Topic: - on December 9, 2002 at 7:22:05 PM CET
COPPERFIELD COLLAPSES
Illusionist David Copperfield did a disappearing act in the middle of a sold-out show at the Jubilee Auditorium yesterday after collapsing from exhaustion. The 46-year-old superstar was rushed to University hospital by ambulance, leading to the cancellation of the rest of the performance and the final show of the night.
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Topic: - on December 9, 2002 at 7:13:53 PM CET
Das letzte Hemd
Getting Shirty Over Tax Hikes
"Es ist bald wieder Weihnachten, und da wird es langsam Zeit, sich über die Geschenke für unsere Lieben Gedanken zu machen, zum Beispiel für unseren Bundeskanzler Gerhard Schröder. Was mag der sich besonders wünschen?...klar......er will unser letztes Hemd!!!!!" - eine Ketten-Mail mit Folgen. Die ersten gespendeten "letzten Hemden" sind schon im Bundeskanzleramt eingetroffen.
The "last shirt for Schroeder" campaign was launched two weeks ago by Christian Stein, an Internet marketing consultant from Dortmund. The campaign Web Site www.aktionletzteshemd.de recorded 33,200 people as saying they had sent a shirt so far. "Dear Gerhard, I wish you a happy festive season and send you my last shirt to fulfill your greatest Christmas wish. That should make all further tax increases superfluous as I have nothing else left anyway," shirt senders write to Schroeder.... Link (0 comments) ... Comment
Topic: - on December 9, 2002 at 7:05:23 PM CET
Secret blasts rattle Cheney's neighbors
Neighbors of Vice President Dick Cheney are being shaken and rattled at least once a day by mysterious blasts on the grounds of the U.S. Naval Observatory where Cheney lives. The Navy says the explosions are part of a construction project that has been going on for several months now, but won't say more because the project is classified.
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Topic: - on December 9, 2002 at 4:53:27 PM CET
Credit card camera
A model of the world's thinnest digital camera, which is only 2 millimeters thick, was designed by a research group from Osaka University and private companies including camera maker Minolta.
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Topic: - on December 9, 2002 at 4:50:30 PM CET
500GB Firewire drive
Twice the size of hard drives currently on the market, the LaCie Big Disk is a unique innovation that offers 500GB of storage space in a portable 5.25” format. With this unsurpassed storage capacity, the 500GB LaCie Big Disk lets users store two days of uncompressed Digital Video or the equivalent of 100 personal DVD-Videos (MPEG2).
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Topic: - on December 9, 2002 at 4:30:48 PM CET
ABC eyes record as ad biz blitzes Bowl
A revved-up marketplace is pushing the ad revenues of the 2003 Super Bowl on ABC toward a possible record $130 million.
That's the word along Madison Avenue, which is buzzing about the $2.2 million per 30-second spot ABC has extracted, on average, from such advertisers as Anheuser-Busch, Pepsi, Cadillac and Levi's. These sponsors have already bought 80% or so of the 61 available spots in the 37th annual Super Bowl, slated for Jan. 26 in San Diego.
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Topic: - on December 9, 2002 at 4:27:14 PM CET
Coppola buys vineyard for a 'shocking' price
Film director Francis Ford Coppola has agreed to pay $31.5-million -- a wine industry record -- for the Cohn Vineyard in Napa Valley. The deal brings an end to a bidding war between Coppola and Robert Mondavi. The maker of Apocalypse Now and The Godfather will pay an estimated $350,000 an acre for the prized vineyard.
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Topic: - on December 9, 2002 at 11:51:11 AM CET
Kraft des Träumens
Der Jazztrompeter Donald Byrd wird 70 Jahre alt
Wer sich sein Leben vergegenwärtigt, muss durch viele Kapitel der Jazzgeschichte wandern. Er braucht nicht zu hetzen. Er kann schlendern, erlebt Aufbruch und Konsolidierung, radikale Phasen und die Öffnung für die Funksingale der afro-amerikanischen Pop-Kultur. Nur: Dass da einer sich untreu wird, erlebt er nicht.
¬> Süddeutsche ¬> Black Byrd
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Topic: - on December 9, 2002 at 11:45:29 AM CET
James: "I beat Harry Potters ass again"
The James Bond flick, which debuted as the No. 1 movie two weeks earlier, returned to the top spot with $13 million, according to studio estimates Sunday.
The mobster-in-therapy sequel "Analyze That," starring Robert De Niro and Billy Crystal, had a weaker debut than the original movie, opening with $11.3 million. "Analyze This" had premiered with $18.4 million in 1999 on its way to a total gross of $106.7 million.
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Topic: - on December 9, 2002 at 11:32:34 AM CET
Van Gogh cat burglars beat hi-tech alarms - with a ladder
A pair of thieves equipped with just a ladder, a large piece of cloth and a rope managed to break into Amsterdam's famous Van Gogh museum yesterday and make off with two multi-million-pound canvases by the artist. The stolen pictures were among the most carefully guarded and valuable works of art in the world.
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Topic: - on December 9, 2002 at 11:22:53 AM CET
German police crack down on Christmas tree 'mafia'
German police have launched a special task force to smash a Christmas tree 'mafia' who are destroying the country's woodland. It follows the revelation that one in ten trees in German homes this Christmas will be stolen.
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Topic: - on December 9, 2002 at 11:20:16 AM CET
Austrian figure skating gold medalist gets prison sentence
Austrian Olympic figure skating gold medalist Wolfgang Schwarz was sentenced to 18 months in prison Friday for his involvement in a plan to smuggle women into the country and force them into prostitution.
Schwarz, who won the gold in men's figure skating at the 1968 Olympics, was arrested in Vienna last March. Police charged him with procuring visas for seven young women who were smuggled from Eastern European countries to work in brothels.
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