Topic: Glaubensfragen - on August 4, 2009 at 5:20:00 PM CEST
I'll die before the endgame, says Terry Pratchett in call for law to allow assisted suicides in UK
Sir Terry Pratchett has made an emotional plea for the right to take his own life, saying: 'I live in hope I can jump before I am pushed.'
The fantasy novelist gave his views following last week's landmark House of Lords controversial judgment in the case of Debbie Purdy.
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Topic: STRANGE - on August 4, 2009 at 11:55:00 AM CEST
Schülerin will als 74-Jährige in Disco
Dreister geht es kaum, dümmer allerdings auch nicht: Eine 14-Jährige hat sich mit einem gefälschten Ausweis in eine Münchner Discothek zu schleichen versucht. Allerdings hätte sie demnach bereits im Rentenalter sein müssen.
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Topic: MUSIK - on August 4, 2009 at 11:53:00 AM CEST
Will the indie chart rise again?
In its 1980s heyday, the indie chart was a beacon of top alternative music. Then the majors took over. Now it may get a new lease of life
It seems like a folk memory already. Could there really once have been a pop chart that was topped, variously, by a portly middle-aged man's cod-opera single, by an anarchist collective from Essex, by Australian soap stars, by black-clad goths from Leeds, by – well, by pretty well anyone you can think of?
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Topic: DRUGS - on August 4, 2009 at 11:52:00 AM CEST
22 Arrested in Drug Raid at 'Music Church' Funk Fest
Authorities said there were four head shops that had 1,000 marijuana pipes for sale.
People working like cocktail waitresses walked the crowd, selling "Ganja" treats -- including Rice Krispies snacks believed to be laced with marijuana, according to authorities.
A total of 22 people were arrested Saturday evening as the Fayette County Drug Task Force raided the 47-acre Bullskin site of the Church of Universal Love and Music.
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Topic: Glaubensfragen - on August 4, 2009 at 11:48:00 AM CEST
Strange New Air Force Facility Energizes Ionosphere, Fans Conspiracy Flames
Todd Pedersen had to hustle—the sky was scheduled to start glowing soon, and he didn't want to miss it. It was just before sunset, a cold February evening in deep-woods Alaska, and the broad-shouldered US Air Force physicist was scrambling across the snow in his orange down parka and fur-lined bomber hat. Grabbing cables and electronics, he rushed to assemble a jury-rigged telescope atop a crude wooden platform.
The rig wasn't much, just a pair of high-sensitivity cameras packed into a dorm-room refrigerator and pointed at a curved mirror reflecting a panoramic view of the sky. Pedersen had hoped to monitor the camera feed from a relatively warm bunkhouse nearby. But powdery snow two feet deep made it difficult to string cables back to the building.
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