In the end, "Macca" always wins. Paul McCartney's original idea for the Beatles' album Let It Be will finally be realized with a new stripped-down version that might have been. As Rolling Stone reports in their upcoming February issue, an alternate version of the record is forthcoming from Apple Records this year. Different from most re-releases, the new version of Let It Be will be distinguished by what it doesn't have: The bloated orchestrations that producer Phil Spector added to the final album. Ever the consummate wordsmith, Ringo Starr was quoted in the magazine as saying, "It's the de-Spectorized version."

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The Canada Customs and Revenue Agency is planning to develop a "Big Brother" database that will record more than 30 separate pieces of information on every Canadian who travels abroad, including destinations and dietary preferences.

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According to Bocquet, a stone will only bounce if its initial velocity exceeds a certain value. If the stone is also spinning, this introduces a stabilizing torque that can maintain the initial angle at which it hits the water - which helps the stone bounce again.

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First, there's a huge difference between being arrested and being guilty. Second, see, the law changes and I don't. How I stand vis-ą-vis the law at any given moment depends on the law. The law can change from state to state, from nation to nation, from city to city. I guess I have to go by a higher law. How's that? Yeah, I consider myself a road man for the lords of karma.

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Considering the NSI believes the decision may force the end of the Internet and have "enormous ramifications for a large sector of similar service providers, including cable television service and telephone service providers", it is a shame its legal arguments aren't stronger.

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"To the extent the open source model gains increasing market acceptance, sales of the company's products may decline, the company may have to reduce the prices it charges for its products, and revenues and operating margins may consequently decline," it said.

Heart bleeds.

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The diversity of Kubrick's work is truly astonishing, even though the director's technical precision and steely perspective on humanity may strike uninitiated viewers as cold and even misanthropic. His films almost always received mixed (and sometimes scathingly negative) reviews upon their release, only to benefit from glowing reassessment as they grew entrenched in the public consciousness. Here, in all their glory, are the collected films of a genuine master, ripe for study and appreciation for many years to come.

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"Some people have [asked], 'How could anybody who says 'nucular' have any real grasp of where atomic energy comes from?" the linguist says. "That's why people get upset . . . it suggests [government officials] don't understand it, but yet have got their fingers on the button.
"But I think it's because they have their fingers on the button that they do it."

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A diplomat stated that it would not be an appropriate background if the ambassador of the United States at the U.N. John Negroponte, or Powell, talk about war surrounded with women, children and animals shouting with horror and showing the suffering of the bombings.

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Any new space system that reduced costs would be, to the contractors, killing the goose that lays the golden egg. Just a few weeks ago, NASA canceled a program called the Space Launch Initiative, whose goal was to design a much cheaper and more reliable replacement for the shuttle. Along with the cancellation, NASA announced that the shuttle fleet would remain in operation until 2020, meaning that Columbia was supposed to continue flying into outer space even when its airframe was more than 40 years old! True, B-52s have flown as long. But they don't endure three times the force of gravity on takeoff and 2000*none on re-entry.

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