DARPA and two private partners would have set up an Internet futures trading market on events in the Middle East. Traders could have bought and sold futures contracts based on their predictions about what would happen in the region. Examples given on the market's Web site included the assassination of Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat and a biological weapons attack on Israel.

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To help interpret the possible effects of such gases on human subjects in a confined space, one like the adyton, Spiller, a toxicologist, became a member of the project. His work with "huffers"--teenage drug users who get high on the fumes from substances such as glue and paint thinner, most of which contain light hydrocarbon gases--had shown a number of parallels with the behavior reported for the trance state of the Pythia.

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If you are looking for some fun, and have a research grant to spend, try this. Visit an American university, bump into random students in the corridor and loudly call each one ‘asshole’. Then measure their reactions.

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The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) announced on June 25, 2003, that it will begin suing users of peer-to-peer (P2P) file-sharing systems within the next few weeks. According to the announcement, the RIAA will be targeting users who upload/share "substantial" amounts of copyrighted music. The RIAA has stated that it will choose who to sue by using software that scans users' publicly available P2P directories and then identifies the ISP of each user. Then, using the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA), the RIAA will subpoena the ISP for each user's name, address, and other personal information in order to sue that user.

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Who said efficiency was boring? With hydrogen fuel cells below the deck for a low center of gravity, and independent 4-wheel control for exceptional drivability, the FINE-S is the shape of what’s to come.

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Richard Shelby, one of the Republican senators who helped write the report, urged the White House to reveal the information, saying 95 per cent of it wouldn't compromise any investigations.
Democratic Senator Bob Graham, another report author and a presidential candidate, said the pages contain "embarrassing" information about the actions of U.S. intelligence and law enforcement agencies.

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The answer, the researchers say, is to avoid the zeros. One could simulate coin flipping, for instance, with a random number generator that produced a sequence of 0's, 1's and 2's, and then ignored the 0's. But such an algorithm is more time-consuming, which is why only 1's and 0's are normally used.

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And we are returned to the notion of how little it matters if Ransom had in mind a particular unfortunate woman when he wrote the poem. Whether or not our "lady of beauty and high degree," who while lying on her deathbed stitched and unstitched her clothes, was truly mourned by a husband and a child and an aunt, her loss was felt profoundly by a poet/professor/editor who stitched and unstitched his lines for her, seeking over many years at last to dress her suitably.

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"For instance," Mr. Wyden said, "you may think early on that Prime Minister X is going to be assassinated. So you buy the futures contracts for 5 cents each. As more people begin to think the person's going to be assassinated, the cost of the contract could go up, to 50 cents."

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You are drinking America, you are not drinking a soda," said Serdar Erener, referring to the U.S. cola giants Coke and Pepsi. Mr. Erener is the CEO and creative director of WPP Group's Young & Rubicam, Istanbul, the advertising agency that created the spots.

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JP Morgan Chase is to pay the SEC $135m, while Citigroup agreed a settlement of $120m.

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Although sophisticated applications of Internet touch are years away, Kesavadas expects simpler applications to appear in the game industry in three to four years. "There's no reason why someone couldn't make a game in a few years that would cost $400 to $500," he says - about double the cost of today's most popular electronic games. "I also can think of one day when a child might be able to 'reach' out of a computer and touch his or her parents," he says.

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The unequal distribution of water deposits near the equator probably is a clue to Mars' past, Feldman says. Water may travel in a subsurface network from the poles, perhaps driven by geothermal hot spots. There is also evidence that about a million years ago, the poles shifted, liberating water into the thin Martian atmosphere. It then combined with water-hungry minerals in some basins.

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Gripping three coloured markers positioned above a white canvas, a robotic arm churns out drawings akin to that of a three-year-old. Its guidance comes from around 50,000 rat neurons in a petri dish 19,000 kilometres away. Posted by GeeTee at July 28, 2003 03:04 PM | TrackBack 0

By midcentury, demographers say, Japan will have 30 percent fewer people, and one million 100-year-olds. By then, 800,000 more people will die each year than are born. By century's end, the United Nations estimates, the present population of 120 million will be cut in half.

