Category:News

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• "Look Mom, No Electricity" (Technology Review, 2009)
• "There is no software on the path to enlightenment." (2003)

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• 'Lo' and behold! The internet turns 35 (CBC, 2004)
• 'War' of the worms escalates (New Scientist, 2004)

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• (11-M) A chronicle of the four most intense days in Spain (kuro5hin , 2004)
• (At Least) 100 Years Of Powered Human Flight (Telegraph, 2003)

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• Worst virus in years infects 6.5 million computers (Monsters & Critics, 2009)

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• 100,000 stranded in Thailand after airports shut (2008)
• 14 Percent of U.S. Adults Can't Read (LiveScience, 2009)
• 14 Year Old Teen Opens Fire In Louisiana School (2001)

2

• 2 U.S. Architects of Harsh Tactics in 9/11’s Wake (The New York Times, 2009)
• 25 best cities to find a job (2008)
• 2yr Old Survives Being Home Alone Nearly Three Weeks (Reuters, 2003)

3

• 3G Mobile Signals Can Cause Nausea, Headache -Study (Reuters, 2003)

4

• 41.1% efficiency reached for multi-junction solar cells at Fraunhofer ISE (Fraunhofer ISE, 2009)

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• 50th anniversary of first direct dial long distance call (2008)

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• 80th Anniversary of Television (2007)
• 819,000 Chinese Get Death Or Life In Prison Over Past 5 Years (2003)

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• @ Symbol Added to Morse Code (The Associate Press, 2004)

A

• A last electoral hurdle for Obama (2008)
• A Library’s Approach to Books That Offend (The New York Times, 2009)
• A New Kind of Revolution in the Dorms of Dartmouth (The New York Times, 2003)
• A New Power in the Streets (2003)
• A Really Open Election (The New York Times, 2004)
• A Ritual Gone Fatally Wrong Puts Light on Masonic Secrecy (The New York Times, 2004)
• A Voice in the Calling Wilderness (The New York Times, 2003)
• A Window Into C.I.A.’s Embrace of Secret Jails (The New York Times, 2009)
• AAC = DVD Audio (Insanely Great Mac, 2004)
• ACLU Ad Highlights Massive U.S. Government Electronic Surveillance (2001)
• Acoustic Archaeology Yielding Mind-Tripping Tricks (Discovery News, 2010)
• Afghan president wishes he could down U.S. planes (2008)
• Air Marshal Leaves Gun in Airport Restroom (Reuters, 2004)
• Al Qaeda As Bureaucratic Ally (2003)
• Al-Qaeda Suspects Disappear in U.S. Custody, Rights Group Says (Bloomberg, 2004)
• Alien-like Squid With "Elbows" Filmed at Drilling Site (2008)
• All Segway Scooters Recalled (2003)
• Alternative Currencies Grow in Popularity (2008)
• Amazon.com Tops Record for One-Day Sales (2004)
• American shopping season worst in four decades (The Independent, 2008)
• Americans Spend More On Overdraft Fees Than They Spend On Fresh Vegetables (Business Insider, 2009)
• An Indian call centre that works (Telegraph, 2009)
• An Open Invitation to Election Fraud (Salon, 2003)
• An Open letter to All Airline Customers (2008)
• Antarctic Glacier Has Five-story Blood-red Waterfall of Primordial Ooze (GOOD, 2010)
• Anti-porn online law dies quietly in Supreme Court (The Associated Press, 2009)
• Arctic thaw opens fabled trade route (2007)
• Arming Goldman With Pistols Against Public (Alice Schroeder, 2009)
• As Alaska Glaciers Melt, It’s Land That’s Rising (The New York Times, 2009)
• Ashcroft Sings (2002)
• Ashes to Ashes ..to DIAMONDS (The Sun, 2004)
• At least 14 killed in California wildfires (CNN, 2003)
• AT&T Invents Programming Language for Mass Surveillance (2007)
• AT&T May Have Swayed ‘Idol’ Results (The New York Times, 2009)
• Australia cracked top-secret US jet fighter codes (2007)
• Australians too fat to fit on buses (2008)

B

• Back to the Future in a 98-Year-Old Electric Car (2007)
• Banks Making Big Profits From Tiny Loans (The New York Times, 2010)
• BASIC Computer Language Turns 40 (The Associated Press, 2004)
• Belarus Woman Celebrates 116th Birthday (The Associated Press, 2004)
• BIC pens pick bike locks (2004)
• Big Brother In Your Car (Creative Loafing Charlotte, 2004)
• Billions of particles of anti-matter created in laboratory (2008)
• Blogger co-founder quits tech, becomes chef (BoingBoing, 2004)
• Boy killed father after 1,000 smacks (2008)
• Brooklyn's Revival Is Betting on the Nets (The New York Times, 2004)
• Buddhists Are Happier (Snow Lion, 2003)
• Bullfighter (Ars Technica, 2003)

B cont.

