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May. 20th, 2004
maybe really heavy sunblock?
May. 20th, 2004 04:33 pm"Repeatedly invoking the threat of terrorism, the Senate on Wednesday" voted 99-0 to approve S. 15, "a $5.6-billion, 10-year initiative to encourage private industry to develop vaccines and drugs that would protect Americans from biological, chemical or nuclear attacks," the Los Angeles Times reports.
by way of the Doonesbury Daily Brief
Someone remind me which vaccine is good against nuclear radiation?
various news items
May. 20th, 2004 06:00 pmThe [Massachusetts] state Senate yesterday voted overwhelmingly to repeal a 1913 law that Governor Mitt Romney is enforcing to prevent out-of-state same-sex couples from marrying in Massachusetts.
Men who acknowledge having had homosexual sex within the previous five years will not be allowed to make anonymous sperm donations under new rules that the Food and Drug Administration is expected to announce today.
The ranking Democrat on the House of Representatives' Judiciary Committee wants a congressional probe into whether the Justice Department misled the Supreme Court last month when a government lawyer told the justices that the United States does not engage in torture.
In a rare public swipe at a fellow Republican, House Speaker Dennis Hastert on Wednesday questioned the GOP credentials of John McCain, a U.S. senator who has often challenged party orthodoxy.
A Miami federal judge on Wednesday sank the U.S. government's nationally publicized criminal case against the international environmental group Greenpeace because of lack of evidence. (snip) The Washington-based group said U.S. Attorney General John Ashcroft seized on the archaic 1872 law -- meant to stop brothels from luring sailors to shore -- to try to stifle Greenpeace's criticism that the Bush administration has failed to enforce international restrictions on mahogany trade.
Men who acknowledge having had homosexual sex within the previous five years will not be allowed to make anonymous sperm donations under new rules that the Food and Drug Administration is expected to announce today.
The ranking Democrat on the House of Representatives' Judiciary Committee wants a congressional probe into whether the Justice Department misled the Supreme Court last month when a government lawyer told the justices that the United States does not engage in torture.
In a rare public swipe at a fellow Republican, House Speaker Dennis Hastert on Wednesday questioned the GOP credentials of John McCain, a U.S. senator who has often challenged party orthodoxy.
A Miami federal judge on Wednesday sank the U.S. government's nationally publicized criminal case against the international environmental group Greenpeace because of lack of evidence. (snip) The Washington-based group said U.S. Attorney General John Ashcroft seized on the archaic 1872 law -- meant to stop brothels from luring sailors to shore -- to try to stifle Greenpeace's criticism that the Bush administration has failed to enforce international restrictions on mahogany trade.
http://www.usatoday.com/news/snapshot.htm?section=S&label=2004-05-20-soccer.jpg
This despite lots of families at least making the effort
http://www.usatoday.com/news/snapshot.htm?section=S&label=2004-05-20-soccer.jpg
This despite lots of families at least making the effort
http://www.usatoday.com/news/snapshot.htm?section=S&label=2004-05-20-soccer.jpg
