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The Review
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(Review) Ralph Peters writes that, ... (Dec 31 2003 15:32 GMT) - (Review) Ralph Peters writes that, despite the great success and progress in the War on Terror in 2003, 2004 will be the decisive year. Yet 2004 is going to be a year of decision in the War on Terror. As... |
Gizmodo
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Medical smart bracelet (Dec 31 2003 15:31 GMT) - A Turkish doctor has invented a "smart bracelet" that the elderly and infirmed can wear that can automatically alert a family member or a nurse... |
Digital Fugue - Random Thots
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Old KL Map (Dec 31 2003 15:31 GMT) - While cleaning up an old cabinet, I came across a street map of the towns in Malaysia including Singapore. The copyright on the map indicates that it was printed in 1960 and published for Mobiloil. ©Rand McNally & Company 1960... |
NDO::Weblog
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rule42
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First Night (Dec 31 2003 15:29 GMT) - Tonight is First Night in Boston. We'll take our daughter to see the Grand Procession at 5pm, then have some dinner and go home. It's been a while since we've done anything adult on New Years. |
rule42
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Ashcroft has recused himself from the CIA leak investigation (Dec 31 2003 15:29 GMT) - Yes, it is big news that John Ashcroft has recused himself from the CIA leak investigation. Certainly he should have done so at the beginning of the investigation, but it's likely he he never thought the case would go anywhere, that people would forget, and so on. So why is he doing it now? Is he getting a conscience? Dropping a hot potato? |
rule42
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finally getting serious (?) (Dec 31 2003 15:29 GMT) - It looks like we are finally getting serious (?) about terrorists: The FBI is warning police nationwide to be alert for people carrying almanacs, cautioning that the popular reference books covering everything from abbreviations to weather trends could be used for terrorist planning. |
rule42
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When the Army won't let you quit (Dec 31 2003 15:29 GMT) - When the Army won't let you quit "[T]housands of soldiers [are] forbidden to leave military service under the Army's stop-loss orders, intended to stanch the seepage of troops, through retirement and discharge, from a military stretched thin by its burgeoning overseas missions... "Other soldiers retained by the Army under stop-loss are more resigned than irate, but no less demoralized by what some have come to regard as their involuntary servitude... "Some guys who are Vietnam vets are [in Iraq] with us, he said in an interview at his home in Holland, Mass., shortly before he was to return to his unit in Iraq. They said even in Vietnam, as difficult as it was there, you knew from the time you hit the ground to the time you returned it was one year -- whereas with this it's really up in the air. |
InfoWorld: Top News
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W3C head Berners-Lee to be knighted (Dec 31 2003 15:29 GMT) - Tim Berners-Lee, credited with inventing the World Wide Web and director of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), will be named a Knight Commander, Order of the British Empire by Queen Elizabeth of the U.K., the W3C announced Wednesday. |
Kaleva.plus
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Garmisch-Partenkirchen on Ahosen mäki (Dec 31 2003 15:28 GMT) - Garmisch-Partenkirchen on Janne Ahosen mäki, kuuluu Suomen mäkijoukkueessa useasti toistettu hokema. Keski-Euroopan mäkiviikon toisen osakilpailun karsinnassa Ahonen todisti tä |
symlink.ch: Wissen Vernetzt - deutsche News für die Welt
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Copy Is Right (Dec 31 2003 15:27 GMT) - Ich las soeben auf heise einen Artikel ber den deutschen Softwarehersteller SAD. Dieser hat seine DVD-Kopier-Software wieder vollstndig verffentlicht mit dem Hinweis, dass bis zu drei Kopien einer DVD legal seien. Im Artikel wird auch noch auf die Kampagne Copy Is Right eben dieses Softwareherstellers hingewiesen. |
The Ultimate Insult
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Big Mary (Dec 31 2003 15:27 GMT) - Big Mary and a brief history of just what caused the lynching of an elephant.... |
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