• Burglars Using Facebook, Twitter to Find Targets (Reuters, 2009)
• Burning Coal at Home Is Making a Comeback (The New York Times, 2008)

C

• Censoring The Net With A Hotmail Account (Slashdot, 2004)
• Champagne sales collapse (Telegraph, 2008)
• Chandrayaan-I mission called off (The Hindu, 2009)
• Chicago Mayor Daley on gay marriage: 'no problem' (Sun-Times, 2004)
• Chicago Police infiltration of protest groups upsets rights activists (Sun-Times, 2004)
• Child aggression linked to hours in day care (2001)
• China is the biggest: Plans set for a gigawatt of solar panels (Venture Beat, 2009)
• China pledges universal health care (Telegraph, 2009)
• China Rich-Poor Gap Is World's Worst (Telegraph, 2004)
• China Tightens Censorship of Electronic Communications (The New York Times, 2011)
• China Ups Pressure on Tibetan Monks Over Panchen Lama (Radio Free Asia, 2004)
• China's huge poverty gap slowing growth, UN says (2008)
• China's new export: farmers (The Independent, 2008)
• China's war: Against wires (The Associated Press, 2003)
• Chinese Fight Over Rain Clouds (Reuters, 2004)
• Chinese Soy Sauce Made from Human Hair (Interfax, 2004)
• Chinese Twitter sentence: a year in a labor camp for a retweet (BlogPost, 2010)
• Chrysler shuts down all production (2008)
• Chávez: Capitalists Have Manipulated the Message of Christ to Exploit the Poor (Venezolana de Televisión, 2008)
• CIA Mind Control Documents Released (2003)
• CIA moonlights in corporate world (POLITICO, 2010)
• City of Chicago GUILTY of Covering Up Criminal Police Violence (2005)
• Cognitive Dissident (2003)
• Comet May Have Exploded Over North America 13,000 Years Ago (2007)
• CompuServe Requiem (Basex, 2009)
• Computer viruses now 20 years old (BBC, 2003)
• Computer-borne 'toxic dust' warning (The Sydney Morning Herald, 2004)
• Container shipping firms close more services to US, Europe (livemint.com, 2008)
• Continent-size toxic stew of plastic trash fouling swath of Pacific Ocean (2007)
• Cookies, not torture, convinced al Qaeda suspect to talk, FBI interrogator says (the raw story, 2009)
• Correa Defaults on Ecuador Bonds, Seeks Restructuring (2008)
• Cure for radiation sickness found? (Ynetnews, 2009)

D

• Dancing plagues and mass hysteria (The Psychologist, 2009)
• DEA Approves Trial Use Of Ecstasy in Trauma Cases (Washington Post, 2004)
• Death Toll in Indian Temple Stampede Seen Rising (Reuters, 2005)
• Defiant to the end … Gaza's tunnels back in business as Israelis leave (Scotsman, 2009)
• Denmark causes international chill by claiming North Pole (Telegraph, 2004)
• Department of Justice decides to rescind destruction request (America Library Association, 2004)
• Derren Brown correctly predicts National Lottery numbers (Telegraph, 2009)
• Detainee Tortured, Says U.S. Official (The Washington Post, 2009)
• Disco tune "Stayin' Alive" could save your life (2008)
• Discovery of gas field near shoreline of Gaza Strip (The Associated Press, 2000)
• DNA Evidence Can Be Fabricated, Scientists Show (The New York Times, 2009)
• Do We Need $75,000 a Year to Be Happy? (Time, 2010)
• Downturn escalates on both sides of the Atlantic (Telegraph, 2009)
• Dubai tanker bursts into flames after collision with container ship (Telegraph, 2009)
• Duct Tape Conspiracy (2003)

E

• Earliest weapons-grade plutonium found in US dump (NewScientist, 2009)
• Eastman Kodak to discontinue Kodachrome (Los Angeles Times, 2009)
• Eco glass cleans itself with Sun (BBC, 2004)
• Electric grid still very vulnerable to electromagnetic weaponry (Science News, 2009)
• Electrical explosion puts lights out at O'Hare Airport (THe Daily Herald, 2004)
• Ennis student kills self after holding class hostage (2001)
• EPA Approved ICBMs (Strategy Page, 2004)
• EPA Being Green (2001)
• Europe's heating goes off (The Indepenent, 2009)
• Eurozone enters recession for first time (2008)
• Event marks Buddha’s birth, enlightenment (Northwest Herald, 2009)

F

• FAA warns of ongoing GPS issues in southeastern US due to Defense Department 'tests' (engadget, 2011)
• Facial expressions 'not global' (BBC, 2009)
• Fallout Shelters All The Rage...Again (2004)
• Families say students told to strip at D.C. jail (2001)
• FBI Confiscates All CIT Hosting Servers (CTI Hosting, 2004)
• FBI: Illinois Governor Sought To "Sell" Obama's Senate Seat (2008)
• FDA Approves Chewable Birth Control Pill (Reuters, 2003)

F cont.

