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Friday, January 24, 2003 |
Malcolm X. "The future belongs to those who prepare for it today."
10:23:42 AM 
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The Lost Cosmonauts: "One day in early 1961, weeks before Yuri Gagarin's epic space flight, instead of the usual beeping tones which they had become accustomed to hear, they were startled by a sound which signaled a new chapter in the history of mankind: there, in the listening center of "Torre Bert", these two young students heard, clearly and unequivocally, the beat of a failing heart and the last gasping breaths of a dying cosmonaut." [From the Desktop of Dane Carlson]
10:21:52 AM
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180m jobless globally. The number of unemployed people in the world reached a record 180 million at the end of last year, 20 million more than at the beginning of 2001 and 80 million more than in 1990, according to the International Labour Organisation.
10:15:42 AM
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Goodmorning from Old Europe! We're even further west than Germany, which together with France have been labled 'old europe' by defence secretary Rumsfeld. Too bad he couldn't even name one country that belongs to 'new europe'.
The soundbite of Rumsfeld has been playing over and over on news and talk shows all across old and new europe.
9:50:35 AM
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Actress and singer Nell Carter, best known for her role as the housekeeper in the TV sitcom "Gimme a Break!", died Thursday. She was 54.
9:43:06 AM
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