Topic: POLICE REPORT - on May 30, 2004 at 6:24:00 PM CEST
Government Laptop of DEA Informants Missing
An unnamed auditor for the Justice Department's Office of Inspector General who had the task of reviewing payments to DEA informants is the last person know to have had a laptop containing a wealth of confidential information on up to 100 informants.
First the auditor said the laptop was stolen from his truck but when confronted by investigators, changed his story and said he had accidentally damaged then destroyed it and threw it in a dumpster to avoid embarrassment.
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Topic: NEWS english - on May 30, 2004 at 5:57:00 PM CEST
National hot dog eating contest
Participants take part in a national hot dog eating contest to mark the opening of Nathans' 2nd store in Japan at Shiodome on Sunday. Special guest at the event, televised live, was world champ Takeru "Tsunami" Kobayashi who won the title last July for the 3rd straight year by downing 44 1/2 dogs in 12 minutes.
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Topic: NEWS english - on May 30, 2004 at 5:53:00 PM CEST
Bolivian beauty in ugly fracas
Bolivia's entrant in next week's Miss Universe pageant is facing calls to quit after she made what many thought was a 'racist' remark.
Gabriela Oviedo, 21, caused a furor when she described herself as tall, white woman and not a short Indian peasant.
Critics say contestants are
mostly beauties without brains ¬> aljazeera
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Topic: Terror - on May 30, 2004 at 5:49:00 PM CEST
Malaysia arrests alleged black market nuclear agent
Malaysia's surprise arrest of a senior figure in disgraced Pakistani scientist Abdul Qadeer Khan's nuclear proliferation network has prompted suggestions it was done to appease the US and protect the prime minister's son from further scandal.
A US State Department spokesman said Washington was "delighted" with the arrest of Buhary Syed Abu Tahir on Friday, three months after police cleared him of breaking any Malaysian laws for arranging for a company controlled by Prime Minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi's son to make centrifuge parts for Libya's nuclear programs.
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Topic: POLICE REPORT - on May 30, 2004 at 5:39:00 PM CEST
Coming to the Big Screen: NYPD View
New York's police are buying a cutting-edge display system to better monitor the deluge of information that pours in every day
The New York City Police Dept. is awash in data. Every year, it's flooded with 12 million emergency calls and hundreds of thousands of arrest records. Over the last 10 years, it has mined that data to help reduce crime by a stunning 70%.
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Topic: W A R - on May 30, 2004 at 5:31:00 PM CEST
War TV- On Your Computer
This website allows you to get TV stations from around the world- Saudi TV, Baghdad TV, Al Jazeera and much more. See the war from the perspectives you never hear from in the states.
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Topic: POLICE REPORT - on May 30, 2004 at 5:23:00 PM CEST
Drunken driver crashes car into liquor store
The crash uprooted one of three cement-filled poles outside the store, plowed into a table and several plastic chairs, smashed the store's glass front door and came to rest in a nearby parking lot. Brenda James, 40, was treated at Tulare District Hospital, then arrested on suspicion of drunken driving.
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Topic: POLICE REPORT - on May 30, 2004 at 5:21:00 PM CEST
NHP's radio system crashes
The Nevada Highway Patrol’s new $10 million radio system crashed for 90 minutes during an evening rush hour this week, forcing northwest Nevada troopers outside Reno to use an older radio system, NHP officials said.
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Topic: NEWS english - on May 30, 2004 at 5:18:00 PM CEST
Surfer reports great white shark attack
Butch Connor says he was surfing off the north side of the beach when the shark swam straight at him and knocked him into the water. Connor fought back, hitting the shark with his board until it swam away.
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Topic: Terror - on May 30, 2004 at 5:14:00 PM CEST
Libyan nuclear equipment 'missing'
The United States has been told by Libyan intelligence officials that an important quantity of nuclear equipment secretly purchased by Libya in a bid to create its own nuclear arsenal appears to be missing, The Washington Post reported today.
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Topic: SCIENCE - on May 30, 2004 at 5:06:00 PM CEST
Close encounters of the rhinoceros turd kind
Volker Grun's thesis project is crap - but reeks of sex appeal.
The University of Canterbury student is embarking on a world-first study of white rhinoceros poo and its smell's effect on behaviour.
His horny study is the butt of many jokes but it is deadly serious - it aims to boost the endangered species' captive breeding rate, which hovers at a low 8 per cent worldwide.
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Topic: ART - on May 30, 2004 at 4:56:00 PM CEST
Controversial Gallery Owner Attacked
he got death threats after she displayed controversial paintings of US forces in Iraq at her San Francisco shop. Now, some believe, someone's anger over an artist's work has led to an attack on both a gallery owner and free speech.
The attack on the gallery owner is frightening enough, but she says trying to silence freedom of expression is even more dangerous.
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