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    "id": "hf-ag_news-train-00000",
    "title": "Business",
    "text": "Wall St. Bears Claw Back Into the Black (Reuters) Reuters - Short-sellers, Wall Street's dwindling\\band of ultra-cynics, are seeing green again."
  },
  {
    "id": "hf-ag_news-train-00001",
    "title": "Business",
    "text": "Carlyle Looks Toward Commercial Aerospace (Reuters) Reuters - Private investment firm Carlyle Group,\\which has a reputation for making well-timed and occasionally\\controversial plays in the defense industry, has quietly placed\\its bets on another part of the market."
  },
  {
    "id": "hf-ag_news-train-00002",
    "title": "Business",
    "text": "Oil and Economy Cloud Stocks' Outlook (Reuters) Reuters - Soaring crude prices plus worries\\about the economy and the outlook for earnings are expected to\\hang over the stock market next week during the depth of the\\summer doldrums."
  },
  {
    "id": "hf-ag_news-train-00003",
    "title": "Business",
    "text": "Iraq Halts Oil Exports from Main Southern Pipeline (Reuters) Reuters - Authorities have halted oil export\\flows from the main pipeline in southern Iraq after\\intelligence showed a rebel militia could strike\\infrastructure, an oil official said on Saturday."
  },
  {
    "id": "hf-ag_news-train-00004",
    "title": "Business",
    "text": "Oil prices soar to all-time record, posing new menace to US economy (AFP) AFP - Tearaway world oil prices, toppling records and straining wallets, present a new economic menace barely three months before the US presidential elections."
  },
  {
    "id": "hf-ag_news-train-00005",
    "title": "Business",
    "text": "Stocks End Up, But Near Year Lows (Reuters) Reuters - Stocks ended slightly higher on Friday\\but stayed near lows for the year as oil prices surged past  #36;46\\a barrel, offsetting a positive outlook from computer maker\\Dell Inc. (DELL.O)"
  },
  {
    "id": "hf-ag_news-train-00006",
    "title": "Business",
    "text": "Money Funds Fell in Latest Week (AP) AP - Assets of the nation's retail money market mutual funds fell by  #36;1.17 billion in the latest week to  #36;849.98 trillion, the Investment Company Institute said Thursday."
  },
  {
    "id": "hf-ag_news-train-00007",
    "title": "Business",
    "text": "Fed minutes show dissent over inflation (USATODAY.com) USATODAY.com - Retail sales bounced back a bit in July, and new claims for jobless benefits fell last week, the government said Thursday, indicating the economy is improving from a midsummer slump."
  },
  {
    "id": "hf-ag_news-train-00008",
    "title": "Business",
    "text": "Safety Net (Forbes.com) Forbes.com - After earning a PH.D. in Sociology, Danny Bazil Riley started to work as the general manager at a commercial real estate firm at an annual base salary of  #36;70,000. Soon after, a financial planner stopped by his desk to drop off brochures about insurance benefits available through his employer. But, at 32, \"buying insurance was the furthest thing from my mind,\" says Riley."
  },
  {
    "id": "hf-ag_news-train-00009",
    "title": "Business",
    "text": "Wall St. Bears Claw Back Into the Black  NEW YORK (Reuters) - Short-sellers, Wall Street's dwindling  band of ultra-cynics, are seeing green again."
  },
  {
    "id": "hf-ag_news-train-00010",
    "title": "Business",
    "text": "Oil and Economy Cloud Stocks' Outlook  NEW YORK (Reuters) - Soaring crude prices plus worries  about the economy and the outlook for earnings are expected to  hang over the stock market next week during the depth of the  summer doldrums."
  },
  {
    "id": "hf-ag_news-train-00011",
    "title": "Business",
    "text": "No Need for OPEC to Pump More-Iran Gov  TEHRAN (Reuters) - OPEC can do nothing to douse scorching  oil prices when markets are already oversupplied by 2.8 million  barrels per day (bpd) of crude, Iran's OPEC governor said  Saturday, warning that prices could fall sharply."
  },
  {
    "id": "hf-ag_news-train-00012",
    "title": "Business",
    "text": "Non-OPEC Nations Should Up Output-Purnomo  JAKARTA (Reuters) - Non-OPEC oil exporters should consider  increasing output to cool record crude prices, OPEC President  Purnomo Yusgiantoro said on Sunday."
