"Life expectancy has risen for men and women and for white and black Americans, the report said. On average, men can expect to live 74.4 years on average, women 79.8 years, whites 77.7 years and blacks 72.2 years...

...In a one-year jump that officials hope will not be repeated, the rate of deaths from homicide rose by 17 percent from 2000 to 2001. That resulted from the 2,953 deaths in the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks being classified as homicides."

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Other title(s) for this story: ajc.com: Life expectancy climbs to record high in America

"The military will not cremate any soldiers who may die from smallpox or other biological weapons."

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Other title(s) for this story: Military.com: Infected Corpses Won't Be Cremated

""The cop on the beat now has Superman's X-ray eyes," said Barry Steinhardt, director of the technology and liberty program at the American Civil Liberties Union. "We need to fundamentally rethink what is a reasonable expectation of privacy.""

Judge Dread is coming.

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"Even a successful result contains risks in the eyes of those who have pondered the recurring cycle in human history in which power leads to hubris, hubris leads to overreaching, and overreaching leads to collapse. Victory could tempt the United States to overreach."

I guess the US is feeling very cocky at the moment. But, after the conflict, and lets hope that it is a war measured in days, I think they'll listen more to world opinion, or be seen to be listening, more like, and pull back for a while at least over confronting Syria, or Iran. But make no mistake these are already on the target list. No point taking WMD off Iraq if they are left elsewhere for bin Laden's followers to get hold of.

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" Because the CIA and FBI are much more familiar than they were a year ago with the organization and individuals involved in al Qaeda, they are more able to put the new leads to use. Also, with a handful of other high-ranking al Qaeda members imprisoned and undergoing CIA interrogation, the information "can be bounced off five other senior guys now anxious to tell us what they know," said one knowledgeable intelligence expert."

I wonder what difference taking bin Laden out of the loop would make? Very little, strategically, just the moral victory for the US. The smaller units that have tried to attack European targets of late have all been self starters from Northern Africa.

As this will be a generational war, taking out bin Laden, will not stop the terrorist threat, it may even make matters worse. There'll be no leadership to track and watch.

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