Topic: NEWS - on February 11, 2007 at 1:45:00 PM CET
Happy Roses
Dutch flower designer Peter Van de Werken created this multi-coloured effect by injecting vegetable dye into flower stalks. The pigment is absorbed and travels to the petals where it changes their hue.
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Topic: NEWS - on February 8, 2007 at 11:57:00 PM CET
Tenerife court cancels Carnival - it's too noisy
A Spanish court on Thursday canceled Carnival celebrations in the Canary Islands city of Santa Cruz de Tenerife -- one of the biggest in the world -- because they are too noisy.
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Topic: NEWS - on January 8, 2007 at 8:47:00 AM CET
Six-metre-tall cake made for New Year
Pastry cooks prepare a twenty-tiered cake as part a celebration of the New Year on a squre in Wuhu, east China's Anhui Province January 3, 2007. The six-metre-tall cake was made with 11,280 eggs, 610 kilos of milk, 175 kilos of flour and 216 kilos of oil, and was decorated with 9,999 roses.
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Topic: NEWS - on January 7, 2007 at 10:35:00 AM CET
Momofuku Ando, Japanese inventor of instant noodles, dies at 96
Faced with food shortages in post World War II Japan, Ando developed the idea that a quality, convenient noodle product would help feed the masses. He founded Nissin in 1948.
In 1958, "Chicken Ramen," the first instant noodle product, was introduced after many trials. Following its success, the company continued to add innovative products, including "Cup Noodle" in 1971.
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Topic: NEWS - on December 17, 2006 at 1:52:00 PM CET
Person of the Year: You
If you look at 2006 through a different lens and you'll see a story about community and collaboration on a scale never seen before. It's about the cosmic compendium of knowledge Wikipedia and the million-channel people's network YouTube and the online metropolis MySpace. It's about the many wresting power from the few and helping one another for nothing and how that will not only change the world, but also change the way the world changes.
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Topic: NEWS - on December 12, 2006 at 4:11:00 PM CET
Man survived 24 days on mountain by sipping barbecue sauce
A civil servant recovering in hospital from an ordeal in which he was stranded for 24 days on a mountain here said he survived by sipping barbecue sauce and water from a bottle.
The rescued man, Mitsutaka Uchikoshi, 35, reportedly told his boss who visited him in hospital that the water and sauce had prevented him from starving to death. At the time of his discovery at the end of October, he was barely conscious, and he is still in hospital, but is reportedly making a good recovery.
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Topic: NEWS - on November 8, 2006 at 12:01:00 PM CET
SELF FUCKING SYSTEMS oder INFORMATION MACHT GLÜCKLICH
"Journalismus und Management sind die wichtigsten Berufe des 21. Jahrhunderts." Das deckt die österreichische Kybernetikerin Maria Pruckner anhand ihrer aktuellsten kybernetischen Systemstudie auf. Ihr Titel: "SELF FUCKING SYSTEMS oder INFORMATION MACHT GLÜCKLICH". Diese Untersuchung widmet sich den Anforderungen an die Informationsleistungen und erforderliche Informationssicherheit in der Komplexitätsepoche für eine erfolgreiche Gesellschaft und den Auswirkungen, wenn sie unter einem erforderlichen Level bleiben.
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Topic: NEWS - on October 19, 2006 at 1:52:00 PM CEST
Red Bull 2005 mit Rekordgewinn
35,1 Mio. Euro verbucht allein Red-Bull-Chef Dietrich Mateschitz als persönlichen Brutto-Jahresgewinn für 2005. Der gesamte Jahresabschluss seines Fuschler Unternehmens weist für 2005 einen Bilanzgewinn von 412,8 Mio. Euro aus.
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Topic: NEWS - on March 22, 2005 at 5:54:00 PM CET
Japanese youth 'hijacks' airport bus and lands in jail
A Japanese youth who wanted to go to Tokyo's Haneda airport boarded a bus heading there before threatening to hijack it unless it took him to ... the airport.
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Topic: NEWS - on March 22, 2005 at 10:50:00 AM CET
Kostenloses Buch zum Internetrecht erweitert
Das kostenlos abrufbare Buch Rechtsfragen im Internet (PDF) von Professor Thomas Hoeren wurde grundlegend überarbeitet. Es bietet nun auf insgesamt 400 Seiten einen Überblick zur Rechtslage im Web. "Wichtig war mir insbesondere eine einfache Sprache, damit auch Nichtjuristen von der Abhandlung profitieren können", erklärt Hoeren, der in seinen Verweisen die aktuelle Rechtsprechung berücksichtigt.
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Topic: NEWS - on March 13, 2005 at 2:18:00 PM CET
Germans to pay by fingerprint at supermarkets
Customers of a German supermarket chain will soon be able to pay for their shopping by placing their finger on a scanner at the check-out, saving up to 40 seconds spent scrabbling for coins or cards, bosses say.
An Edeka store in the south-west German town of Ruelzheim has piloted the technology since November and now the company plans to equip its stores across the region.
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Topic: NEWS - on March 9, 2005 at 11:26:00 AM CET
Mt St Helens - 3/8/05
Pictures of Mt. St. Helen's eruption taken on a hilltop in Portland, Oregon by Jenn Mac Donald.
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