Topic: NEWS english - on February 13, 2007 at 12:50:00 PM CET
Viagra sold over counter in UK on Valentine's Day
Men will be able to buy impotence treatment Viagra over the counter in Britain for the first time from Valentine's Day, chemist chain Alliance Boots said on Sunday.
Three Manchester Boots pharmacies will sell the prescription-only medication made by U.S. drugs group Pfizer in a pilot program from February 14.
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Topic: NEWS english - on February 12, 2007 at 1:24:00 PM CET
'Space potatoes' grown from mutated seeds latest food fad in Shanghai
Having boldly gone where no spud has before, Chinese space potatoes are now the latest culinary fad to hit the country's ultra-trendy commercial hub of Shanghai.
Slightly sweet and purple in colour, the potatoes, named Purple Orchid Three, are bred from seeds that mutated while being carried aboard a Chinese spacecraft, the Shanghai Daily newspaper reported Monday.
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Topic: NEWS english - on February 12, 2007 at 12:04:00 PM CET
6,124 kiss at Lovapalooza for world record
Couples kiss at the annual Lovapalooza Valentine celebration in Manila February 11, 2007. Organisers said 6,124 couples kissed at midnight in an attempt to get into the record books for Most Couples Kissing Simultaneously.
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Topic: NEWS english - on February 11, 2007 at 6:11:00 PM CET
Truck Spills 165,000 Eggs on Va. Highway
Drivers on their way to breakfast in northern Virginia on Saturday found it all over the road after nearly 165,000 eggs spilled out of an overturned tractor-trailer on the Capital Beltway.
"It looked like a large omelet," said Michael Karbonski, of the Virginia Department of Transportation.
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Topic: NEWS english - on February 11, 2007 at 4:36:00 PM CET
Make Fire From Water
Wow. Just... Wow. This Aqueon fireplace by Heat & Glo actually uses regular water to create fire. Ordinary tap water (preferably distilled) is supplied to the fireplace through a pipe or tank, a 220 volt electrical service then separates the hydrogen and oxygen atoms through electrolysis, the Aqueon ignites the hydrogen, and ta-dah, fire!
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Topic: NEWS english - on February 11, 2007 at 1:52:00 PM CET
FORTUNE Global 500 2006
Full list
1 Exxon Mobil 2 Wal-Mart Stores 3 Royal Dutch Shell
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Topic: NEWS english - on February 11, 2007 at 1:41:00 PM CET
Lights out on Edison's bulb?
One of the inventions that put this central New Jersey town on the map could go the way of the typewriter and the horse and buggy if some lawmakers have their way.
The incandescent light bulb, perfected for mass use by Thomas A. Edison in the late 19th century, is being supplanted by fluorescent lighting that is more efficient and longer lasting.
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Topic: NEWS english - on February 9, 2007 at 3:05:00 PM CET
'Doomsday' vault design unveiled
The final design for a "doomsday" vault that will house seeds from all known varieties of food crops has been unveiled by the Norwegian government.
The Svalbard International Seed Vault will be built into a mountainside on a remote island near the North Pole.
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Topic: NEWS english - on February 8, 2007 at 11:25:00 PM CET
Anna Nicole Smith dead (•Y•)
Footage of the final moments of Playboy Playmate Anna Nicole Smith's life sold for more than $500,000 Thursday after a media bidding war, according to Splash News & Picture Agency, the paparazzi outlet that sold the rights to the tape.
Paparazzi agency Splash News & Picture Agency is peddling the videotape, which shows paramedics working on the unresponsive reality star as she was wheeled from the Hard Rock Hotel in Hollywood, Fla., Thursday.
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Topic: NEWS english - on February 8, 2007 at 1:58:00 PM CET
Facebook defends teen security tricks
RSA Facebook has defended its privacy protection despite the possibility that this has been circumvented for the first time by an alleged sexual predator.
The teen-tastic site's chief privacy officer Chris Kelly told security experts Facebook offers a robust system to protect identities of its 16 million participants and to exclude pedophiles. Facebook uses a combination of algorithms to spot dodgy traffic with "real-world" social techniques.
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Topic: NEWS english - on February 7, 2007 at 1:12:00 PM CET
Fake Holograms a 3-D Crime Wave
If you have a credit card or just bought a copy of Windows Vista, you're familiar with security holograms -- those sparkly bits of film that vouch for the validity of everything from driver's licenses to software and sports league items.
It turns out, they're aren't as secure as they are sparkly.
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Topic: NEWS english - on February 7, 2007 at 12:58:00 PM CET
Crackdown on paedophiles' internet aliases
Internet paedophiles could be forced to register all their online nicknames and email addresses with the authorities as part of a new crackdown, it was revealed today.
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