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- ... I've haven't seen this, so it would help if you could describe to me (direc |
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Blaze (Oct 28 2003 00:36 GMT) - Ein Erdbeben hatten wir schon nicht, als wir in San Diego gelebt haben ... und die aktuellen Wildfires (Infos bei NBC oder als Photo Moblog) verpassen wir auch! Sieht aus, als wuerde Mutter Natur es gut mit uns meinen. Vermutlich bekommen wir als naechstes noch einen milden Winter in Chicago (^_^) |
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- In case anybody's surprised about one edited diary entry and one fully deleted entry... I've decided to take the stuff about the new Michael Jackson page down,... |
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- (US) Russell tested positive for the drug Ecstasy and sat out the first four games of the 2001 season. Russell also had been charged with drugging the 28-year-old woman with the ``date-rape drug'' GHB at a San Francisco night club in January 2002. [$drug_related(100%), $drugwar_propaganda(100%), $use_is_abuse(95%), $propaganda_theme4(95%), $propaganda_theme5(100%), $illegal_drugs(100%), $drugs(95%), $hallucinogen(100%), $MDMA(100%), $alcohol(50%), $various_drugs(95%), $various_illegal_drugs(100%)] |
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- (US) Drug Testing For Kids Has Long Way To Go [$drug_related(50%), $drugwar_propaganda(70%), $propaganda_theme2(70%), $propaganda_theme3(50%), $propaganda_theme5(60%), $illegal_drugs(50%), $drugs(100%), $tranquilizer(100%), $various_drugs(95%), $various_illegal_drugs(50%)] |
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- (US) Increases for women were most dramatic for such crimes as embezzlement (80 percent higher).[$drug_related(100%), $drugwar_propaganda(85%), $propaganda_theme2(50%), $propaganda_theme3(50%), $use_is_abuse(85%), $propaganda_theme4(85%), $propaganda_theme6(65%), $illegal_drugs(100%), $drugs(90%), $stimulant(100%), $cocaine(100%), $alcohol(75%), $various_drugs(90%), $various_illegal_drugs(100%), $police_related_news(100%)] |
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- Last week Elliot Smith took his own life after battling for several years with both heroin and alcohol addiction. Although I've never considered him one of my favourite artists, I've probably returned to his third album Either/Or, a truly beautiful, haunting, brilliant record, more than any other release over the last ten years. You'd think that this alone would propel the singer into my list of all-time-greats, but it doesn't. And why? Because I also saw him play more than half a dozen times and, quite frankly, he always sucked. |
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- I’m here in Lala at the Microsoft PDC (courtesy of Robert Scoble.) I’ve just had my mind blown by a new user interface technology, code-named Avalon. |
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- President Bush says US resolve will not be swayed, after at least 34 people die in a series of Baghdad attacks. |
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- Mexicans will receive an estimated $14.5 billion this year from countrymen working in the United States, a figure that rivals the nation's most important sources of foreign income, according to a study released Monday. |
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- Today in Economics class, the lecturer talked about how unions cause unemployment. I have heard this argument before, but this time I was struck by the oversimplification of the claim that unions "distort" the market. Like any other market, the... |
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- Brazenly ignoring my advice, the New York Times has hired an ombudsman, the respected Time/Life veteran and baseball fanatic Daniel Okrent. Link via Henry Copeland, who asks: "What purpose does an official critic serve today? What kind of two-way street has 18 wheelers going in one direction and a lone tricycle (occasionally!) going the other? |
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- For all the ladies who have asked, "What is marketing?", the following analogies will help clear it up... You see a handsome guy at a party. You go up to him and say, "I'm fantastic in bed." - That's Direct... |
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- For all the ladies who have asked, "What is marketing?", the following analogies will help clear it up... You see... |
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- Fuck it all, Fuck this world, Fuck everything that you stand for.. Don't belong, Don't exist, Don't give a shit, Don't ever Judge me.. - www.indymedia.org: |
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- Return Lebanon to Democracy - www.indymedia.org:8080 |
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- This government organization has more power than the President of the United States or the Congress, it has the power to suspend laws, move entire ... - www.indymedia.org:8080 |
