Washington D.C. (AHN) - An earthquake measuring 6.3 on the Richter Scale hit the Aleutian Islands off Alaska late Tuesday night. According to Xinhua news, there are no immediate reports of damage or injuries and no tsunami warning was issued.
The U.S. Geological Survey and the National Weather Service reports that the quake occurred at 0418 GMT on Wednesday at a depth of 15 km in the ocean, a few kilometers west of Kiska Island in the Rat Islands group of the Aleutians, 274 km southeast of Attu Station.
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Where's AP?
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I live outside of Anchorage and didn't feel a thing all night. That's not an unusual area for earthquake activity, but dozens of 3-4s is out of the ordinary.
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Still feeling minor quakes/tremors here in Guam - may or may not be related to the Aleuts, as Marianas volcanoes are pluming + undersea vol giving birth. ARISE, LEMURIA, ARISE LIKE LEE VAN CLEEF AS DRACULA.
The director of the Idaho Museum of Natural History says it won't matter whether Bigfoot is farce or fact when a new exhibit opens Friday. Linda Deck, who is also curator of the Bigfoot exhibit, said the museum is taking a neutral position and simply displaying artifacts that involve the legendary creature that some say lives secretly in the Northwest. "As human beings we make sense of our world in a variety of different ways," Deck told the Idaho State Journal. "We've got our myths, legends and beliefs and a very scientific way of knowing about our world, too, where we make hypotheses and test things and learn and change what we think."
But for Bigfoot believers, it could be a treasure trove. Included in the exhibit is the Patterson-Gimlin film that shows a large creature striding away before turning and looking directly at the camera. In the clip the creature steps on a branch. That branch is included in the exhibit. The branch was used to calculate the creature's height at 6-foot-6, said Dave Mead, exhibits director at the museum. Also on display is a flannel jacket worn by the late Rene Dahinden, who spend 40 years in search of Bigfoot. He wore the jacket during a series of commercials for Kokanee beer.
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I think I'm going to have to consult my attorney.
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This headline made me think of Jim Jarmusch's "Mystery Train." A young Japanese couple visits Tennessee and debates who is better -- Ervis Presry or Carr Perkins.
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I have been amazed that Japanes Elvis impersonators are able to do such a good job. I've seen some very good ones. For some reason, probably the hair, I assumed that Koizumi was a fan. This will be better than a trip to Crawford.
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From news photos, I get the impression Koizumi is a fun guy at a barbeque, similar to our GW. However, like Peru's former Pres Fujimori, I suspect he may be Japanese.
This gets more interesting. He just might unhorse Allen.
RICHMOND, Va. (AP) - James Webb, a former Reagan administration Navy secretary who left the Republican Party over the Iraq war, won the Democratic nomination Tuesday for the right to take on GOP Sen. George Allen in the fall.
Webb defeated lobbyist and longtime Democratic Party activist Harris Miller after a bruising primary in which voters decided between a traditional and unabashed liberal (Miller) and a former Republican (Webb) whose populist campaign was aimed at so-called Reagan Democrats - namely, rural, white moderates. With all but one precinct reporting, Webb had 83,002 votes, or 53.5 percent, compared with 72,263 votes, or 46.5 percent, for Miller. Except for the Washington suburbs, turnout was low across Virginia, a state unaccustomed to primaries. The last Democratic Senate primary was in 1994.
Allen is seeking a second term and also pursuing a 2008 bid for president. He had no GOP challenger.
Both Democratic candidates in Virginia sought to tie Allen tightly to Bush, particularly over Iraq. But Webb was seen by some as having particular credibility on military issues because of his background as a decorated Marine lieutenant in Vietnam and later Navy secretary. Webb, who endorsed Allen six years ago, underscored the point by campaigning in desert combat boots. ``We need leadership that will not just follow an administration blindly, but is capable of independent thought,'' Webb told supporters Tuesday night in Arlington.
Webb's triumph was a victory for Senate Democratic leaders, many of whom either endorsed him or sent him campaign donations. Party strategists calculated that Webb offered the only chance to mount a credible challenge to Allen in the fall, when Democrats hope to win six seats to gain control of the Senate. Webb said such support was key to his victory. ``Everywhere I went, I had to face a room where people wondered if I really was a Democrat,'' Webb said in a telephone interview with The Associated Press.
Miller put nearly $1 million of his own money into the campaign and outspent Webb by more than a 2-to-1 ratio.
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Virginia still mostly a red state, though lots of the military voters prolly liked Webb's bona fides. I like Webb as Allen's opponent, he's not looney tunes like Harris and may actually have a sane nat'l security outlook. The Deaniac wing will of course be appalled. Let's see how much the DNC invests in his campaign.
