Topic: NEWS english - on March 1, 2005 at 3:10:00 PM CET
U.N. reports Afghan opium production is up again.
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Afghanistan is the #1 producer of opium in the world - responsible for 87% of all illicit opium production - according to reports from the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC), and its opium production has accelerated since the coalition invasion in 2001.
The November 2004 annual reports put out by UNODC show that Afghanistan opium production has been increasing each year since the coalition invasion. The UNODC report for 2004 shows a 64% increase over the previous year in opium production hectares, and a 22% increase in export value for the year US$2.8 billion.
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Topic: POLICE REPORT - on March 1, 2005 at 2:38:00 PM CET
Kangaroo Found in Storm Remains a Mystery
Authorities in southern Wisconsin have discovered that capturing a kangaroo in a snowstorm isn't the hard part. It's finding out where the animal came from.
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Topic: DRUGS - on March 1, 2005 at 2:36:00 PM CET
Grandmother, 78, and boyfriend, 72, accused of selling pot
State Police troopers arrested Mollie Williams last week after responding to a domestic dispute between her granddaughter and the granddaughter's husband, who were arguing over drugs. Police learned that the man allegedly had bought marijuana from Williams, State Police Cpl. Larry O'Bryan said Monday.
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Topic: GOOGLE - on March 1, 2005 at 12:48:00 PM CET
Dave Winer’s worst nightmare
In the spirit of the childish foot-stamping that is marking the “debate” around Google’s Autolink toolbar functionality, I now present Dave Winer’s worst nightmare. Drag this bookmarklet onto your toolbar, and hit it every time you read his rantings.
searchWithinNode(document.body,'Bing','Duh')
It’s a slippery slope, my friends.
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Topic: COMPUTER - on March 1, 2005 at 12:28:00 PM CET
Firefox Gains Beginning to Slow
The growth rate of Firefox’s usage share on the web has slowed slightly in recent months, according to the latest U.S. data from WebSideStory (Nasdaq: WSSI), a leading provider of on-demand web analytics. Firefox grew 0.74 percentage points in the last five weeks and 0.89 percentage points in the previous six weeks before that. This compares to a jump of 1.03 percentage points between Nov. 5 and Dec. 3, which coincides with the release of Firefox Version 1.0 on Nov. 9.
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Topic: POLICE REPORT - on March 1, 2005 at 12:13:00 PM CET
Nude Man Covered in Cheese Gets Probation
A man caught by police last summer on his 23rd birthday running naked and covered in nacho cheese pleaded guilty Monday to burglary and four other charges.
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Topic: NASA - on March 1, 2005 at 12:10:00 PM CET
The Gateway to Astronaut Photography of Earth
The Gateway to Astronaut Photography of Earth hosts the best and most complete online collection of astronaut photographs of the Earth.
Beginning with the Mercury missions in the early 1960s, astronauts have taken photographs of the Earth. Our database tracks the locations, supporting data, and digital images for these photographs. We process images coming down from the Space Shuttle and International Space Station on a daily basis and add them to the more than 587,902 views of the Earth already made accessible on our website. These images include 144,419 from the International Space Station.
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Topic: STRANGE - on March 1, 2005 at 11:59:00 AM CET
China Wants To Ban Determining Fetuses' Sex
China's top lawmakers want to make it a crime for doctors to detect an unborn baby's sex for non-medical reasons.
Government-run newspapers say it's a bid to combat the abortion of female fetuses.
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Topic: NEWS english - on March 1, 2005 at 11:55:00 AM CET
Largest machines on Earth will be described at AAAS today by their central planner
Two of the largest machines ever conceived by scientists will be described today by one of the world's leading experts on particle colliders, the massive and expensive machines used to explore inner space by smashing particles together at super-fast speeds.
Cornell University physicist Maury Tigner, director of Cornell's Laboratory for Elementary Particle Physics (LEPP) in Ithaca, N.Y., is playing a major role in two of these machines: the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), being built at the European Centre for Nuclear Research (CERN) in Geneva, for which he serves as chairman of the machine advisory committee, and the International Linear Collider (ILC), being planned by an international team, for which he is chairman of the steering committee.
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Topic: BOARD NEWS - on March 1, 2005 at 10:17:00 AM CET
Dumme Haarschnitte als Abschreckung für Gangster
Im Kampf gegen das grassierende Bandenwesen in Kambodscha greift die Polizei zu ungewöhnlichen Mitteln: Beamte verpassten drei ertappten Kriminellen alberne Haarschnitte, ließen die Übeltäter fotografieren und die Bilder in der Zeitung veröffentlichen.
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