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National: Growing
changes in gardening due to warmer conditions By JOAN LOWY
- Gardening isn't like it used to be.
Changes are mostly subtle,
but thanks to global warming, blooming and leafing dates are
getting earlier and the range of some plants and trees is changing.
- More...
Friday - April 15, 2005
Washington Calling: Whiz-bang
weapons ... Bush Bug ... More By LANCE GAY - The military
is mum on the subject, but the number of secret programs developing
whiz-bang weapons is soaring.
The Center for Strategic and
Budgetary Assessments, which tracks secret weapons programs,
estimates that the brass are seeking some $28 billion for so-called
"black" programs next year - representing the largest
increase since 1988, near the end of the Cold War. - More...
Friday - April 15, 2005
Columns - Commentary
 Betsy
Hart: Raising
fear - Spring has sprung - sort of - and one thing that means
is that my kids are back to riding their bikes to school (as
opposed to walking). I do on occasion drive them the few blocks
- if there is at least 6 inches of snow, or a monsoon. Pretty
much other than that and they are on their own, or rather with
the crowd of all the other kids in our community doing the same
thing. - More...
Friday - April 15, 2005
 Dan
K. Thomasson: The
new DNI's daunting task - Good luck, Ambassador Negroponte.
You will need all you can get if you are to succeed in resolving
the turf wars and breaking down the barriers that have led to
so many failures in national intelligence gathering.
But as a veteran federal agent
who as a young man was assigned to Latin America in the 1980s
put it, "if anyone can bring some order out of the chaos,
it is this guy." He went on to explain that the soon-to-be-confirmed
director of national intelligence was ambassador to Honduras
at the time and "he was an integral part of our efforts
to keep communism from spreading from Nicaragua and Salvador
throughout the area. This was, after all, the last great battle
of the Cold War." - More....
Friday - April 15, 2005
 James
K. Glassman: Going
after the 'IP Axis of Evil' - More and more, America's economic
future is tied, not to what we manufacture, but to what we invent,
create, discover and think up.
In general, this is a very
good thing. The value that's added through intellectual property
- a formula for a new medicine, for example, or the script of
a movie or a program for software - is far greater than what's
added through making products that other countries can make as
well, often at lower cost. - More...
Friday - April 15, 2005
Bill Johnson: Mail
a lifeline amid quiet off-hours - Downtime.
You can tell when it arrives
inside First Platoon barracks. The thin walls throb with the
bass notes of rap music or shiver from the twang of the occasional
country-western tune that only the toughest of sergeants seem
interested in playing.
After 11 days of being in-country,
of daily patrols and seemingly never-ending vehicle maintenance
checks, the soldiers of Fort Carson's 3rd Armored Cavalry Regiment
are beginning to retreat into themselves during off-hours. -
More...
Friday - April 15, 2005
 Dale
McFeatters: The
hidden menace of H2O - It's an old story. One study says
coffee is bad for you; another it's not. A couple of drinks a
day is good for your heart, a researcher says; no, no, says someone
else equally as distinguished, it's the first step toward alcoholism.
Take aspirin; don't take aspirin.
Fast food is bad for you; not if you're careful about what you
eat. You're not taking enough vitamin X; too much vitamin X and
your ears fall off. - More...
Friday - April 15, 2005
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