Poland has asked the United Nations to change the title of the Auschwitz concentration camp to remind visitors that it was built and run by Nazi Germany.In a sign of acute historic sensitivities over the camp, where 1 million Jews died, Warsaw wants to change its official name to Former Nazi German Concentration Camp Auschwitz-Birkenau. The Polish government made the request to Unesco, which listed Auschwitz as a world heritage site in 1979, after newspapers referred to the camp as Polish during the coverage of the 60th anniversary of its liberation. In a leading article marking Holocaust Memorial Day in January last year the Guardian mistakenly referred to "Polish gas chambers and crematoria". ...
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 FEMA shifts $3.6 billion in hurricane contracts Bidding process gives housing work to smaller, regional businesses |
The Bush administration on Friday awarded up to $3.6 billion in temporary hurricane-victim housing contracts to small and minority-owned firms, saying it was shifting the money from four large companies that had not competed for the work. All but eight of the 36 contracts — worth up to $100 million each — were rebid to firms in the Gulf Coast region hit by last year’s hurricanes Katrina and Rita, the Federal Emergency Management Agency said. FEMA acting director R. David Paulison said the contracting shift demonstrates “our commitment to a full and open competition procurement strategy for temporary housing work in the Gulf Coast.” ...
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| Peterson family offers $250,000 for ‘real killer’ Man on death row for murder of wife Laci and fetus maintains innocence |
Scott Peterson's family offered a $250,000 reward Friday for information leading to an arrest in the murder of his pregnant wife. The family also offered a $5,000 reward for information leading to the recovery of Laci Peterson’s watch.Peterson was convicted in November 2004 of killing Laci Peterson and her 8-month-old fetus. Now living on death row at San Quentin State Prison, he has always maintained his innocence.The family is offering the reward for "specific information leading to an arrest and conviction for the abduction and murder of Laci and Conner Peterson, or for specific information leading to the exoneration and release of Scott Peterson," according to a press release....
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| Senior NASA Manager's Office Searched for Child Porn |
The headquarters office of a senior NASA manager was searched and computer equipment was seized in a child pornography investigation, according to court documents and an online report. The NASA inspector general's office served a search warrant on the agency headquarters office of James R. Robinson, in-space propulsion technology program executive, on Wednesday.A copy of the search warrant on The Smoking Gun Web site said a filter on NASA's computer system that searches for flesh-colored tones alerted technicians who found 189 images of underage child sexual activity on Robinson's work computer.The search warrant also said Robinson's computer had been used to send movies of child pornography to an undercover postal inspector and used a private account to correspond about pictures....
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| Carroll praises insurgents in video Father: Propaganda tape was kidnap victim's price for freedom |
American journalist Jill Carroll, who was released Thursday after being held hostage in Iraq for almost three months, slams the United States and praises Iraqi insurgents in a video posted on an Islamist Web site. A counterterrorism expert says Carroll may have been experiencing a touch of Stockholm syndrome, a defense mechanism in which kidnap victims empathize with their captors. However, Carroll's father flatly said his daughter was merely giving the kidnappers what they wanted so she wouldn't be killed.In the video, Carroll discusses her release with a man who may be one of her captors. She says that the mujahedeen has treated her well, kept her safe and was able to elude the U.S. military because its members are "very smart."...
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| Kansas Bracing for First Killer Bees Traps Set, Warnings Issued, Kansas Braces for First Swarms of Killer Bees This Year |
Kansas officials are bracing for the first swarms of so-called "killer bees" to cross into the state as early as this year, the Kansas Department of Agriculture said Thursday. Federal and state agriculture officials have been setting up traps along the state's southern counties to detect their arrival and have notified emergency first responders. They also have prepared an informational pamphlet for the public. "Anytime you have something that potentially can have a negative impact on what you are doing every day, you need to become aware of what you should do to keep yourself and your family safe when you are in that environment," said Tom Sanders, coordinator of the Kansas Agriculture Department's Cooperative Agricultural Pest Survey. ...
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