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| Tue, 22 Nov 2005 14:00:00 EST Bookshelf: The Untied States of America |
| No, that's not a misprint. The book is called The Untied States of America, and the author is Juan Enriquez, a CEO of a life sciences research firm and a former fellow at Harvard's Center for International Affairs.
We take national boundaries for granted, Enriquez says, and yet they often change. And of course he's right. Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union look a lot different on the map now than they did 20 years ago; the United Nations has something like four times as many members as it did in 1960. In the Americas, it is seemingly different. Boundaries in North America and South America haven't changed, he says, since 1910. Actually, that's slightly wrong. Newfoundland, a separate dominion in the British Commonwealth of Nations, was absorbed into the Dominion of Canada in 1949 after the Newfoundland government went broke. But that only makes Enriquez's point stronger. |
| Tue, 22 Nov 2005 14:00:00 EST The ombudsman as schoolmarm |
| I have a certain sympathy for those who have served as ombudsman for the Washington Post. Their offices are on the same floor as the newsroom (at least they were when I was there), they are surrounded every day by the people they are paid to criticize, and they must live with a left-wing newsroom culture that resents any deviation from the line of the day. The policy at the Post, as I recall, is that the ombudsman serves for a certain time and doesn't work for the paper afterward. This presumably reduces the pressure to conform to newsroom orthodoxy. But it doesn't always work. |
| Tue, 22 Nov 2005 14:00:00 EST Overweight children are more at risk for broken bones and joint problems |
| Children who are overweight face more than future health problems. They appear to have broken bones and joint problems more often during childhood than do kids of normal weight, research suggests. |
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| Wed, 23 Nov 2005 04:13:03 GMT Dirty Bomb Suspect Padilla Indicted (AP) |
 AP - Jose Padilla, a U.S. citizen held in a Navy brig as an enemy combatant for more than three years, was charged Tuesday with being part of a North American terror cell that sent money and recruits overseas to "murder, maim and kidnap."
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| Wed, 23 Nov 2005 04:08:05 GMT Suicide Car Bomber Kills 21 People in Iraq (AP) |
 AP - A suicide car bomber killed 21 people in northern Iraq on Tuesday after insurgents lured police to the scene by shooting an officer, officials said. One more U.S. soldier was killed, pushing the American death toll for the conflict to 2,100, the U.S. military said.
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| Wed, 23 Nov 2005 04:06:51 GMT Vatican Closes Door on Gay Seminarians (AP) |
 AP - The Vatican is toughening its stand against gay candidates for the priesthood, specifying in a new document that even men with "transitory" homosexual tendencies must overcome their urges for at least three years before entering the clergy.
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| Tue, 22 Nov 2005 22:21:04 EST U.S. general: Iraqi army training 'uneven' |
| The U.S. general in charge of helping Iraq create an army says training troops to replace coalition forces cannot be rushed but admits the training is sporadic. He spoke to CNN as pressure grows in Washington and Iraq for coalition forces to be withdrawn from Iraq. "We are moving at a measured pace," Army Gen. Martin Dempsey told CNN. He added: "It's uneven across the country, it's uneven across units, it's uneven between the army and the police." |
| Tue, 22 Nov 2005 19:33:50 EST U.S.: Al-Jazeera airstrike story 'outlandish' |
| The White House characterized as "outlandish" Tuesday a British newspaper report that President Bush once discussed with Prime Minister Tony Blair bombing the headquarters of Arabic-language television network Al-Jazeera. |
| Tue, 22 Nov 2005 20:29:58 EST Would-be Bush assassin convicted |
| A federal jury convicted a Virginia man Tuesday of joining the al Qaeda terrorist network and conspiring to assassinate President Bush. The man had claimed Saudi authorities tortured him into confessing. |
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