tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-87907002011-12-14T19:51:14.847-07:00bryanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11690103662614815759noreply@blogger.comBlogger2621100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8790700.post-86602959728583721882007-04-18T18:46:00.000-07:002007-04-18T18:52:57.676-07:00

Lempira was the ruler of an indigenous people in western Honduras named the Lencas. During the 1530s he was a war captain and led a resistance against the Spanish conquest of the region. To honor his memory the Honduran currency bares his name.

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Comayagua (Come-a-ya-gwa) is a colonial town located in central Honduras. Every year during the Christian holiday of Holy Week extensive celebrations take place. One of these is the making of alfombras (al-fome-bras), or carpets, on Good Friday. These carpets contain elaborate religious designs that are made from stenciling dyed saw dust from pine wood. Artists create the carpets for display

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Copan is an ancient Mayan city in far western Honduras. It was considered the Paris of the Mayan kingdom as it is most famous for its portrait stelae. Peoples first lived established a kingdom in the area around 159. The area reached a peak during the 5th century, but declined greatly during the 8th-9th century. The site today is easily accessible and is one of the most important tourist

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Like the terrorists it will have to build international networks, Gen Kimmitt says, making better use of "soft power" - diplomacy, finance, trade and technology...Instead, he argues that the US military must try to break down "old mind-sets and bureaucracies" and build new relationships with other agencies - like the FBI, the police and the state department...http://news.bbc.co.uk/

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This raises another more general problem: the inability of the West to defend itself intellectually and culturally. Be proud, do not apologize. Do we have to go on apologizing for the sins our fathers? http://service.spiegel.de/

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Former Apple board member Edgar Woolard Jr. talks about the man, his vision, and how he'll likely contribute at Disneyhttp://yahoo.businessweek.com/

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She is seen as the woman who grew up in the segregated South and yet battled her way against prejudice to become an accomplished ice skater, talented pianist, leading academic and now secretary of state.http://news.bbc.co.uk/

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Activists angered by a US Supreme Court ruling that homes can be demolished for public developments are trying to seize the home of one of the judges involved.http://news.bbc.co.uk/

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But Hunter points to the experience in San Diego, where the number of illegal migrants arrested is one-sixth of what it was before the fence was built. "People have made stupid editorial comments about the Great Wall of China," he says, "but the only thing that has worked is that fence."http://news.yahoo.com Democrats want a broader bill that goes beyond border enforcement, but they found plenty

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The company refuses to hire people more than a year or two out of university, for fear that experience in the conventional business world will taint their freshness of mind. Google googles the Internet for its own purposes, ceaselessly...It tried to recruit a South African schoolboy I know because it was so impressed with his web page. (He turned them down in favour of going to university,

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At events across the state, including a pro-marriage rally in Arlington, leaders of the state's Republican Party joined leaders of the black and Hispanic communities to get voters to the polls in support of the amendment.http://www.bloomberg.com/

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Xbox 360 and iPod interoperability?...during a preview of the next-generation console in San Francisco last month, Microsoft execs talked up the interoperability between iPods and the Xbox 360.http://news.com.com/

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The US has vowed to stop every single illegal immigrant entering the country, by recruiting 1,000 extra agents and increasing the use of unmanned drones. "Our goal is to gain control of our borders," said Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff.http://news.bbc.co.uk/Microsoft Plays Catch-up on Services Analysis: Live Software Strategy aims at strong Google, Yahoo portals but could drain

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SPIEGEL INTERVIEW WITH US SECRETARY OF DEFENSE DONALD RUMSFELDRumsfeld: I'm not talking about sanctions. You've got the lead. Well, lead!SPIEGEL: You mean the Europeans.Rumsfeld: Sure. My Goodness, Iran is your neighbour. We don't have to do everything!http://service.spiegel.de/Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has urged families not to mark Halloween, calling it a US custom alien to the South

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"We just want to make this a magical place," he said. "It's as if the city has come in and said: 'We're outlawing magic.' "And where do we go from here? No viewing platforms? No climbing in trees? No swing sets? No children playing? It is, figuratively and literally, a slippery slope."http://www.latimes.com/

