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- Scientists have identified the oldest male fossil animal yet discovered. It is an ocean-dwelling creature from 425-million-year-old rocks in the UK. Unusually, its soft parts are well preserved as well as its hard shell. It has limbs for swimming and feeding. ¬ |
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- Question I have been wrestling with MailNotify some time no, ever since sendmail was shut down permanently on the hosting server. Even though SMTPMAILHOST and SMTPSENDERHOST ... |
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- Jobless Rate Declined Again in November, to 5.9%The nation's unemployment rate slipped to 5.9 percent in November, the lowest level in eight months, but employers added new jobs at a slower pace than expected. The Labor Department reported Friday that... |
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- Oh lordie lordie. My home state's population of wackos is acting up. A seventh-grade social... |
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- "An immigration officer at Newark Liberty International Airport and three other people are charged with conspiring to smuggle illegal aliens |
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- Jetzt mit der Yahoo Suche finden! Schnell, einfach & ьbersichtlich.... ...Aber gefunden wird das auf Google! ; |
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- The Organisation for economic co-operation and development (OECD) hopes to reach a final agreement for cutting worldwide state subsidies to steel industries by the end of next year. |
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- "Andrea Skoros sued the New York City public school system after being told her kids' Nativity scene could not be a part of the holiday... |
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- Welcome "Punishment Theory" to the blogoshpere: Described as "An occasional, communal blog on criminal law and philosophy," and among its participants is Law Professor Rick Garnett. |
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yay! (Dec 05 2003 15:37 GMT) - 8-12 inches of snow estimated in NY, 8-14 inches in Mass! Can't get much better than that! Hopefully by Sunday... |
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- For those of you following the US finance news, there is a developing scandal surrounding mutual funds, based on a regulatory or governance faulure. Which it would be - regulatory failure or governance failure - a matter for individual choice.... |
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- Ed Page, one of the funniest guys in cyberspace, started up Danger Blog! awhile back; it's full of idiosyncratic stuff that's alternately charming and hilarious. His latest post is from an article Conan O'Brien wrote for the New York Times, describing his first "Late Night" show. A clip: |
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- Retrenchment of civil servants could begin by March next year as theGovernment moves to implement conditionalities pegged to recent aidresumption. |
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- President Olusegun Obasanjo has fired his Labour Minister, HussainiAkwanga, over allegations that he took bribes to approve the award of amajor government contract to a French electronics group. He is the firstcabinet casualty in Obasanjo's four-year-old anti-corruption drive. |
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- The President of the Press Union of Liberia Terrence Sesay, and pointperson for the Africa Democracy Movement has raised eyebrows on reports thatthe petroleum industry is still bedeviled by monopoly, which he said was thenorm of the regime of exiled former President Charles Taylor. |
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- As the upward trend in domestic government debt and interest ratescontinues, interest payments on domestic government debt are set to risefrom $152 billion this year to $996 billion in 2004. |
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- For most residents of Tanzania's commercial capital Dar es Salaam, theannouncement of private sector participation in the provision of water wasnothing new. Years of decay and neglect have meant that the vast majorityhave relied on the private sector for their daily supply. |
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- Kenya got a rare approval from Comesa to protect its struggling sugarsector against cheap imports from the region. |
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- More than 500 striking workers of the Mombasa Municipal Council weresacked yesterday. |
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- Speaker begs Lango MPs to return |
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- It is now official - the World Bank is admitting more Ugandans aregetting poorer as was reported in The East African issues of December 1 -7. |
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- Somali money transfer companies launched the Somali Financial ServicesAssociation (SFSA) on Thursday at a two-day conference in London, attendedby representatives of remittance companies, financial regulators fromBritain, continental Europe and the United States. |
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- Uganda's health ministry, in partnership with the US Agency forInternational Development (USAID), on Thursday launched a three-yearprogramme to build an infrastructure for local organisations to provideanti-retroviral (ARV) therapy throughout the country. |
