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Are you safe?

By Michael Savitt and Mike Savitt · Monday, Nov. 29,2004 11:55 p.m.

Every new technology emerging in society begets a public concern for security. While the Internet has completely revolutionized the way the world functions in terms of communication, commerce and entertainment, it also has brought security issues to the forefront.

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By Alyson Brodsy · Monday, Nov. 29,2004 11:31 p.m.

Plant parasitism a new way to 'trade' genes horizontally Parasites -- those pesky free-loaders most try to destroy -- are the mechanism that makes gene transfer between different plants species even possible, according to a report published by IU biologists in Nov. 8's issue of Nature.

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Bush picks Commerce Secretary

By Alyson Brodsy and Deb Riechmann · Monday, Nov. 29,2004 11:24 p.m.

WASHINGTON -- President George W. Bush on Monday chose Carlos Gutierrez, a native of Cuba who rose from truck driver to chief executive officer of Kellogg company, to be Secretary of Commerce.

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High court gives prime minister's legal team time to look at evidence

By Alyson Brodsy · Monday, Nov. 29,2004 11:24 p.m.

KIEV, Ukraine -- Ukraine's Supreme Court gave the prime minister's legal team until Tuesday to study evidence of fraud presented by the opposition in last week's presidential election, while outgoing President Leonid Kuchma endorsed the idea of a new vote "to preserve peace" in the bitterly divided former Soviet republic.

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Ukrainian legislature deems presidential elections invalid

By Alyson Brodsy · Sunday, Nov. 28,2004 11:40 p.m.

KIEV, Ukraine -- Representatives of the rival candidates in Ukraine's disputed presidential election prepared to meet at the negotiating table again Sunday, a day after the opposition's hopes for a new vote got a boost from national lawmakers, who called the election invalid.

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Tanker leaks oil into Delaware River

By Alyson Brodsy and Maryclaire Dale · Sunday, Nov. 28,2004 11:07 p.m.

PHILADELPHIA -- Divers found a six-foot gash on the tanker that leaked 30,000 gallons of crude oil into the Delaware River and created a 20-mile-long slick that killed dozens of birds and threatened other wildlife, officials said Sunday.

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Deputy prime minister says Iraqi elections must go ahead

By Alyson Brodsy and Slobodan Lekic · Sunday, Nov. 28,2004 11:03 p.m.

BAGHDAD, Iraq -- Iraq's deputy prime minister said holding elections in January will be "a serious challenge," but Sunday he insisted they must go ahead as scheduled. As part of the effort to address security concerns, U.S. troops and Iraqi paramilitary police arrested 43 suspected insurgents in the northern city of Mosul, the military said.

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Some focusing on divorce rate to protect marriage

By Alyson Brodsy and David Crary · Sunday, Nov. 21,2004 11:09 p.m.

NEW YORK -- "Protection of marriage" is now the watchword for many activists fighting to prevent gays and lesbians from marrying. Some conservatives, however, say marriage in America began unraveling long before the latest gay-rights push and are pleading for a fresh, soul-searching look at the institution.

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The future is nuclear

By Obaid Khawaja · Sunday, Nov. 21,2004 11:08 p.m.

In his 1964 movie, "Dr. Strangelove or: How I learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb," director Stanley Kubrick shows us events that could have concluded the Cuban Missile Crisis. In the film, a rogue army general plans to wage a nuclear war against communist Russia over fears they are putting fluoride in the American water supply.

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Iraq sets Jan. 30 date for first elections

By Alyson Brodsy and Maggie Michael · Sunday, Nov. 21,2004 11:05 p.m.

BAGHDAD, Iraq -- Iraqi authorities set Jan. 30 as the date for the nation's first election since the collapse of Saddam Hussein's dictatorship and pledged that voting would take place throughout the country despite rising violence and calls by Sunni clerics for a boycott.

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Specter wins Judiciary support

By Alyson Brodsy and Jesse J. Holland · Friday, Nov. 19,2004 12:03 a.m.

WASHINGTON -- Sen. Arlen Specter won the support of the Senate Judiciary Committee's Republicans to be their chairman next year, surviving complaints from abortion opponents who lobbied to skip over him in favor of a conservative, Thursday.

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Possible new case of mad cow disease found

By Alyson Brodsy · Friday, Nov. 19,2004 12:02 a.m.

WASHINGTON -- A second case of mad cow disease might have turned up in the United States, but meat from the suspect animal has not entered the food chain, U.S. Department of Agriculture officials said Thursday.

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Symposium discusses nuclear threat

By Obaid Khawaja · Thursday, Nov. 18,2004 11:42 p.m.

A symposium addressing the proliferation of nuclear capability in Asian countries pushed for more debate on the issue Thursday. The forum, sponsored by the Committee on Asian Security in the Persimmon Room of the Indiana Memorial Union, focused on the nuclear aspirations of North Korea, South Korea, China, India and Pakistan, as well as reasons for the continuation of the conflict.

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Israeli army mistakenly kills 3 Egyptian officers

By Danica Kirka · Thursday, Nov. 18,2004 11:19 p.m.

JERUSALEM -- Israeli troops mistook three Egyptian police officers for Palestinian militants and shot them dead Thursday along the Gaza Strip's border with Egypt, increasing tensions between the neighbors.

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Group kidnaps 31 Iraqi police officers

By Alyson Brodsy · Wednesday, Nov. 17,2004 11:13 p.m.

BAGHDAD, Iraq -- An armed group kidnapped 31 Iraqi policemen who were returning from training in Jordan, authorities said Wednesday, and a suicide car bomber rammed a U.S. convoy north of Baghdad, killing 10 people, hospital officials said.

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