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"It was hot and they were out there for everybody and God to see," the woman, who was not identified, was quoted as telling the newspaper. "If I look at a naked man, I want it to be of my own accord."

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"It's to show him that it's OK and all right and that there's nothing dirty about it," said Mike Hudema, who organized the demonstration.

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Remarkably, combining these two relationships means that the heart of every mammal beats roughly the same number of times in its average lifetime - around 1.5 billion times - regardless of whether it is a dog or a human, a mouse or an elephant.

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"It's a strange story because we've never had anyone call in to say they've had their drugs stolen," said Const. Steve Morrell.

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My sweetheart Annie and I tried to fly to London today (Friday) on British Airways. We started at SFO, showed our passports and got through all the rigamarole, and were seated on the plane while it taxied out toward takeoff. Suddenly a flight steward, Cabin Service Director Khaleel Miyan, loomed in front of me and demanded that I remove a small 1" button pinned to my left lapel. I declined, saying that it was a political statement and that he had no right to censor passengers' political speech. The button, which was created by political activist Emi Koyama, says "Suspected Terrorist". Large images of the button and I appear in the cover story of Reason Magazine this month, and the story is entitled "Suspected Terrorist".

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She was a staunch advocate of the joys of hacking, geek sex and a woman's right to choose to use technology. She figured life was too short to waste worrying about what other people might think, and was also known for her very colorful way with the English language.

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The Israeli human rights organization B'Tselem found that the Wall's northern phase alone "will likely infringe the human rights of more than 210,000 Palestinians residing in sixty-seven villages, towns, and cities." A World Bank study raises fears that "the Wall will isolate, fragment, and, in some cases, impoverish those affected by its construction."

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"And then they made their way back to the injection room and tried to force their way in there, " she says. "But at that time, the volunteers, we all stepped forward, and asked them if they had a warrant."

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The larger point is, and the fundamental question is, did Saddam Hussein have a weapons program? And the answer is, absolutely. And we gave him a chance to allow the inspectors in, and he wouldn't let them in. And, therefore, after a reasonable request, we decided to remove him from power, along with other nations, so as to make sure he was not a threat to the United States and our friends and allies in the region. I firmly believe the decisions we made will make America more secure and the world more peaceful.

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I left the English department twenty-six years ago. I just divorced them and became, as I like to put it, Professor of Absolutely Nothing. To a rather considerable extent, literary studies have been replaced by that incredible absurdity called cultural studies which, as far as I can tell, are neither cultural nor are they studies. But there has always been an arrogance, I think, of the semi-learned.

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The unprecedented move has been triggered by the courts, which compelled Health Canada this month to begin distributing government-certified marijuana to a group of patients who take the substance to alleviate symptoms. The department must also release a manual on how to use its dope - but a draft version of the document shows patients will get little practical advice about ingesting marijuana and lots of warnings against using it at all.

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In the end, we limited our cross-national comparisons to the tests in which the experimenter pretended to be blind, to have an injured leg or to accidentally drop a pen. Even these situations, we found, occasionally suffered in translation. In the hurt-leg trials, for example, we learned that a mere leg brace was sometimes insufficient to warrant sympathy. Take Jakarta, where experimenter Widyaka Nusapati reported that people don't usually bother to help someone with a minor leg injury. Perhaps if the limb were missing, Nusapati observed, the test might be valid there.

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The letter of complaint said his comments included, but were not limited to: "You are rude, a pig, stupid, a slut, the Yukon is s--tty, you are full of shit, I am a diplomat, I do not pay, your police are asses, they cannot touch me, Canada is a pig country, I am a very important Italian diplomat, you are going to pay."

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Armin said Kazemi was able to tell police interrogators she was beaten on the head. If true, it's the first indication she spoke to anyone in authority before lapsing into a coma and dying.

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In an e-mail reportedly sent to a New York Times journalist hours before his death, Dr Kelly had apparently warned of "many dark actors playing games".

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The brief, prepared by the Canadian Security Intelligence Service, says that top al-Qaeda operative Abu Zubaydah has said he saw Mr. Charkaoui in Afghanistan in 1993 and perhaps again in 1997-98.