Webb was backed solidly by the Kos crowd. Hes an old Reaganite, and is rightwing on gun control, and is probably right wing on economics in his heart of hearts, though hes been trying to hide that the last few months. But his hawkishness on national security consists of such bits of brilliance as thinking Reagan was cutting the Navy too far in 1988 (when the USSR was in free fall) and edging toward paranoia abotu China now. He left YOUR party in 2002 over ONE issue. Iraq. which he bitterly opposed, blaming it on the neocons.
Hes basically a Scowcroft type background, trying take the Wesley Clark niche in the dem party - the man for the doves/"progressives" who dont really care about domestic liberalism, and think ex-military guys and ex-reaganites are the way to beat the "Eeevil" neocons and get out of Iraq.
Harris Miller's views on Iraq were more or less sensible - withdraw based on metrics - which would include the state of the Iraqi army, etc.
Thats why the Kossacks hated him so much. Murtha, Kerry, etc all supported Webb. (Schumer did too, on the idea that Webb is more likely to win, a choice Schumer will live to regret, I think) Our local Dem pols mainly supported Harris, as did the WaPo editorial page.
Harris was a solid programmatic liberal. Webb is a protectionist populist, and a selfproclaimed "realist" on foreign policy. Harris may not be the ideal liberal hawk, but he was a damn sight closer than Webb, who represents a dangerous temptation for the Dem party. (The lowest common denominator populism of the Webb campaign also spawned an anti-Miller cartoon, that looked to some of us - myself included = like it had overtones of antisemitism)
I voted for Harris. Today I am disappointed. Allen will probably win anyway though.
If the Dems in Conn vote for Lamont over Lieberman, that, combined with this, will lead me to seriously reconsider my lifelong support for our party. I will still hope Hilary can rescue us from this Kossack insanity - our last, best, hope.
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Kos Kids must be still partying. This is their first W. Too bad, cause Miller would have been easier to beat. But if Allen wants to look to Pennsy Ave, he ought to be able to beat Webb. If not...
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Webb was a odd choice for the Kos kids to support.
He has affirmative action ideas which don't square with the democratic party.
He believes the democratic party lost vietnam (by not sending aid to the south when they needed it)
He vigorously opposed women in combat support positions.
He used antisemitic imagery in his campaign ads (claimed he didn't know anything about it).
Thats only if you assume the Kossacks are genuine liberals. Theyre not. They are not particularly interested in progammatic liberalism. They have to basic obsessions - Iraq, and anger. Webb was dovish on Iraq, and sounded ANGRY. And thats all they need.
If they were interested in women and blacks, etc, would they be fighting tooth and nail against Hillary?
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Webb is an odd choice for the Kos Koolaiders for another reason -- his latest book (Born Fighting) makes plain his admiration for the Confederacy. Not the slavery part of course, but the common fighting man and a good part of the ideals for which those men fought. The ideals included freedom from the Northerners and from the moneyed interests, and for a social structure that was in essence a caste system with the great Scots-Irish style chiefs on top.
I don't think the Kossites read that, or at least didn't consider that Webb is very serious about this.
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LH,
The kossacks are constantly getting on about lots of non-Iraq issues, e.g., NSA 'spying', Corporate corruption (although not by FANMAE), rich people evading taxes, blah, blah.
Is your opinion that this is basically performance art?
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1. The Kossacks have a world view that Bush is a dictator, and naturally theyre going to see real NSA abuses in that context, and exagerate them.
2. They are angry at corporate power in a classic populist-progressive way, thats more concerned with its conspiratorial aspects, than with actual economic costs to working class people. To an old fashioned (soc dem leaning) dem like myself corp power requires countervailed power by organized labor - to the "progressives" organized labor is only slighly less menacing then corporations. They want rule by high minded intellectuals. While Webb may not be a high minded intellectual, hes a populist who shares a distrust of the boardroom that doesnt lead him to labor-social democrat solutions.
And dont forget, one of the reasons they have such an enmity for corp influence, is that they see it as behind Clintonism, and the DLC taking the Dem party from them. They believe that theyd run the Dem party, and the country, otherwise.
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MHW = in short, their concerns on domestic policy are
1. on issues that for Dems are motherhood and apple pie or
2. Motivated by the larger "progressive" world view that is behind their obsessions with Iraq and Bush, but are at this time subordinate or
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I dont think too many people have read Webbs book real closely. ANd I dont think Kos really cares - again, this isnt about Virginia, or one more Senator more or less.
