Topic: - on December 4, 2002 at 3:55:52 PM CET
JUST OUT OF THIS WORLD
Total solar eclipse
Millions of people have watched a rare total solar eclipse take place in the southern hemisphere. In Africa, Angola's capital Luanda was one of the first areas to see the moon block the sun.Moving faster than 3,125 miles an hour, the lunar shadow sped eastwards across the continent and towards Australia.
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Topic: - on December 4, 2002 at 3:50:21 PM CET
Satellite Photos Depict 'Earth As Art'
They look like the work of abstract artists, but the images reflect reality — the rhythmic shapes of mountains, deserts, clouds, fjords, scattered cities and towns turned into brilliant patches of red, green and blue — flashed to earth from a satellite 440 miles in space.
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Topic: - on December 4, 2002 at 3:45:10 PM CET
Pentagon s Microwave Phaser
Medium rare please
The Department of Defense's bland name for this electronic heat ray is the Vehicle-Mounted Active Denial (VMAD) system, a mouthful of jargon that yields few clues about the weapon's nature. Allegedly designed for an Orwellian task—"humanitarian missions"—the VMAD is a giant version of your microwave oven, without the safety box surrounding it. The generals want to move it around on a humvee.
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Topic: - on December 4, 2002 at 3:39:47 PM CET
Tödliche Handys
Nach einem wissenschaftlichen Bericht steigt in den USA die Zahl der Unfallopfer durch Handy-Benutzung beim Autofahren und wiegen die gesellschaftlichen Kosten bereits die Einnahmen der Wirtschaft auf.
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Topic: - on December 4, 2002 at 3:38:46 PM CET
Ex-Eminem house bids out of control
The 5,000-square-foot colonial with a swimming pool and Jacuzzi went on the Internet auction site eBay last month and drew an initial bid of $600,000.
Someone bid $99.9 million, but backed out of the deal, and the next-highest bidder probably will pull out, too.
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Topic: - on December 4, 2002 at 3:32:36 PM CET
Putin packs vodka to avoid 'Delhi Belly'
Vladimir Putin is trying to avoid 'Delhi Belly' during a visit to India by washing his cutlery in vodka.
The Russian President's staff are using the alcohol as a disinfectant for all his hotel meals.
A Russian microbiologist is in charge of the operation to make sure he avoids stomach upsets during the trip.
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Topic: - on December 4, 2002 at 3:26:51 PM CET
"The Matrix and Philosophy"
Apparently, when the Wachowski brothers' film "The Matrix" was released in 1999, it set more than the minds of a few million video-game-stoked teenage boys a-whirring. Philosophers, who are quicker on the self-promotional uptake than they're given credit for, seized on the film as a way to illustrate various key principles of their discipline, and in "The Matrix and Philosophy" William Irwin has collected an array of their responses. The movie is, he says, "a philosopher's Rorschach inkblot test" where thinkers detect the ideas of whatever school they like best: "existentialism, Marxism, feminism, Buddhism, nihilism, postmodernism" and more.
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Topic: LOST FOUND - on December 4, 2002 at 3:15:29 PM CET
Monkey Hunt After 23 Women Attacked
Monkey business is anything but funny for one rural Japanese town where a roving simian has bitten 23 women over the past two days. "The monkey has been causing damage by stealing fruit since October, but this is the first time it has actually harmed people," a town official said.
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Topic: - on December 4, 2002 at 3:11:11 PM CET
CIA Has OK To Kill Americans Working For Al-Qaida
American citizens working for al-Qaida overseas can legally be targeted and killed by the CIA under President George W. Bush's rules for the war on terrorism, U.S. officials say.
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Topic: - on December 4, 2002 at 3:07:11 PM CET
Hacker breaks into book promotion
Mitnick, after five years in jail, says he wants to make a legitimate income by warning people of the tricks of the trade, doing so as a professional speaker, talk-radio host and, most recently, entrepreneur and author.
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Topic: - on December 4, 2002 at 3:02:33 PM CET
Gere Wins Dubious Prize for Giraffe Comparison
Richard Gere no longer interested in gerbils, turns his focus to giraffes
Pretty Woman star Richard Gere's animal magnetism has won him the unwelcome accolade of being declared the year's worst celebrity waffler by Britain's Plain English Campaign.... Link (0 comments) ... Comment
Topic: - on December 4, 2002 at 2:56:23 PM CET
Pc & H2o
I decided this weekend to try and quiten my PC by following some other members lead and going down the water cooling road. The fans on my PC were really starting to drive me mad.
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