Topic: - on January 4, 2003 at 1:27:45 PM CET
Teenagers caught with chocolate face drugs charges
Four German teenagers are facing drug charges despite the fact they were ripped off and paid £450 for two blocks of chocolate.
Police noticed the four, aged between 15 and 17, acting suspiciously inside Duesseldorf's main station.
When questioned, they admitted they had just come from the Dutch town of Venlo.
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Topic: - on January 4, 2003 at 1:21:37 PM CET
Second hoax to be born by Sunday
The head of the company that claims to have produced the first human clone says a second baby is expected to be born somewhere in Europe in the next few days.
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Topic: - on January 4, 2003 at 1:18:11 PM CET
Beekeeper survives 300,000 stings
A man trapped in his wrecked truck survived an attack by up to 300,000 bees searching for their hives after the truck crashed near Auckland. Chris Robinson had developed partial immunity to bee stings since he began beekeeping in 1982. "The rescuers would have been under more threat than Chris," his wife Laine said yesterday. "He was covered in stings all over his body and neck. "Most people would have died from that much venom."
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Topic: - on January 4, 2003 at 12:23:25 PM CET
Operating System and Web Server for -- billgates.com
The site billgates.com is running Apache/1.3.27 (Unix) mod_gzip/1.3.26.1a PHP/4.3.0 on Solaris 8.
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Topic: - on January 4, 2003 at 12:03:14 PM CET
World Trade Center designs questioned
Ideas for redevelopment of the World Trade Center site, presented last December amid a blaze of publicity, are being questioned by specialists.
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Topic: - on January 4, 2003 at 11:52:57 AM CET
Tolkien Fans Mark Birthday Anniversary
"Lord of the Rings" fans worldwide celebrated what would have been the 111th birthday of J.R.R. Tolkien on Friday by raising a glass to the author.
The milestone holds special significance for devotees of the fantasy trilogy — Tolkien referred to it as an "eleventyfirst birthday ... a rather curious number and a very respectable age for a hobbit."
The opening installment of the trilogy, "The Fellowship of the Ring," begins with the "long-awaited party" held to celebrate the 111th birthday of hobbit Bilbo Baggins.
Tolkien himself did not make the grand age of his character, dying in Oxford on Jan. 3, 1973, aged 81.
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Topic: - on January 4, 2003 at 11:50:18 AM CET
Violence Breaks out in Los Angeles Cyber Cafes
Los Angeles cyber youth are the subject of a recent investigation by the Los Angeles Police Department following a yearlong streak of violence at citywide cyber cafes.
On Monday, Dec. 30, Los Angeles police reported a PC game-related dispute outside a cyber cafe called NetStreet in the Northridge area of the city that involved several teens using chairs and steel pipes as weapons. One teen was shot in the leg and another teen suffered a head wound, police said. Some reports said the brawl involved nearly 100 people.
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Topic: - on January 4, 2003 at 11:46:03 AM CET
Polar Weather Takes Wind Out of Expedition
Two Irishmen have abandoned their attempt to cross Antarctica on sledges pulled by large kites after the wind let them down.
Brian Cunningham, 59, and Jamie Young, 52, said in notice on their expedition Web site that their pioneering attempt had been "frustrated by almost windless conditions."
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Topic: - on January 4, 2003 at 11:37:07 AM CET
BMW unveils first German Rolls
BMW, the world's second-largest luxury-car maker, has unveiled the first German-built Rolls-Royce.
The car went on sale on Friday. Surprisingly, BMW has not been allowed to promote the car in any way, but that has not stopped buyers trying to snap up some of the 1,000 cars being made each year.
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Topic: - on January 4, 2003 at 11:26:03 AM CET
Koogle - The Kosher Search
Koogle is a parody created by Alon Landau Web Development and is in no way affiliated with the fine folks at Google. Nevertheless, Koogle is a real & effective Index/search engine targeted for the Jewish & Israeli community on the web.
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Topic: - on January 4, 2003 at 11:14:35 AM CET
'Monty Python' director MacNaughton dead
Ian MacNaughton, a television director who helped bring the anarchic "Monty Python's Flying Circus" to the screen, has died. He was 76. MacNaughton died December 10 in Munich, Germany, from injuries sustained in a 2001 car accident, Monty Python member Terry Jones said.
MacNaughton directed all but the first four episodes of "Monty Python's Flying Circus," which ran on BBC television from 1969 to 1974.
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Topic: - on January 4, 2003 at 11:08:28 AM CET
European Copyrights Expiring on Recordings From 1950's
European copyright protection is expiring on a collector's trove of 1950's jazz, opera and early rock 'n' roll albums, forcing major American record companies to consider deals with bootleg labels and demand new customs barriers. Copyright protection lasts only 50 years in Europe compared to 95 years in the United States, even if the recordings were originally made and released in America.
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