Its about establishing precedent for 2008. How do we reach to the center? By a focus on policy, that attempts to integrate traditional liberal concerns with modern realities? IE the Clinton way? Or by nominating someone with a "tough guy" personality, whos angry, whos against "corporate interests" whos bitterly partisan (now, even if an ex Repub), and whos conservative domestic positions are an asset in getting the red necks to vote for the Kossack view of foreign policy.
IE its definitely against Hillary. Clark looks most like Webb at the national level, at this point. Not sure if they will settle on him - but thats the direction they want for the party.
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LH: I thought you lived in Dallas or Austin, not Virginia. (Not that it's any of my business, of course).
As for Webb... the Reagan Administration, during the closing of the Cold War, made a bunch of faustian bargains in the Middle East, in particular re: Syria, Lebanon, and Iran, that led to the mess we're in now.
I don't have time to talk about how badly I think they screwed up in Lebanon.
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Anyway, to make a long story short, I am of the opinion that the Reagan Administration not only showed that the US could be used by guys like Arafat, but that terrorism could then be used afterwards to manipulate us into going away afterwards when our presence was no longer convenient to them, or to bring us to the negotiating table when that was what they wanted (i.e. the Iranian arms-for-hostages deal).
And now Webb (and some paleoconservatives from the Reagan administration that I'm not going to mention) are going to lecture everyone else about how to fight the war on terror?
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Let's cut the shit here.
Not one f'ing Kos or main democrat would be against the war in Iraq if Willy was pres.
You can't just invent a political position based on the election outcome, but that's what all this anti-war bullshit is. Without the Drive-by Media carrying the water, the entire Bushhitler crap would have disappeared 5 years ago.
Logic tells me you democrats are all phalking mad.
You can only recruit stupid people with such nonsense.
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"Not one f'ing Kos or main democrat would be against the war in Iraq if Willy was pres."
Nope. The Kos type people never really like Bill. They didnt like his catering to the center. They didnt like his support for the first gulf war. They didnt like him on welfare reform, not one bit. and they didnt like his coziness with Israeli pols (albeit Labour party Israeli pols) and they hated his support for free trade and globalization. Lewis Lapham of the lefty Harpers was a bitter Clinton hater from the beginning. And Hal Raines of the NYT, though less in your face about it than Lapham, was also a steady detractor of the Clintons.
There were exceptions on the left of course. Some were so obsessed with the right wing attacks on Clinton that they developed an obsessive protectivenss of the Clintons. That would be the folks at Salon magazine. and many feminists liked Hillary alot. And everyone had to recognize that Clinton could win.
But the Kossacks dont really care about feminism. They are less taken in by the "enemy of my enemy" stuff than the Salon folks. And they think they have their own strategies for winning.
Now rank and file liberal democrats still like the Clintons, esp Hillary. That just shows how limited the influence of the Kossacks has been thus far on rank and file liberals. Lots of folks here simply thought of Webb as a moderate, based on his resume. Hell, even someone usually as sharp as Glen Reynolds seems to have gotten the impression that the Webb win was a Kos loss (but go take a look at the Daily Kos, if you dont beleive me) So it was a stealth win. They think they have Lieberman on the run - Lieberman has never had the popularity of clinton, and is resented by some clinton supporters for speaking out on Monicagate (though Hillary doesnt seem to have held that against him)
The real crunch will come in 2008. AFAICT the Kossacks are too devious to come out and attack Hillary straight on the issues, as they are attacking Joe. Instead they will go after her "electability".
KARACHI - Authorities in Pakistan have stopped five girls being forcibly given away in marriage as compensation for a double murder nine years ago, a government spokesman said on Tuesday.
Although the Pakistani government says and we all know better it promotes the rights of women, it is still common in rural areas, where feudal and tribal ways hold sway, for girls to be given as compensation to settle disputes.
A council of elders in a village in Sindh province decided last week the girls, aged between five and 10, should be handed over to another family to make up for the 1997 killing of a man and woman by some members of their family. The girls would have been given away in marriage once they reached puberty.
But a human rights activist brought the ruling by the traditional village council, known as a jirga, to the attention of the provincial government. The chief minister of Sindh had ordered annulment of the councils decision and launched an investigation, government spokesman Salahuddin Haider said. The government does not recognise this decision and does not support the exchange of innocent girls as compensation, he said.
This is one they heard about, who will bet on how many more go unnoticed?
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The government does not recognise this decision and does not support the exchange of innocent girls as compensation.
Ugh. Sometimes you gotta take what you can get and hope for better later.