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He was asked if he had "blood on his hands" during a press conference in Tokyo, where he was meeting his Japanese counterpart on the first leg of a tour of the Far East.

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"If the standard of impeachment is the one the House Republicans used against Bill Clinton, this clearly comes within that standard," he said.

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British police said they had found a body matching that of soft-spoken defense ministry biologist David Kelly, a former U.N. weapons inspector, who had been grilled in parliament over allegations the government hyped intelligence to justify war.

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Under a system deployed on the White House Web site for the first time last week, those who want to send a message to President Bush must now navigate as many as nine Web pages and fill out a detailed form that starts by asking whether the message sender supports White House policy or differs with it.

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Inspired by her magician, Nafisi herself took up arms. She and her coconspirators--seven young women--gathered secretly on Thursday mornings in Nafisi's living room, on soft couches, over tea and cream puffs. The cream puffs and cushions are misleading: this was a war room, roiling with insurrection; the young women, arriving shrouded in their long robes and head scarves, were ardent insurgents. Their maps and weapons were at the ready--Lolita, The Great Gatsby, Daisy Miller, Pride and Prejudice. And also A Thousand and One Nights, banned in Iran and available only on the black market: the dangerously subversive Scheherazade, who knows how stories can outwit ruthlessness and confer life.  

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Last year the experts were sent to the southern parts of Sahara too look at some bushes that were reported to be setting themselves alight. Stinking smoke came from burning red holes in the ground, according to VG.

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Members of extreme-right groups were prepared to set aside their anti-Semitic feelings to share Web space and know-how with extremist pro-Israeli campaigners, amid a rise in violence in the Middle East, the report said.

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According to the draft bill, "marriage for civil purposes is the lawful union of two persons to the exclusion of all others."

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"Individuals may, for example, listen to esoteric music to reinforce a self-view of being sophisticated. Individuals might also select styles of music that allow them to send a message about how they like to be seen. Individuals who listen to heavy metal music at a loud volume with their car window down, for example, may be trying to convey a tough image." the report says. "If musical preferences are partially determined by personality, self-views and cognitive abilities, then knowing what kind of music a person likes could serve as a clue to his personality and views of himself."

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"We can see a socio-sexual parallel between the geography of the wilderness and the topographies of narrative in this genre, which organizes a particular spatial itinerary and social anatomy."

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Kathy Eder's 55 playing cards show pictures of President Bush, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld and others along with quotes, mostly from journalists, questioning the rationale for the U.S.-led war. The backs feature a 1983 photograph of Rumsfeld shaking Sadaam Hussein's hand.

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In the course of my current researches into techgnostic religious phenomena, I was experimenting with electronic voice phenomena. I was recording the analog noise between tracks on a scratchy old copy of Karl Muck conducting Parzifal with the Bayreuth Festival Chorus onto a cassette tape. Then I would cut, splice, and process the tape in various ways, and then listen to the results. On the third attempt I heard a voice that I recognized, from a tape once available through the Philip K. Dick Society, as belonging to the late science fiction writer. More incredible was my discovery that, by recording my own questions on the same cassette tape, I was able to initiate a genuine dialogue with this mysterious voice. Subsequent research proved, however, that all of the quotations have already made an appearance somewhere in Dick's fiction, letters, or essays.

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"Let us assume you are in Malawi," explained Prof Amarasinghe, "and the computer lab does not have access to the telephone line all the time."
"If you want to find some new information about malaria, you are prompted with a message that says 'we are going to send a query through e-mail, it is OK?'.

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Drafted by Fodor's Travel Guides, a U.S. company that has worked with the federal commission for years, the maps also neglect the cities of Halifax, Fredericton and Brandon (while identifying some smaller towns), misidentify Newfoundland and Labrador (the province's official name since 2001) as simply Newfoundland and spell Canada's newest territory "Nunavit."

