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- Arms brokers and spies built a clandestine network to acquire rusting Soviet Bloc engine parts to illegally extend missiles' range. |
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- When Colombian rebels take 3-year-old Oscar, his parents pay several ransoms to get him back. But time apart changes them all. |
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- Suspects are sought after last week's cancellation of six flights to Los Angeles. Armed French marshals have been aboard selected planes. |
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- Some residents of Bam leave the devastated Iranian city. Four people in a nearby village are reportedly found alive. |
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- A loner is charged with killing and eating a willing victim he met in an Internet chat room. |
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- Well-known researcher was apparently mauled by one of the giant animals he loved. |
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- The U.S. wants help on political transition without ceding control. Annan's insistence on equal authority for his staff is a sticking point. |
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- The Pentagon will oversee bidding for a new contract after criticism of Halliburton. |
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- Laser scanners that could be used to guide missiles were shipped to Jordan and taken across the border despite U.N. sanctions, papers show. |
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- Investigators suspect an Italian anarchist group is behind recent attacks on European officials. |
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- HAMBURG, Germany — Police closed streets around a military hospital Tuesday in suburban Wandsbek after U.S. authorities warned that Islamic militants planned suicide car bombings aimed at the facility. |
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- An Islamic militant on a list of suspected terrorists surrendered to Saudi police, the official Saudi Press Agency said. Mansour Mohammed Ahmed Faqih is 14th on an official list of 26 wanted suspects. His photo was among those published in a newspaper advertisement in which the government offered rewards of $270,000 for information leading to the suspects' arrests. |
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- Kuchma Can Seek 3rd Presidential Term |
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- An Israeli helicopter fired two missiles at a car carrying Hamas militants in the Gaza Strip, wounding at least 11 people. Israel's military said the targets were "senior Hamas terrorists … actively engaged in planning terror attacks." |
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- An explosion killed 36 people at a fireworks factory in Tieling, China, and a businessman who set up the factory was ordered arrested, state media said. |
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- Stick with low rise that run no lower than the hip and get rid of all those butt cleavage riders for now. Color wise go for either indigo or the worn washed vintage look in loose fits like Chip and Pepper. |
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- (US) Mason originally was charged with two counts each of sexually and physically abusing the boy.[$drug_related(100%), $drugwar_propaganda(70%), $propaganda_theme2(50%), $propaganda_theme3(55%), $propaganda_theme5(70%), $illegal_drugs(100%), $drugs(95%), $paraphernalia(100%), $various_drugs(95%), $various_illegal_drugs(100%)] |
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- (US) Authorities said torture charges are seldom filed.[$drug_related(100%), $drugwar_propaganda(60%), $propaganda_theme2(50%), $propaganda_theme5(60%), $illegal_drugs(100%), $drugs(95%), $cannabis(100%), $alcohol(50%), $various_drugs(95%), $various_illegal_drugs(100%)] |
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- Someday I expect the "discrete" lesbian will not turn her head on the streets at the sight of the "butch"... |
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- Fifteen years ago, I was the director of the Multnomah County Library in Portland, Ore. Dean Gisvold was the library's attorney but he lived in my neighborhood and also befriended me. Every year at Christmas, he and his wife Susan invited me to ... |
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- The first comprehensive overhaul of the laws on prostitution for 50 years is to be announced shortly by the home... |
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- Mail and Guardian, Liberal daily of Johannesburg, South Africa |
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- La Nacion, Conservative daily of Buenos Aires, Argentina |
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- Mainichi Daily News, Centrist daily of Tokyo, Japan |
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- The Guardian, Liberal daily of London, England |
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- The Times, Conservative daily of London, England |
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- At some point the art director of True "This magazine guaranteed" decided that photographs of women in bondage was what the customers wanted. I suspect this was not long before the nutty period that featured lots of Nazi torturers with stories like "I was Castro's... |
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Sir Tim (Dec 31 2003 09:14 GMT) - Grin... |
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Handshakes (Dec 31 2003 09:13 GMT) - I made a mistake tonight. |
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- Tim Berners-Lee is dubbed a knight for inventing the web. Plus, he's really nice about it, so it's hard to be pissed off at him as my contribution to Tetris implementations doesn't help me make the cut... : ) |
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- Sean "Early" Campbell & Scott "Adopter" Swigart lay out their top 10 new IDE features of Visual Studio .NET "Whidbey". |
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- The year 2003 in a nutshell. Best liars of the year: Bush c.s. Best talking automaton: |
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- So the computer died, and then the transmission decided going in reverse was too much of a bother, and then... |
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- Den israelske regering vil i løbet af de næste tre år fordoble antallet af bosættere på Golan-højderne. |
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- So the computer died, and then the transmission decided going in reverse was too much of a bother, and then there was the car crash (different car), and then the 103-degree fever, and then the flying to Newark with a... |
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- So the computer died, and then the transmission decided going in reverse was too much of a bother, and then there was the car crash (different car), and then the 103-degree fever, and then the flying to Newark with a... |
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- I've got a rule about packing. Always pack the night before. No matter how tired/drunk/late it is or you are.... |
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- In this world, there is an illness. It has no specific name, yet it is... |
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- Le magazine "Le Confidentiel" va sortir un scoop sur la désinformation à propos de l'affaire Al-dura. Il parait que l'équipe dirigée ... |
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- Vorsilvesterliche Beschäftigung. It's a dirty job, but somebody's gotta do it. |
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