Multiple Posts - All-in-one

Killing a couple birds with one stone tonight:

Once again, the US is 200 years ahead of the rest of the world:

Parker Bowles in Line to Become Queen

By ROBERT BARR
LONDON (AP) - Camilla Parker Bowles can become queen after all, despite earlier statements by Prince Charles that she will take a lesser title after marrying him, the government said Monday.
(snip) legislation would be required to deny Parker Bowles the title of queen. Similar legislation apparently would be required in more than a dozen countries - such as Australia, Jamaica and Canada - in which the British sovereign is the head of state. (Medic's note to Australia, Jamaica and Canada - July 4, 1776)

You Can Thank Bill Clinton for this, too!

Study: Abstinence Pledgers May Risk STDs

The latest study, published in the April issue of the Journal of Adolescent Health, found that teens pledging virginity until marriage are more likely to have oral and anal sex than other teens who have not had intercourse.


Shades of the Future?:
Asians, Iraqis Get Hi-Tech, Recycled Water

By JEFFREY McMURRAY
WASHINGTON (AP) - There are plenty of wells in Iraq, but the dead animals dumped there when Saddam Hussein was in power have contaminated them. There are plenty of streams in southeast Asia, but the recent tsunami polluted them with salt from the ocean.

The Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala., has been testing a device intended for the space station that would recycle astronauts' sweat, respiration and even urine into drinking water purer than any found in a tap.

Kinda sounds like the stillsuits in the movie "Dune!"

I'm sure somewhere, al-Qaeda will find a way to 'demonize' yet ANOTHER American effort to help the world.