Region Braces for Winter Storm
Significant Snowfall Expected Across the Metro Area
By Fred Barbash
Washington Post Staff Writer
Monday, February 28, 2005; 8:07 AM
All major school systems announced closures this morning and the Federal government announced an "unscheduled leave" policy as the National Weather Service warned of a three- to- six inch snowfall across most of the Washington region with more expected further out to the west.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A59314-2005Feb28.html
Bush is going to kill all the Baleens. WHERE is the God Almighty War that requires this type of assault on the seas of this planet? BUSH IS AN ENVIRONMENTAL LUNATIC !!! GET AWAY FROM MY WHALES YOU FLYING IDIOTS. Go play war in the BATHTUB !!!!!!
U.S. Set to Oppose Efforts To Restrict Use of Sonar
By Marc KaufmanWashington Post Staff WriterMonday, February 28, 2005; Page A05
The Bush administration is strongly opposing international efforts to restrict the Navy's use of active sonar anywhere in the world, putting it at odds with European allies and several key ocean-protection organizations.
Bush Weighs Offers To Iran
U.S. Might Join Effort to Halt Nuclear Program
By Robin Wright
Washington Post Staff Writer
Monday, February 28, 2005; Page A01
The Bush administration is close to a decision to join Europe in offering incentives to Iran -- possibly including eventual membership in the World Trade Organization -- in exchange for Tehran's formal agreement to surrender any plans to develop a nuclear weapon, according to senior U.S. officials.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A58417-2005Feb27.html
Wild Horses Run Risk of Slaughter
Advocates Rally to Revive Ban
By Kimberly Edds
Special to The Washington Post
Monday, February 28, 2005; Page A15
After more than 30 years of roaming federal lands free of any threat of the slaughterhouse, wild mustangs, which have become synonymous with the spirit and heart of the American West, can now be sold and butchered for meat if the Bureau of Land Management cannot sell them elsewhere.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A58187-2005Feb27.html?nav=hcmodule
The New York Times
In City's Jails, Missed Signals Open Way to Season of Suicides
By PAUL von ZIELBAUER
Published: February 28, 2005
The warnings were right there in her medical file: a childhood of sexual abuse, a diagnosis of manic depression, a suicide attempt at age 13 - all noted when Carina Montes arrived at Rikers Island in September 2002.
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/02/28/nyregion/28jail.html?hp&ex=1109653200&en=df96641a227ac082&ei=5094&partner=homepage
Switch by Former Supporter Shows Evolution of Death Law
By SAM ROBERTS
Published: February 28, 2005
Helene E. Weinstein owes her Assembly seat, in part, to capital punishment.
In 1978, her father toppled the Assembly speaker, Stanley Steingut, a death penalty opponent, from his Brooklyn district, in an upset that sent shock waves through state politics. Two years later, Ms. Weinstein herself was elected to the seat, and consistently voted in favor of the death penalty.
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/02/28/nyregion/28death.html?
Relief, and Bewilderment, Over Arrest in Kansas Killings
By MONICA DAVEY
Published: February 28, 2005
WICHITA, Kan., Feb. 27 - For those gathered inside Christ Lutheran Church on Sunday morning, the lasting images of Dennis L. Rader were simple, sweet moments. Just last Wednesday evening, for instance, he stopped by the church to drop off spaghetti sauce and salad for a potluck dinner before he went to visit his mother at the hospital.
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/02/28/national/28btk.html
U.S. Urges Judge to Dismiss Suit on Chemical Use in Vietnam War
By WILLIAM GLABERSON
Published: February 28, 2005
The Justice Department is urging a federal judge in Brooklyn to dismiss a lawsuit aimed at forcing a re-examination of one of the most contentious issues of the Vietnam War, the use of the defoliant Agent Orange.
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/02/28/nyregion/28orange.html
Worldwide Anti-Tobacco Treaty Takes Effect
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Published: February 28, 2005
GENEVA, Feb. 27 (AP) - A global anti-tobacco treaty came into effect on Sunday, but a leading expert said it needed strengthening quickly if it was to be effective in curbing smoking, which claims five million lives a year.
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/02/28/health/28tobacco.html
AH, AH, AH, as a Neocon would Scream, GERMS !!!!!
Novel Bacteria in Alaskan Ice May Be 32,000 Years Old
By NICHOLAS WADE
Published: February 26, 2005
NASA researchers say they have recovered bacteria that apparently lay dormant for 32,000 years in a frozen pond in central Alaska.
If confirmed, the finding means that there may be many other pockets of ancient life in permafrost and seafloor sediments. The hardiness of the bacteria also suggests that life could survive even on Mars, in places like the frozen sea reported by other researchers this week.
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/02/26/science/26germ.html
Desert Cool, Hot From the 50's
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/02/24/garden/24alex.html
The Seattle Post Intelligencer
5,000 cyclists huff and puff the Chilly Hilly
Sunshine, lack of skiing may have boosted numbers
By JESSICA BLANCHARD
SEATTLE POST-INTELLIGENCER REPORTER
Whether they were inspired by champion cyclist Lance Armstrong, the need to improve their health or just a desire to enjoy the springlike day, thousands of cyclists from around the region journeyed to Bainbridge Island yesterday for the 33-mile Chilly Hilly recreational ride.
