By David Williams Motoring Editor, Evening Standard
7 April 2005
A new "intelligent" speed trap is set to catch thousands of drivers in
London.
Groups of cameras will track cars over a wide area - such as a housing
estate - instead of "flashing" them at just one spot.
Designers say it will be impossible for drivers to outwit them by
slamming on their brakes as the cameras record each car's number plate
and "talk" to each other via radio-wave technology.

By Judy Lash Balint
FrontPageMagazine.com | April 7, 2005

The members of the Christian Allies Caucus of Israel’s parliament sat in
stunned silence. A visiting African American pastor had just told them
something they had never expected: Israel had a potentially powerful
ally in America’s black community.

Pastor Glenn Plummer, 50, former Chairman of the prestigious National
Religious Broadcasters Association told those gathered in the Knesset
lecture hall that the potential for support for Israel from black
Americans is huge. Plummer claimed that more than 80 percent of 33
million African Americans are “Bible-oriented Christians.” According to
Plummer, a recent survey asking respondents if they had read the Bible
in the past week indicated that 62 percent of African Americans polled
responded in the affirmative. By contrast, only 31 percent of white
Americans did.

//STEPHEN MCGINTY IN ROME AND RICHARD GRAY


THE rain fell on St Peter’s Square, making puddles through which the
pilgrims passed. The dark clouds were forecast for the funeral of Pope
John Paul II on Friday but had kept a discreet distance until after the
two million mourners who had gathered in the city had dispersed.

Yesterday they unleashed a deluge. Huddled under umbrellas, a few
hundred Poles queued to enter the basilica, still imbued with the memory
of Karol Wojtyla.

Before 10am a steady stream of cars carrying cardinals from around the
globe arrived at the Vatican gates to be waved in by Swiss guards in
their distinctive candy-striped uniforms. In their hands rests the
future of the Roman Catholic Church and the spiritual direction of its
1.1 billion adherents.
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