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 The man who tried to kill President Reagan 22 years ago wants permission to make unsupervised, overnight visits to his parents  house, a newspaper reports.The Washington Post reports a hearing is set for next week on the request by John W. Hinckley, who shot the president and three others on March 30, 1981. He has been confined to St. Elizabeth s Hospital since he was found not stanley website  guilty of the shooting by reason of insanity in 1982.Hinckley, 48, has made trips off the hospital grounds for three years, but always supervised by hospital staff and only within Washington. FBI agents and Secret Service officers always monitor those excursions.Now he wants to make 10 trips, five of them overnight, to his parents  house in Williamsburg, Va.A court said he was entitled to the earlier trips, which prosec stanley quencher utors had opposed. Prosecutors, and the city s Department of Mental Health, oppose the new request as well, arguing that Hinckley is still a risk.        Besides the off-site visits, Hinckley was allowed to take unsupervised walks around the hospital grounds and to have a job in an office at the hospital. He has also adopted cats that he cares for. He handled these privileges responsibly,  D.C. Mental Health Director M stanley thermos artha B. Knisley wrote this summer.  Notably the community outings were without incident and did not result in any problematic recognition of him or incur significant media attention.  But while admitting that Hinckley s mental problems were in remission, Knisley wrote:  Th Isia SEC Investigation Blasts Credit-Rating Companies
 The introduction of the family car in the 20th century led to unexpected consequences, including a rise in teenage pregnancies. The emergence of the driverless car in the 21st century also portends major changes in adolescent culture, ranging from the legal drinking age to patterns of school attendance.     Michael Petrilli, an award-winning writer and the president of the Thomas B. Fordham Institute, an education think tank based in Washington, DC., suggests that we haven ;t really given much thou stanley mug ght to how auto-piloted cars will change the teen  and tween  years鈥攅specially since most adolescents are ready for independent mobility long before they are qualified to operate a car. Writing in EducationNext, Petrilli contemplates the near future: If a robot can drive tee stanley termosky ns around town more safely than teens themselves, might states push back the manual-driving age to 21 or later to wait until young people   brains are really up to the task  Such a policy is politically infeasible now because of the interest in allowing those 16 and up to get themselves to their jobs. But with a computerized chauffeur, that   no longer a problem.  Of course, it will be a while until everyone has an autonomous auto, and until every road is ready for them, too.  Let   take this thought experiment eve stanley cup n further. If teenagers didn ;t need to drive their own cars鈥攊f they were no longer allowed to drive their own cars鈥攎ight we be able to eliminate

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 An American soldier was killed and three others wounded in a clash with militants in eastern Afghanistan early Monday, the U.S. military said. It was the second American fatality in as many days.Spokesman Maj. Mark McCann said the firefight occurred near Asadabad in Kunar province after two homemade bombs targeting coalition forces went off. Resulting from that engagement ...  stanley flasche one U.S. soldier was killed and three were wounded,  he told a news conference.Kunar is part of a swath of southern and eastern Afghanistan where insurgents continue to defy the 18,000-strong U.S.-led force still hunting remnants of the former ruling Taliban regime and al Qaeda, t Stanley cup website hree years after the Islamic hard-liners were ousted from power.Col. Gary Cheek, the commander of U.S. forces in the eastern region, said he recently sent additional troops to Kunar to help persuade the local populati stanley italia on to stop giving refuge to militants.        The mountainous area next to the Pakistani border is viewed as a stronghold of renegade Afghan warlord Gulbuddin Hekmatyar, a former prime minister who has joined the Taliban in vowing to drive out foreign troops and topple the U.S.-backed government. I am confident they  residents  will deny the sanctuary to the insurgents and we will drive them from the Kunar area,  Cheek told the news conference.Monday s clash came a day after one U.S. soldier and a former Afghan militia leader were killed in a gunfight when American troops tried to search the man s home in western He Gaqp Animals Get The Boot From Bronx Zoo
 Why did artist Jonathan Crow decide to top the head of each US stanley quencher  vice president with a watercolor cephalopod  Because it   funny.     For his Veeptopus series, Crow has done an ink and watercolor portrait of each vice pr stanley en mexico esident, from John Adams to Joe Biden, with an octopus on his head.  Well, Dick Cheney   is a tiny bit different; go check it out.  If you have a favorite vice president and want to hang his tentacle-covered face on your wall, you can get a print from Crow  stanley sverige   online shop. Here are a few of the VPs: Veeptopus [Jonathan Crow via Laughing Squid]

