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To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (78458)	9/19/2006 11:23:18 PM
From: Hope Praytochange	Respond to of 173976

September 20, 2006: kennyboy bites his tongue Hurricane Weakens By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Hurricane Gordon weakened as it sped toward the Azores islands, and Hurricane Helene was expected to stay at sea, forecasters said. Hurricane Gordon was downgraded to a Category 1 storm with top sustained winds near 85 miles an hour, the National Hurricane Center in Miami said. It was centered 375 miles west of Terceira in the Azores and moving east. Hurricane Helene had top sustained winds near 115 m.p.h., with strengthening expected.

To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (78458)	9/20/2006 12:05:47 AM
From: puborectalis	Respond to of 173976

Looking forward to 2008,Ted Turner expressed his hope that the next U.S. President would be a "great leader who thinks ahead, like Al Gore." He suggested the audience help convince Gore to run because "we can't afford to waste another eight years." Turner also expressed his dismay at the situation in Iraq, saying that the U.S. had done "incalculable" damage over the past three years. "[The decision to invade Iraq] will go down in history -- it already is going down in history -- as one of the dumbest moves that was ever made by anybody," Turner said, citing the Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor and the German invasion of Russia during the Second World War as other "dumb" moves. "We lost so much," he said of the U.S. invasion. "It literally broke my heart, it was so dumb. ... If you started wars with everyone you don't like, well good God, we would all be at war with everybody." Turner said that, even in such a world, he wouldn't be at war with anyone -- even Rupert Murdoch: "I'd fight [Murdoch] in the ring, with gloves on, but I wouldn't bomb News Corp." As for women: "If we had women holding all the public offices, the amount of money on the military would be immediately cut way back and more would be spent on healthcare and education," Turner said. "There wouldn't be lack of family planning or birth control if the women ran things." Apart from the talk, Turner also joined billionaire investor Warren Buffett and former U.S. Senator Sam Nunn Tuesday in a new initiative which will give $50 million to the UN's nuclear watchdog agency to create a uranium stockpile. The project is hoping to dissuade countries around the world from developing nuclear programs by providing supplies of low-grade fuel to be used at nuclear power plants.