Topic: NEWS - on September 5, 2007 at 2:32:00 PM CEST
Mensch Tier Klon - Gegner laufen Sturm
In Großbritannien steht ein Tabu vor dem Fall: Biomediziner erwarten sich grünes Licht für Klonexperimente mit menschlichen und tierischen Zellen. Ziel dabei sind die Schaffung von Hybridembryonen und in weiterer Folge neue Einsichten auf dem Gebiet der Stammzellenforschung. Während sich die Forschung davon langfristig den Sieg über unheilbare Krankheiten verspricht, melden andere massive ethische Bedenken an. Gegner des Projekts sehen die Grenzen zwischen Mensch und Tier schwinden.
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Topic: Terror - on September 5, 2007 at 2:24:00 PM CEST
Massive Bombenanschläge verhindert
Deutschland ist offenbar nur sehr knapp einer Katastrophe entgangen: Die Terrorpläne dreier am Dienstag verhafteter Männer waren weitaus massiver und weiter gediehen, als sich anfangs abgezeichnet hatte. Die drei hatten laut deutscher Bundesanwaltschaft Chemikalien mit der Sprengkraft einer halben Tonne Dynamit besorgt und bereits mit dem Bau von Bomben begonnen. Ziel einer Reihe gleichzeitiger Anschläge sollten offenbar der Flughafen Frankfurt und US-Militärbasen sein.
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Topic: Terror - on September 5, 2007 at 2:23:00 PM CEST
Germany foils 'massive' bomb plot
Three men have been arrested in Germany on suspicion of planning a "massive" terrorist attack on US facilities in the country, officials have said.
Federal prosecutor Monika Harms said the three had trained at camps in Pakistan and procured some 700kg (1,500lbs) of chemicals for explosives.
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Topic: AUSTRIA - on September 5, 2007 at 2:21:00 PM CEST
Austria probes 'army Nazi video'
Austria's authorities are investigating a video which appeared on website YouTube, apparently showing uniformed soldiers exchanging Hitler salutes.
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Topic: ART - on September 5, 2007 at 2:16:00 PM CEST
Serge Kliaving
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Topic: FUN - on September 5, 2007 at 2:10:00 PM CEST
Survivor Duck: 15 Years and 17,000 Miles Later
For 15 years there have been thousands of “Made in China” bathtime ducks floating halfway around the world’s oceans. Just recently the armada of yellow rubber friends started to arrive in Clyde, England and are about to begin showing up in the Glasgow river.
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Topic: DRUGS - on September 5, 2007 at 2:08:00 PM CEST
Costa del Sol Marinas new target for drug runners
Sports marinas in the Province of Málaga have been revealed to be entry points for much of the drugs which make their way onto the Costa del Sol.
A report in La Opinion de Málaga today says that the drug runners are making the most of the fact that the police only have five agents to cover the 12 marinas on the 160kms of coastline.
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Topic: DRUGS - on September 5, 2007 at 1:36:00 PM CEST
Weeds Fires Up Homegrown Video Contest
Anyone who’s watched Showtime’s hit series Weeds is likely to recognize the show’s imminently catchy theme song, “Little Boxes” (”Little boxes, on the hillside, little boxes made of ticky-tacky…”). Each week, a different artist performs their rendition of the tune (past performers include Death Cab for Cutie and Randy Newman; The Shins have recorded a version as well) — now, fans get to show off their own versions. Showtime is hosting a user-generated video contest: Submissions are due by Sept. 14, with the winning song airing on Showtime and its performer(s) collecting $10,000.
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Topic: LOST - on September 5, 2007 at 1:34:00 PM CEST
Lottery Winner Loses $114 Million In Four Years - Plus A Look At The The Biggest Winners Of All Time
Just four and half years ago, Andrew Jackson "Jack" Whittaker, Jr. was the president of of a successful contracting firm called Diversified Enterprises Construction. At 55 years old, Whittaker was living a successfully comfortable American life complete with a a net worth of over one million dollars, a well rounded family, great job and healthy grandkids. On December 25, 2002, Whittaker's life changed forever when he stopped at a supermarket to fuel his Lincoln Navigator and purchased a deli breakfast sandwich and a Powerball Ticket worth US$315 million. The jackpot won by Whittaker was the highest ever in the United States at the time and Whittaker chose the cash payment option receiving a check after taxes for about US$113.4 million. Little did Whittaker know, the devastation that ticket would cause on his life.
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Topic: POLITIK - on September 5, 2007 at 1:33:00 PM CEST
All UK 'must be on DNA database'
The whole population and every UK visitor should be added to the national DNA database, a senior judge has said.
Lord Justice Sedley told BBC News the current England and Wales database, which holds DNA from crime suspects and scenes, was "indefensible".
He added it would be fairer to include "everybody, guilty or innocent" on it.
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Topic: LOST - on September 5, 2007 at 1:29:00 PM CEST
Steve Fossett missing in Nevada
Rescue teams are scouring tracts of Nevada in the hope of locating missing millionaire adventurer Steve Fosset, who took off on Monday in a single-engined aircraft to scout possible locations for a planned attempt on the world land-speed record, AP reports.
Fosset took off at 8.45am on Monday from hotelier Barron Hilton's Flying M Ranch, roughly 70 miles southeast of Reno. He hadn't filed flight plan for the trip aboard a Bellanca Citabria Super Decathalon, and was later reported missing by a friend. According to U.S. Bureau of Land Management officials, Fossett has "an application pending for a permit to attempt the land-speed record on federal land in north-central Nevada's Eureka County, more than 150 miles away", but they were unsure if he was considering other sites.
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