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Thursday, Nov 29, 2001

a snowballs chance

history of snowball earth

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headline of the day

Dwarf Makes Pitch To Legalize Tossing

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now cough

BERLIN (Reuters) - The anthrax attacks in the United States were probably the work of a member of a U.S. biological warfare program, the magazine of environment pressure group Greenpeace Germany reported Wednesday.

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din of history

OSLO (Reuters) - The Viking god Odin may have been a real king who lived in what is now southern Russia 2,000 years ago, Norwegian explorer Thor Heyerdahl said in a controversial new book on Thursday.

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so far away

hersh on iran
safire on iran

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free wiily

wired williamsburg

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general dismay

"It is amazing to me that Ashcroft is essentially trying to dismantle the bureau," said Oliver "Buck" Revell, a former FBI executive assistant director who was the primary architect of the FBI anti-terrorism strategy during the 1980s. "They don't know their history," he said, "and they are not listening to people who do."

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all for one

"In a dazzling coup, Russian President Vladimir Putin stole a march on the Bush administration, which was so busy trying to tear apart Afghanistan to find bin Laden it failed to notice the Russians were taking over half the country."

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Wednesday, Nov 28, 2001

summers end

"CAMBRIDGE - After a quiet few months as Harvard University's new president, former US treasury secretary Lawrence H. Summers has begun using the post as a bully pulpit to forward a bold idea: In response to the Sept. 11 attacks, the academic world should get more in line with mainstream Americans. "

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a word from our sponsors

"In cineplexes nationwide, it's hurry up and wait. Audiences are sitting longer than ever through what theater owners politely call the "pre-show." A generation or so ago, the pre-show might have meant a short comedy or a cartoon, and perhaps a couple of "coming attractions." Now the pre-show is all business, consisting of slides advertising local businesses, commercials for sneakers and sitcoms and an ever-growing number of trailers."

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