18. desember 2005

Santa Claus Is Camming to Town . Marketers have long relied on children as their most effective pitchmen. Kids get Mommy and Daddy to buy most anything. Now, kids are being enlisted to get their folks to sign up for Sony's video and voice Internet service. On a less-festive note, Showtime's new original series, "Sleeper Cell," is... By Frank Ahrens. [washingtonpost.com - Technology - Industry News, Policy, and Reviews] 6:22:50 PM    comment [] Vitamin D 'key for healthy lungs'. Vitamin D could play a key role in keeping the lungs healthy, research suggests. [BBC News | News Front Page | UK Edition] 6:21:08 PM    comment [] Bush to Cite Iraq Progress in Speech . President Bush hoped to quell mounting American anxiety about the Iraq war with an address to the nation Sunday night expected to tout last week's Iraqi elections as a hopeful sign of progress. By Caren Bohan. [washingtonpost.com - Business] 6:18:47 PM    comment [] Chad accuses Sudan after clashes. One hundred people in eastern Chad are reported killed in a rebel raid which the government blames on Sudan. [BBC News | News Front Page | UK Edition] 6:18:00 PM    comment [] DR Congo voting on constitution. Voters in DR Congo are voting on a new constitution, but many complain they do not know what it contains. [BBC News | News Front Page | UK Edition] 6:16:43 PM    comment [] Swiss hospital to allow suicide. A hospital in Lausanne becomes the first to allow assisted suicide for terminally-ill patients. [BBC News | News Front Page | UK Edition] 6:15:39 PM    comment [] Arms seized in Sydney beach raid. Australian police seize petrol bombs, swords and iron bars in a major effort to prevent further racial violence. [BBC News | News Front Page | UK Edition] 6:13:53 PM    comment [] Brown rift over EU budget denied. No 10 dismisses reports that Chancellor Gordon Brown is unhappy with the EU budget deal negotiated by Tony Blair. [BBC News | News Front Page | UK Edition] 6:12:47 PM    comment [] Elite French Schools Block the Poor's Path to Power. France's rigid educational system has reinforced the segregation of disadvantaged second-generation immigrant youths. By CRAIG S. SMITH. [NYT > Home Page] 6:11:15 PM    comment [] Spending: When PayPal Becomes the Back Office, Too. Many of the newest and smallest businesses find that using PayPal is more cost-effective than turning directly to a credit card company to process transactions. By JULIE BICK. [NYT > Technology] 6:10:05 PM    comment [] Essay: What Are the Blogs Saying About Me?. Blogs offer insight into what readers are thinking, but they can be a rough place for fragile egos. By PAMELA PAUL. [NYT > Technology] 6:09:02 PM    comment [] 'The Man Who Knew Too Much: Alan Turing and the Invention of the Computer,' by David Leavitt: Enigmatic. David Leavitt revisits the life and mysterious death of the cryptanalyst Alan Turing. By Review by GEORGE JOHNSON. [NYT > Technology] 6:07:48 PM    comment [] Two die in Gaza border incidents. Israeli troops kill a suspected militant in the north of the Gaza Strip, while a militant dies in a blast in the south. [BBC News | News Front Page | UK Edition] 6:05:44 PM    comment [] The Restless Children of the Dalai Lama. A new generation of Tibetan militants no longer sees nonviolence as the only path to independence from China. What will they do to free Tibet? By PANKAJ MISHRA. [NYT > Home Page] 6:04:44 PM    comment [] Agreement Reached at Trade Talks. The world's leading trading nations reached an agreement resolving a series of issues that have blocked a global trade agreement for the last three years. By KEITH BRADSHER. [NYT > Home Page] 6:03:30 PM    comment [] Cheney Makes Surprise Visit to Iraq. Vice President Dick Cheney proclaimed that last week's election showed tangible progress toward a stable democracy. By RICHARD W. STEVENSON. [NYT > Home Page] 6:02:54 PM    comment [] Chinese Pressing to Keep Village Silent on Clash. Residents of Dongzhou say that security forces have tried to prevent accounts of a violent crackdown from emerging. By HOWARD W. FRENCH. [NYT > Home Page] 12:33:56 AM    comment [] Family of five dies in house fire. Two adults and three children from the same family die in a fire overnight in west London. [BBC News | News Front Page | UK Edition] 12:32:43 AM    comment [] Critics condemn EU deal 'failure'. Opponents attack the deal reached by Tony Blair on the EU budget plans as a "spectacular failure". [BBC News | News Front Page | UK Edition] 12:30:31 AM    comment [] Tensions Rise as More Flee Cuba for U.S.. The number of Cubans intercepted at sea while trying to reach the U.S. is at its highest level since the 1994 exodus sanctioned by President Fidel Castro. By ABBY GOODNOUGH. [NYT > Home Page] 12:28:58 AM    comment [] Louisiana's Deadly Storm Took Both the Strong and the Helpless. A New York Times study found that most victims of Hurricane Katrina survived the storm but died in the flooding that followed. By SHAILA DEWANand JANET ROBERTS. [NYT > Home Page] 12:27:04 AM    comment [] In Speech, Bush Says He Ordered Domestic Spying. President Bush acknowledged that he had ordered the National Security Agency to conduct an electronic eavesdropping program without first obtaining warrants. By DAVID E. SANGER. [NYT > Home Page] 12:26:05 AM    comment [] Talks at W.T.O. Meeting Yield Little Progress. Trade ministers rebuffed American requests at a World Trade Organization conference in Hong Kong as police battled rioting South Korean farmers. By KEITH BRADSHER. [NYT > Home Page] 12:24:05 AM    comment [] Powell raps Europe on CIA flights. The ex-US secretary of state criticises European countries which deny knowledge of rendition of terror suspects. [BBC News | News Front Page | UK Edition] 12:23:03 AM    comment []

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