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- Baton-wielding police broke up a protest by more than a dozen striking workers at one of Spain's most luxurious hotels Wednesday in the northern city of San Sebastian. Several people were injured and two arrested, news reports said. |
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NIH roadmap (Oct 01 2003 15:56 GMT) - The NIH announced yesterday a $2 billion program to accelerate medical research. Excerpt from the New York Times coverage: "Dr. Zerhouni said he wanted to speed the development of new drugs by creating a public collection of hundreds of thousands of chemical compounds that could be tested by scientists, with advanced technology now available only to pharmaceutical companies. Data from testing such compounds would go into 'a freely accessible public database', Dr. |
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- Michelle stands with her tits pointing out and her lips in a smirk. She is trying to decide which boytoy aka which cock does she want to suck and fuck on first. Will she choose her biker boy or... |
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- Continuing an approximate 145 day wait after publication of the English "Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix," German fans are nearing the official release of the German translation of the novel. The book is currently at printing presses. |
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- (Review) Arianna Huffington is an idiot. When she announced her withdrawal from the race--in order to avoid the embarrassment of coming in last place--she said, "This is about preventing a Republican hijacking of the state." Really, Arianna? A Republican hijacking?... |
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- I saw Matthew Jay play at the Hop and Grape once; he was really very good indeed. Another talent taken from us before their time :( |
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- The Wellcome Trust supports open access. "The Wellcome Trust therefore supports open and unrestricted access to the published output of research, including the open access model ..., as a fundamental part of its charitable mission and a public benefit to be encouraged wherever possible". The Trust now supports the launch of new OA journals and repositories, promises its grantees that it will pay the processing fees charged by OA journals, and encourages authors to retain copyright and make their work openly accessible whenever possible. [OA News] [HubLog] A few days ago at my Corante Blog, I wrote about a not-for-profit scientific publsher who was trying something new with open access. |
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- "Dammit!" Bush yelled, "What about you, Rumsfeld? You know who the leaker is?" "If I did, wouldn't there be someone... |
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Scherzo (Oct 01 2003 15:55 GMT) - [[madrigal]]--> [[Madrigal (music)|madrigal]] |
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- [[madrigal]] --> [[Madrigal (music)|madrigal]] |
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- Searchblox is a search component that enables you to quickly add search functionality to your applications. SearchBlox is available as a Web Archive (WAR) and is deployable on any Servlet 2.3/JSP 1.2 compliant server. |
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- The InfoGlue community has released version 1.1 of InfoGlue Content Management Platform. InfoGlue is an advanced, scalable and robust content management platform written in 100% Java. Key features includes full multi-language support, good reuse between sites and extensive integration capabilities. |
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- Gava is a Java Integrated Development Environment (IDE), built in pure Java, to develop Java applications and applets. Most of Gava is developed in Gava itself. As a pure Java application, Gava can run on both Windows and Unix/Linux platforms. It requires JRE 1.4 to execute, but it can debug JDK1. |
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- ClusterComputing.org recently published an article by Sacha Labourey, the main designer and implementor of JBoss's clustering features. The article discusses the clustering extensions, pluggable load balancing, how clusters refresh, performance implications, and the future of clustering in JBoss 4. |
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- Emerging issues related to the Internet present FCC Chairman Michael Powell with a myriad of new questions to ask and decisions to make. |
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- There is a guy in NY....his name is Jacob Reischman. Never |
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- What Is a Shifted Librarian?: I always wondered where she came up with that name. "...So back to the definition of information shifting. It comes from a New York Times article that discussed the history of consumer fair use and... |
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- Lesbian identities have always presented a challenge to essentialist notions of feminine identity, and never more so than when lesbian bodies are set in the historical context of postmodernity. The cultural period in late-industrial and post-industrial society during World War II and in the fifty years since is their historical heyday. Lesbian bodies came of age under the specter of a Holocaust that could reach finality only by the injection into the global symbolic of a nuclear sublime so horrific as to arrest all prior signification. Their agencies must be agencies that work within the reduced political rights of a worldwide civilian population subjected to a new military regime of global security. They are proffered a variety of prostheses and self-imaging technologies, in fact, a variety of bodies, as long as they meet the performativity criterion of commodity logic. |
