Expressing intentions and making wishes in this way can accellerate the wheel of karma. It has been recommended by numerous experts in the field that you limit the speed of your karmic wheel to 2-3 rpm (revolutions per millenium).

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PepsiCo is putting $35 million into a series that will offer contestants a chance to travel with Russian cosmonauts to the International Space Station.

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What is it with Canadians lining up to have people photograph their private parts? Around 200 people volunteered recently to have pictures of their genitals taken and broadcast on "Sex with Sue," a Canadian TV show hosted by sex educator Sue McGarvie. The idea was to give viewers a realistic idea of what other people's equipment looks like, thus allaying their concerns about whether or not they%uFFD5re "normal." "Whenever you see a whole bunch of penises and a whole bunch of vaginas, you are bound to say, 'Oh, that's what they look like,'" McGarvie told the Press & Journal, Scottish newspaper. About 200 people showed up for the photo shoot, and more than 150 stuck out a three-hour wait in line to participate.

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Before I had first done so, writing a book seemed a fine, even grand thing. And so it still seems -- except, truth to tell, it is a lot better to have written a book than to actually be writing one. Without attempting to overdo the drama of the difficulty of writing, to be in the middle of composing a book is almost always to feel oneself in a state of confusion, doubt and mental imprisonment, with an accompanying intense wish that one worked instead at bricklaying.

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County officials are setting up a program under which people who get traffic tickets can e-mail their excuses and explanations to a judge. Until now, they'd have to sit for hours in court, waiting for a hearing.

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Word to women: If you are in the state of Washington, wear pants. Two Washington men who were convicted of violating the state's voyeurism statute for secretly taking pictures up the skirts of women and little girls successfully challenged the law earlier this month. The use of what has been called "upskirt cams" and "upskirt voyeur photography" is "reprehensible" and "disgusting," the state Supreme Court ascertained, but secretly taking photos up women's skirts in public places is not criminal.

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The content of this page is suitable for children of all ages. However, the procedures that involve cooking rice or omelets, slicing ingredients and rolls with sharp knives, and so on, should only be done with close adult supervision. To resurrect and paraphrase a cliche, the family that rolls sushi together stays together.

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"It may be that painkillers need to be tailored differently to the sexes to ensure they are as effective as possible."

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The committee also could not find any evidence to support the veracity of the reports. Dr. Schön told the committee he had deleted almost all of the original data files because his computer lacked hard disk space to store the files. He said he had no laboratory notebooks. Dr. Schön also could not reproduce any of the findings for the committee.

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...we know that about 12,800 years ago, North Atlantic waters cooled dramatically -- and so did the North Atlantic region. This large cooling in Earth's climate occurred in about a decade. And the cold spell lasted for about 1,300 years.

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Frankfurt's (1986) distinction between lying and bullshitting is not clear, save that lying appears to be more obviously intentional or narrowly tailored toward denying a particular truth or reality, whereas bullshitting appears to be more diffusely focused. That is, in Frankfurt's view the goal of bullshitters appears to be one of "getting away" with misrepresentation. Accordingly, their concern with "truth" or "reality" is minimal to non-existent. "It is just this lack of connection to a concern with truth -- this indifference to how things really are -- that I regard as of the essence of bullshit" (Frankfurt 1986:90).

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"You can move to Leaf Rapids and buy a home for you know, $20,000 and take the rest of your money and put it in the bank," [Mayor Barbara Bloodworth] said.

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"A lot of what Mychal was about was admirable," Father Felice said. "I'm just a little leery of putting it into a context that shoves a person away from our human experience, and makes them less effective as models for everyday living. It's better to keep the real Mychal alive and well in your brain. I think he has a lot more to say than a Mychal with a halo over his head."

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A study by experts in Germany suggests people with blonde hair are an endangered species and will become extinct by 2202.

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Also part of the platform unveiled Friday is a guarantee by the Liberals that after four years in government, at least 75 per cent of the province's students would meet the basic standard in reading, writing and math.

(Unlike Cuba, which has 100% literacy.)

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Some 3,800 Canada Customs officers nationwide will take part in a job slowdown starting this weekend that will affect travellers and goods entering the country at all airports and border crossings.

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The case is a crucible, not only for the CTEA, but for all future copyright laws. And Lessig's strategy is both bold and fraught with risk. "What the Supreme Court must answer is whether the intention of copyright is to protect economic value or to promote science and the arts," says Peter Jaszi, a professor of copyright law at American University Law School. If the court overturns the law, it could call into question a host of other unpopular laws, especially the Digital Millennium Copyright Act. But if the law is upheld, it will be a huge setback for digital-rights activists.

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"You always figure they're going to try to get away with something at the blackjack table or on the video poker machines, but rigging a bingo game?" asked Frank Cilletti, a retired security expert who worked with several Las Vegas casinos. "The payout just isn't that big on bingo. It's sort of a waste of criminal talent, actually."

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We understand that choosing what's better can often be a difficult task. We considered such a feature and decided against it. It is the goal of this site to qualify which, of all the things in the universe, is the best thing and to give a meaningful ranking of these things. This just isn't possible if there is an option for not voting on a pairing. If you think hard about the two items you were given, there must have been something that let you choose one over the other, even if that thing was as simple as "It was under my mouse and I didn't want to move my wrist enough to pick the other one".

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The British Treasury said Greenspan’s award was in recognition of his “contribution to global economic stability.”

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...in Skipping Towards Gomorrah Dan Savage.... commits each of the Seven Deadly Sins himself (or tries to) and finds those everyday Americans who take particular delight in their sinful pursuits.

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FW:Fwd is an exhibition of short films by international artists which explores new ways of accessing work online. This site will offer an ongoing, rolling programme of short films selected by Red Leader Industries, who initiated the project, plus guest curators. You are looking at the opening selection of films which have been chosen for their diversity - of approach, content and technique.

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To make downloading immoral, you have to accept that copyrighted products are governed by the same moral and legal principles as real property, thus the recent and continuous reference by the copyright community to label downloading as stealing. But the fact is that real and intellectual property are different and are governed by different principles. Downloading a copyrighted product does not diminish the product, as would be the case of taking and using tangible property such as a dress. At worst, it is depriving the copyright owner of a potential sale. Indeed, it may be causing a sale (through familiarity) or even more likely, have no impact on the sale. My son often will become familiar with artists through downloading their music on the Internet and then go out and buy the CD.

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Senator Charles Grassley (R-IA), the ranking Republican on the Senate Finance Committee threatened to hammer the IRS' budget, "The IRS wouldn't accept from a taxpayer the non-answer it has given regarding the 2,300 computers -- just as a taxpayer would be held accountable for missing receipts, so must the IRS be held accountable."

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"They complain about the Napsters," she said, referring to the bankrupt music swap site that was found to violate U.S. copyright laws. "But why do the Napsters exist, because the marketplace wants them."

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n the other hand, those who have condemned such operas as ideological weapons in the service of Western political hegemony miss a larger point. Butterfly's world premiere at La Scala took place in February 1904 — one week after Japanese torpedo boats launched a surprise attack on the Russian navy in Manchuria. By the following year, Japan had annihilated two Russian fleets, setting in motion events that would lead to the downfall of the Russian empire, and the decolonization of the Far East over the course of the twentieth century. In other words, if Madama Butterfly was an Orientalist weapon for dominating and having authority over Asia, it proved about as effective as a squirt gun. Bullets and bayonets — not Japanese bells — are the true weapons of imperialism.

