Tuesday, 6 July 2004
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C.I.A. Held Back Iraqi Arms Data, Officials Say
Relatives of Iraqi scientists said before the war that Baghdad's unconventional weapons programs had been abandoned, but the C.I.A. failed to inform the president. [New York Times: International]
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Football fever as Peru hosts Copa
Excitement mounts in Peru as it prepares for the opening match of the Copa America on Tuesday. [BBC News | World | UK Edition] Alright. I turned on the tv tonight to watch the news and as I flipped past TeleLatino I saw soccer . . . in Spanish! Yes, time to practice.
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'Friendly-fire' US pilot punished
A US pilot who bombed a team of Canadian troops in Afghanistan, killing four of them, has been fined and reprimanded. [BBC News | World | UK Edition]
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Better night vision through cannabis
Life: Researchers claim to have found a new property in cannabis - it helps us see in the dark. [Guardian Unlimited]
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Blair says Iraq WMDs may never be found
Politics: Tony Blair admits for the first time that weapons of mass destruction may never be found in Iraq, but refuses to apologise for invasion. [Guardian Unlimited]
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Kerry chooses Edwards
John Kerry names North Carolina senator John Edwards as his running mate for the US presidential election this November, saying he couldn't wait to see him go "toe-to-toe with Dick Cheney". [Guardian Unlimited]
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Mexico City Mayor Complains of Persecution (AP)
AP - Leftist Mexico City Mayor Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador said Tuesday that conservative forces were putting the country's stability at risk by using legal maneuvers to prevent him from running for president. [Yahoo! News - World]
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U.S. 'friendly fire' pilot found guilty of dereliction of duty
The U.S. fighter pilot who accidentally dropped a bomb on Canadian soldiers in Afghanistan two years ago, killing four of them, has been found guilty of dereliction of duty by the U.S Air Force.
FULL STORY [CBC News]
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Software Lets You "Hijack" the Sounds on Your Computer
Reviews of Rogue Amoeba Software's Audio Hijack for Mac OSX, and High Criteria's Total Recorder for Windows, software that lets you capture audio from any source or application on your PC (Seattle Times, 26-Jun-2004) [DVD Audio Daily]
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DVD-Audio: Auryn Quartet - French String Quartets...
Gorgeous - if unconventional - surround sound, plus attractive performances by Germany's Auryn Quartet of the popular chamber music pairing of Debussy and Ravel String Quartets (plus the less-well-known Faure String Quartet) make TACET's latest DVD-Audio release a worthy addition to any collection of multichannel classics, even if the DVD-A package itself is a disappointment (DVD-Audio Daily, 3-Jun-2003) [DVD Audio Daily]
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SatRadio Blog: A blog about, wait for it, Satellite Radio
The rss file is not advertised on the site that I could find but it is here.
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