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/local/213816_chilly28.html
13 states agree to raise H.S. standards
By BEN FELLER
AP EDUCATION WRITER
Gov. Bill Richardson, D-N.M., gestures during a planning session on redesigning high schools on Sunday, Feb. 27, 2005 in Washington. Governors from around the country are in Washington for the National Education Summit on High Schools, and the National Governors Association Winter Meetings. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)
WASHINGTON -- A coalition of 13 states confirmed plans Sunday to require tougher high school courses and diploma requirements, changes that could affect about one in three students.
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/apus_story.asp?category=1110&slug=Governors%20High%20Schools
Child tracing teams working hard in Aceh
By MARGIE MASON
ASSOCIATED PRESS WRITER
An Acehnese woman walks past by a list of missing children provided by UNICEF at a refugee camp in Mata Ie near the provincial capital of Banda Aceh, Aceh province, Indonesia, Friday, Feb. 18, 2005. Weeks after the earthquake and massive tsunami smashed the region, up to 10,000 children whose parents or other relatives went missing in the disaster have not been reunited with family members, aid officials said. (AP Photo/Dita Alangkara)
BANDA ACEH, Indonesia -- The last time Anshari saw his mother, she was screaming at him to flee up a mountain near their house as the tsunami's monster waves rushed at their village. The 10-year-old watched her wrap his baby brother in a traditional Indonesian cloth and prepare to follow him up the slope.
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/apasia_story.asp?category=1104&slug=Tsunami%20Tracing%20Children
Black farmers seek compensation from gov't
By MALIA RULON
ASSOCIATED PRESS WRITER
WASHINGTON -- Thousands of black farmers who say they have been left out of a landmark civil rights case are turning to Congress as their last hope to get compensation for years of being denied loans by the government.
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/apwashington_story.asp?category=1153&slug=Black%20Farmers
Report: Abbas says Mideast peace possible
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
LONDON -- Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas said in an interview published Monday that he believes peace with Israel is possible but added that ending violence is a mutual commitment.
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/apeurope_story.asp?category=1103&slug=Britain%20Palestinian%20Leader
Ancient earth drawings found in Peru
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
LIMA, Peru -- Archaeologists have discovered a group of giant figures scraped into the hills of Peru's southern coastal desert that are believed to predate the country's famed Nazca lines.
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/apscience_story.asp?category=1501&slug=Peru%20Earth%20Drawings
Canada Holocaust-denier ruling hailed
By BETH DUFF-BROWN
ASSOCIATED PRESS WRITER
Ernst Zundel speaks to reporters during a recess in his detention review with the Immigration and Refugee Board in Niagara Falls, Ontario, in this March 31, 2003 file photo. Jewish activists Friday Feb. 25, 2005 hailed a court ruling that allows Canada to deport German Holocaust denier Ernst Zundel to face prosecution at home. Zundel, author of "The Hitler We Loved and Why," has been held in a Toronto jail for two years while authorities determined whether he posed a security risk to Canadian society. (AP Photo/CP, Aaron Harris/ File)
TORONTO -- Jewish activists Friday hailed a court ruling that allows Canada to deport German Holocaust denier Ernst Zundel to face prosecution at home.
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/apcanada_story.asp?category=1101&slug=Canada%20Holocaust%20Denier
Birth rate falls for Canadian grizzlies
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
CALGARY, Alberta -- Female grizzly bears are producing the fewest offspring ever in North America, a study said.
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/apcanada_story.asp?category=1101&slug=Canada%20Dwindling%20Grizzlies
Calls to kill Sharon spiral before pullout
By STEVE WEIZMAN
ASSOCIATED PRESS WRITER
Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon attends the weekly cabinet meeting in Jerusalem Sunday Feb. 27, 2005. Sharon said Sunday that peace efforts with the Palestinians would be frozen if they do not crack down on militant groups in the wake of a suicide bombing that killed four people outside a Tel Aviv nightclub Friday night. (AP Photo/Menahem Kahana/Pool)
JERUSALEM -- The head of Israel's intelligence agency told Cabinet Ministers on Sunday that the number of calls for the death of Prime Minister Ariel Sharon is increasing sharply ahead of this summer's planned pullout from Gaza and part of the West Bank.
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/aplatin_story.asp?category=1102&slug=Israel%20Extremist%20Threats
Cyclone Percy pounds tiny Pacific atoll
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
WELLINGTON, New Zealand -- Cyclone Percy battered the tiny South Pacific atolls of Tokelau with hurricane-force winds and high seas on Saturday, wrecking houses, uprooting trees and disrupting power supplies and communications, officials said. No injuries were reported.
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/apaa_story.asp?category=1106&slug=South%20Pacific%20Cyclone
