=515&ncid=716 Aide claims Arafat isn't in a coma http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20041107/ap_on_re_mi_ea/arafat&cid=540&ncid=716 Saudi religious scholars support holy war http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20041107/ap_on_re_mi_ea/saudi_scholars_iraq&cid=540&ncid=716 Veteran sues after he receives duty order http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20041107/ap_on_re_us/reservist_lawsuit&cid=519&ncid=716 Europeans face tough choices on Islam http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20041107/ap_on_re_eu/europe_s_islamic_challenge&cid=518&ncid=716 Private spaceship designers given $10M http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20041107/ap_on_sc/private_spaceship&cid=624&ncid=716 Bush, Kerry Voters Differ on View of U.S. http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/elec/elec_index/export_topstory/*http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20041106/ap_on_el_pr/two_views&cid=536&ncid=536 Social Security Reform a Boon for Funds? http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&ncid=749&e=1&u=/nm/20041107/bs_nm/financial_fund_socialsecurity_dc Arafat Stable, Militants Seek More Powers http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&ncid=721&e=1&u=/nm/20041107/wl_nm/mideast_arafat_dc Explosions Rock Ivory Coast's Main City Abidjan (Reuters) http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=574&ncid=721&e=2&u=/nm/20041107/wl_nm/ivorycoast_dc Iraq Rebels Hit Back as U.S. Bombs Falluja (Reuters) http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=574&ncid=721&e=3&u=/nm/20041106/wl_nm/iraq_dc Iran Nuclear Talks End with No Agreement (Reuters) http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=574&ncid=721&e=4&u=/nm/20041106/wl_nm/nuclear_iran_dc Afghan Militants Extend Hostage Deadline for Talks (Reuters) http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=574&ncid=721&e=5&u=/nm/20041106/wl_nm/afghan_kidnapping_dc Six Dead After British Train Crash http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=518&ncid=721&e=6&u=/ap/20041107/ap_on_re_eu/britain_train_crash Brazilian Town Attempts to Lynch Killer http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=589&ncid=721&e=8&u=/ap/20041106/ap_on_re_la_am_ca/brazil_lynching_attempt Hollywood actress Mia Farrow to visit troubled Darfur: UNICEF http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=1503&ncid=721&e=9&u=/afp/20041106/ts_afp/sudan_darfur_un_people China backs Iran amid 'difficult' nuclear talks with EU http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=1530&ncid=721&e=10&u=/afp/20041106/wl_asia_afp/iran_nuclear_iaea_china Bloc flag flap offers "great opportunity" to appreciate veterans: Harper - Quebec http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=1845&ncid=721&e=11&u=/cpress/20041107/ca_pr_on_na/remembrance_bloc_flag Australia reviewing security at embassies around the world http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=1530&ncid=721&e=12&u=/afp/20041106/wl_asia_afp/australia_attacks Web Site for Complaints Sparks Lawsuit http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&ncid=738&e=1&u=/ap/20041106/ap_on_hi_te/gripe_site_complaint Democratic Leader Ready to Work With Bush (AP) http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=512&ncid=703&e=3&u=/ap/20041106/ap_on_go_co/democrats_pelosi Presidential Second Terms Can Be Painful (AP) http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=694&ncid=703&e=4&u=/ap/20041106/ap_on_el_pr/second_term_blues Gay Advocates Examine Role in Election (AP) http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=694&ncid=703&e=5&u=/ap/20041106/ap_on_el_pr/election_gay_marriage Bush Stands by Rejection of Kyoto Treaty http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=544&ncid=703&e=6&u=/ap/20041107/ap_on_go_pr_wh/bush_global_warming 3 Arrested in N.C. GOP Office Vandalism http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=694&ncid=703&e=7&u=/ap/20041106/ap_on_el_pr/gop_headquarters_vandals New Map Helps GOP Tighten Grip on Texas http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=512&ncid=703&e=8&u=/ap/20041106/ap_on_go_co/dwindling_texas_democrats CIA's Goss Wants to Get Back to Basics http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=513&ncid=703&e=9&u=/ap/20041106/ap_on_go_ot/second_term_intelligence High Court Hears California Prison Case http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=2026&ncid=703&e=10&u=/latimests/20041104/ts_latimes/highcourthearscaliforniaprisoncase Sudan's Darfur on the road to anarchy, UN warns http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=1512&ncid=703&e=11&u=/afp/20041104/wl_afp/un_sudan_darfur Rocket Launches New GPS Satellite from Florida http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&ncid=753&e=1&u=/nm/20041106/sc_nm/space_delta_dc FDA to Review Post-Market Safety Checks http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&ncid=751&e=1&u=/nm/20041105/hl_nm/health_fda_safety_dc Oddly Enough: Read a Book, Get Oral Sex? http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&ncid=757&e=1&u=/nm/20041105/od_nm/life_sex_dc Op/Ed: The value of selling values grew http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&ncid=742&e=1&u=/usatoday/20041105/cm_usatoday/thevalueofsellingvaluesgrew NewsWithViews.com November 4, 2004 New Articles