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EXTRA!EXTRA! READ ALL ABOUT IT!
A friend of mine just sent me this link and it is SO COOL! This link is a map with today's newspaper's front pages. But there is so much more on this site. Check it out!
(NEWSEUM: The interactive Museum of News, unearthed by Drew Walch)

TORTURED TV
Human Rights First has mounted a campaign to challenge a growing and troublesome trend: TV shows like "24," "Lost" and "Law and Order" often depict torture as an effective and even heroic tool for interrogating suspects. The impact is far from fictional: U.S. soldiers, under pressure to get information but confronted with conflicting rules of interrogation, have imitated the gruesome techniques they see on TV.

HERE'S WHAT THEY'RE DOING:

Human Rights First has arranged a series of meetings for the Dean of West Point and three seasoned Army and FBI interrogators with prominent TV producers and writers.

The Executive Producer of "24" recently announced that the show would "tone down" its use of torture. And the star of the show, Kiefer Sutherland, said that he would work with the Army to train soldiers.

They are in production on a training film that shows, through TV clips and interviews with experienced interrogators, that the methods you see on TV would not work in the field.

PLEASE CONSIDER GOING TO THEIR SITE AND MAKING A DONATION TO THIS CAMPAIGN

American Journeys in Mobile, Ala. - Travel - New York Times

AZALEA TRAIL FEATURE STORY
WHEN thousands of athletes from around the world pull on their running shoes in Mobile, Ala., tomorrow and set out through the streets in the 10-kilometer Azalea Trail Run, they will race past antebellum mansions, ornate old commercial buildings, majestic churches and storefronts topped by lacy cast-iron balconies and grillwork. The run, now in its 30th year, is timed for late March to coincide with the bloom of azaleas and dogwood, one of the prettiest seasons in Mobile, an easygoing port town spread along the banks of the Mobile River and bell-shaped Mobile Bay.
(NYT, unearthed by Marsh Acker)

Daily Kos: Republicans fail to learn the Vote Vets lesson; still voting to kill troops

VOTE ON TROOP ARMOUR SUBJECT OF BLOG EXPERIMENT
You want proof that we're living in a changing world? The blogs DailyKos and KagroX wrote a post about Republican "Troop-Killers". They are attacking a recent vote by GOP members of the House Appropriations Committee (which includes Alabama's Robert Aderholt) unanimously opposing a requirement that the troops sent to Iraq be properly protected with armor. (Check out the YouTube video on this link.) Here's the twist. As a way to continue to push this story and trying to hold Aderholt and company accountable for this vote they have proposed a coordinated day of action that runs primarily through local blogs like this one.