The free downloading habit among 61 million Americans and millions more worldwide is "cemented," with only 9 percent of U.S. downloaders believing they are doing anything wrong, media analyst Eric Garland told California lawmakers Thursday.

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But as he speaks, the screen displays the Internet address www.ripburnrespect.com. The site, owned by Gateway, contains information about legal and illegal forms of digital music recording. For instance, it tells consumers they have a right to make copies of their own CDs for personal use, but they aren't entitled to make copies to pass out to friends.

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"We dropped a few civilians," Sergeant Schrumpf said, "but what do you do? ... I'm sorry," the sergeant said. "But the chick was in the way."

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Just as drink-driving has become socially unacceptable as well as being illegal, maybe we need to exert pressure on programmers to stay away from the tools and languages that allow them to make stupid mistakes, and refuse to use tools which have been developed without due care.

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According to a report in Friday's Daily Variety, Moore is working on a documentary about the "the murky relationship" between former President George Bush and the family of al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden. The paper said the movie, "Fahrenheit 911," will suggest that the bin Laden family profited greatly from the association.

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Scientists have found no signs of alien beings after analysing radio signals collected in the world's biggest distributed computing project.

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"Consumers continue to suffer from a class-based system, devised by airlines, to offer, on the one hand, savvy, technology-proficient consumers one set of fare offerings, and on the other hand, less attractive fare offerings to those consumers unable to access the airline through technology-driven venues," the registry states in its complaint filed with Transport Canada.

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The reverberations of the 64-year-old Tudor study will sound for years. The three surviving orphans from Group IIA, Norma Jean Pugh (now Kathryn Meacham), Mary Korlaske (now Mary Nixon) and Hazel Potter (now Hazel Dornbush), are each suing the State and University of Iowa for millions of dollars, citing among other things the infliction of emotional distress and fraudulent misrepresentation. The estates of the three deceased orphans will be part of the suit. ''I think that a jury will agree that even if these people's speech wasn't exactly ruined, their lives were,'' says Evan Douthit, a Kansas City, Mo., attorney who is representing five of the claimants. ''Kathryn Meacham has thought of herself as a freak all her life. She still hates to talk, except to her family and a few people in her church. She's a sad, sad lady.''

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Checking, with its voyeuristic and addictive appeal, is the biggest time-sucker of all. "With 190 people on my buddy list, it can take a lot of time checking them," said Ms. Loesche at Middlebury. "I find myself clicking whether I care what they are doing or not. Last year I got to the point where I had to take someone off to add someone." (AOL says that a buddy list can hold up to 200 names.)

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I'm not talking here about bad books. Though they exist, books that are just plain and irredeemably awful are too sad to waste time thinking about. No: the books I'm presently pondering aren't necessarily bad -- though some of them are -- they're just so... well... dumb and unplaceable, it's difficult to imagine book store owners knowing what to do with them, let alone book buyers. If they manage to find them.

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If you highlight the left side of the page in the NY Press article below, you get the hidden text in the page designed to be picked up by search engines. An excerpt: It was up to spiderman and shakira to stop that rotten scoundrel osama bin laden and his taliban.. First he brought down the world trade center, then he created napstewhat evil would be next? Studying the works of nostradamus, they figured the best place to catch him would either be at the world cup or the winter olympics, where he planned to unleash an envelope full of anthrax on the unsuspecting crowd. CNN caught morrowind of the plot, and predicted there would be neverwinter nights for years to come. It would be a dungeon siege when these forces came together. It would be like a battlefield 1942.

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Conversations with 13 of the men, first in prison and then in a restaurant after their release, paint a picture of Guantanamo as a place where a detainee may be treated well, reasonably, or badly, depending on whether Americans consider him a terrorist, and whether he protests perceived humiliations that other prisoners let pass.

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The court appeared deeply divided over a Texas law that makes it a crime for gay couples to engage in sex acts that are legal for heterosexual couples. The court was widely criticized for a ruling 17 years ago that upheld a similar sodomy ban.

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The justices refused to allow the American Civil Liberties Union to appeal on behalf of Arab Americans and others who believe they may be being secretly monitored.

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"The only items consumed in a biofuel cell are the fuel and oxygen from the air," says Shelley Minteer, Ph.D., an assistant professor of chemistry at Saint Louis University who presented the research. "Given the proper environment, an enzyme should last for long periods of time. It is creating this environment in a fuel cell that researchers have struggled with for years," Minteer says.

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"Japanese have little awareness about the need to protect personal information, copyrights and other rights," so they don't think twice about taking photos with mobile phones, even if it is banned, Miyadai said.

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I spent most of the next hour crying. I was absolutely hysterical. Thank God my students were in an assembly. Some of the other teachers tried to console me, saying they likely fled to Canada when our local news reported that all Iraqi nationals and Iraqi Americans in the Detroit area were being questioned by the FBI. Saying that I *couldn't* think they'd been detained or deported... that I couldn't think the worst.

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Optimus Prime is heading out to the Middle East with his guard unit on Wednesday to provide fire protection for airfields under combat.

