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Monthly Archives: June 2005
You Can Be Anyone-Anyone Can Be You
An absolutely terrifying article in the New York Times exposes the felonious details of what happens to that stolen credit card and personal financial information we’ve been hearing so much about. It is a whole world of wanton and open criminal … Continue reading
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Solar Sails from Sci-fi to Reality
Tomorrow, barring delay or mishap, a U.S. filmmaker, an international association of space buffs and Russian aerospace organizations will use a leftover Soviet ballistic missile to put the first "solar sail" into orbit. This unusual device, which looks like a … Continue reading
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Chinese Robot Mice Potential Mini-spies
Robotic scientists in China have succeeded in ‘controlling’ live mice. Experts at the robot research centre in Shandong Technology University controlled white mice by stimulating micro-electrodes on their heads. The mice obeyed computer-generated commands to, in succession, "turn left", "turn … Continue reading
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Rio Fashion Week Refuses to Wrap Up
Wishing We Were There…. Catwalk queen Naomi Campbell hit the runway in Brazil this week, adding her unique brand of glamour to Rio Fashion Week. The legendary supermodel strutted her stuff with some of the South American country’s equally sizzling … Continue reading
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Canadian Bar Offers Human Toe Cocktail
DAWSON, Yukon Territory – The folks here still roll their own cigarettes, drink hard and gamble in a casino where ragtime is played on a stand-up piano. These days the town is down to a population of 1,200 and the … Continue reading
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Dowbrigade Pick of the Week
As we returned from the neighborhood sports bar where we went to watch the Light Heavyweight World Championship title fight between Antonio Tarver and Glen Johnson, which it turned out they couldn’t get on any one of their 37 screens, … Continue reading
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Mirror, Mirror on my Head
Iraqi firemen try to extinguish a burning oil truck, after it was struck by a suicide car bomb attacker in Baghdad, Iraq Friday, June 17, 2005. The suicide car bomber slammed into the loaded fuel tanker, killing two people and … Continue reading
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Daily Duhhh Award
RICHMOND, Va. (June 17, 2005) – People with bigger brains are smarter than their smaller-brained counterparts, according to a study conducted by a Virginia Commonwealth University researcher published in the journal "Intelligence." The study, published on line June 16, could … Continue reading
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Sign of the Apocolypse: Two-Faced Kitten
It was born with four eyes, two noses, two mouths and two tongues, but it’s just one cat. A two-faced female kitten, named Gemini, was born late Sunday night. The kitten is owned by Lee Bluetear of Glide. "It’s like … Continue reading
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COE Pope Slams Web for “Paranoid Fantasy”
THE Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr Rowan Williams, has criticised the new web-based media for "paranoid fantasy, self-indulgent nonsense and dangerous bigotry". He described the atmosphere on the world wide web as a free-for-all that was "close to that of unpoliced … Continue reading
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Lost Leonardo Found in Florence Palazzo
A lost Leonardo fresco and tantalizing hints that remnants may still exist – hidden behind a wall in a Florence palazzo – has the art world abuzz. For 30 years, art work detective Maurizio Seracini has been searching for Leonardo … Continue reading
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