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- See: [[United Kingdom in the Eurovision Song Contest]] |
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Buzzard (Aug 15 2003 23:15 GMT) - nl: |
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- see the link for details. |
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twists (Aug 15 2003 23:14 GMT) - I feel a bit better than I did at the beginning of the week. I'm doing fairly well at work...so... |
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- Extended Criteria Donors... |
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Bleh. (Aug 15 2003 23:14 GMT) - No entries from the last two days, thanks to Verizon, an extraordinarily stupid support person, and that damned worm. I could rant, but lack the interest, to be honest. But that's why there have been no items. I'll see if... |
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- Aug. 15 - From the Midwest to Manhattan, the largest blackout in U.S. history left more than 4 million people powerless for a second day Friday. |
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- Aug. 15 - How has the blackout impacted city travel, and how can you still get around? |
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- Aug. 15 - Gov. George Pataki said Friday that there were no systemic problems in New York that contributed to the massive blackout. |
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- Aug. 15 - New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg updated the status of the power outage and commended the city saying that New York had a lot to be proud of. |
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- Aug. 15 - Comedian Rob Schneider offers a humorous take on the massive blackout in New York. |
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- Aug. 15 - Power is slowly starting to come back on 24 hours after the worst blackout in the nation's history and Ohio is still trying to recover. |
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- Sorry, I am at work and do not have time for a lengthy addition. Do you think that it is possible for a solar flare to be the cause of northeast black out? Check out this X class happening right now! |
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- This started as a comment on Rickyjames' news story The Wannabe Cyborgs Grow Up, but it got too long, so I am posting it in the Commentary section. The flaw in the transhumanist worldview is not that it seeks changes from the human condition as we have previously known it -- for what major advance in science and technology does not produce change? -- but that it ignores so many aspects of humanity that we have yet to understand. I am not a transhumanist, a statement that may strike some of my readers as strange. Have I not always been a proponent of genetic engineering? |
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- It's not a yeti, but it's better than nothing. As reported by Reuters, a wild cat thought to be virtually extinct has been captured on film in the wild, a Malaysian scientist said Thursday. "We have discovered a species thought extinct in Borneo," Mohd Azlan told Reuters by telephone from East Malaysia, where he led a research project for University Malaysia Sarawak and the state forest department. |
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- From a University of Florida press release: A molecular biologist and a nanoscientist at the University of Central Florida have found that nanomaterials developed for industry have an unexpected and potentially revolutionary side effect: They can triple or quadruple the life of brain cells. The result is people could live longer and with fewer age-related health problems. |
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- Below are the first few paragraphs and a link to a facinating article by George Dvorsky from his latest editorial posting on Betterhumans - great site, check it out. Expect to see it added to our growing left-hand-column media list this week along with some others. Do you hope to become a cyborg someday? Would you like to modify and enhance your genome and those of your offspring, perhaps even acquiring some animal characteristics? Does the prospect of living as an uploaded consciousness in a supercomputer appeal to you? |
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- Riyadh Daily: A remote mine allegedly triggered by Chechen rebels killed five Russian soldiers Friday while troops were conducting a search operation in the breakaway republic, the Interior Ministry said Friday. The radio-controlled mine was detonated in the Vedeno region of southern Chechnya when an armored personnel carrier full of Interior Minister troops rolled over the explosive device. |
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- The brain-stem thinkers of Sante Fe City Council have decided the city has too much business. In an effort to keep businesses from hiring more than 24 employees and drive away that already do, they decided to increase the local... |
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- DicksSportingGoods.com - Tasco 8x21 Binocular w/ Free Swiss Army Esquire Knife 19.99 Shipped. Dicks Sporting Goods has the Tasco 8x21 Binocular w/ Free Swiss Army Esquire Knife (search for 1373585) selling for $19. |
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- Just when you were convinced that Hasbro UK had forgotten about HasbroJedi they post up another update. Click through for the details. |
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- Aug. 15 - Power is slowly starting to come back on 24 hours after the worst blackout in the nation's history and the tri-state area is still trying to recover. |
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- Aug. 15 - Police say a man who committed suicide by jumping into the Schuylkill River left behind a suicide note claiming he murdered a pregnant woman. |
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- May 8 - Caroline Grasso and Jerald Bennett talk about their try-outs for NBC 10's Best Summer Gig Ever contest on the 10! show. |
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- Here's a look back at John Ogden's auditions for the NBC 10's Best Summer Gig Ever contest. |
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- Here are some funny outtakes from NBC 10's Best Summer Gig Ever contestants that never saw air. |
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- May 22 - NBC 10's new traffic reporter, John Ogden, says he was surprised at winning but is happy to have landed this gig fresh out of college. |
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- May 11 - Here are the five finalists for the NBC 10 "Best Summer Gig Ever" contest. |
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- May 22 - John Ogden is the winner of NBC 10's Best Summer Gig Ever contest! |
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- SOUTH WILLIAMSPORT, Pa. - Michael Scuzzarella got a little nervous when he took the mound defending a 2-0 lead in the bottom of the sixth of his Little League World Series opener. Turns out the Saugus, Mass., defense backed him up. |
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- JERUSALEM POST: Response to fatal Hizbullah shelling was to buzz Assad As a response to the Hizbullah shelling attack that killed a 16-year-old boy last week, air force jets buzzed Bashar Assad as he was holidaying in a northern Syrian... |
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- Aug. 15 - From the Midwest to Manhattan, the largest blackout in U.S. history left more than 4 million people powerless for a second day Friday. |
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- Aug. 15 - President Bush said Friday the power outages across the Northeast are "a wake-up call" to the antiquated state of the nation's electrical grid. |
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- Aug. 15 - New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg updated the status of the power outage and commended the city saying that New York had a lot to be proud of. |
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- Aug. 15 - Gov. George Pataki demanded an investigation into what he called failures to upgrade the regional power system after massive blackouts in the 1960s and '70s. |
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- Hvis de sociale myndigheder i Århus have grebet fat i de yngre brødre til ballademagere i indvandrermiljøet midt i 1990'erne, så kunne en stor del af den seneste tids uroligheder være undgået. Det er nemlig i høj grad de yngre brødre, som nu er blevet store, der fører an i konfrontationerne med politiet. |
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- Der er endnu godt 100 billetter tilbage til den stjernebesatte "La Boheme" på Den Jyske Opera". De koster godt nok 1400 og 1600 kroner. Men har du råd, så forær dig selv et minde for livet. |
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- Tre unge AGF-spillere har et stort ansvar mod FC Midtjylland i dag. Målmanden Steffen Rasmussen på 20 år, forsvarsspilleren Kasper Kure på 21 og angriberen Morten Rasmussen på bare 18 år er i AGFs startopstilling i en hjemmekamp, der simpelthen skal vindes, hvis AGF skal op at lune sig i Ligaens midterste del. |
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- To Fiat Stilo-ejere er så trætte af evindelige fejl på deres biler, at de helst af alt så købene ophævet. Begge er parate til at betale en rimelig pris for de kilometer, de har kørt i bilerne. Men hidtil har forhandlerne enten afvist at komme med en byttepris, eller også har den foreslåede byttepris været næsten en fornærmelse. |
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- En 16-årig mand blev i går ved Retten i Århus varetægtsfængslet frem til 28.august sigtet for røveri. Århus Politi anholdt manden mandag 11. august kl. 12. |
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- Det bliver en af sæsonens største musical-begivenheder, når det danske produktionsselskab Rossen og Rønnow kan præsentere sin helt egen komplette sceneudgave af den legendariske musical Les Misérables på Danmarksturné med over 70 forestillinger i fem byer. |
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