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The hypotheses were mutually incompatible, but they usually made room for one central assumption. The witch craze was directed against women, and therefore expressed misogyny and patriarchy. Feminist historians pioneered this approach, then the usual suspects jumped on board: Margaret Murray, Barbara Ehrenreich and Andrea Dworkin. In all this, an inconvenient detail was overlooked. Between a fifth and a quarter of those executed for witchcraft were men. This is not news to historians; they just don't want to know about it.

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Dan Rather remarked that these startling pictures and these astonishing sounds could darn well speak for themselves, a comment that would have qualified as wise and welcome had Dan actually taken it as a cue to shut up for five seconds. (I highly recommend CBS to anyone who wants to watch both a war and a man going slowly insane on national television.
During Thursday's relatively modest bombing stint, Rather said: "Night in Baghdad. Rockets' red glare, bombs bursting in air."
He later added, "Oooh, that was a big noise..." before opining that the attack was an attempt to give Saddam Hussein "the willies." (There's talk that the United States is seeking to expand the size of its coalition by contacting military officials on Rather's home planet.)

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Johan Sebastian Bach's Musical Offering contains 10 canons. In each of these canons a musical line is played twice (or 4 times, in Canon 10). The second version is always transformed with respect to the first by shifting in time, but it may also be shifted in pitch, turned upside-down, stretched or played backwards. Each of these transformations occurs in the mathematics of elementary functions; they are examples of how new functions can be made out of old, and of how a function can be tailored to fit a new situation. We will look at some simple transformations and see how they are exemplified in the first five of the Musical Offering canons.

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Bowling fails the first requirement of a documentary: some foundation in the truth. In his earlier works, Moore shifted dates and sequences for the sake of drama, but at least the events depicted did occur. Most of the time. Bowling breaks that last link with factual reality. It makes its points by deceiving and by misleading the viewer. Statements are made which are false. Moore invites the reader to draw inferences which he must have known were wrong. Dates are transposed and video carefully edited to create whatever effect is desired. Indeed, even speeches shown on screen are heavily edited, so that sentences are assembled in the speaker's voice, but which he never uttered.

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"Don't you listen to Powell on Voice of America radio?" he said. "Of course the Americans don't want to bomb civilians. They want to bomb government and Saddam's palaces. We want America to bomb Saddam."

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Papadimitriou is publishing a book this summer with MIT Press. The book is a novel titled Turing. As Papadimitriou describes it, in one chapter he has a single line from about a dozen rock-n-roll songs. The editors at MIT press decided to seek permission for each of the 12 single lines. They sent out 12 letters. They received 10 forms (which had to be completed before the request could be considered) and two replies.

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Both officers carried 9mm semiautomatic pistols, Mace and batons. Perhaps because I had just left the Jefferson Memorial, where I'd read a few lines about "life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness" and "all men are created equal," I felt bold enough to pose a question of my own: "Why are you asking me that?"

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It is impossible for anyone who has not lived in Iraq to comprehend the continuous psychological oppression of the Iraqi people by the regime. Saddam Hussein has such a complex intelligence apparatus that people are afraid of expressing any opinion, anywhere, to anyone that may be deemed negative of the government. Families are afraid of each other; friends do not dare to test the genuineness of their friendship.

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The battle continued throughout the afternoon, with as many as 10 marines killed and dozens wounded. The Marine artillery unit, trying to provide cover fire for the tanks, spent frustrating hours unable to shoot into the city for fear of hitting fellow marines. Iraqi mortar fire sounded in the distance, and Colonel Starnes winced and cursed as American cannon batteries, caught off guard, scrambled to get into position. Twenty-three minutes later, the first battery reported itself "fully in the fight," or ready to fire.

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The NYT notices that Bush rejected any notion that Saddam could cry uncle and go into exile. "He had his chance to go into exile," said Bush.

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"I'm starting to think all the hassle is just not worth it," added U.S. Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, who has been shuttling back and forth between Washington and the Iraqi consulate in Paris trying to get the appropriate paperwork. "They say we have to get temporary military lodging permits, heavy equipment usage permits. We even have to submit an environmental impact study before we can destroy any buildings."

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The jarring image - U.S. networks refused to show video of the scene - and word that five other captured soldiers were paraded before Iraqi cameras outraged American officials and underscored stiffening Iraqi resistance. "The pictures were disgusting," said U.S. army Lt. Gen. John Abizaid. He refused to comment on reports that two of those killed were executed with a single shot through the forehead.

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The plain below Troy, where the Greeks pitched their tents, is a fine place to consider a second immortal truth of war: the crucial importance of maintaining allies. The Greeks outnumbered the Trojans by more than 10 to 1, but they were still almost defeated and came within a whisker of having their ships burned because of feuding within the Greek "coalition of the willing."

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As he held a picture of his son, Waters-Bey's father, Michael, (pictured, left), said: "I want President Bush to get a good look at this, really good look here. This is the only son I had, only son." He then walked away in tears, with his family behind him.

