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- Okay... Tell me the truth. Are you someone who is reading this site, has a modern mobile phone but has never sent a text message? Come on... let it out. |
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- Police in north suburban Wilmette are investigating a shooting during a home invasion. A man who allegedly broke into a home ended up being shot by the homeowner. |
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Ephedra Ban (Dec 30 2003 23:46 GMT) - Following Illinois' lead, the U.S. will ban the herbal supplement ephedra, and dietary supplements containing ephedra, early next year. |
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- The investigation into who leaked the name of a CIA operative will be headed by the U.S. attorney in Chicago, Patrick Fitzgerald. |
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- December 30 is the 100th anniversary of one of Chicago's greatest tragedies, the Iroquois Theatre fire. |
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- A man was shot and wounded and then got into an accident while apparently trying to drive himself to the hospital. |
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- Federal investigators have subpoenaed a Metra commuter rail engineer's cell phone records to determine whether he was talking on the phone when his speeding train jumped the tracks October 12th on Chicago's South Side. |
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- A crash in Northwest suburban Elk Grove Village has injured four teenagers. The accident happened early Tuesday morning. |
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- There is a new rating system that can help parents sift through the choices of entertainment for their children. |
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- Dave Furstenau (MetaFilter's RavinDave) sent me a link to an interesting Straight Dope column. A reader named Cathy asked:In what language do deaf people think? I think in English, because that's what I speak. But since deaf people cannot hear,... |
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- Honda "Cog" slashed and other stories |
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- Alle Jahre wieder veröffentlicht Yahoo eine Hitparade der meist eingegebenen Suchbegriffe in einer Jahresend-Auswertung. Der Gewinner dürfte der Musikindustrie nicht gefallen:... |
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- Rookie linebacker has team-high 12 sacks |
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- After eight days of hardship, motorist and commuters in Lagos state havebegan to breath a sigh of relief as long queues, which characterised thewhole of Christmas celebrations is gradually fading out. |
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- In the last few days, the Minister of Works, Senator Adeseye Ogunlewe,has been making statements that are undignifying of the position he occupiesas a minister of the Federal Republic of Nigeria. |
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- The embattled workers of the Federal Mortgage Bank of Nigeria (FMBN)whose ranks were depleted by over 1,000 following their sack recently by thebank's management continue to go through mental agony with every passingday, unsure of retaining their jobs. |
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- Trade Bank Plc has continued to grapple with bad loans portfolio, adevelopment which does not augur well for the healthy growth of this newgeneration bank. |
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- The lingering fuel scarcity in Lagos has eased with many fillingstations free from the long queues which had characterised most of thembefore and during the Christmas period. |
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- Governor Bola Ahmed Tinubu of Lagos State has told his colleagues thatit amounts to cowardice to keep quiet in the aftermath of the introductionof a fuel tax by President Olusegun Obasanjo. |
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- Ninety-four workers of the troubled Syrian generator company, MikanoInternational Limited, ACME Road, Agidingbi, Lagos, have been sacked by themanagement, following a week-long strike embarked upon by the workers toprotest poor remuneration, sexual harassment and intimidation of workers bythe Syrian officials. |
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- The Anambra State Government yesterday presented to the House ofAssembly its 2004 Appropriation Bill of N20.730 billion. |
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- OPPOSITION Conference of Nigeria Political Parties (CNPP) rose from ameeting in Abuja yesterday and rejected the proposed fuel tax announced bythe Federal Government. |
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- AFRICA Reinsurance Corporation Nigeria, has attained an "Excellent A"ranking in the global reinsurance market as confirmed from the detailedanalysis on global reinsurance companies conducted by A. M. BestCorporation, the world's insurance rating and information group. |
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- Are U.S. Landowners Killing Rare Species to Avoid Regulation? [National Geographic News: Animals & |
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- Dec. 30 - Police were investigating a deadly fire that was deliberately set early Tuesday morning, killing two women and injuring a toddler, a teenager and several others |
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- Dec. 30 - Thousands of police will ring in New Year'son-duty in New York City's subways, sidewalks and airspace. |
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- QUOTE (wardepartment @ Dec 30 2003, 05:06 PM) 145. Eaten by rats Thats the same as "Devoured By Vermin" we did that one already 147. |
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- Over at Tenchnobiblio, there is an interesting discussion on linking to sites with content you oppose and how that actually... |
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- Over at Tenchnobiblio, there is an interesting discussion on linking to sites with content you oppose and how that actually... |
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- Steve Sailer has been asking about the genetics of alcohol from a geographical angle. I'm curious, but another thing I've always wondered (and related to the question about Muslims and alcohol he is asking), I have read that many Mediterranean... |
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- Miss July 2000 is Neferteri Shepherd. She's an Oakland resident who just a college student when she posed for Playboy. See more of her at PlayboyPlus.... |
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- Attorney General John Ashcroft has recused himself from the Valerie Plame investigation. The investigation concerns leaks by White House officials... |
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- Most Appalling of 2003 After getting an idea from Eric Olsen, I was thinking... There are many choices for most... |
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- Professional Video Editing on Linux with Cinelerra. Someday Linux will be a great platform for editing media files, right? If you know about Cinelerra, you know that day is soon, if not now. Howard Wen explores this high-quality, long-lived video editing application. [O'Reilly Network Articles] |
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- "Somehow, the boiler room was even muggier than the August night." by Jon Feldspar posted 12/30/2003 6:43:15 PM. |
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- Enabling IPv6 in Linux. IPv6 is coming. In fact, you can encourage its adoption by using it right now. Ibrahim Haddad explains the ideas behind, and justifications for IPv6 and demonstrates how to support it on a Linux server. [Meerkat: |
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