A hose nozzle sticking out a rear window of one vehicle raised cautions; they found a commercial sprayer that presumably had been used to disperse a fake biological agent.Officials also rolled in a bomb-squad robot with a mounted video camera to allow investigators to peer inside the suspect vehicle from a safe distance.Doctors tried to connect the incident to a patient who had been admitted to a hospital with "flu-like symptoms." More "victims" of the supposed biological attack headed to emergency rooms, and state health officials started zeroing in on pneumonic plague as the likely cause.In Connecticut, federal officials staged a mock chemical weapons explosion on the New London waterfront. And a bevy of detox products exists too, on natural health-store shelves: Liver Detox, Detox Cleanse, First-time Cleanse, bentonite clay and psyllium husks, to name a few.In fact, cleansing and organ supplements (largely consisting of herbal-based cleanse and detox kits) make up the fastest growing segment within the herbal formulas category, says David Browne of SPINS, a market research and consulting firm for the natural products industry. They paid $131,950 to build the shell of another vessel that would be blown up on-screen The four boats were later resold for $803,049. Kurdish leaders want the constitution to ratify and strengthen that autonomy by creating a federal system with strong regional governments entitled to a proportion of regionally derived oil income.Most Shiite leaders, whose people suffered brutal repression under Hussein, say it is only fair for them to get the same autonomy as the Kurds so they can create a comparable region in the south.Sunnis strongly oppose such an arrangement. The agreement saved roughly $179 million in the current fiscal year. Some do."Leipheimer, who has finished three times in the top 10 of the Tour de France and is a favorite to succeed Floyd Landis as the winner of the Tour of California when it ends Sunday in Long Beach, is trying to make a pitch for his more accomplished outfit.The top United States-based team is scrambling to find new sponsorship after receiving the news two weeks ago that Discovery Channel will not renew its contract after the 2007 season."I've always said I wanted to win this race," Leipheimer said. His, after all, is a perfect movie story: a combination of epic tragedy and personal triumph, complete with an odds-defying ending.

Don't go there.Fans told me, if you must watch a Dodger game from the stands this season, watch it from the reserved level with the die-hards, watch it from the pavilion with the trembling Giant jerseys, or just stay in the bathroom listening to Vinnie.But do not -- do not! -- watch it from Aisle 30, Row FF.The row that Frank forgot.No-batters' land."Great location, pretty section, it looks like a great seat," longtime season-ticket holder Phil Sperling said. But ballistics tests found that her gun had not been fired, and an examination of her body found at least two bullet wounds from a .22-caliber gun.Authorities now say that one or more assailants approached her -- perhaps when her back was turned."It was a coldblooded killing. 9 quoted a neighbor as saying: "I think the firemen were doing their job, but if that was my house, I would have expected so much more. His "Ambidextrous Universe," about nature's mirror imagery in physics and biology, is a textbook of lucid science writing.

"We have positioned ourselves as a place to provide services."Costa Rica's talent also is on display in its software industry, which consists almost entirely of homegrown firms. People are tailgating and banging "thunder stick" noisemakers in excitement during the games."It's like the good old days, when the place was rocking and rolling," Kulik said. The proceeds would go toward a rebate for consumers.Frist said he wanted executives to explain why prices were high when the companies were enjoying record profits. In re-creating that Bauhaus sound of old, the secret for guitarist Daniel Ash is loud and clear."I still use the same old amps ... There are tract homes as well as newer custom homes, some of which are near the private Lomas Santa Fe Country Club.Prices, as in much of Southern California, have gone up dramatically Gina Marsaglia, owner of Pizza Port Brewing Co. He cited the convergence of computing, communications and digital entertainment.The company said third-quarter net income rose to $132.7 million, or 35 cents a share; that compared with $43.9 million, or 13 cents, a year earlier, when legal costs depressed results.

Carmel is a relative pauper in this regard, since its tiny downtown all but closes down at nightfall."People who buy original art tend to be fairly affluent," said Paul Menter, Aspen's finance director. She traces the shapes onto transparent paper and notes the location and date each stain was found.Back in her studio, Calame arranges the tracings into what she calls "constellations" of stains. Consulate in Tijuana.Arrested with Rivera was Sinai Higuera, police said Davis said Higuera was a U.S. "It's like you can just hang out and get a conversation going."Mary, a 19-year-old sitting at a sidewalk table with four friends, says, "This is our first time here, but we've been hookah-ing before. Secular, rationalist approaches to problem-solving emphasize uncertainty, evidence and perpetual reevaluation.

Nicolas Sarkozy, the brash son of a Hungarian immigrant, has slowly burrowed his way into France's closed political elite to become the candidate of the center-right. I'm not saying a year to win it all, but I really felt like we were the best equipped team to make a strong run And we did. This is your sanctuary where you go at the end of the day to get away from the rat race."Karim and his family rent a two-bedroom house in Chino Hills for $2,000 a month while they await resolution of the lawsuit. Caltrans crews will temporarily close stretches of Orange County's toll road system this weekend to complete resurfacing work on roadways damaged by the winter rainstorms and lingering complications from the project's construction.The repairs, costing $2.3 million, began before Memorial Day on large sections of the Eastern and Foothill toll roads and a smaller section of the San Joaquin toll road."The geology of the area and the drainage along the toll road system cause this type of swelling on the pavement," said Caltrans spokeswoman Pam Gorniak. Each act of Wagner's opera, semi-staged by Sellars, backed up by Viola's searing large-screen video imagery and Salonen's incendiary conducting, presented a radical reimagining of Wagner, once known as the composer of the future, for the future."Tristan" was given then, as it was last week, over three days, an act at a time.