Topic: JOB - on December 21, 2006 at 10:44:00 AM CET
Sewage divers submerge in murky world
Julio Cesar Cu wanted to be an oceanographer but instead he swims through foul-smelling sewage in underground tunnels where the occasional dead body bobs beside excrement and car parts.
Paid just $400 a month to de-clog the miles of sewage tunnels running beneath the Mexican capital, diver Cu comes across the nastiest of flotsam.
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Topic: COPYRIGHT - on December 21, 2006 at 10:34:00 AM CET
How fat is my DRM?
Some CD buyers in Texas and California can claim up to $175 each from record company Sony BMG as a result of a legal settlement this week.
Both states took action against the music giant over its "rootkit-style" DRM, designed to prevent PC users from copying music CDs to their hard drives.
The complaints allege that Sony BMG failed to notify consumers of the presence of the DRM on the outer-packaging, and therefore loaded unauthorised software onto their PCs.
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Topic: HOLLYWALD - on December 21, 2006 at 10:29:00 AM CET
For sale: the secrets of Hollywood's golden age stars
It may not be Hollywood's most enduring mystery, but the truth can finally be revealed over why Elvis Presley's trademark quiff turned from near-blond to jet black in the 1956 classic Love Me Tender - he was allowed to do his own hair.
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Topic: TOYS - on December 21, 2006 at 10:14:00 AM CET
Solar Bikini
A solar film bikini that charges your iPod! (With a USB connection!)
The suit is a standard medium-sized bikini swimsuit retrofitted with 1" x 4" photovoltaic film strips sewn together in series with conductive thread. The cells terminate in a 5 volt regulator into a female USB connection
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Topic: NATURE - on December 21, 2006 at 10:11:00 AM CET
Climate Change vs Mother Nature: Scientists reveal that bears have stopped hibernating
Bears have stopped hibernating in the mountains of northern Spain, scientists revealed yesterday, in what may be one of the strongest signals yet of how much climate change is affecting the natural world.
In a December in which bumblebees, butterflies and even swallows have been on the wing in Britain, European brown bears have been lumbering through the forests of Spain's Cantabrian mountains, when normally they would already be in their long, annual sleep.
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Topic: MUSIK - on December 21, 2006 at 10:05:00 AM CET
Billy Idol: Video Jingle Bell Rock
Not sure whether to laugh or cry.
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Topic: NATURE - on December 21, 2006 at 10:03:00 AM CET
'Virgin births' for giant lizards
The largest lizards in the world are capable of "virgin births".
Scientists report of two cases where female Komodo dragons have produced offspring without male contact.
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Topic: TOYS - on December 21, 2006 at 10:00:00 AM CET
The 20 strangest gadgets of 2006
It's been one of those years when technology came on in leaps and bounds. Around the world, thousands of pointy-headed scientists and product designers beavered away in high-security laboratories, investing time, money and effort to create... more silly USB gadgets.
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Topic: MUSIK - on December 21, 2006 at 9:49:00 AM CET
FBI releases final John Lennon files
The FBI has released its final surveillance documents on John Lennon to a university historian who has waged a 25-year legal battle to obtain the secret files.
The 10 pages contain new details about Lennon's ties to leftist and anti-war groups in London in the early 1970s, but nothing indicating government officials considered the former Beatle a serious threat, historian Jon Wiener told the Los Angeles Times in Wednesday's editions.
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