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We've got get on with the business of our country. We've got to rise to a higher level. Our founding fathers would be embarrassed by what they are seeing going on right now. We've got to do better than this. Our standard of deportment ought to be better. Those who died gave their lives for better than what we are giving now.

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Click here to send Christopher Reeve a FREE birthday card. An anonymous donor has offered to contribute $1 to CRPF for every birthday card sent in September.

Snopes verifies: this is true.

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"I'm here for one thing: I'm here to buy the crooked E," said Mr. Azizi, who was born in Iran and builds lofts in Houston, reaching into his pocket and flashing a wad of folded bills. "I've got $20,000 in cash. I'm going to get the E and put it on top of a building."

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It's less draconian than the notion that no piece of hardware can be produced unless it has protective technology mandated by the government. The beauty of my approach is that it empowers copyright owners but also puts limits on their ability to go beyond merely protecting their property. They can't do anything that would damage the people using the networks.

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Engineering today feels like that window seat on the airplane. Those can't be real transistors and wires down there, can they? Watching the simulations on my computer monitor is like watching the movie on the airplane—an unreality wrapped in another unreality. I feel that I have lost touch with Edison's world of electricity—a world of black Bakelite meters, whirring motors, acrid chemical smells, and heated conductors. I miss Heathkits and the smell of molten solder and burning insulation—the sensual aspects of engineering that have been replaced for many of us by the antiseptic, ubiquitous, and impersonal CRTs.

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The law in question is one section of the USA Patriot Act, signed by President George W. Bush last October, which outlaws providing "material support or resources" to foreign terrorists who have been placed on a State Department list. Material support is defined as money, lodging, training or "communications equipment."

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Finally he hit on an idea: play CBC Radio One all night with the volume cranked up. Now, keep in mind that beavers are nocturnal. They do their best work at night. The steady drone of news, talk, music and documentaries -- all that reflecting Canadians to themselves stuff -- well, it drove them bananas. The beavers pulled up stakes and left. Is Castor canadensis trying to tell us something?

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I'd like to invite both the Archive folks (who provide an excellent and valuable service) and a Scientology representative to reply to Politech and clarify what's going on. It would be a public service for the Archive to publicize what procedures it will follow when receiving DMCA cease-and-desist letters in the future. It could, for instance: (1) change the default "page deleted" text; (2) forward the letter to chillingeffects.org; (3) offer the archivee the opportunity to reply; (4) investigate the request to make sure it's not overly broad; (5) pledge to do its best to preserve the public availability of information in the Archive.

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This is the eighth-grade final exam from 1895 from Salina, KS. USA.It was taken from the original document on file at the Smoky ValleyGenealogical Society and Library in Salina, KS and reprinted by theSalina Journal.

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As the Liberal front-runner vacuums the political ocean floor, he is leaving precious little catch in his wake for the competition. That's good news for Martin whose main challenge it is to sustain a lead over an inordinately long waiting period. But a less attractive by-product of his large swath is an impoverished environment in which an already depleted opposition is losing the battle to replenish itself. Meanwhile, debate within the governing party — never a regular staple of life in power under any circumstance — can only become even scarcer in the absence of a real race for the leadership.

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"They tell you exactly who used it and where," he noted. "Who wouldn't fire up a data-recovery program to see what was on a drive labeled 'CIA, Langley, Virginia'?"

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"In the faculty of writing nonsense," the English critic Walter Bagehot once observed, "stupidity is no match for genius."

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The list in Physics World was ranked according to popularity, first place going to an experiment that vividly demonstrated the quantum nature of the physical world. But science is a cumulative enterprise — that is part of its beauty. Rearranged chronologically and annotated below, the winners provide a bird's-eye view of more than 2,000 years of discovery.

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...the bursting of the dot-com bubble, and Scoot's particular problems, led to Molyneux stepping down from the post, and the Molyneuxes began divorce proceedings. At that time Shelley Molyneux contacted a private investigator, who put her in touch with the supposed hitman.

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"Executive women are frustrated by the lack of progress being made by corporate boards in appointing female directors," said Marzolini. "They flatly reject the notion that there aren't enough qualified women available to create a gender balance. Female executives attribute the current situation primarily to gender-based discrimination, but they also cite the fact that they are not part of the informal networks that lead to directorships. There's a good opportunity in the current climate, as part of reforms to corporate governance, to take steps to reduce the huge gender imbalances that exist on today's boards."

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Just over 20% of those surveyed said that they thought news was the most addictive web content, compared to 18% for pornography and 8% for gambling sites.

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Called VRSA for short, this bacteria was a real "superbug," oblivious to virtually all antibiotics on the market. It is a real-life example of how the overuse and abuse of antibiotics has diminished the power of what once were wonder drugs.

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Does regulation place too many restrictions upon new technology, or is it essential to prevent theft? Which authorities should apply copyright regulation to the internet, and how - if at all?

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Nortel shares are down 99 per cent from 2000 highThe beleaguered shares changed hands as low as 98 cents -- a long and humiliating fall from the $124.50 the shares reached in mid-2000. At that time, Nortel accounted for a little more than a third of the value of the entire benchmark TSX index -- then known as the TSE 300.

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"I've lost half of my strength that I used to have," said Fobister. "My speech is going. I can't talk properly. I choke easily."

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Here in Japan, several commercial censorware products developed in the U.S. are localized and used, but in this article, I focus on a censorware product funded by the Japanese Government. That censorware is developed by an auxiliary organization of the Government and funded by the Government, and its rating database is operated by another industry-based organization which represents Internet Industry in Japan, and the operation business is fully funded by the Government. The feature of the censorware lacks transparency, and the operating organization plainly ignores the accountability. In this August, I released a tool which decrypts the rating labels in the censorware right after the release of the new version of the censorware, because its license did not prohibit reverse-engineering. Now a minor-upgraded version of the censorware was released. That is not compatible with the previous version, and the new license prohibits not only reverse-engineering but also any criticism against the product.

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Let's be clear: that doesn't mean the central bank is going to buy shares in Sumitomo Bank or Mizuho Bank in order to help them improve their capital base -- that would make a certain amount of sense, since a central bank is supposed to maintain the integrity of the banking system, and Japan's needs all the help it can get. But no, that's not what the Bank of Japan means. It means it is willing to buy billions of dollars worth of shares in all sorts of companies that the banks have invested in.

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Harrold's client Nicola Moule was 26 when she developed vasculitis, a rare auto-immune disorder. Doctors are uncertain about its causes but both women are sure that the stress of working as a marketing consultant in London played a part. Moule was struck down more than three years ago and did not work for a year. 'I think it is possible that my subconscious was telling me that what I was doing didn't suit me,' says Moule, 'I am so much healthier and calmer since I got off the treadmill and moved down to Cornwall. '

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"This find in the northern shaft, coupled with last week's discovery ... in the southern shaft, represents the first major new information about the Great Pyramid in more than a century," said Zahi Hawass, director of Egypt's Supreme Council of Antiquities, on Monday.

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The Canadian government, initially vigorous in its attempts (all unsuccessful) to obtain consular access to Khadr, is now laying low — embarrassed by the reminder that in 1996 Prime Minister Jean Chrétien intervened with the Pakistani government on behalf of Khadr's father, Ahmed, who is now on an international terrorist watch list. Nor is the public particularly sympathetic. The rap on Omar seems to be that he is a terrorist from a terrorist family. His father can't be found. His 19-year-old brother, Abdul, was arrested in Afghanistan by Northern Alliance forces last November. And Omar himself was found fighting the Americans in Afghanistan. What other proof is necessary? A common refrain goes something like this: Toronto-born Omar has spent so much of his young life outside of Canada that he is not a real Canadian citizen and therefore deserves no help from this country.

