SIOUX CITY, Iowa ?  Democratic presidential frontrunner Hillary Clinton?s campaign admitted Friday that it planted a global warming question in Newton, Iowa, Tuesday during a town hall meeting to discuss clean energy.

Clinton campaign spokesman Mo Elliethee admitted that the campaign had planted the question and said it would not happen again.

BAGHDAD: Former Sunni insurgents asked the U.S. to stay away, then ambushed members of al-Qaida in Iraq, killing 18 in a battle that raged for hours north of Baghdad, an ex-insurgent leader and Iraqi police said Saturday.

Fighters of the Islamic Army in Iraq staged the surprise attack Friday afternoon near Samarra ? sending advance word to Iraqi police and requesting that U.S. helicopters stay away, since the fighters had no uniforms and were indistinguishable from al-Qaida.

A top Islamic Army leader known as Abu Ibrahim told The Associated Press that his fighters attacked al-Qaida southeast of Samarra, a mostly Sunni city about 90 kilometers (60 miles) north of Baghdad.

"We found out that al-Qaida intended to attack us, so we ambushed them at 3 p.m. on Friday," Abu Ibrahim said.

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Draw your own conclusions on the implications of these absences, and what they portend for the possibilities of genuine reform should any of these worthy paladins win the White House.

Yellowstone Is Rising on Swollen "Supervolcano"

Yellowstone National Park is rising. Its central region, called the Yellowstone caldera, has been moving upward since mid-2004 at a rate of up to three inches (seven centimeters) a year?more than three times faster than has ever been measured.

The surface is inflating like a bellows due to an infusion of magma about 6 miles (10 kilometers) underground, according to a new study published in tomorrows issue of the journal Science.

But that doesnt mean Yellowstone is about to go the way of Mount St. Helens.

"Theres no evidence of an imminent eruption or hydrothermal explosion," said Robert Smith, a geophysics professor at the University of Utah who co-authored the study.

Yellowstone is situated on a giant, geologically active feature known as a supervolcano.

"Its hundreds of times bigger than Mount St. Helens," Smith said, referring to the active volcano in Washington State.

This one could be huge.

Metals guru Greg McCoach has just prepared a report that explains the incredible details behind a single piece of legislation responsible for up to $13 billion in government handouts.

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For the record, its known as "Public Law 109-58".

But for all intents and purposes, its a license to print money.

It made its way through the U.S. Congress on July 29, 2005, and was formally signed into law by President Bush just ten days later at a ceremony in Albuquerque, New Mexico.

This law contained upwards of $13 billion in "secret" government giveaways...yet somehow it still took more than two full years for anyone to step forward and collect.

Weve all been there. Its a beautiful day, and you cant bear the thought of going into work. So you call in with some excuse about feeling ill, but you know in your bones that your boss doesnt buy it.

The feeling ill excuse is a short-term solution that wont win you any fans at the office -- someone else will have to pick up the slack, or youll miss deadlines. And it wont help your career any. Here are 10 excuses -- five smart and five not-so-smart -- to help you save face and your sanity.

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25 Photographs Taken at the Exact Right Time

Nov 2nd, 2007 by Sawser

Timing is everything, particularly in the case of amazing photography. Sometimes that means waiting through a whole sports game and getting lucky to catch just the right shot. Other times than means trudging through nature for weeks to get the perfect environmental photograph. Here are 25 examples of perfectly timed images from around the world and in various genres.

With extreme sports it is the danger and challenge that tends to excite people. Often the most amazing and bizarre images are taken right at the moment when disaster strikes. Sometimes these are tragic and painful though some are just plain funny.

Unfortunately, you wont find any vitamins in Bling H2O. The water inside, however, does receive more treatment than whats inside an average $2 plastic bottle. According to Bling H2Os Web site, the water is bottled from natural springs in Dandridge, Tenn. The company claims to use a "nine step purification process that includes ozone, ultraviolet and microfiltration." This sounds nice, but still -- does that really make it worth $55?

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Can religion and spirituality be considered purely as "neural blips and fluxes in brain chemistry"? Using recent advances in brain imaging and neuropsychological research, co-authors Dr. Andrew Newberg and the late Dr. Eugene DAquili, both of the University of Pennsylvania, explore that question and arrive at some surprising conclusions about material and spiritual "reality." This article, adapted for Science & Spirit magazine from their 1999 book The Mystical Mind: Probing the Biology of Religious Experiences, presents an overview of some of their findings.

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. ?  Scientists and economists Tuesday warned lawmakers of consequences Florida faces from climate change, including more destructive hurricanes and a rising sea level, but they also said the state could be a leader in reducing global warming.

Harold Wanless, chairman of the University of Miamis Department of Geological Sciences, predicted a 1.5 foot rise in sea level in 50 years and a three- to five-foot increase by the end of the century.

"Three feets going to get messy," he said. "Four feet becomes extremely difficult to live in South Florida and five feet probably impossible."

At two feet, South Florida would still be livable, Wanless said.

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Three panels of experts spoke at a symposium held by the House Environmental Resources Council and three related committees.

