Topic: - on March 2, 2003 at 12:31:58 PM CET
Communist theme park to be set up in Berlin
A theme park that lets visitors travel back to in time to communist East Germany is to be set up in Berlin. The GDR Fun Park will be built in the east of the formerly divided city.
Visitors will pay about £8 to spend the day watching old news programmes and films before a GDR-style lunch.
German newspapers say it is not yet clear whether lunch orders will be met with the traditional GDR reply of: "Ain't got that." Theme park visitors will also be able to ride the infamous Trabant cars.
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Topic: - on March 2, 2003 at 12:29:45 PM CET
Growing Your Own Snow Crystals
The Apparatus. The parts list for this experiment is as follows: >One used 20-oz plastic Coke bottle >Three large-diameter styrofoam cups (or something similar; see below) >A small kitchen sponge (1/2 inch thick) >A short length of nylon fishing line (thinner is better; 1-pound test is good) >A strong sewing needle >Four straight pins >One paper clip >Some paper towels
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Topic: - on March 2, 2003 at 12:13:24 PM CET
Tickende Legende zwischen Kult und Kitsch
Die Kultuhr Swatch kommt langsam in die Jahre: Ganze 20 Lenze ist die tickende Ikone nun alt. Mit zwölf Modellen war der legendäre Swatch-Erfinder Hayek im März 1983 gestartet. Die Schweizer Uhrenindustrie sollte dadurch gerettet werden.
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Topic: - on February 25, 2003 at 11:59:18 AM CET
San Francisco Examiner Turns Into Giveaway Paper
Proclaiming news should be free, the San Francisco Examiner began a new life on Monday as a giveaway paper just days after firing most of its staff in a fight to survive against a far larger and wealthier rival.
"Free!," the paper's banner headline read. "A first for our city -- a daily newspaper you don't have to pay for."
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Topic: - on February 25, 2003 at 10:59:39 AM CET
Tokyo new fashion
Apparently these are the latest fashion in Tokyo.. They're not really see-thru, it's the pattern!
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Topic: - on February 24, 2003 at 4:13:39 PM CET
Thousands of pairs of Nike basketball shoes are washing up on beaches
from Washington state to Alaska after spilling from a container ship in Northern California.
There's just one hitch to finding a free pair.
"Nike forgot to tie the laces, so you have to find mates," said Dr. Curtis Ebbesmeyer, an oceanographer who tracks sneakers, toys and other flotsam across the sea. "The effort's worth it 'cause these Nikes have only been adrift a few months. All 33,000 are wearable!"
A beachcomber told Ebbesmeyer about the shoe spill after finding two new blue-and-white EZW men's shoes washed up near Queets on Washington's Olympic Peninsula on Jan. 9 and 16.
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Topic: - on February 24, 2003 at 11:41:27 AM CET
Keep Salon in business
Did you ever get the feeling that some people want you dead? Last week's flurry of news stories about Salon's imminent demise produced another wave of hate mail from those eager to dance on our grave. (The fact that Salon never seems to actually die -- despite the tone of absolute certainty in these perennial press obits that this time, yes, it MUST be going under! -- never diminishes these letter writers' bloodlust.)
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Topic: - on February 23, 2003 at 12:44:55 AM CET
Cassidy: Nightclub idiocy
As if anybody needed another reason not to go see Great White.
I wonder if Director of Homeland Security Tom Ridge has a color alert for idiocy. You could run up that flag over the whole state of Rhode Island and leave it there.
If anything south of Woonsocket and north of Westerly qualifies as more than fleas on the shaggy underside of Massachusetts, I missed it and so did the rest of the free world outside polo and yachting circles.
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Topic: - on February 23, 2003 at 12:25:40 AM CET
Motor rally for blind drivers
More than 200 blind persons have signed up to take part in a Berlin motor rally in which no one who can see properly will be permitted to get behind the wheel.
The March 29-30 event will be held in the vast plaza in front of Berlin's landmark Olympic Stadium, organiser Volker Lenk said Thursday.
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Topic: - on February 23, 2003 at 12:05:29 AM CET
Why it smells when you fart
Ever pull someone's finger and hear a weird noise come out of his or her butt? Ever sit in a tub of water and see bubbles come out of your hiney? This strange noise and vibrating sensation that came from your butt is most likely caused by a fart.
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Topic: - on February 23, 2003 at 12:01:24 AM CET
BIKE SMASH HASSELHOFF BREAKS BACK
BAYWATCH star David Hasselhoff has broken his back in a motorbike crash. The 50-year-old actor lost control of his £10,000 Harley-Davidson in high winds, hit the kerb and was catapulted into a lamp-post. His wife Pamela Bach, 39, riding pillion, broke an ankle and wrist after being thrown into the road. Police said the couple were "lucky to be alive" after Thursday's crash in Los Angeles. Sergeant Christopher Kunz added: "It was a nasty accident."
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Topic: - on February 22, 2003 at 11:45:08 PM CET
99-year-old man skis down Mont Blanc
In a feat that would challenge many people half his age, a Japanese man celebrated his 99th birthday by skiing down western Europe's highest mountain, Mont Blanc.
Mr Keizo Miura made his way down an off-piste run in the celebrated Vallee Blanche area on Wednesday with 40 people and 10 guides, including his 70-year-old son Yuichiro and his 37-year-old grandson Yuta, a mere youngster in the group.
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