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- Lack of Brains Disease (revisited) "The animal was one of 20 slaughtered Dec. 9 at Vern's Moses Lake Meat Co. in Moses Lake, Wash. All 10,410 pounds of beef from those carcasses have been recalled in "an abundance of caution," Veneman said. The Agriculture Department said there was an extremely low likelihood that the recalled meat could have the mad cow protein. |
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- I want to thank all of my readers for coming to my site and leaving entertaining comments. I want to... |
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- INTEREST rates on the money market firmed to record levels last week after the announcement of the five-year monetary policy, with overnight interbank rates surpassing the 800 percent point mark on Friday, a day after the release of the policy. |
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- The Department of Agriculture and Land Affairs has assured South Africanthat local beef products are free of the mad cow disease. |
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- GOLD Fields has entered into a strategic partnership with Chinese company Fujian Zijin Mining Industry (Zijin) to explore for and develop gold mines in China. |
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- THE JSE Securities Exchange SA managed to eke out modest gains yesterday to close in the black for the seventh straight day and was at its highest finish since July 19 last year. |
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- More than 11 000 motorists have been caught for speeding since the beginning of the month but the good news is that road fatalities in the province are down. |
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- The Baggage handling firm Equity Aviation Services has lost an urgent interdict application in the Braamfontein Labour Court against the South African Transport and Allied Workers Union's (Satawu) national strike action. |
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- A five storey building under constructionin central Maputo collapsed in the small hours of Wednesdaymorning, and it is feared that at least one person may have diedin the disaster. |
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- About 70 people took a predawn hike up North Mountain Wednesday, dodging raindrops to share conversation, cookies and the sunrise. ''It's Christmas Eve and beautiful! Just look around,'' said Toni Drugmand as she celebrated a Christmas Eve tradition. |
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- David Stocks spends hours rolling paper into stems and fashioning dough into leaves to create delicate flowers - all from inside his prison cell. |
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- If you are updating your blog over the festive period, update your MT blacklist now as there have been many additions this week, including a few new regexs. (240 words, 1 comments) |
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- 2004: The Year of the Upgrade. 2004 looks to be a banner year for new desktop PC technology. Here's out guide to what's coming out and how to plan for it. [Extremetech] |
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- As our day wound down on Christmas Eve in Arizona, USA, thoughts turned to the good friends and exceptional business people we have had the pleasure to interact with in 2003. Both my wife, Michelle and I, want to wish each of you and your families a wonderful, peaceful and joy filled holiday. Rest, relax, open your heart and allow the energy of this beautiful time of the year to flow through you completely. From our home and hearts to yours, Bill and Michelle Gluth |
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- As our day wound down on Christmas Eve in Arizona, USA, thoughts turned to the good friends and exceptional business people we have had the pleasure to interact with in 2003. Both my wife, Michelle and I, want to wish each of you and your families a wonderful, peaceful and joy filled holiday. Rest, relax, open your heart and allow the energy of this beautiful time of the year to flow through you completely. From our home and hearts to yours, Bill and Michelle Gluth |
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- My open source Christmas card written to everyone here at Blogcritics, throughout the blogosphere and beyond. |
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- As last year, I will take a few days off over Christmas. Expect the next posting sometime in early January. Until then, peace to all of you. |
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- Congrats to the guys on delivering whats probably the first J2EE 1.4 certified application server. Download from http://www-106. ibm. |
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- Open-source vendor MySQL AB issued a maintenance release Monday that fixes a slew of bugs unveiled earlier this month by a study of the MySQL database code. |
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- The market for U.S. beef exports effectively shut down on Wednesday as fallout from the first case of mad cow disease in the United States widened and public health investigators combed a tiny Washington state hamlet to find the cause of the potentially fatal disease. |
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- Syria and Egypt called on Wednesday for a ban on weapons of mass destruction throughout the Middle East, including Israel, after Libya decided to give up secret programs to develop such arms. |
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- When I was a little kid, I loved to see dump trucks. I don't remember exactly how old I was... |
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- "No one doubts that Michael Steinhardt is a very generous man deeply committed to the Jewish people. He has poured enormous sums into day schools, campus activities and birthright israel, worthwhile programs all. He loves to challenge conventional thinking, and I have enjoyed jousting with him about the strengths and weakness of contemporary Jewish life. "But no one can change the Jewish community in fundamental ways unless he works with those grassroots institutions that touch the everyday lives of the largest number of Jews. As we all know, the grassroots institution of the Jewish community is the synagogue. |
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- SiliconValley.com Dec 24 2003 4:34PM ET... |
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- A Vietnamese Buddhist monk died after setting himself on fire Wednesday at an altar outside his temple. Temple members believe Thich Chan Hy, 74, took his own life to protest the persecution of Vietnamese Buddhists. |
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- Electronic voting machines are supposed to make elections easier and more secure. Unfortunately, the reality of e-voting hasn't caught up with the ideal. By Paul O'Donnell from Wired magazine. |
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- Forget fund raising (though his opponents sure can't). The real reason the doctor is in: He listens to the technology -- and the people who use it. By Gary Wolf from Wired magazine. |
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- Electronic voting machines are supposed to make elections easier and more secure. Unfortunately, the reality of e-voting hasn't caught up with the ideal. By Paul O'Donnell from Wired magazine. |
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- Forget fund raising (though his opponents sure can't). The real reason the doctor is in: He listens to the technology -- and the people who use it. By Gary Wolf from Wired magazine. |
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- Electronic voting machines are supposed to make elections easier and more secure. Unfortunately, the reality of e-voting hasn't caught up with the ideal. By Paul O'Donnell from Wired magazine. |
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- Forget fund raising (though his opponents sure can't). The real reason the doctor is in: He listens to the technology -- and the people who use it. By Gary Wolf from Wired magazine. |
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- Researchers work on a simulator designed to pummel structures with rubber pads in tests that can mimic the blast from a TNT-packed truck bomb. Their findings could help harden high-risk buildings against terror attacks. By Amit Asaravala. |
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- As the holiday spending season winds down, online merchants feel good about this year's take. Bad weather, broadband growth and a jump in the number of female shoppers contributed to strengthen sales. By Suneel Ratan. |
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