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You know, people are thinking of Mrs. Clinton running for president. I think Mrs. Bush ought to run for president," Mrs. Cheney said. "If we want to have a Bush dynasty, let's get Laura Bush."

The vice president, who again ruled out making his own run for president when Bush's term ends, agreed.

"It's a great idea," Dick Cheney said. "And I think I know who would win too."

This all seems pretty ridiculous to me. What struck me, however, is Mrs. Cheney's use of the term "dynasty." Is the goal of the Bush family to establish a dynasty?

"I'm definitely into my second generation," says Burstein, 54, adding that teachers and parents often recall him from the days when he had a 1970s-era 'fro by asking, "Are you really the same guy I was raised with?"...

He has worked his way through about a dozen of his custom-designed body suits, which cost about $4,000 each. There have been a few changes along the way, both in background color and with added detail, such as a diaphragm and bronchial tubes.

See, in my line of work you got to keep repeating things over and over and over again for the truth to sink in, to kind of catapult the propaganda.

Their study, published in Science, did not involve deliberate exercise, but it measured - with the help of the sensors - how much people moved about naturally and spontaneously.

The heavier ones tended to sit, while the lean ones were more restless and spent two more hours a day on their feet - standing, pacing around and fidgeting. The difference translated into 350 calories a day, enough for the heavy people to take off 30 to 40 pounds a year, if they would get moving.

Even as I type, my feet are twitching, and the calories are burning. Soon I will have a magnificent tummy.

Although he voted for the war, he has since become one of its most vociferous opponents on Capitol Hill, where the hallway outside his office is lined with photographs of the "faces of the fallen".

"If we were given misinformation intentionally by people in this administration, to commit the authority to send boys, and in some instances girls, to go into Iraq, that is wrong," he told the newspaper. "Congress must be told the truth."

"Nightline" will show a photograph of each serviceman and woman in succession with his/her name, military branch, rank and age, while Koppel reads their names aloud. In order to include each name and face, "Nightline" will be extended from 30 to about 45 minutes.

"The action appears to be motivated by a political agenda designed to undermine the efforts of the United States in Iraq," the Baltimore County-based Sinclair Broadcast Group said in a statement announcing that it would yank the show.

[W]rite-in nicknames that are intended to mock or embarrass the university will not be counted... Examples of nicknames that will not be counted include Warriors (or any variation of the word, i.e., war) and Jumpin’ Jesuits. (emphasis added)

One of the six attendees was Terry Wood, who developed the "Dr. Phil" talk show and "The Insider," a celebrity news program, and who now supervises those programs as an executive at Paramount Television and King World Productions, both Viacom divisions. Ms. Wood, in a high-profile flourish of corporate synergy, was responsible for the recent CBS prime-time special in which Dr. Phil (Phillip McGraw) interviewed Pat O'Brien, the host of "The Insider," about his treatment for substance abuse.

Many people aren't getting enough vitamin D. It's hard to do from food and fortified milk alone, and supplements are problematic.

So the thinking is this: Even if too much sun leads to skin cancer, which is rarely deadly, too little sun may be worse.

No one is suggesting that people fry on a beach. But many scientists believe that "safe sun" 15 minutes or so a few times a week without sunscreen is not only possible but helpful to health.

Installed at the Six Flags Theme Park near Trenton, New Jersey, the monster ride uses a hydraulic launch system to slingshot riders horizontally from 0 to 205 kilometers (128 miles) per hour in 3.5 sickening seconds.

The momentum flings the 18-seater train into a 90 degree climb to a height of 139 meters (456 feet), followed by a vertical plunge through a three-quarter spiral and a final jaunt over a 39-meter (129-foot) high "camel hump."

Hang on, let me just tell you what I'm thinking. I'm thinking about killing Michael Moore, and I'm wondering if I could kill him myself, or if I would need to hire somebody to do it. No, I think I could. I think he could be looking me in the eye, you know, and I could just be choking the life out -- is this wrong? I stopped wearing my What Would Jesus -- band -- Do, and I've lost all sense of right and wrong now. I used to be able to say, "Yeah, I'd kill Michael Moore," and then I'd see the little band: What Would Jesus Do? And then I'd realize, "Oh, you wouldn't kill Michael Moore. Or at least you wouldn't choke him to death." And you know, well, I'm not sure.

There could be no mistaking which movie Lucas Riedi planned to see as he camped out in front of Star Cinema for almost 12 hours Wednesday.

Dressed as a Jedi knight with a Darth Vader mask, Riedi arrived at the theater at 6091 McKee Road in Fitchburg at 12:30 p.m. to be first in line for "Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith," which opened nationwide at 12:01 a.m. today.

Ald. Michael Murphy, who represents the Miller Park area, said he was approached in March by a police sergeant who had looked into the law.

"You know, we'll have to ticket people out there," the sergeant said.

"I don't think that would be a wise course of action," Murphy replied, clearly recognizing political suicide when he hears it.

The city council is in the process of changing the ordinance, making it safe to drink Miller Lite outside Miller Park before cheering on the Brewers' catcher Damian Miller.