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When it was all over, we were handed goodie bags from the CIA gift shop. Later, over dinner, we sci-fi writers were fussing with bills and receipts, fretting over the expense forms we'd have to submit, when something strange happened: A red, white, and blue flicker of nerdy patriotism showed through our jaded facades. "You know," someone said quietly, "if none of this was reimbursed, I'd have come out here anyway, on my own nickel."

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Her photographer, she adds, "lets me blow him. It's no big deal. I may be too young to fuck but I'm not too young to have fun."

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The United States on Monday used unusually harsh language to criticize Israel for its siege of Arafat's West Bank headquarters, its destruction of buildings there and its demands for about 200 men inside to surrender.

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The final document conveys concern over Israel's operations around the Palestinian leader's compound which "aggravate the situation and … do not contribute to progress on comprehensive Palestinian civil and security reforms."

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Of course, if much of what is related in the book is not true, she is either a fantasist on an industrial scale, unable to distinguish reality from her imaginings, or a cynically calculating opportunist. If she is a fantasist, her imagination is a deeply impoverished one, an impoverishment that gives to the book its repetitiveness. In a sense, it is quite an achievement to have made so short a book about sex so utterly tedious and unreadable.

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Federal authorities Monday accused Adelphia founder John Rigas and the others with hiding more than $2 billion in debt and using company funds to pay for personal expenses like stocks and luxury apartments. When they were arrested in July, the government said the Rigases treated the company like their "personal piggy bank."

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By critiquing the role of academic institutions in fostering poetry and insisting that contemporary poetry had a constituency outside the university, Can Poetry Matter? invited a number of new participants from all walks of life and of every literary opinion to join the conversation. Once they started talking, there has been no shutting them up. Their arrival has made the poetry scene less orderly and well-mannered--occasionally even anarchic--but it has also made it more democratic, diverse, and vital.

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On our pages you will find over 8,000 works of art. We are dedicated to bringing you quality information about artists and their artwork from all around the world.

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An addition to the bill also requires that analog ports no longer be added to digital televisions. That would render VCRs and other analog media obsolete, a concern for those who believe emerging technology restricts consumers' fair use of digital content.

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Calling the employees "captive customers", Young's attorney Patrick Kitchin said she has spent more than $35,000 over five years on Polo clothing to meet the retailer's uniform requirement. Young, a sales associate with Polo's San Francisco store since 1997, makes approximately $22,000 a year, Kitchin said. Of that, Young spent between $8,000 and $10,000 on Polo fashions.

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Mewes, best known for being the ''Jay'' half of ''Jay and Silent Bob'' in his pal Kevin Smith's movies, is still a fugitive from justice and has not been spotted in nearly 10 months.

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China thinks Microsoft software contains secretly embedded code that the United States government can manipulate at will. So, in case of war between the two countries, a Pentagon official can hit a switch and--presto!--cripple China's computing infrastructure.

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A stunningly designed showcase for idea-driven writing about visionary thinkers, trendsetters and new, new things - the people, trends and ideas at the cultural cutting edge.

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What Professor McFadden realized was that every time a nerve fires, the electrical activity sends a signal to the brain's electromagnetic (em) field. But unlike solitary nerve signals, information that reaches the brain's em field is automatically bound together with all the other signals in the brain. The brain's em field does the binding that is characteristic of consciousness.

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Although "fantasy" rape sites have been around for some time, porn-watchdog groups say that in the past few months, there has been a virtual explosion of sites that purport to document -- in graphic detail -- women being raped. "They are heavily hitting the spam. It's very disturbing," says Katya Gifford of Cyber Angels, an Internet patrol group.

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"Each one of them participated by their own free will," Sullivan said. "Being totally stupid is not a crime."

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Researchers, led by medical historian and retired physician Norbert Hirschhorn, published a report in 2001 hypothesizing that Lincoln suffered from mercury poisoning for years prior to his presidency.

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"Within 30 seconds of navigating into (an artwork) -- or into a gallery, museum, boutique or party -- you know if it's any good, or if it's crap. Crap can also be interesting, and because websites are the most amazing thing happening today in visual art, you can tolerate bad websites more than bad paintings or clothes," Manetas said.

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One of the legends about the Moon Festival is about a builder or architect named Hou Yih. Hou Yih built a beautiful jade palace for the Goddess of the Western Heaven or sometimes called the Royal Mother. The Goddess was so happy that she gave Hou Yih a special pill that contained the magic elixir of immortality. But with it came the condition and warning that he may not use the pill until he had accomplished certain things.

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I don't drive, so I take a lot of photos while waiting for the bus (as posted in the Hypercube Gallery of Canada). Some of these photos are turned into 1/2 OK postcards (contains adult language). Others are included in photo essays for my Mrs Everywhere column at CanCon.

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In the meantime, the CIA was gathering more information about just how potentially dangerous both men were. A few months after the October 2000 bombing of the USS Cole in Yemen, CIA analysts discovered —in their Malaysia file that one of the chief suspects in the Cole attack— Tawfiq bin Attash—was present at the “summit” and had been photographed with Almihdhar and Alhazmi. But it wasn’t until Aug. 23, 2001, that the CIA sent out an urgent cable to U.S. border and law-enforcement agencies identifying the two men as “possible” terrorists. By then it was too late. The bureau did not realize the San Diego connection until a few days after 9-11, when the informant heard the names of the Pentagon hijackers and called his case agent. “I know those guys,” the informant purportedly said, referring to Almihdhar and Alhazmi. “They were my roommates.”

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The reports were generally vague and uncorroborated. None specifically predicted the Sept. 11 attacks. But collectively the reports "reiterated a consistent and critically important theme: Osama bin Laden's intent to launch terrorist attacks inside the United States" Hill said.

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A poll into youth attitudes toward sex, drugs and drink found more than 56% of teenagers aged 16 to 18 admitted having sex without protection.

Don't fuck stupid: wear a condom. Okay? Good.

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Galen is content here to leave his admiration for the prepuce unqualified by allusions to its length, but he nonetheless provides us with powerful corroboration of the fact that the Greeks prized the prepuce on its own merits while simultaneously associating it with other aspects of male beauty.

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In a 12-page letter sent to Assistant Attorney General Charles James and to Elliot Spitzer, New York's attorney general, ProComp, a group partially funded by Microsoft competitors, charged the company with "at least six separate and ongoing violations" of one section of the proposed agreement.

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i draw pictures, from your titles. send me a title, or any thing else you want to talk to me about...

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Making antiprotons requires 10 billion times more energy than it produces. For example, the antimatter produced each year at CERN could power a 100 watt light bulb for 15 minutes, Hangst said.

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...Starburst is a phantom pop group and its single Get Your Juices Going was created by an advertising agency to promote the chewy confectionary brand owned by the multinational Mars corporation.

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Nieznalska's work offended religious sensibilities and if she is found guilty she could face up to two years in prison.

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The results show that people think men with masculine faces are more likely to pursue short-term relationships, while more feminine-faced men are thought to be interested in long-term relationships. Why? Possibly people think that masculine-faced males are likely to invest less in relationships than feminine-faced men. Or women may select more masculine-faced males for short-term relationships.

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Eric Fischl's bronze, "Tumbling Woman" depicts a naked woman with arms and legs flailing.

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...Dr Christopher Hawkes, of London's Institute of Neurology, believes the disease may be triggered by a sexually transmitted agent, and that young people, who are more prone to sexual experimentation, might be most at risk.

