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- BALAD, Iraq — Two U.S. soldiers were killed Friday and more than 20 were wounded in widespread mortar attacks on units of the 4th Infantry Division north of Baghdad, and a soldier from California was slain by small-arms fire in the northern city of Mosul, military authorities said. |
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- Post offices and schools were closed, hundreds of flights were canceled and buses and trains were idled in Italy as millions stayed home to protest government plans to reform the pension system. |
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- Three photographers who took pictures of Princess Diana and her friend Dodi Fayed in their car just before their fatal 1997 crash went on trial in Paris on invasion-of-privacy charges. |
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- North Korea may have test-fired a short-range missile off its eastern coast Saturday, the Japanese government said. It is the third suspected missile launch by Pyongyang this week. |
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- Well, it seems Bush and Co. have found a way to slow the ebb of dead soldiers arriving home in caskets, at least on television. From Dana Milbank, writing in The Washington Post: Since the end of the Vietnam War, presidents have worried that their militar |
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- Hi-jinks at a stag weekend turned to horror |
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- It was night. Late at night. [via milk & cookies]... |
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- I don't know quite what to blame this on, but my traffic is nuts and getting nuttier. TBOTCOTW is getting 596 visits a day with 906 from 670 unique sites on Wednesday. I thought last month that all the traffic... |
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- UK car club schemes offer a pay-as-you-drive alternative to car ownership and can add to the value of residential and commercial developments when included within each site’s travel plan. [PRWEB Oct 25, 2003] |
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- Coverts Survelllance saves disabled women from attack. [PRWEB Oct 24, 2003] |
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- GRAMM Representatives Announces the Grand Opening of Eagle Ridge in the Popular University Area of Charlotte [PRWEB Oct 24, 2003] |
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- Grand Opening of New Homes in Fairburn, Georgia, Fulton County [PRWEB Oct 24, 2003] |
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- Informative Research and Veros Software have enhanced the ease for IR customers, providing the full value of Veros direct from the comfort of the IR home page at http://www. informativeresearch. com [PRWEB Oct 24, 2003] |
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- Ekki eru heimildir um að leikhúsrýnir Múrsins hafi verið gripin með gervifléttur, í ljósum samfestingi og með sleikjó að reyna að komast inn á Dýrin í Hálsaskógi sem börn. Í þetta sinn var hins vegar fengið barn lánað. En hvað fannst leikhúsrýni Múrsins um Lilla klifurmús anno 2003? Þessi spurning er á hvers manns vörum og verður svarað í þessari grein. |
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- Stealth Computers: NY Times on Mini ITX Modding [Slashdot] |
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- Feltri oggi titola su Libero : Lo sciopero fallisce, la polizia no. Meditate malfidati, meditate.... |
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eCulture (Oct 25 2003 07:12 GMT) - Stealth Computers: NY Times on Mini ITX Modding [Slashdot] |
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- joeldg writes "CNN is carrying a story on the gemini three-person submersible. 'Forget the yacht, mansion and private jet. This is Gemini, the family submarine ... |
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- joeldg writes "CNN is carrying a story on the gemini three-person submersible. 'Forget the yacht, mansion and private jet. This is Gemini, the family submarine ... |
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- En rapport fra den amerikanske hær konkluderer, at militæret har alvorlige problemer med at indsamle efterretninger i Irak. |
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- Oh, oh! This is very cool. Canterbury Tales go online. From the BBC: Internet users will be able from Friday to view the first editions of The Canterbury Tales online rather than having to visit the British Library where the original versions are kept. |
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- Oh, oh! This is very cool. Canterbury Tales go online. From the BBC: Internet users will be able from Friday to view the first editions of The Canterbury Tales online rather than having to visit the British Library where the original versions are kept. |
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- IBM Corp., 2003-10-24: Ein Drittel des Mittelstandes in Nordrhein-Westfalen (NRW) wickelt seine Geschäfte teilweise mit e-business ab. Zu diesem Ergebnis kommt die gemeinsame Studie " |
