Wednesday, 4. December 2002

Piano caught in rain may be damaged beyond repair


Philadelphia Orchestra musicians had to run offstage with their instruments after the fire safety sprinklers above the stage accidentally went off during a late-morning rehearsal in Verizon Hall on Tuesday.

The piano, worth roughly $80,000 to 85,000, was left with its top open and collected "quite a bit of water," Kimmel Center President Janice Price said.

¬> boston ¬> Star Tribune

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Plane hits elk during takeoff, catches fire


A small plane hit an elk during takeoff early Tuesday and erupted in flames. None of the four people aboard was injured. The elk was killed.

¬> azcentral

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Bomber targets Dutch Ikea stores


Police in the Netherlands are searching all 10 outlets of the Ikea furniture chain in the country, after finding bombs in three stores. The first two devices were discovered in Amsterdam and Sliedrecht, near the port city of Rotterdam, on Tuesday evening.

The bomb found at the Sliedrecht store later exploded at a police station, injuring two policemen.

¬> <a href="news.bbc.co.uk"target="_blank">BBC ¬> Reuters ¬> Associated Press

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Airports' Thanksgiving seizures: 15,982 knives and a brick


Some passengers still haven't gotten the word about what they can and can't take on planes.

Still, transportation officials said the airport chaos predicted by many never occurred. Passengers waited less than 10 minutes on average at security checkpoints during the first holiday travel season since an all-federal work force took over screening.

¬> CNN ¬> Salon ¬> Guardian

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Smallpox in Iraq?


Intelligence officials say an informant has reported the institute's late director, virologist Nelja Maltseva, moved the smallpox on a trip to Iraq in 1990.

"Maltseva had access to the entire collection, in all probability, of the Russian strains of small pox — at least a hundred," said Dr. Alan Selikoff, a scientist at the Sandia National Laboratories in Albuquerque, N.M.

¬> abc

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RIAA extends its grasp......to taxi drivers


Finland's Supreme Court has ruled that taxi drivers must pay royalty fees if they play music in their car while a paying customer is in the back seat, even if it's just the radio.

The case, based on one driver's refusal to pay, is likely to set a precedent for the nearly 9,500 cab drivers in the Nordic country.

¬> The Age

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UFO's in 15th Century Art


Painting of the Madonna and Saint Giovannino, in the Palazzo Vecchio in Florence, attrbuted to the 15th Century school of Filippo Lippi. Photographs courtesy of CUFOS.

A close-up of the upper left section of the painting shows an object in the sky, and below, a man and dog looking at the object.

¬> UFO

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Study Says Marijuana Does Not Lead to Hard Drugs


Countering a basic principle of American anti-drug policies, an independent U.S. study concluded on Monday that marijuana use does not lead teenagers to experiment with hard drugs like heroin or cocaine.

¬> abc

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30.000 Tiroler sind Alkoholiker


In Tirol sind 30.000 Menschen alkoholkrank. 60.000 Tiroler sind gefährdet, an der Alkoholsucht zu erkranken. Hunderte Menschen sterben jedes Jahr an Alkohol. Vielfach ist Alkohol auch Einstiegsdroge.

¬> <a href="oesterreich.orf.at"target="_blank"> Hier gehts zur Geschichte

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Gefiltertes Internet für China


Nach einer empirischen Analyse blockiert die chinesische Regierung Tausende von Websites - allerdings ist oft kaum ein System zu erkennen.

¬> <a href="www.heise.de"target="_blank"> Hier gehts zur Geschichte

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Concorde verlor Heckruder-Teil auf Transatlantik-Flug


Auf dem Flug von London nach New York hat ein Überschalljet des Typs Concorde ein Teil seines Heckruders verloren. Die Piloten hätten am vergangenen Mittwoch beim Anflug auf New York stetige Vibrationen bemerkt, aber erst nach der Landung festgestellt, dass ein Teil des Ruders fehlte, berichtete der britische Sender BBC heute in London.

¬> <a href="www.orf.at"target="_blank"> Hier gehts zur Geschichte

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