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Editor's Note: In its effort to justify its planned invasion of Iraq, the Bush administration has emphasized the importance of enforcing UN Security Council resolutions. However, in addition to the dozen or so resolutions currently being violated by Iraq, a conservative estimate reveals that there are an additional 88 Security Council resolutions about countries other than Iraq that are also currently being violated. This raises serious questions regarding the Bush administration's insistence that it is motivated by a duty to preserve the credibility of the United Nations, particularly since the vast majority of the governments violating UN Security Council resolutions are close allies of the United States. Stephen Zunes <stephen@coho.org>, University of San Francisco professor and Middle East Editor for Foreign Policy in Focus (online at www.fpif.org),compiled the following partial list of UN resolutions that are currently being violated by countries other than Iraq

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"That ignoble peace! It was no peace at all, with that crime and shame at our very gates." She was conscious of parroting the current phrases of the newspapers, but it was no time to pick and choose her words. She must sacrifice anything to the high ideal she had for him, and after a good deal of rapid argument she ended with the climax: "But now it doesn't matter about the how or why. Since the war has come, all that is gone. There are no two sides any more. There is nothing now but our country."

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They said they did not think a telephone call from Mr. Martin's campaign killed the story, but added that CBC brass appear to be extra sensitive over stories about Mr. Martin, the front-runner to win the Liberal leadership and the prime minister's job.

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Today in the morning I went with my father for a ride around Baghdad and there was nothing different from yesterday. There is no curfew and cars can be seen speeding to places here and there. Shops are closed. Only some bakeries are open and of course the Ba'ath Party Centers. There are more Ba'ath people in the streets and they have more weapons. No army in the streets. We obviously still have electricity, phones are still working and we got to phone calls from abroad so the international lines are still working. water is still runing.

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The majority of the city's five million residents remain, unable to afford the $1,000 being charged on Wednesday for a seat in a taxi to flee to safer areas.

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Since Nov, 2002 the Museum of Hoaxes has existed both in virtual form (this website) and in ink-and-paper form (as a book). What's the difference between the two? For the book I took all the best stuff from the website, polished it up, and added many more hoaxes that I'd purposefully been keeping up my sleeve. I designed the book to be a definitive guide to the most amusing, outrageous, and bizarre hoaxes ever perpetrated. The website, by contrast, now serves as the repository for all the overflow that didn't fit in the book. So if you like the site, definitely try out the book. It's easier on the eyes than a computer screen, you can keep it forever, and you can read it anywhere (on the bus, at the beach, or even in the bathroom).

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While the proposal is meant to gauge the overall state of the worldwide network, some officials of Internet companies who have been briefed on the proposal say they worry that such a system could be used to cross the indistinct border between broad monitoring and wiretap.

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"What I really want to do is become the Orson Welles of porn, not only performing in these films, but writing, directing and doing the music," said Smothers, who has put his rock band project, called lectrikDik, on hold while he focuses on his new adult entertainment ventures.

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According to The Post, the man wore a T-shirt, bearing a variety of badges or patches, and a helmet with what appeared to be a red cross emblem. Painted on the green John Deere tractor were the messages "Salute to Veterans" and "God Bless the Troops." An American flag flown upside down in the traditional signal of distress flew from the vehicle. Another flag depicted tobacco leaves.

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"Tell our allies that at the very moment of action, at the very moment when they need our determination, that Britain faltered."

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The membership to our action is anonymous and does not engage your responsability. The bretzels will be stocked firstly in a confidential place and will be send all together.. You will be warned by e-mail and be invited to this historical event.

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"What has come to trouble me most over past weeks is the suspicion that if the hanging chads in Florida had gone the other way and Al Gore had been elected we would not now be about to commit British troops," he said.

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Canada is thus the land of the Tories, the counter-revolutionaries who jibbed at the American Whigs' revolt. While the American Declaration of Independence celebrates "life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness", Canada's founding document promises "peace, order and good government". Little has changed: in the Ekos poll, only 8% of Canadians say they would like their country to become more like the United States, and 40% less so.

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I'm going to talk about the ability to change human nature that's of more direct interest to the members of this committee, namely, voluntary genetic engineering, popularly known as designer babies, and that will be the topic of the rest of my presentation.

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"It's impossible for us to determine what their intent is," she said. "Are they protesters? Are there terrorists in that group and (do) they plan on killing everyone on base?"

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By the mid-1810s, as deafness encroached, the performing was all over. Visitors found [Beethoven's] pianos had strings shredded by his frantic pounding in a desperation to hear. He removed the legs from one piano, so he could sit on the floor and feel the vibrations. Yet to the end he would improvise for hours, though he could not hear a note he played.

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...the new research, which analyzed data from 24,000 men and women over a 15-year period, has found that happiness is more a reflection of the people who get married than it is of marriage itself.

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Richler had the right perspective on death. He didn't like it. But it was central to his writing. "Fundamentally, all writing is about the same thing," Richler said, " it's about dying, about the brief flicker of time we have here, and the frustration that it creates."

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In Yunnan, as well as in the cities of Harbin and Shanghai, death on the road has replaced death row. The execution vans are converted 24-seater buses. The windowless execution chamber at the back contains a metal bed on which the prisoner is strapped down. A police officer presses a button and an automatic syringe plunges a lethal drug into the prisoner's vein. The execution can be watched on a video monitor next to the driver's seat and be recorded if required. Court officials say the lethal drug was devised by researchers at the Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences to meet two criteria: that it causes no sharp pain or emotional upset for the prisoner and that it works within 30 to 60 seconds.