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 Police say the only survivor of a shooting that left his wife and three children dead in their sport utility vehicle was questioned and is not a suspect in the attack. The Chicago Sun-Times is reporting that the husband, Christopher Vaughn, told police that his wife fired the shots.No charges have been filed in the case so far, and Vaughn has been released after being questioned for several hours. He was treated at a hospital for a gunshot wound to the leg.The bodies of Kimberly Ellen Vaughn, 34, and her children mdash; Abigayle Elizabeth, 12, Cassandra Ellen, 11, and Blake Philip, 8 mdash; were discovered around 5:25 a.m. Thursday. They  stanley canada were found in the family s SUV parked on a service road near Interstate 55 in Channahon after stanley italia  a passer-by called 911, authorities said. The husband was with the caller until police arrived, Illinois State Police Capt. Carl Dobrich said.        Kimberly Vaughn suffered one fatal gunshot wound, Coroner Patrick O Neil said; the three children had all been shot multiple times. A handgun was found at the scene, Dobrich said.Vaughn left the Illinois State Police District 5 offices early Frida stanley cup y after telling authorities he wanted to rest, Illinois State Police Master Sgt. Cheryl Lisy said. She said he was never in custody and left  of his own free will.  She said she did not have information about investigators  interviews with him.Will County Chief Deputy Coroner Bob Brenczewski said Friday that investigators have conducted gunshot residue tests  Mgtx N.J. Law Punishes Drowsy Drivers
 https://youtube/watch v=Ow3lO_ViXkk     By now we ;ve had a few months to come to terms with the fact that, yes, 3D printed guns exist; yes, they generally work; and no, they ;re not about to herald in an age of obsolete metal detectors and lawlessness鈥攁t least not in their current form. But the newest incarnation of the weapon is bound to re-ignite the conversation. A new YouTube video has confirmed the existence of what seems to be the first fully functioning, one-shot, 3D printed rifle. https://gizmodo/the-worlds-first-entirely-3d-printed-gun-489975583 First posted several days ago, the video shows a .22-caliber rifle, dubbed the Grizzly, which its uploaders claim was made using a Stratasys Dimension 1200es 3D printer. The Stratasys is a pro machine that runs somewhere in the market of $8,000 for a second-hand model, so this is in no way something a typical person could go cooking up at a whim. The gun has to be fired using a string, which makes sense considering that, once it 8 gourde stanley 217  actually used, the entire thing basically splits in half. So while this rifle could certainly do some damage to the person facing the barrel, the same g stanley cup oes for anyone actually holding the gun. And Defense vaso stanley  Distributed, the group behind the original 3D printed gun, The Liberator, certainly seemed to approve of the upgrade, since as The Verge notes, they posted on the video on their Tumblr yesterday. What   more, the Grizzly actually makes use of the same coiled  metal  springs a

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 The Bush a stanley cup dministration isn t ready to support a GOP senator s proposal to criminalize all leaks of classified information, according to U.S. officials.A senior official on Wednesday called the proposal problematic, saying that while the administration is opposed to leaks, a new law isn t needed to safeguard national security.The administration quietly let Sen. Richard Shelby, R-Ala., know it would not support his measure if asked to make a public statement, said the official, speaking on the condition of anonymity.A scheduled Senate Intelligence Committee hearing Wednesday on the matter was postponed indefinitely. Attorney General John Ashcroft and CIA Director George Tenet had been invited to speak.A spokeswoman for Shelby, ranking Republican on the Se stanley flasche nate Intelligence Committee, said Wednesday that Ashcroft told the senator more time was needed to study the issue. Officials  stanley isolierkanne said an interagency working group will be formed to review the matter.        Shelby s provision would expand current laws, making it illegal to disclose information on matters beyond those concerning national defense. He said it was intended to clamp down on leaks of classified information to the press  151; some of which compromised U.S. intelligence operations.Violators would face a felony charge and up to three years in prison. Open-government, civil-liberties and press groups blasted the proposal, saying it could hinder communication between the government and the public.Opponents rejoiced at the  Jzha Survivor of KKK Baptist Church bombing:  I had to forgive
 Today, we bury our dead with flowers 鈥?but a recently discovered gravesite on Israel   Mount Carmel suggests we ;ve been doing so for at least 12,000 years.     The bygone burial site contains impressions from what appear to be intentionally placed stems and blossoms of plants like mint and sage, which may have been chosen for  stanley cups uk their scent and appearance. The imprints were found lining a total of four graves, but the largest number  stanley quencher of preserved plant impressions were discovered lining a double-burial of an adult male and an adolescent of indeterminate sex. Impressions of flowering stems lining the double burial, marked by dashed lines | Photo by E. Gernstein, reproduced by Nadel et al. Via National Geographic   Ker Than: The pair 8230; belonged to the primitiveNatufian culture, which flourished between 15,000 and 11,600 years ago in an area that is now Israel, Jordan, Lebanon, and Syria. The Natufian society was one of the first鈥攑ossibly the first鈥攖o transition from a roaming hunter-gatherer lifestyle to permanent settlements, and was also the first to establish true graveyards, said study leaderDaniel Nadel, an archaeologist at the University of Haifa in Israel. The only potentially older instance of  stanley canada funerary flowers is a dusting of pollen found at the site of an approximately 70,000-year-old grave of a Neanderthaldubbed Shanidar IV in Iraq. However, some scientists have argued that holes found at that site were made by burrowing rodents that stored seeds an

