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About 90 percent of the mostly mud-brick buildings in the ancient Silk Road city collapsed in last Friday's quake, killing at least 30,000 people in one of the world's worst natural disasters in recent decades. This is very cool - SUN bought Cobalt for 2.2Billion and then let it languish eventually killing it off. As one who has blogged several times (as recently as a few days ago ) about the mysteriously evanescent United Nations oil-for-food money for Iraq, I was intrigued by today's Agence France Presse report posted on Aljazeera--UN hands Iraqi funds to occupying forces. It was first destroyed in an earthquake almost 1900 years ago. The city was again almost totally razed by an earthquake in 1911. But by the 1930s it had remerged as a trading centre and a producer of dates and pistachios. The mullahs claimed that the Shah had wished to keep Bam empty because of a secret plan under which the city would be turned into a Zoroastrian centre.

The discovery that so many people died because cynical developers and bribe-taking mullahs wished to make a fast buck has sent a shock wave throughout the country. Most Iranians knew nothing of the racket that the earthquake has exposed. Taheri also points out that the city has been destroyed by earthquake several times before: bq. Thus more than 50 per cent of those who died in the recent earthquake could be regarded as victims of a racket ran by mullahs and their associates with the help of religious prejudice and superstition. He says: bq. The racket was backed by a group of powerful mullahs who, in exchange for a cut in the proceeds, issued fatwas (religious opinions) that canceled government orders that banned house-building in the city. FIRST STOCK EXCHANGE OPENS (IPS 3 Jan 95, by Nhial Bol) KHARTOUM - Sudan has marked the new year by opening its first ever stock exchange and launching a factory that will print the country's banknotes. The visit would be the first exposure of outside experts to the site since Pyongyang expelled U.N. First Libya opens their doors, now North Korea. Bush administration said Friday the privately arranged trip should not delay the renewal of six-party negotiations over the North Koreans' weapons program.

Excellent commentary by Roger L. Simon regarding the accountability of the UN in their administering of the Oil for Food program. However, instead of the common response of reverence and awe for one of our own who has made it, libertarians should greet the whole affair with deep suspicion: If hes so devoted a libertarian, how come hes a favorite of the Establishment? Our team of technicians is knowledgeable in all aspects of furnace installation, ensuring that your furnace is installed correctly and meets all local codes and regulations. Jan 2, 2004 - All indications are that the Stardust had a successful flyby of Comet Wild 2 today. But because the state is the body that interprets this document, its powers have consistently been given an expansive definition, and black note our liberties a restricted one. With this institute, our experts will work together to globally lead responsible AI development that spurs economic growth and promotes human well-being,Ó says UMD President Darryll J. Pines. And the emergence of pod system kits precisely broke that. In this article, we will review 19 useful bandwidth
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Linux system. Another excellent essay - this time in Commentary magazine: bq.

As I've pointed out time and time again the consumer server appliance market is really beginning to take off. Romeo says, ÒI needed someone who was creative and willing to take the plunge with us. The judge's decision denied "the prosecution's effort to launch the most dangerous assault on investigative journalism and the free press in the area of national security that we have seen in decades," according to Harvard law professor Yochai Benkler, who testified in Manning's defense. Discussions of laws keeping guns out of the hands of people who should not have them are well-intended, but the sheer number of guns means people are going to obtain guns for the foreseeable future. I've known for a while now that some engineers at Sun were working on open sourcing the software behind my beloved Qube 3, a product that I've often raved about here on Ars. MassRoots alleges that the decision to deny the social media platform a place on Nasdaq was due to the fact that marijuana use and cultivation remains a federal crime. Unfortunately I was sworn to secrecy on the matter for various reasons. According to the AFP, the Security Council transferred $2.6 billion from this United Nations account to the US-led coalition managed Fund for دكتور فيب السعودية the Development of Iraq "in the closing hours of 2003." bq.