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December 17 New Jersey outlaws capital punishment. US Congressman Peter Stark |
2007 | George W. Bush tells "60 Minutes" interviewer Scott Pelley that the Iraqi people owe the American people a huge debt of gratitude. | |
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China eases restrictions on Wikipedia
New York Metropolitan Opera goes online Complete works of Charles Darwin go online |
2006 | Chinese jail porn site chief jailed for life | |
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| July 28 IRA lays down arms. | 2005 | June
Time magazine agrees to surrender confidential documents demanded by a
Washington special prosecutor. June Fr. Daniel and his charges crucify and asphyxiate Maricica Irina Cornici, a schizophrenic he deemed possessed by the devil. April China blocks pope forums |
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| P2P United offers to cover costs for a 12-year-old New York girl targeted in file-swapping lawsuit. | 2004 | ||
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Mike Showerman and Craig Steffen build supercomputer with 70 video game
machines. January 29 Nobel laureates denounce a US attack on Iraq. January 12 Gov. George Ryan commutes death sentences of all Illinois condemned. |
2003 | September
RIAA sues music-file swappers, including a 12-year-old girl, a 71-year-old
grandfather, a single mother. April 12 Looters sack Baghdad National Museum and library. |
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November 6 Scientists grow mouse embryos from cloned brain tumors.
October 8 Bugs trained to build circuit. September 28 Museum of Sex opens in New York. September 20 Engineers unveil air-powered car. September 19 Physicists Create Antimatter. September Scientists discover dark energy that causes accelerating expansion of the universe. August 6 Manindra Agrawal develops algorithm for determining whether or not a given number is prime. |
2002 |
December 30 China closes thousands of Internet cafes.
December 27 Bush administration rushes to condemn human cloning. December 26 Raelains cult claims birth of first human clone. November 27 Court balks at rhyming judge. |
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| April 11 Dutch Senate legalizes euthanasia. | 2001 | October 26 President
Bush signs the Patriot Act into law. An unidentified bioterroist mails anthrax-infected letters to prominent Americans in New York and Washington DC. September 11 Islamic religious fanatics drive airplanes into World Trade Center towers and US Pentagon. April 20 Court blocks publication of Gone With the Wind sequel. |
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