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Corner of Fat was unwisely exhibited under a spotlight, which made it very hot inside the box. Pretty soon the fat melted dramatically, spreading into the felt and the cardboard, making it look dirty and greasy. When the Plexiglas container was opened, the smell was terrible.

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Suzanne Pfeil understands why federal agents burst in just after dawn with guns drawn and handcuffed her. That's routine in drug busts. What she can't understand is why agents kept ordering her to stand up after they saw her crutches and leg braces next to the bed.

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The Rainforest Site will preserve 1,145 square feet of land for each Rainforest Site Bear purchased.

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Said journalist Nina Munk, who has a book contract with HarperCollins to write about the AOL Time Warner woes, "It is an emotionally driven purge. The Time Warner guys all want to see blood."

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"People had really distinct styles." He said he enjoyed how Camille Utterback, a Brooklyn artist, embellished her code with poetic comments, and he described Mr. Klima's code as social psychology because "it's all about relationships." To help viewers grasp what is on the site, Mr. Snibbe and his colleagues have inserted explanatory remarks into their own documents and then annotated others' code.

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Carlos Wotzkow, a leading Cuban ornithologist who defected in 1999, says that Castro's "Biological Front, which coordinates military and scientific research, was extended to the Institute of Zoology in 1991 to develop ways of spreading infectious diseases, including encephalitis and leptospirosis, through implantations in migratory birds."

Castro would have to be fucking stupid to do this. As things stand, he garners some gold stars for keeping Communism going right next door to the US, and looks like a scrappy-but-dignified underdog type. If he was really messing with biological warfare he'd get his ass kicked by every industrialized nation on the planet, including Switzerland. Plus he has absolutely nothing to gain. Is the entire world stupid today?

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A rise of 3% of the TPS would make it possible the Chrétien government to quickly inject new funds in the system of care of health, as in unison the provinces claim it, without running the risk to fall again into the rut from the deficits. Moreover, it would ensure a more stable source of financing the provinces while offering in Ottawa a greater visibility.

(Translation by Google)

The Canadian government exists in an appalling, piggish state of waste -- but they want US to pay MORE tax for things WE COULD AFFORD before they cut enough to generate a SURPLUS? Why should WE be the only ones tightening up -- when the civil service operates in a state of disgusting incompetence, with no incentive to save, and systemic habits of overspending?

The problem: any department that doesn't spend its entire budget gets their budget cut by the unspent amount next year -- when they "might need it". So if there are no legitimate projects, money is blown on whatever happens to be handy. Telephones are replaced every year whether they need it or not. Stationery is redesigned and the old stuff pitched out. Everybody gets new chairs -- and the old chairs are THROWN AWAY (or you can take them home). Friend of mine found SIX sets of Harman Kardon speakers en route to the trash -- took a set for himself and left the rest. During Y2K, civil servants were permitted to take home the noncompliant systems -- INCLUDING new 17" MONITORS, which COULD NOT BE noncompliant.

If this tax increase is seriously bruited about, I will go work for whatever alternative party seems likely to unseat the Liberals, no matter how disgusting that alternative may be. Yes, that includes the mortally stupid Canadian Alliance.

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Then the wunderkind fell to earth. In April, a small group of researchers at Bell Labs contacted Princeton physics professor Lydia Sohn and whispered that all was not right with Schön's data. Sohn recalls that she and Cornell University's Paul McEuen stayed up late one night and found some disturbing coincidences in Schön's results: The same graphs were being used to illustrate the outcomes of completely different experiments. "You would expect differences," she said, "but the figures were identical. It was a smoking gun."

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"Everyone who offers his vote to sell should be fined or may even be imprisoned for up to five years."

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In developing nations, one chassis might be the common base for vehicles as diverse as luxury limousines or farm vehicles. In urban Asia, the platform might support a jitney bus; in rural Africa, it might be used as a reliable, environmentally friendly tractor.

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While the hole grew and contracted from year to year because of climatic factors, Dr Fraser was confident it would begin shrinking steadily from as early as 2005 and should close by 2050.

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A third committee, which had been assessing the effects of environmental chemicals on human health, has been told that nearly all of its members will be replaced -- in several instances by people with links to the industries that make those chemicals. One new member is a California scientist who helped defend Pacific Gas and Electric Co. against the real-life Erin Brockovich.

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"It's extremely clear what Iraq has to do in the current situation, and that there's really no need for a special mediation effort,"

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A Sony spokeswoman confirmed that the glued players were being used to combat piracy, but would not talk about their effectiveness or responses from writers.

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At the UN General Assembly, Chretien singled out Africa as a continent that needs help to alleviate poverty and corruption. He said it is in the western world's best interests to give aid and foster good government in the world's poorest countries.

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Looking and acting the part of a presidential contender -- the contender his inner-circle already knows he is -- Gore unleashed, framing the debate, mocking President Bush's description of the economic boom during the '90s as a "binge."

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If the FDA is unable to produce any compelling evidence of a problem, they will not have the legal power to keep produce from cloned animals being sold.

I'd like to have it tested on humans first. Say, farmers and supermarket CEOs.

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So the goal should be to have the legal tools necessary to enjoin and shut down spammers quickly and, where appropriate, obtain major monetary judgments against them in civil courts. We need to make sending spam so expensive that it's no longer a viable business plan for anyone, anywhere.

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Jeremy Munday and Bill Robertson made a 120-metre-long cable by alternating six- to eight-metre-long lengths of two different kinds of coaxial cable, each with a different electrical resistance. They hooked this hybrid cable up to two signal generators, one of which broadcast a fast wave, the other a slow one. The waves interfere with each other to produce electric pulses, which can be watched using an oscilloscope.

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How it got pressed in CD form remains somewhat mysterious. Apparently, the bootlegger initially took a master to a U.K. pressing plant, intending to create the Great White Wonder of hip-hop. But the machinery rejected it. Seems there now exists a technology called the "major label waveform CD database," which is capable of recognizing materials allegedly owned by the record label cartel. I thought this was a hoax, just something added to spice up the story, until I read a story in J@pan Inc Magazine (June 26) about a company called Gracenote, which specializes in "music recognition service," the software that lets your CD player tell you which artist and track are currently playing. It's pretty easy to see how the RIAA and its international counterpart, IFPI, could use the same technology to track "bootleggers"--or get pressing plants, which they have been known to raid, to do it for them.

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American investigators have concluded that broken lines of communication and poor leadership contributed to the deadly bombing last April. Friday's report suggested that U.S. Col. David C. Nichols also be disciplined, but no action has been taken.

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Without question, any information that can be used may also be used badly. But a host of policy complications and administrative complexities arise if one attempts to craft a unique brand of legal protection against the disclosure of personally identifiable genetic information in the name of "genetic privacy."

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Building your own G4 can be both fun and exciting, and in doing so you will join a small but growing group of computer enthusiasts. Undertaking this project also represents a solution to the high prices associated with both new and used Apple computers. To give you an idea, a machine similar to what I'm about to describe here will normally sell for around $800. Retail prices vary, but that's around the norm for a low end G4 Graphite model with AGP.

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Dutra himself freely admits it was an oversight, that he was "naive" and never thought someone would "sink to the level" of stealing his name.

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This spiked-debate aims to untangle the legal, political, technical and creative problems surrounding copyright regulation in the digital age. Does regulation place too many restrictions upon new technology, or is it essential to prevent theft? Which authorities should apply copyright regulation to the internet, and how - if at all?

