Topic: Terror - on September 22, 2004 at 3:49:00 PM CEST
CAT STEVENS DEPORTED
Peace activist and singer/songwriter Cat Stevens is being deported from the US after being denied entry because his name appeared on a security "watch list".
A transatlantic flight he was travelling on to Washington DC was diverted under FBI orders and the former pop star was escorted from the plane.
The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) said the singer was denied access to the US "on national security grounds" and would be returned to Britain later today.
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Topic: SEX - on September 22, 2004 at 3:12:00 PM CEST
King of the funny skin flicks
Legendary filmmaker Russ Meyer dead
Russ Meyer, who helped spawn the "skin flick" with such films as "Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill!" and "Vixen," has died. He was 82.
Meyer died Saturday at his home in the Hollywood Hills, according to his company, RM Films International Inc. Spokeswoman Janice Cowart said Meyer had suffered from dementia and died of complications of pneumonia.
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Topic: e-bay - on September 22, 2004 at 12:45:00 PM CEST
Largest collection of beer-bottles world-wide for sale
13136 bottles of beer
For Sale! Largest collection of beer-bottles world-wide: 13 136 originally bottled items from 158 countries and 2 511 different breweries. Mentioned in the Guinness book of records for 18 consecutive years. The collection was started in 1980-the cost of acquiring the bottles makes the hobby quite expensive. 3 500 bottles are from breweries which have closed down. The smallest bottle measures 6cm, the largest 50cm. All bottles put on top of each other will reach a height of about 3 183m, eight times the height of the Empire State Building. All bottles put side by side on shelves 20cm deep would require a width of the shelves of 49m in a room 2,5 high. The bottles make an attractive wall display. Exhibitions in Berlin and Leverkusen showed that both men and woman enjoy the different kinds of bottles, especially the foreign ones. Minimum offer $150000. Shipment in 720 boxes on 18 pallets-weight 13 tons. Loading by sender-cost of shipment by cosignee. Telvision transfer-Radio reports-Reports press.You want to Guinness book of records ?
Starting bid: US $150,000.00
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Topic: DRUGS - on September 22, 2004 at 12:24:00 PM CEST
Hamburg: 2.200 kg Marihuana in jamaikanischem Schiffscontainer entdeckt
Die Hamburger Zollfahnder machten laut eigenen Angaben im August den größten Marihuanafund der letzten drei Jahre. Dieses befand sich in einem Schiffscontainer aus Jamaica. Insgesamt handelte es sich dabei um 2,2 Tonnen.
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Topic: COMPUTER - on September 22, 2004 at 11:04:00 AM CEST
Microsoft software caused air traffic shutdown
Someone forgot to reboot...
A bug in a Microsoft system compounded by human error was ultimately responsible for a three-hour radio breakdown that left hundreds of aircraft aloft without guidance on Tuesday, according to a report in the LA Times.
Nearly all of Southern California's airports were shut down and five incidents where aircraft broke separation guidelines were reported. In one case, a pilot had to take evasive action.
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Topic: POLITIK - on September 22, 2004 at 11:02:00 AM CEST
Politician injured by too much handshaking
Lawmaker Margaret May is all shook up.
The Queensland state legislator has pressed the flesh with so many voters in the first two weeks of campaigning for Australia's Oct. 9 election she has damaged tendons in her wrist and thumb and needs surgery to fix them.
"Being a woman, you shake men's hands all the time and they've got hard and very strong handshakes," said May, who was first elected in 1998. "In a campaign you would shake hundreds everyday."
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Topic: Terror - on September 22, 2004 at 11:00:00 AM CEST
Terrorverdacht: Cat Stevens Einreise in die USA verweigert
Dem zum Islam konvertierten einstigen Popstar Cat Stevens ist als Terrorverdächtigem gestern die Einreise in die USA verweigert worden. Der seit Jahrzehnten unter dem Namen Yusuf Islam Lebende werde heute nach Europa abgeschoben, sagte ein Sprecher des US-Heimatschutzministeriums nach US-Medienangaben. Islam sei aus Gründen der nationalen Sicherheit der USA festgenommen worden.
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Topic: Terror - on September 22, 2004 at 10:59:00 AM CEST
Passenger Cat Stevens Gets Plane Diverted
A London-to-Washington flight was diverted to Maine when it was discovered that passenger Yusuf Islam — formerly known as singer Cat Stevens — was on a government watch list and barred from entering the country. United Airlines Flight 919 was en route to Dulles International Airport when the match was made Tuesday between a passenger and a name on the watch list, said Nico Melendez, a spokesman for the Transportation Security Administration.
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Topic: Terror - on September 22, 2004 at 10:57:00 AM CEST
Note prompts flight cancellation
Midwest Airlines canceled a flight ready to take off for San Francisco after a passenger found a note in Farsi in the company's in-flight magazine and alerted the crew.
The plane, carrying 118 passengers and five crew members, had already pulled away from the gate at Mitchell International Airport Sunday evening. It returned to the gate, the passengers got off, security authorities were notified, all luggage was checked and the aircraft was inspected. Nothing was found.
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Topic: FUN - on September 22, 2004 at 10:48:00 AM CEST
Nintendo's Newest Product Aims for Adults
SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 20 - In a shift in strategy, Nintendo is expected to announce on Tuesday that it plans to begin selling its next generation of hand-held video game devices in the United States in time for the coming Christmas season.
The company is also hoping that by selling the new device, the Nintendo DS, for adults and older teenage video game players first in the United States, it can avoid a direct confrontation with Sony, which is about to enter the hand-held game market in Japan with a device of its own.
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Topic: POLICE REPORT - on September 22, 2004 at 10:46:00 AM CEST
Trooper pens 205 mph ticket in Minnesota
With a State Patrol airplane overhead, a motorcyclist hit the throttle and possibly set the informal record for the fastest speeding ticket in Minnesota history: 205 mph.
On Saturday afternoon, State Patrol pilot Al Loney was flying near Wabasha, in southeastern Minnesota on the Wisconsin border, watching two motorcyclists racing along U.S. Highway 61.
When one of the riders shot forward, Loney was ready with his stopwatch. He clicked it once when the motorcycle reached a white marker on the road and again a quarter-mile later. The watch read 4.39 seconds, which Loney calculated to be 205 mph.
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Topic: NEWS english - on September 22, 2004 at 10:43:00 AM CEST
First the gun, now the vodka: new Kalashnikov packs a punch
The inventor of the world's most famous combat weapon has launched a vodka in Britain under his own name: Kalashnikov. At 82 percent proof, the drink may prove as powerful as the AK-47 assault rifle that Lieutenant General Mikhail Kalashnikov conceived during World War II when Nazi Germany invaded the Soviet Union.
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