Topic: DOPE HEAD - on April 9, 2003 at 10:05:38 AM CEST
«Superhacker» verdient Geld im Schlaf
«Kimble» ist wieder da. Inzwischen wegen Insiderhandels vorbestraft, hat Kim Schmitz nun ein neues Projekt: Ein IT-System soll an der Börse Geld verdienen - automatisch. Ein paar Monate war es ruhig um ihn, nun ist er zurück: Kim Schmitz, genannt «Kimble», der selbst ernannte «Superhacker». Jetzt hat der Jungunternehmer, der wegen Insiderhandels mit Aktien der gescheiterten Dot-Com-Firma Letsbuyit vorbestraft ist, eine neue Website ins Netz gestellt.
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Topic: TV - on April 9, 2003 at 10:00:30 AM CEST
«Sex and the City» geht in die letzte Runde
In New York haben die Dreharbeiten zur letzten «Sex and the City»-Staffel begonen. Die wichtigsten Fragen bleiben die gleichen: Was zieht Carrie Bradshaw an, und was ist mit Mr. Big?
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Topic: DOPE HEAD - on April 9, 2003 at 9:50:01 AM CEST
Ex-N.Y. Officer Admits to Strip Stops
A former police officer pleaded guilty Tuesday to charges that he forced four women to strip after he pulled them over for traffic violations. Prosecutors said Frank Wright, 36, forced one woman to walk home wearing only her underwear. He pleaded guilty to civil rights violations carrying up to five years and three months in prison.
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Topic: W A R - on April 9, 2003 at 9:32:16 AM CEST
CIA death squads operating in Iraq
The longer the Iraq war continues, the more Orwellian the language and the more sinister the methods adopted by the Bush administration and its allies. While President Bush and his officials depict Iraqis resisting the US-led invasion as “terrorists” and “death squads,” CIA and Special Forces assassination squads are at work in Iraq, seeking to eliminate Iraqi leaders and other opponents of the US occupation of the country.
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Topic: W A R - on April 9, 2003 at 9:25:03 AM CEST
Chemical hypocrites
When Saddam Hussein so pig-headedly failed to shower US troops with chemical weapons as they entered Iraq, thus depriving them of a retrospective justification for this war, the American generals explained that he would do so as soon as they crossed the "red line" around Baghdad. Beyond that point, the desperate dictator would lash out with every weapon he possessed.
Well, the line has been crossed and recrossed, and not a whiff of mustard gas or VX has so far been detected.
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Topic: W A R - on April 9, 2003 at 9:20:12 AM CEST
Hotel hit 'deliberate': French TV
FOOTAGE filmed by France 3 television of a strike on a hotel which killed two journalists in Baghdad today shows a US tank targeting the journalists' hotel and waiting at least two minutes before firing.
The journalist and film editor who filmed the attack, Herve de Ploeg, who filmed the attack, said: "I did not hear any shots in the direction of the tank, which was stationed at the west entrance of the Al-Jumhuriya (Republic) bridge, 600 metres north-west of the hotel."
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Topic: MUSIK - on April 9, 2003 at 9:16:24 AM CEST
Beethoven Symphony Manuscript For Sale
Beethoven's final manuscript of the Ninth Symphony, marked with the composer's revisions and insults to the copyist who produced it, could fetch up to $4.6 million at a sale in London next month.
"This is one of the greatest works ever written by man, and it isn't likely there will be another complete Beethoven manuscript up for sale ever again; the rest are lost or in libraries," Stephen Roe, Sotheby's head of manuscripts, said Tuesday.
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Topic: COMPUTER - on April 9, 2003 at 9:12:58 AM CEST
Student's Web site hacked by al-Qaida
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It could be any foreign student's nightmare: the FBI wants to talk to you about your connections to al-Qaida.
Such was the case with Conrado Salas Cano, a PSU graduate student in physics and environmental science. Unknown to him his Web site was carrying al-Qaida's claim of responsibility for the Sept. 11 attacks, the suicide-bombing of the USS Cole, the 1998 bombings of two US Embassies in Africa and page after page of terrorist propaganda in Arabic.
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Topic: TV - on April 9, 2003 at 9:06:33 AM CEST
War Costs TV Networks $77 Million in 1st Week
elevision networks lost $77 million in advertising revenue in the first week of the U.S.-led war on Iraq, research firm CMR said on Tuesday. The major broadcast networks -- ABC, CBS, NBC and Fox, lost $22.4 million in commercial revenue on March 20, which was the first full day of military action. Cable news channels lost $3.6 million that day, when many networks preempted their regular programming for war coverage, media research firm CMR said.
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