Topic: - on November 19, 2002 at 10:40:24 PM CET
Stair-Climbing Wheelchair Works, FDA Staff Says
Johnson & Johnson's iBOT wheelchair, which climbs stairs and traverses tough terrain, was effective in a clinical trial, U.S. regulatory staff said ahead of Wednesday's key review of the product. The iBOT, conceived by prolific inventor Dean Kamen, uses gyroscopes to mimic the way people maintain their balance. The chair can maneuver up and down stairs and curbs, go into four-wheel drive mode to navigate beaches or grass and rise on two wheels to bring a user to eye level.
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Topic: - on November 19, 2002 at 7:37:31 PM CET
Ugly LOGO Soccer World Championships 2006
This handout photo shows the logo of the Soccer World Championships 2006, to be held in Germany, which was officially presented during a media conference.
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Topic: - on November 19, 2002 at 7:30:28 PM CET
AMD runs 64-bit MS Windows OS on K8
AMD is showing off a prototype 64-bit Windows OS running on its upcoming 64-bit Opteron processors. OK, so it's jam tomorrow, but the fact that AMD is showing this in public means that tomorrow is not too far away.
The demo units can be seen in action at Comdex Fall, Las Vegas which opens for business today, and at Supercomputing 2002, which also kicks off in Baltimore today.
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Topic: - on November 19, 2002 at 7:11:08 PM CET
Study: Pot Smokers Getting Older
Canadian Study Finds Nearly Half Of Users Over 30 Pot heads are graying -- at least in Canada. A long-term drug use study found that marijuana smokers are getting older.
According to the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, the average age for pot smokers has risen from about 25 to 31 years old. Nearly half the marijuana users were 30 or over.
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Topic: - on November 19, 2002 at 7:00:31 PM CET
One-third of the 30 billion e-mails sent worldwide each day are spam
That's 10 billion daily pitches for herbal Viagra, Nigerian scams, and genital-enlarging creams piling up in our inboxes. Neither legislation nor litigation against spammers has stemmed the tide, and they're not going to have much of an effect in the future, either. It's time to give up: Despite the best efforts of legislators, lawyers, and computer programmers, spam has won. Spam is killing e-mail.
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Topic: - on November 19, 2002 at 6:54:01 PM CET
Czechs Find Bomb on Rail Track Ahead of NATO Meet
Workers checking tracks found a bottle placed underneath a rail, which had been partially sawed through, on the outskirts of the Czech capital at around 9 a.m. (3 a.m. EST). "It was an explosive device," police spokeswoman Eva Miklikova told Reuters. "Bomb disposal experts defused it and took it away for examination."
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Topic: - on November 19, 2002 at 6:37:12 PM CET
Top 100 albums of the 80's
It's said that the 1980s are responsible for the worst fashion, fads, and music of any decade of the 20th century. But as we see the decade recycled and updated with post-millennial minimalism, it's becoming clear that the 1980s had more to offer than we've given them credit for. As the calendar left the classless earthtones and polyester of the 1970s behind, musicians looked to the future for inspiration in new genres. With this feature, Pitchfork seeks to prove that, amidst the smooth-jazz of Kenny G, the vanilla soul of Hall & Oates, and the white-trash hair-rock of Warrant, lay a revolution in sound.
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Topic: - on November 19, 2002 at 6:26:48 PM CET
Flatulence: How To Prevent It
How to deal with farting
You denied it, blamed it on the guy next to you, you even blamed it on grandma when she was out of earshot. Most of the time, it smells bad and it sounds funny, but why go through so much restiveness over something as natural as farting? Okay, the abovementioned facts are reason enough, but let us at least dissipate the notion that farting, or Flatus, is bad.
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Topic: - on November 19, 2002 at 6:21:33 PM CET
Ted Nugent Wanted For Michigan Gubernatorial Run
If some Michigan residents have their way, Ted Nugent will be running for governor of the state in 2006.
Following the recent election of Jennifer Granholm as Michigan governor, radio station WOOD-AM in Grand Rapids asked its listeners who they'd like to see oppose her in four years. The survey is still going on, but Nugent has been named in about 90 percent of the responses every day, beating out others such as speaker of the Michigan House Rick Johnson and former Lieutenant Governor Dick Posthumus.
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Topic: - on November 19, 2002 at 6:15:49 PM CET
Ice-cream
Smaller box, same price
The half-gallon ice cream container — the sweet standard of grocery store freezers for decades — is quietly starting to shrink.
While manufacturers in recent years have reduced the package size of everything from candy bars to dish detergent, the traditional ice cream ‘‘brick’’ remained what it was — the half-gallon.
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Topic: - on November 19, 2002 at 6:11:01 PM CET
California Tree-Sitter, Says He Will Have Oak Moved
A county leader said he would try to save a 400-year-old giant oak by moving it out of the proposed path of a four-lane road, but a man who has been living in the tree said he was afraid it would die in the move. John Quigley, 42, has been sitting in the tree for most of November in an attempt to protect it. He's drawn sympathy, home-cooked meals and a steady stream of visitors who don't want it cut down.
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Topic: BOARD NEWS - on November 19, 2002 at 4:14:46 PM CET
Bart-Befreiungsfront prangert Bärte bei "Harry Potter" an
Die britische Bart-Befreiungsfront (BLF) hat zum lautstarken Protest gegen die falschen Bärte im neuen Harry-Potter-Film aufgerufen.
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