Topic: MUSIK - on January 5, 2004 at 11:57:00 PM CET
Jazz singer Rawls weds girlfriend
Jazz and blues singer Lou Rawls married his girlfriend of two years on New Year's Day, it has been announced.
The 70-year-old singer, best-known for his 1976 hit You'll Never Find (Another Love Like Mine), wed flight attendant Nina Malek Inman, 33, in Memphis.
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Topic: - on January 5, 2004 at 11:51:00 PM CET
Rush guitarist explains arrest
Lifeson pleads bad dancing, and more
According to police, a scuffle began when the entertainer's 30-year-old son, Justin, refused to leave the stage on which the house band was performing. They say he spat blood on a deputy's face and pushed an officer down a hotel stairwell during the fight that followed.
But Lifeson's version of events is different. "They didn't like the way we were dancing, apparently," he told the Associated Press as he left the jail on Friday.
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Topic: MUSIK - on January 5, 2004 at 11:48:00 PM CET
" You Really Got Me " Kinks star shot in New Orleans
Ray Davies, the lead singer with the British rock band The Kinks, is recovering after being shot in New Orleans.
A police spokesman said Davies and a female companion were walking near the French Quarter at about 8:30 p.m. ET Sunday when two suspects approached them and grabbed the woman's purse.
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Topic: MUSIK - on January 5, 2004 at 11:39:00 PM CET
Britney Spears' marriage annulment decree - annulment order
After hours of marital bliss, Britney Spears moved today to legally annul her romantic Saturday morning nuptials at Las Vegas's Little White Wedding Chapel. This morning, Spears, 22, filed the below annulment complaint with the Clark County District Court in a bid to wipe away her blessed, though brief, union to Jason Allen Alexander, a childhood pal from her hometown of Kentwood, Louisiana.
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Topic: SECURITY - on January 5, 2004 at 6:57:00 PM CET
"Soft Walls" sollen Terrorflüge verhindern
Motiviert durch die Terroranschläge vom 11. September 2001 denkt eine Forschergruppe an der kalifornischen Universität Berkeley darüber nach, wie sich so etwas künftig verhindern ließe. Als Lösung schlagen sie ein System vor, das in die Software moderner Flugzeuge integriert wird und dem Piloten bei Annäherung an ein potenzielles Ziel die Kontrolle über seine Maschine entzieht.
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Topic: Terror - on January 5, 2004 at 6:47:00 PM CET
Purported Bin Laden Tape Likely Authentic
A speaker believed to be Osama bin Laden said on an audiotape that the U.S.-led war in Iraq was the beginning of the "occupation" of Gulf states for their oil and called on Muslims to keep fighting a holy war in the Middle East. The tape is likely authentic, U.S. officials said Monday.
Bush: WHO?
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Topic: COMPUTER - on January 5, 2004 at 6:36:00 PM CET
Better search results than Google?
As wonderful as Internet search engines are, they have a pretty big flaw. They often deliver too much information, and a lot of it isn't quite what we're looking for. Who really bothers to read the dozens of pages of results that Google generates?
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Topic: Space - on January 5, 2004 at 6:31:00 PM CET
Hundreds see fireballs fall from sky in Spain
Hundreds of witnesses reported seeing fireballs cross the skies of northern Spain on Sunday in what authorities said may have been a disintegrating meteorite, Spanish radio said.
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Topic: Terror - on January 5, 2004 at 6:29:00 PM CET
List of Those Exempt From U.S. Air Rules
Citizens from 27 countries can travel to the United States without a visa and are exempt from being fingerprinted and photographed at U.S. airports and seaports under a new anti-terrorism program the Homeland Security Department launched Monday.
The countries are:
Andorra, Australia, Austria, Belgium, Brunei, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Monaco, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, San Marino, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, United Kingdom, Portugal and Singapore.
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Topic: COMPUTER - on January 5, 2004 at 6:16:00 PM CET
my new office
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Topic: COPYRIGHT - on January 5, 2004 at 6:11:00 PM CET
'DVD Jon' Seals Victory as Police Skip Appeal
Norwegian police said on Monday they would not appeal a landmark DVD piracy case for a second time, marking a final victory for a 20-year-old hacker and a defeat for Hollywood.
An Oslo appeals court cleared 20-year-old Jon Johansen, dubbed "DVD Jon," of piracy charges in late December, angering the U.S. film industry which had hoped for a legal precedent to prevent unauthorized copying of DVDs around the world.
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Topic: Terror - on January 5, 2004 at 5:19:00 PM CET
Quarantining dissent
How the Secret Service protects Bush from free speech
When President Bush travels around the United States, the Secret Service visits the location ahead of time and orders local police to set up "free speech zones" or "protest zones," where people opposed to Bush policies (and sometimes sign-carrying supporters) are quarantined. These zones routinely succeed in keeping protesters out of presidential sight and outside the view of media covering the event.
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