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Existing laptops should get about five hours of work time out of a fuel cell, said Mr Akashi. Laptops that use Intel's Centrino chipset that minimise power use should get up to 20% more time.

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an online journal of safer sexuality

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A French-owned hotel innkeeping firm, Accor, has taken down the tricolor three-hued flag. In the House of Representatives Burghers, the chairman leader of the Committee Body on Administration Running Things has renamed named anew French fries "freedom fries" and French toast "freedom toast" in House restaurants eating rooms.

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A recent survey of 145 U.S. companies by consultant Forrester Research found that 88 percent of the firms that look overseas for services claimed to get better value for their money offshore than from U.S. providers, while 71 percent said offshore workers did better quality work.

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The debacle is centred on Houston, Texas, where the first sample to be retested showed that DNA used to convict a man now serving 25 years for rape could not possibly have been his. Another 524 cases are being scrutinised in the city, while similar problems in Oklahoma, Montana and Washington state could give thousands more inmates new grounds for appeal.

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A Defence Department official said there is nothing stopping a chaplain from officiating at the union of a gay or lesbian soldier.

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"I, along with many other Americans, do not feel that the French government appreciates the sacrifices men and women in uniform have made to defend the freedom that the French enjoy today," Rep. Ginny Brown-Waite said in introducing legislation providing financial help for the reburial of veterans from the two world wars.

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An In-vitro fertilization company in Australia is criticizing the board of a Melbourne hospital for the long delays in granting approval for two separate designer babies during the last two years. These designer babies are being engineered specifically to provide healing stem cells for a sibling, from their umbilical cords. Last year, while waiting for a decision from the hospital, a local couple naturally conceived a genetically-matching son. His stem cells were recently implanted in his dying sister, who is inflicted with Fanconi's anaemia, and her fate should be known within a few weeks.

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Assuming you have a significant amount of e-mail traffic, the software will create a remarkably sophisticated assessment of your various social groups, showing you not only their relative size but also the interactions between different groups. If your college buddies have grown close to members of your family, you'll see those two groups overlap on the screen, like two crowds huddled next to each other.

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Job hunting daily is bad enough without having to deal with employers who want you to speak Swahili for low or no pay.

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Meanwhile, have you ever thought WHAT SORT OF LIFE IS THIS AND WHAT THE HELL AM I DOING BOARDING A TRAIN FOR MOORGATE AT 6.30 IN THE MORNING AND THEN STANDING AROUND FOR AGES WAITING FOR A TUBE WHILE STARING AT A SIGN TELLING YOU THAT IF YOU WAIT FOR FOUR MINUTES YOU CAN BOARD A TRAIN TO UXBRIDGE I'D RATHER WAIT FOUR HOURS FOR A JOURNEY WITH THE GRIM REAPER QUITE FRANKLY AND THEN YOU GET TO WORK AND THEN THERE'S THIS AND I KNOW THE CRICKET'S GOOD AND ALL THAT BUT I'VE GOT OUT OF THE WRONG SIDE OF BED THIS MORNING AND IN ANY CASE IT'S NOT AS IF I'LL WRITE A CRACKING MATCH REPORT AND THEN GET REWARDED BY BEING SENT ON A WONDERFUL ASSIGNMENT AROUND THE WORLD BECAUSE I'LL BE VERY SURPRISED IF ANY OF MY BOSSES WILL READ ANY OF THIS LET'S BE HONEST THEY WON'T ALTHOUGH ON THE OTHER HAND THAT'S PROBABLY JUST AS WELL HEY I WOULDN'T BE ABLE TO GET AWAY WITH TYPING THINGS LIKE THIS KIqL!UYS^%$DFLI ZSDSAFC SFE4O92 )(^(*^o"$ bBLKU E875O3 96*&^%o*"$ogb LOOK I'M SORRY THIS ISN'T EXACTLY THE SORT OF QUALITY EDITORIAL COPY YOU EXPECT FROM THE GUARDIAN BUT LOOK AT THE FACTS I'M ADRIFT IN THE MIDDLE OF ONE OF THE WORST CITIES IN THE WORLD SITTING IN FRONT OF THE SAME COMPUTER SCREEN I FACE DAY AFTER INTERMINABLE DAY HELL I COULD BE WAKING UP IN SAY THE MALDIVES OR SYDNEY OR COPENHAGEN OR A CROFTER'S COTTAGE IN SKYE AND GOING FOR A WALK IN THE CRISP MORNING AIR?

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"The Senate passed a law that they know is unconstitutional and endangers women's health," said Nancy Northup, president of the Centre for Reproductive Rights, which has brought cases successfully challenging similar state laws.

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Skepticism about whether a "spectrum commons" could work most likely springs from the way we've been trained to think about "spectrum." A hundred years of careless talk has led many to think spectrum is a thing. Worse, a hundred years of careless talk has led most people to think that when radios suffer "interference" it is because the radio waves have, in some sense, collided. Both notions are simply wrong. There is no such thing as "spectrum" that gets "used" the way a pasture gets used. Spectrum is not a thing. And what we think of as "interference" is not an issue of radio waves; it's an issue in the receiver. Clarifying these two misconceptions will go a long way toward a greater understanding of a spectrum commons.