American Electorate Rewards Lying, Anti-American Congress http://www.newswithviews.com/Devvy/kidd74.htm by Devvy The World Becomes Even More Bizarre http://www.newswithviews.com/DeWeese/tom21.htm by Tom DeWeese Post-Mortems I: Shutting Down The "PIGs" http://www.newswithviews.com/Eakman/beverly19.htm by Beverly Eakman November 5, 2004 New Articles How Dangerous is America's Future? http://www.newswithviews.com/Wooldridge/frosty1.htm by Frosty Wooldridge Beyond Vioxx http://www.newswithviews.com/Ellison/shane10.htm by Shane Ellison Forest Conservation Act: More Duplicative Funding http://www.newswithviews.com/Chumley/cheryl23.htm by Cheryl Chumley November 6, 2004 New Articles The Election Monitoring Circus Leaves Town http://www.newswithviews.com/Knight/peyton2.htm Peyton Knight Jesse Hardy is Fighting Back http://www.newswithviews.com/Lamb/henry60.htm by Henry Lamb Winners and Losers in 2004 Presidential Election http://www.newswithviews.com/Boggs/kelly57.htm by Pastor Kelly Boggs DNA testing frees California man after 10 years Sunday, October 31, 2004 Posted: 6:19 PM EST (2319 GMT) SACRAMENTO, California (AP) -- A man who spent 10 years behind bars has been freed after a judge acknowledged new DNA evidence and overturned his conviction for raping a 13-year-old girl. The San Joaquin County judge on Friday released Peter J. Rose, citing DNA tests that showed evidence used to convict Peter J. Rose did not match his genetic makeup. Rose, 36, of Lodi, left Mule Creek State Prison amid tears and hugs from his children, relatives, friends and law students from San Francisco's Golden Gate University who pursued his case years after evidence had been stored away and forgotten. "I've been doing this for 25 years, and I feel like this is the best use of my legal skills my entire career," said Oakland attorney Janice Brickley, a law professor who supervised the students on the case. "It was an incredibly emotional experience." Brickley and students affiliated with the university's branch of the Northern California Innocence Project discovered evidence thought to have been lost or destroyed and won permission for new DNA tests that triggered the judge's decision Friday. Brickley said she was nervous about letting Rose comment on the case because the district attorney could refile charges against him. He was believed to have gone to his mother's house in Mendocino County, but a phone number for her could not be found. The girl was raped in 1994 while she was walking to school. Rose was arrested after she told police three weeks later that she believed he was responsible. But she had not identified him during a police lineup and initially told police her attacker was a stranger. Rose's attorneys a decade ago said he was an acquaintance of her family. Rose was convicted in 1996 of rape, kidnapping and other charges based on blood evidence that prosecutors said linked Rose to the crime. A sobbing Rose, who had no previous history of violence, proclaimed his innocence as a judge sentenced him to 27 years in prison. The district attorney's office has until January to decide if it will refile charges. Officials there said the office had lost contact with the victim. Rose said Friday he probably will file a claim against the state. Copyright 2004 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. http://www.cnn.com/2004/LAW/10/31/prisoner.freed.ap/index.html Students at Colo. High School Protest Bush BOULDER, Colo. (AP) - About 85 high school students upset about the nation's direction were camping out in the school library, demanding an audience with Republican leaders. Students began their protest Thursday and school officials said they could stay through Friday when representatives of their Democratic congressman, U.S. Rep. Mark Udall, and U.S. Senator-elect Ken Salazar, were expected to visit. The students said they also wanted to meet with thier superintendent's representatives along with Republicans Gov. Bill Owens and U.S. Rep. Marilyn Musgrave. Some of the students left telephone messages with Republican leaders. ``We want them to reassure us that our fears are misguided and that the government is doing everything in its power to prevent our futures from being destroyed,'' said senior Brian Martens, who wore a hand-lettered T-shirt which said he was the ``senior executive of the subcommittee on protesting stuff.'' Students said they are not protesting the election, but are worried about the national debt, military recruitment in schools and the environment. 11/05/04 02:59 � Copyright The Associated Press. All rights reserved. http://cnn.netscape.cnn.com/news/story.jsp?flok=FF-APO-1110&idq=/ff/story/0001%2F20041105%2F0259819650.htm&sc=1110 Police 'Lash' Teacher Who Hit Girl with Shoe RIYADH (Reuters) - Police in Saudi Arabia administered 10 lashes to a Filipina teacher in front of her students for striking a schoolgirl, a newspaper said on Tuesday. The Saudi Gazette said Lucia Evangelista was punished for hitting 14-year-old Zena Maria Thirwall with a high-heeled shoe during an argument with the girl's British father at the International Philippine School in the Gulf city of Al-Khobar last December. The father filed a police complaint and insisted the punishment be carried out in public, the paper said. It said Evangelista, shackled hand and foot and covered head to toe in an abaya, or long black cloak, knelt down to receive the beating. She had already served a five-day prison sentence. A picture of the incident showed a policeman wielding a cane over a kneeling black figure. The policeman's arm was not raised and the newspaper said the lashes were light and symbolic. 