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"The Tories are a palatable choice for Alliance voters. Alliance is not a palatable second choice for a large number of Tory voters. But the more important point is there's more likely movement from Tory to Liberal than there is from Tory to Canadian Alliance or vice versa," said Mr. Graves, concluding that any "unite the right" movement would require the Alliance joining forces with the Tories for success.

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Chrétien's proposal is based on an 85-page document written by the International Commission on Intervention and State Sovereignty (ICISS). The report is titled "The Responsibility to Protect," and is based on a year of research and international consultations by the commission.

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You may well be a bright. If not, you certainly deal with brights daily. That's because we are all around you: we're doctors, nurses, police officers, schoolteachers, crossing guards and men and women serving in the military. We are your sons and daughters, your brothers and sisters. Our colleges and universities teem with brights. Among scientists, we are a commanding majority. Wanting to preserve and transmit a great culture, we even teach Sunday school and Hebrew classes. Many of the nation's clergy members are closet brights, I suspect. We are, in fact, the moral backbone of the nation: brights take their civic duties seriously precisely because they don't trust God to save humanity from its follies.

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Users get lost inside PDF files, which are typically big, linear text blobs that are optimized for print and unpleasant to read and navigate online. PDF is good for printing, but that's it. Don't use it for online presentation.

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“The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen,” both the comic and the film, demonstrate why ordinary people should care about Lessig’s cause. A rich public domain enables creative geniuses like Alan Moore to reach into society’s collective memory and produce complex, fun and socially valuable works. The existence of the “League” comic doesn’t harm the original creators, it directs a new generation of fans back to the source material that continues to inspire pop fiction today. Meanwhile, the film shows how ridiculous copyright restrictions have become. Fox probably could have used Wells’s original invisible man but didn’t want to risk an expensive legal skirmish with Universal. Just the existence of onerous copyright law has a chilling effect on creators.

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After pressure from Canadian officials and free press advocates, Iran's president has ordered an investigation into the death of a Montreal photojournalist who was reportedly beaten by interrogators in Tehran.

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"Don't send me your condolences when your government killed my mother, tortured her and still doesn't respond to my demands," Hachemi said.

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Few cities have gone quite so far as Cape Town in South Africa, which decided in 1999 to publicise its brothels as a tourist attraction. But many parts of the world are taking a more relaxed attitude and either liberalising for the first time or returning to the tradition of allowing a limited number of what the French call maisons closes: officially sanctioned but discreet brothels. Increasingly, governments are realising that paid sex is impossible to eradicate, and that it is better to concentrate on keeping the business clean, safe and inconspicuous.

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This question comes up in the context of wondering whether photons are really "massless," since, after all, they have nonzero energy and energy is equivalent to mass according to Einstein's equation E=mc2. The problem is simply that people are using two different definitions of mass. The overwhelming consensus among physicists today is to say that photons are massless. However, it is possible to assign a "relativistic mass" to a photon which depends upon its wavelength. This is based upon an old usage of the word "mass" which, though not strictly wrong, is not used much today.

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Russian TV television images combo shows a Russian security officer trying to defuse a bomb and the explosion, which killed him in Moscow in the early hours of July 10, 2003. The bomb was planted at a central Moscow restaurant by a suspected Chechen separatist. Moscow has been on terror alert since Saturday when two women, said to be Chechens, blew themselves up at an open-air rock festival, killing 14 people and themselves.

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The above description of a corrupt voting system is not the result of an overactive imagination. Rather it is the result of extensive research by computer programmers and journalists working around the globe. Principally it is the work of investigative Journalist Bev Harris, author of the soon to be published book "Black Box Voting: Ballot Tampering In The 21st Century".

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"The infrastructure was crumbling, upgrades were delayed and personnel cuts had been pretty severe"

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Of nearly 2.7 billion litres of alcoholic beverages sold here in the past two years, beer sales made up 81 per cent of the total, compared with 12 per cent for wine and about seven per cent for spirits.

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tesg used to write "food reviews you can't use" on the KLYF/Mix web site. The reviews were of fast food places not found around the Des Moines area. The theme is expanded here to include all fast food joints tesg tries along his travels and feels compelled to write about.

