I can’t help wondering if the IRA watched the senseless deaths in London and made the decision to put themselves above such stupid action….cd IRA says ceasing all armed activity in N.Ireland – Yahoo! News UBLIN (Reuters) – The Irish Republican Army announced an end to its armed campaign against British rule in Northern Ireland…
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Fine Chardonnays….Get Em Fast…
California’s Montrachets Prior to the mid-1980’s, California winemaking techniques were hatched out of university laboratories where the focus was largely on making squeaky clean wines — wines without faults. The reigning (cynical) belief was that the French notion of ‘terroir’ was hogwash, and that moreover, all of the nuance of Old World wine was a…
Pilgrims try to catch 'miracle' on mobiles
ROME (Reuters) – Thousands of Italians have flocked to a small town outside Naples armed with mobile phones in the hopes of filming a statue of the Virgin Mary that residents say has miraculously moved her legs. Parishioners at St. Peter’s church in Acerra said they had witnessed the plaster statue’s legs turn flesh colored…
Amorous couple sparks rescue drama –
LONDON (Reuters) – A British couple who headed out to sea in a dinghy for an amorous liaison sparked a major rescue operation when their cries of passion were mistaken for someone in trouble, British police said Tuesday. A passer-by raised the alarm after hearing strange noises coming from the waters near a beach in…
Boing Boing: Shanghai Suicide
Boing Boing: A Directory of Wonderful Things Fourteen ways to die in Shanghai English translation of a controversial, internet-propagated map that lists places and methods for bumping yourself off in Shanghai. # Huichunji pharmacy sells sleeping pills. # Suzhou Creek is uncovered. # The #57 bus goes directly to the zoo. You can jump into…
The Perils of China's Growth to the Chinese
STUFF : WORLD NEWS – STORY : New Zealand’s leading news and information website China facing epidemic of suicide, depression 26 July 2005 BEIJING: Suicide is the number one cause of death among people aged 20 to 35 in China, where an estimated quarter of a million people a year – or 685 a day…
NASA sends shuttle back into space after long pause – Yahoo! News
NASA sends shuttle back into space after long pause – Yahoo! News APE CANAVERAL, Fla. (Reuters) – NASA successfully launched space shuttle Discovery on Tuesday after a 2-1/2 year struggle to rebuild the shuttle program following the fatal Columbia accident. The shuttle, carrying seven crew members, soared into slightly hazy skies, leaving behind a trail…
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Spoof of Bush Wins Faux Faulkner Contest
ACKSON, Miss. – A scathing parody that likens President Bush to the “idiot” in William Faulkner’s novel “The Sound and the Fury” has won this year’s Faulkner write-alike contest — and touched off a literary spat. Organizers of the Faux Faulkner competition are accusing Hemispheres, the United Airlines magazine that has sponsored the contest for…
Library leader questions Patriot Act -Kafka-esque
Books by Kafka, Orwell, Camus, etc… WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The president of the American Library Association has one word for the USA Patriot Act’s so-called library clause — “Kafkaesque.” “It’s very reminiscent of the ’50s and the ‘red scare’ where people showed up at libraries trying to find which political books professors had read, because…