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China's tallest strive for records
(Reuters)

China's tallest strive for records
(Reuters) 02/01/2005 09:23 PM
Reuters - It's hard to stand out in a country of 1.3 billion, but hopes of a world record brought out some of China's most extraordinary citizens.

Models Use Tallest Skyscraper for
Vertical Catwalk (Reuters)

Models Use Tallest Skyscraper for
Vertical Catwalk (Reuters) 09/24/2004 11:07 AM
Reuters - The walls of the world's tallest skyscraper were used as a vertical catwalk Friday, with models rappelling down the building in Taiwan's capital Taipei in fashionable sports outfits.

Spiderman to Scale World's Tallest
Building (Reuters)

Spiderman to Scale World's Tallest
Building (Reuters) 12/24/2004 01:13 PM
Reuters - French "Spiderman" Alain Robert, a dare-devil climbing ace, plans to scale the world's tallest skyscraper, Taipei 101, in the Taiwan capital on Christmas Day, the building's management said Friday.

French Spiderman tackling world's
tallest building (Reuters)

French Spiderman tackling world's
tallest building (Reuters) 12/24/2004 01:13 PM
Reuters - French "Spiderman" Alain Robert, a dare-devil climbing ace, plans to scale the world's tallest skyscraper, Taipei 101, in the Taiwan capital on Christmas Day, the building's management says.

French Spiderman Climbs World's Tallest
Building (Reuters)

French Spiderman Climbs World's Tallest
Building (Reuters) 12/25/2004 05:14 PM
Reuters - Daredevil climber Alain Robert, known as the French Spiderman, defied stiff winds and rain to climb the world's tallest skyscraper, Taipei 101, in the Taiwan capital Saturday.

Uh, um and nationality and speech
recognition

Uh, um and nationality and speech
recognition 01/10/2004 09:38 AM
"Signposting" -- involuntarily uttering little interstitial syllables between words, like "um" and "uh" -- varies widely from country to country, and makes life difficult for speech-recognition software.

The French say something that sounds like euh, and Hebrew speakers say ehhh. Serbs and Croats say ovay, and the Turks say mmmmm. The Japanese say eto (eh-to) and ano (ah-no), the Spanish este, and Mandarin speakers neige (NEH-guh) and jiege (JEH-guh). In Dutch and German you can say uh, um, mmm. In Swedish it's eh, ah, aah, m, mm, hmm, ooh, a and oh; in Norwegian, e, eh, m and hm.

These interruptions, it turns out, plague machines more than people -- speech-recognition systems in particular -- so researchers have increasingly been turning their attention to uh and um (among other so-called disfluencies).

Link (via Foe Romeo)

Email Problems Differ By Nationality

Email Problems Differ By Nationality 09/16/2004 01:44 AM
Email getting you down? A new study shows that misuses of email can ha rm relationships and slow down business -- but it varies by nationality. One of the biggest complaints: slow replies to email. This is always a tough one. I once spent a week trying to reply to important emails as soon as I got them, but I found that process way too inefficient. More recently, I tend to bunch up a large number of emails and reply to them all at once -- though, often this means a delay in replying or (occasionally) forgetting to reply completely. Other complaints concern the style of the email. Apparently the French get very upset if you are too wordy or "sloppy" in your email grammar. The Italians disagree and are big fans of creative spelling and slow replies. The study claims that the Brits lie about receiving email in the first place -- though, it's not explained why. Still, they get worried when they build up a big backlog of email. The Germans, apparently, are the most likely to misunderstand the tone of an email and get upset at the misinterpretation -- which fits with the study we had last month saying many emailers had problems due to misunderstood humor in the text of their emails. All in all, though, it's probably pretty difficult to stereotype how an entire nation deals with email.

