Topic: - on April 21, 2003 at 8:10:00 PM CEST
Brilliant scientist Nikola Tesla was a very strange person
A lot of people consider him to be the greatest inventor in history. He discovered alternating current, fluorescence, wireless transfer of power, remote control principles, he built a sun-powered engine, and a lot of other things. All achievements of the up-to-date electronic industry would be impossible without his discoveries and inventions.
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Topic: DRUGS - on April 21, 2003 at 8:03:00 PM CEST
Overweight bears slim down after seizure in drug raid near Canadian border
Two bears, overweight and ailing with broken teeth and claws when they were seized in a marijuana arrest at the Canadian border, are back in the pink of health, their caretakers say.
Corky and Pumpkin, seven-year-old sows that weighed 135 to 180 kilograms rather than the normal 90 to 115 kilograms when they arrived at Sarvey Wildlife Center in January, are also in better spirits, refuge owner Kaye Baxter said.
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Topic: LOST FOUND - on April 21, 2003 at 8:00:21 PM CEST
Gladiators March in Rome for Anniversary
Hundreds of gladiators sporting chain-mail, wolf-skins and swinging grappling nets marched by the ruins of ancient Rome on Monday in a birthday celebration for the city, which legend says was founded 2,756 years ago.
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Topic: DRUGS - on April 21, 2003 at 7:56:37 PM CEST
Navy storms N. Korea 'heroin ship'
The cargo ship, Pong Su, was intercepted Sunday by a navy warship after it refused police orders to stop off Australia's south coast. Troops boarded the ship using a helicopter and boarding vessels.
Police suspect the ship transported 50 kilograms (110 pounds) of heroin seized in the southeastern town of Lorne last week. Three men, from Malaysia and Singapore, were arrested last Wednesday and charged with importing heroin taken from the ship.
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Topic: DRUGS - on April 21, 2003 at 4:51:26 PM CEST
Feds considers axing potent pot
A strain of government-certified marijuana is extremely potent but difficult to grow, and may eventually be abandoned as too much trouble, officials say.
The flowering tops or buds of the strain, grown for Health Canada in a vacant mine section in Flin Flon, Man., contain between 20 and 25 per cent THC, the most active ingredient of marijuana, laboratory results show. American tests on marijuana seized by U.S. police forces suggest ordinary street dope averages about five per cent THC, with sinsemilla - considered the champagne of weed - averaging about 10 per cent.
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Topic: TV - on April 21, 2003 at 12:48:54 PM CEST
300 reasons why we love The Simpsons
The 300th episode of The Simpsons is broadcast today. Find a space on the sofa and read why, in 14 years, Matt Groening's show has become the world's best TV programme.
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Topic: MUSIK - on April 21, 2003 at 12:40:58 PM CEST
U.S. Backs RIAA in ISP Fight
The Bush administration is siding with the recording industry in its court fight to force Internet providers to disclose the identities of people who are illegally trading songs over the Web.
A Justice Department brief, filed Friday in U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, supports the effort by the Recording Industry Association of America to force Verizon Communications to identify a subscriber suspected of offering more than 600 songs from well-known artists.
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Topic: TOYS - on April 21, 2003 at 12:37:19 PM CEST
Military 'hamsters' show their might
Gemmy Industries' quick thinking, followed by success in Iraq, lands a golden egg for the toymaker.
The U.S. military may not blush at the compliment, but kids and adults are already big fans of toymaker Gemmy Industries' latest addition to its hamster family: the dancing military hamsters.
They come as a set of four -- representing the Army, Navy, Air Force and Marines -- and are dressed in the appropriate garb of their unit. In true military spirit, each "dancing" hamster also sings the song specific to its branch of the armed forces.
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Topic: - on April 21, 2003 at 12:26:35 PM CEST
4 in 1
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Topic: SCAM - on April 21, 2003 at 12:07:07 PM CEST
Fake bank site part of Nigerian scam
They’re certainly persistent. Another flavor of the well-known Nigerian scam has popped up, this one even more elaborate than the familiar e-mail solicitation. The scam appears to target former recipients who were initially drawn in by an e-mail offer, but abandoned the scheme half-way through. To ease potential victims’ fears, scam artists have set up a fake online bank, and even deposited funds into a bogus account there. One pair of victims has reportedly lost $100,000 to such a fake bank scam. And now, thanks to a private citizen who did a little sleuthing of his own, here’s a chance to see it in action.
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Topic: DRUGS - on April 21, 2003 at 12:00:49 PM CEST
High Holy Day for Potheads
The first of these days has already passed: April 15, tax day, when millions of Americans, according to the latest research, fail to pay billions in taxes. The other day is April 20 -- Saturday -- a day when thousands, if not millions, will "mow the grass." That's a polite way of saying that these folks get baked, blitzed, paggered, blazed, obliterated, perved, shmacked ... in other words, they get high, as 4/20 is recognized by many as "national smokers day."
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Topic: - on April 21, 2003 at 11:56:20 AM CEST
Google's easter egg hunt.
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