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"She frequently attends polo matches which can be quite, quite rough," Parker told CBC Radio. "It won't frighten her or worry her at all. I think she'll probably rather enjoy it."

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"This initiative will allow the police to spend more time going after murderers, rapists and other violent criminals," said Billy Rogers, leader of the group that is pushing the measure.

Whether it could actually take effect is unclear. Federal law bans marijuana possession, and the White House has come out strongly against the idea. Also, Nevada voters would have to approve the proposal again in 2004 before it became law.

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Government officials, however, speaking on condition of anonymity, could not guarantee that the report on the government's mishandling of Public Works contracts will ever be made public.

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"If that means bigger roads on LeBreton Flats, I think city council should reject it," Ms. Arnold said of the possibility that the NCC might seek permission for taller buildings.

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"Beechwood just volunteered this out of their own hearts. So it means a lot to us," said Basnicki, who attended the memorial with mother Maureen and 17-year-old brother Brennan.

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In a note on the paper's front page, editor Ann Marie Lipinski said Greene, 55, acknowledged the sexual conduct with a girl in her late teens whom he met in connection with his column.

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"We think the AlkB molecule could be one of the major reasons for resistance to chemotherapy and now that we know how it works, it should be possible to find ways to overcome this problem."

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You can enter the collection , or begin with the most popular wallpaper , or go directly to the newest additions. You can choose your wallpapers by author (Rilke , Doyle, Updike , Kipling , Baudelaire , Fitzgerald , McInerney,Chandler, Loos and more) or by model (Kate Moss, Daryl Hannah, Linda Evangelista, Cindy Crawford, Giselle Bundchen Guinevere Van Seenus and more ) .

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''It does't get simpler than this,'' Dunn said. ''Just one moving part.''

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The parallel between an artist's photograph and a programmer's code is remarkable. The negative, in the case of analog photography, or the high resolution image, in the case of digital photography, is in effect the source code. The viewable image, whether on screen or on paper, is in effect the object code. What I had just been told was that the source code to her work was not available in a freely redistributable and free modifiable form, indeed that the source code was not going to be made available at all.

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''The e-mail establishes, in Reid's own words, his expectation that he will die 'doing his part of the ongoing war between islaam and disbelief,' '' prosecutors say in a brief filed late Wednesday in U.S. District Court. The filing quoted from the e-mails as they appeared, including misspellings.

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A former federal Department of Fisheries and Oceans biologist says the regulations aren't enforced. Otto Langer says unofficially, most federal biologists believe the move will only further pollute the ocean and streams with disease, feces and fish escapes.

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Durocher said he is limited in how he can respond to past sex abuse complaints, since those clergy members charged under Project Truth were never convicted of any crimes.

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J002E3 is the first known case of an object being captured by the Earth, although Jupiter has been known to capture comets in the same way.

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In the interview, Chrétien said the Western world is "looked upon as being arrogant, self-satisfied, greedy and with no limits. The 11th of September is an occasion for me to realize it even more."

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By 8:15 a.m. in Washington, viewers had the opportunity to grieve to the accompaniment of garish ads for dog food, a circus, furniture, home improvements and telephone service.

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One of the top priorities, according to one draft, is for the government and the private sector is to make sure computers that control major systems such as subways, nuclear reactors and dams are secure.

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Early results of an American investigation found that the pilots violated the rules of engagement.

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"I'm OK with it," Zevon, 55, said in a statement. "But it'll be a drag if I don't make it until the next James Bond movie comes out."

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Private Media said it plans to use the Napster trademark to offer millions of adults worldwide the ability to swap adult-oriented content for free and to also gain access to ''top-quality'' content at a reasonable price. Private Media claims to own the largest library of adult-oriented content in the world, with global copyrights to the content.

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Much uncertainty surrounds the mysterious object, designated J002E3. It could be a passing chunk of rock captured by the Earth's gravity, or it could be a discarded rocket casing coming back to our region of space.

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While the particular nature of the research is likely to attract much attention, it is also one of the most impressive attempts at tissue and organ engineering to date. "The penis is more complex than any of the organs we have engineered so far," says Atala, whose team has already created fully functional bladders that may soon be implanted in people.

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The State Department site, it turns out, had been providing a link to a Web site run by the Republican National Committee despite federal laws prohibiting government resources from being used for partisan purposes.

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In fact, many people say quietly, but they don’t have the courage to stand up and say publicly, that when there were white secretary generals you didn’t find this question of the United States and Britain going out of the United Nations. But now that you’ve had black secretary generals like Boutros Boutros Ghali, like Kofi Annan, they do not respect the United Nations. They have contempt for it. This is not my view, but that is what is being said by many people.

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Hours after the ABCNEWS team arrived in Istanbul, the suitcase of radioactive material was prepared for shipment by sea to the United States. The suitcase was placed inside an ornamental Turkish chest that was carefully marked as containing depleted uranium, in case inspectors discovered it.

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I had another friend who watched the towers go down from Brooklyn, didn't know what to do to get out his sudden rage against Arabs, so he opened his refrigerator and started throwing out all his Middle Eastern food, yelling as he tossed items one by one into the garbage: "Fuck this baba ghanoush! We don't need their fucking pita bread!" I won't even tell you what he did to the hummus.

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Joining this movement is simple. Just masturbate in your own way, focusing your thoughts and energy towards love and peace. Encourage others to do the same. Also, please fill out the petition below and share how you intend to masturbate for peace. We will share the most thoughtful petitions on this site.

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Ten days after China began blocking the popular search engine Google, access appeared to be restored on Thursday, although the reasons behind the abrupt change were unclear.

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Clients don't really care if the consultants devise their forecasts by rolling 20-sided dice in a marijuana haze for two weeks; all they care about is that someone can say with authority that tangerine will be big next fall. Then the dye makers can produce extra tangerine to meet the demand of fabric suppliers, who provide tens of thousands of bolts of tangerine fabric to manufacturers, who make tangerine skirts and tops and launch ad campaigns that create in consumers a yearning to wear tangerine.

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Moon trees can be found all over the world. They are usually spotted by accident because no one kept track of where most of them were planted.

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Apollo 14 launched in the late afternoon of January 31, 1971 on what was to be our third trip to the lunar surface. Five days later Alan Shepard and Edgar Mitchell walked on the Moon while Stuart Roosa, a former U.S. Forest Service smoke jumper, orbited above in the command module. Packed in small containers in Roosa's personal kit were hundreds of tree seeds, part of a joint NASA/USFS project. Upon return to Earth, the seeds were germinated by the Forest Service. Known as the "Moon Trees", the resulting seedlings were planted throughout the United States (often as part of the nation's bicentennial in 1976) and the world. They stand as a tribute to astronaut Roosa and the Apollo program.

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Things would be a little easier for the families of the 24 Canadian victims of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks were there some kind of permanent Canadian memorial, he said after meeting with Prime Minister Jean Chretien at a private get-together at the Canadian consulate.

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Boy did He drive those sophomore chicks wild.

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Working in an unfamiliar realm, many nanodevice makers today can't predict which of their mechanisms will actually work as planned. Moreover, because the living machinery of cells and microorganisms also operates on the nanoscale, the Australian work could lead to new biological insights as well.

