Sunday, 17. November 2002

Hunka-hunka hair
Elvis hair clipping sells for more than $100,000


Somebody this morning is the new owner of a hunka-hunka hair from "The King."

A chunk of Elvis Presley's jet black locks sold early this morning for $115,120 to an anonymous bidder at auction. The Internet auction house MastroNet Incorporated in Oak Brook listed the hair in a sale that began last month.

¬> CNN ¬> KVBC3

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America's National Forests


Why preserve the nation’s forests for future generations when those trees can be chopped down and turned into profits today?

With 156 national forests across the country to choose from, the only trouble is deciding where to buy: the spruce-hemlock temperate rainforests of the Pacific Northwest…the broadleaved deciduous forests of the Southeast…Alaska’s Tongass, the largest remaining temperate rainforest on the planet–or maybe a clearcut from each!

¬> George W BUy

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Archeologists Look for UFO at Famed Roswell Site


In trying to unravel a mystery that may involve the war of the worlds, cable TV's SCI FI Channel has turned to a group of educated men and women with shovels and set them loose on the southern New Mexico desert.

¬> <a href="story.news.yahoo.com"target="_blank">Reuters

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Domino Day '02
New world record


With 3.847.295 pleased stones the world record attempt is successful. With some fields some stones stopped, the large final field with 1 million stones were however completely cleared.

¬> RTL

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Lamorghini Complete overview


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Movie piracy 'like terrorism'


STAR Wars producer Rick McCallum told a Melbourne audience that the fight against P2P swapping of films was as important as the war on terrorism.

Big budget film-making faced a total collapse in three years if studios don't quickly address the threat posed by movie downloading on the internet, McCallum said.

¬> Australian IT

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