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Speed of odd particle is measured

Arizona Republic

"The discovery that a bizarre particle travels between the real worldof matter and the spooky realm of antimatter 3 trillion times a second may open the door to a new era of physics, Fermilab researchersannounced Monday. The incredibly rapid commuting rate of the B sub smeson particle had been predicted by the Standard Model, thesuccessful but incomplete theory aimed at explaining how matter andenergy interact to form the visible universe. After 20 years oftrying, scientists have now confirmed the rate, providing strong evidence for the theory. The monumentally precise technology developed to measure the meson's back and forth dashes also may open the way to discovering a new family of fundamental particles and possibly a setof new forces that could be harnessed for technological applications,physicists suggested." (09/26/06)http://tinyurl.com/q6pac

Researcher: Temple treasure is in West Bank

British expert on archeology of holy land says that despite claims that treasures of Temple are in Vatican, they are actually located in Palestinian Authority, a revelation which is about to 'shock the religions of the world'
Ynet
Published:
09.26.06, 00:52

Where are the treasures of the Temple? A British archeologist is arguing that despite the claims that the treasures of the Temple are in the vaults of the Vatican, they are actually located in their original place – the Holy Land.
The London Times reported that Dr. Sean Kingsley, an expert on the archeology of the Holy Land, claims that he found a series of treasures, including silver trumpets, golden candlesticks, and other jewelry, which were a part of the a cargo shipment that was headed for Rome after the destruction of the Second Temple in 70 CE. According to him, his study is based on historical writings of Josephus from the first century CE and on other historical writings from that era.
After decades of searching and probing the holy scriptures, the archeologist reached the conclusion that the treasure was taken out of Rome in the fifth century CE. He discovered that it was transported to Carthage, a city-state near Tunisia which became an empire that controlled North Africa and the Mediterranean, and to Constantinople (Turkey) and Algeria. The treasures were then returned to Jerusalem and hidden under a monastery.
Kingsley explained that during the 1990s Israeli and Vatican officials confronted each other on the issue of location of these treasures. Israel even claimed that the Pope was hiding them in Rome. "The Temple treasure remains a deadly political tool in the volatile Arab-Israeli conflict centered on the Temple Mount," said Kingsley. “The treasure’s final hiding place – in the modern West Bank . . . deep in Hamas territory – will rock world religions,” he added.
The Vatican has told Dr. Kingsley that there is no evidence that the treasure is located within their territory. "I am the first person to prove that the Temple treasures no longer languish in Rome,” said Kingsley.


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Associated Press
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09.18.06, 17:15

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An al-Qaeda-linked extremist group warned Pope Benedict XVI on Monday that he and the West were "doomed," as protesters returned to the streets across the Muslim world to demand more of an apology from the pontiff for his remarks about Islam and violence.

The Mujahedeen Shura Council, an umbrella organization of Sunni Arab extremist groups that includes al-Qaeda in Iraq, issued a statement on a Web forum vowing to continue its holy war against the West. The authenticity of the statement could not be independently verified.

The group said Muslims would be victorious and addressed the pope as "the worshipper of the cross" saying "you and the West are doomed as you can see from the defeat in Iraq, Afghanistan, Chechnya and elsewhere. ... We will break up the cross, spill the liquor and impose head tax, then the only thing acceptable is a conversion (to Islam) or (killed by) the sword."

Islam forbids drinking alcohol and requires non-Muslims to pay a head tax to safeguard their lives if conquered by Muslims. They are exempt if they convert to Islam.

In Indian-controlled Kashmir, meanwhile, shops, businesses and schools shut down in response to a strike call by the head of a hard-line Muslim separatist leader to denounce Benedict. For the third day running, people burned tires and shouted "down with the pope."