11/02/04 08:42 � Copyright Reuters Ltd. All rights reserved. http://cnn.netscape.cnn.com/ns/news/story.jsp?floc=FF-RTO-reodd&idq=/ff/story/0002%2F20041102%2F0843560780.htm&sc=reodd Newsview: Bush Agenda Would Add Big Costs By ALAN FRAM WASHINGTON (AP) - With federal deficits already running amok, it is unclear how President Bush will pay for his second-term agenda, a potentially multitrillion-dollar smorgasbord that includes overhauling Social Security and revamping the tax system. Bush laid out lofty goals Thursday at his first news conference since his Election Day triumph. He said he wanted to buttress Social Security, simplify the tax system, strengthen the economy, fight terrorism, bolster education, and battle AIDS and poverty abroad. ``I earned capital in the campaign, political capital, and now I intend to spend it,'' the president said. But all the political capital in the world won't pay for his pricey priorities. And unlike four years ago, when his first term began amid projections for $5.6 trillion in federal surpluses over the next decade, the budget's future looks bleak. Thanks to recession and the burden of higher spending and tax cuts that Bush won, the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office now sees $2.3 trillion in accumulated deficits over the next 10 years. That excludes the costs of wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, easing the alternative minimum tax's growing burden on middle-class families, and the long-term crunch retiring baby boomers will place on federal support programs like Medicare. That leaves deficit hawks wondering how Bush would pay for his second-term wish list, finance the wars and meet his goal of halving federal shortfalls by 2009. ``I don't think you can do all of that and still cut the deficit in half in five years,'' said Robert Bixby, executive director of the bipartisan Concord Coalition, which favors deficit reduction. Bush could decide to simply borrow the needed money, which would drive deficits higher, ``and the real economic consequences of such a binge would come after he leaves office,'' Bixby said. For his second term, Bush envisions reshaping Social Security so workers can use some taxes they pay to support the system to create personal savings accounts. He has not advanced details or cost estimates, but some analysts have estimated the 10-year price tag at between $1 trillion and $2 trillion. Bush wants to make 2001 and 2003 tax cuts permanent - they will otherwise expire by this decade's end - at a roughly $1 trillion price tag. He said Thursday he wants to simplify the tax system at no net cost, but in the past such exercises have often resulted in tax cuts as part of the drive to get lawmakers' votes. It is hard to estimate the long-term costs of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars, but this year's expenses alone may approach $100 billion. Domestic security costs several tens of billions annually, while his initiatives for education and foreign aid are relatively small, just a few billion a year. White House budget office spokesman Chad Kolton said Thursday that Bush can still halve the deficit by 2009 while addressing his goals. ``These are national priorities that need to be addressed, long-term issues that would be more expensive to wait to deal with than to deal with now,'' Kolton said. Democrats dispute that. ``All he talked about today were things that will increase the deficit,'' said Sen. Byron Dorgan, D-N.D. ``He's going to have to at some point confront reality.'' With the GOP's electoral successes this week, Bush can count for support on Congress' growing cadre of conservative Republicans - with some caveats. Rep. Mike Pence, R-Ind., a leader of House conservatives, said a Social Security overhaul and tax simplification are central tenets of the conservative agenda. But he added, ``Restoring luster to our reputation as fiscal conservatives will be a very high priority for the Republican majority,'' including ``moving toward a balanced budget.'' To help achieve that, Pence said conservatives want to pare back part of the Medicare prescription drug benefits and avoid expanding the education revisions that Bush and GOP leaders have pushed through Congress. Financial markets may also play a role in Bush's second term. Despite two consecutive record federal deficits - last year's was $413 billion - the markets have yet to show much concern and interest rates have stayed low. ``Realistically, a lot of these things turn out to be smaller than they sound,'' said Ethan Harris, an economist at the brokerage firm Lehman Brothers. ``Wall Street doesn't get worried until it sees the details and the politics that's there.'' But he and other analysts warned that while foreign investors and central banks have helped finance recent U.S. deficits, the risk that they will stop providing cash increases if large amounts of red ink remain consistent. EDITOR'S NOTE - Alan Fram has reported on Congress and the federal budget for The Associated Press since 1987. 