Topic: LOST - on December 16, 2006 at 4:02:00 PM CET
Who are the Ant People?
All across the American Southwest we find petroglyphs (rock carvings) or pictographs (rock paintings) depicting entities with spindly bodies, large eyes, and bulbous heads that sometimes project antennae. These eerie figures are frequently shown in a “prayer stance,” their elbows and knees positioned at right angles, similar to the ant’s bent legs.
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Topic: SPY - on December 16, 2006 at 3:41:00 PM CET
Family at war with MI6 over secret files of Britain's greatest spy against the Nazis
A fierce legal tussle has broken out between Cherie Booth, QC, and MI6 over top-secret files that relate to “The Griffin”, an Austrian who provided Britain with vital intelligence on the Nazi atom bomb programme during the Second World War.
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Topic: health - on December 16, 2006 at 3:39:00 PM CET
Masturbating May Protect Against Prostate Cancer
It will make you go blind. It will make your palms grow hairy. Such myths about masturbation are largely a thing of the past. But the latest research has even better news for young men: frequent self-pleasuring could protect against the most common kind of cancer.
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Topic: NATURE - on December 16, 2006 at 3:21:00 PM CET
Coolest fish ever is the hottest - fish that skips through lava!
Scientists have witnessed the extreme lifestyle of tonguefish that like to skip across pools of molten sulphur.
The animals - a type of flatfish - were filmed on three expeditions to undersea volcanoes in the western Pacific.
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Topic: POLICE REPORT - on December 16, 2006 at 1:43:00 PM CET
Police Car Slams Into San Jose House
A police car rushing to a report of a home invasion robbery careened right into another home Thursday evening, police said.
Police say the officer lost control of his cruiser and slammed into a home on the 1900 block of Everwood Court around 6:47 pm.
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Topic: NATURE - on December 16, 2006 at 1:36:00 PM CET
Global Warming Poses Threat to Ski Resorts in the Alps
How balmy has it been in the Alps these last few months? At the bottom of the Hahnenkamm, the famously treacherous downhill course in this Austrian ski resort, the slope peters out into a grassy field. And it’s just 10 days before Christmas.
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Topic: COMPUTER - on December 16, 2006 at 1:32:00 PM CET
How Skype & Co. get round firewalls
Peer-to-peer software applications are a network administrator's nightmare. In order to be able to exchange packets with their counterpart as directly as possible they use subtle tricks to punch holes in firewalls, which shouldn't actually be letting in packets from the outside world.
Increasingly, computers are positioned behind firewalls to protect systems from internet threats. Ideally, the firewall function will be performed by a router, which also translates the PC's local network address to the public IP address (Network Address Translation, or NAT). This means an attacker cannot directly adress the PC from the outside - connections have to be established from the inside.
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Topic: COMPUTER - on December 16, 2006 at 1:30:00 PM CET
The launch of the new virtual IBM islands in Second Life
Well, the big day has arrived for the launch of the new IBM virtual islands complex! Sandy Kearney the leader of the new 3D internet EBO (Emerging Busines Opportunity) launched the IBM islands with a rousing speech in Theatre 1...
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Topic: COMPUTER - on December 16, 2006 at 12:49:00 PM CET
BadVista.org: FSF launches campaign against Microsoft Vista
The Free Software Foundation (FSF) today launched BadVista.org, a campaign with a twofold mission of exposing the harms inflicted on computer users by the new Microsoft Windows Vista and promoting free software alternatives that respect users' security and privacy rights.
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Topic: DRUGS - on December 16, 2006 at 12:42:00 PM CET
Synthetic marijuana helps cancer patients: study
A synthetic version of the active ingredient in marijuana, a legal treatment for nausea in cancer patients undergoing chemotherapy, also helps symptoms like pain, anxiety and depression, according to research presented on Friday.
"The findings show how great the potential is to improve the quality of life for cancer patients," said lead investigator Dr. Vincent Maida of the University of Toronto.
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Topic: DRUGS - on December 16, 2006 at 12:41:00 PM CET
Is Life in Prison Excessive for Smoking Pot?
The Drug War Chronicle reports that pressure is building for Texas Gov. Rick Perry to commute the sentence of Tyrone Brown, who was sentenced to life in prison for smoking pot. In 1990, when he was 17, Brown took part in a $2 robbery in which the victim was not physically injured, a crime for which he received 10 years of probation. A few weeks later, he tested positive for marijuana, and the judge not only revoked his probation but inexplicably resentenced him to a life term.
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Topic: POLICE REPORT - on December 16, 2006 at 12:38:00 PM CET
"Clay" Regazzoni killed in road accident
Former Grand Prix driver Gianclaudio "Clay" Regazzoni has been killed in a road accident.
The 67-year-old Swiss, a former Ferrari driver, was killed in a collision with a lorry on a motorway near Parma, Italian police said.
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