Topic: - on November 26, 2002 at 1:51:07 AM CET
Man killed in catapult stunt
A student died after being flung 100 feet into the air by a huge catapult. The 19-year-old was taking part in the stunt at the Middlemoor Water Park in Woolavington near Bridgwater, Somerset, on Sunday.
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Topic: - on November 26, 2002 at 1:48:45 AM CET
Vanguard 1, WORLDS OLDEST SATELLITE STILL IN ORBIT
This site is dedicated to those women and men who made this satellite, the oldest manufactured object in space, a reality.
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Topic: - on November 26, 2002 at 1:43:47 AM CET
Berlin Net cafés: a web of drugs and porn
Generally they show up in mid-afternoon when Berlin's many Internet cafés are full of young after-school patrons. Men in black berets and heavy boots march in, with a couple of them manning the exits lest anyone escape.
"Hands off the keyboards," an officer shouts. And then his men fan out to check what websites the customers have been surfing.
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Topic: - on November 26, 2002 at 1:23:26 AM CET
Haider offers to quit after defeat
A day after the extreme-right Freedom Party took a historic beating in national elections, its leader, Joerg Haider, tendered his resignation Monday as governor of the southern state of Carinthia.
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Topic: - on November 26, 2002 at 1:21:45 AM CET
Far-right Austrian politician Haider calls it quits after election disaster
Joerg Haider, whose praise of Hitler and anti-foreigner rhetoric helped fuel the meteoric rise of his party into government two years ago, called it quits Monday in the wake of the party's disastrous showing in general elections.
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Topic: - on November 26, 2002 at 1:19:41 AM CET
Austria Rejects Hate
In a Europe seeing a rise in synagogue burnings, swastika graffiti, and anti-Semitic candidates, the crushing election defeat of Austria's extremist Freedom Party - and its de facto leader, Jörg Haider - is a refreshing rejection of the politics of bigotry.
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Topic: - on November 26, 2002 at 1:15:01 AM CET
European far right's future in doubt after Austrian loss
The resounding defeat suffered by Austria's far right on Sunday casts a big question mark over the survival of the ultra-conservative movement across the continent.
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