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Andra_Jenny

Andra_Jenny

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Thursday July 19 4:53 AM ET

Affidavit: Teen Drowned in Boot Camp

By GIOVANNA DELL'ORTO, Associated Press Writer

PHOENIX (AP) - A teen-ager who died while at a boot camp for problem youngsters was forced to stand in sweltering heat as punishment for wanting to go home, then taken to a motel where he vomited mud and drowned, according to a court document.
The autopsy for Anthony Haynes, 14, hasn't been released, but the document, released to The Associated Press on Wednesday, cited preliminary results showing he was dehydrated and died from drowning.
Haynes was attending a boot camp run by America's Buffalo Soldiers Re-enactors Association outside Phoenix.

http://dailynews.yahoo.com/htx/ap/20010719/us/boot_camp_death_4.html
 
More Junk Science

Nobel, Schmobel; Who Died and Made Them Experts?
Friday, July 20, 2001
By Steven Milloy



Democratic Sen. Joseph Biden of Delaware pooh-poohed the recent successful missile defense test saying, "50 Nobel laureates and others have said this is not a real-world test." But the Nobel Laureates never said any such thing and, even if they did, their comments shouldn't carry any special weight.
In July 2000, 53 Nobel Prize winners asked President Clinton not to attempt to deploy an anti-ballistic missile system. They wrote that such systems "will inevitably lose in an arms race of improvements to offensive missiles," that North Korea and other dangerous states would never attack the U.S. anyway for fear of retaliation and that Russia and China would respond to such an initiative by restarting an arms race. The Nobel laureates concluded that deployment would be "premature, wasteful and dangerous."
The request of the Nobel laureates had little to do with the feasibility of missile defense, and absolutely nothing to do with last week's missile defense test.
The more important point, though, is that most of the Nobel laureates in question are no more qualified to judge the feasibility of missile defense than I am — despite the claims of Sen. Biden and other missile defense opponents.
Of the 53 Nobel laureates that signed the letter to president Clinton, 14 won their Nobels in the field of medicine, 12 in the field of chemistry and 4 in the field of economics — hardly expertise relevant to missile defense.
…
The larger point here is that when it comes to public policy, we need to distinguish science from scientists.
Science is the step-by-step process of searching for knowledge about our world's physical processes. Scientists, on the other hand, are merely people who have some expertise in a particular area. They are subject to the same prejudices and faults as the rest of us. So being a scientist — even a Nobel laureate — is not a license to be infallible.
This is an increasingly important distinction as scientists become more and more involved in public policy.
…
But as atmospheric scientist and global-warming expert Dr. S. Fred Singer notes, "Nobel laureates who expound on the threat of global warming typically have no training in the atmospheric sciences."
In February 2001, 80 U.S. Nobel laureates signed a letter to President Bush urging him to not block the flow of federal dollars for stem cell research.
But only 27 of those Nobel laureate signatories won their prizes for work in medicine. Only two won for their work in embryology. The other 53 won for work in chemistry, economics and physics. One economist signatory won for developing a new method to determine the value of certain financial instruments. Who cares what he thinks of stem cell research?
 
Bush Won - Really...?

Chris Matthres

Newsmax.com

Here's the excruciating exchange between McAuliffe and Matthews:
MATTHEWS: Do you concede the election, yes or no?
McAULIFFE: What I see is there are a lot of problems ...
MATTHEWS: Yes or no? Do you concede this election? The vice president con ...
McAULIFFE: George Bush is president of the United States.
MATTHEWS: Do you concede the election?
McAULIFFE: We're going to move on. There's nothing I can do about the last election.
MATTHEWS: You can't answer that, can you? This is a hard one, isn't it?
McAULIFFE: Listen, Chris ...
MATTHEWS: You know, Hillary Clinton would never tell me whether her - her spokesman would never say whether she's a politician or not, or ambitious or not. Is this so hard to say? Do you, the chairman of the Democratic National Committee, concede the presidential election at this point? It's now July of 2001.
McAULIFFE: I will concede that George Bush is the president. But, Chris, what I ...
MATTHEWS: Will you concede he won the election?
McAULIFFE: I will - not willing to concede that we got 547,000 more votes, Al Gore did, and if all the votes were counted and we did not have all the issues of the Electoral College with the states, there were problems. Today, in the paper, 6 million votes were not counted.
MATTHEWS: Do you concede the election like your candidate does, yes or no?
McAULIFFE: George Bush is the president of the United States.
MATTHEWS: Do you concede the election?
McAULIFFE: I'm not fighting the last election. I'm conceding.
MATTHEWS: I'm asking you a question.
McAULIFFE: Yeah. Sure, I'll concede the last election. There's nothing I can do about it going forward.
MATTHEWS: OK. Thank you.
 
