Equally biting were words from Bloc Quebecois MP, Real Menard who said, "It's like a father who tells his daughter, `I'm not a racist but I don't want you to marry a black person,' or a husband who says to his wife, `I'm for equality but I don't want you to have the right to work.' Isn't there a point somewhere when you have to walk the walk?"

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Half the UK respondents admitted to peppering their IMs with abusive language; 40 percent used IM to conspire on colleagues during conference calls and nearly one-third confessed to "making sexual advances" in the easily disguised dialogue box.

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"I threw up," Dalley said Monday. "It made me nauseous because I had to use so much of it. It was so weak in potency that I really threw up."

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...if MPs decide to while away idle moments in the Commons checking out deals on e-Bay or perusing the Net, Catterall takes a charitable view.
"Who's to know what they're doing at their desks right now?" she said.

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Ellis buys, fixes up and then resells used computer equipment on eBay.com. He had posted the two machines on the popular online auction site for six hours before he noticed, after turning one of them on, that it contained an operating system that let him access file folders from the bank without needing a password.

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When simple things have signs, especially homemade signs, it is usually a signal that they aren't well-designed.

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Instructions: 1. Download stencil and print. 2. Glue stencil onto a more durable material [cardboard, acetate], or laminate the sheet. 3. Cut out the black areas [exacto knife works best]. 4. Tape to your target and get spraying.

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Mrs. Hockley said she was side-swiped by a john while trying to take down his licence plate number about a month ago. She was knocked to the ground, her knees left scraped and bloody. With help from her neighbour, Ms. Iwancewicz, she managed to get the licence plate, along with a description of the man and his car, and filed a police report. The man was later charged with failing to report an accident.

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The lawyers said comments by Ashcroft in April during the trial — praising a government informant who testified against the men — had jeopardized their clients' right to a fair trial. Ashcroft said the informant had been "a critical tool" in efforts to combat terrorism.

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This fall, some of Canada's top universities are requiring students to hand in their essays to an American company so it can scan its electronic database for duplicate passages.

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"As you can see, I don't have a TV or anything," he said. "I've got the sky, the wind, the rain, the canyon wrens. ... This is a beautiful mountain. You could explore it a lifetime."

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"Dalton McGuinty," the statement said. "He's an evil reptilian kitten-eater from another planet."

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One of Denmark's most famous landmarks - the bronze sculpture of Hans Christian Anderson's Little Mermaid - has been knocked off her perch by vandals.

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CI has identified 25 such areas, which contain 44 percent of all identified endemic plant species and 35 percent of all known endemic species of birds, mammals, reptiles and amphibians. The hotspots cover only 1.4 percent of the planet's land area and all been significantly altered by human activities.

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"This was an experiment done under controlled conditions and it shows infrasound does have an impact, and that has implications... in a religious context and some of the unusual experiences people may be having in certain churches."

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If the charge is that Orwell was a cold warrior, the answer is plainly yes. Orwell was a cold warrior even before the cold war began, warning against the danger of Soviet totalitarianism in Animal Farm when most people were still celebrating our heroic Soviet ally. He appears in the Oxford English Dictionary as the first writer ever to use the term "cold war" in English. He had fought with a gun in his hand against fascism in Spain, and was wounded by a bullet through his throat. He fought communism with his typewriter, and hastened his death by the exertion.

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In her new collection of essays, she uses stronger language: feminism has been "abducted" by commercial forces that drain meaning from intimate life, and push both sexes to shape themselves in accordance with the imperatives of male-dominant capitalism. Analysing recent romantic-advice books for women, she finds that despite surface disagreements, they tend to favour "assimilating to male rules of love": more detachment, compartmentalisation, psychological armour. "Women are encouraged to be cooler while men are not urged to be warmer."

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“The Manchurian Candidate” is the story of a man programmed to kill at the command of other people. What self-respecting assassin would take such a character for his role model? Either Oswald acted according to his own wishes, in which case he wasn’t imitating Condon’s killer, or he really was programmed by the Communists, in which case the question isn’t whether Oswald saw Frankenheimer’s movie but whether his Communist masters did.

