Thursday, 14. November 2002
Topic: - on Thursday, 14. November 2002, 23:30
World's biggest liar to defend title
The World's Biggest Liar will defend his title against a small but devious group of challengers in a pub in northern England later today.
George Kemp beat five-time winner John Graham last year with a string of tall tales including one about his grandfather's greyhound which he said stopped in the middle of a race to have pups and then went on to win, followed by the puppies.
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Topic: - on Thursday, 14. November 2002, 23:25
Intel's 3-GHz Pentium 4
Intel is launching its 3.06-GHz Pentium 4 with hyperthreading technology, and major PC makers are readying PCs powered by the new CPU. In coming days and weeks, Dell, Gateway, and Hewlett-Packard, as well as specialty vendors Alienware, Falcon Northwest, and Xi, will roll out high-end products featuring the chip.
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Topic: - on Thursday, 14. November 2002, 22:54
Terrorist's brain to be returned
German prosecutors say the brain of the urban terrorist Ulrike Meinhof, which had been removed after her suicide in 1976, will be returned to her family.
Meinhof's daughter, Bettina Roehl, filed a lawsuit in Stuttgart on Monday demanding the return of her mother's brain, so that it could be given a proper burial.
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Topic: - on Thursday, 14. November 2002, 22:50
Pentagon begins designing global computer surveillance system
A new Pentagon research office has started designing a global computer surveillance system to give U.S. counterterrorism officials access to personal information in government and commercial databases around the world.
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Topic: - on Thursday, 14. November 2002, 22:45
Ballmer
We didn't realise we were the dominant force in the market.
Microsoft chief executive Steve Ballmer has told the company's users that it took anti-competitive actions because it failed to realise how dominant it was.
In an open email sent to Microsoft users, Ballmer claims that "even five years ago, we still tended to think of ourselves as the small start-up".
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Topic: POLICE REPORT - on Thursday, 14. November 2002, 22:25
771 Pounds Of Coke Found On Backyard Boat
Police and federal agents say they seized 771 pounds of cocaine Wednesday from a boat docked in the back yard of a home in a wealthy Broward County neighborhood.
Authorities say the drugs have a street value in the millions of dollars were found in the forward cabin of the 42-foot sport fishing boat "Sea Double."
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Topic: - on Thursday, 14. November 2002, 22:20
Potter pirates 'fail' to copy film
A "pirated" copy of the latest Harry Potter film on the internet has turned out to be an empty decoy, according to the movie's film studio AOL Time Warner.
There were reports that pirated copies were showing up online, with one site apparently showing the film had been downloaded more than 500 times.
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Topic: - on Thursday, 14. November 2002, 15:06
FBI Arrests Suspect In Detroit Terror Cell
Agents Say Man Was Planning Attacks All Over The World.
Agents arrested the man, who is identified in court documents only as "Abdella," in Greensboro, N.C., on Nov. 5 while waiting to board a bus, WDIV-TV in Detroit reported. He has been charged with supporting terrorists, conspiracy to engage in fraud and misuse of visas.
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Topic: - on Thursday, 14. November 2002, 14:59
85yo 'needs marijuana to live'
AN 85-year-old former French Foreign Legion soldier suffering from cancer says he may take his own life if he cannot get the marijuana he needs to ease his pain.
Swiss-born Frederic De Spychygern ) appeared in the Brisbane Supreme Court today, charged with production of 8.5kg of cannabis sativa.
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Topic: - on Thursday, 14. November 2002, 14:57
MTV Boss: Manufactured Bands May Have Peaked
WOW and that from MTV
Manufactured bands may have peaked in an industry increasingly swamped by instant pop idols, according to a top MTV executive.
"I think people will get sick of identikit bands," said Brent Hansen, President and Chief Executive of MTV Networks Europe, as he put the finishing touches to the music channel's annual award show Thursday night.
Hansen, whose big night line up of live acts for the MTV show ranges from Eminem to Whitney Houston, believes the current glut of manufactured bands is becoming a turn-off.
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Topic: - on Thursday, 14. November 2002, 14:52
Circus Elephant Stops by McDonald's for Breakfast
A rather hungry breakfast-seeker cut her way through the McDonald's drive-thru line - and no one dared complain.
A four-ton elephant named Tina showed up at the McDonald's in Cape Coral on Wednesday morning, happily swallowing 10 veggie burgers that she grabbed from workers by sticking her snout through the drive-thru window.
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Topic: - on Thursday, 14. November 2002, 14:47
tmsuk and SANYO reveals new and improved "Banryu" home-robot
tmsuk Co., LTD., (pronounced "temzack") a small robotics firm from Kitakyushu (Fukuoka Pref. Japan) and SANYO Electric Co., Ltd. Headquartered in Moriguchi, Osaka, have developed an improved version of their home-robot Banryu. The two companies wish to finalize the design and details and to commence the marketing of the first-ever useful home robot to the general public in year 2003.
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