Topic: - on December 17, 2002 at 12:04:01 AM CET
Leave the Tin Cup at Home -- Try 'Cyberbegging'
- Need to pay down credit card debt? Desperate for money for music lessons? Simply tired of working and too embarrassed to stand on the corner with a tin cup? Try "cyberbegging."
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Topic: - on December 15, 2002 at 4:59:22 PM CET
Mobile phone tracks heartbeats
A device that attaches to a normal mobile phone and allows patients to check their breathing and heart rate has been developed by researchers in the US. The device combines an antenna and sensor which can pick up respiratory and heart activity when connected to a mobile phone and placed in front of a patient.
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Topic: - on December 15, 2002 at 3:20:42 PM CET
Billionaire girl finds perfect match
The richest girl in the world will be 18 in a few weeks. Athina Roussel will then come into a $14 billion inheritance from her mother, Christina, the daughter of fabled Greek shipowner Aristotle Onassis.
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Topic: - on December 14, 2002 at 1:36:43 PM CET
Sand & Rudolph the red-nosed reindeer
has been a focus of much adulation since his trials and tribulations as a young buck were first chronicled by Robert May in 1939. Now, on the verge of what will be his sixty-third trip as the leader of Santa's Christmas dash, Rudolph reflects on his life, his hopes, and his regrets, with
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Topic: - on December 14, 2002 at 12:56:07 PM CET
The Pyramid
Dedicated to the proposition that the Great Pyramid is a rational (in the mathematical sense) structure, designed and built by normal people. This is a radical statement about the Pyramid, especially on the internet because all web pages that I have been able to find that deal with the Pyramid, maintain that it was built and/or inspired by either God or space aliens. Most don't even consider that it could be a rational structure designed and built by normal people.
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Topic: - on December 14, 2002 at 12:02:15 AM CET
Caffeine level matched '700 coffees'
Cecilia Jessop, 58, took hundreds of Pro Plus stimulant pills and washed them down with Red Bull energy drinks. She was found by her husband surrounded by empty tablet capsules and drink cans. She had more than seven times the lethal level of caffeine in her blood, the equivalent of more than 700 cups of strong coffee.
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Topic: - on December 13, 2002 at 1:46:54 PM CET
Collector Buys Clues to 5th 'Potter' Book
An American collector has paid more than $45,000 for a card full of clues to the plot of the long-awaited fifth Harry Potter book.
The unidentified buyer made the winning bid Thursday for the card, handwritten by author J.K. Rowling as a charity fund-raiser. The money will be used to buy more than 18,000 books for schools in Africa.
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Topic: - on December 13, 2002 at 10:10:38 AM CET
U.S.'s Santa Triggers Austrian Backlash
and many Austrians wish he'd just stay home. The jolly old elf is getting an icy reception in this alpine country that gave the world "Silent Night" and clings to beloved Christmas traditions. A small but boisterous movement alarmed at the intrusion of the American-style Old Saint Nick is crusading to keep the traditional St. Nikolaus and the Christ Child as the reason for the season.
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Topic: - on December 13, 2002 at 9:12:38 AM CET
Divorce Likely to Carve Up Chef Wolfgang Puck's Food Empire
Celebrity chef Wolfgang Puck could lose a key ingredient in his recipe for business success -- his wife and business partner of 20 years, Barbara Lazaroff, has filed for divorce. Lazaroff, who has played a key role in Puck's success from the opening of Spago in West Hollywood in 1982 to the building of a $300 million food empire, filed for divorce in Los Angeles Superior Court.
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Topic: - on December 13, 2002 at 9:10:07 AM CET
Police Scan Alleged Internet Sex Cannibal's Videos
German police are watching home videos made by an alleged sex cannibal who reportedly shared a last meal of flambeed penis with his willing victim before carving him up and freezing the man's remaining body parts to eat later.
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Topic: - on December 12, 2002 at 2:22:22 PM CET
D-AIR®
is a vest incorporating a specially engineered Air Bag. The project is the pet project of D-Tec®, the Dainese R&D department, it is the fruit of long-time collaboration with an Israeli engineering firm specialized in the design of technological systems, MERHAV APP Advanced Airbag Technology.
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Topic: - on December 12, 2002 at 1:51:18 PM CET
Box mystery at Union Sq.
Straphangers bracing for a transit strike got a taste of fear and chaos yesterday when a vandal taped 38 boxes on walls and under benches in one of the city's busiest subway stations - closing the hub for five hours. Cops cleared the Union Square station shortly before 11 a.m. as bomb squad technicians gingerly collected the empty black cardboard boxes with the word FEAR written on them in white block letters.
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