Topic: NEWS english - on March 1, 2007 at 1:20:00 PM CET
How a lottery winner spends his multi-million-dollar jackpot
Brad Duke, 34, a manager for five Gold's Gym franchises in Idaho, pocketed a lump sum of $85 million after winning a $220 million Powerball jackpot in 2005. He spent the first month of his new life assembling a team of financial advisors. His goal: to use his winnings to become a billionaire. Here's what Duke has done with his money so far.
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Topic: CARS - on March 1, 2007 at 1:17:00 PM CET
Lamborghini Gallardo Superleggera revealed
The cat, errr, bull is out of the bag, with both images and the press release about the Lamborghini Gallardo Superleggera circulating the web. The 'purist' Gallardo gets an extra 10 hp and 154 fewer pounds (in U.S. trim), allowing the Italian hyper car to sprint to 60 in 3.8 seconds, .2 seconds less than the standard Gallardo. The weight reduction comes from swapping out a number of components with carbon fiber bits, including the wing mirrors, door panels, engine cover and the central tunnel's covering. After the diet, the Superleggera tips the scales at just 3,152 pounds -- 5.5 pounds/hp.
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Topic: ROBOT - on March 1, 2007 at 12:30:00 PM CET
Robot Sex
It is just funny!!!! very articulated little fellow. Love the music!!!
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Topic: NEWS english - on March 1, 2007 at 12:09:00 PM CET
8,000 gallons of toxic chemicals spill into Ohio River
Lt. Wayne Chapman of the U.S. Coast Guard said the barge, owned by Kirby Marine, hit the wicket dam, which is a type of movable dam, near Brookport and began leaking cumene, a solvent used to produce other chemicals.
So far, officials said, there's no threat to public drinking water. Water intake stations along the river have not reported finding the chemical in their systems, Chapman said.
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Topic: DRUGS - on March 1, 2007 at 12:03:00 PM CET
Boutique receives two buckets of marijuana
Workers at a downtown boutique called police after unexpectedly receiving two buckets of marijuana worth $90,000. Police were called to Fusion on Saturday after employees received the two packages of marijuana totaling about 20 pounds.
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Topic: DRUGS - on March 1, 2007 at 12:01:00 PM CET
Drug smugglers get four years in prison
A group of drug smugglers who were caught in the act bringing three tons of cannabis resin onto an Almuñécar beach have each been sentenced to four years in prison at their trial in Granada. They have also been ordered to pay a fine of 9 million €.
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Topic: DRUGS - on March 1, 2007 at 10:59:00 AM CET
The trip goes on - The Brotherhood of Eternal Love
This month sees the updated republication, after 20 years, of The Brotherhood of Eternal Love by David May and Stewart Tendler, the book that charted the history of the LSD counter-culture and the so-called Brotherhood that distributed it so energetically in the 60s and 70s. The book's epilogue brings us up to date with the surviving members of the tale.
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Topic: ART - on March 1, 2007 at 10:55:00 AM CET
Picasso paintings stolen from family home
Several paintings and drawings by the Spanish artist Pablo Picasso have been stolen from the home of the artist's granddaughter in Paris.
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Topic: COMPUTER - on March 1, 2007 at 10:54:00 AM CET
Dow Jones 500-point drop due to failed computer backup?
A computer glitch triggered a sudden plunge in the Dow Jones industrial average at mid-afternoon Tuesday, turning an already bad day in stocks into a head-turning spectacle.
Dow Jones & Co., the media company that manages the well-known index of 30 blue chip stocks, said it discovered shortly before 2 p.m. that its computers weren't properly handling the day's huge volume in trades at the New York Stock Exchange.
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