Topic: - on October 4, 2002 at 10:58:09 PM CEST
Nintendo sponsors Des Lynam's moustache
Nintendo has struck a deal with Des Lynam to sponsor his moustache.
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Topic: - on October 4, 2002 at 10:48:35 PM CEST
Alleged Terrorist Sleeper-Cell Arrested In Oregon
Attorney General John Ashcroft says authorities have arrested several people on charges they conspired to wage war on the United States and provide support to al-Qaida. Ashcroft says the arrests were made in Oregon and Michigan, and that six people are facing terror-related charges. He said five of the suspects are U.S. citizens, including one with U.S. military training.
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Topic: - on October 4, 2002 at 10:46:03 PM CEST
Working the web: Google
Four years ago, when I started recommending Google, people thought I was mad. Fortunately, the conversion time puts other movements or religions to shame. If you can just get someone to type a word into Google's search box then, within a tenth of a second, they are usually convinced. Right from the time it was a research project, at google.stanford.edu, Google has been supreme at delivering great results with one-and two-word searches.
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Topic: - on October 4, 2002 at 10:40:34 PM CEST
Man Grows 1,245-Pound Pumpkin
An upstate New York man's pumpkin patch only yielded three pumpkins this year. But that was more than enough. One weighed 450 pounds, another about 800 pounds, and the third came in at 1,245 pounds, just 17 pounds shy of the world record. Tim Bailey said he grew the large orange fruits from "Atlantic Giant" seeds, and gave them a lot of water and "organic matter."
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Topic: - on October 4, 2002 at 10:26:32 PM CEST
Teen saved after online suicide bid
In what may be the Internet's first attempt at a public suicide, a young Indiana man posted his efforts to kill himself with drugs on a Web discussion board, sparking a flurry of sympathy and taunts before he was located and saved by police. The teen survived after a Seattle woman reading the discussion board intervened and alerted authorities.
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Topic: - on October 4, 2002 at 10:22:58 PM CEST
Hitler's gift to Nepal king gathers dust
A 1939 Mercedes Benz presented by Adolf Hitler to the then Nepali king is rusting at an engineering college in the capital Kathmandu because of a lack of funds to repair it, a state-run newspaper says.The Rising Nepal newspaper said the car given to the late King Tribhuvan by the German Nazi leader was one of only three of its kind still remaining in the world.
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