Topic: W A R - on December 27, 2006 at 1:30:00 PM CET
Hiroshima Atomic Bomb CGI Re-enactment
From the awesome BBC doco "Hiroshima". See CGI effects bring this disaster to horrifying life.
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Topic: PHOTO - on December 27, 2006 at 1:19:00 PM CET
A collection of 40 images that are crazy
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Topic: DRUGS - on December 27, 2006 at 1:14:00 PM CET
Afghan heroin in L.A. and the heroin price collapse
Today's scare story about Afghan heroin in the LA Times — planted by some staffer for Diane Feinstein, the Queen of the Camera Hogs — is much ado about what's really only a little bit of news. In LA County, heroin overdoses are up because purer Afghan stuff is coming in; elsewhere in the country, heroin overdoses are up because the stuff is being spiked with fentanyl. The problem of higher purity is mostly transitional; in steady-state, the risk of an overdose is higher with lower purity, because the chance of a big upside surprise is greater. Someone expecting 10% purity who gets 20% instead might die; someone expecting 80% purity is unlikely to suffer any ill effect if he gets 99% instead. Fentanyl is about five times the potency of heroin, creating enormous overdose risks; given a choice, I'd rather have pure heroin on the street than heroin/fentanyl mixtures.
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Topic: PHOTO - on December 27, 2006 at 1:08:00 PM CET
In pictures: Photos of the year 2006
As 2006 draws to a close we present some of the most striking images from around the world.
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Topic: SEX - on December 27, 2006 at 1:07:00 PM CET
Sex Slaves in Europe
Olga winced as she drew back the bandage on her right breast, revealing an infected puncture wound that hadn’t healed since a man bit her in a fit of sexual rage. But the wound, for which the 19-year-old Moldovan lacked even basic medicine, is only a small part of Olga’s daily agony. For more than a year she has been held as a sex slave in this town in western Macedonia, where human trafficking flourishes and young girls are forced to endure the sexual whims of thousands of men.
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Topic: NATURE - on December 27, 2006 at 12:15:00 PM CET
Woman felled by dolphin attack
A woman aboard a small pleasure cruiser was seriously injured yesterday by a dolphin which leapt into the craft off the coast of New Zealand.
The 27-year-old was watching the mammals near Slipper Island in the North Island's eastern Bay of Plenty when the attack was made. The dolphin smashed through the boat's windscreen and fell on top of the woman before flipping overboard again to swim away unharmed.
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Topic: COMPUTER - on December 27, 2006 at 12:12:00 PM CET
Vista Security Flaws Uncovered
One full month before Microsoft Windows Vista ships to consumers, hackers and security experts have already discovered six serious flaws in the operating system. Vista was made available to business customers one month ago. Since then, the experts have been throwing everything they can come up with at this build of Vista hoping to discover possible vulnerabilities before the general public starts running the OS on their home machines.
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