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WELLINGTON -- One of the last shipments to a U.S. research base in Antarctica before the onset of winter darkness was a year's supply of condoms, a New Zealand newspaper reported Monday. Bill Henriksen, the manager of the McMurdo base station, said nearly 16,500 condoms were delivered last month and would be made available, free of charge, to staff throughout the year to avoid the potential embarrassment of having to buy them. The base only has a skeleton staff through the long winter. "Since everybody knows everyone, it becomes a little bit uncomfortable," Henriksen told the Southland Times newspaper. About 125 scientists and staff are stationed at McMurdo base, the largest community in Antarctica, during the winter months when there is constant darkness. The first sunrise will occur on August 20 and McMurdo's population will start to increase again in September when supply flights resume, peaking at more than 1,000 during the summer period. I say, ministers should have been brought in to get these people married-off before the long dark  winter.

 
   

 
         
   
   

WASHINGTON – The U.S. Senate dropped a major global warming bill on Friday that would have mandated major cuts in greenhouse gas emissions after it failed to garner enough votes for formal consideration. In a 48 to 36 vote, the Climate Security Act of 2008 (S. 3036) fell a dozen votes short of the needed number to end debate and begin considering amendments to the bill, according to The Washington Post. During its weeklong review by the Senate, the bill sparked intense partisan bickering over which party cared more about solving the problems of American citizens. Seven Republicans, 39 Democrats and two Independents voted to move the bill forward, according to Environment News Service. Four Democrats and 32 Republicans voted in opposition. Proponents of the bill blamed Republicans for “refusing to address one of the most important issues of our time.” Senate Majority Leader Harry M. Reid (D-Nev.) defended Democrats as having “tried to curb global warming, lower gas prices and invest in renewable energy, but Republicans have squandered each opportunity,” according to The Washington Post.  Senate Drops Massive Global Warming Bill

 		  
In this May 21, 2008 file photo, customers re-fuel their vehicles at a Beverly Hills, Calif. gas station, The economic cost of confronting global warming is driving the climate change debate.
   
   
       
   

Oklahoma police are searching for a motive in the double slayings of two young girls found dead Sunday night in a ditch along a rural road. The girls, friends aged 13 and 11, were discovered by a relative after they failed to return from an afternoon walk on the county road south of Interstate 40 in Okfuskee County near Weleetka, Okla. The deaths of the girls, whose names have not been released by the medical examiner, were labeled "double homicide" by investigators, according to News9.com in Oklahoma City. The Oklahoman identified the elder girl as Taylor Placker and said the girls were found clothed in T-shirts and shorts with multiple gunshot wounds. Taylor's father discovered the bodies. Okfuskee County Sheriff Jack Choate told the paper that they have a suspect in the case, but no motive. "They were little girls," Choate told the paper. "What possible motive could there be? You have to wonder, did they see something they were not supposed to? Were they at the wrong place at the wrong time?" Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation Inspector Stan Florence said they combed the area through the night.  Manhunt for a Killer

 
         
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