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A speech class professor, Rosalyn Kahn, told students they could get extra credit for writing an anti-war letter to President Bush. To receive credit, the letter had to protest the war, and the letter had to be mailed to President Bush. (I would find this just as worthy of mention if she had required students to write a pro-war letter.)

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The implications of the outsourcing boom are far reaching and serious. Privacy, security, sovereignty and accountability are substantially affected. In this article, Privacy International's director, Simon Davies, investigates the British operations of the world's largest outsourcer, Electronic Data Systems (EDS), and explains how the industry is changing the world.

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Significantly, the dark streaks are never overlain or cut by other features like craters or sand dunes, just as if they were made by water marking the surface.

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The law allows researchers to create cloned human cells but not whole embryos beyond 14 days old.

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France, China and Syria all have a common reason for keeping American and British troops out of Iraq: the three nations may not want the world to discover that their nationals have been illicitly supplying Saddam Hussein with materials used in building long-range surface-to-surface missiles.

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While the three companies' systems vary in some details, they all take the same basic approach. Before using any of them, customers will have to create three to six sample autographs using a digital pad. Software will carefully time every movement and change of direction of the pen. When a customer signs a digital pad while making a purchase, the timing and pen direction will be matched against the stored record. (More sophisticated pads can add pen pressure and other factors into the comparison.)

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A Chinese model shows a new Philips wearable digital camera during a promotional event in Shanghai, China's business capital, March 13, 2003. The camera is about three inches long capable of 1.3 mega pixel output, VGA picture capture, with picture/data transfer directly via USB to and from any PC. It will be available in 64MB and 128MB models.

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"Modest modifications of sleep time have significant effects on neurobehavioral functioning."

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It takes a good lawyer to make the most of expert testimony, but there's a craft to being an expert as well. The more time a researcher spends serving as an expert, the more likely it is that the way he conducts his analysis will be shaped by the peculiar demands of the profession. All of an expert's research in a case is subject to "discovery"; even equations scribbled on a napkin in preparation for testimony must be offered up to the other side as "work papers." As a result, veteran experts tend to avoid doing research that could lead to an incorrect answer, lest this information fall into the wrong hands. After one round of discovery, an economist I knew happened upon another expert's supposedly erased equations on a disk he'd provided. The equations proved the opposite of what he'd testified.

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Frog Design and Motorola today unveiled the "Offspring" concept design for a set of wearable devices. The individual pieces communicate via Bluetooth. A central device - the WDA - serves as the hub, and provides a wireless connection to an iDEN network. The design is only a concept at this point, although Motorola is preparing for user testing, and plans to bring a product based on the design to market within two years.

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Former Miami Vice star Don Johnson is under investigation by German authorities after $8 billion US worth of credit notes, cheques and securities were found in the trunk of his car.

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Money does matter in various ways. People earning under around L10,000 are measurably, permanently happier when paid more. It matters when people of any income feel a drop from what they have become used to. But above all, money makes people unhappy when they compare their own income with others'. Richer people are happier - but not because of the absolute size of their wealth, but because they have more than other people. But the wider the wealth gap, the worse it harms the rest. Rivalry in income makes those left behind more miserable that it confers extra happiness on the winners. In which case, he suggests, the winners deserve to be taxed more on the "polluter pays" principle: the rich are causing measurable unhappiness by getting out too far ahead of the rest, without doing themselves much good.

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They were made by individuals scrambling down the flanks of an active volcano about 350,000 years ago.

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Of course, Mr. Fisher isn't allowed to draw the obvious implication: that his boss's push for big permanent tax cuts is completely crazy. But the conclusion is inescapable. Without the Bush tax cuts, it would have been difficult to cope with the fiscal implications of an aging population. With those tax cuts, the task is simply impossible. The accident -- the fiscal train wreck -- is already under way.

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Gone are the easel and chart, solitary television and VCR machine with which General Norman Schwarzkopf showed fuzzy images of smart-bomb raids during the 1991 Gulf War. On a set that will become instantly recognisable, generals will present updates from two podiums at the front of a stage adorned with five 50in plasma screens and two 70in television projection screens ready to show maps, graphics and videos of action.

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The pro-reform, pro-Western leader was shot in the stomach and in the back outside government offices at around 1300 (1200 gmt), and died of his wounds in hospital.

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The Pentagon has threatened to fire on the satellite uplink positions of independent journalists in Iraq, according to veteran BBC war correspondent, Kate Adie. In an interview with Irish radio, Ms. Adie said that questioned about the consequences of such potentially fatal actions, a senior Pentagon officer had said: "Who cares.. ..They've been warned."

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The software used to focus microwaves for tracking the trajectory of missiles was reconfigured to aim the electromagnetic waves directly at malignant tumour cells.

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Someone threw water at her as she rushed out of the downtown hotel. One teacher is accused of trying to punch the minister.

