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- I was looking for a profile of Red Burns, the chair of the Interactive Telecommunications Program at NYU's Tisch School of the Arts, when I stumbled across the girlgeeks.org web site. Their profile of Burns is part of a series... |
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- (US) In Washington state, the five arrests there were for drug trafficking, weapons charges, possession of stolen explosives and other crimes, said Seattle's ATF spokeswoman Vera Fedorak. [$drug_related(100%), $drugwar_propaganda(55%), $propaganda_theme1(55%), $propaganda_theme2(50%), $illegal_drugs(100%), $drugs(95%), $alcohol(50%), $various_drugs(95%), $various_illegal_drugs(100%)] |
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- 41 new suits were filed today by the RIAA in its on-going jihad against file sharers who trade music on-line. This takes the total number of suits to well over 350 of RIAA consumers that have had suits filed against them. The RIAA has not taken any of the cases to court yet and has settled most ca... |
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- The latest House Price Index from Halifax shows that UK house prices rose 1% last month. However, the annualised growth rate is slowing. |
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- "Congratulations - you've won a million Canadian Dollars in our prize draw! Just send £1,000 to cover our admin costs and we'll send your prize today!" Yup, it's another scam. |
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- The 'market timing' scandal may have rocked the fund management industry, but it could provide good opportunities for the canny contrarian. |
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- GlaxoSmithKline says around twenty of its drugs in development could prove to be billion dollar medicines. |
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- GlaxoSmithKline rises after releasing details of its drug pipeline. Wolfson Microelectronics counter-sues Cirrus Logic and Amvescap says it will defend a charge of market timing at INVESCO. |
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- Barclays and Rentokil lose ground following trading updates, while Compass, Sage and Scottish & Newcastle gain on results. |
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- Stray pit bull charges into apartment, takes and kills family dog WA [The Columbian] |
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- See how well you do on this ten question quiz. |
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- I just started looking at BizTalk for my company, and i am trying to figure ou |
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- Capping a two year investigation, the feds raided Hells Angels motorcycle clubs across the country today, arresting 55. Those raided... |
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- Friday afternoon and evening, December 12th, Downtown Saint Paul turns into a winter wonderland with a holiday light contest and a stop by the Canadian Pacific Holiday Train. It all starts at 5:30 in Mears Park. |
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- Microsoft gets into the blogging game - check it out here |
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- La notizia arriva direttamente dai produttori, tramite newsletter a chi aveva acquistato il programma. |
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- Hunting: With the woods far from alive with camouflage suits, people in the game are scrambling for answers. |
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- All amount to quotas, and 'race neutral' means of acheiving diversity may be the worst. Unfortunately, even many 'conservative' political leaders, including President Bush and the Supreme Court, support some form of quotas/racial preferences. One way to get X percent... |
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- Plus, FAO's sad toy story, and Take-Two loses Shrek. |
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- You're still losing ground if you're earning 10% on your investments but paying 20% on your debt. |
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- There is such a thing as value in technology, and Maxtor may be it. |
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- The toy retailer reminds us to stay away from the stocks of bankrupt companies. |
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- cities can be vehicles for peace, secretary-general tells los angeles city council |
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- For the next several days, central texans will have the opportunity to visit a traveling replica of the Vietnam veteran's memorial.The display, known as the 'Wall That Heals,' is an exact half-scale model of the original Vietnam memorial in Washington D.C. It will be on display at VFW Post 1820 in Temple December 4-7. Enscribed on the walls are all 58,000 plus names of every soldier that lost his or her life during the Vietnam war. |
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- The open-source software company says that governments can freely employ its Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 system for major products. |
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- Just like his fellow Bush-haters, who have long refused to create war until the administration "makes its case," Chad Barclay wants to get all the credit for taking on George W. Bush from the left, while distancing himself bizarrely from... |
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The Funnies (Dec 03 2003 23:32 GMT) - The Funnies by J. Robert Lennon. A novel about characters in a comic strip. Or something like that. |
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- There was another book to write about, but I returned it to the library and now I can't remember what it was. Oh, how could I have forgotten the book that had me weeping on the couch all Sunday afternoon? The Passion of Reverend Nash by Rachel Basch is the story of a minister who becomes pastor of a troubled church (the previous pastor left after being discovered in an adulterous affair with a woman he was counseling) when her own life is in pretty bad shape, too: her marriage is in jeopardy fol ... |
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- Jonathan Edwards: A Life by George M Marsden. Massive. Quite possibly, I won't actually read it. |
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- Left Back: A Century of Battles Over School Reform by Diane Ravitch. I'm reading this now; it's readable, but very long (467 pages), and I'm not sure I need to know that much about the history of school reform...but we'll see. |
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- Stet: An Editor's Life by Diana Athill. Seven pages in, I am loving this so much I quit reading it because I want to be able to look forward to it for awhile first. |
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- *”How the News Makes Us Dumb,” C. John Sommerville (1999 IVP) pg. 117 |
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- I hate seeing confrontations...and I guess it's especially awkward when you see a GSI (graduate student instructor) like arguing with a student in class. Yeah, that happened today in my Arab Israeli class. Apparently, the new book we're reading now is somewhat skewed towards the Palestinian side and our GSI was pointing that out. I haven't touched the book yet so I can't really come up with my own opinion, so yeah. |
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- Last night, Ishmael Reed read from his new book, Blues City: A Walk In Oakland at the University Press Bookstore. |
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- So I just finished my take-home exam for modal logic. This week I probably did more "serious" proofs than the whole year put together.But I absolutely hate doing proofs of this kind, and I remember why I got tired of doing math: it takes me hours and hours to get through with it. I am normally a slow thinker (maybe because I am thorough? |
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- So I just finished my take-home exam for modal logic. This week I probably did more "serious" proofs than the whole year put together.But I absolutely hate doing proofs of this kind, and I remember why I got tired of doing math: it takes me hours and hours to get through with it. I am normally a slow thinker (maybe because I am thorough? |
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- Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas : A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American DreamHunter S. ThompsonRestart: New Systems in Graphic DesignChristian KustersQuicksilver (The Baroque Cycle, Vol. 1)Neal StephensonThe Elements of Typographic StyleRobert BringhurstArchiLab's Earth Buildings: |
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- Suzanne Collins: Gregor The OverlanderEasily one of the best books I've read all year. Strong male and female roles - and it seems set up for a sequel... (*****) |
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- "The Drudge Manifesto", Matt Drudge. The writing is almost as bad as the next book. |
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- "At Dawn We Slept: The Untold Story of Pearl Harbor", Gordon Prange. Pearl Harbor killed my interest in the subject. |
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- "The No Spin Zone, Bill O'Reilly. Dripping with ego. |
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- "The Great Hunger", Cecil Woodham-Smith. I guess I was never too interested in the famine to begin with. |
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- "Lost Victories", Erich von Manstein. Calling yourself "Hitler's most brilliant general" isn't a good way to start off, I barely got past the foreword. |
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- This site comes to mind because I just got my sister the book for Christmas. I like it when Christmas shopping trips last less than 20 minutes. |
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- The Boston Globe is running a must-read piece about Chuck D and former Source editor Bakari Kitwana's efforts to organize the Hip Hop community at the local level. The two have organized the National Hip Hop Political Convention, which will be a gathering of grass roots activists, artists, academics and concerned citizens. The conference's goal will be to write up a political platform for the Hip Hop generation that is independent of traditional party platforms. |
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- Jim Crace sounds good. Has anyone read him? I think I'm going to buy The Devil's Larder. |
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- Amazon.com: Books: The Shortest Distance Between You and a Published Book: This book is a must read. |
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