Topic: HOLLYWALD - on November 21, 2006 at 5:58:00 PM CET
Director Robert Altman dies at 81
Robert Altman, the caustic and irreverent satirist behind “M-A-S-H,” “Nashville” and “The Player” who made a career out of bucking Hollywood management and story conventions, died at a Los Angeles Hospital, his Sandcastle 5 Productions Company said Tuesday. He was 81.
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Topic: DRUGS - on November 21, 2006 at 5:52:00 PM CET
U.S.-bound sub carrying 3.5 tons of cocaine seized
Tipped off by three plastic pipes mysteriously skimming the ocean’s surface, authorities seized a homemade submarine packed with 3 tons of cocaine off Costa Rica’s Pacific coast.
Four men traveled inside the 50-foot wood and fiberglass craft, breathing through the pipes. The craft sailed along at about 7 mph, just six feet beneath the surface, Security Minister Fernando Berrocal said Sunday.
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Topic: TOYS - on November 21, 2006 at 5:35:00 PM CET
7 Tiny Gadgets You’ll Probably Lose
Our editors have compiled a list of seven tiny gadgets that you’ll probably lose or break. If we happened to miss any, please leave us a comment. “Continue reading” for the entire list
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Topic: health - on November 21, 2006 at 5:29:00 PM CET
Oases in Navajo desert contained 'a witch's brew'
Rain-filled uranium pits provided drinking water for people and animals. Then a mysterious wasting illness emerged.
In all her years of tending sheep in the western reaches of the Navajo range, Lois Neztsosie had never seen anything so odd.
New lakes had appeared as if by magic in the arid scrublands. Instead of hunting for puddles in the sandstone, she could lead her 100 animals to drink their fill. She would quench her own thirst as well, parting the film on the water's surface with her hands and leaning down to swallow.
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Topic: COMPUTER - on November 21, 2006 at 3:33:00 PM CET
Novell disputes claim by Microsoft on patents
Microsoft Corp. and Novell Inc. say that they have "agreed to disagree" on a key issue dividing their respective parts of the technology world, but that it won't jeopardize their sweeping business deal and patent truce. In a twist that underscored the unlikely nature of their alliance, Novell Chief Executive Ron Hovsepian publicly distanced his company Monday from Microsoft Chief Executive Steve Ballmer's statement last week that the open-source Linux operating system contains patented Microsoft technology.
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Topic: ART - on November 21, 2006 at 3:05:00 PM CET
The Mona Lisa in 50,000 words
Leonard da Vinci Mona Lisa
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Topic: TV - on November 21, 2006 at 2:48:00 PM CET
The Best Science Show on Television?
“This is where we blow stuff up.”
Mr. Hyneman and his colleague, Adam Savage, are the hosts of “Mythbusters” on the Discovery Channel. It may be the best science program on television, in no small part because it does not purport to be a science program at all. What “Mythbusters” is best known for, to paraphrase Mr. Hyneman, is blowing stuff up. And banging stuff together. And setting stuff on fire. The two men do it for fun and ratings, of course. But in a subtle and goofily educational way, they commit mayhem for science’s sake.
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Topic: NEWS english - on November 21, 2006 at 2:37:00 PM CET
You save...$723,427.01
Amazon is being generous this holiday season
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Topic: FUN - on November 21, 2006 at 1:25:00 PM CET
Play it again and again and again, Sam..
An Indian carpenter who stole diamonds worth more than a million dollars from a jewelers was arrested in a dance bar after he splurged to ensure the band play one song repeatedly, alerting a police informer, reports said.
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Topic: STRANGE - on November 21, 2006 at 1:08:00 PM CET
Dragon sausage food farce
A Welsh food firm last night hit out at bizarre rules that have forced it to explain that its 'dragon sausages' do not really contain dragons.
The company has been warned it could face legal action for misleading people that it uses dragon meat in its fiery sausages.
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