A Republican gay rights group frustrated with the Obama administration's failure to repeal the "don't ask, don't tell" law is challenging the policy's constitutionality in federal court in Southern California.
The trial in Riverside starts Tuesday and is scheduled to last two weeks.
Dan Woods, attorney for the Log Cabin Republicans, says he wants a federal judge to halt the policy …
ABSTRACT
This study is a compilation of vascular flora data from previous reports and current findings from 1965 through 2003 of Fort Bragg Military Reservation and Weymouth Woods Sandhills Nature Preserve, located in the Sandhills region of North Carolina. Vascular plants are divided into four major groups: Pteridophytes, Gymnosperms, Angiosperms (monocots) and Angiosperms (dicots). Reported for the study area are 143 families, 490 genera, and 1,206 species and infraspecific taxa, of which 203 (16.8%) are alien or adventive. Sixty one species are rare, of which three are federally endangered: Lysimachia asperulifolia, Rhus michauxii, and Schwalbea americana. The following five …
Premier League club Reading signed midfielder Marek Matejovsky from Mlada Boleslav to a 3 1/2-year contract Monday.
Financial details of the transfer were not given for the 26-year-old playmaker, who has played six matches for the Czech Republic.
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The great Jimmy Calderwood treasure hunt has kicked-off yetagain.
A striker tops the Aberdeen manager's Christmas wish list, withNottingham Forest's Scott Dobie firmly on his radar.
Calderwood has long been looking for that perfect blend in attackand with the window of opportunity ready to open next month he'sscouring Europe for new talent.
Calderwood has been linked with some high-profile forwards andhas always set his sights high.
An ambitious loan move for former Aberdeen schoolboy ShaunMaloney when he was at Celtic failed to work out before his switchsouth to Aston Villa.
Garry O'Connor, now at Birmingham, was another Calderwood targetbut …
Within the next two years, the Chicago area will have at least18 and maybe as many as 37 new golf courses.
Eighteen new courses have just opened or are scheduled to openby next spring. Others are in various stages of planning andconstruction.
Those figures come from the National Golf Foundation, coursearchitects and club pros. They admit there may be courses going upthat they don't know about - but they are certain of one thing: Thecourses being constructed won't be enough.
The area course shortage is part of a world-wide trend. TheNational Golf Foundation calculates the United States needs 400 newcourses annually through the year 2000 to keep up …
WASHINGTON - Elizabeth Edwards, wife of White House hopeful John Edwards, apologized to Sen. Hillary Clinton after saying her choices in life have made her happier than the senator, a Clinton aide said Friday.
Clinton adviser Howard Wolfson said Elizabeth Edwards called the New York Democrat on Friday night just after she finished a debate in Rochester, N.Y., against Republican challenger John Spencer.
"Elizabeth Edwards called her and apologized," Wolfson said. "They had a good conversation."
Wolfson said the two spoke only for a couple of minutes.
"The senator thanked her for the call and wished her well on her book tour," Wolfson said.
The …
British conductor Edward Downes and his wife have died at an assisted suicide clinic in Switzerland, their family said Tuesday.
The family said Downes, 85, and his 74-year-old wife Joan died Friday "peacefully and under circumstances of their own choosing" at a Zurich clinic run by the group Dignitas.
The family statement said Downes had become almost blind and increasingly deaf. His wife, a former dancer, choreographer and television producer, had devoted years to working as his assistant.
"After 54 happy years together, they decided to end their own lives rather than continue to struggle with serious health problems," the statement said.
Dignitas refused to …
