According to a new report released by the U.S. Government Accountability Office, many pieces of military equipment which were stolen have been sold on eBay as well as Craigslist.

The report stated that inspectors managed to pose as buyers and go onto eBay and Craigslist, purchasing these highly sensitive military items.

The items include two F-14 fighter jet components, special night vision goggles for the military, army combat uniforms for soldiers, as well as enhanced body armor used by U.S. troops in Iraq and Afghanistan.

They found many of these stolen and sensitive items up for sale on eBay and Craigslist. The report stated that “A review of policies and procedures for these Web sites determined that there are few safeguards to prevent the sale of sensitive and stolen defense-related items using the sites.”

EBay and Craigslist have fought back though, touting their ability to police what is sold through their respective services.

The Tennessee Lady Vols are once again the champions of women's college basketball.

Tennessee spotted Stanford 3-0, tied it at five and again at seven before taking the lead for good at 10-7.

This was the eighth straight women's crown for the Lady Vol basketball team. Twice now they have gained the honor back to back.

If ever there was any thoughts about Candace Parker's health, put it aside. She led the Lady Vols with 17. Not only leading the team in scoring but rebounding as well, nearly turning a double-double with 9 boards.

Tennessee also got double digit scoring from Shannon Bobbit who chipped in 13 and Nicky Anosike had 12 and grabbed 8 boards for the Lady Vols.

The Lady Vols came into the game holding opponents to less than 55 points while Stanford was averaging over 80 in the tournament.

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Google announced on Monday the release of Google App Engine, which allows outside developers to build and run their applications on top of Google’s infrastructure, making it easier for them to focus on the applications, rather than on system administration and maintenance, the company said.

Pete Koomen, product manager at Google, said in a statement: “Google has spent years developing infrastructure for scalable web applications. We’ve brought Gmail and Google search to hundreds of millions of people worldwide, and we’ve built out a powerful network of datacenters to support those applications. Today we’re taking the first step in making this infrastructure available to all developers.”

For the time being, Google App Engine will only be available to a maximum of 10,000 sign ups, the company said, giving each developer a restriction to the free quota of 500MB of storage and the necessary CPU and network bandwidth to sustain approximately 5 million page views per month for a typical app.

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U.S. President George W. Bush and Russia's Vladimir Putin ended their last face-to-face meeting as heads of state on Sunday with warm words for each other but no solution to their row over missile defense.

With Putin to step down next month and Bush in the twilight of his presidency, both leaders stressed the strong personal rapport which they say has helped keep relations between their countries on an even keel.

But differences over U.S. plans for a missile defense shield in eastern Europe, which have helped drive diplomatic ties to a post-Cold War low, meant their summit on the Black Sea coast ended with no firm agreements.

A top Bush aide implied that no agreement would be agreed until the inauguration of new presidents in both countries. That would delay progress until early next year.

"This is an area we've got more work to do to convince the Russian side that the system is not aimed at Russia," Bush said after a morning of talks with Putin at the Russian leader's vacation retreat in the resort of Sochi.

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Society generally considers that relationships owe us happiness and bliss ever after. While happy couples do exist, divorce statistics indicate a great majority simply is not happy after the first glow dims.

Relationships Free of Dependence

This less appealing reality actually holds the key for a true loving relationship that is free of dependence on the other. Jung wrote: “The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.” In a nutshell, transformation is what relationships are all about. We remain in relationships while the going is good, but often break off at the first sign of trouble. If the person we love turns out differently than our initial estimation of them, we feel they led us to believe something about their character that was not true, or, that we simply can not trust our judgment.

Relationships Based on Complementarity Rather Than on Need

But the crux of the matter is quite different. It is precisely at this problematic point in the relationship that we have the chance of creating a relationship based on mutual complementarity rather than on need; a free relationship between two people who want to be together, rather than two people who need to be together.

So how do we get there?

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Maybe Roy Williams should have left Kansas for North Carolina sooner.

