Internet censorship is spreading rapidly, being practised by about two dozen countries and applied to a far wider range of online information and applications, according to research by a transatlantic group of academics.
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A mysterious decimation of bee populations has German beekeepers worried, while a similar phenomenon in the United States is gradually assuming catastrophic proportions. The consequences for agriculture and the economy could be enormous.
BEIJING Mar 22, 2007 (AP)— Negotiations on halting North Korea's nuclear program broke down abruptly Thursday, with the country's chief envoy to the talks flying home after a dispute over money frozen in a Macau bank could not be resolved. 
Biblical Perspective
As readers of my research paper on “Ezekiel 38-39 and World War III” know, biblical prophecy foretells that Russia, China and Iran will lead a huge anti-American, anti-Western alliance in “the latter days.” Russia is identified by the terms “Gog, Magog, Meshech and Tubal,” China is “Gomer,” the nation of Japheth with a large population, and Iran is “Persia.” These nations are fulfilling Bible prophecy by becoming increasingly anti-American and anti-Western. They are also drawing closer to each other as allies. Ezekiel 38 reveals that this Russian-Chinese-Iranian axis will attack the nations of the Western world in a surprise attack at the climax of this age. 
The cardinals took their seats in long rows on two sides of the Sistine Chapel, tucking their cassocks beneath them. A hymn was sung, a prayer said, an oath taken. The doors were locked. Then, with ritual solemnity, the cardinals rose one by one to cast their ballots in the first "scrutiny." Each man stepped to the front of the room, declared that he was voting for the man he believed to be God's choice as the next pope, and then dropped a paper ballot into an urn. 
NOGALES, Ariz — Late in October, a truckload of cantaloupes was stopped as it crossed the Mexican border near here. Food and Drug Administration inspectors took samples from some melons for routine food-safety tests, and importer Timco Worldwide distributed about 5,000 others to four states, Timco says. |
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Astronomy Picture of the Week
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Eiffel Moon
Celestial and terrestrial lights are featured in this stunning image that includes the Moon in phases of the total lunar eclipse of March 3rd. In the foreground, the distinctively-shaped Eiffel Tower, over 300 meters tall, is a well-known tourist destination and one of the most visited buildings in the world. Of course the Moon is even more recognizable, but harder to visit. The last lunar tour was undertaken nearly 35 years ago, during the Apollo 17 mission.
Ocean heat blamed for the mysterious disappearance of glaciers
A mysterious phenomenon is causing four major glaciers in the Antarctic to shrink in unison, causing a significant increase in sea levels, scientists have found.
The rise in atmospheric temperatures caused by global warming cannot account for the relatively rapid movement of the glaciers into the sea, but scientists suspect that warmer oceans may be playing a role. "There is a possibility that heat from the ocean is somehow flowing in underneath these glaciers, but it is not related to global warming," said glaciologist Duncan Wingham of University College London. "Something has changed that is causing these glaciers to shrink.
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UN predicts huge migration to rich countries
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At least 2.2 million migrants will arrive in the rich world every year from now until 2050, the United Nations said yesterday.
Britain's population will rise from 60 million to approaching 69 million by 2050 - almost entirely because of immigration.
The latest figures from the UN's population division predict a global upheaval without parallel in human history over the next four decades.
By David Blair
http://www.telegraph.co.uk
The Case for Teaching The Bible
Miss Kendrick came ready, with props. The day's topic was the Gospel of Matthew. "You can divide all the Beatitudes into two parts," Jennifer Kendrick explained to her teenage audience. "The 'Blessed are the whatevers,' like 'the meek,' and then the reward they will get. So I've made some puzzle pieces here." She passed out construction-paper sheets, each bearing either the name of a virtuous group or its reward, in black marker. "And you've got to find the person who has the other half. What's the first one in the Bible?"
"The poor in spirit," mumbled a crew-cut boy.
"O.K. What goes with the poor in spirit?"
A girl in the front of the room replied, reading from her sheet, "For they will see God."
By DAVID VAN BIEMA
Time Magazine
The South is rising again. And so is the West.
The ranking testifies to the tremendous growth of America's Hispanic population and the powerful role it will play in the country's future population
That's the word from the U.S. Census Bureau, which minutes ago released its list of the counties experiencing the largest population increases between 2000 and 2006. The list points to the soaring population in the Sun Belt, where all but one of the 30 counties with the largest population growth are located. Topping the list is Arizona's Maricopa County, which has gained 696,000 residents since 2000.
Yet in the 10 counties experiencing the largest numerical population increases, approximately 1.8 million of the 2.9 million people added between 2000 and 2005 were Hispanic. About 61.9 percent of the growth in the 10 counties can be attributed to Hispanics overall.
