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- From GUNED.COM-- BAGHDAD, Iraq - Car bombers struck the international Red Cross headquarters and three police stations across Baghdad on Monday, killing about 40 people and wounding more than 200 in a spree of destruction that terrorized the Iraqi capital on the first day of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan.The string of bombings, all within less than an hour, was the bloodiest attack yet in the city of 5 million by insurgents targeting the American-led occupation and those perceived as working with it. It also appeared like a dramatic escalation in tactics--in past weeks, bombers have carried out heavy suicide bombings, but in single strikes. |
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- From GUNED.COM-- BAGHDAD, Iraq -- An assault on a convoy west of Baghdad on Saturday killed at least three civilians and wounded at least two, the deadliest single attack on the firms hired to provide basic services for occupation authorities. A U.S. Army Black Hawk helicopter was also shot down near the northern town of Tikrit, injuring one crew member. |
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- From GUNED.COM-- The guerrilla rockets that pierced the fortifications surrounding Baghdad's landmark al Rashid hotel early Sunday, October 26, missed their presumed target, US deputy defense secretary Paul Wolfowitz. Nonetheless, the attack makes the thought-provoking memo penned by his boss Donald Rumsfeld ten days earlier look like a self-fulfilling prophecy. The US has no way to measure whether it is winning or losing the global war on terror; we have not made truly 'bold moves' to fight terrorists and we are in for 'a long, hard slog' in Iraq and Afghanistan. |
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- From GUNED.COM-- Combining a pacifist's worst nightmare with a hawk's fantasy, blogger Adam Yoshida puts forth a bold and brilliant strategy for winning the War on Terrorism. First off, we have to start calling it what it is: WWIII. The controversy surrounding Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld's memo on the status of the War on Terrorism raises two interesting questions. |
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- From GUNED.COM-- RIYADH, Saudi Arabia -- The U.S. Embassy in Riyadh said Saturday it continued to receive information that terrorists are planning future operations and urged Americans to be 'particularly vigilant' during the holy Islamic fasting month of Ramadan. The U. |
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- good news - now several new module releases for PHP-Nuke on this developersite: software.itmanagers.net Documents Module 0. |
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- Fast-spreading blazes kill at least 13, disrupt airline, highway travel |
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- Enjoy the Bugs! Just in time for lunch, I found this article: Insects on the menu at school 'Bug Fry' Most of the story is about this: Bugs aren't all bad. In fact they're quite tasty — at least when prepared by the experts at the Millstone R |
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Am I First? (Oct 27 2003 16:41 GMT) - Robert, am I the first person to beg you for something using XAML? |
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- A June 25 FBI memo to United States law enforcement agencies revealed a senior al-Qaida detainee claimed to have developed a plan to start midsummer forest fires in the U.S. The terrorist hoped to mimic the destruction that devastated Canberra last summer, killing four people and destroying more than 500 homes, as well as in other parts of Australia. |
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- OK, I braved the Grayhound, and am going on 2 hours sleep, but I'm here, and I have a few thoughts about what I've seen so far... Declarative UIs with XAML looks really freakin cool. Scoble wasn't kidding when he said that HTML was a first-class citizen in Longhorn. Some of teh stuff I have seen is amazing.... UI generation with Adobe AfterEffects, great sample apps from Amazon... |
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- I have been hearing a lot about macros recently, from Paul Graham's book onLisp to the discussions here on Lambda. I want to understand clearly what all the hubbub is about. What are the respective advantages and disadvantages of macros (i.e., Lisp style) and higher-order programming? |
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- The SDLP has recruited strategists from the British Labour Party, Irish Labour and the PDs for its Assembly election campaign, it emerged today. |
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- Ecstasy tablets destined for Northern Ireland with a street value of £7.5m (E10.8m) were seized by police in a major operation near Amsterdam today. |
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- A woman has died following a house fire in Ballyfermot in Dublin. |
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- Sinn Fein President Gerry Adams has denied reports republicans are pressuring Jean McConville's family not to have the murdered woman's funeral procession on Belfast's Falls Road. |
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- Imperial Dignitary Janus Greejatus plots and schemes his way into our Photo Archives today. Part of the Death Star Procession in Return of the Jedi, this grim-faced advisor to Emperor Palpatine comes with a support base and is the first member of the dastardly duo. A second dignitary is planned for later in the year, and can be seen on the back of the card. |