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- Microsoft Corp., 2003-10-24: Mit 8,22 Milliarden US-Dollar stieg der Umsatz von Microsoft im ersten Quartal des Geschäftsjahres 2004 gegenüber dem entsprechenden Vorjahresquartal um 6 Prozent. |
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- Documentum, 2003-10-24: Documentum (Nasdaq: DCTM), führender Anbieter für unternehmensweite Content-Management-Lö |
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- 5 Point, 2003-10-18: Die internationale Zusammenarbeit wird häufig durch Sprachbarrieren und unterschiedliche Zeitzonen erschwert. Mit der neuen Version des Online-Collaboration-Tools "teamspace" |
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- Just spotted a great peice by Bob about the Microsoft (but I'm sure it applies to other large software companies you know from time to time) attitude to open source and the failure of bringing talkie toaster ( Bio) in to reality.. Cutting to the bone of his [ Steve Ballmer] remarks, he is saying that Microsoft developers, since they are employees, are more skilled and dedicated than Open Source developers. They are better, Ballmer suggests, because Microsoft developers have their rears (presumably their jobs) on the line. All those lines and all those rears are part of a road map, he says, and because of that road map the $30 billion plus Microsoft gets each year isn't too much for us to pay, so the model works pretty well. < |
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- Just spotted a great peice by Bob about the Microsoft (but I'm sure it applies to other large software companies you know from time to time) attitude to open source and the failure of bringing talkie toaster (Bio) in to reality.. Cutting to the bone of his [Steve Ballmer] remarks, he is saying that Microsoft developers, since they are employees, are more skilled and dedicated than Open Source developers. They are better, Ballmer suggests, because Microsoft developers have their rears (presumably their jobs) on the line. All those lines and all those rears are part of a road map, he says, and because of that road map the $30 billion plus Microsoft gets each year isn't too much for us to pay, so the model works pretty well. < |
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- INCLUDE{"DocsDevTopicNote"} Feedback on SpreadSheetPlugin Please use the Sandbox.SpreadSheetSandbox in the Test web for testing. Older feedback moved to SpreadSheetPluginDevArchive ... |
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- Older feedback archived from SpreadSheetPluginDev Main.PeterThoeny 19 Apr 2003 The easy way to do such a thing is to write a recursive function that calls itself ... |
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- Members of a new board that will monitor a U.S. and British-controlled fund for Iraq's development have announced how they expect to keep tabs on how the money is spent. |
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Bible Humor (Oct 25 2003 07:08 GMT) - Q. Who was the greatest financier in the Bible?... |
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Fee (Oct 25 2003 07:08 GMT) - I can't even find a fucking stapler now. This sort of thing matters a lot to me. Stationery - almost... |
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- IconDesk 0.63 by Erik Christiansson (Sci)IconDesk is a Litestep module that displays icons on the desktop, much like in Explorer. - posted by sciRelated Links: blizzle. com/ |
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- China's next manned space launch might carry two astronauts into orbit, a government news agency said Saturday, citing a senior space program official. The report by the China News Service came as the Shenzhou 5 capsule that carried astronaut Yang Liwei into space was put on display in Beijing but drew only small crowds on its first day. |
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- (India) After the death of his foster father he moves into the village and comes into contact with Gomathy (Sangeetha) a fiercely independent and a spitfire lady who makes a living selling ganja beedies. [$drug_related(100%), $drugwar_propaganda(60%), $propaganda_theme2(50%), $propaganda_theme5(60%), $illegal_drugs(100%), $drugs(90%), $cannabis(100%), $narcotic(100%), $various_drugs(90%)] |
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- (US) Rickie Dwayne Atwell Jr., 26, of Cadiz, charged with first-degree possession of a controlled substance (first offense, methamphetamine) and possession of drug paraphernalia. Carolyn Denise Browning, 29, of Nortonville, charged with manufacturing methamphetamine (first offense), unlawful p...[$drug_related(100%), $drugwar_propaganda(55%), $propaganda_theme1(55%), $propaganda_theme2(50%), $illegal_drugs(100%), $drugs(90%), $drug_law(80%), $stimulant(100%), $cocaine(100%), $amphetamines(100%), $cannabis(100%), $alcohol(100%), $paraphernalia(100%), $various_drugs(90%)] |
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