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Other side effects fall under the paradoxical umbrella of "relaxation-induced anxiety," or RIA. Instead of relaxing during meditation, RIA sufferers feel distressed. Psychologists at Virginia Commonwealth University monitored 30 chronically anxious people during guided meditation. Seventeen percent indicated that their anxiety got worse. A previous study led by Dr. Frederick Heide at Pennsylvania State University reported that the same happened to 54 percent of the subjects. Symptoms of RIA include panic attacks, sweating, a pounding heart, spasms, odd tingling sensations, and bursts of uncontrollable laughter or tears. RIA can also aggravate conditions, such as schizophrenia, depression, asthma, and bleeding ulcers, that were previously stable.

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The Supreme Court's Argument Calendar frames the issue as follows: "Was a defendant in Texas who posted DVD de-encryption software on an Internet web site subject to suit in California based on allegations he knew or should have known that his conduct could harm industries with a strong presence in California?"

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TransOrbital of California is the first private company in the history of spaceflight to gain approval from U.S. authorities to send a spacecraft into lunar orbit.

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Terrorists have to be "vanquished completely," he told an audience of about 1,600 people in Toronto Tuesday night. He urged that war be made against Arab regimes that support terrorism.

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The statement said officers were told Bush was found in possession of "a small white rock substance." Officers field-tested the substance, which was 2 grams, and it came back positive for the presence of cocaine, police said.

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We plan to select twelve families who we think may be entertaining enough to have their own sitcom. If you are one of the finalists, a TV production crew may be sent to your home to see how hilarious your family really is. Cameras will follow your daily activities at home, at work, in school, and wherever else the members of your family spend most of their time. Finalists may be flown to Los Angeles, California for an extended period of time for production of a sitcom.

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"when god decided to invent

everything he took one

breath bigger than a circustent

and everything began

when man decided to destroy

himself he picked the was

of shall and finding only why

smashed it into because"

Because. Just Because.

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The author is studying Internet filtering in countries worldwide, and current investigations focus on restrictions on web access in China. With Professor Jonathan Zittrain, the author provides a web-based system to test web filtering in China. Using this system, the author previously determined and confirmed that Google was inaccessible from at least one testing location in China; initially, in testing beginning August 29, a request for Google led to the error "host not found," consistent with requests for other inaccessible or blocked sites. However, using related methods, the author has now confirmed and documented reports that Chinese Internet access currently provides pages other than the ordinary Google home page in response to requests for google.com; such behavior is believed to have befun on September 8. The screen shots below document 6 instances of this replacement.

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Aloha,

Kindly trek over to:

http://www.monitor.ca/contest/final15/index1.htm

And vote for the pic in the bottom right corner, that's a young lady sleeping in a doorway near some Carravaggio sidewalk art. Here's the larger version:

http://www.monitor.ca/contest/final15/pages/fp831-gt-3_jpg.htm

It's already in the top five in People (and may have already won that category -- there's one other good shot and three PHOTOS OF LITTLE KIDS!). Unlike the contest earlier this year it will actually be done.

Obligedly, GT

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The current state of nanotechnology mirrors the level of development in the field of polymers and plastics in the 1930s, when it was in its infancy, said Kevin Ausman, director of the Rice University Center for Biological and Environmental Nanotechnology.

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Some users in Beijing and Shanghai were redirected to Peking University's no-frills search site Tianwang, the little known cj888.com and the German-invested Baidu.com, among others. Users in Guangzhou were rerouted to the local portal 21cn.com. "It's like going to buy Coca-Cola and they say 'Well, you can't have Coke but here's grapefruit juice'," said another Beijing-based analyst.

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"We don't know how to do cloning in animals or humans, and therefore it should not be done period," said Paul Berg, Nobel laureate and professor of biochemistry at Stanford University School of Medicine.

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The mirror site, called elgooG, is a parody of the English language version of Google in which all the text on the web pages has been reversed. The text terms used for searches are also entered in reverse. The site, which returns all the same hits as Google, can be accessed from behind China's "great firewall".

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"These people simply drive up to a building armed with their pornographic e-mail, log into the insecure wireless network, send the message to 10 million e-mail addresses and then just drive away," Wright said.

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Some of the many properties now said to be on the market include Disney's sports teams, the California Angels of the baseball's American League and the Mighty Ducks of the National Hockey League; Cablevision's theater chain, Clearview Cinemas; the bankrupt cable company Adelphia's many systems, the film company MGM, and Bertelsmann's online retailer Bol.com.

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"In the long run, the most significant effect of this do-it-yourself journalism might be its value to historians. They will be able to see all kinds of stories, detail, and data that might have been lost without a medium like the Internet on which to record it."

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...even though many didn't believe it would make a difference in fighting terrorism, a new study finds.

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"We have to quickly rally the majority of our fellow citizens to the cause of a sovereign Quebec -- not in 20 years, not in 10 years, but in 1,000 days," [Quebec premier Bernard Landry] told PQ delegates in a speech that lasted about an hour.

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... the [San Francisco Chronicle] publisher partnered with MobileSoft, an Atlanta, Ga.-based software developer, to create customized CDs. Subscribers can sign up to have news or columns of interest automatically downloaded to disc via the PC by 6:30 a.m. PDT, then transfer it to a car stereo.

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The image shows an almost perfect ring of bluish stars around the yellow core of the galaxy, called Hoag's Object.

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>We respectfully urge Your Excellency to take steps to ensure that>authorities restore access to Google immediately and uphold the right to>free expression as guaranteed in both the Chinese constitution and the>International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, which China has>signed. We also call on you to ease restrictions requiring Internet>companies in China to censor information in order to conduct business in>your country.

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I am cursed with the ability to find just about everything to be very interesting. Plus, I'm a jerk. This is a bad combination, as any of my friends who have had the concept of meconium explained to them by me can testify. (meconium, n. the first fecal excretion of a newborn child, composed chiefly of bile, mucus, and epithelial cells. - Random House Webster's College Dictionary)

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It would be misleading to answer this question with either a simple 'Yes' or a 'No.' The Scriptural answer of necessity must be a 'qualified' one, and it is easy to see why. Many conscientious ones among Jehovah's people today have wondered if Christians should own cats in view of their somewhat sordid symbolic history and the many health risks associated therewith. While we would not wish to state an opinion on what must remain a matter of personal preference, what is acceptable to one person may, although unintentionally, stumble another. This can become a life-or-death issue since to move the steps of a brother away from the path of Christ's ransom sacrifice is tantamount to 'putting a millstone around the neck and being thrown into the sea.' -Matt. 18:6. Clearly, in a matter where our eternal salvation is involved, the mature Christian will not pursue a purely selfish course based on his own personal choices, but will adopt a congregational viewpoint as scripturally prescribed.

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"Tag-a-bag is a great idea, and it's wonderful in theory, but what happened was, for example, I'd hear from people in Gloucester that people from Osgoode, on their way to work, would stop and put out a bag or two by the side of the road. You know, add a little bit to someone's garbage that was out for collection."

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Mr Hockey said he was surprised to discover that trapped genitals were far and away the leading cause of clothing-related injury when he analysed emergency department statistics from 1998 to 2001.

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Moving swiftly, Warren Jeffs demoted Mr. Blackmore from his position of leader of the Canadian colony and stripped him of his authority, including his power to officiate at weddings. The younger Mr. Jeffs also mounted a concerted attack to discredit Mr. Blackmore within the religion, and "reassigned" Mr. Blackmore's youngest wives to men in the United States, a change the wives have refused.

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"Opening this legislation to the digital realm has caused the virtually unanimous industry support behind it to evaporate, and it has raised a host of troubling liability issues that cause substantial harm to Internet service providers," Allen, who chairs the Senate Republican High Tech Task Force, said in a statement.