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Average PC hosts 18 different spyware programshttp://www.pcpro.co.uk/ Unesco member states have formally voted to support their own film and music industries against globalisation.http://news.bbc.co.uk/

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"Our goal is to stand at the intersection of technology and the humanities,"http://www.macworld.co.uk/

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BITTORRENT: THE GREAT DISRUPTERhttp://www.fortune.com/

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"When the missionaries came, I thought when I saw the church it was going to be a one-sided race thing," said Mr. Rochester, 55, who was wearing an electric-blue dress shirt and tie. But he said he quickly learned otherwise.http://www.nytimes.com/

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http://www.luxpro.biz/

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Kenyan immigrant Moses Bittok received an unexpected reward for becoming a United States citizen on Friday when he became a millionaire on the same day.http://news.bbc.co.uk/

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Jewish bomb plotter jailed in US...A Jewish extremist who plotted to blow up a Los Angeles mosque and the office of a US congressman of Lebanese descent has been sentenced to 20 years in jail. Earl Krugel was arrested in 2001 with another leader of a group called the Jewish Defence League.http://news.bbc.co.uk/ Microsoft after 30 years: Your viewshttp://news.bbc.co.uk/

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Microsoft's Ballmer: It's true, some of Windows Vista's features are 'kissing cousins' to Mac OS Xhttp://macdailynews.com/They are shamelessly copying us,' [Jobs] said during Thursday's annual meeting.http://macdailynews.com/

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Characteristically, though, Mr Jobs bounced back, once he realised, as he said at Stanford, that “the heaviness of being successful was replaced by the lightness of being a beginner again.” He did something uninterrupted success might have made impossible: he became more creative. In 1986 he started two new companies, NeXT, a computer-maker that was always too far ahead of its time, and Pixar, an

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Akram said he was surprised that Bolton, whose confirmation stalled in the Senate in part over his reputation for abrasiveness, ``showed less emotion than almost anyone else in the room.''http://www.bloomberg.com/He's one of the legions of Macintosh and iPod users for whom the elegance of the user interface begins with the bold graphics and sleek texture of the box the new machine comes in. ..."I

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In Rural Texas, Blessings and Culture Shock...One day last week, the church ladies from Second Baptist wheeled up, including one iron-haired maven in a burgundy Ford F-150, loaded with furniture and mattresses. "Well," she said, before driving off into the Texas sunset, "I got to get home to feed my cows."http://news.yahoo.comThe storm also appears to have damaged the carefully laid plans of Karl

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Former National Security Adviser Samuel R. Berger was fined $50,000 by a federal judge yesterday for illegally taking classified documents out of the National Archives by stuffing them in his pants...Mr. Berger initially claimed he took the documents as the result of an "honest mistake," but later admitted he placed the classified records in his pants and jacket, and put other classified

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Sony Clones iTuneshttp://applexnet.com/ Why Google hired Vint Cerfhttp://news.com.com/ Colin Powell on Iraq, Race, and Hurricane Reliefhttp://abcnews.go.com/

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Texans handle influx of evacueeshttp://news.yahoo.com/

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In a potential warning of courtroom drama to come, Creative adds that interfaces covered by the Zen Patent can also be, "found in some competing players, such as the iPod and iPod mini"...Stressing its point, Creative says its invention for the user interface for portable media players enables selection of at least one track in a portable media player as a user "sequentially navigates through a

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Venezuela's president says his government will take legal action against a US TV evangelist who called for US agents to kill him. Hugo Chavez said Venezuela might even seek to extradite Pat Robertson. He also warned he would complain to the UN if the US failed to take action...On Sunday, US civil rights leader Jesse Jackson lent support to Mr Chavez.http://news.bbc.co.uk/ While British visitors

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How Economists Really View Health Insurancehttp://www.techcentralstation.comHealth Insurance Do-Notshttp://www.techcentralstation.com

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Charles Rodeck, professor of foetal medicine at University College London Hospital and spokesman for the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists, said that in all abortions carried out in the UK beyond 22 weeks, the foetus is either injected with something which stops its heart, or the mother - and therefore the foetus - is under a general anaesthetic.http://news.bbc.co.uk/

