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- JandR.com - The Friday Sale Is On. Friday’s Only! |
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- Samsung Says Considering Sony LCD Deal (Reuters). Reuters - South Korea's Samsung Electronics Co Ltd said on Friday it was positively considering a joint venture with Japan's Sony Corp to make television-use LCD (liquid crystal display) screens. [Yahoo! News - Technology] |
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- Over 500 activists from around the country have gathered in Nashville, Tennessee this weekend to mee... |
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- Herstructureringen, sluitingen en acties |
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- La lunga attesa è finalmente terminata: anche gli utenti di Playstation 2 PAL possono acquistare la versione europea dell'acclamato Winning Eleven 7: Pro Evolution Soccer 3. Già una decina di giorni fa le prenotazioni del gioco avevano già raggiunto la quota di addirittura 1 milione di copie prenotate in tutta Europa e da allora ad oggi le cifre sono sicuramente lievitate di parecchio. Tanta... |
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- Subpoena against FAA suggests signs of life -- and victims' families are suddenly hopeful. - Salon |
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- Amazing oddities! Baffling policies! Only $87 billion! - Salon |
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- It's encouraging that Sting seems to have chugged a Red Bull-Viagra smoothie on some tracks of his new "Sacred Love" LP, but his didactic, smugly penitent music still seems designed to be played by an adulterer returning to Westchester in his Jag. - Salon |
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- Ninety percent of married women choose to take their husband's name. But don't call them traditional. - Salon |
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- A study released Wednesday by two Democratic congressmen accuses the energy services company of "highway robbery." - Salon |
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- Joseph Stiglitz's new book explains what went right, and wrong, with "The Roaring Nineties." - Salon |
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- After trying every way possible to get pregnant, we finally have the baby we wanted. So why do I feel guilty for not adopting or remaining childless? - Salon |
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- 10/24: houston indymedia party |
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- "An explosion damaged part of the main pipeline running from Iraq's northern oil fields on Thursday, forcing a reduction in the amount of oil available for export. ... It was unclear whether the pipeline explosion near the city of Hadeetha, 125 miles northwest of Baghdad, was caused by saboteurs, a senior Oil Ministry official said on condition of anonymity. He said the explosion ripped open part of the main pipeline linking the northern oil fields to the al-Doura oil refinery and the Mussayab p |
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- "Columns of farmers, workers, miners and indigenous groups moved into the Bolivian capital on Thursday, demanding the president's resignation in one of the biggest anti-government protests after days of deadly street clashes. Soldiers guarded the presidential palace as thousands of demonstrators marched, some setting off dynamite and carrying homemade clubs. Others waved the rainbow-colored flag that is the symbol of Bolivia's Indian community. Over the past three weeks, demonstrators have set u |
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- "Anglican leaders expressed deep regret Thursday over U.S. Episcopalians' confirmation of their first openly gay bishop, emphasizing his upcoming consecration puts 'in jeopardy' the future of the global community. In a unanimous statement that included a strongly worded rebuke to the Episcopal Church USA, the 37 leaders said the consecration would 'tear the fabric of our communion at its deepest level.' The lengthy statement, ssued at the end of a two-day emergency summit, said the issue 'may le |
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- "Five undercover agents of the US Department of Homeland Security posing as passengers last week carried weapons through several security checkpoints at Logan International Airport without being detected. ... [A] source who works in security at Logan said the undercover agents, who work for the inspector general of the Department of Homeland Security, brought knives, a bomb, and a gun in carry-on baggage through several checkpoints at different terminals without being stopped." (10/16/03) |
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- Cause Celeb by Helen Fielding: a very enjoyable book from the offer of Bridget Jones's Diary despite the fact that... |