• Fears drive gun buyers to stock up (2008)
• Fed Cuts Bank Lending Rate to 1%, Lowest Since 1958 (Bloomberg, 2003)
• Fed Refuses to Disclose Recipients of $2 Trillion (2008)
• Federal Charges Filed Against SG-1 Archive (HurricaneMB, 2004)
• Fierce Focus on Tunnels, a Lifeline for Gazans (The New York TImes, 2009)
• Final Concorde Flight Lands at Heathrow (The Associated Press, 2003)
• Finns miss death in tax office (BBC, 2004)
• Fire chief shot by cop in Ark. court over tickets (The Associated Press, 2009)
• Fire cuts off 130,000 UK phone lines (BBC, 2004)
• First Detailed Photos of Atoms (Inside Science, 2009)
• First notes in 639-year-long concert (2003)
• First quantum cryptography network unveiled (NewScientist.com, 2004)
• Flood of sludge breaks TVA dike (Tennessean, 2008)
• Flower-Power Could Help Clear Land mines (Reuters, 2004)
• For Intelligence Officers, A Wiki Way to Connect Dots (The Washington Post, 2009)
• For sale: West's deadly nuclear secrets (2008)
• For those making $2 a day, it might get worse (2008)
• Fourth Grader Suspended for Gun Drawing (2001)
• Freeze-dried and then turned to powder: the new way to be buried (Telegraph, 2004)
• Frugal is cool in cash-strapped US (The Observer, 2009)

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• Gen. Franks Doubts Constitution Will Survive WMD Attack (NewsMax.com, 2003)
• General Motors to Invest $1 Billion in Brazil Operations -- Money to Come from U.S. Rescue Program (2008)
• George Tenet Resigns As Director of CIA (The Associated Press, 2004)
• German soldiers 'fathered 50,000 Dutch children' (Expatica News, 2004)
• Germany: 'If you don't take a job as a prostitute, we can stop your benefits' (Telegraph, 2005)
• Giant Crystal Cave Comes to Light (National Geographic, 2007)
• Glitch hits Visa users with more than $23 quadrillion charge (CNN, 2009)
• Glow-in-the-Dark Mushrooms Discovered (LiveScience, 2009)
• GM's Own "Heritage Collection" Is Now Up for Sale (2008)
• Goce satellite views Earth's gravity in high definition (BBC, 2010)
• Google Earth accused of aiding terrorists (2008)
• Google takes to the high seas (Sunday Herald, 2009)
• Google/U-M project to scan and index 7 million volumes (The University of Michigan News Service, 2004)
• Granted Asylum, Nun Held in Va. Jail (Washington Post, 2004)
• Greek rioters use lasers against police (2008)
• Green shop owner is fined by council...for not producing any rubbish (MailOnline, 2009)
• Greenspan: My Faith In Banks A "Mistake" (2008)
• Gulags, Nukes and a Water Slide: Citizen Spies Lift North Korea's Veil (The Wall Street Journal, 2009)

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• Hacker Disables More Than 100 Cars Remotely (WIRED, 2010)
• Haiti: Kidnap Claim (WTVY News4, 2004)
• Halliburton charged with selling nuclear technology to Iran (2008)
• Hard Times For Holy Cows (BBC, 2003)
• Heavy water could help us live longer (2008)
• Heroic Failures in Execution
• Hidden Danger In The Backyard (CBS, 2004)
• Hitler was the perfect boss (2008)
• Hoax call to Zardari "put Pakistan on war alert" (2008)
• Hobbyists are trying genetic engineering at home (The Associated Press, 2008)
• How crises, failures, and suffering finally drove a Presidential adviser to the wrong side of the barricades (2001)
• How Mr. Rogers Saved the VCR (2003)
• How to control a herd of humans (New Scientist, 2009)
• How to use electrical outlets and cheap lasers to steal data (Network World, 2009)
• HOWTO: Write Bad Documentation That Looks Good (kuro5hin, 2003)
• HP, Intel Join PlanetLab (InfoWorld, 2003)
• Human Batteries (Sydney Morning Herald, 2003)
• Humans Glow in Visible Light (LiveScience, 2009)

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• I.M.F. Says U.S. Debts Threaten World Economy (The New York Times, 2004)
• IBill: Sex, Lies, and Credit Cards (The New York Daily Times, 2005)
• Iceland's government collapses under strain of financial crisis (Telegraph, 2009)
• Ill. senate votes 59-0 to impeach Gov. Blagojevich (AP, 2009)
• In a secret Paris cavern, the real underground cinema (Guardian, 2004)
• In Praise of Changing Your Mind (2008)
• In Taming Dogs, Humans May Have Sought a Meal (The New York Times, 2009)
• Indian GPS surveyors booked under Official Secrets Act (2008)
• Indymedia reports FBI ordered their UK ISP to hand over hosting hardware (IndyMedia, 2004)
• Inkjet printer technology will slash price of DNA chips (2003)