“NEW YORK — Offering a simpler and cheaper path to divorce, an ever-growing array of dot-coms, computer-savvy lawyers and state court officials are encouraging unhappily married Americans to arrange their breakups online.”
Wired News: Divorce, Online Style
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“A PERUVIAN philosophy student took her virginity off the auction block after an anonymous benefactor lent her the tuition money she lacked.”
NEWS.com.au | Virgin halts ‘chastity auction’ (May 25, 2003)
“JESUS was gay and so were at least three of his 12 disciples, according to a Melbourne academic.”
NEWS.com.au | Jesus was gay claim (May 29, 2003)
Clinton Wants Change in Presidential Term Limits
Clinton Wants Change in Presidential Term Limits (washingtonpost.com)
All those hours spent playing video games may not be wasted time after all: A new study suggests action-packed video games like “Grand Theft Auto III” and “Counter-Strike” may sharpen your mind.
Salon.com Life | Study says some video games boost perception
“BEIJING – Basketball star Yao Ming is suing Coca-Cola’s Chinese subsidiary in an effort to stop it from using his picture on commemorative bottles sold in his hometown of Shanghai.”
Yao sues Coca-Cola for 12 cents
“Created by the CIA in Saigon in 1967, Phoenix was a program aimed at “neutralizing”葉hrough assassination, kidnapping, and systematic torture葉he civilian infrastructure that supported the Viet Cong insurgency in South Vietnam. It was a terrifying “final solution” that violated the Geneva Conventions and traditional American ideas of human morality.” (For a full introduction to Phoenix, see below.)
“NORFOLK, Va. – A federal jury has ruled that eBay’s model for selling fixed-price merchandise violates a patent filed by a Virginia attorney, a ruling that could force the online auction house to shed as much as a third of its total business.”
Yahoo! News – EBay Ordered to Pay $35M in Patent Case
