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Saturday, August 30th, 2003
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| 2:04p | Got Milk? Souped-Up British Milk Van Sets Speed Record Fri August 29, 2003 07:07 AM ET LONDON (Reuters) - A Welsh race-car driver claimed the first milk van speed record Thursday after zooming at 73 mph in a souped-up electric machine. Electric milk vans, called "floats," are one of the quintessential features of British life, designed decades ago to run in silence, so the legend goes, to avoid waking slumbering citizens when the milkman drops off pints of milk at dawn. The floats have not been known for their speed until Welsh Formula 3 racer Richard Rozhon got behind the wheel of his brand new Electron E150 on a track at the Bruntingthorpe Aerodrome in central England. Rozhon was at something of a loss to describe the experience. "It's a radical designed futuristic vehicle," he told Reuters by telephone. "Something sort of out of the space age. It's a futuristic looking milk float." Rozhon said he set the speed mark with no milk bottles on board, but guessed it could go nearly as fast when fully loaded. Another team tried to set a record in a conventional float on the same day but barely got to 50 mph. Current Mood:  amused |
| 2:05p | My word... Melting Alpine Ice Unveils Decades-Old Corpses Fri August 29, 2003 07:06 AM ET ZURICH (Reuters) - A Swiss father who searched for his mountaineer son's missing body for 18 years thought his quest had paid off this week when a glacier, thawing in Europe's record heat, gave up a corpse. The young son and a companion vanished in 1985 while scaling the Titlis peak in the central Swiss Alps. Officials concluded strong winds blew them off the mountainside as they bivouacked. The man's father, who police have not named, made dozens of trips to the area to seek his remains over the years, finding nothing but bits of equipment. But police said Thursday he had discovered a corpse the day before that had been uncovered by a receding ice pack. "Yesterday (the father) thought it was his son. Today he says it is the friend," a police spokesman said. "I would leave this wide open for the moment ... We don't know if it is the body of his son, his son's companion or someone else." Several other people have gone missing in the area over the years. The decomposed body was given to forensics experts for tests. Thawing Alpine ice has yielded several bodies this summer. German hiker Helmut Weiss, last seen in 1971, was found this week at an altitude of 8,860 feet near Ischgl in Austria, German police said Thursday. A group of German hikers came upon his decomposed upper body Tuesday, protruding 32 inches from the ice. He was identified by items in his wallet. Austrian Police said the bodies of an Austrian and Canadian had been also found in the mountainous Tyrol province alone. In July, hikers discovered the body of a German woman missing since 1956 near Kaprun in another part of Austria. "Maybe we will even find a new Oetzi," a German police spokesman said, referring to a mummified 5,000-year-old corpse whose discovery in Alpine ice in 1991 caused a sensation. Hikers who found "Oetzi" first mistook him for an unlucky mountaineer. Current Mood:  cynical |
| 2:06p | Greetings President Clinton. Clinton Narrates Wolf-Friendly Peter and the Wolf Fri August 29, 2003 06:56 AM ET LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Sergei Prokofiev's musical fairy tale Peter and the Wolf is popular with children but not with wolf lovers, and two former world leaders -- Bill Clinton and Mikhail Gorbachev -- aim to put that right in a new recording. They have teamed up in a new recording that couples the tale with a contemporary version featuring the same two protagonists but a very different ending. Prokofiev's version ends with Peter capturing the wolf and leading a triumphant procession to the zoo, paining music-loving environmentalists with romantic visions of wolves in the wild. In the new version, narrated by former U.S. president Clinton and called Wolf Tracks, Peter again captures the wolf, but this time repents of his act and releases the animal, who howls a grateful goodbye. "Forgetting his triumph, Peter thought instead of fallen trees, parched meadows, choked streams, and of each and every wolf struggling for survival," Clinton narrates. "The time has come to leave wolves in peace," he adds. French composer Jean-Pascal Beintus wrote the score for the new wolf-friendly version while former Soviet leader Gorbachev provides an introduction and epilogue. "In Prokofiev's classic, man dominates, but Wolf Tracks expresses quite different values of balance and tolerance. All of us hope for a future where these values are lived every day," Gorbachev said. Italian actress Sophia Loren narrates Prokofiev's traditional tale, which features the Russian National Orchestra conducted by Kent Nagano. It is to be released on the PentaTone Classics label on Sept. 23. Part of the proceeds will go to the New York-based Wolf Conservation Center, which supports the reintroduction of wolves into the wild. The accompanying booklet includes an article supposedly written by a wolf. "On behalf of all wolves, I would like to thank Kent Nagano and the Russian National Orchestra, Bill Clinton, Mikhail Gorbachev and Sophia Loren for coming together to make this recording," the wolf writes. Current Mood:  awake |
| 2:08p | Ergg AAAAAAAAAAAAH....school starts on Tuesday...*cry*, I don't wanna' go back, and I don't know who the h*ll my teachers are. They're all..well I dislike Ms. Hills like burning and Mr. Outlaw is on most people's Most Wanted List...so considering that..AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRGGGGGG.. This was the email I sent out to a haggle of people, if you didn't get it, read below. Greetings my fine-feathered friends! Well, my vacation was wonderful...I sat. Let's hope that we can all meet up again in grade 10, and torture our beloved, *wink*, fellow Dalewood alumni, mainly the grade 9's; we shall do so mainly through embarrassment. Haha, that'll be fun. The following is my schedule, please reply should you happen to be in one of my classes...aaaah...this compose thing is running on overwrite, i don't like that... Semester 1: Music- Instrumental................Ms. Hills (Arrrrrrrgh, give me Quinn, or give me..her?) Math- Academic....................Mrs. Steiner (Whatever happened to good ol' enriched math with Mrs. Miller? Aiiiiiiee...who's Mrs. Steiner?) English-Academic..................Mrs. Crawford (Crawford? What? Who are these people?! Ayeeee...I wanted Mr. Spree.) Canadian History- 20th Century...Mr. Outlaw (Shoot me, shoot me, now. I thought it'd be over by the end of history...at least it isn't Crapsi, I would've preferred Mr. Moll, or Mr. Smith...or Ms. Dick..haha, spotted dick, look, man!) Semester 1: Career Studies................Riiiiight, career studies, like I had a choice, I'll have to get all my certificates and junk organized...*snort* organized, like that'll happen. Computer & Information Science...................Hmmmm....yes, fun, a class for computer nerds, I'll have to brush up on my jargon... Science-academic..................I rather miss science, actually. I would rather take chemistry...a bit more explosive...haha, the periodic table is my friend. *cough* Core French- Academic...Oui, le francais, je ne sais pas pourqoui j'ai voulu apprendre...yeeeees...well I have until next semester to get dumb. Haha....dumb. Maybe I'll get Mme. Dreossi again, she was a good teacher. Better her than that Gionet woman. -Yin the Magnificent ---------------------------------------- Very conscious of everybody still staring at him, Harry descended the stairs, stowing his wand in the back pocket of his jeans as he came. "Don't put your wand there, boy!" roared Moody. "What if it ignited? Better wizards than you have lost buttocks, you know!" Jake Rowling has officially run out of ideas. AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA I'm hungry, well, maybe I'll get someone to bike downtown with me, it's cheaper than the bus, and more environmental friendly than getting a ride. Eh? |
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