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Bizarre (Dec 15 2005 23:47 GMT) - After channeling immense energy and Dick Cheney’s sneer into cutting loopholes into McCain’s torture ban, Bush cut and run, capitulating to McCain’s position. President Bush reversed course on Thursday and accepted Sen. |
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- ‘’Winter Wonderland'’ sends in the clowns - and they’re restored Virginian Pilot - Most are found behind the glass of two new gazebos in the courtyard of the Courthouse Galleries museum A mission in dentistry News-Times - A member of Healing the Children Northeast cleans a childs teeth in Peru [... |
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- Posted by Andreas Ericsson, Thursday, 15 December |
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- Posted by doug_at_hcsw.org, Thursday, 15 December |
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--win_help (Dec 15 2005 23:47 GMT) - Posted by Baumgart, Alexander (K-GOT-1), Thursday, 15 December |
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- Category: Car ReviewsThe 2005 Audi S4 is a 2- or 4-door, up to 5-passenger convertible sports car, luxury sports sedan, or luxury wagon, available in 6 trims, ranging from the Sport Sedan to the Cabriolet with Tiptronic. Upon introduction, the Sport Sedan is equipped wit... [Audi S4 Reviews] [Audi Reviews] |
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- Unos 60,000 boletos para el concierto de U2 del próximo 15 de febrero se vendieron en aproximadamente 4 horas según reportes de U2 México, es decir 250 boletos por minuto; nunca se ha vendido un show tan rápido en la historia de México. Como ya habíamos anunciado hace algunas semanas en ALT1040, se tenía planeada [...] |
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- Category: Auto NewsSubaru of America, Inc. today announced it has signed Supercross and Motorcross Champion, multi-time X Games gold medalist, and up-and-coming rally star Travis Pastrana to lead Subaru Rally Team USA (SRT USA). Under the terms of the multi-ye... [ View story ] [ more Automative News ] [ Car Reviews ] |
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- Feed2podcast es un servicio, en estado beta, por el cual al regitrarnos le indicaremos una serie de datos, sobre todo la dirección de nuestro feed RSS para que el sistema nos lo convierta en audio. Nos da una archivo xml por el que a partir de entonces lo añadiremos a lectores de podcast online, como odeo o podnova, o locales, como iTunes, para escuchar nuestras entradas en formato de audio. Permite además colocar su reproductor en tu blog. Está en estado beta y aún no he podido probarlo bien debido a algún fallo del xml, donde me impedía leer mi nueva dirección feed ni en el reproductor online que ellos dispone y que además lo puedes integrar en tu web. Aún así, el servicio, cuando mejore, sería interesante seguirle la pista. |
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- A woman who broke both ankles and her wrist after falling from the rafters during a Rolling Stones concert in the US has avoided public disturbance charges. |
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- US President George Bush reversed course tonight and accepted calls for a law banning cruel, inhumane and degrading treatment of foreign suspects in the war on terror. |
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- Three environmental groups sued the US government today, seeking to protect polar bears from extinction because of disappearing Arctic sea ice. |
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- US officials are treating a report on an Afghan news website about a new video showing Osama bin Laden with scepticism. |
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- The White house has finally agreed to a senator's call for a law specifically banning cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment of foreign terror suspects, congressional leaders said in Washington today. |
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- Two teenage sisters were found guilty today of murdering their alcoholic mother who drowned in the bath. |
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- Fire swept a hospital in China today, killing at least 33 people including patients, official media said. |
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- The Spanish parliament gave final approval today to a law banning smoking in the workplace. |
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- TV News: Series dubbed into Mandarin, aired as 3 back-to-back episodes per night -- ABC's "Desperate Housewives" will debut Monday on China's state-run CCTV8. The Mouse House worked out the deal with the pubcaster during the summer, and the show was due to air in September. There's no word on what caused the delay or what, if any, license fee was paid for the show, since China typically hands over just a few thousand dollars per episode for the few foreign TV series it imports. |