The board is considering redefining science itself. Advocates of "intelligent design" are pushing the board to reject a definition limiting science to natural explanations for what's observed in the world.

Instead, they want to define it as "a systematic method of continuing investigation," without specifying what kind of answer is being sought. The definition would appear in the introduction to the state's science standards.

The problem with "intelligent design" is that it is the opposite of science. While science is driven to try to methodically explain things, "intelligent design" wants us to give up trying to find a methodical explanation. Instead, people who believe in "intelligent design" prefer the lazy and ignorant approach of just relying on supernatural explanations; like how the Greeks explained thunder and lightning.

The ad offended some local veterans, many of whom are requesting an apology from the campaign committee.

"There was just the observance of the 60th anniversary of when the death camps were liberated," said Frank Brandt, a former Air Force Lieutenant and co-chair for YesforFlagstaff.com, a committee that supports the ballot measure. "Are they culturally insensitive?"

Lofy said he thought it would be funny to show up at his senior prom Saturday wearing a dress. Lofy went to the prom with Victor Anderson, a friend. Lofy says the school did not have any problem letting two males attend prom together, but school officials who had heard of Lofy's plan to wear a black dress warned him that he would not be allowed in the dance if he showed up dressed as a woman.

Lofy says he is not gay. He says he agreed to go with Anderson, who is gay, because Anderson is his friend and he wanted to go to the prom but didn't have a date. Anderson confirms this. Lofy concedes that he was uneasy going to prom with another male, and wearing a dress was a way to deflect other people's suspicions.

Lofy says that school officials told him that him wearing a dress would ruin prom. School officials refused to return any calls about the issue. Male students at the school have vowed to wear dresses to school in protest, and girls have vowed to wear suits and ties.

My take: Prom is for the students. Let the students decide the dress code. If the students are okay with dudes wearing dresses to prom, that's cool with me, and should be cool with the school officials as well.

But now the American Civil Liberties Union is suing to overturn it altogether, on behalf of a former sheriff's dispatcher who says she had to quit her job because she wouldn't marry her live-in boyfriend.

Deborah Hobbs, 40, says her boss, Sheriff Carson Smith of Pender County, near Wilmington, told her to get married, move out or find another job after he found out she and her boyfriend had been living together for three years. The couple did not want to get married, so Hobbs quit.

When done, the bus stop next to the Anchorage Museum of History and Art will be like no other in the city, said Anchorage's director of public transportation.

"It is going to be a showpiece stop,' Wilson said.

Wilson has $1.5 million to spend on the bus stop thanks to Alaska Sen. Ted Stevens commonly referred to by Alaskans as "Uncle Ted' for his ability to secure federal money for his home state

This is federal money folks, which means all us non-Alaskans are paying for it. This is crazy! To protest I shall boycott all bus trips to Anchorage.

Former members say Pastor Chan Chandler gave them the ultimatum, saying if they didn't support George Bush, they should resign or repent. The minister declined an interview with News 13. But he did say "the actions were not politically motivated.

Benton Harbor Superintendent Paula Dawning cited the song's allegedly raunchy lyrics in ordering the McCord Middle School band not to perform it in Saturday's Grand Floral Parade, held as part of the Blossomtime Festival.

In a letter sent home with McCord students, Dawning said "Louie Louie" was not appropriate for Benton Harbor students to play while representing the district — even though the marching band wasn't going to sing it.

Yet, does anybody really know the lyrics to that song? The FBI spent two years investigating, and determined that the lyrics were unintelligible.

Gold boldly represents Marquette’s proud athletics traditions such as Golden Avalanche, Golden Eagles and Gold Rush, the current student fan section for basketball games. It has also become the signature color for Marquette athletics worn proudly around the country by Marquette students, alumni and fans. In athletics, the mark of a champion is often a gold medal or trophy...

Data collected in an online survey last fall of opinions and attitudes indicated that even 10 years after its introduction, the Golden Eagles nickname, logo and mascot have not generated with the Marquette community a strong sense of pride or identity. In the survey, the terms respondents most often used to describe the Golden Eagles nickname are boring (57 percent), weak (55 percent) and common (52 percent).

"It's as if my character on `The Daily Show' got promoted," Colbert told The Associated Press.

He'll be a "very well-intentioned, poorly informed, high-status idiot, not unlike some people who have these shows in the real world," he said.

Besides lampooning O'Reilly, the king of the cable TV opinion shows, he's sending up people such as Sean Hannity, Joe Scarborough and Anderson Cooper, he said.

One segment of his show, "Worthy Opponent," will feature Colbert debating Colbert.

Without the knowledge of his board, the chairman, Kenneth Y. Tomlinson, contracted last year with an outside consultant to keep track of the guests' political leanings on one program, Now With Bill Moyers...

[H]e has repeatedly criticized public television programs as too liberal overall, and said in the interview, "I frankly feel at PBS headquarters there is a tone deafness to issues of tone and balance."

"I believe there has been no chilling effect, but I do think there have been instances of attempts to influence content from a political perspective that I do not consider appropriate," Ms. Mitchell, who plans to step down when her contract expires next year, said Friday.