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With the technique, a station can cobble together digital splices of prerecorded banter, weather updates and even listener calls from another city, all designed to mimic a live local broadcast.

"They want to destroy local radio," said Peter Fuster, a New York negotiator for the American Federation of Television and Radio Artists, which represents announcers. "My first priority is to protect our members' jobs. My second is to prevent these stations from becoming the McDonald's of radio."

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Some of the fundamental changes to Americans' legal rights by the Bush administration and the USA Patriot Act following the terror attacks:

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In some cases, simply making technology more portable can create a new class of products, as Sony found when it created the Walkman. This trend will is even more pronounced in an emerging class of devices embedded into ordinary clothing fabrics, VDC said. "In the near future these smart fabric products will... integrate a vast array of sensors into everyday products," the report said.

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According to Savage, other activities will naturally follow. "American Time (AT) will begin September 11, 2001. Everything before that will be considered Before American Time (BAT). American Time will start with Year One. There will be no zero as that is negative and America should not associate itself with the term. Before American Time will extend to 1776, the start of the American experience. American textbooks should not find it necessary to deal with events before this date.

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Let us pause for a moment, however, and picture a young Mr. Martin, perhaps in some campus college dorm, stoned on hash and listening, entranced, to Charlie Mingus.

Posted by GeeTee at September 06, 2002 11:33 AM | TrackBack 0

In the first few days of the exercise, using surprise and unorthodox tactics, the wily 64-year-old Vietnam veteran [Lieutenant General Paul Van Riper] sank most of the US expeditionary fleet in the Persian Gulf, bringing the US assault to a halt. What happened next will be familiar to anyone who ever played soldiers in the playground. Faced with an abrupt and embarrassing end to the most expensive and sophisticated military exercise in US history, the Pentagon top brass simply pretended the whole thing had not happened. They ordered their dead troops back to life and "refloated" the sunken fleet. Then they instructed the enemy forces to look the other way as their marines performed amphibious landings. Eventually, Van Riper got so fed up with all this cheating that he refused to play any more. Instead, he sat on the sidelines making abrasive remarks until the three-week war game - grandiosely entitled Millennium Challenge - staggered to a star-spangled conclusion on August 15, with a US "victory".

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FINAL REPORT: CANNABIS: OUR POSITION FOR A CANADIAN PUBLIC POLICY (PDF)

What I've read of this document is unusually sensible. It explicitly rejects the 'gateway' theory, notes that pot's involved in half the drug crimes so enforcing its illegality is expensive, and says it's not all that bad -- less addictive than cigarettes, less likely to provoke violence than alcohol. Plus 1 in 15 Canadians has smoked it and most of them are fine.

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Even though U.S. forces are providing security for Karzai, and killed his assailant, perhaps the most enduring result of the attacks Thursday will be to raise the question of whether the international community in general, and the U.S. specifically, is doing enough to ensure the success of Karzai's government. The role of U.S. troops, who may have saved the life of a key politician working to build a unified and moderate Afghanistan, underscores how difficult it will be for the United States to withdraw any time soon.

Posted by GeeTee at September 06, 2002 11:00 AM | TrackBack 0

representative berman proceeds to cite various actions that he feels are analagous to those that H.R. 5211 would permit. in each of these analogies, it is clear that one party has committed a crime. what representative berman has apparently forgotten is that H.R. 5211 does not require that a crime be committed by a so-called "file trader" for a copyright holder to place malicious files on the file trader's computer. the file trader could be using his or her files completely within his or her rights of fair use. the copyright holder need not present any evidence that his or her copyright has been violated. here is a truly analogous situation: a record store is shut down because their placement of CDs around the store could allow a criminal to steal a CD, thus violating an artist's copyright.

Posted by GeeTee at September 06, 2002 10:46 AM | TrackBack 0

The parents, identified only as Turkish citizens living in Cologne, offered to use the Turkish variant spelling of "Usame", but officials still baulked.

Posted by GeeTee at September 06, 2002 04:35 AM | TrackBack 0

Mister Bond has had a huge impact on what we drink, almost single-handedly popularizing vodka in the United States, and vodka martinis everywhere else. Careful product placements of a variety of alcohol brands are targeted at those of us who want to "be like Bond," in effect, helping sell a lifestyle. This site will examine those brands, along with the many other libations preferred by 007.

Posted by GeeTee at September 06, 2002 04:28 AM | TrackBack 0

Khadr is the son of Ahmed Saeed Khadr, a Canadian citizen whom the U.S. has accused of having direct ties to bin Laden. The Khadr incident could be an embarrassment for Canadian Prime Minister Jean Chretien, who once intervened on behalf of the father.

Posted by GeeTee at September 06, 2002 04:14 AM | TrackBack 0

Critics said the FBI waited too long to reach out to the scientific community, that it failed to follow up on some obvious leads and it may have unfairly focused attention on Dr. Steven Hatfill, a germ warfare expert who says he's innocent.

Posted by GeeTee at September 05, 2002 04:28 PM | TrackBack 0

Polygamy is legal, and practiced, among the Saudi elite. Everywhere in the kingdom, women are veiled, secluded, and subject to the harsh protocols of a sexual apartheid. A few female Saudi professionals who in 1991 drove cars as a sign of protest mostly ended up arrested and jailed. Women who have traveled to the West remain under the constant surveillance of the Committee for the Advancement of Virtue and Elimination of Sin, a Taliban-like government watchdog group of clerics and whip-bearing fanatics.

Posted by GeeTee at September 05, 2002 04:26 PM | TrackBack 0

It’s been suggested that the wall I’m encountering is that old cultural mainstay, English reserve. Frankly, I think it’s simpler than that. The English male avoids being alone with a woman because he dreads being alone with a woman. In this regard, the boarding-school-educated types are by far the worst. Wrested from the intimacy of their mother’s affection, boarders come to depend on themselves and the boys around them for everything they need. The company of women and those who crave it are viewed with suspicion and disgust.

Posted by GeeTee at September 05, 2002 09:23 AM | TrackBack 0

The announcement today by Sony Europe of its first Bluetooth enabled Digital Still Camera represents a significant advance in the design and operation of Sony digital cameras. This advanced feature lets the user share information with a range of computers and other devices supported by Bluetooth BIP (Basic Image Profile) from a distance of up to 10 m without any cable connection. Data transfer between the camera and a range of devices is smart, fun and convenient. As more and more peripheral devices develop BIP Bluetooth interfaces, the future vision of a wireless world comes closer to being reality.

Posted by GeeTee at September 05, 2002 09:16 AM | TrackBack 0

Reports also said the Toronto-born youth was badly injured in action that resulted in the death of the U.S. soldier, and that he is being held at U.S. military headquarters in Bagram, north of the capital city of Kabul.

Posted by GeeTee at September 05, 2002 08:38 AM | TrackBack 0

It's the MOST PATRIOTIC THEME PARK in America! Due to the overwhelming public demand, the Lower Manhattan Development Corporation and the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey have decided to use the site of the World Trade Center for America's number one theme park, Twin Towers over Ground Zero™! Expected attendance for the first two weeks alone is estimated at 100,000 people!

Posted by GeeTee at September 05, 2002 07:41 AM | TrackBack 0

I voted for this guy, although I probably wouldn't actually want to talk to him. Also:

If you want to be Brent's date in Vegas, all you have to do is e-mail your picture, a nice letter, and three references to takemetovegasbrent@hotmail.com. Brent will look through the mail and pick someone to accompany him.

