Category: News
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Recounting the days of his life – Features
In his softly lit bedroom, former SJSU photojournalism professor Joe Swan looked down at the nonexistent bump in the bed sheet where his legs should be. “I’m pretty well bedridden,” Swan said in his slow Texas twang. “If I keep getting healthier – if you can use that term for somebody fatally ill – I…
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CGI Team Creates Realistic Oscar For Michael Bay | The Onion – America's Finest News Source
A leading team of CGI experts hand-selected by blockbuster producer and director Michael Bay has pushed the limits of what can be accomplished with special effects and digital imaging by creating a computer- generated best-director Oscar for the 43-year-old filmmaker. The $125 million project, funded entirely by Bay, has been called one of the most…
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Web Site That Posts Leaked Material Ordered Shut – New York Times
: In a move that legal experts said could present a major test of First Amendment rights in the Internet era, a federal judge in San Francisco on Friday ordered the disabling of a Web site devoted to disclosing confidential information. The site, Wikileaks.org, invites people to post leaked materials with the goal of discouraging…
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Back To Shooting: Bling shopping
Yep, in a fit of incredible nervousness I asked her to marry me. And through an incredible fit of tears, she accepted! I’ll post the ring on Friday, when we get to pick it up. Check it out here.
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Jasmina Tešanović: Kosovo – Boing Boing
Today, 17 February. at 15 hours Kosovo province unilaterally declared its independence from Serbia. It been ten years now since I wrote my “Diary of a Political Idiot,” a book that started with riots in Kosovo. Although I’ve tried to stop writing that book, I have never been allowed to. The Balkan disorder became the…
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State of the Art: Star of Lauren Greenfield Doc Dead of Apparent Suicide
: Polly Ann Williams, one of the women featured in Lauren Greenfield’s THIN, the HBO documentary about women battling eating disorders, died Friday, Feb. 8 in what media outlets are calling an apparent suicide. The 33-year-old Williams was an aspiring photographer and a lobbyist for the National Eating Disorders Association. Her family asks those who…
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Editorial Photographers UK | UK photographer kidnapped in Iraq
Richard Butler was kidnapped in the southern city of Basra on Sunday, a police source told the Voices of Iraq (VOI) news agency. Check it out here.
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Denmark Police Arrest Several in Cartoonist Plot
Danish police said Tuesday they have arrested several people suspected of plotting to kill one of the 12 cartoonists behind the Prophet Muhammad drawings that sparked a deadly uproar in the Muslim world two years ago. The arrests were made in pre-dawn raids in Aarhus, western Denmark, “to prevent a terror-related murder,” the police intelligence…
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Ritual of Dealing With Demons Undergoes a Revival – washingtonpost.com
POCZERNIN, Poland — This wind-swept village is bracing for an invasion of demons, thanks to a priest who believes he can defeat Satan. The Rev. Andrzej Trojanowski, a soft-spoken Pole, plans to build a “spiritual oasis” that will serve as Europe’s only center dedicated to performing exorcisms. With the blessing of the local Catholic archbishop…
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After Evacuation, Artists Begin an Effort to Save Their Haven – New York Times
: The tale of the warehouse-turned-loft building by the banks of the East River in Brooklyn seemed a familiar one, at first. Artists move into a decrepit building, quietly rehabilitate it, live and work there. The city eventually catches on and issues a flurry of violations, forcing the artists into the streets. Developers circle, landlords…
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Polaroid shutting 2 Mass. facilities, laying off 150 – The Boston Globe
Polaroid Corp., the Massachusetts company that gave the world instant film photography, is shutting down its film manufacturing lines in the state and abandoning the technology that made the company famous. “The Norwood plant is shutting down, and we will soon be winding down activities at the Waltham facility as well,” said Kyle MacDonald, senior…
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World Leaders Gather To Roast Mahmoud Ahmadinejad | The Onion – America's Finest News Source
: GENEVA—In what observers are calling an unprecedented opportunity for the international community to express its grievances against Iran’s controversial leader, dozens of world leaders and key U.N. delegates gathered Saturday to roast Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. The event, which took place beneath U.N. headquarters in the historic Geneva Friars Club, brought together the heads…
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Virginia Beach police seize photos from Abercrombie store | HamptonRoads.com | PilotOnline.com
: Police, saying they were responding to citizen complaints, carted away two large promotional photographs from the Abercrombie & Fitch store in Lynnhaven Mall on Saturday and cited the manager on obscenity charges. Adam Bernstein, a police spokesman, said the seizure and the issuance of the summons came only after store management had not heeded…
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We Must All Do Our Part To Preserve This Climate Of Fear | The Onion – America's Finest News Source
: Not so very long ago, we winced every time we saw someone with facial hair or a backpack. Average people were terrified of opening their mail for fear of getting a face full of anthrax. Those were perhaps our country’s greatest days. Yet that once-phobic spirit that defined our times is drastically changing. Today,…
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India Uncovers Kidney Racket – washingtonpost.com
: “When I woke up after several hours, I felt a pain in my right side,” Saleem recalled, sitting on a metal cot in a city hospital ward. “The men said, ‘We have removed your kidney, and you better not breathe a word about it.’ My life broke into pieces when I heard that.” Saleem…
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'Dear Palestinian Brothers . . . Please Return to Gaza' – washingtonpost.com
: Egyptian security forces tried unsuccessfully Friday to end the Palestinian exodus. Police cars drove through Egyptian border towns blaring the message: “Dear Palestinian brothers, when you have finished buying your goods, please return to Gaza. The border is closing.” Check it out here.
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The Sun News On-line | Wiveslive
The Sun News On-line | Wiveslive: “Ayobamidele Atinuke I personally don’t support premarital sex. The Bible doesn’t support it but we must be very realistic. Sometimes, the situation might warrant it to happen probably once a week. I must make it very clear that if it must happen at all, then it must be with…
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Denying Genocide in Darfur — and Americans Their Coca-Cola
Washington Post: Karl — a.k.a. John Ukec Lueth Ukec, the Sudanese ambassador to Washington — held a news conference at the National Press Club yesterday to respond to President Bush’s new sanctions against his regime. In his hour-long presentation, he described a situation in his land that bore no relation to reality. Genocide in the…
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My Life as a Diplomat
Nuruddin Farah, in the NYT: My subsequent meetings with the Islamists and their sympathizers were equally frustrating. There was no discussion of the peace plan that had brought me back to Somalia. Instead, the discussions centered on matters they deemed important: whether theaters should be open; whether girls could be permitted to wear jeans or…
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LA Weekly's LA People
From LA Weekly, a series of profiles of cool people. My favorites: Kelly Benway. “Fuck school, fuck a daytime job.” It just gets in the way, says Kelly Benway. You can tell right away that punk runs through Benway’s veins. Always has. She grew up with the Talking Heads, Blondie, Television and the Ramones. Stephen…