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21. februar 2003
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FTC accuses cancer clinic of fraud
After a long-time undercover investigation, the US Federal Trade Commision now accuses Cell Specific Cancer Therapy, who has been selling "electromagnetic cancer treatments" at its Mexican clinic, of being a pure sham. Patients had paid $15,000 for the treatment that officials say not only cheated people out of their money, they also made patients lose time in using real treatments.
7:11:30 PM 
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Worse than I thought
Is it favor or favour? Theater or theatre? Organisation or organization? That all depends on whether you try to write American or British English, which is just similar enough to confuse, yet different enough to, well, confuse. So how bad is it? Well, look for yourself. And that isn't even complete.
6:58:44 PM
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US oil plant explosion
"A massive explosion has struck an oil and gas facility on Staten Island, on the outskirts of New York City. " (BBC News)
Breaking news right now.
4:50:20 PM
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British workers 'denied toilet breaks'
 A study published today reveals that most British workers are too busy to go to the toilet, one in four are reluctant to do so since the facilities are in a horrible order, and some even have their pay cut every time they relieve themselves.
Amazingly, while the laws require quality lavatories to exist, a loophole allows businesses to deny their employees to use them at convenience.
The Trades Union Congress (TUC) is now launching the campaign "Gotta Go" to make bosses respect their workers' natural needs.
4:05:04 PM
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Strike boosts Venezuelan Viagra sale
During the general strike the sale of Viagra in Venezuela has skyrocketed. Apparently, a number of Venezuelans have used the time productively, and men with erectile dysfunctions have taken steps to join in the fun.
However, reading Miguel's blog makes me wonder if the reason is not related to all the beautiful Venezuelan women protesting.
5:46:42 AM
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Afraid of Patriot Act, booksellers start purging records
A number of booksellers across the USA are starting to purge their customer records, so if the government comes to ask what suspicious people have on their reading list, they can tell they don't know.
The 2001 Patriot Act gives government broad powers to seek whatever records it wants if it claims the purpose is to fight terrorism or hostile intelligence gathering. In fact, those targeted can't challenge the request; it is a crime to even tell anyone about the request. To say that civil rights activists are concerned is an understatement, but givernment spokesmen insist they will only use these broad powers when it is absolutely necessary for national security reasons. Honest! Trust us!
4:03:08 AM
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The jury is in: dieting doesn't work
A large European study of diets confirms what many of us has suspected for a long time: lots of people try to lose weight, hardly anybody succeeds. If anything, it is worse than suspected. Last year, 231 million EU citizens tried to lose weight. Less than four million - around 1 per cent - succeeded in achieving permanent weight loss.
 Still, perhaps the least successful industry in the world, second only to religion, continues to make enormous profits. Dieters in the UK spent more than £10bn last year on diet products, second only to Germans in Europe. EU-wide, the market for weight-loss food and drink grew from £56.6bn in 1998 to £62.3bn in 2002.
Repeat after me: diets don't work!
If you reduce your body's intake of energy, the body will simply adapt, sow ehn you go back to normal you will get fatter. If you start exercising, you will get more hungry, and are unleikly to lose wight (but will get lots of other health benefits). The only thing that works is to do both at the same time. There is no product you can buy or programme to attend to lose weight.
Only a complete change in lifestyle, including but not limited to diet and exercise, will help. But it's worth it.
2:48:59 AM
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Turkey for sale
Turkey, NATO's only muslim country and the only country bordering Iraq, is shamelessly asking the US to buy them to their side in the conflict over Iraq. Ankara wants $32 billion, or the US can forget the northern front.
2:07:37 AM
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Last update: 01.03.2003; 00:15:16.
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