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Canada is sending its navy back to the far northern Arctic port of Churchill after a 30-year absence. The visit by two warships to the area is the latest move to challenge rival claims in the Arctic triggered by the threat of melting ice.http://news.bbc.co.uk Robert Moog, the man who transformed the sound of popular music with his Moog synthesizer, has died aged 71 at his home in North

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The Mexican staging area for illegal aliens that New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson demanded this week be bulldozed is among hundreds of similar sites along the border sponsored and maintained by the Mexican government...Rafael Laveaga, spokesman for the Mexican Embassy in Washington, yesterday said his government "has a duty and obligation by law to protect Mexican citizens at home and abroad."http

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"But I put myself in a position where the government could take control. Right now I am happy just being back in control. You see, what a lot of people do not know is that the key is not getting the American dream. It is holding onto it. "In Europe, the government is entwined with a lot of what we do, yet in America, I felt a sentiment that the more say the government has over you, the more you

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If you are prompted to type an administrator password, do so. If you do not know the administrator password, press ENTER. (Typically, the password is blank.)...Note The Spuninstal.txt file appears. As the file scrolls down, you will see errors and files being copied. This is normal behavior...After you restart, the system may lock up with a black screen. (Your mouse will work.) In

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The iPod: A Love Story Between Man, Machinehttp://www.washingtonpost.com/Sen. Patrick J. Leahy of Vermont, the Judiciary Committee's ranking Democrat, said in a statement: "Those papers that we have received paint a picture of John Roberts as an eager and aggressive advocate of policies that are deeply tinged with the ideology of the far right wing of his party then, and now.http://news.yahoo.com

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Michael Gallagher, assistant secretary at the Commerce Department, has asked for a hold to be placed on the contract to run the new top-level domain until the .xxx suffix can receive further scrutiny. The domain was scheduled to receive final approval Tuesday.http://news.com.com/ But the ITU enjoys virtually no influence over the Internet. That remains the province of specialized organizations

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The first urine-powered paper battery has been created by physicists in Singapore. The credit-card sized unit could be a useful power source for cheap healthcare test kitshttp://www.newscientist.com/Delta to sell regional carrier Atlantic Southeast Airlines...The acquisition of ASA nearly doubles the size of Utah-based SkyWesthttp://www.usatoday.com/Apple, maker of the Macintosh PC, kept customer

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A court in the US has ruled that a gay Mexican with Aids is eligible for asylum because of the danger of persecution in his home country.http://news.bbc.co.uk/Gettysburg in new civil war over casinohttp://www.guardian.co.uk/ "It's a restaurant that welcomes everybody," said Sana Ayar, a 19-year-old employee at Beurger King Muslim. "It's just that it also caters to people who eat halal."http://

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Experimental Hybrid Cars Get Up to 250 Mpghttp://news.yahoo.com/

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Shares of Apple Computer set an all-time high on Friday following a disappointing report from Dell and amid rumors about a major new partnership...Meanwhile, Apple's shares might well have benefited from Dell's pain. http://www.thestreet.com/

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Apple employees appear to have been trying to listen in on IRC discussions among OSx86 hackers, according to hackers citing the IP records from their IRC channels...It seems like getting around the TPM wasn't that hard, according to a hacker nicknamed "parch," who said, "Apple could have made the lock heavier."http://www.wired.com/ Apple holds a number of other patents on the iPod, so they

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Ha-Mossad le-Modi'in ule-Tafkidim Meyuhadim (Hebrew: המוסד למודיעין ולתפקידים מיוחדים, "Institute for Intelligence and Special Tasks") is an Israeli intelligence agency, commonly referred to as Mossad. It is responsible for intelligence collection, covert action (including paramilitary activities and assassinations) and counter-terrorism. Its focus is on Arab nations and organizations throughout

