Topic: W A R - on November 13, 2003 at 1:16:41 PM CET
CIA Report Says U.S. Losing Popular Support in Iraq
A CIAreport concludes that ordinary Iraqis increasingly are siding with the insurgency amid doubts about the U.S. ability to stamp it out, officials said on Wednesday, while the U.S. administrator in Iraq said it was hard to figure out where the Iraqi public stands.
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Topic: LOST - on November 13, 2003 at 1:13:13 PM CET
NYC woman married 27 times in immigration
A woman who was accused of accepting money to marry 27 illegal immigrants so they could get residency and work permits pleaded guilty Wednesday to one count of filing a false instrument.
Dezerrie Cortes, 40, had been charged with perjury and falsifying business records. In exchange for a plea deal that will get her six months in jail and 4 1/2 years' probation, she admitted lying Jan. 8, 2000, on an application for a licence to marry a man from India, saying she had never been married before, prosecutors said.
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Topic: DOPE HEAD - on November 13, 2003 at 1:07:07 PM CET
1,903 piercings
The Brazilian woman with the most body piercings in the world -- 1,903 -- fears returning to her crime-ridden home country as she would attract so much attention she could be robbed.
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Topic: DRUGS - on November 13, 2003 at 1:01:00 PM CET
'Skittling' New Drug Of Choice For Some Teens
A new trend among young Californians has them getting high from an over-the-counter cold remedy that looks a lot like candy. It's so popular that it even has its own name -- "Skittling." Children call the cold medicine Coricidin "Skittles," "red devils" or "crazy eights" because they come eight to a pack. Doctors say children take the red pills because they make the young people feel -- at the very least -- drunk.
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Topic: DRUGS - on November 13, 2003 at 12:56:52 PM CET
Cannabis passes last legal hurdle
Cannabis will be downgraded to a Class C "non-arrestable" drug on 29 January.
The reform to the Criminal Justice Bill was rubber-stamped by the House of Lords last night.
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Topic: LOST FOUND - on November 13, 2003 at 12:47:14 PM CET
Sign up for Secret Santa gift exchange
"The Yule alarm rings all around And sirens wail like times of yore Elves shiver at the awful sound For Secret Santa lives once more!"
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Topic: COMPUTER - on November 13, 2003 at 2:10:45 AM CET
Linux soll auf dem Desktop "erblühen"
Nachdem das freie Betriebsystem Linux auf Servern bereits großflächig Einzug gehalten hat, soll Linux nun auch auf dem Desktop verstärkt zum Einsatz kommen.
Bei der "Desktop Linux Conference" Anfang der Woche legten dazu etliche Hersteller ihre Pläne dar.
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