News Source: abc13.com News Highlight: Flights are expected to resume on Sunday -- weather permitting. Here's a look: -- Continental Airlines tomorrow morning begins operating a reduced schedule from Houston, where it's based. Continental plans to cancel all of its George Bush Intercontinental Airport flights starting at noon tomorrow. All Continental Express flights from Houston are canceled tomorrow and Saturday. -- Dallas-based Southwest Airlines will discontinue scheduled flight service at Corpus Christi, Houston's Hobby Airport and New Orleans at noon tomorrow. -- Fort Worth-based American Airlines has canceled its flights in and out of Houston's Hobby Airport. URL of the news item: http://abclocal.go.com/ktrk/story?section=hurricanes&id=3468331 Read more

News Source: Houston Chronicle News Highlight: Sixteen hours to San Antonio and Dallas. Eleven hours to Austin. With over a million people trying to flee vulnerable parts of the Houston area, Hurricane Rita will be a nightmare even if Galveston doesn't take a direct hit. . Trying to leave Houston on I-10, Ella Corder drove 15 hours to go just 13 miles today. Noticing cars out of gas littering the freeway, she turned off her air-conditioner to save fuel, but the 52-year-old heart patient worried the heat and exhaustion were taking a toll on her. "All I want to do is go home," she said tearfully by cell phone. "Can't anyone get me out of here? " URL of the news item: http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/ssistory.mpl/topstory/3364562 Read more

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Hurricane Rita is scheduled to hit Houston and Galveston soon.. landfall is on Friday. This storm is picking up speed and it has gotten to 175 mph!! At that rate it can blow anything in its path!!! SO we are evacuating. Rita path map Five Day Forecast Map If everything goes well I will get back online as it goes on. Read more

News Source: Times of India News Highlight: India is planning to launch 10 to 12 communication satellites in the next four years with an investment of over Rs 3,000 crore, Chairman of Indian Space Research Organisation G Madhavan Nair said today. "We are planning in ISRO to orbit another 10 to 12 communications satellites into GSO (Geo-stationary orbit) in the next four years. These satellites will increase our onorbit transponder capacity...", he said inaugurating a Satellite Users' Interference Reduction Group 2005 Meeting/Interference Conference. India's INSAT system today consists of eight operational satellites and 144 total communication transponders in C, extended C, Ku, and S frequency bands. The 10 to 12 planned launches are expected to add an additional 100 to 120 transponders. URL of the news item: http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow/1236632.cms?headline=ISRO~vision:~Rs~3000~cr,~12~satellites,~4~yrs Read more

I'm as pure as the driven slush. - Tallulah Bankhead The danger is not that a particular class is unfit to govern. Every class is unfit to govern. - Lord Acton I am patient with stupidity but not with those who are proud of it. - Edith Sitwell The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents. - HP Lovecraft When I woke up this morning my girlfriend asked me, 'Did you sleep good?' I said 'No, I made a few mistakes.' - Steven Wright Read more

News Source: Times, UK News Highlight: The argument over Iran's nuclear ambitions deteriorated today as Iranian negotiators threatened to restart uranium enrichment and accused the West of trying to humiliate them. Under pressure from Britain, France and Germany, who today recommended that Iran should be reported to the United Nations Security Council for the aggressive development of its nuclear programme, Iran said it would not give in to force. "If we are sent to the UN Security Council, we will review our stance on the additional protocol and will not hesitate to resume uranium enrichment," said Ali Larijani, Iran’s chief nuclear negotiator. URL of the news item: http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,3-1789567,00.html Read more

This is another story on Netaji's disappearance and how the KGB spy-Congress controversy is linked! The controversy surrounding the mysterious disppearance of Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose in August 1945 has taken a new twist with the ex-KGB archivist Vasili Mitrokhin’s explosive findings, published in The Mitrokhin Archive: The KGB and the World. A key deponent of the Mukherjee Commission, Purabi Roy, who took off for Moscow on Monday night, claimed that Mitrokhin knew about Bose’s Russia link and had helped her locate classified information on him. Read more