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Author: (David P.)(David P.)
Date: Mar 23, 2008 18:28
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/23/nyregion/nyregionspecial2/23rflu.html
What if a Flu Like 1918's Broke Out Now?
By AVI SALZMAN
Published: March 23, 2008
WHEN an outbreak of the Spanish flu spread
worldwide in 1918, a doctor in Newark advised
his patients that they could cure their illness
with red onions and coffee. In Atlantic City,
the authorities closed amusement parks and
theaters indefinitely. And in upstate New York,
public health officials distributed a poster
warning people against "careless spitting,
coughing, sneezing."
Those precautions had mixed results, and
an estimated 675,000 Americans died during
that outbreak, according to the Centers for
Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta.
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Author: Hal Womack 3-danHal Womack 3-dan
Date: Mar 23, 2008 11:05
SERMON FOR THE SPRING* OF THE RAT:
FROM THE MURDERED GIRLS IN GAZA TO THE FUTURE PLANET SALMON
( * With a low bow to our sisters of the Southern Hemisphere
with their reversed order of seasons. These remarks dedicated to Miss
Venus Williams. )
By Hal Womack 3-dan
http://www.flickr.com/photos/halwomack/
http://www.myspace.com/halwomack
Should anyone at all preach on the occasion of this particular
weekend? Shall I? Having yet a few minutes free ere other duties call
me this Easter Sunday morn, here goes:
While the big old religions lie brain dead and rotting in corrupt
embrace with a bloody global tyranny, Spring stirs before us again in
the Northern Hemisphere, raising green shoots of hope for our
suffering Rainbow Race, Seven Billion strong. This year the vernal
equinox occurred on Thursday March 20th. The following day shown the
Full Moon and two days after that has come the principal Christian
feast.
Such a calendrical cluster (#1, see below) !
In order to save both ourselves individually and our race as a whole,
we must learn to be sensible, to dare to use the gifts Goddess gave
us: Eyes to see, ears to hear and so fourth unto intuition in...
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Author: Randie DarkoRandie Darko
Date: Mar 22, 2008 13:15
The Encyclopædia Britannica comments: “There is no indication of the
observance of the Easter festival in the New Testament, or in the
writings of the apostolic Fathers. The sanctity of special times was an
idea absent from the minds of the first Christians.”—(1910), Vol. VIII,
p. 828.
The Catholic Encyclopedia tells us: “A great many pagan customs,
celebrating the return of spring, gravitated to Easter. The egg is the
emblem of the germinating life of early spring. . . . The rabbit is a
pagan symbol and has always been an emblem of fertility.”—(1913), Vol.
V, p. 227.
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Author: (David P.)(David P.)
Date: Mar 21, 2008 23:17
http://www.heraldsun.com/durham/4-935353.cfm
County sees 2.5%% population growth
BY WILLIAM F. WEST : The Herald-Sun
bwest@ heraldsun.com
Mar 21, 2008
DURHAM -- Interim U.S. Census figures show
a 2.5 percent population growth in Durham County,
which pleases officials who see the new numbers
as part of a steady, but manageable increase.
"It's a pace that our services can keep up with
without causing fairly significant spikes in your
tax rate or either gaps in the services, when
we haven't had either of those," County
Manager Mike Ruffin said Thursday.
The estimate, a snapshot from July 1, 2006 to
July 1, 2007 and released Wednesday, shows
Durham County's population at 256,500. The
2006 estimate was 250,152.
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Author: glen buglen bu
Date: Mar 20, 2008 20:34
Bin Laden urges jihad for Palestinians
SEATTLE POST-INTELLIGENCER
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/1107ap_bin_laden_message.html
Last updated March 20, 2008 8:04 p.m. PT
Bin Laden urges jihad for Palestinians
By MAAMOUN YOUSSEF AND KATARINA KRATOVAC
ASSOCIATED PRESS WRITERS
CAIRO, Egypt -- Osama bin Laden lashed out Thursday at Palestinian peace
negotiations with Israel and called for a holy war to liberate the
Palestinian lands.
A day after a bin Laden audio on a militant Web site threatened Europeans,
Al-Jazeera TV broadcast audio excerpts attributed to the al-Qaida leader
that urge Palestinians to ignore political parties "mired in trickery of the
blasphemous democracy" and to rely on armed might.
"Palestine cannot be retaken by negotiations and dialogue, but with fire and
iron," he said.
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Author: Pahu78Pahu78
Date: Mar 20, 2008 13:45
Was There Room?
Could the Ark have held all the animals? Easily. A few humans, some
perhaps hired by others, could build a boat (a). large enough to hold
representatives of every air-breathing land animal--perhaps 16,000
animals in all. (Of course, sea creatures did not need to be on the
Ark. Nor did insects or amphibians. Only mammals, birds, reptiles, and
humans. Much plant life survived the flood in a surprisingly simple
way (b)). The Ark, having at least 1,500,000 cubic feet of space, was
adequate to hold these animals, their provisions, and all their other
needs for one year (c).
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