Topic: - on January 10, 2003 at 7:26:58 PM CET
Letzter Mafia-Pate von New York vom Sohn verraten
Der letzte der insgesamt fünf großen Mafia-Bosse von New York ist jetzt verhaftet und wegen zahlreicher Verbrechen angeklagt worden. Joseph Massino, Pate des geheimnisumwitterten Bonnano-Clans, sei von seinem eigenen Sohn verraten worden, berichtete heute die "New York Times".
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Topic: - on January 10, 2003 at 7:03:25 PM CET
Show tries to outwit 'ad zappers'
Will incorporate ads into program content
No more "... and now a message from our sponsor"?
Striking a blow against viewers who skip through TV commercials, a new variety series will blend advertising messages into its program fare, offering a seamless hour of entertainment mixed with salesmanship.
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Topic: - on January 10, 2003 at 6:10:49 PM CET
Politician Caught Up in Vampire Rumors
Hundreds of angry Malawians hounded a senior political figure from his house and stoned him late Wednesday, accusing him of harboring vampires. Blantire Urban Governor Eric Chiwaya, a member of the ruling United Democratic Front, was the latest victim of a bizarre rumor that the country's government is colluding with vampires to collect human blood for international aid agencies.
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Topic: - on January 10, 2003 at 6:02:44 PM CET
Afghan drug crops up despite curbs
Opium production in Afghanistan has risen twentyfold over the past two years to levels similar to peak production under the terrorist-tied Taliban regime, the head of the Drug Enforcement Administration said yesterday. DEA Administrator Asa Hutchinson said independent drug traffickers had re-established traditional trade routes in the war-torn country and there had been a significant increase in the number of acres planted with opium poppies, which are processed into heroin.
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Topic: - on January 10, 2003 at 5:54:22 PM CET
Personal strap-on aircraft up for sale
Designers of a personal aircraft that they hope might one day transport soldiers over land mines or zip commuters above rush hour traffic are putting the one-of-a-kind device up for auction on Friday to help raise cash for further research. The device could be yours with a winning bid on eBay with just one catch — you have to agree not to use it.
¬><a href="www.msnbc.com"target="_blank">msnbc
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Topic: - on January 10, 2003 at 5:50:00 PM CET
Luggage bomb hoax lands couple in jail
A Maine couple's attempt to make a political statement by rigging up a fake bomb in their checked luggage led to their arrest, officials said Thursday.
Paul Kenneth Donahue, 50, and Teresa Marie Wood, 46, had been scheduled to fly from San Jose, California, to Atlanta, Georgia, on Delta Flight 576 Tuesday. When their bags were put through a bomb detection machine, federal screeners found what turned out to be a snow boot with batteries, wires and an electrical power strip arranged in a suspicious way.
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Topic: - on January 10, 2003 at 3:37:02 PM CET
Tischfußball-Roboter soll in die Serienproduktion
Der von Wissenschaftlern der Universität Freiburg entwickelte vollständig autonom spielende Tischfußball-Roboter KiRo erfasst über eine über dem Tisch montierte Kamera das Spielfeld und entscheidet in Abhängigkeit von der aktuellen Spielsituation, wie sich die von ihm kontrollierten Stangen bewegen sollen.
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Topic: - on January 10, 2003 at 3:29:10 PM CET
Neue Gema-Gebühren für DVD- und CD-Rohlinge
Hersteller von (wieder-)beschreibbaren DVDs sollen der Gema zufolge künftig wie bei VHS-Kassetten 0,087 Euro je Spielstunde eines 4,7-GByte-Mediums zahlen - also insgesamt 0,174 Euro pro Stück. Die Speicherkapazität von 4,7 GByte entspricht der Gema zufolge einer Video-Aufnahmekapazität von 120 Minuten.
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Topic: - on January 10, 2003 at 3:19:47 PM CET
Quebecer finds one kilogram package of cocaine in mailbox, feared anthrax
Emergency squads racing to a report of anthrax in a mailbox were surprised to find instead that it was a one kilogram package of cocaine delivered to the wrong place.
"It was placed in a postal multi-box, very precisely in the box of a particular person," said Quebec provincial police spokesman Daniel Lamirande on Thursday.
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Topic: - on January 10, 2003 at 1:01:08 PM CET
Polar Bear Headed For Extinction
Unless the pace of global warming slows or stops, polar bears could disappear within a century, says a University of Alberta expert in Arctic ecosystems.
While it has been known for some time that the polar bear is in trouble, new research shows that Arctic ice - the polar bear's primary habitat - is melting much faster than scientists had believed, says U of A biologist Dr. Andrew Derocher.
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Topic: - on January 10, 2003 at 12:33:30 PM CET
Gecrackt, geknackt, beknackt?
NEO PROJECT
Distributed Computing (DC) vereint die Kraft vieler kleiner Rechner zu virtuellen Supercomputern. Nur so, tönt das Neo Project, läßt sich die Verschlüsselung der Xbox cracken. Anfang der Woche sah es eher so aus, als hätte Microsoft das Neo Project geknackt. Gar nicht nötig, meinen DC-Fans dagegen, Neo selbst sei beknackt.
¬><a href="www.spiegel.de"target="_blank">Spiegel
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Topic: - on January 10, 2003 at 12:27:34 PM CET
Man stands out naked in Siberian winter for four hours
A Chinese man has broken his own record by standing naked in sub-zero Siberian winter conditions for four hours. Jin Songhao, a 48-year-old man from China's north-eastern Heilongjiang province, broke his record in the provincial capital of Harbin. The Xinhua news agency reported that he stood in a "scenic spot" and that the temperature dropped to -29C.
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