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Americans' unhappy birthday: 'Too much wrong right now'

Even folks in the Optimist Club are having a tough time toeing an upbeat line these days. Eighteen members of the volunteer organization's Gilbert, Ariz., chapter have gathered, a few days before this nation's 232nd birthday, to focus on the positive: Their book-drive for schoolchildren and an Independence Day project to place American flags along the streets of one neighborhood.

 

 

Tablet Ignites Debate on Messiah and Resurrection

By ETHAN BRONNER 

The writing on an ancient stone may contribute to a re-evaluation of popular and scholarly views of Jesus.

 

 

Rising Convention Costs and Delays Worry Democrats

By LESLIE WAYNE 

Planners of the convention in Denver may be forced to scale back on their original design or increase their fund-raising goals.

 

 

Electronic Papyrus: The Digital Book, Unfurled

By ANNE EISENBERG

New technologies are developing that make displays flexible, foldable or even as rollable as papyrus, so that large screens can be unfurled from small containers.

 

 

A class apart Financial Times, UK - By Rob Blackhurst It’s 11 o’clock on Tuesday morning. Throughout Britain, school bells are ringing and corridors are pressed with shrieking teenagers on ...

Home schooling was our best ever family decision Financial Times, UK - Sir, Thank you for your most interesting article on home schooling in the UK (“A class apart”, FT Weekend June 21-22). Twenty-odd years ago I said I would ...

 

 

 

A Ban on Cockfighting, but Tradition Lives On

By ADAM B. ELLICK

Fueled by cultural inertia and light penalties, cockfighting in New Mexico continues unabated in hidden venues.

• Video: Cockfighting Crackdown

 

 

The Lindsay Lohan Lo-down
Daily Telegraph - By Christa D'Souza LINDSAY Lohan and I are sitting in the outdoor cafe of a photo studio off Melrose Avenue, on a blazing blue LA afternoon, doing what girls always do - comparing address book covers and talking clothes.

 

 

Russian spies hit Britain's terror fight

The activities of Russian spies in Britain are seriously undermining the fight against terrorism, security sources have disclosed.

• Few signs of a thaw in new Cold War

• Litvinenko murder nearly 'perfect'

 

 

After 24 years, a British Wimbledon champion

Fourteen-year-old's Wimbledon debut comes to a fairytale end as she defeats Noppawan Lertcheewakarn to claim girls' singles title.

• Venus claims fifth title

 

 

 

Icarus revisited: birdmen take the plunge

They came, they flew and they inevitably crashed in the sea. Pilots spread their man-made wings and leapt off an English pier.