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Another important information related to MacIntel has been released maybe without realizing its future potential impact. CodeWeavers, a company selling Crossover Office, a packed version of Wine, has announced in its roadmap that they plan to make CrossOver Office available for Windows-to-Mac application porting in 2006.http://www.hardmac.com/At least one user has managed to hack Apple's Mac OS X

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Texas, home to President George W. Bush, has joined California, New Mexico and Hawaii as states where minorities outnumber non-Hispanic whites, according to the U.S. Census Bureau.http://www.bloomberg.com/ Census tracks 'major waves'http://www.usatoday.com/At least 80 wealthy liberals have pledged to contribute $1 million or more apiece to fund a network of think tanks and advocacy groups to

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FSU Responds To NCAA Decision Banning Use Of Native American Symbolshttp://seminoles.collegesports.com/

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The black holeSome of the things that helped blacks 40 years ago are now obstructionshttp://www.economist.comA GANG in Brazil has pulled off one of history’s biggest bank robberies after tunnelling into the vault of a central bank building and making off with an estimated £38 million.http://www.timesonline.co.uk/The Evangelical Lutheran Church of America is expected to adopt a resolution this

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Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez told thousands of visiting students that if U.S. forces were to invade the South American country, they would be soundly defeated...Chavez called the United States the "most savage, cruel and murderous empire that has existed in the history of the world."...More than 300 students from the United States shouted out their disapproval of US President George W. Bush,

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How to turn a veteran Afghan mujahideen fighter into a mountaineer guide.http://news.bbc.co.uk/

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An Interview With Steve Wozniakhttp://www.thetech.org/

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Secretive "guerrilla" artist Banksy has decorated Israel's controversial West Bank barrier with satirical images of life on the other side.http://news.bbc.co.uk/ A US firm is looking to commercialise breast milk by selling it to hospitals for the treatment of sick babies.http://news.bbc.co.uk/ Civil libertarians have filed a lawsuit against the New York Police Department's random bag-search

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Two former officials of the pro- Israel lobbying group AIPAC were charged on Thursday with conspiring with a Pentagon analyst to obtain and disclose classified national defense information, U.S. prosecutors said.http://news.yahoo.comArab pop fashion hits the high streethttp://news.bbc.co.uk/ Alabama limits eminent domain...Polls show unusual unity on strengthening property rights. A Quinnipiac

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Having a Rolodex of cocktail party quotes to beef up an argument is not the same as the hard work of learning about the past.http://www.victorhanson.com/ Japan wary of China's growing militaryhttp://www.iht.com/

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http://www.vistaarticles.com/Is that an iMac for the My Computer icon? Interesting Recycle Bin as well :P That halo effect isn't news to people following the trend, but it's notable to hear a Windows executive acknowledge it. "It’s enabling them to more effectively go after PC users and sell them future Apple products," Poole said.http://blog.seattlepi.nwsource.com We certainly recognize Apple's

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But while Microsoft introduces the world to Vista, Apple is keeping mum about its next version of Mac OS X, which Steve Jobs has said will ship at about the same time as Vista. It is the Intel-ready Leopard, not Tiger, that will be Apple's answer to Windows Vista. With the first Vista beta, Microsoft seems to have taken many cues from Mac OS X with the user interface and features, right down to

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The U.S. economy grew at a 3.4 percent annual pace from April through June, the ninth straight quarter exceeding 3 percenthttp://www.bloomberg.com/Las Vegas is world-renowned as a city of fantasy, flaunting its reputation for excess...But environmentalists warn water supplies could run dry within the next 50 yearshttp://news.bbc.co.uk/ A council of Muslim scholars in the United States has issued

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Jobs: So there are 500 men and women in the Fortune 500; CIOs that you have to go through. And we've never been good at that. So if you look at it and realize that Apple's DNA is not great at going through these orifices to get to the end users then it's even worse—http://www.alwayson-network.com/ Europe is having an identity crisis of epic proportions. Should it preserve its small "s" socialist

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When Nolan Bushnell, the founder of Atari and the man many consider the father of video games, launched his Chuck E. Cheese's restaurant chain, he based it on the idea of mixing food and easy entertainment for preteens. Now he wants to create a playland for twentysomethings.http://news.com.com/First views of Windows VistaThe Virtual Folders feature in Windows Vista allows users to view documents

