Topic: NEWS english - on July 30, 2004 at 11:27:00 AM CEST
Woman arrested, handcuffed for eating candy bar in subway station
A government scientist finishing a candy bar on her way into a subway station where eating is prohibited was arrested, handcuffed and detained for three hours by transit police.
Stephanie Willett said she was eating a PayDay bar on an escalator descending into a station July 16 when an officer warned her to finish it before entering the station. Both Willett and police agree that she nodded and put the last bit into her mouth before throwing the wrapper into a trash can.
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Topic: NEWS english - on July 28, 2004 at 1:40:00 PM CEST
Dentist Allegedly Injected Semen Into Patients' Mouths
Former employees of a dentist claim the man made female patients unwittingly swallow his semen during visits to his office in Cornelius.
Dr. John Hall is accused by the state dental board of violating dentistry's standard of care, engaging in immoral conduct, and committing sexual assault or battery.
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Topic: NEWS english - on July 28, 2004 at 1:38:00 PM CEST
Microsoft rolls out "newsbot" beta
SOFTWARE FIRM Microsoft is once more inviting people to have a go trying out the MSNBC "newsbot" beta.
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Topic: NEWS english - on July 28, 2004 at 1:36:00 PM CEST
Dinner With Bill Gates
So, in response to the multitude of email messages I got asking for more juicy details on what it's like to eat dinner with Bill Gates, I figured I should write the comprehensive posting about said topic. So, without further deliberation, I've broken down my account into a few sections: The Experience, The House, The Man, and The Coolest Part. Here goes...
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Topic: NEWS english - on July 28, 2004 at 1:25:00 PM CEST
HORSE-FLESH IS COOL
Japanese ice-cream lovers have swapped traditional flavours such as raspberry ripple for something a little more exotic - horse-flesh. Vegetarians can enjoy soybean and kelp or a cornet of strawberry and spinach.
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Topic: NEWS english - on July 28, 2004 at 12:14:00 PM CEST
Thai elephants anticipate jumbo CD sales
Not satisfied with healthy sales in the United States from their first CD, Thailand's Elephant Orchestra has gone back to the recording studio to turn out more jumbo hits
Richard Lair, of Thailand's Elephant Conservation Centre, says the "improvised jazz" created by the new, enlarged line-up of 12 jamming pachyderms - the original band only had five - is currently being mixed in New York.
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Topic: NEWS english - on July 28, 2004 at 1:46:00 AM CEST
Motorola's OFDM Field Tests and Research Prove Capability to Achieve 300 Mbps Mobile Broadband Data Rates
Motorola Inc., by combining results from field experiments and research conducted by Motorola Labs, has proven existing Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM) technology can support high-speed mobile networks with a peak downlink speed of up to 300 Mbps. This research demonstrates that future all-IP mobile networks using OFDM technology have the capability to provide a broadband user experience that was previously thought to be unattainable.
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Topic: NEWS english - on July 27, 2004 at 11:56:00 AM CEST
Two cows recaptured after wandering through beer tent at NS lobster festival
It's a good thing the menu called for seafood instead of beef.
Two cows have been captured after 15 adventurous days of freedom, including a stroll through a beer tent at a local lobster festival. The pair made their break while being delivered to their new home in Pictou earlier this month. Several men on horseback were able to catch them on Saturday.
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Topic: NEWS english - on July 27, 2004 at 9:07:00 AM CEST
Teressa Heinz-Kerry To Reporter: "Shove It"
Teressa Heinz-Kerry, wife of presumptive Democratic nominee John Kerry, told Pittsburgh Tribune-Review editorial editor Colin McNickle to "shove it" after McNickle asked her a question.
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Topic: NEWS english - on July 26, 2004 at 1:24:00 PM CEST
15 hurt as mobile triggers lightning
FIFTEEN tourists were injured by mobile-phone-induced lightning on a section of China's Great Wall, state media and officials said today.
The accident happened at the Juyongguan part of the Wall, 50km from Beijing when an elderly visitor's mobile phone acted as a lightning rod as he made a call, the China Daily reported.
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Topic: NEWS english - on July 26, 2004 at 1:15:00 PM CEST
Slow and Low
coolest lowrider
The best thing about Logan Ao's bicycle is that it is really, really loud. It has 10 stereo speakers and two car batteries inside a wooden box. The box is covered in plushy red satin, mirrors, and red neon lights, and bolted beneath the bike's red satin banana seat. For extra oomph, Ao added a Sony Xplode subwoofer. Cops regularly pull him over and threaten to write him $120 tickets for disturbing the peace.
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Topic: NEWS english - on July 23, 2004 at 11:09:00 AM CEST
Panic spreads in Nigeria over cellphone numbers rumoured to cause death
Oluchi Azubogu took no chances after receiving an ominous text message stirring fear in Nigeria.
The message warned that she would die if she took calls from two listed phone numbers. "I switched off my mobile phone and took no calls at all," the 22-year-old university student said. Quickly she alerted her parents and six friends.
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