Until they fix it, pedophiles take note: If you go to a tribal area in Pakistan and get yourself killed, you'll get a bunch of "innocent" little taliban kids as compensation. Quick, run over there now before they figure it out. You don't have long (as geological time goes, anyway). All you have to do to seal the deal is to tear a page out of a Quran and blow your nose with it.
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ZARK > reportedly had a 15/16-year old wife wid a one-plus baby. Can't blame polygamous andor pedophilic US Mormons, etc. on this one.
Ward Churchill, the phony Indian professor who called some of the World Trade Center victims "little Eichmanns," should be fired because of "repeated and deliberate" infractions of scholarship rules, a University of Colorado committee said today.
The recommendation, which came on a 6-3 vote, now goes to university officials for a final decision. Churchill, a tenured professor of ethnic studies who has vowed to fight his dismissal with a lawsuit, "has committed serious, repeated, and deliberate research misconduct," the school's Standing Committee on Research Misconduct said in its final report. But in what appeared to be an acknowledgment of the political pressure placed on the university to fire Churchill, the report asked school officials to reassure other faculty members that CU still values academic freedom.
I can say with certainty that if I had committed plagiarism and misconduct that was 10% of what Mr. Churchill did, I'd be gone from my present position within an hour.
Churchill has repeatedly denied misconduct and he did so again today. "Baloney. That's my one-word-response," he said. "The basic situation here is there was a call ... for my termination clear back last February, whether or not it was legal. They're willing to take the heat and go to court if necessary and stand behind an illegitimate investigation."
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If Churchill is kicked out of his "tribe" for being a phony Indian and is sent back to "white society," will "white society" be accused of being Indian givers?
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Fired? I think this guy should be sued by the Univeristgy of Colorado for damaging its reputation, by the Colorado State for misuse of public monay and facilities, and, last but not leat, by the studants who got propagnada instead of instruction for the damage to their carreers.
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That just leaves other Radical academicians-intellectuals whom argue that 90% or more of the world's human population needs to be culled - then again there's the Chicoms, whom are still saying that war against America is not only UNAVOIDABLE BUT DESIRED, since among other reasons it means the destruction of an a Chicom- acceptable/tolerable portion of their country's own massive population. As said times before on the Net, the Socialists-Commies have got nuthin' to lose except the Milyuuhns and Bilyuuhns and Zilyuuhns and Zigluuhns of those human-based econ/production units, aka Cannon Fodder, which Socialism and Communism can't take care of = won't take care off anyways. SInce they can't = won't take care of them while simul refusing to share or give up power, better to lose these doing some proper Socialist-Commmunist purpose like attacking, defeating, or destroying America and Western dmeocracy. Clintonian Fascist America = Amerikkka's volunteer armed forces runs out of beans and bullets afore the Lefties run out of bodies. Thus we see Commies-Maoists supporting Radical Islamist and other Terror groups long before and after 9-11, attackin' and a'destabilizin' world regions wid large, poor, mostly un-educated, too hungry simple and trusting for their own good, youthful populations [Commie-speak > "blanks" = best kind of Socialist recruits].
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And once Ward Churchill has been stripped from his last penny by the combined lawsuits of students, university and state he should be brought to an indian reserve for facing indian justice. Like, say, scalping.
and JFM, I agree with many of your points. CU Boulder is a great school, and he has really tarnished it's reputation. My daughter took a class from him and along with having to buy his books for the class certainly had his own agenda.
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Jan I fixed that long URL you posted - which broke the page formatting - by associating it with link text.
Here's a page you can refer to next time for an example of how to do this yourself. Please check out the WWW link examples and write them down or save the link in your favorites.
Sheriff's deputies evicted people from an urban community garden to make room for a warehouse Tuesday, touching off a furious protest in which actress Daryl Hannah and others climbed into a walnut tree or chained themselves to concrete-filled barrels. At least 39 people were arrested. Authorities cut away branches and used a fire truck lift to bring down the "Splash" actress and another tree-sitter, who raised their fists as they were removed. It was not immediately clear whether Hannah was under arrest. "I'm very confident this is the morally right thing to do, to take a principled stand in solidarity with the farmers," Hannah said by cell phone before a fire truck raised officers into the tree.
About 350 people grow produce and flowers on the 14 acres of privately owned land, in an inner-city area surrounded by warehouses and railroad tracks. The garden has been there for more than a decade, but the landowner, Ralph Horowitz, now wants to replace it with a warehouse.
