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The article reflects on the political campaigns of Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama for the 2008 presidential election in the U.S. It states that both politicians are anxious for the endorsement of Rev. Herman Bing, pastor of the red-brick Carpentersville Baptist Church in North Augusta, South Carolina. The author views on the campaigns made by the politicians.

The article offers information on Rudy Giuliani, former Mayor of New York City and Republican presidential candidate in the 2008 U.S. Presidential Elections. It reveals that Giuliani is as composite and certainly as enthusiastic as the functional Giuliani who comes out on cop rallies. It states that Giuliani grew up with no wealth and power, and his upbringing has given him the appreciation for the darker elements of the soul.

The article focuses on the plans of the U.S. administration for the reconstruction of infrastructure damaged by Hurricane Katrina. U.S. President George W. Bush has pledged to rebuild the infrastructure, give stipends and vouchers to victims of the natural disaster, fortify New Orleans against Katrina-level hurricanes, and lift the economic level of African Americans. According to one estimate, the whole effort will take at least $200 million. White House officials insisted that the overall federal budget can withstand the relief effort.

The article reports on the United States government's inability to respond to catastrophes like Hurricane Katrina. The bad news on August 30, 2005, some 24 hours after Hurricane Katrina had ripped through New Orleans, Louisiana, was that the President would have to cut short his five-week vacation by a couple of days and return to Washington. President George W. Bush knew the storm and its consequences had been bad; but he didn't quite realize how bad. The government's response to Katrina was a failure of imagination.

The article focuses on the preparations made by John Kerry, Massachusetts' Senator and the U.S. presidential elections candidate, to compete with the current President of the U.S., George W. Bush, in the upcoming elections. The campaign day at Iowa had been a good one for Kerry, as the campaign trail had paid off in a come-from-behind victory. Now, post Iowa, Kerry had roared to the lead in the New Hampshire tracking polls, but the results were by no means set. The question that can Kerry make it happen in this elections is quite urgent to Democrats, who yearns to unseat Bush with an apocalyptic fervors that makes one word, "electability."

Know thine enemy is a cardinal rule of war. Ignorance was costly for American soldiers fighting guerrillas in Vietnam. Before plunging into Iraq, U.S. psychological-warfare operators studied certain cultural stereotypes. One was that young Arab toughs cannot tolerate insults to their manhood. So, as American armored columns pushed down the road to Baghdad, 400-watt loudspeakers mounted on Humvees would, from time to time, blare out in Arabic that Iraqi men are impotent. The Fedayeen, the fierce but undisciplined and untrained Iraqi irregulars, could not bear to be taunted. INSET: An Iraqi Grunt's Escape.

This article focuses on the weapons used in the war between Iraq and the U.S. led coalition forces in 2003. In the first gulf war, score card of U.S. tanks Abrams against Russian-built Iraqi tanks was, approximately measured, 1,245 to zero. But like a great mythic warrior, the Abrams has an Achilles' heel. So far in Operation Iraqi Freedom, the American military has lost two Abrams tanks. Two is not a large number, and the Coalition forces have at least 650 tanks in Iraq with more on the way. But U.S. officials are worried about the skill or at least the fanaticism of the guerrilla fighters who sneaked up on the tanks driving a jeep, under cover of a sandstorm. More worrisome are the type and the source of the weapon apparently employed, a Russian-made Kornet antitank missile. The Iraqis have secretly bought as many as a thousand ofthese lightweight, very powerful, easy-to-use weapons. INSETS: The Sand and the Fury;Who Do You Trust?;'Now We Have America';More Than Toy Soldiers

Reports on the kidnapping of The Wall Street Journal reported Daniel Pearl in New Delhi, India. Description of the suspect Ahmed Omar Sheikh; Detention of the relatives of Sheikh; Relationship of suspect with victims.

The article presents information related to the violent behavior shown by Lisa Marie Nowak, NASA astronaut, toward her romantic rival Colleen Shipman, U.S. Air Force captain. She was arrested for allegedly attacking Shipman, who had a relationship with an astronaut William Oefetein. Nowak had developed a relationship with Oefetein after she separated from her husband of 19 years. James Hollis, psychoanalyst at the Jung Educational Center of Houston, considers it a case of obsessive love.

The article presents information on speculations regarding Cuban ruler Fidel Castro's health and explores the possibility of democratic government in Cuba. A bipartisan team of Cuban-American lawmakers held a meeting recently to swap ideas about fostering democracy in Cuba. In a bid to allow Cuban-Americans to join their relatives and perhaps spread democratic ideas in Cuba, the U.S. government is pondering over lifting restrictions on travel to Cuba.

