Topic: - on November 2, 2002 at 2:07:27 PM CET
Haider will Gegner aus der Partei werfen
Jörg Haider will wieder die österreichische Bundespolitik aufmischen. Nach seiner Ankündigung, bei den Parlamentswahlen am 24. November zu kandidieren, will der Rechtspopulist nun Vizekanzlerin Susanne Riess-Passer und Finanzminister Karl-Heinz Grasser aus der FPÖ schmeißen.
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Topic: - on November 2, 2002 at 11:43:00 AM CET
Space station marks two years of continuous crews on board
The International Space Station marks two years of continuous habitation Saturday as a three-man Soyuz crew visits the station's residents.
The three-person station crew - Commander Valery Korzun, Peggy Whitson and Sergei Treschev - welcomed the Soyuz crew at 12:01 a.m. EST Friday. The Soyuz was brought up by Russians Sergei Zalyotin and Yuri Lonchakov and Belgian Frank De Winne, who will return to Earth in the old Soyuz docked to the station.
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Topic: - on November 2, 2002 at 11:40:03 AM CET
The future of public space travel
Is it just a playground
AN UNABASHED SPACE CASE, Bass had prepped for a seat aboard that 12-day Soyuz taxi mission for months. He learned Russian. He got an A-OK flight physical. He received high-tech tutoring by top-notch cosmonauts and astronauts not to touch certain buttons. However, Bass was unable to pay the “going rate” to become the third ever space tourist, running out of the time needed to pull together the hefty $20 million fee.
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Topic: - on November 2, 2002 at 11:01:29 AM CET
Russia clamps down on media freedom after Chechen hostage-taking
In future, broadcasters and print media are barred from releasing information that could hamper anti-terrorist operations or put people's lives in danger. The media is also banned from criticising security operations or identifying members of special forces and crisis units without their prior approval.
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Topic: - on November 2, 2002 at 10:57:02 AM CET
U2 Behind the Scenes
The new U2 Best Of DVD will feature all kinds of fun extras.
It'll be loaded with videos for 16 of the NMC eCharting band's songs from directors including Anton Corbijn, Wim Wenders, Kevin Godley and Stephan Sedanoui. DVD also has an hour and a half of bonus material like seven extra tracks and behind the scenes documentaries.
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Topic: - on November 2, 2002 at 10:27:08 AM CET
How many joints can be rolled from 3 ounces of marijuana?
This is a serious debate in Nevada
Residents of the Western state will vote Tuesday on a state constitutional amendment to legalize adult possession of no more than 3 ounces of pot. It may have looked quixotic at the onset, but the Nevada campaign has flourished at the hands of a Texas political handler the chief legalization foe calls a "carpetbagger."
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Topic: - on November 2, 2002 at 10:20:47 AM CET
NASA releases Cassini spacecraft's first Saturn images
NASA on Friday released the first picture of Saturn created from images taken by the Cassini spacecraft en route to the ringed planet. The picture, a composite of images made with various filters, was a result of a successful test of Cassini's camera, Jet Propulsion Laboratory said in a statement.
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Topic: - on November 2, 2002 at 10:10:33 AM CET
The Return of Vinyl 45...Sort of
It's back to the future for music lovers. The Verbatim Corporation, maker of compact discs, is out with a new product called the Digital Vinyl CDR. It's a recordable CD ROM that looks just like an old 45 record, right down the black vinyl-like surface, complete with grooves and a label in the middle.
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Topic: - on November 2, 2002 at 1:16:11 AM CET
Last Pumpkin Picture
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Topic: - on November 2, 2002 at 1:08:51 AM CET
LRSPC2661T 26 cubic foot Multi-Media Refrigerator
Watch the morning news, download recipes, send and receive e-mail, or leave video messages for your family with a refrigerator? You can if it's the LG Multi-Media Refrigerator. It combines leading-edge refrigerator technology with digital connectivity and control and brings you an unprecedented degree of convenience, quality, and coolness. All enclosed in a fingerprint-proof Titanium?
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Topic: - on November 2, 2002 at 12:22:45 AM CET
Namibia wisely spurns M$ 'gift' in favor of Linux
A U S T R I A -- N O T
Imagine the pleasure with which SchoolNet would initially have confronted a charitable overture from Microsoft involving free software. Now imagine the disappointment of learning that accepting the 'gift' would entail outlays of money in the range of fifteen times the value of the M$ Trojan horse.
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