Topic: NATURE - on February 3, 2007 at 4:58:00 PM CET
INTERGOVERNMENTAL PANEL ON CLIMATE CHANGE
The Working Group I contribution to the IPCC Fourth Assessment Report describes progress in understanding of the human and natural drivers of climate change, observed climate change, climate processes and attribution, and estimates of projected future climate change. It builds upon past IPCC assessments and incorporates new findings from the past six years of research. Scientific progress since the TAR is based upon large amounts of new and more comprehensive data, more sophisticated analyses of data, improvements in understanding of processes and their simulation in models, and more extensive exploration of uncertainty ranges
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Topic: Terror - on February 3, 2007 at 4:04:00 PM CET
Video: Suicide Bomb Explosion Caught on Tape
A suicide bomb explosion is caught on a shop's surveillance camera.
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Topic: weiss nicht - on February 3, 2007 at 4:00:00 PM CET
$250,000 Self Cleaning Pay Toilets - Philly Installs High Tech Poopers
A new high-tech automated porta-potty being installed in Center City, Philadelphia. The first public toilet in Philly, the toilet will cost 25 cents to use. And after each use, the inside of the bathroom is completely sanitized. The high tech toilets cost $250,000, and ths city of Philadelphia has already ordered a dozen!
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Topic: POLICE REPORT - on February 3, 2007 at 3:58:00 PM CET
Intel unzips Java jeans
Intel Corp has won a legal victory over a jeans maker in Indonesia selling trousers under the Intel brand.
The chip maker had its complaint against the denim vendor upheld despite the fact that trousers and computer processors are fairly different products.
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Topic: STRANGE - on February 3, 2007 at 3:54:00 PM CET
Orange Snow in Omsk, Russia
Yesterday a strange phenomena happened in Omsk region Russia.
Pretty vast territory of Omsk region was covered with a snow that had an unusual color. It was orange.
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Topic: health - on February 3, 2007 at 3:52:00 PM CET
Shrimp Bandages Save Soldiers
After a long search for a better way to stop extreme bleeding, the U.S. Army has purchased more than 400,000 bandages made from chitosan, a polysaccharide extracted from the exoskeletons of Icelandic shrimp.
Before deciding on the $10 million HemCon purchase last year, the Army tested fibrin bandages, collagen sponges and nanoporous ceramic powder.
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Topic: Glaubensfragen - on February 3, 2007 at 3:51:00 PM CET
My wife smokes -- I want an annulment
Smoke got in his eyes. Too much of it, so he asked the Roman Catholic Church to annul his marriage when his wife refused to kick the nicotine habit.
That is just one of the, well, hazy cases that wound up before the Vatican's Sacra Romana Rota, a top court which hears the most complicated of marriage annulment requests.
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Topic: MUSIK - on February 3, 2007 at 3:45:00 PM CET
It's Official! Roth to Rejoin Van Halen
Break out your spandex pants, start practicing your karate kicks; David Lee Roth is officially returning as the front man for Van Halen.
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Topic: MUSIK - on February 3, 2007 at 3:44:00 PM CET
BORN TO ROCK
A special guitar exhibition is being launched at Harrods department store.
A collection of instruments thought to be worth tens of millions of pounds, including guitars played and customised by Jimi Hendrix and the Rolling Stones will be displayed at the London store.
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Topic: SEX - on February 3, 2007 at 3:42:00 PM CET
Where does the taboo against sex during menstruation originate?
Menstrual blood is seen as dangerous, magical, and even sacred across many religions and cultures. The origin of the taboo against sexual intercourse while a woman is menstruating is probably lost to antiquity. Yet this taboo is found in every corner of the world - from Africa, to Polynesia, to the Plains Indians of North America, and so on.
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Topic: COMPUTER - on February 3, 2007 at 3:40:00 PM CET
How to Properly Clean your LCD Screen
First, you've probably seen some of those expensive LCD cleaning solutions in computer stores right? The good news is that you don't really need these. Mixing up your own cleaning solution is very easy and will actually save you quite a few bucks. You only need 2 ingredients:
* Isopropyl alcohol (Warning)
* Distilled Water
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Topic: POLICE REPORT - on February 3, 2007 at 3:38:00 PM CET
Guilty: spy who tried to sell Coke's secrets
A trusted former secretary at Coca-Cola faces up to 10 years behind bars for plotting to cash in on one of the business world's fiercest rivalries by stealing vials of new cola products and offering them to arch competitor, Pepsi, for $1.5m (£800,000).
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