Topic: LOST FOUND - on March 14, 2003 at 7:27:53 PM CET
Squash Appears Filled With Letters, Symbols
Cutting into a 15-pound banana squash Thursday, Kasim Barakzia thought perhaps he had lost his gourd. The owner of Salt Lake City's Baba Afghan Restaurant, 55 E. 400 South, noticed strange white etchings on the normally smooth seeds, which resemble those from a pumpkin, inside the thick-skinned winter squash.
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Topic: LOST FOUND - on March 14, 2003 at 2:02:09 PM CET
The World Health Organisation issues global alert after outbreak of pneumonia in Hong Kong
Singapore and Taiwan have warned citizens against travelling to Hong Kong amid fears over the spread of a deadly flu.
Singapore has also urged its population not to travel to Hanoi in Vietnam or China's Guangdong province "unless absolutely necessary".
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Topic: LOST FOUND - on March 14, 2003 at 1:33:09 PM CET
Happy Birthday Albert
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Topic: - on March 13, 2003 at 11:07:00 PM CET
Dirty Bombs
When the world stops taking notice of your terrorist actions, you need the sort of weapon that will strike cold hard fear right back into their hearts. Fatwa Sam is proud to announce a brand new line of "Dirty Bombs". The sort of weapons of mass terror that have been much publicised in the press recently, Consisting of an ordinary TNT bomb shoved into a large piece of Camel Dung, these weapons are guaranteed to raise your public profile once again.
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Topic: LOST FOUND - on March 13, 2003 at 12:48:39 PM CET
Teen's dying wish for Cameron Diaz blow job not granted
Monday: The parents of 15-year-old leukaemia patient Josh Morten, who last night passed away after a four year battle with the illness, said they were sorry not to have fulfilled his dying wish to get a blow job from Cameron Diaz.
The courageous teenager told his family two months ago that the one thing he'd really like before he died was to be sucked off by the successful Hollywood actress and former model.
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Topic: LOST FOUND - on March 13, 2003 at 12:18:24 PM CET
Swedish McDonalds Opens Drive-Thru For Snowmobiles
A drive-thru McDonalds is nothing new but what about one specifically for snowmobiles?
That's the hottest thing in Pitea, Sweden, which is located way above the polar circle and, consequently, stocked with snow a good part of the year.
As a result, locals spend much of their time on snowmobiles and scooters, not cars.
Luckily, designers of the Pitea McDonalds took those chilly conditions into consideration and designed the drive-thru so it's easily accessed by snowmobile.
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Topic: LOST FOUND - on March 13, 2003 at 11:35:50 AM CET
Girl has rare fish odour disease
SPANISH researchers have diagnosed a case of an extremely rare disease that makes people smell like fish.
The genetically inherited illness, trimethylaminuria, is also known as fish odour syndrome.
It means the liver cannot metabolise trimethylamine, a chemical produced by naturally occurring intestinal bacteria.
The substance is then expelled in urine, perspiration and other bodily secretions, causing a pungent smell.
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Topic: LOST FOUND - on March 13, 2003 at 10:57:59 AM CET
Human footprints are 350,000 years old
Scientists in Italy have discovered 350,000-year-old tracks that may be the oldest known footprints made by Stone Age man.
The prints were made by three early, upright-walking humans as they descended the treacherous side of a volcano - perhaps to escape an eruption, researchers reported in Thursday's issue of the journal Nature.
Other scientists said that while the prints appear well-preserved, they add little to knowledge about human evolution, since footprints of far older human ancestors have been found. But they said the tracks are still a sobering testament to long-ago journeys across a harsh terrain.
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Topic: - on March 12, 2003 at 12:54:51 PM CET
Polizei darf Telefone von Journalisten überwachen
Bundesverfassungsgericht: Strafverfolgung wichtiger als Pressefreiheit
Die Polizei darf die Telefone von unbescholtenen Journalisten überwachen, falls sie aus beruflichen Gründen in Kontakt mit gesuchten Straftätern stehen. Dies entschied das Bundesverfassungsgericht (BVG) am Mittwoch in Karlsruhe.
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Topic: - on March 12, 2003 at 11:51:31 AM CET
PayPal switches off indy news site account
A US independent news site which relies upon reader donations has had some of its air supply cut off by PayPal.
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Topic: - on March 11, 2003 at 10:04:05 PM CET
Will GPS tech lead to 'geoslavery'?
Tracking technology gives access to dangerous power
Jerome Dobson worries that 1984 may be just around the corner. Dobson, a University of Kansas research professor and president of the American Geographical Society, is concerned that technical advances carry the potential for bringing about George Orwell's nightmarish vision of a society that destroys privacy. This new threat, says Dobson -- a respected leader in the field of geographic information technologies -- is "geoslavery."
Devices currently on the market, for example, use satellites to locate and track people anywhere on the planet.
One company sells a device that can record a vehicle's location so employers can keep track of every move their drivers make.
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Topic: - on March 11, 2003 at 6:16:20 PM CET
How to build a career with Legos
Educational courses are the building blocks for a succesful career, but have you ever thought that maybe building with building blocks may the blocks upon which your career could be built? If your answer is yes, or even 'huh?', you may have a future in the prospering trade of LEGO construction, a relatively new vocation that utilizes those cute moulded plastic pieces.
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