Web promotion - THE DISENGAGEMENT 'When they leave, we live' San Francisco Chronicle -

Web promotion - THE DISENGAGEMENT 'When they leave, we live' San Francisco Chronicle -

THE DISENGAGEMENT 'When they leave, we live'
San Francisco Chronicle - 2 hours ago Khan Younis, Gaza Strip -- Squinting in the bright sunlight reflecting off the sand dune where he stood, Ahmad Hassan looked off toward the concrete barrier separating the Jewish settlement of Gadid from the Palestinians surrounding it and pondered his

Despite setbacks, painkillers are viewed as profit makers
International Herald Tribune - 2 hours ago By deciding that the Merck drug Vioxx contributed to the death of a Texas man, a jury on Friday dealt another punch to the battered class of arthritis painkillers known as cox-2. Merck withdrew Vioxx from the market last autumn over safety concerns, and

Pentagon Defends Consolidation of Bases
Washington Post - 11 hours ago By Bradley Graham. Pentagon officials made a final attempt yesterday to defend plans to close or consolidate hundreds of military bases, disputing arguments that cost savings were overestimated and that homeland defense would be compromised.

Pregnant woman's remains found
Chicago Tribune - 4 hours ago By Dan Robrish. PHILADELPHIA -- The former boyfriend of a pregnant woman who had been missing for more than a month was arrested Saturday after her remains were found near Philadelphia, police said. Philadelphia District Atty.

Woods and Perry still on top in Akron
Fall River Herald News - 37 minutes ago Akron, OH (Sports Network) - Tiger Woods and Kenny Perry parred the few remaining holes on their third rounds Sunday and remained tied atop the leaderboard after three rounds of the World Golf Championships-NEC Invitational.

Raikkonen wins inaugural Turkish GP
Houston Chronicle - 1 hour ago Istanbul, Turkey (Sports Network) - McLaren's Kimi Raikkonen won Sunday's inaugural Turkish Grand Prix at the brand new 3.318-mile Istanbul Autodrom circuit. The Finnish driver crossed the finish line 18.606 seconds ahead of runner-up Fernando Alonso.

A Letter to Europeans
Kurdistan Regional Government - 32 minutes ago Let me, a citizen of Ireland and the European Union, resident in the USA, provide a little shock to some of Europe�s intellectual classes, whom I otherwise admire as supporters of international law, democracy, human rights, self-determination

Northwest Keeps Flying as Mechanics Strike
New York Times - 21 hours ago DETROIT, August 20 - Northwest Airlines kept flying on Saturday despite a strike by its mechanics over the airline's demand for extensive wage and job cuts. Other unions at Northwest did not join the mechanics

Ex-AOL man jailed for e-mail scam
BBC News - Aug 18, 2005 A former AOL employee has been sentenced to 15 months in prison for selling members' details to spammers. American Jason Smathers, 25, said he turned into a "cyberspace outlaw" after selling the database of 92 million screen names and e-mail addresses.

'Gonzo' Ashes To Be Shot Into Sky
CBS News - 16 hours ago (AP) Iconoclastic journalist Hunter S. Thompson would have loved the 153-foot tower built to blast his ashes into the sky, said one of his many friends and admirers gathered for an unsolemn farewell. "It's a beautiful structure.