Sonoluminescence is the emission of short bursts of light from imploding bubbles in a liquid when excited by sound.

Some facts about sonoluminescence:

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Einsteins theory of special relativity includes electricity and magnetism in a simple, logical extension of the relativity of Galileo and Newton. Its conclusions, including time dilation, length contraction, and E=mc² have changed profoundly our ideas of time and space, matter and energy.

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Yoga stretches for tight hamstrings are actually one of the most important stretches done in yoga. Learning what works for you body can not only loosen up your tight hamstrigs but also influence your back, your thighs, and your posture. Take your time when learning different yoga poses for tight hamstrings as it?s important to experiment with what really works for you.

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Breathing is just as important in yoga as the yoga poses for tight hamstrings themselves, and in order to perform the stretches properly you need to use the correct breathing techniques for each one. You should never hold your breath during a stretch or pose, and also make sure that your breath is never forced or strained, because this is just going to end up wearing you out and you are not going to be able to properly relax and focus on the task at hand.

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It looks as though Rosie ODonnell wont be facing off with Larry King after all. The acid-tongued talk-show host, who famously clashed with Elisabeth Hasselbeck on "The View," announced on her blog Wednesday that talks to give her a prime-time show on MSNBC had fallen apart.

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2. Bring your right hand to your left, and fold the corner in your right hand over the one in your left, enveloping it. Next, reach down and pick up the corner that is hanging in front; bring it up, and fold it over the two corners in your left hand; the corner thats showing will be inside out.

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This anniversary is not a time to celebrate her philosophy. That would be like celebrating a blind person?s exquisite ability to identify things by touch and then use the truth he finds to curse the idea of light. Instead, let the day be a reminder that there are pointers to Christ in every philosophy. And let us pray that we not be like the one-year-old who, when daddy points at the flower, looks at his daddy?s finger instead.

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Magnavox released the Odyssey, the worlds first home video game console, in 1972 -- and failed to change the world. In 1976, Fairchild Semiconductor unleashed a console of its own, the Fairchild Channel F, which also sort of withered on the vine.

Then, in the fall of 1977, Nolan Bushnell* and Ted Dabney, two entrepreneurs whose company, Atari, had already made a big splash with the game "Pong," put forth a stout little box they called the Atari VCS, for Video Computer System. The VCS -- later renamed the 2600 for the systems catalog number, CX2600 -- sold for $199, and initially had a library of 9 games. It was an instant success, selling 250,000 units within a matter of months, and bringing home video games to the masses.

And thus the 2600 belongs to history. On Thursday the Strong Museum of Play in Rochester, New York, named the Atari 2600 as one of the newest members of its National Toy Hall of Fame.

LIMA (Reuters) - A 4,000-year-old temple filled with murals has been unearthed on the northern coast of Peru, making it one of the oldest finds in the Americas, a leading archaeologist said on Saturday.

The temple, inside a larger ruin, includes a staircase that leads up to an altar used for fire worship at a site scientists have called Ventarron, said Peruvian archaeologist Walter Alva, who led the dig.

It sits in the Lambayeque valley, near the ancient Sipan complex that Alva unearthed in the 1980s. Ventarron was built long before Sipan, about 2,000 years before Christ, he said.

"Its a temple that is about 4,000 years old," Alva, director of the Museum Tumbas Reales (Royal Tombs) of Sipan, told Reuters by telephone after announcing the results of carbon dating at a ceremony north of Lima sponsored by Perus government.

"Whats surprising are the construction methods, the architectural design and most of all the existence of murals that could be the oldest in the Americas," he said.

It might sound like a scene straight out of the Jetsons, but a Massachusetts company is developing a small airplane that can land, fold up its wings and drive down the highway.

Terrafugia Inc., a company founded three years ago by graduates from the Massachusetts Institute of technology (MIT), is in the process of building a prototype of The Transition, a 19-foot, two-seater the company describes as a roadable light-sport aircraft. And its focused on building something that can take to the roads as easily as it takes to the skies.

"Were not going to have a flying car, as people think of it, for a while," said Anna Dietrich, chief operating officer of the Woburn, Mass.-based company. "I would never say its not going to happen, but today the infrastructure is not there, nor is the training, nor are the avionics that would make the training unnecessary... What makes sense right now is a roadable aircraft."

ALBANY, N.Y. - An infantryman charges a pillbox in the face of enemy fire. A firefighter rushes up the stairwell of a burning skyscraper as office workers flee. A teacher shields her student from a schoolyard gunman with her body.

Heroes all. But what personal qualities made them heroic?

In the movies, heroes are charismatic rebels played by the likes of Will Smith or Bruce Willis. But researchers who surveyed decorated World War II veterans found not all heroes are cut from the same swashbuckling cloth. Quiet types with a sense of loyalty and selflessness often have the right stuff, too.

"We often think of the gung-ho, John Wayne Sands of Iwo Jima kind of hero driven to combat," said researcher Brian Wansink of Cornell University. "But theres a whole lot of these heroes that are much more along the lines of that Captain Miller character Tom Hanks played in Saving Private Ryan ? the reluctant high school English teacher."