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- So which PDA Operating System is better? Is it even possible to answer? In your Guide's latest article, he discusses the myths and facts about Palm and Pocket PC, and why people are so passionate about their PDAs. Read: Palm... |
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- Knowledge Centrifuge. As we get closer to release I've found myself explaining what Paolo and I are doing with K-Collector, what the product is about. So far the best explanation I have come up with is: Realtime Knowledge ManagementWhat I've been trying to do is make the case that knowledge management and document management aren't the same thing. Most knowledge in a company begins life as a granule of information, micro-knowledge. |
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- BestBuy.com offers Rockstar Games' Grand Theft Auto Double Pack for PlayStation 2 for $29.99. With free shipping, that's $9 less than the next best...(more) |
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- PC Micro Store offers its house-brand 5-port USB 2.0 PCI card for $9 plus around $6 shipping. It's the lowest total no-rebate price we know to be...(more) |
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- PC Micro Store offers its house-brand 5-port USB 2.0 PCI card for $9 plus around $6 shipping. It's the lowest total no-rebate price we know to be...(more) |
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- CNN: HK's 'big white guy' stands out Here's the site. *snooze* Nice schtick on the movie titles, but overall kinda dull. But then aren't we all? But van der Woning is standing out in more ways than one. |
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- in a shocking development (ok, not so shocking, except that some time ago i was informed that mit students don't "hang out with musicians" - that was more shocking). anyway, in a not-terribly-suprising development, the geeks of mit, home of... |
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- Parents appear to want more information about vaccines. Lack of understanding of the relative risks of vaccination and how vaccines work may be linked to lowered vaccine usage.... |
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- Try this pattern for carving a really scary pumpkin!... |
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- Not for the faint of heart. Foster parents starving 4 children, aged 9-19, to the point that none of them weighed over 50 lbs. When investigators saw the 19-year old, they mistook him for 10. Is it too late to bring back burning alive as a possible punishment?... |
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- Self Defence Against a Man Armed with a Banana |
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Panther (Oct 27 2003 16:37 GMT) - I'm excited.... |
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- I live nowhere near the fires; the closest one is probably 60 miles upwind from me, across the entire urbanized Los Angeles basin. But it's a reminder that Los Angeles, like almost all cities, is a made place... |
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- Meteorologisk vetenskap och dess relationer till offentlighet och media är ämnet för mitt bidrag till en kommande antologi med Anders Ekström som redaktör. Temat för boken är hur vetenskap och media samverkar med varandra.Jag intresserar mig bland annat för vilka forskningspolitiska bruk forskare kan göra av medial exponering. Det går att ladda ner en preprint av min text här (pdf). |
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- Microsoft plans to debut this week a connector framework that gives Web services management vendors including Computer Associates International, Hewlett-Packard and Actional hooks into its Microsoft Operations Manager (MOM) 2000 platform. At its Professional Developers Conference (PDC), Microsoft is expected to formally unveil its MOM 2000 Connector Framework, a Web services-based framework that CA has used to develop a MOM connector for its Unicenter Web Services Distributed Management (WSDM) platform and that Actional has harnessed to create a management pack for its own Web services management platform. |
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- Keeping your priorities straight: The Sniper Trial Blog reports that "Judge LeRoy Millette apologized to the jury for starting late. He said he had to be in Richmond this morning to see his wife sworn in as a member of the Virginia Bar." |
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- Attention MacOS X people. An update to Mozilla Firebird has been released to address a number of issues. Well worth the download. |
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- I just got a piece of spam with the title (of all things) "Kentucky Fried Peguin" it turns out it was another penis enlargement thing but the title was supposed to entice me to read on. .. crap that's funny!... |
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- (US) Arrests for drug abuse and driving under the influence accounted for almost 22 percent. [$drug_related(100%), $drugwar_propaganda(85%), $propaganda_theme2(50%), $propaganda_theme3(50%), $use_is_abuse(85%), $propaganda_theme4(85%), $propaganda_theme5(60%), $illegal_drugs(100%), $drugs(90%), $various_drugs(90%), $various_illegal_drugs(100%), $police_related_news(100%)] |
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