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To traditionalists, dumping 'B.C.' is simply too P.C.
Forget public schools' religious wars about intelligent design and evolution, students' religious songs and artwork, after-school Bible clubs, graduation prayers and gay sensitivity training.
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Jolie, Pitt plan to adopt
Angelina Jolie says she and Brad Pitt, who have three children, including a newborn daughter, are planning to adopt another child.
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Health funding
The top 10 institutions funded in fiscal year 2005 by the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, part of the National Institutes of Health:
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Cost of filling up
Average gasoline prices for San Diego County by fuel grade compared with different time frames, from the AAA Fuel Gauge Report.
- Democrats table push for health care boost
SACRAMENTO – Moving to ease a state budget deadlock, Democratic legislative leaders are dropping their push for a $300 million expansion of a health care program that would include illegal immigrant children.
- Justices cloudy on water law authority
WASHINGTON – The Supreme Court yesterday came close to rolling back one of the country's fundamental environmental laws, issuing a fractured decision that, while likely to preserve vigorous federal enforcement of the Clean Water Act, is also likely to lead to regulatory battles, increased litigation by property owners and a push for new legislation.
- Guardsman will start patrolling in New Orleans
NEW ORLEANS – Acting at the mayor's request, Gov. Kathleen Blanco said yesterday she would send National Guard troops and state police to patrol the streets of New Orleans after a bloody weekend in which six people were killed.
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- Heart group urges limits on trans fat, smoking
The American Heart Association has become the first big health group to urge a specific limit on trans fats in the diet – less than 1 percent of total calories – in new guidelines released yesterday.
- Pentagon lists being gay as 'disorder'
WASHINGTON – A Pentagon document classifies homosexuality as a mental disorder, decades after mental health experts abandoned that position.
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Rice's righthand man leaves for Wall Street
WASHINGTON – Deputy Secretary of State Robert Zoellick, the department's No. 2 official, is resigning, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice announced yesterday and praised his “tireless work ethic.”
- U.S., Russia settle on nuke-finding plan
WASHINGTON – The United States and Russia reached a last-minute agreement saving a program to secure or destroy Soviet nuclear warheads, chemical weapons and killer germs, U.S. officials said yesterday, breaking a two-year logjam and averting a rupture weeks before President Bush travels to St. Petersburg.
- Episcopal delegates debate ban on gay bishops
COLUMBUS, Ohio – A day after electing its first female presiding bishop, the Episcopal General Convention yesterday debated another tension-filled topic: whether the U.S. church should temporarily bar gays from becoming bishops to preserve Anglican fellowship.
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Suspect described as major ID forger
MONTERREY, Mexico – Mexican authorities have arrested the leader of a wide-reaching organization that allegedly made and distributed forged immigration and identification documents in numerous U.S. cities, U.S. officials said yesterday.
- Snowmobiles, ATVs face tough new restrictions
WASHINGTON – Snowmobilers and all-terrain vehicle enthusiasts will have a tougher time getting permission to ride in national parks under a government plan announced yesterday.
- Taliban ambushes kill 30 in Afghanistan
KANDAHAR, Afghanistan – Two Taliban ambushes of civilian convoys left 30 people dead, while coalition and Afghan forces killed at least 11 militants in a U.S.-led offensive across southern Afghanistan, officials said yesterday.
- Koreans reunite after more than 50 years
SEOUL, South Korea – Hundreds of South Koreans crossed the heavily armed North Korean border yesterday to reunite with relatives they haven't seen in more than 50 years.
- Work starts on repository for world's seeds
In an isolated part of the Norwegian Arctic, the cornerstone was laid yesterday for a bank vault of sorts. The valuables are seeds, representing the world's agricultural diversity.
- Al-Qaeda faction says it has two missing soldiers
BAGHDAD, Iraq – An al-Qaeda-linked group said yesterday it was holding captive two U.S. privates, one from Texas and the other from Oregon, and taunted the U.S. military for failing to find the soldiers despite a search involving more than 8,000 Iraqi and American troops.
- Three U.S. soldiers charged in killing of detainees
WASHINGTON – Three U.S. soldiers suspected of killing three detainees in Iraq and then threatening a fellow soldier with death if he reported the shootings have been charged with premeditated murder and obstructing justice, Army officials said yesterday.
- Prosecution of Hussein concludes with demand for the death penalty
BAGHDAD, Iraq – The prosecution demanded the death penalty for Saddam Hussein in its closing arguments yesterday, saying he showed “no mercy” in the killings of women and children during a crackdown on Shiite Muslims in the 1980s.
- Daily developments
Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi announced his plan to withdraw troops from Iraq at a meeting today of his Liberal Democratic Party, an official said. Japan has about 600 troops in Samawah in southern Iraq.
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