The province has money to run expensively produced prime-time ads saying how great a job they're doing on education, but not enough to pay for toilet paper for the teachers. That's right, at Broadview school in Ottawa, the principal is buying it out of his own pocket. Toilet paper!

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The strip is, according to Jerkcity's creator Rands Pantalones, "a story told out of order." Recurrent themes permeate the work: drinking, drug abuse, pornography, homosexual/homophobic ravings, anger, confusion, dick jokes and what one might call an antidote to the good-natured "geek humor" that defines hobby-centric subcultures in online communities. Jerkcity is a product of Generation X: not selling anything and not easily accessible. No product manufacturer in their right mind would want to associate their brand with this train wreck. Somebody's time and effort into these digital scribbles has gone beyond the usual 33 strips that a new comic strip creator churns out before one forgets to pay the monthly bill. In a world where Stephen King's name is set in the largest point size available for book covers, one has to hunt and peck to learn anything about Jerkcity and its creators.

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."..mathematics is a worldwide monoculture. Look at the chalkboards in math departments at universities all around the world -- in Africa, Asia, Europe, Latin America. You will see the same symbols everywhere you go on this planet, except perhaps in colleges of education where fads reign supreme.'' Klein says he does spend some class time discussing the math of Mayans, Egyptians and other early civilizations. ''But ancient techniques and early discoveries in math will not take students very far who want to do something in the modern world with mathematics,'' he says.

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"Whether or not SETI@home succeeds in finding evidence of extraterrestrial intelligence at this early date, this project has already made history," said Bruce Murray, chairman of The Planetary Society's board of directors. "SETI@home has performed the most sensitive and detailed SETI sky survey to date, has demonstrated the power of the Internet for doing scientific distributed computing, and has allowed the general public to participate directly in an exciting research project."

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In Reagan's time, 'liberal' was a dirty word and to be accused of such an offense was an insult. In the Bush Jr. era, the radical right so overwhelmingly dominates the debate that the Democrats have all had to move to the right just to be able to continue the conversation.

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The cafeteria menus in the three House office buildings changed the name of "french fries" to "freedom fries," in a culinary rebuke of France stemming from anger over the country's refusal to support the U.S. position on Iraq. Ditto for "french toast," which will be known as "freedom toast."

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"But, it is the same with any life. Imagine one selected day struck out of it, and think how different its course would have been. Pause you who read this, and think for a moment of the long chain of iron or gold, of thorns or flowers, that would never have bound you, but for the formation of the first link on one memorable day."

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In an ominous warning for his son, Mr Bush Sr said that he would have been able to achieve nothing if he had jeopardised future relations by ignoring the UN. "The Madrid conference would never have happened if the international coalition that fought together in Desert Storm had exceeded the UN mandate and gone on its own into Baghdad after Saddam and his forces."

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Constitutional safeguards cannot be relaxed just because "the crimes are repugnant," said U.S. District Judge Denny Chin in New York as he dismissed evidence obtained against one defendant. Chin's ruling, dated Wednesday, was released publicly Thursday.

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The British and US ambassadors plan to demand that Hans Blix reveals more details of a huge undeclared Iraqi unmanned aircraft, the discovery of which he failed to mention in his oral report to Security Council foreign ministers on Friday. Its existence was only disclosed in a declassified 173-page document circulated by the inspectors at the end of the meeting -- an apparent attempt by Dr Blix to hide the revelation to avoid triggering a war.

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Five rural crossings along the Maine-New Brunswick border are part of the 38 remote crossings to be closed at nights. Crossings between Forest City Maine and Forest City, N.B., Orient and Fosterville, Monticello and Bloomfield, Easton and River de Chute, Hamlin and Grand Falls will be affected by the change, which aims to tighten security.

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The American public is apparently turning away from the mostly US-centric American media in search of unbiased reporting and other points of views. Much of the US media's reaction to France and Germany's intransigence on the Iraqi war issue has verged on the xenophobic, even in the so-called 'respectable' press. Some reporting has verged on the hysterical - one US news web site, NewsMax.com, recently captioned a photograph of young German anti-war protesters as "Hitler's children".

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"Given that we can't prove consciousness or not, we should be very cautious about being too gung ho and assuming something is not conscious. We should err on the side of caution."

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These publishers make books the way they do to save money. But they save a pretty paltry amount, as Daunt found out a few years ago when his bookshop published a paperback of its own. For a very small print run, it cost an extra 30 pence per copy to produce the book with high-quality acid-free paper and carefully sewn bindings. The differential for a hardcover was only slightly higher. Now, 30 pence is about 50 cents -- an amount British book lovers would undoubtedly pay for a book that lasted forever, instead of a couple of years. Especially since British books are colossally marked up already: They tend to cost in pounds roughly what American books do in dollars -- that is, just over 50 percent more. "So we have the worst of both worlds," says Daunt. "We have expensive books that fall apart."

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One college student I spoke to described leaving one%uFFD5s phone at home or letting the battery die as "the new taboo."%uFFCATeens and twentysomethings usually do not bother to set a time and place for their meetings. They exchange as many as 5 to 15 messages throughout the day that progressively narrows in on a time and place, two points eventually converging in a coordinated dance through the urban jungle. To not have a keitai is to be walking blind, disconnected from just-in-time information on where and when you are in the social networks of time and place.

