Topic: - on November 13, 2002 at 2:07:04 AM CET
50 places to see before you die
we asked you to tell us about the places you think that everyone should see in their lifetime. This is how you voted...
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Topic: - on November 13, 2002 at 2:00:56 AM CET
UFF Matt Drudge OVER 1 BILLION SERVED IN PAST YEAR
"Matt Drudge a born loser" [10/24/00, Shafer], the NEW YORK TIMES last week in a Page One story claimed people have been "reduced to logging onto the Web site of the gossip columnist Matt Drudge" [11/06/02, Stanley], but in every state and nearly every civilized nation in the developed world, readers know where to go for action and reaction of news -- at least one day ahead.
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Topic: - on November 13, 2002 at 1:47:40 AM CET
Africa's oldest map unveiled
The oldest map of the African continent, dating back to 1389, has gone on display in Cape Town. It is part of an exhibition drawing attention to the history of South Africa and the way it is perceived around the world.
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Topic: - on November 13, 2002 at 1:25:10 AM CET
'Champagne Bandit' Strikes Central Florida Supermarkets
Police are looking for a rather finicky shoplifter: a 300-pound man who apparently likes Moet & Chandon White Star champagne. The man, called the "Champagne Bandit," has stolen $30 bottles of the bubbly from Publix supermarkets along Central Florida's east coast, St. Lucie County Sheriff's office records show.
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Topic: - on November 13, 2002 at 1:20:36 AM CET
Latest Photos from The Two Towers
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Topic: - on November 13, 2002 at 1:08:38 AM CET
Shuttle launch reset for Monday
Oxygen leak must be fixed first
NASA will try again Monday to launch the shuttle Endeavour toward the international space station, but only if an oxygen leak that foiled Sunday night's launch can be fixed in time. The liftoff from Kennedy Space Center has been tentatively rescheduled for Monday during a four-hour period that begins at 6 p.m. CST.
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Topic: - on November 13, 2002 at 1:04:38 AM CET
Learn to speak
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Topic: - on November 13, 2002 at 1:01:49 AM CET
Optical antenna may allow 'point and pay' cards
A new funnel-shaped optical antenna could allow people to make payments by simply waving their credit cards near an infrared beam.
Its inventors at the University of Warwick, UK, believe their antenna would make the process secure and reliable. And if used in remote-controlled televisions, it could make channel hopping much easier.
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Topic: - on November 13, 2002 at 1:00:05 AM CET
Germany's "dumbest criminal" jailed
A German bank robber who forgot to cut open eye slits in his mask and lifted it up to demand money has been convicted and sentenced to four years in jail, state prosecutors in Giessen say. The robber, dubbed "Germany's dumbest criminal" by Bild newspaper, had entered a bank in the western town with a burlap bag over his head. Bumping into bank customers on his way to the teller, he pulled out a plastic knife and a toy pistol.
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Topic: - on November 13, 2002 at 12:55:27 AM CET
Thieves take rare Newton book
Thieves have stolen a rare first edition of Isaac Newton's Principia from a library in St Petersberg. Principis or "Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica" was published in 1687 and is one of the most influential books ever published. In it Newton formulated his three laws of motion and his law of gravity.
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Topic: - on November 13, 2002 at 12:40:31 AM CET
Happy b-day
God Bless You, Mr. Vonnegut
The Writer on His Eightieth Birthday
It was perhaps no mere coincidence in the grand scheme of the universe that the birthday of the great writer Kurt Vonnegut falls on Veterans' Day.
Vonnegut, who becomes an octogenarian Monday, lived through the firebombing of Dresden, Germany, as an American prisoner of war in 1945. This seminal event became not only the basis of his classic novel Slaughterhouse-Five, but became the theme of his extensive anti-war writings.
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Topic: - on November 13, 2002 at 12:37:47 AM CET
Fair use should not die
Digital TV
Large-scale copyright owners such as movie studios, record companies and book publishers promote digital copy protection as the key to successful Internet sales. Now, TV broadcasters are joining this bandwagon in pushing for digital broadcast TV copy protection. The FCC noticed a proposed rule-making for such protection on Aug. 9 (64 PTCJ 373, Aug. 16). Yet technological copy protection systems have been impotent against efforts of hackers—most recently, hackers determined that DVD copy protection could be defeated simply by a marker pen. For copy protection to succeed, it needs the force of law behind it, in the form of criminal penalties for anti-protection hacking.
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