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Mint: Liberty Dollar competition "a federal crime" US Mint Pressroom
"The United States Mint urges consumers considering the purchase or use of 'Liberty Dollar' medallions, marketed by the National Organization for the Repeal of the Federal Reserve Act and the Internal Revenue Code (NORFED), to be aware that they are not genuine United States Mint bullion coins, and not legal tender. These medallions are privately produced products that are neither backed by, nor affiliated with, the United States Government. Prosecutors with the Department of Justice have determined that the use of these gold and silver NORFED 'Liberty Dollar' medallions as circulating money is a Federal crime." [http://tinyurl.com/ehbk9

NATO hails Afghan offensive as "success" Elmira Star-Gazette
"NATO said Sunday that its two-week offensive in south Afghanistan was a 'significant success' that had driven Taliban insurgents from their positions and opened the way for development. But violence was unabated, with suicide bombers killing two civilians and wounding six soldiers. Militants also took control of a district in the west of the country after chasing away the police, an official said, in an apparent attempt to open a new front." http://tinyurl.com/rgooc


GA: Jackbooted thugs destroy town, abduct residents Yahoo! News
"Trailer parks lie abandoned. The poultry plant is scrambling to replace more than half its workforce. Business has dried up at stores where Mexican laborers once lined up to buy food, beer and cigarettes just weeks ago. This Georgia community of about 1,000 people has become little more than a ghost town since Sept. 1, when federal agents began rounding up illegal immigrants. ... More than 120 illegal immigrants have been loaded onto buses bound for immigration courts in Atlanta, 189 miles away. Hundreds more fled Emanuel County. Residents say many scattered into the woods, camping out for days. ... Federal agents also swarmed into a trailer park operated by David Robinson. Illegal immigrants were handcuffed and taken away. Almost none have returned. Robinson bought an American flag and posted it by the pond out front -- upside down, in protest. ... Crider President David Purtle said the agents began inspecting the company's employment records in May. They found 700 suspected illegal immigrants, and supervisors handed out letters over the summer ordering them to prove they came to the U.S. legally or be fired. Only about 100 kept their jobs. The arrests started at the plant Sept. 1. Over the Labor Day weekend, agents with guns and bulletproof vests converged on workers' homes after getting the addresses from Crider's files." (09/15/06) http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060915/ap_on_re_us/immigration_aftermath

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Light earthquake rattles central Israel for second time in a week on 9/17/06
By Haaretz Service and agencies

A minor earthquake shook central Israel Sunday, an official at Israel's Geophysical Institute said.Seismologist Rami Hofstetter said the tremor, which occurred at about 11:00 A.M., was a 4 magnitude quake. No injuries or damage were reported.It was the second such temblor in the space of a week.
The Syrian-African rift, one of the world's major fault lines, runs north-south along the eastern edge of Israel and the West Bank - under the Sea of Galilee, the Dead Sea and the Jordan River, which connects the two bodies of water. Mild quakes are common in the area.



Zechariah 14
1 Behold, a day of Yahweh comes, when your spoil will be divided in your midst.2 For I will gather all nations against Jerusalem to battle; and the city will be taken, the houses rifled, and the women ravished. Half of the city will go out into captivity, and the rest of the people will not be cut off from the city.3 Then Yahweh will go out and fight against those nations, as when he fought in the day of battle.4 His feet will stand in that day on the Mount of Olives, which is before Jerusalem on the east; and the Mount of Olives will be split in two, from east to west, making a very great valley. Half of the mountain will move toward the north, and half of it toward the south.5 You shall flee by the valley of my mountains; for the valley of the mountains shall reach to Azel; yes, you shall flee, just like you fled from before the earthquake in the days of Uzziah king of Judah. Yahweh my God will come, and all the holy ones with you.6 It will happen in that day, that there will not be light, cold, or frost.7 It will be a unique day which is known to Yahweh; not day, and not night; but it will come to pass, that at evening time there will be light.8 It will happen in that day, that living waters will go out from Jerusalem; half of them toward the eastern sea, and half of them toward the western sea; in summer and in winter will it be.9 Yahweh will be King over all the earth. In that day Yahweh will be one, and his name one.10 All the land will be made like the Arabah, from Geba to Rimmon south of Jerusalem; and she will be lifted up, and will dwell in her place, from Benjamin's gate to the place of the first gate, to the corner gate, and from the tower of Hananel to the king's winepresses.11 Men will dwell therein, and there will be no more curse; but Jerusalem will dwell safely.12 This will be the plague with which Yahweh will strike all the peoples who have warred against Jerusalem: their flesh will consume away while they stand on their feet, and their eyes will consume away in their sockets, and their tongue will consume away in their mouth.13 It will happen in that day, that a great panic from Yahweh will be among them; and they will lay hold everyone on the hand of his neighbor, and his hand will rise up against the hand of his neighbor.14 Judah also will fight at Jerusalem; and the wealth of all the surrounding nations will be gathered together: gold, and silver, and clothing, in great abundance.15 So will be the plague of the horse, of the mule, of the camel, and of the donkey, and of all the animals that will be in those camps, as that plague.16 It will happen that everyone who is left of all the nations that came against Jerusalem will go up from year to year to worship the King, Yahweh of Armies, and to keep the feast of tents.17 It will be, that whoever of all the families of the earth doesn't go up to Jerusalem to worship the King, Yahweh of Armies, on them there will be no rain.18 If the family of Egypt doesn't go up, and doesn't come, neither will it rain on them. This will be the plague with which Yahweh will strike the nations that don't go up to keep the feast of tents.19 This will be the punishment of Egypt, and the punishment of all the nations that don't go up to keep the feast of tents.20 In that day there will be on the bells of the horses, "HOLY TO YAHWEH;" and the pots in Yahweh's house will be like the bowls before the altar.21 Yes, every pot in Jerusalem and in Judah will be holy to Yahweh of Armies; and all those who sacrifice will come and take of them, and cook in them. In that day there will no longer be a Canaanite in the house of Yahweh of Armies.
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'Hizbullah youths' train in terrorism

