Topic: COMPUTER - on April 3, 2003 at 11:39:37 AM CEST
Congresswoman's E-Mail Hacked
A hacker broke into a congresswoman's e-mail account Wednesday and used it to send a message condemning President Bush and the war in Iraq, her office said.
Rep. Ginny Brown-Waite drew attention last month when she proposed legislation to let families of Americans buried in France during the world wars bring home the remains if they are offended by France's stance against the war in Iraq.
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Topic: W A R - on April 3, 2003 at 11:33:41 AM CEST
From high above Baghdad
SATELLITE IMAGERY OF BAGHDAD
More than 400 miles above the Iraqi capital, the Ikonos satellite brings new glimpses of the war: Today the company behind Ikonos, Colorado-based Space Imaging, provides before and after views of Baghdad’s Republican Palace, as well as before and after views of the Dawrah area on the city’s outskirts, site of a controversial biological laboratory that had been visited by U.N. weapons inspectors.
Overview of City with Smoke Plumes - 4-meter resolution (4MB)
Republican Palace - 1-meter resolution (1.4MB)
Dawrah area - 1-meter resolution (1.6MB)
Area South of Shaab Stadium - 1-meter resolution (2.7MB)
Abu Ghurayb Palace - 1-meter resolution (2.6MB)
North Baghdad - 1-meter resolution (1 MB)
Saddam International Airport - 1-meter resolution (3 MB)
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Topic: NATURE - on April 3, 2003 at 11:13:25 AM CEST
Wie Elefanten trotz der Masse laufen
Elenfanten sind für ihre Größe und ihre behäbige Gangart bekannt - und dennoch können sich die Dickhäuter erstaunlich schnell bewegen. Laut einer neuen Studie erreichen die Tiere trotz ihrer enormen Masse eine Geschwindigkeit von bis zu 25 Stundenkilometer - zumindest einige Charakteristika ihrer Fortbewegung entsprechen dabei der wissenschaftlichen Definition des "Rennens", berichten US-Biologen.
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Topic: NATURE - on April 3, 2003 at 11:10:17 AM CEST
Elephants race for running status
Its official: elephants can run. Biomechanics researchers have done their sums and decided that the springy steps of an angry elephant at full charge count as running - not ambling or trotting.
As their speed rises past 16 kilometres per hour, elephants adopt "more of a bouncing motion", explains John Hutchinson of Stanford University in California. Technically, this makes them runners.
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Topic: TV - on April 3, 2003 at 11:01:06 AM CEST
Al-Jazeera halts Iraq broadcasts
The Arabic news channel al-Jazeera says it is suspending its reports from Iraq in protest after Baghdad banned two of its correspondents from working there.
The station said the Iraqi Information Ministry had barred Diyar al-Omari - an Iraqi - from reporting, and ordered correspondent Tayseer Alouni to leave the country.
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Topic: Terror - on April 3, 2003 at 10:58:46 AM CEST
Anti-missile system developed for civilian passenger planes
Two Israeli companies have developed an airborne anti-missile system designed to protect civilian passenger planes
The system is to be fitted to planes belonging to Israel's national carrier El-Al as soon as its is certified and will be offered to airlines around the world.
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Topic: W A R - on April 3, 2003 at 10:55:59 AM CEST
Photographer dismissed after altering Iraq photo
The Los Angeles Times said Wednesday it fired a photographer for altering a front page photo of a British soldier and a group of Iraqi civilians.
In an editor's note in Wednesday editions, the Times said photographer Brian Walski acknowledged in a phone call from Iraq that he had used a computer to combine elements of two photos to improve the composition.
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Editor's Note On Monday, March 31, the Los Angeles Times published a front-page photograph that had been altered in violation of Times policy.
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Topic: MUSIK - on April 3, 2003 at 10:46:50 AM CEST
'War' Singer Edwin Starr Dies at 61
Nashville-born soul singer Edwin Starr, whose 1970 hit "War" denounced conflict as good for "absolutely nothing," has died aged 61 from a heart attack at his home in central England, his manager said on Thursday.
"Edwin passed away at his Nottingham home on Wednesday afternoon following a heart attack," manager Lilian Kyle told Reuters by telephone.
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Topic: TV - on April 3, 2003 at 10:42:37 AM CEST
The Mother of all War Websites - MOAWW
Live TV/Radio/Scanners on your PC Every Baghdad webcam IRAQI Satellite Channel Do you want to watch and listen to more Television, Radio and Live Scanners from all over the world?
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Topic: GOOGLE - on April 3, 2003 at 10:29:39 AM CEST
Google im Visier von Microsoft
Microsoft will möglicherweise bald eine eigene Internet-Suchmaschine anbieten. Nach US-Medienberichten betrachtet der Software-Riese Google "immer mehr als Konkurrenten". Gleichzeitig betonte MSN-Marketing-Chef Bob Visse, dass sein Konzern "den Kunden ein besseres Such-Tool" bieten könne.
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Topic: GOOGLE - on April 3, 2003 at 10:27:04 AM CEST
Microsoft Says to Take Aim at Google
Microsoft Corp. the world's No. 1 software maker, on Wednesday said it is taking aim at privately held Google Inc., the Web-search company that's so popular its name is used as a verb.
"We do view Google more and more as a competitor. We believe that we can provide consumers with a better product and a better user experience. That's something that we're actively looking at doing," Bob Visse, director of marketing for Microsoft's MSN Internet services division, said.
Microsoft would not be the first Web portal provider to step into the Web search segment. Last month, Internet media company Yahoo Inc. closed its $235 million purchase of Internet-search company Inktomi Corp.
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Topic: W A R - on April 3, 2003 at 10:20:30 AM CEST
80 days that changed the world
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