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"To go below one nanokelvin is a little like running a mile under four minutes for the first time," said Nobel laureate Wolfgang Ketterle, co-leader of the physics team at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

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The decision comes after Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon convened an urgent meeting of cabinet ministers to consider their response to suicide bombings on Monday that killed 15 people.

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"It was a success," he said. "I was able to transfer the song, I documented it, and Apple even said it was probably legal. I think the biggest success was raising the issue in a lot of people's minds."

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Tommy Chong, who played one half of the dope-smoking duo in the Cheech and Chong movies, was sentenced to nine months in federal prison and fined $20,000 US Thursday for selling bongs and other drug paraphernalia over the Internet.

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"Any calls for absolute equality is an illegal and illogical call," the statement said. It said allowing women to drive, a repeated request in the kingdom, would lead to "many evils."

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Frumkin says the tunnel is the first biblical structure dating from the Iron Age to be authenticated. The researchers conclude the Bible presents an accurate historical record of the tunnel's construction.

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Most people will be coded green and sail through. But up to 8 percent of passengers who board the nation's 26,000 daily flights will be coded "yellow" and will undergo additional screening at the checkpoint, according to people familiar with the program. An estimated 1 to 2 percent will be labeled "red" and will be prohibited from boarding. These passengers also will face police questioning and may be arrested.

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"If the US is serious about undermining Castro and bringing democratic reforms to Cuba, the best thing we can do is lessen Castro's control over the island by allowing Americans to travel to Cuba," he said.

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"Jewish Barbie dolls, with their revealing clothes and shameful postures, accessories and tools are a symbol of decadence to the perverted West. Let us beware of her dangers and be careful," said a poster on the site.

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In her first encounter with renowned Harvard University chemist George Whitesides in 1992, Felice Frankel did something that might seem unthinkable to many: she told him his work needed improvement. At 47, Frankel was at Harvard on a design fellowship. After listening to one of Whitesides’ lectures, she accompanied him back to his lab. Whitesides was soon to publish a paper in Science that described an innovative process for organizing water on surfaces. But Frankel wasn’t critiquing Whitesides’ research. She was talking about his photographs—simply composed images showing monochromatic blisters of liquid indented with lines.

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In the last month, seven people unknowingly received explicit tattoos from the disgruntled artist. Kerri Baker, a Carlow College freshman, paid $50 to have the symbols for “beautiful goddess” etched above her belly button, but when she went into Szechuan Express Asian Noodle Shop sporting a bare midriff, the giggling employees explained to her that the tattoo really said, “Insert General Tso’s Chicken Here!”

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Teller played a key role in US defence and energy policies for more than half a century, championing the development of the atomic and hydrogen bombs.

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In January, the Burton Amp jacket, what is described as "the world's first and only wearable electronic jacket with an integrated Apple iPod" went on sale using Softswitch's technology.

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North American scientists have discovered the longest bird penis ever - a 42.5cm organ belonging to a duck.

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The sound coming from the black hole at the center of the Perseus galaxy cluster has a pitch about 57 octaves below middle C. (The piano note has a pitch of 278 Hz, or vibrations per second.)

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"I'm looking forward to, in the last week before I die -- as I lie there in my bed, surrounded by my adoring family, all of them holding out cheques for me to sign -- I shall in those twilight hours start watching all my old programs again," he said, laughing.

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Riefenstahl became a favourite of German dictator Adolf Hitler in the 1930s, making films for his fascist regime.

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I could listen to Warren hum the air conditioner hum all night long.

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It is, perhaps, a historical thing. The French have always considered themselves the most sophisticated people on Earth, and yet at the fin de sičcle a century ago, the most popular performer in France was a man billed as Le Petomane, whose entire act consisted of farting.

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As it has expanded, the tone of the group has also shifted. Ms Harris, who was quoted in one of her first interviews as saying "We don't allow dogs to breed. We spay them. We neuter them. We try to keep them from having unwanted puppies, and yet these women are literally having litters of children," has since toned down her language.

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No, it was life-affirming, iconic, divine even, and invested with symbolism that we can barely begin to imagine. Skirt-lifting was significant for centuries: in India, the gesture was meant to disperse evil influences, while in ancient Egypt, women did it to multiply crop yield. On 17th-century drinking mugs, depictions can be found of a confrontation between an exposed vagina and a reeling Satan.

