Dick Cheney thinks it's awful that the press keeps reporting on the Administration's illegal activities

Federal investigators gained access to reams of personal banking information without court approval by issuing broad administrative subpoenas, a legal tool historically associated with far less sensitive regulatory probes and one that privacy advocates say has been abused in the U.S. counterterrorism campaign.

The Bush administration insisted yesterday that the secret program, which has tracked millions of financial transactions since shortly after the Sept. 11 attacks, has proved invaluable in blocking funding to terrorist networks. Treasury Secretary John W. Snow called the program "government at its best," while Vice President Dick Cheney criticized the news reports that disclosed its existence.

But new details about the program, which followed recent disclosures about warrantless wiretaps and the possible collection of phone records on millions of Americans, touched off fresh criticism of the administration's efforts to expand counterterrorism powers.

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Real men would rather do backflips through the Queen Street mall while naked than be seen in a pair of pyjamas. Pyjamas are the retreat of the cardigan wearer, the slumberwear equivalent of short-sleeved business shirts from Target.

I have received several pairs of pyjamas as gifts from various well-meaning persons and all remain in a bottom drawer in preparation for my Great Pyjama and Undie Sale. When I decide to stage this event, interested parties will receive sufficient notice to allow them to save adequate funds to purchase a pair of unused O'Connor PJs.

When I was a teenager, I read that Marilyn Monroe slept naked. This revelation was deeply disturbing and had an adverse effect on my own sleep patterns for several years. I trace my distaste for sleepwear back to this time. In my sadly unhinged mind, I imagined that if I slept naked, then one night I would leap into bed and there, carmen lips pursed in anticipation of a night of sensual excess, would lie Marilyn.

It will come as no great surprise to readers that this never occurred. Still, displaying more optimism than is healthy, I have persevered with my pyjama embargo over the decades, Marilyn being replaced at varying intervals by more contemporary sex goddesses, all of whom have showed a similar disinclination to materialise in my bed.

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Rambler jailed after plane strip

Naked rambler Stephen Gough has been jailed for four months after stripping off on a passenger plane.
The 47-year-old was found guilty of charges of breach of the peace and public indecency on a flight from Southampton to Edinburgh.

Edinburgh Sheriff Court heard how the ex-marine spent 20 minutes in the plane's toilet before emerging with only his socks and hiking boots on.

Gough, from Eastleigh, Hampshire, had denied the charges.

The former marine, who has been in trouble with the law on numerous occasions because of his insistence on walking naked across Britain, had been travelling to an appeal court appearance to challenge a contempt of court ruling.

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Teacher fired over nude photos

Austin High art teacher Tamara Hoover can explain, without a hint of shame, how she went from award-winning teacher to scandal of the week in the click of a shutter. The story begins with a heartfelt declaration. "I'm an artist, and I collaborate with other artists," she says. "That's how I want to live my life."

That's why it was business as usual when photographer Celesta Danger, her girlfriend, pulled her out of the bedroom with nothing on but knee-high striped socks, and thrust her into a brightly-lit studio with several partially dressed and nude models. "I like to capture life as its happening," says Danger. "She had just gotten out of the shower, and had put on her socks before the rest of her clothes. It was not premeditated at all."

Hoover and friends are captured dancing chorus line-style. Her striped socks fly high, and a quartet of pink shadows skip across the wall. Click. Hoover laughs and jostles with a nude male model, her butt pressed against him in a flirty jest. Click. Candlelight paints the room red. Danger kisses Hoover as she leans back onto a bed. She's now wearing a spiked dog collar and no socks at all.

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Pelicans' behavior blamed on acid

The driver was sober. The bird he hit may have been under the influence.

A California brown pelican flew through the windshield of a car on the Pacific Coast Highway on Thursday, and wildlife officials said the bird was probably intoxicated by a chemical in the water, according to a report in the Los Angeles Times.

Though toxicology tests take several weeks, the odd bird behavior was likely the result of poisoning from domoic acid, which has been found in the ocean in the area, Lisa Birkle, assistant wildlife director at the Wetlands and Wildlife Care Center in Huntington Beach, told the Times.

Birds can be poisoned through eating algae tainted by the acid.

The driver was not hurt. The pelican needed surgery for a broken foot, and also had a gash on its pouch.

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Message in a Bottle Found 10 Years Later

A Wisconsin man has received an unexpected message from a deceased friend -- in a bottle floating in a lake.

Steve Lieder was chatting with friends near White Lake when he looked down and saw a bottle. They broke it open and found a note. Lieder was amazed to find it was written eleven years ago by one of his closest friends, who died last year.

Joshua Baker was ten years old when he wrote the message for a school project, stuck it in a bottle and tossed it in the lake.

The note reads: "My name is Josh Baker. I am 10. If you find this, put it on the news. The date is 4/16/95."

Baker died last year in a traffic accident in California. His mother says he had recently returned home after serving in the Marines in the Middle East. She plans to display the note in her home.

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Bank Data Secretly Reviewed by U.S. to Fight Terror

Under a secret Bush administration program initiated weeks after the Sept. 11 attacks, counterterrorism officials have gained access to financial records from a vast international database and examined banking transactions involving thousands of Americans and others in the United States, according to government and industry officials. The program is limited, government officials say, to tracing transactions of people suspected of ties to Al Qaeda by reviewing records from the nerve center of the global banking industry, a Belgian cooperative that routes about $6 trillion daily between banks, brokerages, stock exchanges and other institutions. The records mostly involve wire transfers and other methods of moving money overseas or into and out of the United States. Most routine financial transactions confined to this country are not in the database.

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Cameroon girls battle 'breast ironing'

A nationwide campaign is under way in Cameroon to discourage the widespread practice of "breast ironing".

This involves pounding and massaging the developing breasts of young girls with hot objects to try to make them disappear.

Statistics show that 26% of Cameroonian girls at puberty undergo it, as many mothers believe it protects their daughters from the sexual advances of boys and men who think children are ripe for sex once their breasts begin to grow.

The most widely used instrument to flatten the breasts is a wooden pestle, used for pounding tubers in the kitchen. Heated bananas and coconut shells are also used.

Student Geraldin Sirri recounted her painful experience.

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