Posted by GeeTee at September 05, 2002 07:34 AM | TrackBack 0

While Canadian businesses face the prospect of GST collection, non-resident companies face no such burden. The policy provides a scenario in which a U.S. company supplies music on-line from a U.S.-based server. The company advertises on the Internet with a campaign that targets the Canadian market, allows Canadians to download music using a Canadian credit card with the help of a Canadian ISP, and uses an agreement that specifies Canada as the place of the contract. According to Canadian tax authorities, this company is not carrying on business in Canada and thus does not need to register for GST collection. For Canadian businesses competing on the global e-commerce stage, this policy approach represents a significant competitive disadvantage.

Posted by GeeTee at September 05, 2002 07:31 AM | TrackBack 0

"This is an attempt to figure out the balance between intellectual property and the public domain," Boyle said. "How much protection do we need?...If you want to have a rich culture and an innovative society, you have to leave a large amount of material freely available for all to use."

Posted by GeeTee at September 05, 2002 07:28 AM | TrackBack 0

"It's not so much the kind of superpowers she has as the way she uses them," Conner confides. "It's mostly about this down-and-out girl who gets superpowers, and how she deals with all the dorky superheroes around her." For example, the Pro thinks fighting for "freedom, justice, and the American Way" includes using her super-strength to help fellow streetwalkers literally ream out a homicidal deadbeat john.

Posted by GeeTee at September 05, 2002 07:26 AM | TrackBack 0

A UN Security Council resolution would set a deadline for weapons inspectors to go back to Iraq and would imply military action if Saddam Hussein failed to comply.

Posted by GeeTee at September 05, 2002 04:50 AM | TrackBack 0

Like the ghosts in the movie Poltergeist, Napster just needed to be told that it was dead so that it could go toward the light and find its eternal reward. And what is that reward? For founder Shawn Fanning, the guy whose kinky hair supposedly led to the nickname Napster, it is the knowledge that he was at the forefront of the digital music revolution. And it clearly is a revolution -- one the major music labels have been trying to take control of.

Posted by GeeTee at September 05, 2002 04:43 AM | TrackBack 0

As part of the 2003 budget process, the council gave tentative approval to the creation of a $200,000 stormwater fund. The money will be generated by a charge, similar to water and sewer charges, billed to owners of property that drains into the city storm sewer system.

Posted by GeeTee at September 04, 2002 07:38 PM | TrackBack 0

In various online forums, Chinese surfers criticised the ban saying they used the search engine for research, not politics.

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Some have gone a little native in the few years since those dizzying, ridiculous market-cap highs. They're growing apples. They're having kids. They're back in school. They're learning to fly. They're (gulp) awaiting possible prison terms. And guess what? A hardy few have even kept the faith.

Posted by GeeTee at September 04, 2002 07:20 PM | TrackBack 0

Police suspect the fire was deliberately set. "There is no electricity to the bridge, there is no furnace, so yeah, it's suspicious," Madison County Sheriff Paul Welch said. "There is nothing there that would have initiated any fire on its own."

Posted by GeeTee at September 04, 2002 06:25 PM | TrackBack 0

"The entertainment industry has made age something to be feared. ... It is of small comfort to know that those who have perpetrated ageism will someday face it themselves," Roberts told the Senate Special Committee on Aging.

Posted by GeeTee at September 04, 2002 05:35 PM | TrackBack 0

As provided by the lovely and talented Fred Lapides. The Canadian government intends to make it easy for Canadian law enforcement to grab records, emails, whatever, from ISPs, because apparently we have too much privacy.

http://www.canada.justice.gc.ca/en/cons/la_al/
http://www.g8j-i.ca/english/doc3.html
http://makeashorterlink.com/?D28F159A1
http://canada.justice.gc.ca/en/cons/la_al/law_access.pdf
http://www.nationalpost.com/components/printstory/printstory.asp?id=59874CF0-072A-4BF7-885F-B7E480FDA95B
http://www.itbusiness.ca/print.asp?sid=49751
http://www.canada.com/components/printstory/printstory.asp?id=D16F4AD9-B646-4EF1-869A-0B76019770C9

Posted by GeeTee at September 04, 2002 05:28 PM | TrackBack 0

Greek Law Number 3037, enacted at the end of July, explicitly forbids electronic games with "electronic mechanisms and software" from public and private places, and people have already been fined tens of thousands of dollars for playing or owning games.

Posted by GeeTee at September 04, 2002 05:22 PM | TrackBack 0

He climbed a ladder to get a better view of the top of the mausoleum when he slipped, hit his head on a marble step, and fell into his own tomb.

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A new chief executive could also free up Ms. Stewart, who has not been charged with any crime, to focus on addressing the investigations into her sale of nearly 4,000 shares of ImClone Systems last December. The sales are under investigation by the Department of Justice, the Securities and Exchange Commission and the House Energy and Commerce Committee. She sold the shares one day before the company announced that its application for approval of a promising cancer drug had been rejected by the Food and Drug Administration.

Posted by GeeTee at September 04, 2002 05:19 PM | TrackBack 0

"Scientific evidence overwhelmingly indicates that cannabis is substantially less harmful than alcohol and should be treated not as a criminal issue but as a social and public health issue," Progressive Conservative Senator Pierre Nolin, the committee chairman, said Wednesday at an Ottawa press conference.

Posted by GeeTee at September 04, 2002 05:16 PM | TrackBack 0

An individual complained that her internet service provider (ISP), by continuing to take in and store her e-mails while her account was under suspension and by withholding them from her pending payment of arrears, had improperly used her personal information without her knowledge and consent for a purpose other than that for which it had been collected.

Posted by GeeTee at September 04, 2002 05:08 PM | TrackBack 0

The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), which manages the Internet's global addressing system, said VeriSign, owner of the largest and first commercial dot-com registrar, "blatantly ignored" its obligation to fix inaccuracies in its "Whois" database, citing 17 violations over the past 18 months.

Posted by GeeTee at September 04, 2002 05:06 PM | TrackBack 0

"You won't get a position in computer security until you've worked at least five years on the beat, preferably in physical investigations," Rosenberger said. "They'll grudgingly let you past if you just do forensics, but they feel you really should chase bad guys with a gun before you chase bad guys with a computer."

Posted by GeeTee at September 03, 2002 08:29 AM | TrackBack 0

I don't remember the exact train of thought or conversation that gave birth to the idea, but it had to do with discussions, at my local Starbucks, of of course, of how quickly Starbucks was growing and how they hoped to have 2000 locals by the year 2000. At some point I, or somebody there, wondered out look how neat it might be to try to visit them all.

Posted by GeeTee at September 03, 2002 08:27 AM | TrackBack 0

"...the key problem is that there are still no signs of a sustainable economic recovery in Japan."

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The Smoking Gun: Archive

Posted by GeeTee at September 02, 2002 09:19 AM | TrackBack 0

Seldon, like Bin Laden, transmits videotaped messages for his followers, recorded in advance. There is also some similarity in geopolitical strategy. Seldon's vision seems oddly like the way Bin Laden has conceived his campaign. "Psycho-history" is the statistical treatment of the actions of large populations across epochal periods - the science of mobs as Asimov calls it. "Hari Seldon plotted the social and economic trends of the time, sighted along curves and foresaw the continuing and accelerating fall of civilisation."

Posted by GeeTee at September 02, 2002 09:04 AM | TrackBack 0

A newspaper advert showing a plane flying towards two high-rise buildings has provoked a flood of complaints of tastelessness. The advertising standards authority said it had received 15 calls from offended readers since the ad, for a Discovery Channel documentary on terrorism, appeared in newspapers this morning.

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