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Third debate gets nasty Terrell, Landrieu attack each other on abortion issue from WDSU Election day is less than two weeks away, and the already bitter U.S. senate campaign in Louisiana got even nastier this weekend in New Orleans. Mary Landrieu and Suzy Terrell shook hands as the third debate began. But that was the only cordial moment in the photo courtesey WDSU half-hour meeting, with just 13 days remaining in the campaign. Before the taping was over, the two candidates were combative, especially on the issue of abortion. Landrieu is pro-choice, Terrell pro-life, though she was once publicly identified...
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Supreme Court: State Immunity in Shipping Case Tue May 28,11:07 AM ET By James Vicini WASHINGTON (Reuters) - In a further dilution of the federal government's power, a divided U.S. Supreme Court ruled on Tuesday federal regulators could not intervene in a dispute between a private operator of casino gambling ships and a state agency. By a 5-4 vote, the high court rejected arguments by the Federal Maritime Commission that it has the power to decide a claim by South Carolina Maritime Services, a private firm that operates vessels for casino gambling, in its dispute with South Carolina port officials....
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New! Google has fully integrated the past 20 years of Usenet archives into Google Groups, which now offers access to more than 700 million messages dating back to 1981. We believe this to be the most complete collection of Usenet articles ever assembled and a fascinating first-hand historical account. We are compiling some especially memorable articles and threads in the timeline below. For example, read Tim Berners-Lee's announcement of what became the World Wide Web or Linus Torvalds' first post about his "pet project". If you come across other noteworthy posts while searching the archive, please forward them to us ...
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U.S. Scours Afghan Woods for Bin Laden December 09, 2001 09:17 AM ET Email this article Printer friendly version Reuters Photo By Sayed Salahuddin KABUL (Reuters) - U.S. planes joined Afghan fighters in hunting for Osama bin Laden in mountain woods, but the superpower said it would scour the world for him if needed. Afghans who drove the Taliban from power during two months of U.S. bombing said bin Laden, wanted for the September 11 attacks, was personally leading about 1,000 men in the eastern region of Tora Bora, their final holdout, on Sunday. "Osama himself has taken command ...
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Search for Bin Laden intensifies, in caves more vulnerable than thought William M. Arkin Los Angeles Times Published Dec 9 2001 WASHINGTON, D.C. -- The hunt for Osama bin Laden has come down to this: a struggle between two men in two caves half a world apart. One commands the most advanced weapons and technology on earth. The other has at his command little more than the ancient tools of the hunted: stealth and cover. As U.S. military operations focus on mountainous strongholds near Tora Bora in northeastern Afghanistan, Vice President Dick Cheney is presiding over the hunt for Bin ...
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Saturday December 8, 9:45 am Eastern Time Dutch poised for U.S. "stealth" fighter decision By Paul Gallagher AMSTERDAM, Dec 8 (Reuters) - The Dutch government is set to decide next month if it will join a multi-billion dollar U.S. programme to develop and buy a new generation ``stealth'' fighter jet to replace its ageing F-16's, it said on Saturday. The cabinet is due to decide in early January whether it will contribute to the cost of developing the radar evading F-35 in a project led by the Pentagon and U.S. defence contractor Lockheed Martin, a defence ministry spokesman said. The ...
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<p>NEW YORK, Nov. 15, 2009 -- Paul O'Neill, the intense right fielder, became the oldest man to hit a World Series-winning inside-the-park home run Thursday, and the New York Yankees won their 35th world championship with a dramatic 6-5 victory over the Cincinnati Red Pirates.</p>
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June 13, 2001 -- International security forces are working furiously to thwart a plot by Saudi terror master Osama bin Laden to assassinate President Bush and other world leaders at a major economic summit next month. Italian officials say they've been warned by German intelligence services that bin Laden is secretly financing neo-Nazi skinhead groups throughout Europe to commit acts of violence during the summit, sources told The Post. The attack could also come from the sky in the form of a bizarre James Bond-style strike by remote-control airplanes packed with plastic explosives, Germany's largest newspaper reported yesterday. The ...
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Five rough-looking men stepped out of a black sedan and burst into the Seoul PC café where Paek Jung Yul hangs out with Strong People Blood Pledge, his clan of online gamers. "Is the wizard here?" demanded one of the toughs, asking for the player who killed his character in an online game called Lineage. The "wizard" was there, alright, and he was feeling bold. He boasted that he had offed the gangman's virtual character just for the fun of it. Bad idea. The roughnecks dragged the 21-year-old into the urinal and pummeled him until he was covered with real-world ...
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Nothing more than the whim of a 13-year old hacker is required to knock any user, site, or server right off the Internet. I believe you will be as fascinated and concerned as I am by the findings of my post-attack forensic analysis, and the results of my subsequent infiltration into the networks and technologies being used by some of the Internet's most active hackers. What Happened? On the evening of May 4th, 2001, GRC.COM suddenly dropped off the Internet:
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Hainan-the Prequel (TIMEasia.com) This isn't the first time the island has been the center of conflict between the U.S. and China BY ANTHONY PAUL In the summer of 1954, aircrew briefing rooms at Hong Kong's Kai Tak Airport were abuzz with reports of construction at an air base near Sanya, a town at the southern tip of China's Hainan Island. To date, the runway had been all bitumen, a surface suited to propeller aircraft but given to melting if hit by jet exhausts. Suddenly, concrete sections appeared at each end. Pilots flying along aviation routes past Hainan could see new, ...
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