Topic: - on November 14, 2003 at 9:18:49 PM CET
IBM builds new supercomputer
International Business Machines Corp. said Friday that it has built a supercomputer the size of a television based on microchip technology to be used in gaming consoles due out next year.
IBM said the supercomputer, which can perform 2 trillion calculations per second, is a small-scale prototype of the Blue Gene/L supercomputer that it is building for the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California.
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Topic: DOPE HEAD - on November 14, 2003 at 9:14:04 PM CET
Fla. Woman Crashes Into DMV Building
A 69-year-old woman crashed her car into the Department of Motor Vehicles building where she intended to renew her driver's license. Denise G. Butterfield said she was pulling into a handicapped parking space when her car suddenly jumped the curb and smacked into the front of the building Thursday.
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Topic: COMPUTER - on November 14, 2003 at 7:25:32 PM CET
Al-Jazeera hacker sentenced
A Los Angeles-area man has been fined and sentenced to community service for hacking into the Web site of satellite TV network Al-Jazeera during the U.S.-led war in Iraq and rerouting visitors to a page featuring an American flag and the motto "let freedom ring.''
At a sentencing hearing Wednesday, U.S. District Judge Howard Matz told Web designer John William Racine II: "I don't think of you as an evil person...but this was a crime. It wasn't just a childish prank."
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Topic: DRUGS - on November 14, 2003 at 7:23:08 PM CET
Cocaine delivered to second school
Fifteen pounds of cocaine found in a ground-meat box at East Central Upper Elementary School came from the same shipment sent to an Ellisville school, where 15 pounds of cocaine was found in a ground meat box last week.
A cafeteria worker at the Hurley school found the cocaine in a box stamped Lot No. 021 early Monday morning.
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Topic: LOST FOUND - on November 14, 2003 at 7:14:32 PM CET
Croc catcher will use bare hands
An Australian hunter who catches crocodiles with his bare hands, has demanded chicken heads, a bamboo pole, and a boat to trap a tricky Hong Kong crocodile that has evaded local officials for two weeks.
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Topic: POLICE REPORT - on November 14, 2003 at 2:03:07 PM CET
Cops refuse to admit mistake, and charge driver who was scratching
Highway police who stopped a driver they believed was using his cell phone erred twice. First, he was just scratching his ear. Second, he was a lawyer.
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Topic: LOST FOUND - on November 14, 2003 at 11:37:02 AM CET
Underwear Boiling System
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Topic: LOST FOUND - on November 14, 2003 at 11:31:29 AM CET
50 Things You're Not Supposed to Know
Russ Kick has proved himself a master at uncovering facts that "they" would prefer you never hear about. The giant Disinformation Guide series edited by Kick has become the definitive place to find revelations about government cover-ups, scientific scams, corporate crimes, medical malfeasance, historical whitewashes, media manipulation, and other knock-your-socks-off secrets and lies.
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Topic: NATURE - on November 14, 2003 at 10:43:42 AM CET
Beauty spot is Italy nuclear dump
The Italian Government has selected a town in an area of outstanding natural beauty as the site for an underground nuclear waste dump. The small coastal town of Scanzano is in the extreme south of Italy. Experts say the waste will remain radioactive for up to a 150,000 years.
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Topic: LOST FOUND - on November 14, 2003 at 10:25:07 AM CET
Breakthrough drug Valium turns 40
A cultural phenomenon is headed over the hill. A tiny pill that became a part of the American lexicon and inspired novels like “Valley of the Dolls” and songs like the Rolling Stones’ “Mother’s Little Helper” is hitting the big four-oh this weekend. Forty years ago this Saturday — Nov. 15, 1963 — the Food and Drug Administration approved Valium.
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Topic: LOST FOUND - on November 14, 2003 at 9:37:53 AM CET
Aldi will Kunst verkaufen
Mit Produkten für die oberen Zehntausend handelt der Discounter Aldi schon seit langem mit Erfolg - Champagner, Barolo und Olivenöl "Extra Vergine" sind der beste Beleg dafür. Doch jetzt wagen sich die Aldi-Gründer auf ein neues Geschäftsfeld: Sie werden Galeristen.
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Topic: - on November 14, 2003 at 8:38:33 AM CET
The 50 Best Guy Movies Of All Time
Culturally, guys often get the short end of the stick. Most books are bought by women, the music industry caters to teenagers, and when was the last time an art museum had an exhibit on nitro-burning funny cars? But the movies have always been good to us. The first feature film, 1904's The Great Train Robbery, was full of trains, guns, and chases -- guy friendly from start to finish. And Hollywood has been in our corner ever since.
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