News – Israel’s Renegade Pilots (2/2)

A little tip on tasty cancer fighting.

General

New research indicates that citrus fruit could reduce the chance of mouth, larynix and stomach cancers by up to 50%. So pass the oranges.

Spammers fight dirty, a new worm out there aiming to hit anti-spam orgs with denial-of-service attacks.

The largest prime number ever has been found. It consists of 6,320,430 digits and took two years to find with a distributed network of 200k computers. Prime numbers are positive integers that can only be divided by themselves and one.

Day to Day has the Supreme Court Religion Case, Howard Dean’s Osama Gaffe, What Goes Into a Flu Shot and Nixon’s Shadow.

The Supreme Court mulls a heavy case on religion, education and federal monies. I know I don’t want to be a Supreme Court Justice when I grow up, these are some weight cases they get at times.

Today’s Papers has questions of the true worth of Texas’ educational gains, as used to generate a federal ‘No Child Left Behind’ Act. It also noted that that the big administration push for democracy in the Middle East has amounted to little more than a nudging in most places. And more, much more in this distillation of the news.

Amusements

Fark Photoshop Challenge: Photoshop your favorite superhero at their day job.

Fark Photoshop Challenge: Photoshop Dick Bass, oddly named Microsoft exec.

Budget airline Ryanair gives it’s angel logo bigger boobs.

Utah man convicted of Polygamy likens it to homosexuality.

Three Nigerian diplomats up for top Ambassadorial posts fail simple test to remember their own national anthem.

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December 3, 2003

The Texas educational system weeds out poor students and facilitates they quit school. This gave a false statistic on improvement. NCLB has not been funded. My husband and daughter are teachers… they call it a joke.

December 3, 2003

Notwithstanding the having sex with a 13-year-old, the comparison of Gay marriage with polygamy, incest (between adult siblings), and even mating with animals is valid. I don’t think the government has any business in any of those private adult behavior issues. RE Paula’s note: NCLB has not been funded? Where is the $200 billion in new funding they appropriated for it?