A feasibility study by consultants PricewaterhouseCoopers discourages the government from building it in the medieval city of Sighisoara, birthplace of 15th century Count Vlad Tepes, though to have inspired author Bram Stoker's Gothic novel "Dracula."

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"Robert Pickton never registered as a pig farmer with BC Pork. In fact, he had more sheep on his property than he had pigs!" the group said in a statement released on Monday, ahead of Pickton's pre-trial hearings next week.

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...the new reigning champion of hamburger pricing: a $41 monster that has just appeared on the menu at the Old Homestead on Ninth Avenue, built of beer-fed Kobe beef, with lobster mushrooms and microgreens, on a Parmesan twist roll. It is genuinely lousy, a mushy, gray thing of loose consistency and little flavor.

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Bush also underscored his administration's efforts to champion "compassionate alternatives" to abortion, such as promoting maternity group homes, encouraging abstinence and adoption and passing parental-notification and waiting-period laws.

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The prosecutor's office in Trier, near the border with Luxembourg, said that it had been investigating alleged cases of cannibalism and rape by Satanists since the middle of last year. That is six months before another case of cannibalism -- the eating of a software designer by a former soldier -- came to light.

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As part of Adweek's special 20th Anniversary issue, Adweek's editors have picked the Top 20 Ad Campaigns Of The Last 20 Years

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as I read these opinions, I realize the hardest part for me is elsewhere. I have spent more than a decade of my life teaching constitutional law -- and teaching it in a particularly unfashionable way. As any of my students will attest, my aim is always to say that we should try to understand what the court does in a consistently principled way. We should learn to read what the court does, not as the actions of politicians, but as people who are applying the law as principle, in as principled a manner as they can. There are exceptions, no doubt. And especially in times of crisis, one must expect mistakes. But as OJ's trial is not a measure of the jury system, Bush v. Gore is not a measure of the Supreme Court. It is the ordinary case one needs to explain. And explain it as a matter of principle.

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The researchers say the insects seem to retain the underlying genetics needed to construct wings over tens of millions of years, even though the wing is not physically present.

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Chrétien has repeatedly challenged members of Parliament who want him to leave early to vote against him in the House of Commons. He said he'd call an early election if that happened.

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If you depend on a secret for your security, what do you do when the secret is discovered? If it is easy to change, like a cryptographic key, you do so. If it's hard to change, like a cryptographic system or an operating system, you're stuck. You will be vulnerable until you invest the time and money to design another system.

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One of the Canadian soldiers most seriously wounded in a mistaken attack last year in Afghanistan said his men were not firing into the air when a U.S. fighter pilot dropped a bomb on them.

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More than 24 playgrounds had arsenic levels above federal health guidelines. Half of them tested at more than twice the guidelines.

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Lawyer Peter Ritchie, who represents accused serial killer Robert Pickton, submitted an affidavit alleging violations of the ban since the hearing began Monday. The affidavit cited the AP, along with Seattle, Wash.-area newspapers and television stations, and some Canadian media.

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Eldred lost. 7-2 for the government, with Justices Breyer and Stevens dissenting. Much, much more to come. [Later: Scroll down for continual updates.]

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"It's a marvellous structure," Mr. Padolsky said yesterday, slamming Domtar's "unilateral" decision to knock down the mill. He called for an emergency meeting between the company, the NCC and the city to explore ways of preserving the "cathedral-like" building as a prime piece of urban industrial heritage with profound potential for public redevelopment.

Fuckers.

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I know for sure that inner-city schools don't have to be hellholes like Emery and its District of Columbia brethren, with their poor administration and lack of parental support, their misguided focus on children's rights, their anti-white racism, and their lawsuit-crazed culture.

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"But actually getting it done would probably be a huge mistake, because it won't be as good as people imagine it could have been," continues Gilliam, clearly on a roll. "It's probably better to leave it as a documentary with little tantalizing glimpses of what might have been. It's my theory about Stanley Kubrick: He should have died before he finished Eyes Wide Shut. It would have forever been an unfinished masterpiece, beautiful ruins. When it's a ruin, you get these little fragments and you can imagine what the castle looked like." Gilliam's favorite aspect of moviemaking, he says, comes during "the early stages, when we're drawing things and planning the film in our heads -- ah, that's exhilarating. The reality is that when we're finished, it's a fraction of what we were imagining. When I'm making films sometimes I want half the film to be in blackness so there's room for people to imagine what's in the shadows."

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