Topic: NEWS - on May 8, 2007 at 4:30:00 PM CEST
Who wants to be a trillionaire?
We are entering the age of the trillion but who apart from seasoned number crunchers knows what it is?
Mortgage debt in the UK is nearly a trillion pounds while computers can store terabytes.
Yet making this number meaningful to ordinary people is a major challenge.
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Topic: NEWS - on May 7, 2007 at 10:15:00 AM CEST
CRYSTALART "AMERICAN ICON"
This amazing car is adorned with over one million Swarovski crystals.Each stone was meticulously placed by hand and took four people almost 6 months to complete. The different colored crystals depict America’s most revered icons.
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Topic: NEWS - on May 5, 2007 at 5:28:00 PM CEST
Baby Hedgehogs
Cute
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Topic: NEWS - on May 5, 2007 at 12:25:00 PM CEST
Finally! A 100-kg Canadian gold coin
The Royal Canadian Mint has produced the world's first 100-kilogram gold coin with a face value of $1 million. And they're for sale.
Why did it do this? "Because we can," the mint said on its website.
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Topic: NEWS - on May 5, 2007 at 12:18:00 PM CEST
Canada Post cowed by "very threatening cat"
Canada's postal system has stopped delivering mail to a home in Winnipeg, Manitoba, after a mail carrier was scared away by a "very threatening cat," the Winnipeg Free Press said on Friday.
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Topic: NEWS - on May 4, 2007 at 10:21:00 PM CEST
Plane's late, wings off, but fruit's fresh
MUMBAI: In fiction they call it magic realism. Imagine waking up on a Monday morning in Chembur to find a massive Boeing 737 parked calmly outside your house.
It all started at about 3 am on Sunday when the driver of a giant trailer carrying the fuselage of an Air Sahara plane out of the city asked for directions to the Mumbai-Pune highway. The aircraft was headed for Delhi where it will reportedly be used at a flight training academy.
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Topic: NEWS - on May 3, 2007 at 2:36:00 PM CEST
Tubular clock tells time with words
Time is displayed on the Tubular Time Clock in phrases such as “quarter past four” and “five minutes past six” instead of the pedestrian “4:15″ and “6:05.” The clock mounts to any wall, and runs on a single AA battery. It’s quite large, measuring in at 33″ wide and a 4.5″ diameter, so you’ll need some space to hang this sucker.
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Topic: NEWS - on April 26, 2007 at 2:59:00 PM CEST
Ewe've been conned ladies
THOUSANDS of rich women were conned by a firm into believing LAMBS were valuable miniature POODLES.
Entire flocks were imported to Japan from the UK and Australia then sold by the internet company as the latest “must have” pet.
The bizarre scam was rumbled when Japanese movie star Maiko Kawakami complained on a talk show that her new poodle refused to bark or eat dog food.
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Topic: NEWS - on April 26, 2007 at 11:21:00 AM CEST
Superman "S" stands for Serbia?
Serb media responded on Wednesday with a sense of pride and patriotism that a new mineral had been found in Serbia closely resembling the makeup of fictional "kryptonite," which rendered Superman helpless.
Reacting to the discovery of the real new mineral in western Serbia, they pointed out that "kryptonite" was created from the remains of Superman's home planet Krypton, destroyed in a fireball.
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Topic: NEWS - on April 24, 2007 at 12:32:00 PM CEST
Ex-editor decries article suggesting he kept child porn
The former editor for the Santa Barbara News-Press is threatening legal action after the paper published a story suggesting he kept child pornography on his work computer. The furor over Sunday's non-bylined story is the latest salvo in a long and acrimonious battle that has raged between the paper's outspoken publisher and current and former editorial employees that has brought charges of unethical behavior.
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Topic: NEWS - on April 18, 2007 at 12:12:00 PM CEST
The Arctic highway
Located in Canada's Northwest Territories, the road from Tibbitt to Contwoyto is considered one of the most dangerous routes in the world. The Denison's road - as it is also known - stretches 600 kilometres into the Arctic territory and is the main supply route for the giant diamond mines in the North. The main danger is that 85 percent of the road lies over frozen lakes, so ice can break at anytime and swallow the trucks.
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Topic: NEWS - on April 17, 2007 at 1:54:00 PM CEST
Hungarian motorway blocked by escaping rabbits
Hungary's busiest highway, connecting Budapest with the Austrian capital Vienna, was closed early on Monday after a truck carrying rabbits crashed, letting 5,000 of the animals loose on the road, police said.
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