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The Dallas school students would have rather been anywhere else on a Saturday afternoon. But here they were, exhausted after exercising for hours in the sun and crawling in the mud – the price they paid for missing school.The boot camp is one of three used in Dallas County, and some parents say it goes too far in its get-tough approach to truancy. They have cited degrading treatment at Sequoyah

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Driven to distraction by technologyhttp://news.com.com/ The Palestinians living in the Gaza Strip have long yearned for the Israelis to abandon their settlements there. But with the withdrawal imminent, many Palestinians fear the region could struggle mightily with the task of rebuilding. And with the enemy gone, they would have only themselves to blame.http://service.spiegel.de/

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Needham & Co. estimates that the "iPod halo" may have attracted up to 400,000 Windows users to the Mac so far this year.http://www.macworld.co.uk/ QUELLE horreur! France woke up yesterday to the prospect of Danone, the quintessential French dairy company, falling under American ownership.http://www.timesonline.co.uk/

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In the Kelo case, the high court ruled that government officials could seize private property and give the land to private developers to build an office complex, a health club and a hotel...The ruling has united a broad cross section of activists -- from conservatives to the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People -- outraged by the decision.http://washingtontimes.com

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"I think that they should sell war bonds" said a caller from McKeesport, Pa. to the radio program I host. "Why?" I asked. "Because, then this war would be paid for by you rich Republicans."http://www.techcentralstation.com/Michael Lefenfeld and James Dye of Signa Chemistry wanted to make rooms smell better. Instead, they stumbled on a way that could make hydrogen fuel cells a practical

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ROVE RAGE: HE'S NOT THE VILLAINhttp://news.yahoo.com/ These are your teachers?http://www.worldnetdaily.com/

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Israel, which has traditionally been the largest recipient of U.S. assistance, is seeking an additional $2 billion or more...Combined U.S. military and economic assistance to Israel has reached $100 billion since Israel's founding in 1948, ...The Palestinians, who have suffered an economic meltdown during the past five years of violence, are getting roughly $1 billion a yearhttp://www.iht.com/

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London Mayor Ken Livingstone said the blasts that ripped through his city were "mass murder" carried out by terrorists bent on "indiscriminate ... slaughter." "This was not a terrorist attack against the mighty or the powerful ... it was aimed at ordinary working-class Londoners," said Livingstone, in Singapore where he supported London's Olympic bid.http://news.yahoo.com

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http://suppressednews.com/

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LOS ANGELES - The typical starting salary for teachers should be $40,000, the head of the country's largest education union said Sunday, pledging a renewed fight for higher pay..."The issue is where the money is going to come from," Weaver said. "And to respond to that, my answer is I don't care. I don't care where the money comes from.http://news.yahoo.com/School boards and superintendents

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SAN FRANCISCO — A federal judge said Thursday that he would seize control of prison healthcare from the state and place it under a receiver, declaring that "extreme measures" were needed to fix a system that kills one inmate each week through medical incompetence or neglect.http://www.latimes.com/ US Congress opposes Chinese bid for Unocal...The resolution said oil and gas are "strategic assets"

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Christian America's political arm is more complex and more dynamic than it first appears. And it will be hard to stophttp://www.economist.com/When Western liberals today talk of a mythical period in the days after 9-11 of “unity” and “European solidarity” what they really remember is a Golden Age of Victimhood, or about four weeks before the strikes against the Taliban commenced. Then for a

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Guantanamo Bay, Cuba on my recent visit to that base, I left convinced that abuse definitely exists at the detention facilities. But not the slander and hyperbole about alleged mistreatment of the unlawful combatants confined there that we've all heard. There is far more serious abuse: the relentless, merciless attacks on American servicemen and women by these same terrorist thugs.http://

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A recent CNET posting indicates that on the same day that Apple publicly announced its move to adopt Intel chips, the company filed a trademark application for the term "Mactel."http://www.maconintel.com/As the A380 traced swooping circles above the airfield on Monday, the Boeing delegation was plainly impressed. But after it touched down with a thud, the spell was broken. "Look for the dent in

