] A Cuban woman tucked herself inside a wooden crate the
] size of a small filing cabinet and had herself shipped
] from the Bahamas to Miami aboard a cargo plane.
]
] The woman, whose name was not released, will be allowed
] to stay in the United States. A cargo crew found her
] curled up inside the crate after unloading it late
] Tuesday at the Miami airport.

Wow, that's dedication. Of course, if you're not from Cuba, you're screwed.

Salon.com News | Cuban woman ships self in crate to U.S.

janelane wrote:
] ] People driving or riding in a sport utility vehicle in
] ] 2003 were nearly 11 percent more likely to die in an
] ] accident than people in cars, the figures show. The
] ] government began keeping detailed statistics on the
] ] safety of vehicle categories in 1994.
]
] I really cannot conceive of SUVs as the root of all evil of
] the auto industry. If anything, that title should belong to
] policy makers who refuse to hike min mpg requirements or
] lobbyists who insist that making such policy would send the
] U.S. back into little more than primordial ooze (technically
] speaking). If they could more than double the average mpg
] from 12 mpg in '72 to 24 mpg in '82, they can sure as hell
] stack on some additional efficiency now without flushing the
] economy.

Here Here! Uping the MPG and reducing consumption are alternatives we need to look at. However, I have a feeling Energy Policy meetings go a little something like this:

Sec. of Energy: Mr President, we are too dependant on foreign oil. We have 2 options, we could secure more oil reserves through some kind of military operation or trading treaties, or we could rise the MP...

Bush: Wait, wait wait! I found if people give me choices, my head hurts. What was the first thing?

Sec. of Energy: ... er... secure more oil reserves through military action or a trading treat...

Bush: What did I just tell you about give me options? What is the first part of the first thing?

Sec. Of Energy:... [sigh]... Secure more oil with military action.

Bush: I like it.

Powell: Sir, this is truly the most retarded thing I have ever...

Bush: Damn it Colin, what have I told you? If two people talk to me at once, my head hurts. Now, lets do this. Bring me my wall sized coloring book! [aid brings in a large map], ok, here we go [throws dart]... hmmm.... Pa, Pasiff... Pacific Ocean! Looks kind of big. I call do over! [throws dart]... damn it, not again! You didn't see anything did you?

Powell: Just my duty to the American people going to hell.

Bush: Good. Do over! [Throws dart]

[Hours pass, Powell shoots himself, Hours pass]

Bush: Damn it! I just might have to take on Pacific and his punk buddys Atlantic and Indian. One more! [throws darts]... hmmm. Somebody call Dick and ask him what I-R-A-Q spells.

Safety Gap Grows Wider Between S.U.V.'s and Cars

] New overtime rules are mostly bad news for employees

This is a good short piece on the new overtime rules. The punchline: they're probably not good for you.

USATODAY.com - New overtime rules are mostly bad news for employees

] Former Republican Sen. Bob Dole suggested Sunday that
] John Kerry (news - web sites) apologize for past
] testimony before Congress about alleged atrocities during
] the Vietnam War and joined critics of the Democratic
] presidential candidate who say he received an early exit
] from combat for "superficial wounds."

This is pretty slimy of Dole. The Republicans would have screamed had the Democrats questions Dole's heroism, in '96.

Yahoo! News - Dole Questions Kerry's Vietnam Wounds

] Senate Intelligence Committee Republicans proposed
] removing the nation's largest intelligence gathering
] operations from the CIA and the Pentagon and putting them
] directly under a new national intelligence director.

(1) I think there's a danger in not having some competition between intelligence sources. After all, our legal system depends on the assumption that it's useful to have some builtin institutional adversity (in that case, between prosecutors and defenders) to discover the trush.

(2) If we are going to centralize intelligence, I might feel more comfortable having the director answer to the Congress, not to a President focused on his reelection.

Yahoo! News - Front Page

] Ensuring a large GOP turnout might be more important than
] winning swing voters, a strategist says. Kerry's focus
] remains the undecided.

Bush Aims to Solidify His Base

] Palestinians, backed by the Arab League, accused the
] United States on Sunday of destroying the Middle East
] peace process after Washington signaled it could accept
] some growth of Israeli settlements.

Yahoo! News - Arabs Say U.S. Destroys Hope Over Jewish Settlements

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After all, who wants peace in the Middle East?

] In an unannounced policy shift, Washington has given its
] approval for growth within some Israeli settlements in
] the West Bank, a report citing US and Israeli officials
] said.

Yahoo! News - US supports some growth in West Bank settlements

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