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The creator of Loverspy, software to surreptitiously
observe individuals’ online activities, has been indicted for allegedly
violating U.S. federal computer privacy laws.
If convicted, Carlos Enrique Perez-Melara, could face a maximum sentence
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WASHINGTON — The ozone layer has stopped shrinking, but it will take
decades to start recovering, US scientists reported yesterday.
The specialists credited, at least in part, the 1987 Montreal Protocol,
which was ratified by more than 180 nations and set legally […]

Panicked by rumors of a suicide bomber, thousands of Shiite pilgrims
broke into a stampede on a bridge during a religious procession Wednesday,
crushing one another or plunging 30 feet into the muddy Tigris river. About
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Swaziland’s King Mswati III, attends the annual reed dance in Ludzidzini,
Swaziland, Monday, Aug. 29, 2005, where young girls perform a dance
after days of gathering reeds to present to the king. The annual reed
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“At least Whitey Bulger has the decency to hide.”
WEEI morning host John Dennis on recent stories concerning Bernard “Pimp Cardinal” Law, who was punished for abetting and facilitating the rape of hundreds of youths in Boston at the hands of area clergy by being put in charge of a Cathedral and staff in Rome.

BERLIN (Reuters) - Berlin’s mayor Klaus Wowereit on
Tuesday fended off criticism for giving an official welcome to a sado-masochism
festival expected to draw thousands of leather-clad visitors to the German
capital this weekend.
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Ross Gelspan, in the Boston
Globe, argues
that not only Katrina but all the weird weather we’ve been experiencing,
are by-products of global warming, and he’s not a crackpot…

THE HURRICANE
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The
Associated
Press released a rather astounding piece today in which Darth
Rumsfield makes an Orwellian argument that the military
is actually on the same side as […]

A robot that recognises up to 10 faces
and understands 10,000 words is to be offered to Japanese consumers looking
for a high-tech helper in the house.
The one-metre tall humanoid Wakamaru robot is being marketed […]

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Joseph Druce may now claim he did not kill notorious
pedophile priest John Geoghan in his cell, or if he did, he did it to "save
the kids."
But a macabre video shot in Druce’s cell shortly after the murder of […]

LUDZIDZINI ROYAL VILLAGE, Swaziland (Reuters) - More
than 50,000 bare-breasted virgins vied to become the King of Swaziland’s
13th wife on Monday in a ceremony which critics say ill befits a country
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