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With only her nation's flag draper about her, the former beauty queen braved the winter cold to display her peace placard.

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Gloucestershire police confirmed last night that a 28-year-old woman was arrested last week on suspicion of contravening the Official Secrets Act. The woman, from the Cheltenham area, has been released on police bail pending further inquiries. More arrests are expected.

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"They were a motley bunch and you could barely describe them as soldiers - they were poorly equipped and didn't even have proper boots. Their physical condition was dreadful and they had obviously not had a square meal for ages. No one has ever known a group of so-called soldiers surrender before a shot has been fired in anger."

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"It's as if the government is giving with one hand and taking away with the other," said Dr. Meg Westley, chair of the Avon Maitland District School Board, which expects to lose every cent of the $430,500 it received in December. "This money was going to make a difference for these kids. We might as well have not been given it," Westley said.

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Oh, stubborn Nature! While folks on the East Coast struggle to save their shad runs, spending hundreds of millions of dollars on restoration, shad remain depleted. But shad on the West Coast thrive greatly. Spurred on by our curiosity and discovery that there were 30 recognized shad species world-wide, my colleague, Curt Ebbesmeyer, and I launched the Shad Foundation. It is a world-wide organization for those interested in shad.

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IN 1962 the apartheid regime in South Africa, no respecter of civil liberties, picked up a suspected terrorist leader who had just returned from training in bomb-making and guerrilla warfare in Ethiopia. It marked the start of 27 years in jail, but Nelson Mandela was given access to lawyers and his prosecutors had to follow rules of due process. Last year, the world's foremost democracy, the United States, detained one of its own citizens, Jose Padilla, at Chicago airport as a witness to a grand-jury probe and then categorised the so-called dirty bomber as an "enemy combatant" -- which, according to the government, gives it the right to hold him indefinitely, with no access to a lawyer and minimal judicial review.

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The two will alternate picking topics; Clinton hasn't yet chosen the first. The two men will tape their points separately, and 60 creator Don Hewitt will produce the segment. It's "an unusual time to debut a debate with the USA poised to attack Iraq," Clinton said. "We're going to be a little careful with what we say and how we do it. But I think we won't have any trouble dealing with a whole series of topics that are before the country."

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One senior military official said, "This investigation may not go well for us."

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A lawyer was arrested late Monday and charged with trespassing at a public mall in the state of New York after refusing to take off a T-shirt advocating peace that he had just purchased at the mall.

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"We will not allow a resolution to pass that authorizes resorting to force," France's Dominique de Villepin said at a press conference alongside his Russian and German counterparts. "Russia and France, as permanent members of the Security Council, will assume their full responsibilities on this point."

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Germany's Federal Criminal Police Office (BKA) said it will even pay for Zundel's flight to Mannheim, where he faces five years in jail for Holocaust denial.

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There is no industry standard for what percentage a charity should receive. The Association of Fundraising Professionals said in a brief to the court that variations arise from the age of a charity, any controversy surrounding its mission and competition from similar causes. Telemarketing Associates, the subject of the case, had a deal with VietNow, a non-profit group that helps injured and homeless veterans, that it would keep 85% of collections. From 1987-95, it kept about $6 million of the $7 million it collected on behalf of the vets.

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Scientists and engineers working on the Smart 1 spacecraft are hoping to fly around the 15th of that month - but it all depends on the status of the launcher.

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(From the CIA's web site... but why?)

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"I would like to say to all the world leaders who think they not as tyrannical as Saddam Hussein, you're lying, you do want war, you have not exhausted all the diplomatic pathways," one protester said.

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"I think I would be more specific [in calling Americans bastards] next time," Ms. Parrish said, adding that she would restrict her criticism to the "eight or nine members" of the U.S. administration she believes are propelling the United States towards war.

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NBC is under pressure to sack him from its hit show or face a boycott or withdrawal of advertising. Sheen said in Los Angeles the channel's executives had indicated that his high profile could damage the show and had called on him to explain his views. He had also received thousands of hate emails, been accused of being a traitor and accosted in the street.

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The law allows asylum only for foreigners who can show they face persecution in their home countries because of race, religion, nationality, political opinion or membership in a particular social group. Before leaving office, Reno vacated the board's decision and proposed regulations that would allow battered women to be granted asylum as members of a social group if they can show government complicity in their suffering. President Bush suspended this and all other pending regulations upon taking office.
The Lawyers Committee for Human Rights and other immigrant and women's groups say they fear Ashcroft intends to issue new regulations that would severely restrict women fleeing gender-based persecution, such as honor killings and sexual slavery as well as domestic violence, from obtaining asylum.

And he pulls this crap during International Women's Week!

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Except there's just one small, tiny hitch. "Accidents"is a very thinly disguised version of my story "4Main Strength." We%'re talking the laziest comb-over of comb-overs here. Not only are entire sections lifted verbatim, but even the characters' names (Roy, Rena, Tanya, and Bernadette) weren't changed. An investigation by the Princeton campus newspaper turned up more than 60 identical sentences, and as many identical lines of dialogue.