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BAGHDAD, Iraq - Iraqi troops, backed by U.S. forces, freed an Australian hostage after six weeks in captivity, officials said Wednesday. The release came as a suicide bomber dressed in an Iraqi army uniform blew himself up in a mess hall north of Baghdad, killing at least 25 Iraqi soldiers and injuring 27.http://news.yahoo.com/...i love how the 3 sentences proceeding the first having nothing to

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"Welcome, IBM. Seriously." Last week, however, Steve Jobs had a different message for Big Blue, which had since become a chief ally: "Goodbye. Seriously."http://www.iht.com/ Apple CEO Steve Jobs gave a somber and intensely personal commencement speech at Stanford on Sundayhttp://www.sfgate.com/User-interface experts at one of the world's top design houses say Mac OS X Tiger is the beginning of

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Few scientists fabricate results from scratch or flatly plagiarize the work of others, but a surprising number engage in troubling degrees of fact-bending or deceit, according to the first large-scale survey of scientific misbehavior.http://news.yahoo.com/The Supreme Court of Canada struck down Thursday a Quebec prohibition on private health-care insurance, in what members of Canada's medical

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Memo to poor head-pounding Mr. von Trier: There is no compelling reason to have anything American in your country — except in the past to expel German invaders you either could not or would not keep out. Simply stop buying American. Don’t watch American movies. Admonish not us, but your own leaders to get out of NATO, pronto — the faster the better. Deny entry to all American troops — and

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Billy Corgan will embark on a world tour June 1st in Portugal in support of his debut solo album TheFutureEmbrace, due out June 21...http://billycorgan.com/

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Apple Computer yesterday gained the support of the Intel Corporation and Genentech in its effort to make online publishers disclose their sources of confidential information about new Apple products.http://www.nytimes.com/Pot Laws Pain Some EldersSenior citizens who use medical marijuana to treat their ailments wonder why the federal government wants to just say no to them.http://www.latimes.com/

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A Scathing Chairman Dean Finds Republicans 'Evil,' 'Corrupt' and 'Brain-Dead'http://www.washingtonpost.com/ Illegal Immigration Fears Have Spread Populist calls for tougher enforcement are being heard beyond the border states.http://www.latimes.com/ "I hope gas goes to $5/gallon just to teach these selfish, spoiled yuppies a lesson they'll NEVER forget," wrote John Marranca Jr. of Buffalo,

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Jobs sees it as indicative of Apple's agility and drive. "Microsoft has followed our taillights for a long time," he says. "Maybe [in the '90s] we stopped innovating for a while, but now they've been copying OS X the same way they copied Mac."...Though conceding that tardiness is a problem, Allchin contends that the breadth of Longhorn makes it a much weightier project than Tiger, which he

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The United States comfortably defeated a call to the U.N.'s top human rights body on Thursday to launch a probe into alleged violations at Guantanamo Bay...a resolution brought by Cubahttp://story.news.yahoo.com/The U.S. government plans to force foreign airlines flying over American soil to turn over the names of passengers on board or check the names against U.S. government watch lists in an

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Adolfo Scilingo, 58, was put on trial in Spain for genocide, the first in Spain under laws allowing the prosecution of crimes committed in another country...Scilingo received 30 terms of 21 years in jail for the deaths and five years for each of the other counts. However, under Spanish law he cannot serve more than 30 years in prison...Prosecutors had sought a sentence of 9,138 years. Amnesty

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Take a hard look at the therapeutic curriculum in the social sciences, from Chicano Studies to Sociology and community studies classes that impart little real literary, historical, scientific, or linguistic knowledge, but simply enhance the mechanisms to complain about not having such advantages. Look at UC campuses' catalogs to appreciate the seeming insanity—dozens of classes on La Familia, La

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Nine Inch Nails Want Fans To Destroy 'The Hand That Feeds'...Reznor releases single on Web site in GarageBand format, encourages remixeshttp://www.vh1.com/ Adobe to buy Macromedia for $3.4 billion...Microsoft has been working on dynamic form technologies and a graphics system called Avalon as part of its upcoming operating system, Longhorn. By moving into these areas, Adobe may be trying to cut