To a man, they downplayed any notion of heroism.

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Pakistans military ruler has amended a law to give sweeping powers to army courts to try civilians on charges such as treason and inciting public unrest, officials said Sunday as a key opposition leader prepared to stage a massive, 185-mile protest march in defiance of a ban.

The moves came one week after President Gen. Pervez Musharraf said he was imposing a state of emergency to help fight Islamic militancy. But the main targets of his crackdown so far have been his most outspoken critics, including the increasingly independent judiciary and media. Musharraf was to hold a press conference with international journalists later Sunday

But a decision to amend the Pakistan Army Act -- confirmed by Attorney General Malik Mohammed Qayyum on Sunday -- is likely to raise fresh concerns. It would allow military courts to try people accused of treason, sedition, or "giving statements conducive to public mischief."

REAL-ESTATE agents on Sydneys south-western outskirts held a secret meeting over a controversial proposal to build an Islamic school at Camden, The Sun-Herald can reveal.

Property industry sources and concerned residents said agents at Wednesday nights meeting debated the issue of selling homes to Muslim families wanting to relocate to the area.

The news comes as some residents voiced outrage about the school, with at least three businesses organising petitions against the Quranic Society bid to build Camden College, a combined primary and high school with 1200 students.

The manager of Sinclairs newsagency and pharmacy in Camden, Kate Robbins, said the shop had a petition with 12 pages of signatures opposing the school, before an unknown woman grabbed the document and left the store.

"We called the police," she said. "We dont know who she was. We dont know if she was a Muslim and what if they get our names and addresses?

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Italian musician uncovers hidden music in Da Vincis Last Supper

An Italian musician and computer technician claims to have uncovered musical notes encoded in Leonardo Da Vincis "Last Supper," raising the possibility that the Renaissance genius might have left behind a somber composition to accompany the scene depicted in the 15th-century wall painting.

Painted from 1494 to 1498 in Milans Church of Santa Maria delle Grazie, the "Last Supper" vividly depicts a key moment in the Gospel narrative: Jesus last meal with the 12 Apostles before his arrest and crucifixion, and the shock of Christs followers as they learn that one of them is about to betray him.

In his book -- "La Musica Celata" ("The Hidden Music") -- Pala also describes how he found what he says are other clues in the painting that reveal the slow rhythm of the composition and the duration of each note.

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Former AT&T worker details federal Internet spying in S.F.

In an interview Tuesday, he said the NSA set up a system that vacuumed up Internet and phone-call data from ordinary Americans with the cooperation of AT&T. Contrary to the governments depiction of its surveillance program as aimed at overseas terrorists, Klein said, much of the data sent through AT&T to the NSA was purely domestic. Klein said he believes the NSA was analyzing the records for usage patterns as well as for content.

Claudia Jones, an AT&T spokeswoman, said she had no comment on Kleins allegations.

The NSA and the White House declined to comment on Kleins allegations.

"This splitter was sweeping up everything, vacuum-cleaner-style," he said. "The NSA is getting everything. These are major pipes that carry not just AT&Ts customers but everybodys."

Saddam asked Bush for $1bn to go into exile

Saddam Hussein offered to step down and go into exile one month before the invasion of Iraq, it was claimed last night.

Fearing defeat, Saddam was prepared to go peacefully in return for £500million ($1billion).

The extraordinary offer was revealed yesterday in a transcript of talks in February 2003 between George Bush and the then Spanish Prime Minister Jose Maria Aznar at the Presidents Texas ranch.

The White House refused to comment on the report last night.

Only yesterday, the Bush administration asked Congress for another £100billion to finance the conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan.

However, according to the tapes, one month before he launched the invasion Mr Bush appeared convinced that Saddam was serious about going into exile.

If you are concerned at all about liberty, the economy, the Constitution and the power of the Federal Government - you cannot ignore our longest and most costly war - the War on Drugs.

It?s now 35 years after Dick Nixon started this ?war? -  and we now have over 1 million - yes, 1 MILLION - non-violent people sitting behind bars.  People who are in jail not for harming other people, but for making a personal choice that the politicians in government don?t want them to make.

And you - yes, you - are paying for their room and board.

Interview with activists, photographs of violence, and a short look at the LRDP brought to you by an unwillingly unemployed and thus angry independant journalist.

1. Logical-mathematical intelligence: the ability to detect patterns, think logically, reason and analyze, and compute mathematical equations.
2. Linguistic intelligence: the mastery of oral and written language in self-expression and memory.
3. Spatial intelligence: the ability to recognize and manipulate patterns (large or small) in spatial relationships (e.g., pilots, sculptors, architects).
4. Musical intelligence: the ability to recognize and compose musical quality (pitches, tones), and content (rhythms, patterns) for production and performance.
5. Kinesthetic intelligence: the ability to use the body, or parts of the body to create products or solve problems (e.g., athletes, dancers, surgeons).
6. Interpersonal intelligence: the ability to recognize anothers intentions, and feelings.
7. Intrapersonal intelligence: the ability to understand oneself and use the information to self-manage.