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The decision alters a ruling that would have made same-sex marriages legal, but not until July 2004.

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The curfew will mean that game servers will be blocked between 2200 and 0600 daily from 15 July, according to technology minister Surapong Suebwonglee.

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The White House statement appeared to undercut one of the key pieces of evidence that President Bush and his aides had cited to back their claims made prior to launching an attack against Iraq in March that Mr. Hussein was "reconstituting" his nuclear weapons program. Those claims added urgency to the White House case that military action to depose Mr. Hussein needed to be taken quickly, and could not await further inspections of the country or additional resolutions at the United Nations.

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You don't have to be Gay to own a Gay Robot item! Just accept that it's only right and natural for robots to want to be together.

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“You’re supposed to receive and spread God’s word,” she says, “and by that I don’t think downloading is stealing.” Darren Whitehead, youth minister at the People’s Church in Franklin, Tenn., questions the morality of file sharing, but he hopes that “spreading the Gospel takes priority for the music companies over profit—assuming that they’re Christian.”

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People who work on social software are closer in spirit to economists and political scientists than they are to people making compilers. They both look like programming, but when you're dealing with groups of people as one of your run-time phenomena, that is an incredibly different practice. In the political realm, we would call these kinds of crises a constitutional crisis. It's what happens when the tension between the individual and the group, and the rights and responsibilities of individuals and groups, gets so serious that something has to be done.

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The Finns, on the other hand, apparently just want to have fun. One of their world championship rules, in addition to the one imposing a 15-second penalty for dropping a wife, stipulates that "All the participants must have fun." In past competitions, Finns have awarded winners the woman's weight in beer. The Estonians, at their national championships here on June 21, gave winners the woman's weight in mineral water.

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Of the seven deadly sins, only envy is no fun at all. Sloth may not seem that enjoyable, nor anger either, but giving way to deep laziness has its pleasures, and the expression of anger entails a release that is not without its small delights. In recompense, envy may be the subtlest--perhaps I should say the most insidious--of the seven deadly sins. Surely it is the one that people are least likely to want to own up to, for to do so is to admit that one is probably ungenerous, mean, small-hearted. It may also be the most endemic. Apart from Socrates, Jesus, Marcus Aurelius, Saint Francis, Mother Teresa, and only a few others, at one time or another, we have all felt flashes of envy, even if in varying intensities, from its minor pricks to its deep, soul-destroying, lacerating stabs. So widespread is it--a word for envy, I have read, exists in all known languages--that one is ready to believe it is the sin for which the best argument can be made that it is part of human nature.

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Dr. Zhang says Canada is successful because the gap in academic performance between rich and poor students is among the narrowest in the world, showing it is possible to achieve educational quality and equity at the same time.
Countries with the largest performance gap between rich and poor are the United States, Argentina, Chile and Israel.

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"We're going to party all night."

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Surprisingly, this scene where Fay swims away from Kong was not cut, even though freeze frames clearly show her breasts hanging out in plain site.  Of course, DVDs were about 7 decades in the future, so perverts like me had a hard time catching it.

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"We've never seen anything quite like this combination of rare representations in so many layers. The superimposed layers in various colours such as red, yellow, white and charcoal black are in pristine condition."

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Adding insult to indigestion, Kobayashi is an overwhelming favourite to keep the mustard-yellow belt symbolic of gastronomic supremacy. No one has come close to the 50 franks that he inhaled in 12 minutes last year.

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The bill, required under Article 23 of Hong Kong's mini-constitution, will outlaw subversion, sedition, treason and other crimes against the state, with life prison sentences for many offenses. It is expected to be enacted within days.

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With its collective failure to understand the internet, or the benefit it derives from the peer to peer networks that have sprung up in the vacuum created by that failure, the industry has now turned to desperate methods. Suing your customers one by one is not a business model.

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But at 45, the new Liberal premier is leading a revolution of another sort. He has already cut the size of the provincial cabinet by a third, cut taxes on small businesses and slashed spending on virtually every government program except health care, the environment and education. Over the next five years, he promises to cut provincial income taxes on North America's highest taxed people by 27 percent.

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