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- TV News: Falco named prexy of TV group -- In a move that consolidates his protégé's power, NBC Universal Chairman Bob Wright elevated Jeff Zucker to CEO of a newly-reorganized television group, which gives him control of the network, Telemundo, cable channels like Bravo and USA Network, sports, The Olympics and news, including MSNBC and CNBC. |
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- TV News: Morning Ratings Flash - Rick Kissell -- CBS notched an easy primetime ratings victory Wednesday on the strength of its crime duo of "Criminal Minds" and "CSI: NY," according to preliminary nationals from Nielsen. |
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- Seiko Rolex-Style Automatic Women`s Watch - $114.99 Overstock 10-20-2005 01:55:20 AM EDT |
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- Breitling watches expands age-old marketing strategy Turkish Daily News (subscription), Turkey - Dec 1, 2005 Since 1884, Swiss watch manufacturer Breitling has upheld its image as the no-nonsense supplier of timepieces for the world s top scientific and military |
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- I have a suggestion for all Iranians who live abroad and all others who are interested in Iran. It might be actually a bit late, but I think if you wanted to somehow help undo the damage Ahmadinejad has done to the image of Iran in the past few weeks, there are two books which could make very good Christmas gifts to your non-Iranian friends and relatives: Persepolis, by Marjane Satrapi: An easy-to-read and interesting graphic novel about a young Iranian girl and how the revolution, war, etc. affected her life and her middle-class family. |
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- Having read Kayhan newspaper's editorial, it's now obvious that the new anti-Israeli line of the Ahmadinejad and his allies is a change in policy, not a random personal rant by Ahmadinejad. But why this and why now? Diversion: Iran, because of the deep internal rows especially among conservatives, has become a very dysfunctional state and the latest disasters (plane crash and Tehran's air pollution) are only two visible sings of that. So it makes sense for the government to divert the attention of the people inside Iran and the global community from these horrible incidents. |
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- Artwork by Amir Rad, via Parastoo I was on Radio Open Source last night with four other wonderful women who have done work on Iran. Chris Lydon asked about how blogs in Iran are political. This is usually asked and I guess it's a central question to understand Iran. But now I have a better answer: When smoking for women is political in Iran, how could blogging and making your private life public not be?... |
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- Proposed standards for protecting data on disk or tape are gathering steam within the IEEE and could be supported in products as soon as next year, according to proponents. |
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- Along with the Howard Stern Show, another radio endeavor involving alien life forms is going off the air this week; SETI@Home, a grid supercomputer project for detecting signs of extra terrestrial life from deep space, officially ended Dec. 15. |
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- Just in time for the holidays, a worm called Dasher has hit the Internet. The malicious software, which primarily targets Windows 2000 systems, is one of three new attacks targeting Microsoft's software that has emerged in the last 24 hours. Two other recently posted attacks can crash or gum up the Internet Explorer (IE) browser. |
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- The University of California at Berkeley Thursday announced it is launching an Internet research laboratory with the help of some very wealthy friends. |
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- Author: Remorhaz Subject: [Video] - Trend Spotting - Xbox 360 - Comedy Central... Check out this funny Xbox 360 sketch that was on The Daily Show (Comedy Central). Can you guess what this years hot holiday item is? |
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- Film News: Kudofest represents the most open field in quite a while -- Spain's foreign-language Oscar candidate, "Obaba," has snagged 10 nominations for the country's Goya Awards, including film, director for Montxo Armendariz and adapted screenplay. |
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- Business News: Burch tappled for chief exec position -- U.S. cable vet Stephen Burch has been appointed chief exec of U.K. |
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- Variety 100 General: From the Army Archerd Archive: Jane Fonda says the just-revealed FBI-plotted plant in this pillar "is only the tip of the iceberg" in info to be revealed via her ($2.8 million) civil rights suit vs. the government. |
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- International News: Kudofest represents the most open field in quite a while -- Spain's foreign-language Oscar candidate, "Obaba," has snagged 10 nominations for the country's Goya Awards, including film, director for Montxo Armendariz and adapted screenplay. |
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