HURRICANE ALERT!

More active hurricane cycle forecast

BY MARTIN MERZER
mmerzer@herald.com

A period of sharply increased hurricane activity has begun and is likely to endure for 10 to 40 years, raising the possibility of catastrophic damage in South Florida and elsewhere on the increasingly crowded coast, according to a new study.
The peer-reviewed study examined historical records of storms and matched the results to long-term analyses of oceanic and atmospheric phenomena. It found distinct patterns of quiet periods and active periods that endured for decades.
The study found a connection between busy hurricane periods and two phenomena -- higher than usual ocean temperatures and decrease in crosswinds that can inhibit storm development.

http://www.miami.com/herald/content/front/docs/025813.htm
 
On the other hand...

Powder Dries Up Fla. Thunderstorms

By Amanda Riddle
Associated Press Writer

Thursday, July 19, 2001; 8:59 p.m. EDT

WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. –– A powder touted as a potential way to weaken hurricanes sucked the moisture out of a thunderstorm Thursday in its latest test.
An airplane dropped $40,000 worth of the Dyn-O-Gel granules into a cloud 10 miles offshore. A television station's weather radar confirmed the cloud then lost moisture.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/aponline/20010719/aponline205951_000.htm
 
N.Korea vows countermeasures in reply to U.S. test


SEOUL, July 20 (Reuters) - North Korea vowed on Friday to take countermeasures in response to last week's test by the U.S. Defence Department aimed at intercepting long-range missiles launched against the United States.

"The DPRK is compelled to take a counter-action for self-defence by the U.S. deliberate provocation," a North Korean foreign ministry spokesman was quoted as saying by Pyongyang's official Korea Central News Agency.

"A new global arms race has, therefore, become unavoidable. The DPRK will have nothing to lose even if all the points agreed upon between the DPRK and the U.S. are scrapped," the spokesman said.

The U.S. Defence Department will conduct about 20 missile intercept tests over the next five years as it tries to develop a missile shield to protect the continental United States against the threat of a long-range missile attack.

In a test last Saturday, the interceptor's "kill vehicle" launched from Kwajalein Atoll successfully destroyed a dummy warhead target on a Minuteman 2 intercontinental ballistic missile launched from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California, 4,800 miles (7,725 km) away.

It was the second of four such $100 million intercept tests to succeed. Two have failed. The next is set for October.

The Bush administration announced last month after a lengthy policy review it is willing to resume talks with North Korea on a comprehensive package of issues, including its missile programme.

Pyongyang has yet to deliver a definitive response to Bush's proposal, however, while a high-ranking North Korean official on Thursday cancelled plans to attend a key Asian security meeting at which he had been expected to hold talks with U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell.
 
Buenos Dias, WD

I still think the are going on a forced march to summer camp in Seoul!
 
North Korea GDP - per capita: purchasing power parity - $1,000 (1999 est.)

South Korea GDP - per capita: purchasing power parity - $13,300 (1999 est.)

another reason not to embrace communism, P. P. Man.
 
The re-birthing movement too!

Boot camp should wait until one is 18. Then your country tries to kill you (or used too) to see if you can make it in combat situations. I think a lot of these kids come from near-combat situations and need time away from the lines to see how the real world looks.

I like the dude ranch approach. These kids can love an animal faster than they can love another human.
 
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