11/05/04 22:07 � Copyright The Associated Press. All rights reserved. http://cnn.netscape.cnn.com/news/story.jsp?flok=FF-APO-1151&idq=/ff/story/0001%2F20041105%2F2207886622.htm&sc=1151 Bin Laden Wants Nukes: Canadian Intelligence 10:10 am PST, 5 November 2004 Canadian intelligence officials are warning that Osama bin Laden and his al Qaeda terrorist network have one prime goal: To obtain a suitcase-sized nuclear weapon. According to The Canadian Press, a new report released this week portrays intelligence officials as uncertain whether bin Laden currently has such a weapon, but notes the group clearly is trying to obtain one. "The assessment revives concerns that emerged as early as 1992 when Stanislav Lunev, a former Russian military intelligence officer, claimed his country's intelligence services had lost many of the portable, backpack-style devices, which weigh about 55 kilograms," says the report. The Canadian report, issued in June 2004, is titled, "Al-Qa3da Possessing Russian Nuclear Briefcases: Fiction or Fact?" The report, says the CP, was heavily censored, but what remained offered some chilling insight. For one, "Al-Qaeda is interested in acquiring nuclear capabilities in order to expand its attack arsenal," the report stated. Worse, the CP said, the report claimed there already is anecdotal evidence that al Qaeda may have such a weapon in its possession. "Earlier this year, Pakistani journalist Hamid Mir said al-Qaeda may already possess portable nuclear weapons," said the report. "He attributed the claim to a 2001 interview with bin Laden's second-in-command, Ayman Al-Zawahri, in which the al-Qaeda figure said the group had purchased such bombs on the black market in central Asia for $30 million U.S." Expert: World Unprepared for Flu Pandemic By HAWON JUNG SEOUL, South Korea (AP) - It's only a matter of time before another deadly flu pandemic strikes, an international vaccine expert warned Friday, saying that the world is ill-prepared to cope with a major outbreak of disease - possibly because the manufacture of vaccines is governed by profit. ``We are talking about a killer influenza that would kill probably tens of millions of people,'' said John D. Clemens, director of the International Vaccine Institute. ``We're not talking about if, we're talking about when.'' The United States is suffering a shortage of flu vaccines after a British supplier, Chiron Corp., was barred from shipping between 46 million and 48 million doses to the nation because of contamination at its plant. ``The current shortage of vaccine in the United States can be attributed to reliance on too few producers,'' Clemens said in an exclusive interview with The Associated Press. ``Globally, in terms of vaccine development and production that could respond quickly to a killer influenza pandemic, we're inadequately prepared.'' Clemens - whose institute has been helping to introduce new vaccines against diarrhea infections, bacterial meningitis and mosquito-born viral diseases for developing nations since 1999 - warned that similar supply disruptions could hit vaccines against other pandemics. ``Something like 80 percent of the world's measles vaccines come from one company in India,'' Clemens said. ``If that company had a problem like Chiron had, it would be a disaster.'' ``The vaccines that tend to be most affected ... are the vaccines that are the least profitable and of less interest,'' he said. ``Maybe it's a bit risky for a society to rely purely on free market economics to guarantee a stable reliable supply of vaccines.'' Last week, scientists reported that, for the first time, malaria vaccines had protected some children in Mozambique. Malaria kills more than a million people a year, 700,000 of them children. The experimental vaccines were made by GlaxoSmithKline. While most pharmaceutical companies are unwilling to produce drugs that don't generate a profit, Clemens said the malaria experiments indicated positive progress. ``It is very unlikely that even a highly effective malaria vaccine can be very profitable. Yet GSK, one of the world's largest multinational producers, is actively involved in the creation of the malaria vaccine,'' he said. A lack of adequate funding remains one of the biggest obstacles for developing affordable vaccines. Billions of dollars of donations are yet ``a drop in the bucket in coverage of vaccinating children in developing nations,'' Clemens said. But hopeful signs are emerging because many developing nations, including India, have started to produce generic drugs. He said a large number of high quality manufacturers have emerged in developing countries in the last couple of years through partnership with big multinational drug companies. ``It's a win-win situation through the transfer of technology,'' Clemens said. The International Vaccine Institute, which conducts feasibility studies in a number of developing countries and helps them to produce more affordable vaccines, is set to open its US$150 million (euros 118 million) headquarters and lab in Seoul next week. It is largely funded by international donors, including the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and the South Korean government. 10/22/04 13:53 � Copyright The Associated Press. All rights reserved. http://cnn.netscape.cnn.com/news/story.jsp?flok=FF-APO-1500&idq=/ff/story/0001%2F20041022%2F1353632527.htm&sc=1500 __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Check out the new Yahoo! Front Page. www.yahoo.com Yahoo! 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