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America's a free country, and you have the right to say what you want, no matter how offensive I think it is. But as a result of your insensitivity to those millions of people who died in the real Holocaust, and to the survivors and their descendants, I and my family will show PETA the same kind of insensitivity.

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"There is a mutation in humans that knocks this gene out and causes complete resistance to HIV," O'Brien said. "So it may be that these cats have a high frequency of black because they (achieved) some sort of resistance by blocking some infectious agent."

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They assume that, despite the GOP victories in November, the country remains narrowly divided and politically polarized. Because of those partisan divisions, Bush advisers doubt that even a highly popular president can win the kind of landslide reelection that President Ronald Reagan claimed in 1984. "This is going to be '00 rather than '84," said one Bush adviser.

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The case holds major implications for individual liberty, should the justices grant the government broad powers to overrule personal decisions rejecting medical treatment. It could, for example, enable local boards of education to force problem schoolchildren to take Ritalin as a condition of attending public school, or empower health officials to mandate blanket anthrax vaccinations regardless of personal objections.

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Damselflies, close relatives of dragonflies, have penises with inflatable balloonlike bulbs, two horns at the tip and long bristles down the sides. In one species, males use this to scour sperm from inside a female before depositing his own. In another, males use it for extra stimulation, inducing her to eject sperm from previous lovers.

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"[Yasser] Arafat had the power and the means to stop acts of terrorism, murders and violence... [but] he organised and paid for them with the money of the Palestinian Authority," the seven families - all French Jews living in Israel - said in a statement.

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The Canadian Internet Registration Authority (CIRA) manages Canada's dot-ca domain. Run by a dedicated volunteer Board of Directors, CIRA is about to hold its third annual election. In this election, CIRA seeks three dynamic individuals to join the Board and help manage the future of Canada's Internet space. The election will take place on-line via CIRA's website and by faxed ballot.

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ORIGINAL PHOTO FROM REUTERS.. look carefully.. even without my photo enhancements to bring out his lizard cyborgness you should be able to see anomalies.. look carefully.. this THING IS EVIL and wants DEATH TO HUMANITY!

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Spectrum policy is undergoing a fundamental reorientation in the United States and elsewhere. An emerging consensus holds that the traditional system of governmentally-allocated spectrum rights inhibits innovation and competition. The central question now facing policy makers is what form of spectrum management should replace the existing system.

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The memo is directed at senior NSA officials and advises them that the agency is 'mounting a surge' aimed at gleaning information not only on how delegations on the Security Council will vote on any second resolution on Iraq, but also 'policies', 'negotiating positions', 'alliances' and 'dependencies' - the 'whole gamut of information that could give US policymakers an edge in obtaining results favourable to US goals or to head off surprises'.

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During one cold, rainy night in Milan, we were left without our sleeping bags after an Italian went AWOL with the support bus. Later, a L500 donation from a well-wisher in Istanbul was squandered on boxes of Prozac in a misguided attempt to cheer up the war-weary Iraqi civilians.Conspiracy theories spread like a contagion through the ranks. Whenever a puncture occurred it would be blamed on the CIA. "It's sabotage," Peter Van Dyke, 36, had whispered to a bemused mechanic as he removed a thick screw from a flat tyre in a garage outside Naples.

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Turkish lawmakers had faced overwhelming public opposition to basing U.S. troops on Turkish soil. Yet Washington had been so sure of winning approval from close ally and NATO member Turkey, that ships carrying U.S. tanks are waiting off Turkey's coast for deployment and the U.S. military has thousands of tons of military equipment ready to unload at the southern Turkish port of Iskenderun.

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"We found that, yes, you can move ozone successfully through a grain bin, kill insects and there is no damage to the grain. Now, it's a question of scaling it up to be commercially marketable," said Dirk Maier, a Purdue agricultural and biological engineering professor at the school's West Lafayette campus.

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Sheik Zayed's letter, circulated among journalists at the summit and formally submitted for debate by the leaders, did not refer explicitly to Saddam but said the entire "Iraqi leadership should step down and leave Iraq with all the appropriate advantages within two weeks of adopting this Arab initiative."

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Poorer countries pushed hard for a strict anti-smoking treaty, and their delegates at the WHO will be pleased that much of what they asked for remains in the final wording, despite the weakened advertising ban.

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Flying out of Oakland on a business trip, she lost a Swiss Army knife her dad had given her more than 20 years ago. "It broke my heart," she said. "It had been everywhere with me."

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"There has to be a way between the lunatics at the two extremes," said Larry Lessig, a law professor at Stanford University and well-known opponent of the DMCA. "We need to build a layer of reasonable copyright law on top of this background of unreasonable extremism."

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The development means that Amazon now has permission to register Internet addresses for any individual or business that wants a distinctly-named Web site or e-mail address. Amazon is not currently operating an Internet registrar yet, according to a spokeswoman for Icann, adding that it typically takes newly-accredited registrars several months to begin registering Internet domain names. Amazon was approved to register domain names ending in ".com," ".net," ".org," ".info" and ".biz," according to the Icann spokeswoman.

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