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Wikipedia to Verify the Contributors' Credentials |
 ...ve doubts about this suggestion, as there is no certainty in how all this would work. One of the suggestions was that the editors would fax copies of their degrees and certificates to the Wikipedia's offices. But how would the staff manage checking all of them?
Another idea was to introduce a "circle of trust". Here a trusted member of the community would be in charge of checking the documents.
Mr. Wales was quite optim... |
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Pills Against Insomnia Cause Sleepwalking |
 ...f sleeping drivers. Such people say that all they could remember was taking a pill and going to bed. However they wake up in their pajamas in the middle of the road and being interrogated by a police officer. Fortunately, there were no death reports of sleep-driving.
These reports from citizens have also gained some scientific background, as there is a series of institutions, foundations and scientists to run various tes... |
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Appointees are said to weaken the tobacco case |
 ...companies was weakened by the U.S. Justice Department. This statement was made by the prosecutor Sharon Eubanks.
She also said that certain political appointees in Attorney General Alberto Gonzales' office changed her closing speech and ordered her to make the witnesses change their testimonials in the trial of 2005.
Mrs. Eubanks' point of view is that those people have pulled certain strings and made the jurors say wha... |
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Children used in Iraq's attacks |
| ...Iraq rebels break all the ethics when using children in their car bombing attacks in Baghdad. This was the first but not the last of barbarous acts to find bypass ways to beguile security officers and fulfill their malicious plans.
A vehicle with two children and explosives passed the US millitary checkpoint while military officers were unsuspected of the danger. The presense of children misled security from checking t... |
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24-hours' Demonstration in front of Congresswoman's House |
 ...ould not leave, until Congresswoman Pelosi would fulfill their demands. The police have already ordered the crowd to leave Thursday night, but the protestors intend to resist the police.
One of the officers even said that these people can stay and do whatever they wanted, but they were not allowed to have all the things they brought along there.
A spokesman of the Congresswoman said that the vigil does not disturb Mrs.... |
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Intel officials go to Taiwan |
 ...The president and Chief Executive Officer of Intel, Paul Otellini, looks forward to visit Taiwan today. According to Intel Taiwan, his goal is to meet the partners of the company. This will be the first time that Paul Otellini visits Taiwan as Intel's CEO.
While in Taiwan Mr. Otellini will have a close-door meeting with the company's partners. The meeting will start in the morning of March 29. According to Intel Taiwan... |
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Berezovsky to Be Questioned by Russian Investigators in London |
| ...ovoy and Dmitri Kovtun, who turned into businessmen after resignation.
Scotland Yard, however, turned the case over to Britain's Crown Prosecution Service earlier this year; the Russian Prosecutor's Office started its own parallel investigation.
Mr. Berezovsky said the Russian team initially planned to question over 100 witnesses, yet only three of them consented, i.e. Berezovsky himself and Ahmed Zakayev, also in exile... |
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European Intelligence: In April U.S. Military Could Attack Iran |
 ...Russian Intelligence reports the fact that American military has almost finished its built-up near the Iranian frontier. An officer from the Russian Intelligence said in an interview to Russian news agency RIA Novosti the U.S. will be able to commence the attack in the first half of April. He also added that one cannot exclude the fact that after launching rockets at Iranian objects, suspected of producing nuclear weapons... |
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Secret US military data was disclosed thanks to porn images |
| ...Secret information on US combat system was accidentally exposed by Japanese officer after he exchanged porn files with another officer at work.
The naval officer intended to copy adult images that came along with the data on Aegis military system taken by accident from another officer's computer. Thus when he swapped the files with the petty officer of the lower rank, the latter was carelessly given the access to t... |
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2.3 million alcoholics live in Russia |
| ...istics show that in 2005 there were about 2,348,567 registered alcoholics in Russia. Besides drinking vodka and beer, Russiab alcoholics consume quite dubious liquid substances, including perfume and home-made vodka.
The expert at the psychiatric institute in Moscow, Alexander Nemtsov, told the Russian newspaper "Isvestiya" that one out of three death in Russia has a direct or indirect connection with alcohol consumpti... |
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Additional Billion PC Users for Microsoft |
 ...long to PC owners. By 2015 Microsoft hopes to reach the first billion. Governments will have an opportunity to purchase directly from Microsoft PCs for students to use in their school studies and at home. Gates will announce the program at a special forum launched for government leaders.
The collection of software will comprise Windows XP Starter Edition, Windows Live Mail Desktop, Office Home and Student 2007, as we... |
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President candidate's son caught with a gun |
| ...for wearing a weapon in the prohibited place. It is known that he and his father have a permission to posses a concealment holster weapon.
David had 40 caliber Glock pistol in his bag, Little Rock officer Arthur Nugent said. The gun had eight-round clip, although there was no cartridge in the chamber, and there were additional nine-round clip in his carry-on.
Presidential candidate, Mike Huckabee said that he consi... |
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Digital Photos Testify Against Domestic Abusers |
 ...nd or bruises that are difficult to notice on the dark complexion skin. When specialists magnify the pictures, there appear other wounds, like tiny cuts and broken capillaries.
By computer, police officers are able to transmit the pictures immediately to a database used by prosecutors of the city. When they used to take Polaroid photos, prosecutors subpoenaed a police officer to bring pictures to their office ... |
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Overcoming the Culture Shock with a Mobile Phone Game |
 ...ing in the UK for their studies. The developer of the game himself admits that when he arrived in the UK five years ago, he found everything very unusual and different from what he was used to see at home.
It was this fact that pushed Nipan Minar to design this electronic guide for his 'student fellows' as he said that when international students arrive in the UK, everything was different for them and they hardly know ... |
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Timeline of the events in Tallinn, Estonia |
| ...horities say that excavating the Soviet soldiers' grave is to start within a week.
April 22, 2007 - Hundreds of people bring flowers to the Soviet war monument.
April 23, 2007 - Estonian police officers are being called from their vacations.
April 24, 2007 - The digging of the Soviet soldiers' grave in Tallinn are planned for April 25. Estonian side is temporarily making the customs control on the country's borde... |
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