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- Women in the Congo have suffered extensively during the country's five-year civil war, from widespread rape and sexual violence that goes unpunished to the breakdown of family life, a U.N. adviser told a Security Council meeting Wednesday. |
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washing up (Oct 29 2003 20:39 GMT) - I recently attended my cousin's wedding mass, and at the end I noticed something I had never noticed before. Then I find Kathleen Norris remarking on the same thing in her essay The Quotidian Mysteries: I gasped. "Look," I said,... |
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- Yes kids, she's a retarded smurf. Or an elf gone to the dark side. Or maybe...maybe......she's on to something. |
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- When are them PETA freaks gonna larn thet folks likes chicken - perferable fried? Welcome to the Tucson Citizen... |
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- Though some will tell you differently, there are three types of bread in the world: delicious, disgusting, and bagel. A major indication of a disgusting bread is the presence of... |
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- The Guardian, 29 Oct 2003 |
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- The Beaufort Gazette, 28 Oct 2003 |
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- The Daily Inter Lake, 29 Oct 2003 |
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- Globe and Mail, 28 Oct 2003 |
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- Kentucky Kernel, 28 Oct 2003 |
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- Los Angeles Times, 25 Oct 2003 |
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- A new national journal by UCLA's Asian American Studies Center focuses on policies, practices and community research to benefit the nation's burgeoning Asian American and Pacific Islander communities. |
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- The Asian Pacific American Institute for Congressional Studies has prepared a list of APA candidates they have identified that are running for office within the next three weeks. |
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- During a strident protest members of the Duke and Durham community demanded that the United States immediately pull out from the embattled state of Mississippi. [More] |
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- (US) Three employees of California Microwave Systems were captured by a rebel group when their plane crashed on a U.S. anti-drug mission.[$drug_related(100%), $drugwar_propaganda(50%), $propaganda_theme2(50%), $propaganda_theme3(50%), $illegal_drugs(100%), $drugs(90%), $prohibition(100%), $stimulant(100%), $cocaine(100%), $various_drugs(90%), $dea_prime_contractor(80%)] |
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- Say what you will about Microsoft, they know how to pamper their developers. It's the little things. While most conferences offer sodas, Microsoft knows enough to put the sodas out first thing in the morning. It's one of the secrets to the company's success. Its Redmond, Wash. |
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- We are lucky enough to have a radio station here on campus and we've started a semi-regular broadcast named "Voices of Youth." It started from a project we did with the PBS show POV last spring dealing with random student drug testing (we do that here, too.) Anyway, the result for that show was good enough that we decided to continue it this fall, and today we created the Web log for the site. Now, if anyone can give me some pointers on how to turn a .pcm file into something Internet playable... |
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- I'm trying to put together a panel at the EduBlog gathering on how school districts are using Web logs from an organizational and communication standpoint. I know we're moving toward that here, and I know Tim Lauer is doing something along those lines at Lewis Elementary. So, I'm looking for other examples, and ideally some other folk to participate on the panel. Please contact me asap if you or someone you know qualifies. |
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- With preparations for the coming planting season already underway inZimbabwe, there are growing concerns over the critical shortage ofagricultural inputs. |
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- An environmental group claimed Wednesday that Japanese fishermen use unnecessarily brutal methods to hunt dolphins, releasing a videotape that shows the mammals being forced into a cove to be killed, with the water turning red from the blood. |
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- Interior Secretary Gale Norton will announce new efforts to control tamarisk, a water-hungry invasive plant that has infested more than 1.6 million acres throughout the West at a meeting of the National Invasive Species Council on Thursday, Oct. 30. |
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- The Earth's magnetic field wavered as it was struck by a cloud of gas from the Sun. |
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- New York city officials remove the names of 40 people from the World Trade Center victims list. |
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- Directors of the country's only privately-run daily are bailed but must wait to find out if they face trial. |
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- Citytv's "Millionaire Moments": All the Scoop You Need to Know About: "The Next Joe Millionaire: An International Affair" - from October 28nd & every Monday and Tuesday at 8:00pm ET/PT on Citytv Toronto and Citytv Vancouver. |
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- Microsoft says its MSN business will split into two units--one focused on information and another focused on communications--an effort to streamline the long-struggling Web property. |
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- At a press conference this afternoon, GM President Allan Matheson carefully announced the "new new" name of the vehicle, saying, "This time we have done our homework. We test marketed the name with men and women of every demographic. I am very proud to announce the birth of the Buick Vagina." [More] |
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- Microsoft announced a program to link its management software to similar administration tools from other management providers. The software giant on Wednesday officially unveiled a "connector framework" for its Microsoft Operations Manager (MOM) 2000 product. The hooks for linking in third-party software are designed to give systems administrators a way to share systems that monitor information, such as alerts between MOM and management products from companies such as Computer Associates International, IBM and Hewlett-Packard. |
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- While our president was holding his first press conference in four months and crediting the Navy for the "Mission Accomplished" banner that provided the perfect accessory for his flight suit, Wesley Clark was addressing the “New American Strategies for Security... |
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- A new message was posted: Address: http://radio. userland. |
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- A new message was posted: Address: http://radio. userland. |
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- http://www. geocities. com/Maduriugcm/index. html |
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