(2002-09-30) — Environmentalists now warn that the shrinking ozone hole could prevent greenhouse gasses from escaping earth’s atmosphere. They blamed the diminished size of the hole on the failure of the United States to endorse the Kyoto treaty.
“The collapse of the ozone hole is a major threat to life as we know it,” said a [...]

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(2002-09-30) — Senator Robert Torricelli, who announced today that he is halting his re-election campaign, was immediately appointed New Jersey’s Co-Poet Laureate by Democrat Governor Jim McGreevey.
Torricelli will share the honor with current Poet Laureate Amiri Baraka, whose moving work Somebody Blew Up America blames white, Christian Americans for everything bad that’s ever happened.
“I was [...]

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(2002-09-30) — Former U.S. President Bill Clinton declared Paramus, New Jersey, his legal residence just minutes before Senator Robert Torricelli’s news conference about the status of his re-election campaign.
“I’ve always been a been a Jersey guy in my heart,” said Mr. Clinton, who quickly established his temporary office at the corner table in Starbucks in [...]

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(2002-09-30) — Former vice president Al Gore may announce this week that he has Alzheimer’s disease. The revelation comes after Gore’s September 23 speech to the Commonwealth Club.
During the Q&A session he said, “We went through all of World War II without poison gas being used save in some horrible experiments in the Far [...]

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(2002-09-23) — In his new book, With a Trusting Heart, Rep. David Bonior, D-Mich., reports his response to President Bush in late September 2001 when the chief executive asked him ‘What can I do for you?’
“When you catch this guy, Bin Laden,” Bonior said with tears in his eyes, “I would like to be the [...]

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(2002-09-29) — Rep. David Bonior, D-Mich., will headline a star-studded cast from Washington and Hollywood as ABC broadcasts “A Salute to Neville Chamberlain” in early October.
The two-hour special will include Bonior’s dramatic reading of Chamberlain’s famous “Peace in Our Time” speech before Parliament in 1938.
Bonior will shoot his segments on location in Baghdad, where he [...]

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(2002-09-29) — In football action in the Middle Eastern conference, the Palestinian Goliaths lost 72-0 to the Israeli Shepherds, and PLO leader Yasser Arafat emerged from his box at the stadium declaring victory.
“This is a proud moment for the team,” Chairman Arafat declared, flashing his trademark toothless grin and a “V” for victory hand sign. [...]

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