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May 31, 1993: “I remember the first time I prayed for an enemy. It was just outside An Khe, a village in the Central Highlands of Vietnam. A helicopter gunship rocketed some No. Vietnamese regulars who were about to attack us. I prayed for those kids. My top sergeant berated me for my prayer. I realized then that my enemy …” — John Samuel Tieman
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With millions of page views a day, torrent sites are a great outlet for spammers and scammers. Most recently, The Pirate Bay suffered from a spam flood. Thousands of spam comments posted on the site promised to speed up BitTorrent downloads to unrealistic heights, while installing an aggressive adware bundle.
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It followed the arc of Carlton Fisk’s home run in 1975, of Doug Flutie’s Hail Mary in 1984, of Garfield Heard’s turnaround jumper going up and Magic Johnson’s baby hook hovering over the Big Three and Michael Jordan’s last shot going down. It traced along the arc of those memories and by the end of its flight it had created a memory of its own.
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Men with stronger muscles from regular weight training are up to 40 per cent less likely to die from cancer than men who do not pump iron. The findings, by an international team of researchers, suggest muscular strength is as important as staying slim and eating healthily when it comes to protecting the body against deadly tumours.
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Once again we see a manufactured threat “taken down” to great media fanfare. Once again, behind the headlines and flashbulbs, a bogus, ginned up “entrapment of dumbest” case emerges.
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A Russian investment firm has offered to buy $200 million of preferred stock in Facebook at a $10 billion valuation, the WSJ’s Jessica Vascellaro says. Facebook has not yet responded to the offer.
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It’s easy to forget that the people responsible for creating the technologies we use everyday are, well%u2026 people too. And some of them do bad things.
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Researchers are now tracking the radio waves and x-rays produced by lightning, and they’re even experimenting with synthetic strikes (made with rockets!). Here’s their current thinking.
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North Korea has begun limited Internet service for mobile phone users, a government Web site reported, months after launching an advanced network in cooperation with an Egyptian telecommunications company.
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The military in Nigeria has been accused of killing 1,000 civilians in an upsurge against militants in the oil-rich Niger Delta. “They…bombard entire communities from the air, sea and land.” The military action has “resulted in over a thousand deaths, because we dared to ask for our rights,” said Victor Burubo. He called on the UN to intervene.
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