GBP200 million IT contract at
Immigration & Nationality Directorate

GBP200 million IT contract at
Immigration & Nationality Directorate 08/11/2004 02:57 AM
PublicTechnology.net Aug 11 2004 7:08AM GMT

Tallest bridge

Tallest bridge 01/05/2005 06:31 AM
David Pescovitz: This is a photo from orbit of the brand new 1.5 mile Millau viaduct in southern France. It's the world's tallest road bridge, standing 900 feet at its highest point above the Tarn River. Link

World's tallest cylindrical aquarium

World's tallest cylindrical aquarium 09/10/2004 10:53 AM
Cory Doctorow: The Aquadom is the world's largest cylindrical aquarium. It's in the lobby of a multi-use development, stretching 5 storeys up, with a glass elevator down the middle of it. Link (Thanks, kokogiak!)

Dubai tower to be world's tallest
building

Dubai tower to be world's tallest
building 03/31/2005 10:56 PM

3G Mobile Coverage in the World's
Tallest Skyscraper

3G Mobile Coverage in the World's
Tallest Skyscraper 12/29/2004 07:29 AM
3G Dec 29 2004 11:38AM GMT

'Spiderman' Climbs World's Tallest
Building (AP)

'Spiderman' Climbs World's Tallest
Building (AP) 12/25/2004 05:14 PM
AP - A French urban climber who calls himself Spiderman climbed to the top of the world's tallest building on Saturday — Taipei 101.

Reuters, NBC Staff Abused by U.S. Troops
in Iraq (Reuters)

Reuters, NBC Staff Abused by U.S. Troops
in Iraq (Reuters) 05/18/2004 02:51 PM
Reuters - U.S. forces beat three Iraqis working for Reuters and subjected them to sexual and religious taunts and humiliation during their detention last January in a military camp near Falluja, the three said Tuesday.

Reuters RSS

Reuters RSS 05/07/2004 03:35 AM
Reuters has launched a bunch of RSS feeds for its wire service. Link

Okay, You Be the Look-Out... (Reuters)

Okay, You Be the Look-Out... (Reuters) 02/10/2004 02:56 AM
Reuters - Police in the central Argentine city of Cordoba foiled a predawn street hold-up on Thursday -- and were staggered to find one of the assailants was blind.

You SURE We're Only Going 50? (Reuters)

You SURE We're Only Going 50? (Reuters) 06/02/2004 11:56 AM
Reuters - Honda Motor Co. Ltd. is recalling nearly 8,200 model year 2004 motorcycles because of a computer glitch that could prompt their drivers to go too fast, federal safety regulators said on Tuesday.

Here's Something You Don't See Every Day
(Reuters)

Here's Something You Don't See Every Day
(Reuters) 08/18/2004 09:04 AM
Reuters - Strippers and pole dancers should be banned from performing in stretch limousines, according to a British report.

"Reuters"

"Reuters" 04/28/2004 05:33 PM

MCI to Qwest: NO! NO! NO! (Reuters)

MCI to Qwest: NO! NO! NO! (Reuters) 04/06/2005 12:11 PM
Reuters - Long-distance telephone company MCI Inc. rejected a $9.1 billion takeover offer from Qwest Communications International Inc., leaving the spurned suitor to gauge shareholder reaction as it weighs its next move in the two-month takeover battle.

What is she thinking about during sex?
(Reuters)

What is she thinking about during sex?
(Reuters) 05/21/2004 08:37 AM
Reuters - Women watching erotic films are stimulated in a part of the brain associated with planning and emotion, research from scientists in Germany say.

Welcome to one-way Venice (Reuters)

Welcome to one-way Venice (Reuters) 02/10/2004 02:56 AM
Reuters - Venice may not have cars but it's no longer a pedestrian's paradise. The canal city has designated some narrow streets "one-way alleys" and plans to fine those who walk against the flow.

Don't moo-ve! There's a cow in the bank
(Reuters)

Don't moo-ve! There's a cow in the bank
(Reuters) 02/10/2004 02:56 AM
Reuters - A Friesian cow took a detour from a wedding where she was meant to be a guest of honour, wandering into a German bank where she was caught on security cameras sidling up to the tellers.

Like Something Out of a Cartoon...
(Reuters)

Like Something Out of a Cartoon...
(Reuters) 03/23/2005 01:07 PM
Reuters - Can't get out of bed in the morning?

This Is No Yolk (Reuters)

This Is No Yolk (Reuters) 03/06/2004 02:00 AM
Reuters - People in the Albanian capital Tirana have been shocked by an increasing number of eggs without yolks, local television reported Thursday.

