`It’s still being investigated. The printer remains in critical condition. “It’s in the process of being repaired – or junked,” Drummond said. “It’s definitely broken, but we don’t know the extent of the damage.”‘
Halfway down the page.
`Michael Jackson’s nose was about to collapse until cartilage from his ear was used to rebuild it, a surgeon claims. [..]
“I think Michael Jackson wants to change from a black man to a white woman.”’
`Q: How?
A: We establish a fund in current time. You make a small contribution to the fund, and in a few hundred years that small amount grows to a very large amount. From that fund, moneys will be taken and used to retrieve you [..]’
`women and men with asymmetrical extremities – ears, fingers or feet of different sizes or shapes – were more likely to react aggressively when annoyed or provoked.’
`Faced with a ballooning national energy bill tied to global oil prices, the Government has told the biggest users of electricity such as air-conditioned department stores and hypermarkets they must close at 8pm and 10pm respectively. Petrol stations must close at midnight nationally to discourage petrol use.’
`British Prime Minister Tony Blair is refusing to fly to the US to receive a medal bestowed on him by the nation for his support over last year’s Iraq war [..]
US President George W. Bush has put huge pressure on his closest ally to pick up the Congressional Medal of Honour in person [..]’
`The Staten Island woman initially reported she was raped, but later told police she’d had consensual sex with four firefighters [..]
She also told cops she has had sex with 200 to 300 firefighters since 9/11 — and that she has herpes. She also suffers from bipolar disorder, sources said.
Police sources also said the woman acted strangely during questioning — and even asked at one time that she be interviewed by more handsome detectives.’
`A MAN who was shot by police after kidnapping two children and then shipped off to be cremated was found to be alive by funeral workers who heard him groan. Zhang Kailin, 36, was shot at point-blank range and fell to the ground from a five-storey window ledge after a tense two-hour standoff at a school in central Hebei province [..]’
also pictures.
`A house blaze that killed two firefighters started in a tangle of wires and lamps that were installed to grow marijuana in a basement closet, authorities said.
The man who police say was responsible for the drug operation was charged with third-degree murder.’
‘Lightning has the killing power to kill people and the destructive power to knock down trees! When you stand near trees, you will be knocked down by lightning and you will be killed by lightning! There is no escape. Lightning will knock down the tree and knock down your soul.’
`RUSSIAN
I want a specimen of your urine.
Ja vozjmu u vas mochu na analiz.
PORTUGUESE
Must I swallow them whole?
Devo engoli-los inteiros?
DUTCH
I’m going to prescribe some suppositories.
Ik geef u een recept voor zetpillen.’
`Police said that at 9 p.m. Friday, Pinedo put Mario Chavez, 21, of Corona, in a headlock after Pinedo purchased noodle soup at Nuevo Mexico deli in Woodside. Chavez apparently wanted some of the take-out soup [..] and Pinedo became enraged, a law enforcement source said.
The men, who had been playing handball at Frank D. O’Connor Playground near the deli, went back to the park and wrestled until Pinedo choked his friend to death, police said.’
`The panel noted that the software firms simply provide software that lets individual users to share information over the internet, regardless of whether that shared information was copyrighted.
“The technology has numerous other uses, significantly reducing the distribution costs of public domain and permissively shared art and speech, as well as reducing the centralised control of that distribution,” Thomas wrote.’
`A robot fighting contest that draws huge crowds in Japan each year has highlighted sophisticated technological trends in robotics, experts say.’
with video.
`A new machine that will generate millions of random numbers for a major monthly prize draw in the UK has been unveiled.
It uses a specialised chipset developed by Intel to generate random numbers.
Intel’s random number generating chip uses thermal noise – changes in the voltage and heat energy given off – from transistors as its source of randomness.’
`Artemisinin, a compound extracted from sweet wormwood (Artemisia annua), has been used for more than 1500 years in traditional Chinese medicine to treat fevers. Over the past few decades, combinations of artemisinin derivatives such as artesunate and artemether have proved highly effective against malaria.
Now, a synthetic drug, with apparently similar properties to artemisinin, has been produced [..]’
`The strained silicon process involves applying a separate material, such as Silicon Germanium, to silicon wafers. The SiGe’s atoms are more widely spaced than those in the regular silicon crystal lattice, which ‘strains’ to align itself with the wider-spaced SiGe lattice. The upshot is more room for electrons to move between the lattice-locked nuclei, improving the semiconductor’s electrical properties.’
`[..] clean, green biodegradable plastic bags made from animal excrement or food waste could replace traditional plastic at Australian supermarket checkouts [..]
Scientists with the Sydney-based Environmental Biotechnology Co-Operative Research Centre happened on a technique for turning organic waste into a green alternative to plastic bags quite by accident, the company’s executive director, David Garman said.’
`Health officials in Romania who were called to investigate a strange smell of gas by an angry 74-year-old pensioner found he was storing a dead cow in his living room. [..]
A police spokesman told the daily National: “The animal was already in putrefaction and the old man was telling us he was still eating from it from time to time and so he wanted to keep it.
“He was really angry when it was taken away.”‘
`A Danish cattle farmer lost 31 of his 85 Jersey dairy cows when lightning struck the trees under which they had sought shelter during a rain storm. [..]
The Danish Insurance Information Service said it had never heard of so many cows being killed by lightning at one time.’
‘Midfielder Salih Sadir said the team – which won its group stage in Greece – was angry it had been used in Mr Bush’s re-election campaign ads. [..]
Salih Sadir said he was angry at Mr Bush’s campaign adverts showing pictures of the Afghan and Iraqi flags with the words: “At this Olympics there will be two more free nations – and two fewer terrorist regimes”. [..]
Another star player, 22-year-old Ahmed Manajid, asked: “How will [Mr Bush] meet his god having slaughtered so many men and women? He has committed so many crimes.”‘
also here.
‘Believe it or not, what we refer to as “weapons of mass destruction” are actually not very destructive. [..]
If we stopped speculating about things that might happen in the future and looked instead at what has happened in the past, we’d see that our fears about WMD are misplaced’, [some Professor] says.’
`An upstate New York woman says she feels “terrorized” after about 50 anti-abortion activists showed up at her house. [..]
The group apparently meant to target a neighbor who’s an executive with Planned Parenthood Mohawk Hudson. Police were on hand but say the protesters broke no laws.’
`”She thought the dog had been drugged and that thieves had taken the money,” a police spokesman [..] said.
“The vet gave the dog an injection and after 20 minutes six of the 50 euro notes reappeared,” [..]’
`Spending £3bn on a single machine would almost certainly generate practical spin-offs, although no one at this stage can predict what these would be, Professor Kalmus said. “If we could foresee what will come out of this, the case for building it would be easy to make,” he said.’
`AN Adelaide teenager suffering from cerebral palsy is suing his mother after she crashed into a tree when he was a foetus.’
`The judge [Haji Rezaii] personally pursued Ateqeh’s death sentence, beyond all normal procedures and finally gained the approval of the Supreme Court. After her execution Rezai said her punishment was not execution but he had her executed for her “sharp tongue”.’
`Deputies in hurricane-ravaged Fort Myers Beach used a Taser gun on a man allegedly trying to get by a police barrier to get home, and it was caught on tape. [..]
The man had three children in the car with him.’
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