Topic: - on October 22, 2002 at 9:53:06 PM CEST
Virginia Schools Linked to Sniper Threat
A note found near the Virginia restaurant where a man was shot and critically wounded by the elusive Washington area sniper indicated a possible threat to area schools, the Richmond Times-Dispatch reported on Tuesday.
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Topic: - on October 22, 2002 at 9:49:51 PM CEST
'Watch for Deer' signs go high-tech
An experimental system is being tried in Yellowstone National Park that uses radar to detect large animals. If an animal like a bison, elk, deer or moose enters the radar beam, the system triggers flashing lights on a road warning sign.
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Topic: - on October 22, 2002 at 9:40:46 PM CEST
Account of police contact with possible sniper
source close to the Washington-area sniper investigation gave the following account of the communication between police and the person investigators suspect is the sniper:
•A letter police believe to have been left by the sniper behind the Ponderosa Steakhouse in Ashland, Virginia -- the scene of Saturday night's sniper shooting -- contained a phone number. Police were instructed to call the sniper at that phone number to establish communication.
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Topic: - on October 22, 2002 at 5:19:27 PM CEST
Sniper alert over French marksman
-= FOLLOWUP =-
The French deserter had been training to be a second lieutenant in the army at the prestigious Saint-Cyr, in Coetquidan in the northern coastal region of Brittany. The school provides general training in shooting but does not train elite sharp-shooters.
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Topic: - on October 22, 2002 at 4:40:59 PM CEST
$9.3 million in cocaine, heroin found in Peru onion shipment sent to Vidalia
Police found 29 kilos of cocaine and eight kilos of heroin inside the bags, said Toombs County Sheriff Alvie Kight Jr. The heroin seizure is believed to be the largest ever in Georgia, state agents said. Vidalia, in rural southeast Georgia, is known for its famous sweet Vidalia onions. But in the off-season, Vidalia onion growers process imported onions for commercial sale.
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Topic: - on October 22, 2002 at 4:36:54 PM CEST
Sniper 10th victims dies !!!
Not on the news for now
16:53
Shooting victim dies, police comb scene
A 40-year-old bus driver shot this morning in Montgomery County, Maryland, has died from his wounds. The D.C. sniper task force is investigating the shooting as a potential sniper attack. Meanwhile, authorities are trying to communicate with the person who left a note at a weekend shooting scene which sources said threatened "more killing."
DEVELOPING STORY
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Topic: - on October 22, 2002 at 4:35:17 PM CEST
Million dollar necklace stolen at exhibition
"I think it is done by a professional," said Younis al-Jama', owner of Home Secure, which has provided surveillance cameras to the event for the past six years. Al-Jama' said the company had installed over a dozen cameras, many of them hidden, at exits and entrances and throughout the venue. Armed police were stationed at exits and entrances. Although the venue has many door, all but one point for entry and exit were closed for the show.
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Topic: - on October 22, 2002 at 4:31:39 PM CEST
Microsoft unleashes Office 11 on beta testers
MICROSOFT WILL DELIVER to selected beta testers on Tuesday an early version of its long-awaited Office 11 desktop suite that will feature versions of Word, Excel, and Access that fully support XML.
To be made available to only a "few thousand" testers, Microsoft officials will be heavily emphasizing the new suite's ability to better connect people with each other in order to better collaborate and share data more seamlessly, but also to connect business processes both inside and outside the firewall.
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Topic: - on October 22, 2002 at 4:29:15 PM CEST
The Hoax files
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Topic: - on October 22, 2002 at 4:25:10 PM CEST
Sharp Unveils 'Computer-On-Glass' Display
Sharp Corp, Japan's largest maker of liquid crystal displays (LCDs), unveiled a screen Tuesday with microprocessor circuitry applied directly onto the glass, enabling it to function like a computer.
The company hopes to have products available by 2005 using the advanced circuitry, perhaps even a "display card" that could store data and be carried around for use with various gadgets from games machines to mobile phones to car navigation systems.
¬> <a href="www.reuters.com"target="_blank">Reuters
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Topic: - on October 22, 2002 at 4:17:03 PM CEST
On the way out
As D.C. toll mounts, criticism of sniper games rises
But this is not your father's cowboys and Indians. Over the past two decades, computers have enhanced electronic shoot-'em-up games with Surround Sound, full color and digital ammunition. Virtual gunning comes with simulated sniper scopes, crosshairs, laser-guided sights and pools of blood for technology as portable as the Game Boy or the Palm.
¬> <a href="www.accessatlanta.com"target="_blank">Atlanta Journal-Constitution
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Topic: - on October 22, 2002 at 4:13:03 PM CEST
2 DANGLE ABOVE B'WAY FOR 30 MINS.
Two construction workers plunged from a collapsing scaffold in Midtown yesterday morning - and precariously dangled upside down by safety ropes. They were finally rescued 30 minutes later, when firefighters from Ladder 4 pulled them to safety.
¬> <a href="www.nypost.com"target="_blank">NEW YORK POST
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