Topic: - on October 3, 2002 at 2:20:26 AM CEST
Turtle's Bath - expensive
A pet turtle had enjoyed living in a stream of running water at a steady temperature of 36 Celsius for 18 months. The local utility estimated the turtle's consumption at 5,000 cubic meters of water and 160,000 kWh of district heating at a cost of $15,15O, a local newspaper in the town of Helsingborg reported Wednesday.
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Topic: - on October 3, 2002 at 2:13:05 AM CEST
Graz: Geplante Drogenrazzia geplatzt
Die neue Sonderkommission zur Bekämpfung der Drogenkriminalität in Graz arbeitet bereits voll. Gestern hat es allerdings eine kleine Panne gegeben: Eine geplante Razzia musste erfolglos abgebrochen werden.
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Topic: - on October 3, 2002 at 2:11:45 AM CEST
Sony Announces OS 5 NX Series
Sony has just announced the Clié PEG NX-70V and NX-60 handhelds. These models run Palm OS 5 on a 200mhz ARM CPU (Intel XScale PAX250). They have a high-Resolution TFT 320x480 screen, 16 MB RAM, 16 MB ROM, a new wireless expansion slot, Memory Stick slot, a built-in voice recorder, MP3 player and an internal mini keyboard. The handhelds have the similar folding clamshell design from the Sony NR series.
¬><a href="www.palminfocenter.com"target="_blank"> PalmInfocenter
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Topic: - on October 3, 2002 at 1:59:03 AM CEST
PHOTOS The Best of the Hubble Space Telescope
These images are copyright by the Space Telescope Science Institute (ST Sci), operated by the Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy (AURA), Inc., for NASA.
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Topic: - on October 3, 2002 at 1:39:13 AM CEST
Satellite tracks 'lost' buzzard - Still no cure to stop researchers from wasting money
Fears are growing for the safety of a rare bird of prey which got lost at sea while making a migration from Scotland to Africa. The young honey buzzard, which only learned to fly a month ago, went off course after it was caught in difficult weather conditions over the Atlantic.
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Topic: - on October 3, 2002 at 1:34:50 AM CEST
Hollywood still out of ideas II
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Jennifer Lopez, Will Smith Wanted For Schumacher's 'A Star Is Born' Remake. Will Smith is burning with jealousy over J. Lo's hot career. Her star is shining so brightly, in fact, that it's making Smith horribly, inconsolably depressed.
At least that's what will happen onscreen if director Joel Schumacher gets his wish. He's looking to tackle a remake of "A Star Is Born," the classic story of a star in a slump whose spirits spiral further downwards when the career of a girl he discovers starts to eclipse his own. Smith and Lopez are two names that have long been attached to the project.
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Topic: - on October 3, 2002 at 1:28:53 AM CEST
Top 10: Most Expensive Wines
There's more to wine than two-dollar Night Train. In the mid-'80s, billionaire Malcolm Forbes paid approximately $155,000 at auction for a bottle of wine. The bottle, which was believed to have come from Thomas Jefferson's own collection and dated back to 1787, was then put on display under strong lights and at the wrong angle. These conditions eventually made the cork fall into the bottle, and the wine lost its value and was thrown away.
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Topic: - on October 3, 2002 at 1:25:40 AM CEST
Robbie signs '£80m' deal - Ugly ass singer signs UK's biggest record deal
Robbie Williams has signed what is believed to be an £80m contract with EMI Records in what could be the UK's biggest record deal. The deal for four albums, second only to Michael Jackson's in music history, was announced on Wednesday afternoon.
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Topic: - on October 3, 2002 at 1:23:20 AM CEST
Michael Jackson to Start New Record Label
Jacko's backo. He's starting a new record label with the backing of a company that changed its name today from ID Medical Group to Opus Media.
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Topic: - on October 3, 2002 at 1:17:01 AM CEST
Super Goop
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An Ambiguous Substance Could Animate Robots, Prevent Earthquake Damage.A fluid that can transform from a liquid to a solid within milliseconds could soon be running through the "veins" of robots to give them a soft, human-like touch.
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Topic: - on October 3, 2002 at 1:14:11 AM CEST
NASA postpones launch of shuttle until Monday
The threat of Hurricane Lili causing the evacuation or damage to the Johnson Space Center in Houston forced NASA officials today to postpone the launch of the Space Shuttle Atlantis until next week.
After officials here at the Kennedy Space Center and the Johnson Space Center in Houston met this morning, a decision was made to hold off launching the space shuttle until Monday afternoon.
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Topic: - on October 3, 2002 at 1:12:14 AM CEST
Digital sweetener for music fans
Music fans are being offered "the biggest ever official give-away of digital music" in a campaign to tempt them away from unofficial download sites. A range of websites will offer free access to 110,000 songs by stars from Kylie Minogue to Elvis Presley for one day only.
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