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 Did nearly half-million dollars, wrapped in three packages, fall out of an armored truck onto a busy street, through a partly open door  That s the truck driver s story and the FBI is investigating.The armored truck employee told the FBI that he noticed the missing money, nearly $500,000, Wednesday evening when he discovered a door was ajar, the FBI said.The money disappeared during a half-mile journey from the Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland.The cash was enclosed in plastic wrap, with each package weighing about 42 pounds, said FBI spokesman Robert Hawk. Hawk would not comment on whether the bills were marked or what denomination the bills are in. I ve been here 23 years, and nothing surprises me any more,  said Hawk.  But something falling out of an ar stanley website mored truck en route  That s unusual.         The FBI would not say if they have suspicions over how the money disappeared.FBI agents scoured downtown Cleveland, asking merchants and passersby if they had seen anything strange. Agents also sought surveillance videotapes from businesses along the route.copy;MMI The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed                                                                      ponent--type-recirculation .item:nth-child 5  {        display: none;      }       inline-recirc-item--id-9239513a-8c88-11e2-b06b-024c619f5c3d,  right-rail-recirc-item--id-9239513a-8 stanley cup c stanley quencher 88-11e2-b06b-024c619f5c3d {        display: none;   Kovy The Top 10 Time Capsules of 2013
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 When terrorists struck on Sept. 11, teachers across the country had to field question after question from classrooms of anxious students.What is terrorism  Why do terrorists hate us  Am I safe Educators couldn t find the answers in a textbook. So now, some are dedicating a week of their summer vacation to a course on integrating the latest information on terrorism into their curricula.The Freedoms Foundation at Valley Forge, a non stanley cup canada profit school for citizenship edu kubki stanley cation, is presenting a pilot seminar called  Terrorism: Challenges and Threats to the American Way of Life.  The program, which has drawn about 50 teachers from as far away as Hawaii, features talks by government and military officials who are well-versed on terrorism. These are things we didn t know before,  said Nancy McCoy, a high school American history teacher from Charleston, W.Va.  The questions my students had immediately after Sept. 11, I had no answers for.         Rep. Curt  stanley cup Weldon, R-Pa., a senior member of the House Armed Services Committee, spoke to the group when they arrived Sunday. Roger Fontaine, a national security council member under President Reagan, led a session on defining terrorism.Paul Sanborn, co-director of the workshop and a civilian intelligence contractor for the Department of Defense, spoke on counterterrorism and military strategy. He said schools needed to develop crisis management plans and train every teacher to implement them. There s no meticulous training, and then you wonder wh Rugj Latest   8220;BatDad  8221; compilation shows why Batman is the best dad ever
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  AP  NORFOLK, Va. - When the makers of  Top Gun  were filming on board the USS Enterprise, they donated a set of black fuzzy dice to liven up the ship s otherwise drab interior.A quarter-century later, the dice will still be dangling inside the tower of  the Big E  as the world s first nuclear-powered aircraft carrier sets sail on its final voyage Sunday.The trinket is a reminder of the ship s storied 50-year history that includes action in several wars, a prominent role in the Cuban missile crisis and serving as a spotter ship for John Glen stanley cup n s historic orbit of the earth. To serve on this ship, certainly in this capacity, you certainly have to be a student of the ship s history,  said Rea stanley cup r Adm. Walter Carter, commander of the Enterprise strike group.  Fifty years of service, in our nation s history, we ve never had a warship in service that long. The Enterprise is the longest aircraft carrier in the U.S. fleet. It is also the oldest, a distinction that brings pride as well as plenty of headaches for the ship s more than 4,000 crew members. The ship is effectively a small city that frequently needs repairs b stanley flask ecause of its age. It was originally designed to last 25 years, but a major overhaul in 1979 and other improvements have extended its life.        The ship largely looks like any other carrier on the inside and has modern amenities like gyms, a coffee shop and a television station with dozens of channels. It even produces its own daily newspaper while at sea.But even the b Ucny Snowstorm eyes Northeast after sparing Washington
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 More than three months after surviving an assassination attempt, Arizona congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords continues her amazing recovery. Through it all, her husband, astronaut Mark Kelly, has been by her side. But now, he s preparing to take off for space, and if all goes well, Giffords will be at the Florida launch - in person. On  The Early Show,  CBS News Correspondent Don Teague reported Kelly is slated to blast into space from on his final mission as commander of shuttle Endeavour next month. But will Giffords be there  Kelly notes,  I ve said on a few occasions that I d like her to attend the la stanley flasche unch,  botella stanley and I think there s a pretty good chance that s going to happen --  we re  just awaiting final approval from her doctors. Kelly:  Good chance  Giffords will be at launch        For now, Giffords remains in a Houston rehabilitation center, recovering from a gunshot wound to the head suffered during January s assassination attempt.Kelly spoke along with fellow crew members at a NASA press conference Thursday. He wouldn t take specific questions about his wife, but says she s getting better every day.He told the media,  She s improving every day, and in the realm of brain injur stanley bottles ies, that is very significant and pretty rare. She s starting to process some of the tragedy that we all went through in January. She s going through that as we speak Kelly took three weeks off from training for the April 19 mission after the shooting, but says he and his crew are focused and ready for  Dgsf Krispy Kreme Ousts CEO
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