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- Well, perhaps. PLOS, if you didn't know, is an attempt to break the stranglehold that proprietary journals have on the dissemination of scientific research. The argument goes something like this: Why is PLoS launching journals? Access to the vast majority... |
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- The Justice Department should not be running this investigation. There is an inherent conflict of interest in having one political... |
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- Michiel H. moet van de dokter op zoek naar de stilte. Als ie die heeft gevonden, dan is ie zsm weer terug. Tot dan, beste mensen, moeten jullie het nog even met mij uithouden... |
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- La discussion s'engage... je reçois des courriels, des commentaires sont déposés à la suite de billets, des conversations "de corridors" se tiennent ça et là; de toute beauté ! Une des communications électroniques reçue fait mention de deux éditoriaux de Michèle Ouimet récemment parus dans La Presse (29 et 30 septembre) qui s'intitulent "La dictature du faible" et "La dictature de la cote R". Je ne trouve pas d'hyperliens menant à ces ressources; |
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- At least 360 snipers under government command fired into a crowd of protesters, touching off a massacre 35 years ago that scarred a generation of Mexicans, according to once-secret government files obtained by The Associated Press. |
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- Finanzminister Eichel hat die Vorschläge der Ministerpräsidenten Koch und Steinbrück zum Subventionsabbau als zentrale Grundlage einer Sparpolitik begrüßt. Allerdings bestand er wie auch Wirtschaftsminister Clement auf darüber hinausgehenden Kürzungen. Die Eigenheimzulage solle ganz wegfallen. |
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- [Handelsblatt]Auf den weltweit größten Märkten - USA, Japan, Frankreich und Deutschland - sei der Einbruch am stärksten gewesen, hieß |
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Love muscle (Oct 01 2003 15:52 GMT) - I find Britney Spears repugnant. And Justin Timberlake gives me the heebies. And the idea of them having the fumbling sex of virgins is enough to make me want to heave. But this makes me never want to have sex again:Britney Spears has revealed she was the "man" in her relationship with Justin Timberlake. |
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Plame Wars (Oct 01 2003 15:52 GMT) - Best of the Web called it "plame out." There are... |
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- A panel of Arabist appeasers, led by a crony of James Baker (who was a featured speaker at the lunatic Arab think tank, the Zayed Institute for Coordination and Followup) ... |
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day off (Oct 01 2003 15:52 GMT) - Too busy to write this morning. Check in later tonight for something to read.... |
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- . . . wondered what ever became of the original music in "WKRP in Cincinnati" reruns, that is . . . |
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- There is an interesting twist here, though. The Houston Chronicle reported yesterday that Karl Rove was fired from the Bush-Quayle campaign for... wait for it... leaking information to... Robert Novak! |
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- pendant tous les congés (week-ends, jours fériés, petites et grandes vacances), Imagine'R permettra la libre-circulation dans toute l'Île-de-France. (...) |
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- Officials at Cheltenham today announced that prize money for the 2003/2004 season, starting at the end of October, will rise by five per cent compared to last term. |
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- WGBH Educational Foundation has launched Teachers’ Domain, a new online educational service developed specifically for K-12 teachers and students. Available free of charge, Teachers’ Domain currently includes 150 clips from broadcast programs like NOVA, A Science Odyssey, and ZOOM, as well as video modules that can be used to introduce topics within the K-12 science curriculum. |
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- There are custom-tailored suits, customized cars, even custom-blend coffees. Now, a watch marketer and its agency are adding something to those examples of personalized peddling: advertisements produced especially for the publications in which they appear. The PK Time Group, the distributor of a line of Swiss watches called Dubey & Schaldenbrand, is running a series of ads, created by Korey Kay & |
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- I discovered this meme at Jezblog who likewise discovered it at Mad musings of me. Who would you invite to dinner? The only rule is that they have to be bloggers you've never met in real life. In no particular... |
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- "Gays, lesbians view registry as progress; Cook County's enrollment of same-sex couples 'a step forward, not completion of the journey'": This article appears today in The Chicago Tribune. And The Chicago Sun-Times reports here that "Domestic partnershi |
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