Topic: - on January 4, 2003 at 11:01:08 AM CET
Police Foil Drug-Smuggling Chicken Legs
British police said on Friday they had foiled an attempt to smuggle fried chicken legs stuffed with cannabis to a gunman involved in one of Britain's longest armed sieges on record.
Detectives agreed to let the gunman order the food in a bid to persuade him to end the stand-off at a house in east London where he has been holding a man hostage for more than a week.
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Topic: - on January 4, 2003 at 10:43:50 AM CET
THE 100 MOST ANNOYING THINGS of 2002
Well, it's time again to look at the most irritating things of the previous year. This was certainly a tougher year than most, with no shortage of aggravating people and incidents to choose from, but I hope you're happy with the result!
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Topic: - on January 4, 2003 at 10:41:15 AM CET
Sex disease 'created to sell new drugs'
Drugs companies have invented a new disease, "female sexual dysfunction", to sell their new products, a paper in the British Medical Journal claims today.
Over the past six years, researchers with ties to the pharmaceutical industry have developed and defined the new disorder, the report says.
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Topic: - on January 4, 2003 at 10:37:55 AM CET
Why RIAA Keeps Getting Hacked
The Recording Industry Association of America may not want people to share digital files, but the organization certainly seems to be in favor of open access to its website.
On Monday, the RIAA site was hacked for the sixth time in six months.
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Topic: - on January 4, 2003 at 10:28:13 AM CET
IBM goes Lego with Ice Cube storage, server prototypes
The prototype was developed under the code-name Ice Cube at the Almaden facility, where IBM does research primarily related to storage, and is called Collective Intelligent Bricks for the outside world. While this is a boring name, the prototype has two aspects that may make it very appealing as a commercial product: it cuts costs a lot, and it looks cool.
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