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- A manhunt is underway at this hour in Paterson, New Jersey. |
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- Thomas Wolfe said you can't go home again, but in sport, somehow it happens more often. Texan Andy Pettitte has chosen the Astros. And while many defectors are given the Bronx cheer, this one might be given a doff of the cap. |
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- A fire atop a transmission pole in Long Beach has left 16,000 LIPA customers in the dark. The LIRR says train service has been suspended on the Long Beach Branch. |
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- One thing we didn't need this morning: More water. But that's what the Upper West Side got, in the form of a spectacular geyser. |
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- It is certainly raining outside of your window right now, but will it flood in your neighborhood? Also, it created an ugly commute this morning. |
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- A senior reporter and a veteran photographer for Time magazine were wounded along with two U.S. soldiers when a grenade was tossed into their Humvee, the military and the magazine said Thursday. |
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- Fraud indictments will be unsealed today naming the New York State Racing Association along with six people who used to work there. |
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- Agh. I hate IT sometimes. Really. This appeared on Slashdot today. It's been picked up by most web communities now. |
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- honestpuck writes "Back before the advent of Mac OS X, my favourite (and for many years, only) development environment was one variety of Unix or another. The ... |
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- Papers Please - The Southeast Asian Games are being held in Ho Chi Minh City. Nineteen Christians were handing out tracks at the games and were arrested for either having the tracks on their persons or for handing them out.... |
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- Mr. Naing said that like jazz musicians, Burmese players "look at one another and listen to the tune and play accordingly." "And even though they might play the same piece of music, the next time they play it differently," he said. But does it sound anything like jazz? "No," Mr. |
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- [b] We Need Your HELP!!! YES, We Are STILL Here! EVERY SUNDAY FROM 6:30 PM - 8 PM in Woodland Hills, CA We have an Anti-Bush and Peace Vigil a... |
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- Petition: TELL CONGRESS YOU DEMAND A PROGRESSIVE AGENDA Date: 08/22/2003 http://www. thePetitionSite. |
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- Petition: TELL CONGRESS WE WANT A PRESCRIPTION DRUG BENEFIT UNDER MEDICARE PART B Date: 08/25/2003 Location:... |
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- Hello Friends, A group of citizens from the Raleigh, NC area will be meeting at the State Legislative Building to voice our support for Free ... |
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- Protest against the war every week saturday St. Petersburg, Florida |
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- A diverse group gathers every Sunday night for approximately one hour with lighted candles, started March 16, and continuing... Just bring a candle! P... |
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- A diverse group gathers every Sunday night for approximately one hour with lighted candles, started March 16, and continuing... Just bring a candle! P... |
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Flu Bug (Dec 11 2003 19:29 GMT) - I used this picture last year because I had a week where so many kids were missing from my classes out with the flu. Well, this year I'm using it because I've been bitten by the nasty bug myself and the little bugger has gotten me good. I checked on the Flu Watch.com site and found that my neighborhood was on a Watch status. I'm guessing we'll move to a full scale red alert here soon. |
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- CHILUBA's corruption case has been over-politicised, observed veteranpolitician Aaron Milner. |
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- A state witness called by Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP)Mukelabai Mukelabai yesterday exonerated Xavier Chungu in a matter in whichhe is jointly charged with Chiluba and others for theft of US $40million. |
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- NATIONAL soccer team first choice goalkeeper Davies Phiri has threatenedto quit playing for Zambia. |
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- THE current electoral process is likely to bring chaos in future, FDDelections chairman Gen Malimba Masheke has warned. |
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- THE World Bank is not hooked on privatisation, World Bank countrydirector Hart Schaffer has said. |
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- THE Chess Federation of Zambia (CFZ) has picked two Lusaka players torepresent the country at the Africa Junior championship starting this monthend. |
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- ZAMBIA rugby sevens coach, Musa Zimba says his lads have a toughschedule in their group A assignments in George town, South Africatomorrow. |
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- THE Zambia Open has increased next year's total prize money for theZambia-Stanbic Golf championship to K700 million. |
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- MALAYSIA based striker Philemon Chipeta has been dropped from theunder-23 national team that faces Ghana in an Olympic qualifier on December20, due to an injury. |
