Topic: NEWS - on December 9, 2003 at 10:54:45 AM CET
Raffiniert, die Österreicher
Der Linden-Käser lacht beim Stichwort «Österreich» dermassen, dass er sich beinahe eine Träne aus dem Auge wischen muss. «Die Reaktion der Österreicher auf den Raclette-Entscheid des BLW?» Der 43-Jährige lacht nochmals - herzhaft. «Die haben gemerkt, dass man so die Medien wecken kann. Da wird von ihrem Käse gleich auch noch geredet, wenn sie sagen, sie hätten den Raclette schon früher gekannt als die Walliser. Die sind raffiniert, die Österreicher.»
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Topic: TV - on December 9, 2003 at 10:48:52 AM CET
Sat.1 hat nun viele Probleme
Der Medienexperte Horst Röper sieht einen Zusammenhang zwischen dem Ende der «Harald Schmidt Show» und dem Wechsel an der Spitze von Sat.1. Das Gesicht werde dem Sender fehlen, sagte er der
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Topic: MUSIK - on December 9, 2003 at 10:45:48 AM CET
Kubanischer Pianist Ruben Gonzalez gestorben
2003 Der mit dem Film „Buena Vista Social Club“ weltberühmt gewordene kubanische Pianist Ruben Gonzalez ist im Alter von 84 Jahren gestorben. Wie seine Ärzte in Havanna mitteilten, erlag González am Montag den Folgen einer schweren Arthrose, die ihn bereits seit einem halben Jahr ans Bett gefesselt hatte. Bereits im Juli dieses Jahres war Compay Segundo vom Buena Vista Social Club im Alter von 95 Jahren gestorben.
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Topic: MUSIK - on December 9, 2003 at 2:20:02 AM CET
Ruben Gonzalez is dead
Pianist Rubén González was first recorded in 1943 with Cuban son innovator Arsenio Rodriguez, el Ciego Maravilloso. He's accompanied many other musicians since then. In 1998, he came out of retirement to play on the Afro-Cuban All Stars album with World Circuit, which later asked him to make a solo debut. And of course, he was a part of the famous Buena Vista Social Club CD.
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Topic: MUSIK - on December 9, 2003 at 2:11:04 AM CET
Turnpike Billboard Advertises White Supremacist Organization
A billboard, pushing people to a white supremacist website, is raising some eyebrows. The giant advertisement sits along the Turnpike on the Lake-Sumter County line. While we have chosen not to show and photos of the billboard or disclose the web site, we can tell you that most people will be unpleasantly surprised by the product advertised.
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Topic: MUSIK - on December 9, 2003 at 2:05:42 AM CET
Happy 60th Birthday Jim Morrison
Jim Morrison's former band mates burned candles, a rose and a poem at his grave in Paris on Monday, a tribute to the "Light My Fire" singer and cult figure on what would have been his 60th birthday.
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Topic: GINGER - on December 9, 2003 at 2:01:52 AM CET
Street bike meets Segway in this turbo-unicycle
When the top eggheads at Bombardier (a Montreal-based company that designs ATVs and jet skis) were asked to envision commuter transportation 25 years from now, they rolled with it.
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Topic: NEWS english - on December 9, 2003 at 1:49:32 AM CET
Over a half century of Rudolph the Red-nosed Pumping Unit
It all started when Montgomery Ward department stores published a little Christmas poem booklet in 1939 about a lonely reindeer with a shiny red nose who was chosen by Santa to light the way for his reindeer one foggy Christmas eve. The booklets were given to children by the Montgomery Ward Santas and were so popular they continued to be given away during the WWII years. But the little story reached new heights in 1949 when the song, "Rudolph the Rednosed Reindeer," sung by Gene Autrey, swept the country.
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Topic: Terror - on December 9, 2003 at 1:44:59 AM CET
Dirty bomb rockets vanish
In the ethnic conflicts that surrounded the collapse of the Soviet Union, fighters in several countries seized upon an unlikely new weapon: a small, thin rocket known as the Alazan. Originally built for weather experiments, the Alazan was transformed into a terror weapon, packed with explosives and lobbed into cities. Military records show that at least 38 Alazan warheads were modified to carry radioactive material, effectively creating the world’s first surface-to-surface dirty bomb. The warheads are not known to have been used. But now, according to experts and officials, they have disappeared.
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Topic: Terror - on December 9, 2003 at 1:40:36 AM CET
Survey: Saddam Killed 61,000 in Baghdad
Saddam Hussein's government may have executed 61,000 Baghdad residents, a number significantly higher than previously believed, according to a survey obtained Monday by
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Topic: COPYRIGHT - on December 9, 2003 at 1:38:38 AM CET
Daughter's downloads get mom sued
Michele Scimeca said she has tried to lay down the law when it comes to the online activities of her two teenage daughters.
So the Rockaway Township mom sounded surprised yesterday to learn that she is among at least eight New Jersey residents being sued by the music industry for illegal song-swapping.
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Topic: COMPUTER - on December 9, 2003 at 1:35:47 AM CET
Wicked Sun forces final death of Win98, Office 2000, etc
Microsoft will pull the plugs on MSDN downloads of a range of products, including Windows 98, Office 2000, SQL Server 7 and NT Workstation, next Monday. These contain the polluted Java which, according to the settlement with Sun, Microsoft has to stop supporting. So it's all Sun's fault, really.
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