The article informs that supremely athletic and intensely competitive, modern cheerleading is far more dangerous than it was in the days of pompoms and megaphones. A year-round pursuit whose popularity has grown thanks to an influx of gymnasts seeking greater exposure, it has evolved so quickly that the regulatory bodies in charge of preventing sports injuries have struggled to keep up. The numbers tell the tale: emergency-room visits for cheerleading injuries--often fractures, dislocations and sprains--jumped from 15,700 in 1994 to 28,400 in 2004.

The article focuses on how the policemen are coping with the high cost of policing in a media-frenzied age. At Lakewood Baptist Church in Gainesville, Georgia, Pastor Tom Smiley delivered a statement from Jennifer Wilbanks, the runaway bride whose disappearance triggered a massive search effort and media frenzy before she surfaced in New Mexico with a concocted tale of abduction. There, behind the granite walls that now house police headquarters, authorities were calculating the cost of Wilbanks's misdeed.

To be successful Opposition's guy"— an opposition researcher for a presidential candidate— one needs to know how to play defense as well as offense. In the Democrats' increasingly vicious race, Chris Lehane, Wesley Clark's opposition guy, is state of the art, a Harvard Law School alum with a sharp mind and tongue. He's spent months in attack mode, serving as a one-man tip sheet for reporters examining the shortcomings of Howard Dean, especially the former Vermont governor's refusal to release all of his official records. Preparing for close scrutiny of his man in New Hampshire, where a tight race was shaping up, Lehane opened a" reading room" in Manchester and packed it with stacks of the retired general's military, tax and lobbying records.

The article focuses on the developments related to mayoral elections in New Orleans, Louisiana. The candidates participating in the election includes Ray Nagin, Mitch Landrieu and businessman Ron Forman. Most of the candidates are struggling with questionable polling data and out-of-date voter lists. Nagin, who's intensely courting African-American voters, has opted to run advertisements on inexpensive black radio stations throughout the South. To track down voters, candidates are trolling for any data they can get their hands on. For voters living outside New Orleans, the state has loosened requirements for absentee voting and set up satellite polling stations in 10 Louisiana parishes for early voting.

The article focuses on the relocation of laborers in the post scenario of Hurricane Katrina. Before Katrina, according to the 2000 Census, New Orleans was just 3 percent Hispanic and 67 percent African-American. After evacuating en masse, however, many blacks may have left for good. According to one survey of emergency shelters in Houston, 44 percent of respondents, who were almost uniformly black, had no plans to return. The potential outcome of these dual migrations: a much more Latin New Orleans.

This article focuses on Asian flu. Last September, Meridian Bioscience Inc., a medical company, began sending out more than 3,700 virus-test kits to labs throughout the United States and 18 other countries, all part of a routine quality-assurance program to ensure that such facilities are accurately identifying biological agents. The problem is that the kits included a deadly flu strain that had killed more than 1 million people in the 1957 Asian flu pandemic. The company's lapse raised the alarming prospect of a new epidemic. The kits reached such terrorist havens as Saudi Arabia and Lebanon.

This article focuses on the outbreak of Marburg hemorrhagic fever in Angola. As of two weeks ago, the outbreak had killed 239 people out of 266 reported cases. In response, medical teams from across the globe have rushed in to try to contain the epidemic. But they confront a maddening array of obstacles, from the clinical to the cultural. The Marburg virus is highly contagious and attacks quickly and ferociously, destroying organs and often causing victims to bleed out of their eyes, genitals and other orifices. Researchers still aren't sure where the virus hides between outbreaks.

The article reports on the kidnap of employees of Quartermaster Ltd. stationed in Iraq by armed guards. All had refused to go on a dangerous mission to deliver jet fuel. Fuel trucks are large, slow targets for insurgents, who regularly hit convoys with gunfire and roadside bombs. Troops accompanying the tankers often sit in unarmored, open-bed trucks, making them easy targets themselves. The troops made it to the base unharmed, but there was a problem. The fuel was rejected when tests showed it had been contaminated.

Fresh from overwhelming the enemy in Iraq with high-tech gadgetry, US commandos got a glimpse of the next generation of gizmos in the last week of May 2003. During Special Operations Forces Week, 400 vendors peddled their wares in Tampa, Florida. Several Take the Galileo, a compact 150kg tank-like robot that can creep into hostile settings equipped with arms and surveillance cameras. With the Pentagon requesting a boost in the SOF procurement budget from $US862m as of 2003 to $US1.9bn in 2004, commandos may well get their hands on such gear in time for their next missions.

Looks into the hatred of the families of the victims of September 11 terrorist attacks towards the government in the U.S. Distraction from the healing process among the families of the victims during the revelation; Admission that the administration had vague warnings of the attack; Experience of the Clark family on the tragedy.

Presents the work of 'Laura en America' television show host Laura Bozzo in the United States. Concerns and fashion of Bozzo; Discussion on works and shows; Type of audiences; Certainties of the host on the show.