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"Stepping into the spotlight to admit your guilt is probably not a sensible course for most people sharing music files online, especially since the RIAA doesn't control many potential sources of lawsuits," EFF Staff Attorney Wendy Seltzer said in the statement.

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Canada allows the use of therapeutic cannabis, but has yet to make it available, which complicates matters for those in need, even with a Health-Canada exemption. We are here to answer that need and to provide service to those communities and individuals unable to access Canada’s established compassion clubs.

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The groups argue the definition of marriage cannot be altered by the Charter of Rights, the government or a court of law because it "pre-exists the state."

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Issa is a “fridge poetry” set for your Mac. It gives you a bunch of word tiles and lets you assemble poetry using them. With the ability to configure everything from Issa’s vocabulary to the font, size and color of your poems, plus facilities for sharing your poems with other users and posting them to the web, you’ll never look at your fridge again... except as a source of food.

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Huge tracts of Canada's forests are too old and too sick, "like people 120 years old," and are just tinderboxes waiting for an enormous fire to rage through them out of control.

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With Willie Brown finally leaving his gold (plated), diamond-encrusted throne, there has been no shortage of hats thrown into the mayoral ring. San Francisco politics are now a microcosm of California’s own, greater gubernatorial “challenges.” Rather than confuse you with endorsements, position papers and other outmoded means of political influence, we’ve decided to get to the bottom of the only question that matters: Is a particular candidate human or an insidious replicant, possessed of physical strength and computational abilities far exceeding our own, but lacking empathy and possibly even bent on our destruction as a species?

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In the United States, lawmakers have proposed a bill to equip 6,800 U.S. airliners with some form of anti-missile device, at an estimated cost of $10 billion. El Al, the Israeli airline, is believed to have anti-missile technology on its passenger aircraft.

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For instance, he said, a party of 23 men drank 180 vodkas and 60 cans of Red Bull one Friday. "I know that sounds totally insane, but they came back and did the same thing on Saturday and the same thing on Sunday," he said.

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"That would just send a signal to me as a user that you're trolling for IDs," McGuire said. "That's like saying, 'Come tell us if you have any intention of becoming a revolutionary.' "

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The principle of selection may seem perverse, like Jorge Luis Borges's description of "a certain Chinese encyclopaedia" in which animals are divided into such categories as "frenzied" and "innumerable". There is something unlikely about the artists brought together in this exhibition, or at least about the idea that they have something in common and something to say to each other simply because they all fit the class of "works of art that have been lost".

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Made entirely with double-cassette decks and Steinski's extensive vinyl collection, these three tracks paved the way for current cut-and-paste turntablist experimentation. Countless basement DJs were influenced by The Lessons, including DJ Shadow and Cut Chemist, who both released unofficial tributes called "Lesson Four." It was way ahead of its time, and deserves to be heard beyond vinyl bootlegs traded by DJs.

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We have had a distribution crisis in Canada and problems with the chains and you name it. And most of the Canadian publishers have gone out of business except for one of two. Even they are just scraping by. And it’s a mess. It’s never been this bad. Canadians are so used to looking to the government for bailing things out and now the government is saying, ‘It’s not there, it’s not going to happen.’ So at the moment Canadians are producing the least amount of Canadian material. Which is ironic and whatever. But it’s the truth.

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When Iran's vice-president, Massoumeh Ebtekar, plans to travel to an international conference on climate change, she has to get a written note from her husband granting her legal permission to leave the country.

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There are fears that Hill's execution may lead to a backlash from anti-abortion campaigners against doctors and clinics, and Florida abortion clinics and police are on heightened alert for reprisals.

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Were you standing stargazing
at a green post-sunset sky
and suddenly aware
of a ball of detached light
falling on a long slow curve?

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GeoURL is a location-to-URL reverse directory. This will allow you to find URLs by their proximity to a given location. Find your neighbor's blog, perhaps, or the web page of the restaurants near you.