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- "Since October 2002, 18-year-old Nazia Bashir has been fighting a rape case that could, if she loses, lead to her being charged with adultery and sentenced to 100 lashes or death by stoning under Pakistan’s Hudud laws....the laws, under which rape cases are registered, a rape victim who is unable to prove her case risks being accused of adultery. These laws make consensual sex outside marriage a cognizable offence, while marital rape and raping a child-bride are no longer offences." |
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- Teachers that cheat: "Teachers have read off answers during a test, sent students back to correct wrong answers, photocopied secure... |
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- The Assembly and Senate are reexamining the Board of Regents policy of high stakes testing at the same time that the legislature is under pressure from the court to reform the way school aide is distributed. Education officials say they hope lawmakers won't give in to the temptation of reducing standards to meet the court's requirement. Karen DeWitt reports. |
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- A new study from Canada finds people living in rural and northern areas are in worse health than their urban counterparts. The Great Lakes Radio Consortium's Karen Kelly reports. |
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- David Sommerstein talks with filmmaker John O'Brien. He gained fame in Vermont with his film Man With a Plan that made dairy farmer Fred Tuttle a cult hero and catapulted him to a run for U.S. Senate in 1998. O'Brien is in Potsdam tonight as a part of the Cinema 10 film series to show the third film in his trilogy about the people of Tunbridge, Vermont, Nosey Parker. |
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- For almost 20 years, the federal government has paid farmers to convert some of their land to natural habitat for plants and animals. The Conservation Reserve Program is designed to protect the creeks and rivers that border farms. This year, the U.S. Department of Agriculture is expanding the program to take on an additional two million acres, including 132,000 acres in Illinois. |
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- Focus groups have long been part of American commerce and politics. Expensive ad campaigns are often based on their findings. Every White House in modern times has used them. Commentator Paul Willcott argues tongue-in-cheek that since focus groups are so important, they should be regulated. |
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- Rosemary Kriescher of Potsdam gives a basic lesson in the baking of bread. |
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- Mark A.R. Kleiman points to Jesse Barney's post that attempts to explain why the White House web server would remove robots.txt files. His argument is that it's intended to stop Google from caching things: |
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Graduation (Oct 28 2003 00:33 GMT) - Since registration for Spring Semester is coming up, I decided to figure which classes I needed to graduate. After looking... |
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- Music Front Reviews: Bridge School Benefit still has the advantage of being a rare fundraiser with a personal purpose. Students sit at the back of the stage throughout the show, their faces appearing on video screens during performances, reminding audience of the cause. Most years, it makes for intense, one-of-a-kind performances; this year's show was no exception. |
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- Music Front Reviews: Unlike many artists of his era, Peter Frampton appears to be neither struggling for relevance in today's chaotic music business nor pursuing it. His show at the Wiltern was more an illustration of a man enjoying himself onstage seemingly at ease with his place in the industry than a performance by an artist with something to prove. |
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- The following is something I wrote last year and decided to post this week because it's finally feeling like Fall around here. So, please excuse the references that are slightly over a year old. Autumn arrived today. Bring out your... |
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- It appears I may have been mentioned, in a very off-hand manner, on NPR this evening. I didn't listen to it, but Matt phoned me and said they did a story about the William Rehnquist Bobble Head Doll, and whoever... |
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- It appears I may have been mentioned, in a very off-hand manner, on NPR this evening. I didn't listen to... |
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- A chain-reaction accident in northwest Houston landed four people in the hospital Monday afternoon. |
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- Me recusei solenemente a colecionar essas garrafinhas depois que vi o Chorão como garoto-propaganda dessa nova promoção da Coca-cola. O fato dos brindes em questão serem grosseiramente mal-feitos só reforçou minha posição. |
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