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The Bush administration announced plans to sell advanced anti-missile systems to the United Arab Emirates and Kuwait with a combined potential value of nearly $10.4 billion. The Pentagon told Congress the United Arab Emirates had asked about buying 288 Patriot Advanced Capability PAC-3 missiles and related gear worth up to $9 billion. The prime contractors for the [...] All that World War III talk by the President may have been a tad premature. A new assessment by American intelligence agencies concludes that Iran halted its nuclear weapons program in 2003 and that the program remains on hold, contradicting an assessment two years ago that Tehran was working inexorably toward building a bomb. The cause is admirable, but the timing? Not so much…That $9 trillion debt isn’t going anywhere anytime soon. President Bush urged Congress to approve an additional $30 billion for the fight against AIDS worldwide over the next five years, and announced he would visit Africa early next year to further highlight the need and his administration’s [...] September 26 – The University of Mississippi in Oxford. The vice presidential debate will be held October 2 at Washington University in St. Louis. New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer said Wednesday he was abandoning a plan to issue driver’s licenses to illegal immigrants, but said that the federal government had “lost control” of its borders and left states to deal with the consequences. “I have concluded that New York state cannot successfully address this problem on its own. You [...] More than one million cases of chlamydia were reported in the United States last year  the most ever reported for a sexually transmitted disease, federal health officials said Tuesday. “A new U.S. record,” said Dr. John M. Douglas Jr. of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. More bad news: Gonorrhea rates are jumping again after [...] |
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