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Workers spending more
time on the road
To the list of
extreme sports, add extreme commuting: those who travel 90 minutes
or more on the trek to work. Nationally, only 2 percent of workers
log those kind of one-way commuting times, but their numbers are
growing, according to a 2003 Census Bureau survey released
Wednesday.
Nichols' mother warned
court during rape trial
The mother of
the man now accused in the quadruple shootings that began at the
Fulton County courthouse earlier this month warned sheriff's
officials in an e-mail that her son could become violent if he was
convicted of a rape charge.
Conservative judge slams
Bush for getting involved
A federal
appeals court won't step into the Terri Schiavo case -- and it says
President Bush and Congress shouldn't have, either. The criticism
was lead by Judge Stanley F. Birch Jr., one of the most conservative
jurists on the federal bench. The Atlanta-based court denied a bid
by the woman's parents to hold a new hearing.
New poll: 82% tell Bush, Congress
to back off Schiavo case
Republicans turning
against states' rights
Republicans
who swear by the principle of states' rights are having to make some
exceptions when it comes to saving Terri Schiavo, or reining in
trial lawyers, protecting the sanctity of marriage and advancing the
party's other priorities.
Police: Man groped
two UGA students
Cleveland Lee
Thomas, 25, was charged with misdemeanor sexual battery Monday for
allegedly grabbing two women walking on campus. Thomas was not a
student himself, said UGA Police Chief Jimmy Williamson.
Two found shot to
death in Clayton
An apparent
drug scam started a deadly shootout in Clayton County Wednesday
morning, leaving two men dead and another two injured.
AARP's campaign against Bush's SS plan
Over this week
and last, AARP, the nation's largest lobby, will have spent more
than $5 million on ads attacking the president's Social Security
plan -- nearly three times as much as all the supporters of his
proposal put together. That's just for starters.
Polls: Americans don't like
Bush policies anymore
Conservatives splitting
on Social Security
Americans think US
shouldn't have nukes
Most Americans
say they do not think any country, including the United States,
should have nuclear weapons. That sentiment is at odds with current
efforts by some nations that are trying to develop the weapons and
by terrorists seeking to add them to their arsenal.
Study faults Army
vehicle in Iraq
The Army has
deployed a new troop transport vehicle in Iraq with many defects,
putting troops there at unexpected risk from rocket-propelled
grenades and raising questions about the vehicle's development and
$11 billion cost.
Justice sought in
1946 lynching case
MONROE, Ga. -
The crude, black "KKK" spray-painted on the underside of a newer
bridge over the Apalachee River is the only suggestion of the
lynchings that took place here 58 years ago.
Hundreds of volunteers
plan border patrol
Organizers of
the Minuteman Project said the civilian volunteers, many of whom
were recruited over the Internet, will meet first for a rally in
this one-time silver mining town, then fan out across 23 miles of
the San Pedro Valley to watch the border for a month and report
sightings of illegal activity to Border Patrol agents.
Report: Human damage
to Earth worsening fast
Humans are
damaging the planet at an unprecedented rate and raising risks of
abrupt collapses in nature that could spur disease, deforestation or
"dead zones" in the seas, an international report said on Wednesday.