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- Phillip from PercyWeasley.com needs to find some people who can help over at the site. I know there's some wacko Percy fans out there who'd love the job, so I'm just helping get the word out. |
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- Back to real life. Mine. This was the post where I was going to mention I was leaving town for a long weekend in Aspen, and how relieved I was, because as you might have noticed I've been sliding toward the brink of depression. Been having trouble getting out of bed in the morning, getting the energy to do anything. Losing it. |
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- Back to real life. Mine. This was the post where I was going to mention I was leaving town for a long weekend in Aspen, and how relieved I was, because as you might have noticed I've been sliding toward the brink of depression. Been having trouble getting out of bed in the morning, getting the energy to do anything. Losing it. |
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- Dozens of anti-nuclear activists demonstrated at the U.S. Embassy in Tokyo as President Bush arrived Friday, demanding the United States give up its nuclear arsenal and enact an international nuclear test ban treaty. |
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- Mississippi Incumbent Surprises His G.O.P. Opponent Representative Bennie Thompson, the most prominent black elected official in the state, said he... |
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IDigit (Oct 17 2003 07:12 GMT) - Apple - iTunes - Store - Shop I tested out tonight and I have to say that it is pretty... |
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- Remember the song "Tainted Love" by Soft Cell? Of course you do. The year was 1982. Hell, it feels like... |
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- Are we fighting a holy war, or what? A 3-star Army general (who is also an official in the Department... |
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- I can't quite explain why I can't stop laughing at this picture.... |
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- I got my flu shot yesterday. Today I am convinced that my body is actually falling apart. No, I don't... |
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- China's first astronaut said he didn't see the Great Wall while in orbit, contradicting a Chinese belief that it is the only structure visible from space. "I did not see our Great Wall from space," Lt. Col. Yang Liwei said in an interview with China Central Television. The transcript was released Friday. |
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- Unions condemn banking group HSBC for plans to shed 4,000 customer service jobs in the UK and move them to Asia. |
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- No, it's not the title of JK Rowling's next book, but rather eight-year-old Dezi Gallegos' story of Harry Potter's latest adventures, which his father mailed to Rowling's publisher earlier this year. |
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- Columbus IT Partner A/S er formentlig tæt på at købe den danske afdeling af den norske IT-konsulentvirksomhed Hands.Kursen på aktierne i Columbus IT Partner steg i går cirka 20 procent til kurs 7,3 som følge af meddelelsen. |
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- Finansminister Thor Pedersen har bedt Folketingets Finansudvalg bevillige knap 10 millioner ekstra til budgettet.Det skriver Information.Det er edb-problemer med statens nye lønsystem, der nu får finansministeren til diskret at opjustere udgifterne.Ialt er prisen for den nye IT - der allerede en gang tidligere er opjusteret - opgjort til 428,7 millioner kroner. |
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- Nasdaq- og S&P 500-indekset sluttede torsdag i årets højeste niveau, da markedsdeltagerne reagerede på en markant stigning i Philadelphia Fed-indikatoren, der tager temperaturen på den økonomiske aktivitet i Philadelphia-regionen. |
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- I sektoren for vindmøller er der polemik omkring, hvornår de amerikanske PTC-ordninger endelig bliver vedtaget.Det er foreløbig ikke lykkedes for de republikanske ledere i den amerikanske kongres' to kamre, Senatet og Repræsentanternes Hus, at blive enige om de udestående punkter i den ny energilov, der blev forhandlet i går.Måske næste uge Formanden for Husets energiudvalg, republikaneren Billy Tauzin, er dog fortsat fortrøstningsfuld, og han tror på, at det nok skal lykkes, så lovgivningen kan blive behandlet i næste uge, skriver Bloomberg News.- Vi er nu så tæt på, at jeg tror, at jeg med rimelighed kan sige, at der er en god chance for, at vi kan behandle den i Huset i næste uge, sagde Billy Tauzin til journalister i Washington ifølge Bloomberg News.Det er blandt andet uenighed om størrelsen af skatterabatten til en naturgasrørledning fra Alaska til de øvrige stater. |
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