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Associated Press headlines via GoUpstate.com
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Retrial Set in Videotaped Arrest Case (Aug 13 2003 09:24 GMT) - A judge set a new trial date of Oct. 22 for the former police officer who was videotaped slamming a handcuffed teenager onto a car. Prosecutors requested the retrial last month, a day after a mistrial was declared when jurors deadlocked 7-5 on charges against former Inglewood officer Jeremy Morse. |
Tom Hume
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Summer School was ace. But ... (Aug 13 2003 09:23 GMT) - Summer School was ace. But it's a few days since I got back, and memories are fading fast... I arrived by train on Saturday 2nd, having bumped into another stick-carrying character, Gilbert from Ken and Linda's dojo in North London, on the train over from Manchester and wandered over to the College from Chester station. Settled into digs that night - I was sharing a flat with Tom and his 2 kids. Made it up early on the Sunday and wandered over to the early-morning sword class, which was being taken by Bill Jackson. |
robots.net
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Sharp BlueStreak SoC (Aug 13 2003 09:23 GMT) - Development kits for another new controller were announced today that should interest robot builders. This is the Sharp BlueStreak SoC (System on Chip) processor. The BlueStreak LH7A404 is a 32bit ARM922T running at 200MHz with LCD and touch screen controller, Ethernet, Audio Codec, CompactFlash, PCMCIA, SmartCard, USB, I2C, SPI, SSI, Microwire, IrDA, 3 UARTS, parallel, realtime clock, 3 timers, 60 GPIO, 4 PWM and a JTAG port. Since the BlueStreak is ARM-based it will run Linux. The BlueStreak SoC by itself (a 256-ball PBGA part) costs around $40. |
Burlington Times News
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Local children send cards to troops (Aug 13 2003 09:22 GMT) - SHAMONG - Anthony T. Greski Jr., a retired Air Force officer, said he wouldn't even try to gauge the importance of the gesture made by the students at the Indian Mills Elementary School for U.S. soldiers stationed overseas. |
Brad DeLong's Semi-Daily Journal (2004)
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Yes! Telecom Price Wars! (Aug 13 2003 09:22 GMT) - To us economists, prices ought to be signals of social scarcity. We overbuilt fiber-optic networks, we have ample wireless bandwidth, and so telecom capacity is definitely not scarce. So it should fall through the floor -- and it is. WSJ.com - European Telecom Firms Face Price War From 3G Cellphones: |
Rational Review News Digest
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US soldier dies, two wounded in Iraq attack (Aug 13 2003 09:22 GMT) - "A US soldier has died and two others have been injured in a bomb attack in the town of Ramadi, west of Baghdad. A US military spokeswoman said three synchronised bombs blew up near a military convoy in the outskirts of the town on Tuesday. The BBC's Matthew Price said it is believed that the three devices had been tied together and were set off as their convoy passed. The attack brings to 58 the number of American soldiers killed since major combat operations ended on 1 May." (08/12/03) |
Rational Review News Digest
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Support for bogus nuke claim nets bureaucrat $20k bonus (Aug 13 2003 09:22 GMT) - "A former Energy Department intelligence chief who agreed with the White House claim that Iraq had reconstituted its defunct nuclear-arms program was awarded a total of $20,500 in bonuses during the build-up to the war, WorldNetDaily has learned. Thomas Rider ... overruled senior intelligence officers on his staff in voting for the position at a National Foreign Intelligence Board meeting at CIA headquarters last September. His officers ... asked to join State Department's dissenting opinion, En |
Rational Review News Digest
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Three arrested in missile-smuggling case (Aug 13 2003 09:22 GMT) - "The FBI arrested three people Tuesday for allegedly smuggling a shoulder-launched surface-to-air missile into the United States as part of a sting, government and law enforcement sources said. The sting came at the end of a yearlong undercover operation ..." (08/12/03) |
Rational Review News Digest
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Bombs shatter Israeli-Arab truce (Aug 13 2003 09:22 GMT) - "Two 17-year-old Palestinians blew themselves up an hour apart yesterday, killing two Israelis and smashing six weeks of Mideast calm. Israel responded by sealing off West Bank towns and delaying a release of Palestinian prisoners, but said it would continue to respect a truce announced in June. In the first attack, Yusuf Qteishat, 17, detonated explosives hidden in his backpack at a supermarket in the Tel Aviv suburb of Rosh Haiyin. The blast killed him and Yezekel Yekutieli, 42 .... An hour la |
Rational Review News Digest
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Mortuaries fill as record temperatures hit Paris (Aug 13 2003 09:22 GMT) - "The elderly are dying 'like flies' because of the relentless heat, French doctors said as undertakers warned that their mortuaries were full. Paris endured its hottest night since records began in 1873 with temperatures of at least 24 degrees [75.2 fahrenheit], following a day of more than 37 degrees [98.6 fahrenheit]. ... |
Prog.Hu
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Minden harmadik gépet feltörnek (Aug 13 2003 09:22 GMT) - Egy most nyilvánosságra hozott amerikai felmérés eredményei szerint majdnem minden harmadik gép hacker- vagy vírustámadás áldozatává vált az elmúlt két év során. Az Edelman ügynökség által végzett kutatás során több, mint ezer amerikai állampolgárt kérdeztek meg ezekkel az eseményekkel kapcsolatos.. |
Burlington Times News
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Hornstine hearing postponed (Aug 13 2003 09:21 GMT) - The first court hearing in a $2.5 million lawsuit involving Blair Hornstine and the Moorestown School District has been postponed for at least eight days, a clerk at U.S. District Court confirmed yesterday. |
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