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Coal companies pay the smallest fines of any industry for federal rules violation,an analysis of government records reveals.The government levied a larger fine for the 2004 Super Bowl exposure of Janet Jackson's breast--$550,000--than it did in 2001 when 13 Alabama miners were illed in an explosion.

USA TODAY

India is racing to complete a spacecraft designed to orbit the moon next year.Its space agency now employs 20,000 people--as many as NASA.

Los Angeles Times

More than 10,000 widebodied moble homes purchased by FEMA to house Hurricane Katrina victims are sitting empty in an Arkansas airfield.Officials say they have been unable to deliver the trailers to New Orleans because federal rules prohibit installing them in flood zones

Los Angeles Times

heard that the trailers were going to destroyed due to the fact they have sunk down in the mud and are unusable have you heard that noreply?
Oh yeah just on Oprah we the taxpayers paid $34,000.00 each for those trailers.....

On Cnn over the weekend they were down there and they didn't show any in the mud.The reporter ask about it and they showed them around and there was some bad ones but not in the mud.But then the bad ones could have been in the mud at one time and moved and cleaned up

The number of megachurches with weekly attendance of 2,000 or more doubled over the past five years.The nation's megachurches,which now number 1,210 ,draw nearly 4.4 million people a week and collect more than $7 billion a year in donations.

Associated Press

61% of Americans say the Danish publication that printed the controversial Muslim cartoons acted irresponsibly.29% say they acted responsibly.


Gallup Poll

if the science existed to select the gender of children ,only 8% of Americans say they would use it

Fertility and Sterility--Harrie Interactive

U.S. airlines last year lost an average of about 10,000 bags a day,a 23 percent increase over the previous year and the industry's worst record since 1990.

USA TODAY

The Department of Homeland Security has offered Michael Brown's old job as head of the Federal Emergency Management Agency to the emergency-management directors of four states.All four have turned down the job.

The wall Street Journal

New York City recently reduced the starting salary for police recuits by $11,000,to $25,100.Many new recuits now quality for food stamps and other welfare programs.

New York Post

Over the years figure skaters have moved from double jumps to triple and,more recently,to quadruple-four complete rotations in the air.But physiologists say no skater will ever surpass four rotations,unless he can jump twice as high as todays best skaters

The New York Times

The U.S. Congress is one of the few indoor workplaces in the U.S. where it is still legal to smoke.Congress is exempted from workplace laws that govern the rest of the country.

Los Angeles Times

As the U.S. military struggles to meet its recruiting goals,the Army last month raised its enlistment age for active-duty recuits from 35 to 40.Weight restrictions were also loosened.

The Boston Globe

Most Americas think both Democrats and Republicans lack a clear plan to solve the cpountry's problems.68% say Democrats have no clear plan for the nation,while 67% say the same for Republicans

CNN/USA today /Gallup Poll

The 2006 hurricane season begins in three months,but recontruction of New orleans' levees is only 40 percent complete.If the city is hit this year by a storm as powerful as Katrina,federal officials say,it will probably be flooded again.

Los Angeles Times

72% of American troops serving in Iraq say the U.S. should leave the country within the next year,with 29% saying the U.S. should leave "immediately"

Le Moyne College/Zogby Poll

Americans spent $14.3 billion on dog food in 2004. That's $10 billion more than we spent on baby food.

The Washington Post

Loving County in west Texas is the emptiest county in The United States,with only 71 people,two roads,and one cafe spread among its 645 square miles.Still,it recently received $30,000 in anti-terrorism funds from the Department of Homeland Security

The New York Times

if bird flu reaches the U.S. poultry industry,46% of Americans say they would stop eating chicken. 75% say they would reduce or avoid travel,and 71% would not attend public events

Harvard school of Public Health