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Detective's Widow Wants Killers Jailed (Dec 04 2004 05:59 GMT) - The widow of a policeman slain by the Irish Republican Army says she doesn't want to be blamed for holding up peacemaking in neighboring Northern Ireland. But Ann McCabe says she expects the men who killed her husband to serve their time in prison - and the government of Prime Minister Bertie Ahern to honor its past promises to her. |
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One for the Day: Hot Metal (Dec 04 2004 05:58 GMT) - Click to enlarge FACILITY: LD steel mill for stainless steel grades Process: A Basic Oxygen Vessel has just been... (115 words, 0 comment(s).) |
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Prying Into FBI Activities (Dec 04 2004 05:56 GMT) - The ACLU files Freedom of Information Act requests to find out why antiterrorism task forces have been monitoring activists. By Ryan Singel. |
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Fight for Public Domain Goes On (Dec 04 2004 05:56 GMT) - Archivists who want to digitize 'orphan works' -- books, movies and films that are no longer commercially viable but remain under copyright -- lose a court battle. But they vow to continue the war to rebalance copyright law. By Katie Dean. |
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Da Vinci's Ornithopter about to flight? (Dec 04 2004 05:56 GMT) - <p>Over 500 years ago, Leonardo da Vinci conceptualized the "ornithopter", a self-powered flying machine which mechanical flapping wings that create all of the thrust and most of the lift. |
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"Localizing Digital Games" (Dec 04 2004 05:56 GMT) - This month's Journal of the Society for Technical Communication (STC) contains an article by Alexander Thayer and Beth E. Kolko. The article "focuses on blending, the most challenging and potentially effective form of game localization and asserts that technical and... |
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grand thieves audio (Dec 04 2004 05:56 GMT) - from we-make-money-not-art bunk magazine is doing a cool hack of GTA Vice City where they hijack the soundtrack, and put someone into the car with you (via the new audio). Grand Theft Auto: Vice City, an earth-shaking game of theft,... |
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My Tax Dollars at Work (Dec 04 2004 05:56 GMT) - Three senior civil servants have sued the Hong Kong government after it sought to relocate them from their government paid quarters on the Peak, Hong Kong's toniest neighborhood. The three claim that housing them in less exclusive digs violates Hong... |
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El Gobierno chino continúa arrestando y asesinando cristianos (Dec 04 2004 05:56 GMT) - Oficiales chinos reunidos en una conferencia internacional sobre religión y ley los días 18 y 19 de octubre anunciaron que están abiertos a cambios en su política de religión. Sin embargo, Ji Wenyuan, subdirector de la Administración Estatal de Asuntos Religiosos, dijo que las necesidades únicas de China deben evaluarse primero y que la armonía y estabilidad social tienen que formar la base de cualquier nueva ley. |
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Jóvenes egipcios luchan contra "identidad musulmana obligatoria" (Dec 04 2004 05:56 GMT) - Dos hermanas jóvenes cristianas en Egipto han acudido a la ley para reclamar el cambio forzado de su identidad oficial religiosa al Islam. Imán y Olfat Malak Ayet, ahora con 17 y 18 años de edad, se criaron como cristianas con su madre copta ortodoxa. Su padre dejó su a esposa cristiana, a su hija infante y la otra por nacer en 1986, se convirtió al Islam y se casó con una musulmana. Él cambió las identidades oficiales de sus hijas varios años antes de su muerte en noviembre de 2002. Para dar sus exámenes finales del colegio y luego solicitar entrada a la universidad, las hermanas cristianas deben recibir primero sus cédulas nacionales de identidad. |
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