Topic: NEWS english - on December 10, 2003 at 4:08:52 AM CET
Annual Meeting 2004 WEF
"Partnering for Security and Prosperity" Davos, Switzerland, 21-25 January
There can be no prosperity without security, and security cannot be achieved in the absence of prosperity. Creating active partnerships is critical to ensure both.
While business is an engine of global growth, it requires an enabling environment: physical and political security and macroeconomic stability are two indispensable ingredients for business to fulfil its role in society.
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Topic: NEWS english - on December 10, 2003 at 1:48:45 AM CET
Refrigerator Raider
Cleaning out the fridge can be fun and hazardous to your health It's early in the morning. Before work. Pre-shower. So you're pretty sure that ripe scent tickling your olfactories as you head into the kitchen is you. You grab a box of your favorite childhood cereal, then head to the fridge to get the milk. The scent grows stronger, and you assume the breeze created when you opened the fridge simply wafted your morning staleness toward your nostrils.
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Topic: NEWS english - on December 10, 2003 at 1:27:32 AM CET
PARIS HILTON'S SECRET TROUBLED PAST
Former classmate tells all
YEARS BEFORE her outrageous video sex ploits, out-of-control rich kid Paris Hilton was enrolled in a high school for troubled kids -- only to storm out without graduating, reveals an insider. She acted like royalty from the time she arrived until she made her escape -- by limousine -- after two months, charges the source, who attended the school with the hotel heiress.
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Topic: NEWS english - on December 9, 2003 at 9:40:08 PM CET
Poison vodka alert
DEADLY "poison" vodka - similar to booze which left a woman in a coma for 11 days - has been found on sale in Manchester.
Five bottles of counterfeit Kirov brand vodka were discovered at a shop in north Manchester contaminated with methanol, normally used in anti-freeze.
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Topic: NEWS english - on December 9, 2003 at 1:49:32 AM CET
Over a half century of Rudolph the Red-nosed Pumping Unit
It all started when Montgomery Ward department stores published a little Christmas poem booklet in 1939 about a lonely reindeer with a shiny red nose who was chosen by Santa to light the way for his reindeer one foggy Christmas eve. The booklets were given to children by the Montgomery Ward Santas and were so popular they continued to be given away during the WWII years. But the little story reached new heights in 1949 when the song, "Rudolph the Rednosed Reindeer," sung by Gene Autrey, swept the country.
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Topic: NEWS english - on December 8, 2003 at 4:07:23 PM CET
Motorist Registers During Traffic Stop
When officer Jason Zier pulled over a 1992 Mazda 626 on Thursday afternoon, the vehicle's registration had expired. By the time he'd finished writing up Sean Leach for the infraction, the car was legal again.
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Topic: NEWS english - on December 8, 2003 at 4:04:34 PM CET
His hobby is plain as dirt, but not as old
For a guy who is immaculately neat, clean and respectable, Bruce Jackson's hobby seems out of character.
He collects dirt.
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Topic: NEWS english - on December 8, 2003 at 4:02:48 PM CET
Elephants hijack sugar trucks
Hungry elephants have gone on the rampage in eastern Thailand, ransacking villagers' plantations and forcing sugarcane trucks to stop so they can raid their goods.
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Topic: NEWS english - on December 8, 2003 at 3:49:35 PM CET
Top 10: Things You Never Want Her To Say
There are certain things a man never wants to hear from his lady. "Let's go shopping" is one of them, as those words usually herald a whole afternoon wasted near the women's fitting rooms. "You're acting like your father" is another, much harsher statement. Even worse, "You're acting like my father"; that one just hurts.
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Topic: NEWS english - on December 8, 2003 at 3:46:43 PM CET
Fish drags angler to death
A fisherman was dragged to his death in the Thames by a powerful fish pulling on his line, an inquest has heard.
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Topic: NEWS english - on December 8, 2003 at 1:38:40 PM CET
Braille movie system developed for visually impaired
The system, the first of its kind in the world, was produced by Osaka manufacturer Askk Co., with assistance from film producer Planning 21, and is due to be unveiled this month.
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Topic: NEWS english - on December 8, 2003 at 1:21:53 PM CET
Burning Man 2003
Seventeen years old and going strong, the Burning Man festival attracts upwards of 30,000 free spirits to the remote Black Rock Desert in northern Nevada, where they assembled for this year's mass meditation, art festival and fiery bacchanal. Chronicle photographer Frederic Larson took it all in through his lens.
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