Thousands of children, teens prepare for apocalyptic battle against 'evil'
Aaron Klein, WND
Published:
09.15.06, 12:44

Hizbullah leads a youth movement that instructs tens of thousands of children and teenagers in military tactics and indoctrinates them with radical Shia Islam beliefs – including the waging of a final, apocalyptic world battle against "evil," according to materials
found by Israel during last month's war in Lebanon.
"Hizbullah established its Imam Mahdi Scouts to attract Shiite children and adolescents, to influence their hearts and minds and to prepare new generations of youth indoctrinated with radical Shiite Islam, which propounds the idea of the return of the Mahdi (messiah) as one of Hizbullah's central principles," states a report by the Intelligence and Terrorism Information Center at Israel's Center for Special Studies.
"Hizbullah wants to create a new generation of operatives for its own ranks who will take part in its violent campaign against Israel," the report states.
The Center for Special Studies, a think tank here specializing in terrorism information, analyzed scores of documents and material captured last month by the Israeli Defense Forces during military confrontation's with Hizbullah. The documents relating to Hizbullah's Mahdi Scouts evidence the recruitment of youth to fight eventually alongside Hizbullah, the center stated.
Hizbullah's Mahdi Scouts was established by the terror group in 1982 and operates under the jurisdiction of the Lebanese Ministry of Education. According to the Center for Special Studies, the Scouts have about 42,000 Lebanese males and females between the ages of 8-16 organized into 499 groups.
The scouts' namesake comes from a decedent of Muhammad, the founder of Islam. Shia Muslims believe Muhammad's immediate decedents – a series of 12 imams, or Muslim leaders – are the most trusted carriers of Islamic tradition.
Most Shia Muslims believe the 12th Imam, Mahdi, is still alive but cannot be seen until Allah determines it is time to prepare the faithful for Judgment Day. They believe Mahdi will eventually reveal himself and lead the forces of righteousness against the forces of evil in a final, apocalyptic world battle.
Hizbullah's Mahdi Scouts reportedly undergo military training at summer camps in Shiite communities in Beirut, the Beqaa Valley and south Lebanon.
The Center for Special Studies stated major activities at Mahdi Scouts summer camps, including sports and social programs, aim to inculcate Hizbullah and Islamic revolutionary principles into scout members.
The center's report said there are camps in which youth learn the basic use of arms along with physical training and march exercises while dressed in scout uniforms or camouflage suits. The center reviewed dozens of captured pictures of Mahdi Scouts in military uniforms holding plastic assault rifles.
An investigative report published in August by the Egyptian daily Ruz al-Yusuf claimed the scout movement trains “armed militias” in south Lebanon made up of children aged 10-15.

Lesson one: Destroy Israel The first lesson Hizbullah teaches scouts, stated the Egyptian article, is the destruction of Israel.
“(This lesson) is always an important part of the curriculum and is always aimed at children and adolescents who are new to the program. (The objective is to train a) high-caliber Islamic generation of children who would be willing to sacrifice themselves for the sake of Allah in the campaign against Israel."

