Topic: - on December 22, 2002 at 8:57:51 PM CET
Mexico takes shot - hoping to make sales with tequila alternative
Once scorned as a cheap booze designed merely to intoxicate, tequila gained international fame a few years ago when drinkers realized just how sublime a liquor it could be. Suddenly, aficionados happily paid top dollar for a snifter of a bar's finest tequila.
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Topic: - on December 22, 2002 at 2:39:46 PM CET
McDonalds close to bankruptcy in Japan - closes 150 stores
McDonald's Holdings Co (Japan) Ltd said Friday it expects to fall into the red in the year ending Dec 31 due to a board decision made the same day to shut down 176 of its restaurants nationwide. McDonald's Holdings said it expects a group net loss of 2.33 billion yen, reversing the company's projection released on Dec. 6 of a 530 million yen profit.
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Topic: - on December 22, 2002 at 10:12:53 AM CET
Dog crashes Johnny Vaughan's car
Television presenter Johnny Vaughan says his pet dog crashed his sports car in a bizarre accident, the Sun has reported. The tabloid said Vaughan's bulldog nudged his 60,000-pound Maserati into gear and stepped on the accelerator -- sending it flying into a van. "I was too shocked to be angry," Vaughan, who presents a BBC chat show, was quoted as saying in Saturday's paper. "I couldn't believe my dog crashed my car."
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Topic: - on December 20, 2002 at 10:37:45 AM CET
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Topic: - on December 19, 2002 at 8:32:45 PM CET
German drinkers face beer shortage
German drinkers could be about to face their worst nightmare -- a beer shortage. The potential trickle in the supply of the nation's favourite tipple is due to new government regulations restricting deposits of disposable cans and bottles which takes effect in January.
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Topic: - on December 19, 2002 at 8:26:09 PM CET
NORAD tracks Santa
Deep inside Cheyenne Mountain, engineers with the North American Aerospace Defense Command, or NORAD, daily track missile launches all over the world. Special attention goes to the skies over North America.
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Topic: - on December 19, 2002 at 8:00:57 PM CET
Former lesbian partner must pay child support
The former lesbian partner of a woman who bore five children during their relationship must pay child support, a state Superior Court panel has ruled. The couple, identified only by initials in the three-judge panel's opinion, lived together in Carlisle from the mid-1980s until 1997 and agreed to have children together through artificial insemination.
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Topic: - on December 18, 2002 at 6:58:03 PM CET
Nazis, Commies and Bad Haircuts: Totalitarianism on the March in Today’s Germany
I hadn’t planned on attending a Nazi march, but I have to admit I was intrigued when I was on the campus of Ludwig Maximilian University in Munich and was handed a flyer that announced an anti-Nazi demonstration to protest a planned Nazi march on the Goetheplatz on November 30th. ................ Oh, heck, I’m just gonna admit it. The thought of a riot breaking out and having the chance to kick a Nazi where the sun don’t shine was just too good to pass up.
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Topic: - on December 17, 2002 at 1:32:24 AM CET
Prague is the Tijuana of Europe
Prague, the baroque jewel in the crown of Europe, is coming under siege every weekend by hordes of drunken British men on cheap "sex and beer" jaunts.
A Czech police official said yesterday that about a quarter of the fights in the city centre at weekends involved British men. "We're seeing increasing numbers of them. They fight amongst themselves or with locals," the official said.
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Topic: - on December 17, 2002 at 1:23:48 AM CET
One Dead, 9 Hurt in Blast from Banana Gas
- A man was killed and nine people were injured on Saturday when gas used to artificially ripen fruit exploded in a Turkish market, police said. Erbil Esmer, 36, was killed while shopping for bananas at a fruit wholesaler in the northwestern city of Balikesir, a policewoman said.
"A spark caused the gas used to (ripen) bananas ... to explode," she said.
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Topic: - on December 17, 2002 at 12:37:13 AM CET
Villagers Armed to Fend Off Plundering Pigs
Hungry wild pigs rampaged through Turkish villages on Friday pillaging crops and gardens as they sought food and refuge from fierce weather conditions sweeping through the country's northeast.
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Topic: - on December 17, 2002 at 12:15:34 AM CET
Speedy wheelchair drivers being ticketed
Wheelchairs users beware: You could be ticketed -- or worse, expelled -- for speeding at Valley College. Campus officials recently set a speed limit of 4 mph for wheelchairs, hoping to keep pedestrians from being hurt.
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