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PITTSBURGH, Sept. 11 – Comedian Tommy Chong
has been sentenced to nine months in federal prison and fined $20,000
for selling bongs and other drug paraphernalia over the Internet. Chong
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In 1946, Walt Disney and Salvador Dali, in one of cinema’s oddest
collaborations, teamed up on a short film called Destino. But Disney’s
studio ran into financial trouble and put the unfinished film on the
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The RIAA has certainly been getting a lot
of press in their campaign to intimidate millions of downloaders via
seemingly random subpeonas of 12-year-olds and grandfathers.  So
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The rising number of overweight, inactive
Americans is shaking the Food Guide Pyramid to its foundation. As the
U.S. Department of Agriculture prepares to revamp the pyramid in 2005,
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This handout is the first place winner of the National Science
Foundation and Science magazine inaugural Science & Engineering
Visualization Challenge, illustration category, entitled ‘Innolab 3D
File Manager’ by Adam Miezianko, Kristopher Rambish, Karen [...]

WASHINGTON, Sept. 12 – A C.I.A. technical
analysis has concluded that the voice on an audiotaped message broadcast
this week and represented as that of Osama bin Laden is probably authentic,
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Soon after I started blogging this year, I had the good fortune to be taken
in by the group of bloggers at Harvard’s
Berkman Center under the visionary
leadership of Dave Winer. I got the impression very early that Dave seemed
to be working towards a world in which EVERYBODY had [...]

Those were the days. When the CIA could meddle with impunity,
blogs and the internet didn’t exist, and the White House could change
a regieme faster and easier than changing the sheets in the Lincoln Bedroom.
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A team of physicists at Massachusetts Institute of Technology has created the coolest thing in the world. Using a labyrinth of lasers, lenses, and magnetic fields, the scientists chilled sodium gas to the lowest temperature ever recorded, half a billionth of a degree above absolute zero.
“Sometimes your strategy is just to go for the record,” [...]

An interesting
case out of Olympia, Washington. Police suspected William Bradley Jackson  of
the murder of his 9-year-old daughter, but had no evidence. So they
planted a GPS [...]