] "People who smoked unusually large amounts of marijuana
] performed worse on tests of mental function than their
] peers who smoked less pot, even after a 30-day abstinence
] period, according to a new report.
]
] Heavy users performed worse on 69% of the 35 tasks than
] light users, though their performances were not
] "clinically abnormal," the researchers found. The 22
] participants were admitted to hospital during the course
] of the study and submitted to random urine tests to
] ensure they remained abstinent."

Very Heavy Pot Use Clouds Mental Function: Study

]Arguing that this city faces a far more perilous world than once ]imagined, New York’s police commissioner wants to toss aside a ]decades-old federal court decree governing the limits on police
]spying and surveillance of its own citizenry.

Oh yea....lets just toss the constitution out the window while we are at it.

Police push for domestic spying

] "Is your spouse dissatisfied with the size of your spam?
] A brand-new website has made several hundred thousand
] pieces of unsolicited commercial e-mail available for you
] to download today. Act now!
]
] After a quiet online debut last week, the Spam Archive is
] making quick strides toward becoming the largest public
] library of junk e-mail on the Internet.
]
] Paul Judge, director of research and development for
] CipherTrust, the e-mail security firm backing the
] project, says the site received roughly 5,000 forwarded
] messages a day during its first week."

Wired News: Archive: Fresh Spam for Everyone

] "A year after promising to temper its often graphic
] messages in light of the Sept. 11 attacks, People for the
] Ethical Treatment of Animals, the nation's largest animal
] rights group, has prepared a "turkey terror" commercial
] that draws on Americans' fear of terrorism.
]
] The new television campaign, scheduled to run through the
] holiday season, depicts a terrorist takeover of a
] supermarket. The store manager is shown bound and gagged,
] with shoppers cowering, as an unseen hostage taker warns
] that "innocent creatures" will be beaten, scalded and
] dismembered if anyone resists.
]
] The commercial eventually reveals the "terrorist" to be a
] turkey puppet with a demand that people stop eating meat.

The War on Turkey Terrorism has begun. Next on CNN.

Animal rights group to air provocative 'turkey terror' ad

] "A prominent Pakistani doctor who admitted treating Osama
] bin Laden and other al-Qaida leaders before and after
] Sept. 11 said Wednesday that the terrorist mastermind was
] in excellent health and showed no signs of kidney
] failure.
]
] Dr. Amer Aziz, recently released after being held
] incommunicado and interrogated for a month by FBI and CIA
] agents, told The Associated Press he knew nothing of
] al-Qaida's plans. He rejected allegations he helped the
] organization in its efforts to obtain weapons of mass
] destruction."

Pakistani M.D.: Bin Laden in good shape a year ago

] "Tiger Woods surprised even himself Wednesday. Woods
] continued his dominance at the Grand Slam of Golf,
] winning the tournament for the fifth straight time with a
] tournament-record round of 11-under 61."

Tiger wins fifth straight Grand Slam

] "Handcuffs are the fastest selling item at five new shops
] tailored for women by Germany's biggest retailer of sex
] merchandise, the store chain said on Wednesday.
]
] Beate Uhse AG said handcuffs have been flying off the
] shelves of stores it opened this year to focus on sex
] toys for women, rather than the traditional male
] clientele.
]
] "Women's sexual appetites are steeped more in the realm
] of fantasy -- they like to use their imagination more
] than men," said Assia Tschernookoff, a spokeswoman for
] Beate Uhse at corporate headquarters in Flensburg."

Handcuffs the New Must-Have for Women?

] "There are days when you feel like a bath full of beer,
] not just a glass.
]
] Now you can have both -- thanks to a German brewery which
] has developed a beer you can wash down your food with or
] wash down your body.
]
] Klosterbrauerei, or monastic brewery, was looking for
] ways to mop up excess capacity in a slumping beer market
] and struck upon the bathtime supplement to help tipplers
] soak away their stresses and strains.
]
] The brewery, in Neuzelle, near Leipzig, eastern Germany,
] says the dark brown brew has restorative powers for both
] the mind and body to improve the skin and pep up
] spirits."

Those crazy Germans! :)

There's Beer to Wash Away Your Troubles

] "Apple Computers, Notebooks, and Peripherals
]
] All of the Apple product in this sale is Refurbished and
] comes with an Apple 1 year warranty. You can purchase an
] extended Apple Care warranty from Apple directly.
]
] 1 Day Online Auction
] Bidding begins Tuesday, December 3, 2002"

DoveBid - Apple Computer, Inc. Auction Details

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