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    NEW YORK (Reuters) - Men who harass women with cat calls and sexual comments are actually harming their whole gender, a study has found.


  • Library book is returned -- 45 years late
    LONDON (Reuters) - Staff at the Dinnington library are used to people bringing books back late but the package they received last month was in a class of its own.


  • Citizens told to brush up on etiquette
    NEW DELHI (Reuters) - India has compiled a list of do's and don'ts for its citizens at this year's Commonwealth Games to help showcase New Delhi's charms.


  • For sale: Nice little runabout fit for a queen
    LONDON (Reuters) - At first sight it seems just another second-hand luxury car for sale but this Jaguar included some special extras in its day such as emergency convoy lights and a direct radio link to the British Prime Minister.


  • Sex shop must pay full tax rate
    BRUSSELS (Reuters) - European judges have ruled that a sex shop with movie cubicles does not qualify for a reduced rate of sales tax because it is not a cinema.


  • Town planning Luddite anniversary
    HUDDERSFIELD, England (Reuters) - The people of Huddersfield are rising up again, but this time it's to celebrate the city's 19th century local weavers rather than smash modern technology.


  • Drive a Porsche? Up your status with a phone
    SINGAPORE (Reuters) - As if a Porsche isn't enough of a status symbol, the German luxury sports car company's subsidiary, Porsche Design, is marketing a mobile phone that's exclusive to Porsche owners.


  • Airline crew face jail over sexy texts
    DUBAI (Reuters) - Two Emirates airlines cabin crew have been ordered jailed for three months in Dubai over sexually explicit text messages, the latest in a string of indecency cases against foreigners, a newspaper reported Wednesday.


  • Top private school in poison soup mystery
    LONDON (Reuters) - An investigation has begun at one of Britain's most prestigious private schools after a member of staff was arrested on suspicion of trying to poison the pupils' soup, police said on Wednesday.


  • Love in a cold climate lethal for couple
    MOSCOW (Reuters) - A Russian couple having sex in a car parked in a tiny garage have died from carbon monoxide poisoning, Interfax news agency reported on Tuesday.

Bill Tracker

H.R. 1584: Flexibility in Rebuilding American Fisheries Act of 2009 has been introduced and has been sent to the House Committee on Natural Resources . A similar version of this bill has died in committee the past two years. Please do not let this happen this year. This bill proposes nothing more than a common sense approach to fishery regulation that should have been in the re-authorized Magnuson-Stevens Act from the beginning and will help provide some desperately needed relief for beleaguered commercial fisheries and fishermen.

Help bring this to the attention of your Congressmen and Senators.  They don't use email so you will have to go to the websites of your Congressman and our two Senators (or your own if you aren't in Florida).  The Florida Delegation's contact links and an example message you can copy and paste into the message box on their website are here.

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