Topic: - on December 6, 2002 at 11:35:01 AM CET
Airspace meets cyberspace
Soon you could be getting faster net access on the plane to your holiday destination than you can at home. Aircraft maker Boeing is staging trials of technology that will give passengers high-speed net access during their flight. The service will let passengers on long-haul flights browse the web with their own handhelds and laptops or let business travellers stay in touch with the office.
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Topic: MUSIK - on December 6, 2002 at 11:31:39 AM CET
Self-Tuning Piano Set to Make Sweet Music
An inventor has developed a piano that can tune itself in 40 seconds and which will hit the market next year. Conventionally, pianos are tuned by manually adjusting the tension of the strings struck when a piano key is pressed. But Don Gilmore's invention warms the strings using an electric current to reduce an excess of tension deliberately built in when the piano leaves the factory.
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Topic: - on December 6, 2002 at 11:28:03 AM CET
Berlin suicide mistaken for art
Berlin passers-by were slow to respond to a woman who had committed suicide, thinking that she was taking part in a piece of performance art. The 24-year-old woman died jumping from a window at the Tacheles art gallery in the fashionable Mitte district.
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Topic: - on December 6, 2002 at 11:20:52 AM CET
Urban legend about '9111' leads to pot house
Police say a bizarre urban legend led them to a house filled with marijuana plants. A woman accidentally called police early Tuesday morning because her son told her dialing an extra one after 911 would connect her with a taped message explaining whether police officers were tapping her phones.
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Topic: - on December 6, 2002 at 11:18:28 AM CET
U.S. warns of attack in Turkey
The State Department Thursday warned Americans of a possible terrorist attack against U.S. facilities and interests in Turkey, a NATO ally that is home to a key base used by the U.S. military to patrol Iraq.
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Topic: - on December 6, 2002 at 4:01:10 AM CET
Aus für die Marke "Windows"?
Gerichtsstreit: Lindows.com erwartet Entscheidung - Die nächsten 30 Tage sollen Klärung bringen.
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Topic: - on December 6, 2002 at 12:07:00 AM CET
Mordanschläge und Entführungen im amerikanischen Krieg ohne Grenzen
Als der texanische Schlawinerpräsident George W. Bush jun. ankündigte, dass er Usama bin Ladin "tot oder lebendig" haben will, benutzte er die Sprache des Wilden Westens, einer Kultur, deren "Wanted"-Plakate solche Menschen wie Billy The Kid, Doc Holliday oder die Wild Bunch dämonisierten. Eine solche Ausdrucksweise findet in einer Kultur einen größeren Widerhall, die fälschlicherweise an eine Gesellschaft glaubt, in der die guten Menschen stets ganz gut sind und weiße Hüte tragen, während die bösen Menschen durch und durch böse sind, schwarze Hüte oder einen schwarzen Turban tragen und schwarze Talibanbärte besitzen. Eine solche manichäische Darstellung funktioniert für ein Drehbuch ganz gut, aber ist in der wirklichen Welt verheerend, in der die "Bösen" von Nichtamerikanern oft auch als die wirklichen Helden gesehen werden.
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Topic: - on December 6, 2002 at 12:02:08 AM CET
Der Heilige Nikolaus
Der 6. Dezember ist der Tag des heiligen Nikolaus. Jener Mann, der der heutigen gabenbringenden Nikolaus-Figur Vorbild war, hat wirklich gelebt. Er war Bischof von Myra und war schon zu Lebzeiten eine Legende.
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