Topic: - on January 7, 2003 at 4:08:47 PM CET
Activist Cuts Dreadlocks as Moi Era Ends
A leading Kenyan activist shaved his dreadlocks to celebrate the retirement of President Daniel arap Moi, fulfilling a vow he made 13 years ago not to cut his hair until his old adversary left power.
Koigi wa Wamwere said he would offer his shoulder-length locks to Kenya's national museum as a monument to his long fight for democracy under Moi, who stepped down last week.
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Topic: - on January 7, 2003 at 3:42:31 PM CET
Intel executives cleared of balloon-popping charges
Intel executives have been found not guilty of damaging the property of rival Via Technologies -- including allegedly popping Via's balloons at a trade show -- by a Taipei court, as the legal hostilities between the two companies entered a new year.
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Topic: - on January 7, 2003 at 3:39:02 PM CET
'Weapons Of Mass Destruction' Voted 2002 Word Of The Year
The American Dialect Society has selected "weapons of mass destruction" as its annual choice. The chairman of the society's new words committee says it's impossible to turn on the radio or television without hearing the phrase nowadays.
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Topic: - on January 7, 2003 at 2:54:23 PM CET
The case of the dog doo
When Rover does his business on the narrow strip of grass between the street and the sidewalk, is he doing it on private property, or in some public doggy domain?
That's the question a court must decide after a homeowner claimed a dog walker trespassed and left behind a memento of the visit.
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Topic: - on January 7, 2003 at 2:48:09 PM CET
Drunk teacher arrested for stealing neighbor's beer
An Osaka high school teacher has been arrested for sneaking into a neighbor's apartment and drinking his beer, it was learned Monday.
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Topic: - on January 7, 2003 at 2:45:05 PM CET
Answering Machine Joke Triggers Terror Raid
An anti-terrorism squad raided the home of a Danish family after mistaking a light-hearted message on their answering machine for a hostage alert.
"We have been taken hostage by two children. Hurry. Help us after the beep. Now!" the Danish daily Politiken quoted the message as saying on Monday.
But police in the Copenhagen suburb of Gladsaxe and worried friends, who alerted the authorities on Saturday, thought the message said: "We have been taken hostage WITH two children."
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Topic: - on January 7, 2003 at 2:35:04 PM CET
First Segway owners are rich, bright, but not fat
He was one of the winners of the Segway early adoptors competition ran with Amazon.com. Thirty Segway purchasers were chosen from the hundreds of consumers who pre-paid on Amazon.com for April delivery of the first Segways. The lucky 30 received their Segways before Christmas. None were particularly obese. All were well-off (Segways cost $5000 apiece) and mostly college-educated and above.
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Topic: - on January 7, 2003 at 2:32:42 PM CET
Islanders tell how they survived Cyclone Zoe
All the inhabitants of a South Pacific island battered by a fierce cyclone have survived by fleeing to mountain shelters, according to a photographer who has landed on the island. He said it appereared no one had died on Tikopia, where it was feared hundreds might have perished after Cyclone Zoe tore through the remote eastern Solomon Islands yesterday morning.
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Topic: - on January 7, 2003 at 2:27:21 PM CET
Baby Born In Car After Dad Stopped For Speeding
A Kansas couple might have made it to the hospital on time today if they hadn't been going so fast.
Instead, their 6-pound, 14-ounce daughter was delivered by paramedics in the parking lot of a police station.
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Topic: - on January 7, 2003 at 2:09:58 PM CET
Psychologist devises formula for happiness
A psychologist claims to have produced a mathematical formula for happiness.
Carol Rothwell, an occupational psychologist, says to reach contentment we need P+(5E)+(3H).
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