Topic: SEX - on September 4, 2004 at 1:31:00 PM CEST
Sex Volunteer Corps kindly share expertise with desperate virgins
Japan's infamous Sex Volunteer Corps is being swamped with frantic calls for its dispatch from growing numbers of desperate 30-something virgins, according to Asahi Geino (9/9).
Among the untouched are even some women creeping toward middle age who've been married for years, but their nuptials were never consummated.
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Topic: POLICE REPORT - on September 4, 2004 at 1:19:00 PM CEST
'Burglar' grounded as his false leg falls off
A burglar's getaway was halted when his false leg fell off as he struggled with the couple whose home he was raiding, a court was told yesterday.
Keith Bryson's artificial limb landed out of his reach in the garden after David and Heather Greenwood tackled him, Reading Crown Court heard.
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Topic: POLITIK - on September 4, 2004 at 1:08:00 PM CEST
George Jr sent out of Texas by father as a 'drunken liability'
The US president, George Bush, was transferred to the Alabama National Guard during the Vietnam war because his drunken behaviour was a political liability to his father in Texas, the wife of one of his father's former confidants revealed yesterday.
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Topic: DOPE HEAD - on September 4, 2004 at 12:35:00 PM CEST
BB-Jerry: Vom TV-Knast hinter echte Gitter?
Besonders helle ist er nicht, der Jerry: Beim Small Talk mit Lidiya plauderte er vor dem "Big Brother"-Publikum unheimlich un-heimlich über seine Karriere als Koks-Dealer. Und siehe da: Auch die Drogenfahndung schaut "Big Brother". Und ermittelt nun gegen Jerry.
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Topic: POLICE REPORT - on September 4, 2004 at 12:29:00 PM CEST
Knife attack at MI5 headquarters
Two security guards at MI5's headquarters in London have been attacked by a man carrying a machete.
The man is thought to have entered Thames House, in Millbank, through the Northern Ireland Office door and left through the main MI5 entrance.
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Topic: COMPUTER - on September 4, 2004 at 12:25:00 PM CEST
Scientists set new Internet2 speed record
Scientist have set another Internet2 speed record in their quest to prepare for the 15 petabytes of data Cern will produce yearly. Quick access to this data is important if scientist are to do anything with it.
The team, which included folks from AMD, Cisco, Microsoft Research, Newsys, and S2io, transferred 859 gigabytes of data in less than 17 minutes. It did so at a rate of 6.63 gigabits per second between the CERN facility in Geneva, Switzerland, and Caltech in Pasadena, Calif., a distance of more than 15,766 kilometers, or approximately 9,800 miles.
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Topic: POLITIK - on September 4, 2004 at 11:55:00 AM CEST
Historians criticize Schwarzenegger for Austrian history gaffes
Austrian historians are ridiculing California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger for telling the Republican National Convention that he saw Soviet tanks in his homeland as a child and left a "Socialist" country when he moved away in 1968.
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Topic: NEWS english - on September 4, 2004 at 11:49:00 AM CEST
Woman gets parking ticket in traffic jam
Renathe Opedal was hopelessly stuck in traffic during rush hour when an overeager attendant slapped her with a $73 parking ticket.
Opedal, 32, couldn't believe it. So she took the case to court -- and got the ticket anulled, plus an award of $585 for costs.
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Topic: NEWS english - on September 4, 2004 at 11:46:00 AM CEST
Forget the bedsheets, just buy a plasma TV, say modern British newlyweds
Whereas once they might have been delighted with a cotton pillowcase or humble cutlery, modern British couples about to get married now ask wedding guests for luxuries such as plasma-screen televisions.
The findings come in a study of half a century of wedding lists, collections of suggested gifts for guests to buy those tying the knot, deposited with leading British department store John Lewis.
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