Topic: - on September 5, 2002 at 3:45:57 AM CEST
Police use toliet in battle against drugs
A police station is aiming to flush out drug pushers with a state-of-the art drugs retrieval toilet. Pontypridd Police Station in south Wales houses the device, which allows police officers to retrieve illegal substances from prisoners concealing drugs internally while in custody. South Wales Police said the convenience means the drugs can be recovered in a safe, hygienic and effective way.
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Topic: - on September 5, 2002 at 3:45:04 AM CEST
Napster Goes Unmourned to the Grave
Like so many one-hit wonders before it, the demise of the once iconic online song-swapping service Napster has failed to stir much sympathy. "Really, who cares?" Sebastian, a student at the Technical University of Darmstadt, Germany, told Reuters as he heard that Napster would likely be forced into Chapter 7 liquidation as early as Thursday. "Everybody's moved on to other file-sharing (services). The interest for Napster in the Internet community just wasn't as high as everybody originally thought," said the 28-year old student of IT engineering.
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Topic: - on September 5, 2002 at 3:36:56 AM CEST
Book Says Grateful Dead Has Grand Place in History
Move over, Duke Ellington. Turn around, Miles Davis. Make room at the pinnacle of 20th century American music for the Grateful Dead. So says Dennis McNally, an historian who just published a 620-page biography, "A Long Strange Trip: The Inside History of the Grateful Dead," now on The New York Times Bestseller list. McNally dismisses critics who say the Grateful Dead played folksy psychedelia that was little more than a soundtrack for the LSD trips of their obsessive fans -- the Deadheads.
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Topic: - on September 5, 2002 at 3:33:18 AM CEST
Kinder in Deutschland haben mehr Geld als je zuvor
Kinder in Deutschland haben mehr Geld als je zuvor in der Tasche: Über insgesamt 5,12 Milliarden Euro verfügen die Sechs- bis 13-Jährigen in diesem Jahr. Jeder der knapp 6,4 Millionen Jungen und Mädchen habe also im Schnitt rund 800 Euro im Portemonnaie, heißt es in der Kids-Verbraucher-Analyse 2002. Damit erfüllen sie sich der Studie zufolge vor allem kleinere Wünsche wie Schokolade oder Eis. Bei teureren Anschaffungen wollen die Eltern in der Regel ein Wörtchen mitreden, sie erfüllen dann auch nicht unbedingt jeden Markenwunsch ihrer Kinder.
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Topic: - on September 5, 2002 at 3:31:50 AM CEST
Putin Feared Might Become Cabby When Quit KGB
Russian President Vladimir Putin feared he might be left jobless and reduced to driving a cab when he quit the KGB during the 1991 Hardline communist coup, according to a biography launched Wednesday. "To be honest, I thought then: if the coup plotters triumph and they don't put me in jail, how am I going to support my family, how?!" he says in the book of the turbulent coup attempt in August 1991, which triggered the collapse of the Soviet Union.
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Topic: - on September 5, 2002 at 3:30:15 AM CEST
FPÖ-Minister drohen mit Rücktritt
Noch haben die Freiheitlichen in Österreich ihre Zwistigkeiten nicht beigelegt. Die Bundespolitiker stellten sich jetzt demonstrativ gegen ihren früheren Parteichef, den Kärntner Rechtspopulisten Jörg Haider.
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Topic: - on September 5, 2002 at 3:29:13 AM CEST
The Complete 9/11 Timeline
This webpage is meant to be a comprehensive resource for anyone attempting to understand 9/11 and the anthrax attacks. Once you start reading, I think it will become clear that, whatever happened, there is much more going on than the "official story" claims.
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Topic: Terror - on September 5, 2002 at 3:27:01 AM CEST
Man Possibly Headed to White House Arrested
Law enforcement officials found 16 guns in the car of a Philadelphia-area man they suspected may have been driving to the White House on Wednesday. The car was stopped at about 12:30 p.m. in the Adams Morgan section of Washington, about two miles from the White House.
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Topic: Terror - on September 5, 2002 at 3:24:46 AM CEST
Secret arrest of leading al-Qaida fugitive
One of Washington's most wanted al-Qaida fugitives was captured in Karachi in July and secretly transferred to US custody, striking a significant blow to Osama bin Laden's network, Pakistani intelligence sources have claimed. Sheikh Ahmed Salim, detained in a joint Pakistan-US raid, was among a group of suspects flown out of the country in recent weeks.
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