Topic: weiss nicht - on January 10, 2007 at 4:23:00 PM CET
Spears, Hilton tie for `Worst Dressed'
Dubbed "style-free and fashion deprived,"Britney Spears and Paris Hilton tied for the No. 1 spot on Mr. Blackwell's 47th annual "Worst Dressed" list released Tuesday.
"Two peas in an overexposed pod," Blackwell said of the skimpy attire worn by the two celebutantes he called the "Screamgirls."
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Topic: NEWS english - on January 10, 2007 at 2:18:00 PM CET
Italian film producer Ponti dies
Italian film producer Carlo Ponti, the husband of actress Sophia Loren, has died in Geneva at the age of 94.
He produced a number of classic films including Federico Fellini's La Strada, David Lean's Dr Zhivago and Michelangelo Antonioni's Blowup.
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Topic: NEWS english - on January 10, 2007 at 2:16:00 PM CET
The Five Funkiest New Gadgets
In 1970 it was the VCR. It 1981, CD players debuted. Satellite radio was the story in 2000. So what are the coolest new tech toys bowing in at the 2007 Consumer Electronics Show CES, this week's digital smorgasbord? Here's a breakdown of the most interesting novelty gizmos.
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Topic: NATURE - on January 10, 2007 at 2:15:00 PM CET
Bushy-browed penguin swims 1,240 miles, finds mates
A rare "Groucho Marx" penguin found worn out and exhausted on an Australian beach after a 1,240-mile (2,000 km) swim has been rescued by Sydney zookeepers, but after getting his strength back will have to earn his keep by comforting two lonely females of his vulnerable species.
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Topic: COMPUTER - on January 10, 2007 at 1:38:00 PM CET
NSA backdoors built into MS Vista
THE USA GOVERNMENT'S cryptologic organisation, the National Security Agency, has admitted that it is behind some of the security changes to Microsoft's operating system Vista.
According to the Washington Post, the agency which was once so secret that it was jokingly referred to as 'No such Agency' has admitted making 'unspecified contributions' to Vista.
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Topic: COMPUTER - on January 10, 2007 at 1:33:00 PM CET
Analysis of Microsoft's Suicide Note
In a controversial technical analysis Peter Gutmann goes into fantastic detail about the recently released Vista operating system and its content protection scheme. One thing became clear to me after reading this analysis. Vista is being marketed to content producers, not consumers. If Windows XP was Microsoft’s attempt to embed a browser into the operating system then Vista is the attempt to embed DRM. Digital Rights Management technology has been applied to literally every ring of the OS architecture.
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Topic: NEWS english - on January 10, 2007 at 1:24:00 PM CET
The World's Smallest Thinker
Using lasers, Korean researchers have crafted a microscopic version of Rodin's famed sculpture "The Thinker" just about twice the size of a red blood cell at 20 millionths of a meter high.
Muscles and even toes are visible in the tiny model.
The new technique could help develop novel biosensors and other complicated microscopic devices, the scientists said.
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Topic: W A R - on January 10, 2007 at 1:22:00 PM CET
US bombards Somalia for third day
US forces launched a third consecutive day of air strikes in Somalia today as Somali government officials said one of three al-Qaida suspects targeted by the raids was believed to have been killed.
The official said the operation was understood to have killed an al-Qaida militants thought to be behind the 1998 bombings of US embassies in Kenya and Tanzania, which killed 224 people in all.
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Topic: W A R - on January 10, 2007 at 1:21:00 PM CET
Uranium 'killing Italian troops'
Italian soldiers are still dying following exposure to depleted uranium in the wars in Bosnia and Kosovo, their relatives say.
Troops who served during the wars in the 1990s believe they have contracted cancer and other serious illnesses from extended exposure to the munitions.
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