This Movie Is SO Bad... (Reuters)

This Movie Is SO Bad... (Reuters) 05/28/2004 09:37 AM
Reuters - It may go down in movie marketing history: "Gigli," a film deemed so bad that one cable television network is trumpeting its poor reviews to sell it to audiences looking for a laugh.

Here's Something That Doesn't Happen
Every Day... (Reuters)

Here's Something That Doesn't Happen
Every Day... (Reuters) 06/25/2004 06:56 AM
Reuters - An exploding vending machine turned the coolant freon into phosgene, a poisonous gas used as a chemical weapon in World War One, and forced the evacuation of 10 people from a Texas hospital, officials said on Thursday.

Pay Your Taxes, Pa-Rum-Pum-Pum-Pum....
(Reuters)

Pay Your Taxes, Pa-Rum-Pum-Pum-Pum....
(Reuters) 03/14/2005 06:13 PM
Reuters - Tax defaulters in southern India are being forced to face the music after city authorities hired drummers to play non-stop outside their homes until they pay up.

Men Do Cry - All Over the World
(Reuters)

Men Do Cry - All Over the World
(Reuters) 09/21/2004 08:26 AM
Reuters - British men are abandoning their stiff upper lips but still do not wear their hearts on their sleeves like Americans, a new survey showed on Tuesday.

Reuters RSS Feeds

Reuters RSS Feeds 05/07/2004 03:29 AM
Reuters has published a list of RSS feeds for it's news service. This is a great catch and thanks to...

Politicians tell men to have more sex
(Reuters)

Politicians tell men to have more sex
(Reuters) 06/25/2004 08:43 AM
Reuters - Conservative politicians are urging German men to have more sex to boost birth rates or risk being labelled "limp" abroad, a newspaper has reported.

Can you get this shark off my leg?
(Reuters)

Can you get this shark off my leg?
(Reuters) 02/11/2004 05:24 AM
Reuters - A snorkeler attacked by a shark off Australia's east coast swam to shore with the predator gripping his leg and then drove to a lifesavers' club to have it removed.

This Isn't What You Expect at a Zoo...
(Reuters)

This Isn't What You Expect at a Zoo...
(Reuters) 03/17/2005 03:16 AM
Reuters - Safari parks in China have agreed to stop feeding their lions and tigers large live animals such as horses -- at least in public.

What Next? Uzi Bourbon? (Reuters)

What Next? Uzi Bourbon? (Reuters) 09/20/2004 10:33 AM
Reuters - The creator of one of the world's most famous guns, the AK-47 assault rifle, launched another weapon in Britain Monday -- Kalashnikov vodka.

Skullduggery... (Reuters)

Skullduggery... (Reuters) 09/09/2004 09:16 AM
Reuters - A Southern California man who sold the skull of a Hawaiian woman from the 18th century to undercover agents on eBay was charged on Wednesday with a federal crime.

115 Mph? You Must Be Joking (Reuters)

115 Mph? You Must Be Joking (Reuters) 08/30/2004 09:54 AM
Reuters - A British man accused by police of driving at 115 mph in a Fiat Punto thought the accusation so ridiculous he enlisted an expert driver to help prove his new car was incapable of going that fast.

The Cop Without a Clue... (Reuters)

The Cop Without a Clue... (Reuters) 02/01/2005 09:23 PM
Reuters - A Swedish police officer has confessed he robbed a bank and later investigated the crime himself, telling reporters at the time police had no clues.

Who should you vote for? (Reuters)

Who should you vote for? (Reuters) 04/15/2005 09:52 AM
Reuters - Confused about who to vote for in the May election? Too busy or indifferent to read all those election leaflets? www.whoshouldyouvotefor.com can sort you out.

Something You Really Don't Want to
Happen... (Reuters)

Something You Really Don't Want to
Happen... (Reuters) 09/08/2004 07:17 AM
Reuters - A Dutch driver was covered in hundreds of liters of manure when a tank burst on a lorry carrying fertilizer, police said on Tuesday.
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