Sure, it's a little more complicated than that. The city bought the land from Horowitz in the 1980s to build a trash incinerator, then dropped the plans after citizen protests. In 1992, the city leased the land to a food bank, which opened it up to urban farmers. But then, after a court battle, the city agreed to sell the land back to Horowitz in 2003 for $5 million. That's when the current squabble started. Horowitz told the farmers to leave, but they wouldn't budge, so he called them squatters and they called him names right back.
The money spent on legal fees alone could probably feed the farm's 350 gardeners for years to come. But this isn't really about gardening at this point. The property is a symbol of many different things and everyone's got an agenda, with the plight of the farmers almost lost in the fray. They became pawns, says South-Central activist Mark Williams, for a small group of political opportunists and Westside environmentalists. The latter groups made up the bulk of the arrestees Tuesday, said Williams, who's with South-Central Concerned Citizens. Many of the real farmers, he said, long ago moved to other spots the city found them, including one seven-acre plot at 111th and Avalon, where they could grow food without endless political theater.
"They speak a lot of progressive, Marxist rhetoric, but they're behaving like landed gentry," said Williams, who had water thrown in his face Tuesday by one of the so-called representatives of the farmers. "They didn't like hearing me speak the truth."
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So why don't Hannah and others, plus the 350 growers, get together and buy the land from M. Horowitz?
Ooops, I keep forgetting this is Los Angeles. Three years here and it is still fascinating.
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That graphic is funny. Amazing how much she looks like him.
Hey Hannah - why don't you and your buddies reign in a few nights out and actually cough up the 16 million for "The People". Climbing a tree just doesn't "cut it" if you know what I mean.
And...Fordesque - if you want to experience California - or the liberal mind in general - just Celebrate Dysfunction(TM). That's where it's at. The more f'ed up you are, the deeper you and more interesting you are. It's as simple as that.
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"I don't have a pole at home -- but there's something in my barn that functions as one."
- Daryl Hannah
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The effort to save the farm attracted the support of activists and celebrities including Hannah, environmental activist John Quigley, country singer Willie Nelson, actor Danny Glover, folk singer Joan Baez and tree sitter Julia Butterfly Hill.
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2b has an interesting idea. Imagine if the Hollywood elites bought up a ton of land and planted forests. What would the trees do to the smog levels? I would think parts of the area could be rented out to shoot movies in and help with the costs. It would allow school children to see a real forest and act as an educational tool.
If they did it right they could have the peoples homes in the hood grabbed up using eminent domain laws and have them relocated so that Inglewood, Compton, and East LA could become ecohavens at lower cost for the good of the city and the planet.
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They manage to make it sound like the second coming of the Joad family, don't they? Try and remember that it's actually a bunch of squatters, huh guys?
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Truck these migrants every day to Bev. Hills. Give them a dozer to knock down the walls and let them grow their food in the Hills CAUSE.. Land Just Gotts to be Free!
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Daryl struggles to keep a current Google search for her name....
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These people are stupid idiots. At first I had hoped they were protesting an abusive eminent domanin ruling. Now I find out they're squating on some guy's property and bitching about his lawful sale of his land. IIUC he's let them squat there for about 15 yrs without asking for rent. Prolly a bunch of illegals to. Now they're claiming rights for pricks who shouldn't even be on the guy's land. Typical hollywood double standard vomit. FTR - I would've left that skank hannah in the tree and had the dozer get her down if you know what I mean, hehehehehe.....
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
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Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
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The director of the Idaho Museum of Natural History says it won't matter whether Bigfoot is farce or fact when a new exhibit opens Friday. Linda Deck, who is also curator of the Bigfoot exhibit, said the museum is taking a neutral position and simply displaying artifacts that involve the legendary creature that some say lives secretly in the Northwest. "As human beings we make sense of our world in a variety of different ways," Deck told the Idaho State Journal. "We've got our myths, legends and beliefs and a very scientific way of knowing about our world, too, where we make hypotheses and test things and learn and change what we think." 
KARACHI - Authorities in Pakistan have stopped five girls being forcibly given away in marriage as compensation for a double murder nine years ago, a government spokesman said on Tuesday.
Sheriff's deputies evicted people from an urban community garden to make room for a warehouse Tuesday, touching off a furious protest in which actress Daryl Hannah and others climbed into a walnut tree or chained themselves to concrete-filled barrels. At least 39 people were arrested. Authorities cut away branches and used a fire truck lift to bring down the "Splash" actress and another tree-sitter, who raised their fists as they were removed. It was not immediately clear whether Hannah was under arrest. "I'm very confident this is the morally right thing to do, to take a principled stand in solidarity with the farmers," Hannah said by cell phone before a fire truck raised officers into the tree.