The Center for Special Studies noted evidence of Iranian involvement in the scouting program. The center's report states Iranian Revolutionary Guard units played a central role in establishing the Mahdi Scouts and its regular programs and summer camps.

The report says a large volume of materials collected in Lebanon by the IDF "illustrates how members of Hizbullah's youth movement had been indoctrinated with the principles of the Iranian Islamic revolution and the personality cult of (Supreme Iranian leader) Ali Khamenei."
Among the scouting literature discovered were books and magazines glorifying Khamenei as a hero worthy of emulation.

The center also found a Mahdi Scouts calendar in which dates considered important to Hizbullah were highlighted. Dates marked for celebration in September, for example, include Imam Mahdi's birthday and the Sept. 11, 2001 terror attacks in the United States.

According to the center report, when male Mahdi scouts turn 17 they make their way into Hizbullah's fighting ranks.
Several previous scouts reportedly died during confrontations with Israel in July and August. Hizbullah member Hassan Qassem Hamid, head of the scout branch in the south Lebanese Hizbullah stronghold of Bint Jbail, was killed after he attempted to attack Israeli troops.
The Mahdi Scouts calendar boasts more than 120 of the movement's members died during Hizbullah actions, including suicide bombings against Israeli targets.

Many Western analysts fear the Shia belief in Mahdi's return is a driving force behind Iran's suspected pursuit of nuclear weapons. Iran is the primary sponsor of Hizbullah.

Some contend Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad may be pursuing nuclear weapons in part to precipitate the final, Mahdi-led battle.

In a speech in Tehran in November, Ahmadinejad reportedly said his main mission is to "pave the path for the glorious reappearance of Imam Mahdi, may Allah hasten his reappearance."

Ahmadinejad's cabinet reportedly has given USD 17 million to the Jamkaran mosque, site of a well at which Shia Muslims believe Mahdi disappeared over 1,000 years ago.

Reprinted with the permission of World Net Daily

Last update - 15:34 15/09/2006
Lebanon's top Shiite cleric demands personal apology from Pope
By The Associated Press


Lebanon's most senior Shiite Muslim cleric on Friday denounced Pope Benedict XVI's recent remarks about Muslim holy war, and demanded the pope personally apologize for insulting Islam."We do not accept the apology through Vatican channels ... and ask him [Benedict] to offer a personal apology - not through his officials - to Muslims for this false reading [of Islam]," Grand Ayatollah Mohammed Hussein Fadlallah told worshippers in his Friday prayers sermon.Fadlallah's words were some of the strongest yet in response to the pontiff's remarks on Islam's prophet Muhammad and holy war, during a speech this week in Germany, which angered many in the Muslim world.

"We call on the pope to carry out a scientific and fastidious reading of Islam. We do not want him to succumb to the propaganda of the enemy led by Judaism and imperialism against Islam," Fadlallah said. Other Islamic leaders have demanded an apology from the pope, over remarks in which he quoted from a book recounting a conversation between 14th century Byzantine Christian Emperor Manuel Paleologos II and an educated Persian, on the truths of Christianity and Islam.

"The emperor comes to speak about the issue of jihad, holy war," the pope said."He said, I quote, 'Show me just what Muhammad brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached,"' Benedict quoted the emperor as saying.

On Thursday, the Vatican said the pope had not intended to offend Muslim sensibilities with the remarks. But the comments continued to reverberate Friday. About 100 worshippers demonstrated after Friday prayers at Egypt's Al-Azhar mosque, the Sunni Arab world's most prominent institution, chanting "Oh Crusaders, oh cowards! Down with the pope!"Many attributed the pope's comments to a larger political bias against Muslims.

"This is part of the whole war against Islam. Whenever we close a door on evil, they open another door," said an Egyptian man who spoke on condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of the matter.

"These Christians are all infidels. Benedict himself is an infidel and a blind man. Doesn't he see that the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and other places were waged by Christians?" another worshipper said.

One of the protest's organizers, a Muslim Brotherhood figure, shouted into a microphone, demanding an official apology from the Vatican.Hundreds of Egyptian riot police wearing black helmets and carrying heavy shields surrounded the mosque, preventing protesters from spilling over into the streets.