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my sister and the niece that made me an uncleso i was studying for a final, and it was going pretty good when i decided it was time to maybe listen to some background music. i remembered to plug in my earbuds this time and i opened up itunes. there was a couple of shared libraries and i always make it a point to check out other peoples music, though just about always i come up disappointed. well,

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http://www.digitalramen.com/The U.S. Marshals Service and local police agencies arrested more than 10,000 fugitives last week in an aggressive nationwide sweep that ranks as the largest single dragnet in U.S. history, the Justice Department announced yesterday.http://www.washingtonpost.com/M Chirac said that, contrary to French belief, the constitution was a guarantee “that France will continue

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even the michelin man is more active...The federal government must prove it can protect the nation's borders before Congress can pass a guest-worker program, House Majority Leader Tom DeLay said yesterday..."Ultimately, we need to enforce our laws. The American people need to see us protect our borders and enforce our laws," Mr. DeLay said. "Then, they'll be willing to talk about a guest-worker

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Even if you factor in the options issue and the flat guidance, Apple's results were "incredible," says Scott Rothbort, president of LakeView Asset Management and a contributor to TheStreet.com's sister Web site Street Insight. Analysts are going to have to raise their earnings estimates, which means that with the level of cash the company now has, its shares are undervalued, says Rothbort, who is

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A top-to-bottom modernization is transforming the Chinese military, raising the stakes for U.S. forces long dominant in the Pacific.http://story.news.yahoo.com/ McDonald's has reached the half-century mark and is earning more money than ever. Still, it's trying out a radical change of image out of fears a flood of lawsuits could head its way as an the American debate over nutrition and obesity

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COLUMN: Apple a waste of marketshare; PCs offer more useful experiencehttp://www.kstatecollegian.com/ I Think I'll Watch TV -- On My Cell Phone...The new systems will allow broadcasters to beam programming to tiny screens on the move, using technology akin to today's TV rather than more expensive cellular networks.http://www.businessweek.com/

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http://www.apple.com/macosx/http://www.savetoby.com/Jonathan proves once again that it's a sick, sad world out there...

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Cookie Monster, the biscuit-eating puppet on US children's show Sesame Street, will cut down on his favourite food as part of an anti-obesity drive.http://news.bbc.co.uk/Iraq's new president Jalal Talabani has restated his support for a continued US and Australian military presence in Iraq,...Branding Sadr a "criminal" who should be arrested...http://www.abc.net.au/It was a mourning festival

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http://screeningroom2.boardsmag.com/thanks zachBush's indispensable toy: First iPod...President's player features eclectic list of downloaded tuneshttp://www.sfgate.com/thanks gene

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The Bush Dilemma - If the president is willing to take risks abroad, why won't he do it at home?by Victor Davis Hansonhttp://www.victorhanson.com/In what could be an ominous sign for the U.S. tech industry, American universities slipped lower in an international programming contest.http://news.com.com/...this week President Jacques Chirac faces one of the biggest battles of his political career

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Chinese President Hu Jintao formally asked Bush to consider engaging in what the Chinese call a "strategic dialogue" during an economic meeting in Chile last November. During a visit to Beijing last month, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice confirmed that the United States is interested in regular senior-level talks, but the administration has chosen to call the meetings a "global dialogue"

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Iraq's first democratically elected National Assembly in more than 50 years named Shiite leader Ibrahim al-Jaafari prime ministerhttp://www.bloomberg.com/Dallas Police Chief David Kunkle personally went to the scene when a sanitation worker was reportedly being held at gunpoint last week. Police say he did so because no one else was available.http://www.dallasnews.com/ Mexican police,

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Gordon Moore on 40 years of his processor lawhttp://news.com.com/Panasonic will introduce AA and AAA disposable batteries in June that the company calls the "most significant developments in primary battery technology in 40 years."http://news.com.com/http://www.deepapple.com/She still powers up after being run over by a jeep. thanks gene for the link and translation

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