Category: The World
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Pay As You Play
Microsoft has a new idea. Instead of selling you a copy of Windows to run your computer, they want you to <a href="http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=31850">rent a copy</a> and keep making you pay for it over and over again. This is supposed to help the poorer people access computers.<br />n<br />n<blockquote>Microsoft has been reluctant to lower the price…
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Sad State of Affairs
<a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2006/05/13/npreg13.xml"> Pregnant at 11 and 'happy to be a mum'</a><br />n<br />n<blockquote>A 12-year-old girl will become Britain's youngest mother when she gives birth next month.<br />n<br />nShe became pregnant at the age of 11 when she lost her virginity to a 15-year-old boy during a drunken night out.<br />n<br />n…..<br />n<br />nThe girl, from…
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Cowboys Who Don’t Know How To Ride
<a href="http://www.csmonitor.com/2006/0509/p01s02-woap.html">Australian cowboys learn once again how to ride a horse</a><br />n<br />n<blockquote>What sort of self-respecting cowboy doesn't know how to ride a horse?<br />n<br />nApparently, the Australian kind. Many jackaroos and stockmen on the country's huge cattle ranches, or stations, have grown accustomed since the 1960s to rounding up herds with helicopters, motorbikes, and…
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The New All Terrain Vehicle
<a href="http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20060429/wl_nm/brazil_army_dc">Brazil's army drafts water buffalo for Amazon role</a><br />n<br />n<blockquote>Brazil's army has started drafting a low-tech but effective transporter for its Amazon operations to complement its modern military arsenal — water buffalo.<br />n<br />nThe sturdy horned animals can easily carry supplies and munitions in remote areas where there are no roads, fuel is scarce,…
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Useless or Not
<a href="http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20060416/od_nm/germany_cat_dc">Cat saves baby's life</a><br />n<br />n<blockquote>A cat saved the life of a newborn baby abandoned on the doorstep of a Cologne house in the middle of the night by meowing loudly until someone woke up, a police spokesman said Saturday.<br />n<br />n"The cat is a hero," Cologne police spokesman Uwe Beier said. "Its loud…
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I am Surprised
<a href="http://news.yahoo.com/s/cmp/20060407/tc_cmp/184429528">Study: Child Porn Isn't Illegal in Most Countries</a><br />n<br />n<blockquote>At a press conference in Washington, D.C., the International Centre for Missing and Exploited Children and other participants including Microsoft presented a study on Thursday that reveals the woeful inadequacy of child pornography laws around the world.<br />n<br />nThe ICMEC's global policy review of child…
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Loyalty
<a href="http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20060404/od_uk_nm/oukoe_uk_india_books">"Loyal" donkeys better than wives, says India book"</a><br />n<br />n<blockquote>A textbook used at schools in the Indian state of Rajasthan compares housewives to donkeys, and suggests the animals make better companions as they complain less and are more loyal to their "masters", The Times of India reported on Tuesday.<br />n<br />n"A donkey is like…
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Freedom Not
<a href="http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/A/AFGHAN_CHRISTIAN_CONVERT?SITE=MTBIL&SECTION=INTERNATIONAL&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT">Afghan convert may be unfit for trial</a><br />n<br />n<blockquote>An Afghan man facing a possible death penalty for converting from Islam to Christianity may be mentally unfit to stand trial, a state prosecutor said Wednesday amid growing international condemnation of the case.<br />n<br />nAbdul Rahman, 41, has been charged with rejecting Islam, a crime under…
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Speech
<blockquote>Mr Irving, 68, faces up to 10 years in jail in Austria, where Holocaust denial is a criminal offence.</blockquote><br />n<br />n<a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/4730832.stm">Holocaust denial</a> is a criminal offense. I guess free speech doesn't exist there. He is wrong, the holocaust did happen but I can't believe the denial of it is a criminal offense. For as…
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True Reason For Beef Ban
<a href="http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060209/ap_on_re_as/japan_whale_for_sale">Whale Meat Glut a Problem for Japan</a><br />n<br />n<blockquote>But Tokyo has a dilemma: by rapidly expanding its whale hunt, Japan now kills more of the giant mammals than its consumers care to eat.<br />n<br />nThe result is an unprecedented glut of whale meat. Prices