Topic: DRUGS - on November 5, 2004 at 9:23:00 AM CET
Roundup-Ready Coca-strain
A new strain of the Coca-bush, Boliviana negra, resistant to the herbicide glyphosate, marketed as Roundup by Monsanto, are gaining in popularity among South American farmers. Drug-fighting crop-dusters may just be weeding out the Coca-fields.
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Topic: LAW - on November 5, 2004 at 9:21:00 AM CET
Spammers get nine years in prison
Siblings Jeremy Jaynes and Jessica DeGroot became the first two spammers to be convicted under U.S. anti-spam laws. They received 9-year prison sentences and $7,500 U.S. fines for peddling what prosecutors called modern-day snake oil.
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Topic: STRANGE - on November 5, 2004 at 9:19:00 AM CET
Naked Man Chases Jet
A Canadian man trying to buy a plane ticket from Los Angeles International Airport to Australia stripped naked and climbed a fence with 3 rows of barbed-wire. He then ran full speed towards the jet and climbed onto its wheel well.
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Topic: W A R - on November 5, 2004 at 9:17:00 AM CET
F-16 Fires on School
The US military is investigating an incident where a National Guard F-16 fighter jet on a night training mission fired 25 rounds into the roof of an elementary school 6km away from his target.
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