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Taliban leader cites help by China -- The Washington Times |
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| Topic: Current Events |
2:43 am EST, Oct 31, 2001 |
"China is also extending support and cooperation to the Taliban government, but the shape of this cooperation cannot be disclosed." Taliban leader cites help by China -- The Washington Times |
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| Topic: Technology |
6:25 pm EST, Oct 29, 2001 |
"The camera could pick up a muzzle flash and a sound of a gun firing, and it would autonomously direct counter-fire," Davis said. Robot See, Robot Kill |
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news.telegraph.co.uk | US special unit 'stands by to steal atomic warheads' |
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| Topic: Current Events |
3:26 am EST, Oct 29, 2001 |
The CIA believes that Pakistani army officers sympathetic to the Taliban could pose a threat to Gen Musharraf, and that some of the country's estimated 24 nuclear warheads could be stolen by renegades within Pakistan's intelligence service, the ISI. news.telegraph.co.uk | US special unit 'stands by to steal atomic warheads' |
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John Shirley: Glimpses of the 21st Century |
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| Topic: Sci-Fi/Fantasy Literature |
7:12 pm EDT, Oct 26, 2001 |
JLM: A noted cyberpunk author predicts the future. Linked from Plastic, where most people found fault with Shirley's comments. Your thoughts? Decius: Feeling less and less happy about living in a densly populated coastal city with that is internationally known. Rattle: Cool! When does the movie come out? John Shirley: Glimpses of the 21st Century |
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UK Times | The UK Gets Hip |
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1:55 am EDT, Oct 24, 2001 |
"CANNABIS will be reclassified so that possession of the drug is no longer an arrestable offence, David Blunkett announced yesterday, in the first relaxation of British drug laws in 30 years" UK Times | The UK Gets Hip |
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| Topic: Humor |
1:54 am EDT, Oct 24, 2001 |
"(Iraqi) Foreign Minister Naji Sabri last week denied any link to the U.S. anthrax cases, telling reporters: ``It's bullshit.''" How often do you get a "Foreign Minister" to start cursing at you? :) Iraq: Its Bullshit! |
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SFGate | San Francisco, Biowar test site |
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| Topic: Current Events |
3:17 pm EDT, Oct 22, 2001 |
The Army kept the biological-warfare tests secret until word of them was leaked to the press in the 1970s. Between 1949 and 1969, when President Nixon ordered the Pentagon's biological weapons destroyed, open-air tests of biological agents were conducted 239 times, according to the Army's testimony in 1977 before the Senate's subcommittee on health. In 80 of those experiments, the Army said it used live bacteria that its researchers at the time thought were harmless, such as the Serratia that was showered on San Francisco. In the others, it used inert chemicals to simulate bacteria. SFGate | San Francisco, Biowar test site |
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