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CHICAGO Wimbledon Derailments of two commuter trains

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CHICAGO — discloses 1960 wimbledon Derailments of wimbledon tennis ticket evaluates two commuter trains this week were accidents and unrelated to suspected sabotage along the same line last week, authorities said Wednesday. Transit officials determined that heavy vehicular and train traffic caused a slight separation between the tracks, leading to Tuesday night's derailments of the slow-moving trains near a busy crossing. The cars remained upright, and no injuries were reported. "We can say with absolute certainty there was no foul play involved, no tampering to any extent," Metra spokeswoman Judy Pardonnet said. "It was a strange situation where two trains derailed on two separate tracks at the same location. "Both trains, which together carried about 460 passengers, were removed by early Wednesday, and normal service was restored for the morning rush. The FBI was still offering a $50,000 reward for information about 30 railroad spikes that Metra workers discovered last week had been pulled on a different stretch of the same line. . IT HAS BEEN NEARLY HALF a century since President Kennedy created the Peace Corps, the volunteer program that lets young Americans serve overseas in developing countries. Over the years, the corps' popularity with the public has swung back and forth. Applications surged during the war protests and love-ins of the 1960s and '70s but were flat during more placid (and prosperous) decades such as the 1990s. Today, the Peace Corps is booming again.

This year, it accepted 7,810 volunteers -- the largest number in 30 years -- from more than 11,000 applicants, up 20% since 2000. It's hard to know exactly what's behind the resurgence 1972 wimbledon . Most volunteers are recent college graduates who came of age with wars in Afghanistan and Iraq as a backdrop And after 9/11, the urge to represent the U. S tennis . overseas, whether in the military or in the Peace Corps, was a natural reaction. This is also the generation that has seen pop stars and moguls alike take up (and even lead) the charge to address global issues such as poverty and access to healthcare french open tennis. When both Bono and Bill Gates publicize a cause, it's a pretty safe bet that the vast majority of young people in America will know about it. The corps was an outgrowth of the Cold War -- the idealistic expression of containment, designed to counter Soviet influence around the world french open tennis 2006 . But having tens of thousands of young Americans spending two years in some of the poorest and remotest places on Earth, helping with literacy or public health projects, is still a hugely beneficial form of public diplomacy. It is also, as any survey of the vast literature of returning volunteers will attest, a life-changing experience . Congress allots $300 million a year to the Peace Corps.

It may want to consider expanding a program that produces much-needed goodwill for the country 1973 wimbledon . As Kennedy said: "The responsibility for peace is the responsibility of our entire society. . french open . Our Peace Corps tennis open . Leaders of the global Anglican Communion responded largely positively Wednesday to pledges from the Episcopal Church to use restraint in consecrating gay bishops and other contentious matters. But an influential joint standing committee of Anglican bishops, clergy and lay leaders also called on all sides in the continuing debate over homosexuality and biblical authority to work harder to ease their differences and keep the 77-million-member Anglican Communion intact The Episcopal Church is the U. S wimbledon tennis 2006 . branch of Anglicanism. The panel's report to Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams, the Anglican Communion's spiritual leader, came in response to a statement by Episcopal bishops last week at a meeting in New Orleans. The Episcopal Church has been under intense pressure to roll back its comparatively liberal stance on homosexuality since 2003, when it consecrated V. Gene Robinson, a gay man living with his partner, as bishop of New Hampshire. Meeting in Tanzania in February, the Anglican Communion's top bishops, called primates, asked the Episcopal Church to state clearly by Sept. 30 that it would stop consecrating openly gay bishops and bar official blessings for same-sex couples, or risk a diminished role in the worldwide fellowship. In response, the Episcopal bishops last week reiterated and clarified earlier promises to "exercise restraint" in approving another openly gay bishop and to refrain from authorizing official rites of blessing for gay couples. The bishops did not explicitly state they would not consecrate another gay bishop, however. The compromise appeared to satisfy few on either end of the theological spectrum.

Some theological conservatives said the bishops' response fell far short of meeting the primates' demands 1976 wimbledon . Some liberals said the bishops had abandoned gay rights and church members in a bid for unity. In its report, however, the Anglican panel said the bishops' pledges had "clarified all outstanding questions" and given the needed assurances. At the same time, the panel urged the Episcopal Church to do more to provide pastoral care and oversight to disaffected conservatives within its ranks tickets for wimbledon tennis . At least four dioceses, including Fresno-based San Joaquin, are taking steps to break with the national church and align with conservative Anglican bishops abroad wimbeldon ticket . More than 50 Episcopal parishes, including several in Southern California, have done the same. Unless adequate reassurances can be given to dissident congregations and dioceses, "there will be no reconciliation either within the Episcopal Church or within the wider Anglican Communion," the report said. But the panel also appeared to rebuke several Anglican primates who had established networks of breakaway Episcopal parishes in the United States, calling for an end to such practices wimbeldon . "We believe that the time is right for a determined effort to bring interventions to an end," the report stated. The presiding bishop of the Episcopal Church, the Most Rev. Katharine Jefferts Schori, said in a statement Wednesday that she was pleased with the committee's finding that the church had fulfilled the primates' requests Wimbledon - wimbledon . The report "has recognized the hard work of the House of Bishops and that our responses reflect our repeatedly expressed desire to remain in full communion with the rest of the Anglican Communion," she said. The archbishop of Canterbury has asked the primates to respond to the report by month's end. --rebecca. trounson.

HEALTHCARE reform in California is at a potential turning point: Business has taken a seat at the bargaining table. Wimbledon tickets Some members of the state's new business vanguard participated at Gov Arnold Schwarzenegger's healthcare summit last week 1977 wimbledon . Steven Burd, chief executive of Safeway Inc. , talked about his company's rising health insurance spending and said it usually takes a crisis to bring about change wimbeldon tennis Wimbledon - wimbledon . Calling healthcare costs a crisis, he urged business to get involved. Business cooperated early in President Clinton's campaign to reform the nation's healthcare system in the beginning of the 1990s tennis tournaments . But many employers came to fear the politicians, worrying that reforms would be financed through new business taxes and costly regulations tennis ticket . Since then, they have routinely opposed major health-coverage proposals and shied away from broader discussions on reform. Instead, companies have focused on managing costs, which often means dropping coverage altogether. From 2000 to 2004, the percentage of California workers covered by employer-based insurance dropped from 59% to 55%. Business is rejoining the healthcare debate for a variety of reasons Wimbledon .