"It was a horrible decision in 2000 when I decided to stay," he said.

Maybe he should have stayed in Lawrence three years later.

"(It was) a horrible decision in 2003 when I decided to leave," he said.

Linked in one thought last Friday, those sentiments convey the anguish Williams still feels over two loves he has seemingly been torn between since returning to Chapel Hill from Lawrence five years ago.

The two will at last come face-to-face in a national semifinal on Saturday in San Antonio.

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The Department of Homeland Security is
granting South Carolina an extension to comply with a new federal
ID law.

Word came in a letter from the federal agency six hours after Governor Mark Sanford said the state would not comply with the new law.

Sanford wrote Homeland Security Michael Chertoff and told him
the state does much of what the federal law requires.

Chertoff responded by saying it is clear South Carolina is on its way to complying so the state would get an extension.

Without the extension, South Carolina travelers' state driver's licenses wouldn't have been enough to get them aboard airplanes or into federal facilities beginning May 11.

Maine is the last state without an agreement with the federal
government.

The Bush administration is proposing a sweeping overhaul of the way the government regulates the nation's financial services industry from banks and securities firms to mortgage brokers and insurance companies.

The plan would give major new powers to the Federal Reserve, according to a 22-page executive summary obtained by The Associated Press.

The Fed would be given broad authority to oversee financial market stability. That would include new powers to examine the books of any institution deemed to represent a potential threat to the proper functioning of the overall financial system.

The proposal, which will be outlined Monday in a speech by Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson, is certain to set off heated debates within different sectors of the financial services industry and in Congress, where some Democrats are likely to complain that the proposal does not go far enough to crack down on abuses.

The administration divided its recommendations into short-term goals that could be adopted quickly, intermediate recommendations and an "optimal" regulatory framework, which contains a radical restructuring of how the government supervises banks and other financial institutions.

The recommendations are the product of a yearlong review that was begun in an effort to modernize the government's regulatory structure so that the country's financial services industries could better compete in a fast-changing global economy.

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Pakistan's new Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gillani is a big fan of Bollywood star Aishwarya Rai and melody queen Lata Mangeshkar.

"While in prison, I used to watch all of Aishwarya's movies on my laptop besides listening to Lataji's songs. And let me admit that I am a great fan of Aishwarya Rai now," Gillani, a die hard romantic, told a private news channel.

Gillani, who belongs to a family descended from a Sufi saint, became a Lata fan when he was jailed in 2001 after being arrested by Mushaarraf on charges of misusing his position as Speaker of the National Assembly to make irregular appointments.

The 55-year-old former minister chose prison over offers from President Pervez Musharraf's regime to be freed in exchange for cutting off ties with the Pakistan People's Party.

With the new Prime Minister's fondness for Bollywood's actresses and musicians, Pakistanis hope to see more Indian films making their way to their entertainment-starved country.

The number of US troops to die in Iraq since the invasion began five years ago hit 4,000 last night after a roadside bomb in Baghdad killed four soldiers.

The morbid milestone will likely strengthen calls for US forces to be withdrawn from the country; a contentious topic in this year's Presidential elections.

A US military spokesman played down the significance of the 4,000th death, which followed a day of bombings and rocket fire across the country that killed at least 60 Iraqis and left many more wounded.

"No casualty is more or less significant than another; each soldier, marine, airman and sailor is equally precious and their loss equally tragic," said Rear Admiral Gregory Smith.

One soldier was also injured when the roadside bomb - the biggest killer of US forces in Iraq - struck a patrol in south Baghdad.

As well as 4,000 dead, at least 29,000 US servicemen and women have been injured in the Iraq war, which entered its sixth year last week, according to the independent Web site www.icasualties.org.Underscoring the brutality of an insurgency that flared in the aftermath of the invasion, the majority of American casualties occurred after George Bush announced the end of "major combat" in Iraq on May 1, 2003.

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