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- INTERNATIONAL left-wingback Joseph Musonda has been linked with a moveto Green Buffaloes during the off-season shopping window. |
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- Mike Wendland, a writer for the Detroit Free Press, suggests that the recently passed anti-spam legislation will do just the opposite: The anti-spam bill passed by Congress on Monday is destined to be about as effective as those sexual enhancement... |
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- A new study says that yelling at your children -- even if you're trying to protect them -- is "psychological aggression." Read. Discuss. |
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- Yet another beautiful foreign film seems to have escaped the attention of America. L'uovo (The Egg) is a Dario Picciau animated film taken from the poem of the same name by Robert Malini. It is about a couple, Maria and Fabio, who lead a harmonious life on a little farm, completely in accord with nature. |
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- The Content Reference Forum (CRF), which includes Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT) and Universal Music Group among its members, was formed earlier this year. Now it has issued its first specifications, with an eye to cooling the file-sharing wars. |
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- Glimpses at a convoluted thought process(or more then one), (caught in stories, rants, and attempts at daily updates) in an attempt to sort through DiMess and reach what's underneath it all. Shameless self promotion, but only since it's my first day... |
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- You thought the "stupid user" helpdesk stories were good. This is great. I never felt pity for a bookstore employee before. |
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- When the stroller holding 10-week-old Conor Canty rolled off the platform at Riverwood station last Thursday afternoon and into the path of an oncoming train, his dad Mark had just one thought: saving his son's life. |
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- US Congress blocks extension of federal unemployment benefits Signaling that there will not be the slightest let-up in the relentless pressure on workers living standards, Republicans in Congress—before adjourning for the holiday break—blocked attempts to extend federal unemployment benefits. As a result, starting December 21, four days before Christmas, some 80,000 to 90,000 jobless workers a week will be cut off after exhausting state benefits. In California alone an estimated 66,696 people will run out of state benefits in January. |
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- -gore rant- What on earth does Howard Dean, the self-styled opponent of the Democratic Party powerbrokers, want with this sell-out has been? Wasn't Gore the guy who, when running for the Democratic nomination, chose to trash black voters in the New York primary in 1988? |
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thenonist (Dec 11 2003 19:29 GMT) - will exercise my right to self promote with this, my first link filter post. is it tacky to do so? apologies if so. |
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- This is my favorite of all the current short fiction zines, and it's back from the too long months long coma. This is such an attitude free site, though I don't know how to expound on that statement, except maybe it doesn't take itself as seriously as mcsweeneys or opium. Not that I wish to speak ill of those sites, since they are on my list of sites I read every time they are updated. I just feel more comfortable on SFM. |
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- NewsHax Wire- According to a study done by a research group of 4 Doctors working in the newly opened "Most Depressing Study Subjects" wing of the world renowned Massachussettes General Hospital, several dozen ways to commit suicide are potentially habit forming, some even "Highly Addictive". Dr. Kavorkian admitted to Betty Ford soon after study released. |
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- Nothing says "I love you", "Happy Birthday", "Get Well Soon", "I'm Sorry" or even "Will you Marry me?" quite like boobs. Fill in the form below to send your friends and loved ones a unique e-card and make their whole day. Choose between our selection of elegant designs to personalize the greeting to perfection. |
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- "In a previous rant I talked about the insane idea of allowing software patents. The European Commission is currently considering a proposal to that respect. In the US software patents are currently allowed. This has led to companies patenting the most basic of ideas, which any rational person would never think to be possible to be patented. I skimmed a few dozen software patents awarded to Microsoft, and quickly found the following ones I would say should never have been awarded, on the grounds that not only they are too broad and too basic, but also that they have been used by many people in the past, so they simply are not innovations but rip-offs. |
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- America and the Bush Administration believe there is a covert destructive effort to build weapons of mass destuction in Iran. Israel also strongly believes there is ample documentary evidence and intelligence to support that premise. Iran will have nuclear capability in one year, Defense Minister Shaul Mofaz told the Washington Institute for Near East Policy. |
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