Topic: TV - on April 3, 2003 at 10:13:55 AM CEST
Iraq acts against Arabic satellite network
The Arab satellite channel Al-Jazeera announced Thursday that Iraqi officials are expelling one of its reporters from Baghdad and barring another from reporting.
The station interrupted a regular newscast to announce that Iraq’s Information Ministry had informed it that correspondent Diar al-Omari, an Iraqi, could no longer report for the network and that visiting correspondent Tayseer Allouni must leave the country.
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Topic: CARS - on April 3, 2003 at 10:07:02 AM CEST
LO-O-ONG LIMO
Among the automotive stars is the world's longest street-legal limo. The luxurious 1996 Lincoln Town Car measures 65 feet from bumper to bumper. Valued at $1.8 million, it seats 33, has a 42-inch plasma screen TV, six additional televisions, laser lights and a smoke machine. It's owned by Clyde Bailey, founder of Fantasy Limousine in Greensboro. He bought it from a sheik two years ago and actually had to shorten the car from its original 75-foot length.
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Topic: - on April 3, 2003 at 9:59:38 AM CEST
Teen Hires Prostitute From Hospital Bed
Authorities are investigating whether to press charges after a 15-year-old patient at University of Michigan C.S. Mott Children's Hospital sought out an escort service for sex during his hospital stay this week.
The woman reportedly came to the hospital, where she and the boy engaged in consensual sex - although the teen is not legally at an age of consent, according to police.
Police believe the two had sex somewhere other than his hospital room, the paper reported.
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Topic: COMPUTER - on April 3, 2003 at 9:53:46 AM CEST
Earth Simulator
The ES is a highly parallel vector supercomputer system of the distributed-memory type, and consisted of 640 processor nodes (PNs) connected by 640x640 single-stage crossbar switches. Each PN is a system with a shared memory, consisting of 8 vector-type arithmetic processors (APs), a 16-GB main memory system (MS), a remote access control unit (RCU), and an I/O processor. The peak performance of each AP is 8Gflops. The ES as a whole thus consists of 5120 APs with 10 TB of main memory and the theoretical performance of 40Tflops.
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Topic: W A R - on April 3, 2003 at 9:46:38 AM CEST
Marijuana washes ashore
About 500 pounds (220 kg) of marijuana has washed ashore on several south Florida beaches, prompting a late-night search for drug smugglers in choppy coastal waters.
Federal and local law enforcement agencies sent two helicopters and two boats on Tuesday night to scour the sea for suspects after a man reported coming across a large bale of marijuana while strolling on the beach, police said.
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Topic: - on April 3, 2003 at 9:25:48 AM CEST
French Battle Flag T-Shirt
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Topic: W A R - on April 3, 2003 at 9:23:28 AM CEST
Saddam Departs Baghdad
The little hard information reaching DEBKAfile’s most reliable intelligence sources is that Saddam and his sons departed Baghdad some days ago. They do not know where he went, or in what state of health, whether he traveled abroad for medical treatment or the family headed for a safe berth prepared in advance, or even if they arrived safely at their destination.
But it is safe to say that Saddam and the senior members of his family are no longer at the helm of government.
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Topic: NASA - on April 3, 2003 at 9:16:57 AM CEST
NASA Fakes Moon Landing!
Heroic images or NASA fraud? At last we have the conclusive proof! The image on the left clearly shows the supposed 25,000 of thrust generated by the lunar lander to arrest its descent. Yet in the image on the right, where is the giant crater this would have created? Looks like the complex web of NASA lies is about to unravel!
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Topic: - on April 3, 2003 at 9:13:46 AM CEST
Baghdad from the air
Click on the numbered images above to zoom in to detailed photographs of the Iraqi capital. The pictures were taken before the recent bombing of Baghdad began.
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Topic: W A R - on April 3, 2003 at 9:12:14 AM CEST
Al-Jazeera most sought-after in Internet
In spite of being mostly knocked offline, the Web site of Arab satellite news network Al-Jazeera was among the most sought-after on the Internet last week.
The Web portal Lycos reported that "Al-Jazeera" and variant spellings became its top search term last week, with three times more searches than "sex."
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