Retirees are unlikely to see radio frequency identification tags on their Social Security checks anytime soon. But Social Security Administration officials will begin tracking orders for SSA forms and pamphlets early this year using RFID technology.

Some even speculate that one reason for Bush's infatuation with Gonzales is nothing more than old fashioned political payback. It appears, after all, that Alberto Gonzales kept Bush's drunk driving conviction in 1976 a secret until it was too late to damage Bush's first presidential bid.

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A "highly classified problem" was the real reason for the special meeting on the crisis in Israel's relations with Russia that Prime Minister Ariel Sharon convened earlier this week, government sources told Haaretz.

A British-owned American base on an island in the Indian Ocean received prior warning of the tsunami from the US, the Guardian has established.