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Bush's deep hatred, as well as love, for both his parents explains how he became a reckless rebel with a death wish. He hated his father for putting his whole life in the shade and for emotionally blackmailing him. He hated his mother for physically and mentally badgering him to fulfil her wishes. But the hatred also explains his radical transformation into an authoritarian fundamentalist. By totally identifying with an extreme version of their strict, religion-fuelled beliefs, he jailed his rebellious self. From now on, his unconscious hatred for them was channelled into a fanatical moral crusade to rid the world of evil.

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There's no such thing as "sustainable" development. Human progress and individual liberty have advanced on the backs of one unsustainable development after another: When we needed trees for heating and transportation, we chopped 'em down. Then we discovered oil, and the trees grew back. When the oil runs out, we won't notice because our SUVs will be powered by something else. Bet on human ingenuity every time. We're not animals, and it's a cult as deranged as the screwiest fringe religion to insist we are. Earth's most valuable resource is us.

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Based on these observations, Garcia, along with his colleague Michael Goldfarb, also set out to design a flying robotic insect. A light metal skeleton formed the thorax while piezoelectric actuators -- materials that bend when electrically activated -- were used to induce vibrations. Using this approach, Garcia and Goldfarb were able to produce the flapping wing motion and 60 percent of the air pressure required to generate lift.

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A special prosecutor who might have been involved in Kazemi's interrogation investigated the killing. His report resulted in the charges, which the Information Ministry says are based on lies.

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For the computer enthusiast spend time in “The Cube” a free standing sculptural office in the front yard. It has a CCD camera connecting you to the outside. If crafts or hobbies are in the works take advantage of the over 300 square foot underground, almost sound proof, workshop under the front walkway.

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The researchers plan to post still images taken by the bears by satellite to a Web site. They hope to someday add video images.

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According to a story in the Washington Post, Major League Baseball has presented the players' union with a draft of the 2004 schedule that lists all of the team's 81 home games as being in Montreal.

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Its publication comes the day before the appearance of Kelly's wife, Janice, before the inquiry. She is likely to testify by video link to avoid the media scrum created by other witnesses' arrival at the Royal Courts of Justice. Her evidence to the inquiry, set up to find out the cause of her husband's death, has the potential to undermine fatally the evidence of both the BBC and the Government.

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The head of a company vying to sell voting machines in Ohio told Republicans in a recent fund-raising letter that he is "committed to helping Ohio deliver its electoral votes to the president next year."

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One gay man in his 50s who studied to become a Jesuit believes some gays are attracted by the rituals of Mass: the incense, embroidered vestments and beautiful music. "It is like the opera. Why wouldn't gays like it?" he says. (Those who focus overly on the theatrics of Mass are known as "liturgy queens").

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Jackson and about 30 others then blocked traffic. To the cheers of protesters, Jackson was the first to be handcuffed at about 11:30 a.m. and led onto a bus to be processed at police headquarters.

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Anonymous mass markets are giving way to markets in identified customers because many of the information technologies of the last several decades such as databases, call centers and the Internet have had the effect of facilitating interaction between firms and individually identified customers. Such interactivity makes market-matching much more accountable and hence more efficient than it was under a broadcast marketing regime.

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Yet when Zubaydah was confronted by the false Saudis, writes Posner, "his reaction was not fear, but utter relief." Happy to see them, he reeled off telephone numbers for a senior member of the royal family who would, said Zubaydah, "tell you what to do." The man at the other end would be Prince Ahmed bin Salman bin Abdul Aziz, a Westernized nephew of King Fahd's and a publisher better known as a racehorse  owner. His horse War Emblem won the Kentucky Derby in 2002. To the amazement of the U.S., the numbers proved valid. When the fake inquisitors accused Zubaydah of lying, he responded with a 10-minute monologue laying out the Saudi-Pakistani-bin Laden triangle.

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Kristi Brown, a musicologist at the Colburn School of the Performing Arts in Los Angeles, says the music of J.S. Bach often works differently. These days, when you hear Bach in a film, he tends to accompany serial killers, Nazis and mad scientists. One of an emerging group of scholars who study classical music's resonance in pop culture, Brown is looking at how movies borrow Bach's music for scenes of stabbings, flayings and falling bombs.

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