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Editor: Accepted definitions of “genocide” generally involve the mass killings of people belonging to a particular group.Selecting the black people in Africa for misery, disease, and death by deliberately depriving them of life-saving DDT, as described at www.jbs.org/node/1603, is, therefore, consistent with the ordinary definition.World energy rationing, by preventing the construction of refineries and atomic power plants, affects a much broader socioeconomic group. This group is pe...

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GREENVILLE, S.C. (AP) -- The 80-year-old father of indicted South Carolina Treasurer Thomas Ravenel will remain as Rudy Giuliani's regional chairman in the early voting state despite his son's legal difficulties.

The younger Ravenel, 44, was indicted last week on a federal cocaine charge and accused of buying less than 500 grams of the drug to share with other people, prosecutors said. Ravenel had been state chairman for Giuliani's South Carolina campaign. The day the indictment was made public, the campaign said he had left but did not release any details.

Ravenel's father, Arthur, told The Associated Press in an interview that his son has a drug problem.

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WASHINGTON - The nation - or at least a chunk of it - groaned last week as Hillary Rodham Clinton outsourced her official presidential campaign song to the Canadian Celine Dion (ooof, Celine Dion!). It's too late to help Hillary, but here are some suggested theme songs for the rest of the 2008 pack.

    Rudy Giuliani

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In an op-ed titled "Why Pro-Choice is a Bad Choice for Democrats," Ms. Henneberger, a former Times reporter who spent 18 months interviewing women in 20 states writes that most women--especially most Catholic women--who voted for Al Gore in 2000 but against John Kerry in 2004 did so because of President Bush's strong pro-life convictions, manifested in his promise (kept) to appoint "strict constructionist" judges to the Supreme Court. She points out, also, that in a recent New York Times/CBS pol...

Don't count Republicans out in 2008, Ms. Henneberger warns, as long as Democrats keep handing them the abortion issue--and a passel of votes.

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Curt and Christine Mann are renovating their Grant Park house to make it green to the nth degree. They're recycling wood, installing airtight foam insulation and solar lighting, and capturing gray water to flush toilets.

But what sets the Manns apart from other enviro-conscious families is their plan to install a device not seen in any other Atlanta neighborhood —- a 45-foot wind turbine.

When the turbine's three 6-foot blades spin, electricity will be generated to help power the home.

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