Report Says Iraq Problems Were Expected

WASHINGTON - Intelligence analysts predicted, in secret papers circulated within the government before the Iraq invasion, that al-Qaida would see U.S. military action as an opportunity to increase its operations and that Iran would try to shape a post-Saddam Iraq.

The top analysts in government also said that establishing a stable democracy in Iraq would be a "long, difficult and probably turbulent process."

Democrats said the newly declassified documents, part of a Senate Intelligence Committee investigation released Friday, make clear that the Bush administration was warned about the very challenges it now faces as it tries to stabilize Iraq.

"Sadly, the …

British FM: concern on Palestinan home demolitions

British Foreign Secretary David Miliband says his country is concerned over Israel's insistence to go ahead with its plans to demolish Palestinian homes in East Jerusalem.

In February, Israel has ordered the demolition of around 90 houses in the city's Palestinian eastern sector, saying they were built illegally. The issue is a highly …

Museum display marks Jewish life in Florida

MIAMI The history of Florida Jews has been compiled into anexhibit entitled "Mosaic, Jewish Life in Florida." It is on displayat Miami's Historical Museum of Southern Florida through Jan. 6. Thenit will travel the state for two years and head to Israel in 1993.

About 90 percent of Florida's 750,000 Jews live in the threesouth Florida counties of Palm Beach, Broward and Dade, making it theregion with the third largest population of Jews in the world, afterIsrael and the New York area.

The exhibit began as a grass-roots project for a Jewishcommunity center in Plantation, a sleepy suburban city west of FortLauderdale, and blossomed into a collection of thousands …

First lady targets world record for jumping jacks

WASHINGTON (AP) — Michelle Obama wants to jump into the Guinness World Records book next week by helping break the title for the most people doing jumping jacks in a 24-hour period.

The first lady will lead hundreds of local children in doing one minute of jumping jacks on the South Lawn on Tuesday.

The event will be reviewed by an official from …

Lightning sparks 800-plus fires in California

Fire crews joined aircraft from neighboring states Tuesday to battle hundreds of lightning-caused wildfires across Northern California.

One of the fires started by weekend thunderstorms had already blackened more than 10,000 acres _ nearly 16 square miles _ in a rural area of Lake County, about 120 miles north of San Francisco. No homes had been destroyed, but officials said voluntary evacuations were in place for residents of 36 homes.

Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger said he was told late Sunday evening that the state had 520 fires, and he found it "quite shocking" that by Monday morning the number had risen above 700.

Moments later, a top …

Wolves falter in playoff opener

Mighty Ducks 3

Wolves 2

The Wolves seemed to prefer a skate in the park to a fight in thealley Tuesday, losing 3-2 to the Cincinnati Mighty Ducks in Game 1 oftheir best-of-three AmericanHockey League playoff series at AllstateArena.

Derek MacKenzie gave the Wolves a 2-1 lead at 8:32 of the thirdperiod, but Antti-Jussi Niemi and Adam Edinger scored at 15:01 and16:52, respectively, to give the Mighty Ducks the victory. The Wolvesmust win Game 2 tonight to avoid elimination.

The Mighty Ducks' Travis Brigley went around defenseman DallasEakins to open the scoring at 6:44 of the first period, butdefenseman Kurtis Foster got it back for the Wolves at 4:43 …

Factors associated with maintenance of regular condom use among single heterosexual adults

ABSTRACT

Objective: The aims of this study were to describe behavioural and psychosocial characteristics of single heterosexuals towards regular condom use, and to identify factors associated with the maintenance of this behaviour over time.

Method: A cohort of 179 single heterosexual adults (83 men and 96 women, mean age: 32 years) was followed over a period of 2 years. The data were collected, by phone interviews, at baseline and 1 and 2 years later. The phone numbers were generated using a random digit strategy.

Results: The following changes were observed: over time fewer people were sexually active, but those who were, reported more often having had more than one …