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We certainly won't like it, but the undeniable truth is that our government will have to one day do something to generate more tax dollars from gasoline. The mere thought sounds crazy, with $3 per gallon gasoline lording over us like the British government vs. the colonists circa 1775

Federal law, Title 10 United States Code, Section 153 sets the functions of the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff of the U.S. Armed Forces. "(6) Other Matters.— (A) Providing for representation of the United States on the Military Staff Committee of the United Nations in accordance with the Charter of the United Nations."

(AP) AUSTIN, Texas Gov. Rick Perry's chief of staff met with key aides about a new vaccine to prevent cervical cancer on the same day its manufacturer donated money to his campaign, documents obtained by The Associated Press show.

AUSTIN – With so many non-violent Mexican citizens clogging an increasingly jammed Texas prison system, a state lawmaker thinks it may be time for Texas to set up its own prison in Mexico.

After all, he figures, the inmates would be closer to home and they're going to be deported anyway when their sentences are complete, so the move would save taxpayers money.

Doctors may be able to use a simple test on newborn babies to predict their chances of developing diseases such as diabetes and heart disease if groundbreaking research in WA is successful.
  
Perth doctors are collecting DNA from 3000 WA teenagers and will match it with information about their lifestyles to produce a model which could be used in future to indicate the types of diseases people could develop over their lifetime.

AUSTIN – Two private foster-care contractors approved a DeSoto couple as foster parents last year, unaware that police had been dispatched to their home about a dozen times to investigate disturbances, The Dallas Morning News has learned.

Six-year-old foster child Katherine Frances was fatally body-slammed onto a bedroom floor at the home last month, DeSoto police said.

Welcome to the dangerous and controversial Brave New World of so-called 'supermarket' babies, in which choosing the characteristics of your child is as easy as picking out a new car.

I went undercover to expose exactly how Ms Ryan has created a Huxleyesque world in which medical ethics and the natural laws of reproduction are being trampled in the pursuit of profits. To separate fact from fiction, I contacted the centre, posing as a 44-year-old childless British woman desperate for a baby with her new, much younger, husband. I took care to mention to Ms Ryan that I'd recently come into a generous inheritance.

As state DNA databases expand, a growing number of "cold cases" are getting solved, but that's leading to a new problem: Local jurisdictions can't keep up with their burgeoning caseloads.

"I see it nationally as becoming a major problem," said Ted Hunt, chief trial assistant in the Jackson County Prosecutor's Office in Kansas City, Mo. "We're lucky to have a cold case homicide unit and a branch of sex crimes that works on cold cases, but many jurisdictions lack those resources."

And DNA databases are certain to grow even more in several states.

A British woman will be impregnated with a "designer baby" in the next few months, it has been revealed.

She will be the first British woman to undergo treatment at a U.S. embryo bank that allows would-be parents to select their child's characteristics over the Internet.

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A small plane twice strayed into restricted airspace over President Bush's ranch in Crawford, authorities said Monday. The violation was inadvertent, said Diane Stitaliere, a spokeswoman for the Federal Aviation Administration.