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| Why are terrorists so dumb? |
| Published: July 24, 2007, 2:48 pm |
| Tags: Islam, Jihad, Europe, Education |
| Tim Harford, Slate.com's "undercover economist," tries to answer that question (and doesn't do very well) in a weekend article dubbed "Dumb Bomb."He focuses on the recent botched bomb-plot in London and Glasgow, which was allegedly planned by a bunch of doctors and medical professionals. This shouldn't be a surprise, he says, because Osama bin |
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| KILL BABY KILL Review |
| Published: July 12, 2007, 9:17 pm |
| Tags: Europe, Ghost Haunting, Supernatural, Suspense |
| KILL BABY KILL (1966) After the death of a young woman in an isolated village in the early 20th Century, coroner Dr. Iswai is brought in by the inspector to do an autopsy, to try and determine if the death was suicide, accident, or homicide. Circumstantial evidence rules out suicide, but the townsfolk are terrified to speak about what has |
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| A political gaffe, served up Belgian style |
| Published: July 24, 2007, 7:27 am |
| Tags: Europe, Times Story, Video |
| So let's now turn to Belgian politics. But only for a laugh because as political gaffes go, this one is pretty serious:Yves Leterme (the new Prime Minister of Belgium) has not yet been officially sworn in but has already... |
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| FOR A START, TACKLE THOSE ISRAELI SETTLEMENT AND THAT WALL |
| Published: July 27, 2007, 5:25 pm |
| Tags: Stephanie Koury, United States, Palestine, Europe, Israel, Middle East |
| By Stephanie Koury Recently, US President George W. Bush announced plans to provide direct aid to Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas' government and to convene an international conference aimed at securing Israeli-Palestinian peace and a two state solution. His initiative followed closely on the heels of the Quartet's appointment of |
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| Featured links for July 8th |
| Published: July 8, 2007, 9:34 am |
| Tags: Daily Links, Advertising, Apple, Arbys, Business, Clutter, Decluttering, Del Icio Us, Europe, Google, Greys Law, Hardware, Heh, History, Iphone, Laws, Links, Macintosh, Math, Merlinmann, Nostlagia, Telekinesis |
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| Intel responds to EU charges, deems actions 'beneficial' to consumers |
| Published: July 27, 2007, 3:34 pm |
| Tags: Antitrust, Europe, European Commission, European Union, Europeancommission, Europeanunion, Intel, Lawsuit, Legal, Litigation, Objection, Sue |
| Laptops Shortly after the European Commission issued a Statement of Objections against Intel asseverating that it used unfair and unlawful tactics against AMD, Intel has fired back a statement of its own in response. Put simply, Intel declared that it is "confident that the microprocessor market segment is functioning normally and that Intel's |
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| Medison promises money back if it can't deliver... in three months |
| Published: July 27, 2007, 10:45 am |
| Tags: British, Europe, Linux, Medison, Medison Celebrity, Medisoncelebrity, Money Back, Moneyback, Scam, Vaporware |
| Filed under: LaptopsThat $150 Medison Celebrity we glanced a few days back seemed to smell a bit fishy from the get-go, and a recent press release from the firm does a fairly terrible job of assuring us all otherwise. Typically, one's in dire straits if it has to address mass concerns of scamming, and Medison is now blaming the unexpectedly large |
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| Social Media tools in action |
| Published: July 20, 2007, 4:16 am |
| Tags: Customer Engagement Edelman Facebook Myspace Social Media Web 2 0 Marketing Improvement Europe |
| it will be illegal under European Directive 2005/29/EC for a company to write or have commissioned to write or communicate a glowing reference by pretending to be a consumer without disclosing that fact. This has serious implications for buzz' and word-of-mouth' marketing, where marketing agencies are paid to promote |
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| RENAISSANCE Review |
| Published: July 28, 2007, 5:25 pm |
| Tags: Europe, Mystery, Sci Fi, Dystopia |
| RENAISSANCE (2006) It is the year 2054. Mega-corporation Avalon, whose primary products promise "youth and beauty", has permeated themselves into most aspects of modern life. When one of their star researchers, Ilona, is kidnapped, Karas is put on the case to find her. His rough and gruff means of data extraction and detective skills are both a |
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| Bosnian war victims laid to rest |
| Published: July 28, 2007, 10:46 am |
| Tags: Europe |
| Thousands of people in Bosnia attend a ceremony for 147 Muslims killed by Serbian forces in the 1990s. |
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| Russia subs make Arctic test dive |
| Published: July 29, 2007, 1:44 pm |
| Tags: Europe |
| Russian mini-subs make a test dive ahead of a mission to the Arctic Ocean seabed beneath the North Pole. |
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| Veteran revisits WWI trench |
| Published: July 29, 2007, 9:24 pm |
| Tags: Europe |
| The last known surviving British soldier to fight in the trenches of WWI revisits the site where he fought. |
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| Medici writers exhumed in Italy |
| Published: July 28, 2007, 8:43 am |
| Tags: Europe |
| Italian researchers exhume the bodies of two 15th Century literary figures from the court of the Medici family. |
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| Aircraft battle Canaries blazes |
| Published: July 30, 2007, 7:35 am |
| Tags: Europe |
| Officials in Spain's Canary Islands say wind is hampering efforts to extinguish a forest fire on Gran Canaria. |
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| Brussels aims to halt Polish road |
| Published: July 30, 2007, 7:35 am |
| Tags: Europe |
| The European Commission seeks a court order to stop Poland resuming work on a road through a wildlife area. |
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