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- Secretary of State Colin Powell said the U.S. relationship with Algeria"has never been stronger than it is today" as a result of Algeria's"exceptional cooperation" in the war against terrorism and its growingeconomic ties with the United States. |
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- Too bad, BlogShares is being sold. Someone who knows PHP can take care of it. |
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- Der typische Sьnder ist mдnnlich, zu schnell und dann oft noch betrunken – zumindest im Flensburger Verkehrszentralregister. In diesen Tagen feierte die Verkehrssьnderdatei einen traurigen Rekord: Erstmals waren mehr als sieben Millionen Menschen mit ihren Punkten registriert. |
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- Kansainvälisen olympiakomitean KOK:n puheenjohtaja Jacques Rogge haluaa muuttaa olympialaisten peruskirjaa niin, että lajien poistaminen olympiaohjelmasta olisi aiempaa helpompaa. Rogge kä |
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- OP-ryhmän pääjohtaja Antti Tanskanen ihmettelee ryhmän lehdessä |
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- Suomalaiskolmikko Antti Autti, Risto Mattila ja Miikka Hast kilpailee tänä iltana lumilautailun maailmancupin lumikourun loppukilpailussa Ruotsin Tändådalenissa. |
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- Forssalaislähtöiset koripalloilijat ovat esiintyneet edukseen Yhdysvaltain yliopistokentillä. Forssan Koripoikien kasvatit Tuukka Kotti ja Esa Mäki-Tulokas ovat olleet viime aikoina joukkueidensa pirteimpiä. |
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- Yhdysvalloissa syntyi viime kuussa odotettua vähemmän uusia työpaikkoja. Maan työ |
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- "I think so." So says Dr. Park Deitz, one of America's foremost forensic psychiatrists. Dietz has evaluated Andrea Yates, who... |
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- About a week ago, I pointed to an article about a Wal-Mart shopper trampled by others on that big shopping day after Thanksgiving. I couldn't believe how mean that "mob of shoppers" was to "step over her as she suffered a seizure."Well. |
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- Progress Software Corporation (Nasdaq: PRGS) has agreed to acquire substantially all the assets and certain subsidiaries of DataDirect Technologies Limited. The purchase price, net of cash and subject to certain balance sheet adjustments as of closing, is approximately $88 million in cash. |
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- Progress Software Corporation (Nasdaq: PRGS) has agreed to acquire substantially all the assets and certain subsidiaries of DataDirect Technologies Limited. The purchase price, net of cash and subject to certain balance sheet adjustments as of closing, is approximately $88 million in cash. |
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- Listening to Pink Floyd's Delicate Sound Of Thunder today, I found myself perplexed at some of the lyrics to "On... |
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Hey Jude (Dec 05 2003 15:36 GMT) - - What has happened to this tragic place? I totally left this blog..unblogged. Geez. Im so lazy. |
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- CenterBeam CNBC, 12/3/03: 2:30p PT, Business Center Estimated audience: |
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- I'm off to Houston Texas to visit my sisters so since I don't have any spiffy devices such as laptop or PDA I probably won't be posting for a couple days. I haven't been to Houston in quite sometime as I generally avoid large cities. So I am out of here for awhile if I find an un-guarded PC maybe I'll post some stuff, if not see ya around Sunday or Monday. |
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- Yesterday's experiment reminded me that I've been meaning to spend more time with search engines other than Google. So I visited the Mycroft download page and picked up Mozilla plugins for AllTheWeb and Teoma. It's funny how arbitrary factors can influence your behavior. Mozilla's search box orders the plugins alphabetically. AllTheWeb is thus on the path of least resistance, and I've been using it often. |
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Irony (Dec 05 2003 15:36 GMT) - This could be the picture next to the definition of irony in the Web Designer's Dictionary:... |
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- Mack D. Male: "The intent of Academic Longhorn is to show off Project Hurricane, the ASP.NET backend which the site is based upon, and to allow a place for students to connect, discuss and learn about Longhorn." |
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- My second marathon: overweight and slow is the title of a very good article at Runners World (UK). The title relates exactly to me! (apart from the female aspect...) Q I’m a 33-year-old female, and after being collected by the... |
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- Wal-Mart Stampede Victim has History of Falling Down in Auspicious Locations I am a lawyer, and if that isn't enough,... |
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- Counterterrorism officials are said to be increasingly concerned about a possible attack against shopping malls. |
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