Fadlallah said he condemns "and protests in the strongest terms" the pope's comments, "particularly his quoting without any occasion of the words of the emperor in which he insults Prophet Muhammad."Lebanese Prime Minister Fuad Saniora instructed Lebanon's ambassador to the Vatican, Naji Abi Assi, to visit the Vatican Foreign Ministry to seek clarifications on the pontiff's remarks, a Lebanese government official said Friday.

In neighboring Syria, the grand mufti, the country's top Sunni Muslim religious authority, sent a letter to the pope saying he feared the pontiff's comments on Islam would worsen interfaith relations. Sheik Ahmad Badereddine Hassoun, a moderate cleric, said the comments "raise intellectual, cultural and religious problems between followers of religious faiths."The letter, addressed to the pope and delivered to the Vatican embassy in Damascus, avoided sharp criticism however, reflecting tight control by Syria's secular regime."We expect that what has been attributed to your holiness is not true and hope we can all work together on spreading divine values that call for harmony, accord and cooperation," Hassoun wrote.

Al-Aqsa leader: Another 9/11 'on its way'

American-trained leader of al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades in West Bank declares 'beginning of collapse' of US 'empire'; says wishes every day was September 11
Aaron Klein, WND
Published:
09.12.06, 12:41


The September 11, 2001, terror attacks were the beginning of the collapse of the American empire, and it is only a question of time before the next "great big event" strikes the United States, a senior Palestinian terror leader who received American training warned during an interview with WorldNetDaily Tuesday.

"The Americans even now are doing everything to bring our hostility and hatred to higher levels and bring us to wait impatiently for the next great big event," said Abu Muhammad, a senior leader of the al-Aqsa Martyrs’ Brigades in the northern West Bank city of Jenin. "They deserve one more coup of this kind (like 9/11), and I am sure it is only a question of time. September 11 was the beginning of the collapse of this empire of evil."

The al-Aqsa Brigades, the declared "military wing" of Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas' party, is responsible for scores of deadly shootings, hundreds of rocket attacks, and – together with the Islamic Jihad terror group – every suicide bombing inside Israel in the past two years.

Abu Muhammad also is a member of the Palestinian Authority's Preventative Security Services, which has received training and weapons from the United States and Europe. Abu Muhammad says like many members of the Preventative Security Services, he personally received training from the CIA.

Many al-Aqsa Brigades leaders also are members of Fatah's security services, including Abbas' Force 17 personal security detail. The US largely considers Fatah and its security branches to be "moderate."

‘Overwhelmed with joy’ over attacks
Abu Muhammad said he wished "every day was another 9/11."

America, he declared, deserved the Sept. 11 attacks: "Our 19 heroes got the revenge of all the Muslims in the world and all the poor and exploited people and nations," he said. "Americans must know that their loved ones were killed because of the policies of their state and government."

Abu Muhammad went on to claim the US supports the killing of Palestinians and Muslims throughout the world.

"But not only Muslims. See what the Americans made in Latin America and see their support to the apartheid regime in South Africa," stated Abu Muhammad.

The US-trained terror leader said he was "overwhelmed with joy" when he first heard the World Trade Center and Pentagon had been attacked.

"I do not think that I ever lived moments of joy, happiness and great feelings of pride and honor like I felt when I saw the divine planes hitting the twin buildings," he said. "It was one of those moments that Allah appears and tells the believers, 'See I do not forget to punish the non-believers. Those who keep killing the Muslims and stealing their lands and their oil.”

"September 11 was a great day and the first minutes after the people understood what happened, Palestinians went out into the streets and started distributing candies and started hugging one another," he said. "Everybody felt that Allah gave us a present and that history will never be the same because Islam finally got rid of all the handcuffs that restricted and prevented it to express itself and its capacities."

Another 9/11 on way
Abu Muhammad warned another 9/11 is "on its way," because, he claimed, America failed to draw the "proper conclusions" from the mega-attack.

"Instead of asking themselves the right questions about why did this happened, the Americans occupied Iraq and Afghanistan," he said. "They intensified their support of the Zionists and seem not to understand that they are bringing their end about with their own hand.

"In the Quran, it is written that the non-believers will destroy their homelands and their houses with their own hands."

Still Abu Muhammad conceded that since the 9/11 attacks, the position of Islamists has been damaged.

"There is no doubt that for the moment it seems the attacks harmed the situation of the Arab and the Islamic world," he said. "America is occupying Arabic and Islamic states because of the attacks that gave the Americans the excuses to deepen its control on the Arab and Islamic world and its oil.

