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Judge Samuel A. Alito Jr., President Bush's Supreme Court nominee, wrote that "the Constitution does not protect a right to an abortion" in a 1985 document obtained by The Washington Times. http://www.worthynews.com/zone.cgi?http://...14-015136-2101r

Foreign investors will likely tire of bankrolling the bloated U.S. trade deficit but the economy's flexibility should help temper any fallout, Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan said Monday. http://www.worthynews.com/zone.cgi?http://...,175508,00.html

Mexico said it will withdraw its ambassador and sever diplomatic ties with Venezuela if that country's president doesn't apologize Monday for warning Mexican leader Vicente Fox: "Don't mess with me." http://www.worthynews.com/zone.cgi?http://...,175488,00.html

When it comes to bad manners, today's society is pretty much a hopeless case, author Lynn Truss says. http://www.worthyweirdandwacky.com/zone/re...ANNERS-DC-html/

Motorist Robert Brooks thought he hit a deer. That is, until he got out of his car and the deer hit him http://www.worthyweirdandwacky.com/zone/re..._Hits_Man-html/

A tiny parcel of land in southwest Indiana is some of the priciest real estate in the world. Owen County officials are trying to sell a 1-square-inch plot of land for ,500. At that rate, an acre of land would cost nearly billion. http://www.worthyweirdandwacky.com/zone/ne...orld-headlines/

When it comes to bad manners, today's society is pretty much a hopeless case, author Lynn Truss says. http://www.worthyweirdandwacky.com/zone/re...ANNERS-DC-html/

rocter & Gamble Co. is looking into a report that an Iowa woman found a dead turtle in a package of its Folgers coffee, the company said on Friday. http://www.worthyweirdandwacky.com/zone/re...RTLE-1-DC-html/

nuppy, the first cloned dog, is the most amazing invention of 2005, Time magazine said on Sunday. http://www.worthyweirdandwacky.com/zone/re...CE-DOG-DC-html/

A stunned Italian actor had to stub out the cigarette he had lit up on stage after a spectator complained, forcing the theater to change the script of an Arthur Miller play to make it smoke-free. http://www.worthyweirdandwacky.com/zone/re...-SMOKE-DC-html/

The teen who grabbed the national spotlight this week by becoming mayor-elect of Hillsdale, Michigan, after a write-in campaign didn't win by much. http://www.worthyweirdandwacky.com/zone/ar...00010000000001/

Motorist Robert Brooks thought he hit a deer. That is, until he got out of his car and the deer hit him http://www.worthyweirdandwacky.com/zone/re..._Hits_Man-html/

An Auckland adventurer wants overweight people to have liposuction so he can turn their fat into biofuel to power his boat around the globe. http://www.worthyweirdandwacky.com/zone/ne...199307,00-html/

A tiny parcel of land in southwest Indiana is some of the priciest real estate in the world. Owen County officials are trying to sell a 1-square-inch plot of land for ,500. At that rate, an acre of land would cost nearly billion. http://www.worthyweirdandwacky.com/zone/ne...orld-headlines/

A court sentenced a teacher to 40 months in prison and 750 lashes for "mocking religion" after he discussed the Bible and praised Jews, a Saudi newspaper reported yesterday. http://www.worthynews.com/zone.cgi?http://...14-015138-3548r

Hamas militants vowed revenge on Monday after Israel Defense Forces troops shot dead the group's top commander in the northern West Bank. http://www.worthynews.com/zone.cgi?http://...ges/645188.html

U.S. and Iraqi troops trying to stem the flow of insurgent fighters across the Syrian border launched a dawn assault Monday on another border town, killing a reported 37 insurgents. http://www.worthynews.com/zone.cgi?http://...rint?id=1309735

US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice plunged into a fresh round of Middle East diplomacy, seeking to revive Israeli-Palestinian peace efforts bogged down two months after Israel's pullout from Gaza. http://www.worthynews.com/zone.cgi?http://...deast&printer=1

The violence in France's poor, suburban communities persisted in the south Sunday with attackers ramming burning cars into the sides of a retirement home and a school in one southern town. But nationwide the unrest of the past 18 nights continued to subside. http://www.worthynews.com/zone.cgi?http://...1300540_pf.html

In mid-July, senior American intelligence officials called the leaders of the international atomic inspection agency to the top of a skyscraper overlooking the Danube in Vienna and unveiled the contents of what they said was a stolen Iranian laptop computer. http://www.worthynews.com/zone.cgi?http://...1858000&partner

IDF forces directed dozens of artillery shells at the northern Gaza Strip late Sunday and early Monday in response to the firing of a mortar shell in the direction of Gaza’s Karni crossing. http://www.worthynews.com/zone.cgi?http://...3168733,00.html

Most Labor ministers said Sunday morning that the party's departure from the government was a 'done deal' but noted that the official decision to leave the government should be taken by party institutions. Some said that the path that Peretz adopted was too impulsive, and added that parting from the Likud should be done in 'good spirits'. http://www.worthynews.com/zone.cgi?http://...ticle%2FPrinter

U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice arrived in Israel on Sunday declaring a Palestinian state would enhance the Jewish state's security. http://www.worthynews.com/zone.cgi?http://...3168623,00.html

Amir Peretz constitutes a “genuine danger to Israel’s society and economy,” former Finance Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said, as he unleashed a scathing attack on the newly elected Labor party chairman. http://www.worthynews.com/zone.cgi?http://...3168706,00.html

In a television interview to be broadcast in Britain on Sunday, Iraq President Jalal Talabani said no Iraqis wanted foreign troops to remain indefinitely in their country, adding that homegrown troops should be ready to take over from British forces in the southern provinces around Basra by the end of next year. http://www.worthynews.com/zone.cgi?http://...ble541815.shtml