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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