Topic: LOST FOUND - on April 13, 2004 at 12:38:00 AM CEST
American Concentration Camps
A typical American reaction to footage of the Third Reich's concentration camps is to shudder and say "But that could never happen here." At which point, an interior monologue voice is compelled to come back in an ominous tone with, "Or could it?"
The answer to that question, of course, is "yes, of course it could," followed by "in fact, it already has," in addition to "and it still is," with the added stipulation that "it's possibly much worse than you imagined."
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Topic: LOST FOUND - on April 10, 2004 at 11:51:00 AM CEST
Whiskey Swigging Bride Wants Photo Killed
Woman Sues to Get Picture of Her Drinking and Smoking in Wedding Dress Off Store Shelves
Most women are eager to show off their wedding photos. But Michele Hemphill is suing to get a picture of her drinking whiskey and smoking a cigarette in her wedding dress off store shelves.
The photo was taken 22 years ago while Hemphill was with her bridesmaids before her wedding. It's featured on a greeting card with the caption: "Intoxicating Love." Inside it says, "Isn't love intoxicating? Congratulations on your special day."
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Topic: LOST FOUND - on April 8, 2004 at 7:23:00 PM CEST
Bioresonant
Bioresonant clothing seeks to exploit an astonishing new theory in bio-physics: that the information exchange in human consciousness can be directly influenced and enhanced by vibrations of Light, that we call colors. Isn't color stimulation safer for us than the water we drink?
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Topic: LOST FOUND - on April 8, 2004 at 5:02:00 PM CEST
The priest, his wife, and her girlfriend
I am having a hard time dealing with my wife's new lesbian lover.
Dear Cary,
I am an Episcopal priest, and a couple of years ago my wife informed me that she is a lesbian. She had struggled to understand this for years and it had finally become clear. We are still very much in love. I was accepting of homosexuality before this happened, so I am accepting of hers as well. But at times it has been very confusing. She has insisted that while she is not generally attracted to men, she is attracted to me -- that I am the exception. And I have every reason to believe her, finally. We have a child and we are very much a family.
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Topic: LOST FOUND - on April 8, 2004 at 4:34:00 PM CEST
Python is part of the family, says woman who needed police rescue
Wanda Nunes says she was about to feed her seven-foot-long Burmese python when the snake clamped onto her arm and started squeezing.
She was going to give Moma two rats for breakfast Saturday morning. But before she knew it, Moma was wrapped around her leg.
Her 13-year-old son tried to pry Moma loose for mama, but to no avail. He called police.
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Topic: LOST FOUND - on April 7, 2004 at 1:25:00 PM CEST
Mobile phones 'harm blood cells'
Mobile phone radiation may damage cells by increasing the forces they exert on each other, scientists have said.
The finding could be the key to claims that mobile phones cause cancer and other health problems.
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Topic: LOST FOUND - on April 6, 2004 at 8:45:00 PM CEST
The Pulitzer Prizes -- 2004 Winners
List of 2004 Pulitzer Prize winners. Images of all prize-winning photographs and cartoons are available, as well as bios and photos of winners. Names of Nominating Jurors in all categories are also listed.
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Topic: LOST FOUND - on April 6, 2004 at 2:23:00 PM CEST
Ikea says founder not the richest
The founder of furniture giant Ikea isn't hurting for money, but the company he founded denied on Monday a report that he surpassed Bill Gates and Warren Buffett to become the world's wealthiest man.
In an article to be released this week, Swedish news weekly Veckans Affaerer said Ingvar Kamprad, 77, the founder of Ikea, surpassed Gates and Buffett.
The falling exchange rate between the Swedish krona and the U.S. dollar, the magazine said, had caused Kamprad's personal fortune to rise to an estimated $52.5 billion.
Ikea said that wasn't so.
"This is completely wrong. It's a mistake that is made all the time," said Ikea spokeswoman Marianne Barner.
"Estimating the value of the company, including all the stores, and saying it's all Ingvar's, that is totally wrong. Ingvar Kamprad does not own Ikea."
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Topic: LOST FOUND - on April 6, 2004 at 12:57:00 AM CEST
Leg Lamps
Leg lamps have been showing up all around the world as far back as the 1930's. Some "goofball" must have gotten the crazy idea to wire up a mannequin or ceramic cast leg to light their favorite room in the house. We've brought a little class to the to this quirky fixture. We are the first manufacturer to offer an authentic gold silk shade and crate shipping.
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Topic: LOST FOUND - on April 6, 2004 at 12:26:00 AM CEST
Marshall McLuhan, the Man and his Message
He was a man of idioms and idiosyncrasies, deeply intelligent and a soothsayer. He had prescient knowledge of the Internet. Although educated in literature, Marshall McLuhan was known as a pop philosopher because his theories applied to mini-skirts and the twist. For his ability to keep up with the cutting edge, one colleague called him "The Runner." Critics said he destroyed literary values. Today, McLuhan’s ideas are new again, applied to the electronic media that he predicted.
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Topic: LOST FOUND - on April 6, 2004 at 12:02:00 AM CEST
Toilets of the World
Well, everyone always asks about this....
When you travel off the beaten path, it doesn't take long until the question comes up. ``Well, you know, how did you, well, when you had to, well, uh, what was it like?'' So here are pictures that I have taken, of toilets I have encountered. Before you complain that I have not yet visited and photographed your favorite one, realize that (with one exception) these are all places I have been. If you would like to send me an airline ticket to Hawaii, Kenya, India, coastal China, or wherever, feel free. Until then, don't expect me to show your favorite scary toilet.
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Topic: LOST FOUND - on April 5, 2004 at 1:56:00 PM CEST
Grandmother floating on cloud nine
RINGWOOD grandmother Dorothy Baker did not let bad arthritis or an approaching 84th birthday stop her fulfilling her dreams.
The retired music teacher finally jumped from a plane and, while her body may have come down to earth, her mind is still up in the clouds.
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