"But on the other hand, the Americans are in a very grave situation in Iraq, in Afghanistan and their war against what they call terror. The democratization campaigns that they are leading are for the moment bringing opposite results. We are sure that Allah will help us defeat the Americans and collapse this empire.”
Reprinted with permission from WorldNetDaily

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Moderate earthquake felt across Israel

Many residents in plains and Jerusalem area report feeling light earthquake at eight in the morning. No injuries or damage have been reported. Seismology Institute: Quake was moderate
Ynet
Published:
09.09.06, 08:44

A light earthquake has been felt across Jerusalem and the plains area at around eight in the morning, for a number of seconds. There were no reports of damage or injuries.
The epicenter of the quake was the Jordan Valley. The quake measured 4.4 on the Richter scale, a moderate sized quake.
A number of months ago a light earthquake, 3.2 on the Richter scale, was measured in the Jordan Valley.
A year ago exactly on the eve of the Hebrew new year, a moderate earthquake, measuring 4.0 on the Richter Scale, was felt across Israel.
The epicenter of the quake was 30 kilometers north of Dead Sea, in the Jordan Valley.
Dr. Yoav Serana, Chairman of the Engineers Union, then told Ynet that the quake was "wonderful for two reasons: First, every earthquake releases energy. If there are small earthquakes frequently, the chances of a large one decrease. If no damage is caused in minor quakes, we are better off. The energy is focused in the ground, and the larger the quakes, the more energy is released."
Serana added that "the country is simply not ready for a large quake. There are all kinds of program but nothing has been done. Buildings built after 1995 are ready for earthquakes because the standard has been changed, and in a large earthquake they will be damaged, but they will not topple. But most of the buildings were built before then, and they would not stand up to a big earthquake. The State must invest money in protecting hospitals and public buildings needed during an emergency."

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House to vote on horse slaughter banFox News"The House is once again confronting the slaughter of horses for meat,a practice lawmakers thought they had ended last year. Congress votedin 2005 to stop horse slaughter. But they didn't ban it outright --lawmakers yanked the salaries and expenses of federal inspectors. Inresponse, the Bush administration simply started charging slaughterplants for inspections. A vote was planned Thursday on whether to putan end to horse slaughter. Critics call the industry un-American."[editor's note: Er, no ... having the government decide whichlivestock can be killed and which can only be entered in rodeos iswhat's "un-American" - TLK] (09/07/06)http://www.foxnews.com/wires/2006Sep07/0,4670,HorseSlaughter,00.html

Latest anti-porn target: Hotel room TVChristian Science Monitor"It's a business that has become quietly entrenched in America'scorporate culture: pay-per-view pornography in hotel rooms. Most largechains provide the service, along with standard-issue films. Thepay-per-view service has brought hotels millions of dollars a year.But these days, the US hotel business is also attracting moral outrageand vitriol -- on a scale that pornography insiders say amounts to oneof the largest organized assaults on the skin business in recentmemory. A consortium of 13 conservative groups has createdCleanHotels.com, a website that provides listings and reservationservices for US hotels where travelers can rest safe from taint ortemptation. The conservative groups have also run a series offull-page ads in USA Today, urging authorities to prosecute hoteliersunder federal and local obscenity statutes." [editor's note: If theonly intention is to alert folks to alternatives, there is littlewrong here; unfortunately, most of these groups tend to censorship,not choice - SAT] (09/06/06)http://www.csmonitor.com/2006/0906/p03s03-ussc.html

UT: Polygamist leader appears in courtForbes"Looking pale and gaunt in a green-striped jail uniform, polygamistsect leader Warren Jeffs made his first appearance in a Utah court viaclosed-circuit TV Wednesday on charges he arranged a marriage betweenan underage girl and an older man. Jeffs, 50, is charged with twocounts of rape as an accomplice. The charges carry up to life inprison. He is being held in the Purgatory Correctional Facility innearby Hurricane." [I've heard a number of horror story's aboutJeffs's sect ... but apparently all the prosecutors could come up withwas a shaky accessory to statutory rape case. This guy was on theFBI's "most wanted" list -- but they haven't bothered to indict Osamabin Laden for 9/11 yet! - TLK] (09/06/06)http://www.forbes.com/home/feeds/ap/2006/09/06/ap2997697.html