This comes from reporter Will Sullivan:
US News and World Report
Planet Earth banning common light bulbs
Environmental concerns cited in growing global crackdown
They're unwanted in Cuba, Hugo Chavez is trying to kick them out of Venezuela, Australia and Canada are on timetables to get rid of them, the European Union says they soon simply won't be available and now the U.S. is considering new rules that effectively would ban the incandescent light bulb.
It's a global sweep so far, triggered by worries that the invention of Thomas Edison uses too much energy or generates too much heat for the earth to tolerate, despite the reports by WND that a member of a congressional committee is challenging the "facts" used by Al Gore in his "An Inconvenient Truth" movie, saying science just doesn't validate concerns that such factors are significant environmentally.
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Worried Pet Owners Checking Food Labels
Pet Food Recall Affects 48 Dog Food Brands & 40 Cat Food Brands
(AP) Pet owners were worried Saturday that the pet food in their cupboards could be deadly after millions of containers of dog and cat food sold at major retailers across North America were recalled.
Menu Foods, the Ontario-based company that produced the pet food, said Saturday it was recalling dog food sold under 48 brands and cat food sold under 40 brands including Iams, Nutro and Eukanuba. The food was distributed throughout the United States, Canada and Mexico by major retailers such as Wal-Mart, Kroger and Safeway.
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Mexican 'Smog' Soon to Hit
Environmenmentall y sensitive Californians may soon be engulfed in mists of smog thanks to the fleets of Mexican trucks that will transiting the state's highways, a new report warns. California has an Air Resources Board which released its report this past Monday, stating that 50 tons of new smog - the equivalent of that produced by 2.2 million cars - will be pouring into California's skies because 17,500 Mexican trucks will be crossing into the Golden State each day under NAFTA's rules.
Today, that number is only 3,500 trucks.
Of the additional 14,000 trucks, a quarter were on the road before 1980, and as many as nine of every 10 were built before 1993, according to the air board report.
U.S. military ill-prepared for other conflicts
Officials cite 'stark' shortage of equipment, growing gaps in training
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Four years after the invasion of Iraq, the high and growing demand for U.S. troops there and in Afghanistan has left ground forces in the United States short of the training, personnel and equipment that would be vital to fight a major ground conflict elsewhere, senior U.S. military and government officials acknowledge.
More troubling, the officials say, is that it will take years for the Army and Marine Corps to recover from what some officials privately have called a "death spiral," in which the ever more rapid pace of war-zone rotations has consumed 40 percent of their total gear, wearied troops and left no time to train to fight anything other than the insurgencies now at hand.
By Ann Scott Tyson
msnbc.msn.com
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The United States and Britain in Prophecy
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People of the Western world would be stunned, dumbfounded; if they knew! The governments of the United States, Britain, Canada, Australasia, South Africa would set in motion gigantic crash programs; if they knew! They could know! But they don’t! Why?
A STAGGERING TURN in world events is due to erupt in the next few years. It will involve violently the United States, Britain, Western Europe, the Middle East. It’s already rather late for the free world to come awake to the real meaning behind current world events! Why do not the world’s leaders see what is coming? Why are the world’s best minds unseeing—the heads of state, scientists, educators, editors, news analysts, bankers, industrialists, leaders in business and commerce? They are totally unaware! Why?
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Editorial
Fair or Foul Play?
The reasonable concerns of the U.S. in WMD diplomacy
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As is common to our age, reality has taken a second-seat to rhetoric. Wherever and whenever talk of Weapons of Mass Destruction and non-proliferation occur, the question arises: is it not hypocritical for the U.S., who is armed to the teeth with nuclear weapons, to bully Iran and North Korea in order that the latter not realize their atomic goals?
In fact, widespread talk of “fair play” and U.S. hypocrisy seem to dominate all discussion of WMD and non-proliferation. Even top officials allude to it. Speaking at Southern Illinois University recently, Former United Nations Chief Weapons Inspector Hans Blix suggested that the U.S. lead by “example” by signing the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty. Said Blix:
by Raymond Ibrahim
Private Papers
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Health Alert
When Organic Isn't Really Organic
When you buy a gallon of organic milk, you expect to get tasty milk from happy cows who haven't been subjected to antibiotics, hormones or pesticides. But you might also unknowingly be getting genetically modified cattle feed.
Albert Straus, owner of the Straus Family Creamery in the small northern California town of Marshall, decided to test the feed that he gives his 1,600 cows last year and was alarmed to find that nearly 6% of the organic corn feed he received from suppliers was "contaminated" by genetically modified (GM) organisms. Organic food is, by definition, supposed to be free of genetically modified material, and organic crops are required to be isolated from other crops. But as GM crops become more prevalent, there is little that an organic farmer can do to prevent a speck of GM pollen or a stray GM seed from being blown by the wind onto his land or farm equipment and, eventually, into his products. In 2006, GM crops accounted for 61% of all the corn planted in the U.S. and 89% of all the soybeans. "I feared that there weren't enough safeguards," Straus says.
By JYOTI THOTTAM
www.time.com
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