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- news.yahoo.com - Feb 29 2004 11:25:40 GMT |
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Leap day (Feb 29 2004 09:19 GMT) - Today is a leap day -- otherwise known as February 29th, the additional day added to each leap year. If I had been born 5 days later than I was, then I might have been celebrating my 8th birthday today. The 29th February is, as well, the day when tradition dictates that a woman can ask a man to marry her. I'm not expecting a great many proposals myself today, but I'll let you know should any happen. |
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- MSNBC: CIA slipped bugs to Soviets "In January 1982, President Ronald Reagan approved a CIA plan to sabotage the economy of the Soviet Union through covert transfers of technology that contained hidden malfunctions, including software that later triggered a huge explosion in a Siberian natural gas pipeline, according to a new memoir by a Reagan White House official. [...] At the time, the United States was attempting to block Western Europe from importing Soviet natural gas. There were also signs that the Soviets were trying to steal a wide variety of Western technology. |
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- Wired News: Fighting for Right Not to Show ID "Dudley Hiibel, a Nevada rancher who covets his privacy, didn't want to hand over his identification to a police officer in 2000. His refusal landed him in jail and his name on the U.S. Supreme Court's docket. |
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- AVN: 30 Months For Tricking Kids To E-Porn "NEW YORK - The first to be charged under a federal law criminalizing the use of fake Internet addresses to trick children into seeing porn sites - using misspelled domain names like Disneyland, Britney Spears, Teletubbies, and others - is going to prison for 30 months. John Zuccarini was sentenced February 26 for violating a portion of the Amber Alert law known as the Truth in Domain Names Act, which took effect last year, ending a life that involved him eluding authorities for several years until his arrest in southern Florida last year. He pleaded guilty in the case December 10, 2003 in federal court. The Philadelphia native had even admitted he registered altered domains familiar to children because they were more likely than their parents or other elders to misspell names when typing Web addresses into search or location bars. |
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- Internet News: VeriSign Files Suit Against ICANN "Lawyers for VeriSign (Quote, Chart), registry for the .com and .net top-level domains (TLDs) |
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- BBC News: Microsoft ends 'unfair' contract "Microsoft has announced it is to ditch a controversial contracts provision under investigation in Japan. The software giant's statement comes after Japanese fair trade officials raided its Tokyo offices on suspicion of violating anti-monopoly laws. Microsoft said it would now be removing the contract detail which prevents computer firms from suing it for any use of their patented technology. The Japanese Fair Trade Commission had said it was unfair and restrictive. |
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- BBC News: Namibia plans white land seizures "Namibia will start to forcibly take land from white farmers to give to landless blacks, the government says... Prime minister Theo-Ben Gurirab said in a national address that land reform had to be speeded up but it would remain orderly and peaceful... About 4,000, mostly white, farmers own almost half of Namibia's arable land... Mr Gurirab did not give details of how many farms would be seized or when the programme would start... |
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- UK 'spied on UN's Kofi Annan' "British spies listened in to UN Secretary General Kofi Annan's office in the run up to the Iraq war, former UK cabinet minister Clare Short says." hmm... just gotta be in the know, I guess |
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- Friday 19th March 2004 Live: mousemoon, iOnic Performers: projections, beat poets, stupidity Tickets: free |
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- Saturday 20th March 2004 Live: mousemoon, 67 Special Performers: projections, beat poets, stupidity Tickets: $6 |
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- Sunday 21st March 2004 Live: mousemoon, iOnic Performers: projections, beat poets, stupidity Tickets: free |
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- (US) Aljazeera.Net - Egypt: Alleged drug dealers killed Egypt: Alleged drug dealers killed Police say Nikhaila is used as a haven for drug trafficking Children targeted in Brazil's drug war [$drug_related(100%), $drugwar_propaganda(100%), $propaganda_theme1(100%), $propaganda_theme2(50%), $propaganda_theme5(60%), $propaganda_theme6(90%), $illegal_drugs(100%), $drugs(95%), $various_drugs(95%), $various_illegal_drugs(100%)] |
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- (Canada) More guns on streets worrying police Gunplay on city streets is almost a daily occurence in Vancouver. [$drug_related(100%), $drugwar_propaganda(70%), $propaganda_theme1(55%), $propaganda_theme2(50%), $propaganda_theme3(55%), $propaganda_theme7(70%), $illegal_drugs(100%), $drugs(95%), $prohibition_agency(100%), $legalization(70%), $stimulant(100%), $cocaine(100%), $cannabis(100%), $various_drugs(95%), $various_illegal_drugs(50%)] |
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Fate (Feb 29 2004 09:18 GMT) |
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- A fire Thursday destroyed three cars for sale at Saturn of Doylestown on Route 313 in Plumstead Twp. |
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