Topic: POLICE REPORT - on July 13, 2004 at 12:28:00 PM CEST
Elephant kills man near Aids conference
An elephant in heat is suspected of goring and trampling a drunken man to death on Monday near a convention centre where about 17,000 delegates gathered for the 15th International Aids Conference.
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Topic: NEWS english - on July 13, 2004 at 12:20:00 PM CEST
Town kills 500 pigs for mating with dogs
A Kenyan mayor has ordered more than 500 pigs to be shot dead because they were mating with stray dogs, the East African Standard has reported.
A squad of town council guards moved from estate to estate shooting pigs roaming free in Nyahururu town, 95 miles north of the capital Nairobi.
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Topic: Glaubensfragen - on July 13, 2004 at 12:19:00 PM CEST
Let us drink a little and drive, pray priests
Zagreb - Croatian priests are calling for their exemption from a bill banning drivers from drinking before getting behind the wheel, since they have to imbibe wine while on the job, a local paper reported on Monday.
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Topic: NEWS english - on July 13, 2004 at 12:12:00 PM CEST
Tallest man benefits from press
His extraordinary height trapped Leonid Stadnik in a tiny Ukrainian village for years, but now the 8-foot-4 man is seeing his horizons expand to match his size. As he grew, his life seemed to be shrinking. He had to stop working as a veterinarian on a cattle farm three years ago after his feet were frostbitten because he couldn't afford proper shoes. Living on a $30 monthly pension, he tried to fill his days by gardening and helping out at his mother's cramped house.
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Topic: MUSIK - on July 13, 2004 at 12:10:00 PM CEST
Eminem gets his own satellite radio station
Eminem will have his own channel on satellite radio starting this fall, a major provider announced Monday.
Sirius Satellite Radio said it has teamed up with the Detroit-area rapper -- along with his label, Shady Records, and Interscope Records -- to create "a cutting-edge hip-hop music and lifestyle channel."
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Topic: MDA - on July 13, 2004 at 12:05:00 PM CEST
Samsung Introduces 3 Million Pixel Resolution Camera Phone
A 3 million pixel camera phone with digital camera level resolution has been introduced on the Korean market. Samsung launched its new video-clip-recordable 3 million pixel camera phone SPH-2300 on Sunday.
A pixel is one of the many tiny dots that make up the representation of a picture in a computer's memory; and more pixels mean better quality of the image.
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Topic: COPYRIGHT - on July 13, 2004 at 11:37:00 AM CEST
Time to dump MP3s?
There is no reason to defend MP3, no reason why everyone who currently listens to MP3s stored on their hard drive should not move to something significantly better. The resulting files were small enough to be traded over the net, and MP3 was the format used by Napster and other file-sharing and peer-to-peer networks in the late 1990's. It is still the one format that almost anything will play, a fact that has given it a lease of life it really does not deserve.
There are many things wrong with MP3 and only one thing right.
The right thing is that it does not come with any form of digital rights management.
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Topic: DRUGS - on July 13, 2004 at 11:36:00 AM CEST
Stoned Student Steals Car From LGA, Gets Lost In Connecticut
A Delaware college student ate a bag of hallucinogenic mushrooms and drove around in a pair of stolen cars before arriving, confused, on a mountain in northwest Connecticut police said.
Paul Cunningham, 21, hiked to a nearby home Thursday night and asked to call 911, police said.
"I think I stole a car," Cunningham told a dispatcher. "I'm not sure."
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Topic: DRUGS - on July 13, 2004 at 11:32:00 AM CEST
If you're carrying over 800 pounds of marijuana, don't use fake license plates
Thursday afternoon a police unit stopped an 18-wheeler on Highway 77 for having a fake license plate. Police say the driver became nervous, so they asked for consent to search the trailer.
Inside they found 52 bundles of marijuana weighing more than 800 pounds, hidden in a load of skateboards.
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Topic: HOLLYWALD - on July 13, 2004 at 11:17:00 AM CEST
Fahrenheit 9/11 has now grossed more than any of Disney's releases have this year
Michael Moore's Fahrenheit 9/11 held up well dropping 32% to $11M in its third weekend and watched its cume surge to $80.1M after only 17 days of national release. Adding 286 more theaters this weekend, the Lions Gate/IFC Films release averaged a solid $5,485 from 2,011 locations.
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Topic: - on July 13, 2004 at 11:09:00 AM CEST
'Internet's first blood sport'
The messages — with their fractured syntax and wild promises — are a familiar sight in e-mail inboxes. Sent primarily from Nigeria, they promise recipients up to tens of millions of dollars if they agree to take part in an arcane banking scheme.
Naive victims — spurred by promises of vast wealth that always remains tantalizingly out of reach — endure a constant drain of money as the scammers invent an endless series of fees and commissions, which will only end when the victim pulls out of the scam or is penniless. It's often referred to as the 419 scam, after the section of the Nigerian penal code it violates.
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Topic: DOPE HEAD - on July 13, 2004 at 11:03:00 AM CEST
Odor May Be Clue to Missing Airport Fish
A strong odor led airline officials to what they believe is the 40 pounds of halibut a traveler reported missing from his checked bags two weeks ago.
Brenee Davis, a general manager for Continental Airlines in Anchorage, said the company's baggage handlers discovered "a ton of rotting fish" under a luggage conveyor belt recently at Ted Stevens Anchorage International Airport.
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