  },
  {
    "id": "hf-ag_news-train-00013",
    "title": "Business",
    "text": "Google IPO Auction Off to Rocky Start  WASHINGTON/NEW YORK (Reuters) - The auction for Google  Inc.'s highly anticipated initial public offering got off to a  rocky start on Friday after the Web search company sidestepped  a bullet from U.S. securities regulators."
  },
  {
    "id": "hf-ag_news-train-00014",
    "title": "Business",
    "text": "Dollar Falls Broadly on Record Trade Gap  NEW YORK (Reuters) - The dollar tumbled broadly on Friday  after data showing a record U.S. trade deficit in June cast  fresh doubts on the economy's recovery and its ability to draw  foreign capital to fund the growing gap."
  },
  {
    "id": "hf-ag_news-train-00015",
    "title": "Business",
    "text": "Rescuing an Old Saver If you think you may need to help your elderly relatives with their finances, don't be shy about having the money talk -- soon."
  },
  {
    "id": "hf-ag_news-train-00016",
    "title": "Business",
    "text": "Kids Rule for Back-to-School The purchasing power of kids is a big part of why the back-to-school season has become such a huge marketing phenomenon."
  },
  {
    "id": "hf-ag_news-train-00017",
    "title": "Business",
    "text": "In a Down Market, Head Toward Value Funds There is little cause for celebration in the stock market these days, but investors in value-focused mutual funds have reason to feel a bit smug -- if only because they've lost less than the folks who stuck with growth."
  },
  {
    "id": "hf-ag_news-train-00018",
    "title": "Business",
    "text": "US trade deficit swells in June The US trade deficit has exploded 19 to a record \\$55.8bn as oil costs drove imports higher, according to a latest figures."
  },
  {
    "id": "hf-ag_news-train-00019",
    "title": "Business",
    "text": "Shell 'could be target for Total' Oil giant Shell could be bracing itself for a takeover attempt, possibly from French rival Total, a  press report claims."
  },
  {
    "id": "hf-ag_news-train-00020",
    "title": "Business",
    "text": "Google IPO faces Playboy slip-up The bidding gets underway for Google's public offering, despite last-minute worries over an interview with its bosses in Playboy magazine."
  },
  {
    "id": "hf-ag_news-train-00021",
    "title": "Business",
    "text": "Eurozone economy keeps growing Official figures show the 12-nation eurozone economy continues to grow, but there are warnings it may slow down later in the year."
  },
  {
    "id": "hf-ag_news-train-00022",
    "title": "Business",
    "text": "Expansion slows in Japan Economic growth in Japan slows down as the country experiences a drop in domestic and corporate spending."
  },
  {
    "id": "hf-ag_news-train-00023",
    "title": "Business",
    "text": "Rand falls on shock SA rate cut Interest rates are trimmed to 7.5 by the South African central bank,  but the lack of warning hits the rand and surprises markets."
  },
  {
    "id": "hf-ag_news-train-00024",
    "title": "Business",
    "text": "Car prices down across the board The cost of buying both new and second hand cars fell sharply over the past five years, a new survey has found."
  },
  {
    "id": "hf-ag_news-train-00025",
    "title": "Business",
    "text": "South Korea lowers interest rates South Korea's central bank cuts interest rates by a quarter percentage point to 3.5 in a bid to drive growth in the economy."
  },
  {
    "id": "hf-ag_news-train-00026",
    "title": "Business",
    "text": "Google auction begins on Friday An auction of shares in Google, the web search engine which could be floated for as much as \\$36bn, takes place on Friday."
  },
  {
    "id": "hf-ag_news-train-00027",
    "title": "Business",
    "text": "HP shares tumble on profit news Hewlett-Packard shares fall after disappointing third-quarter profits, while the firm warns the final quarter will also fall short of expectations."
  },
  {
    "id": "hf-ag_news-train-00028",
    "title": "Business",
    "text": "Mauritian textile firm cuts jobs One of the oldest textile operators on the Indian Ocean island of Mauritius last week shut seven factories and cut 900 jobs."
  },
  {
    "id": "hf-ag_news-train-00029",
    "title": "Business",
    "text": "Chad seeks refugee aid from IMF Chad asks the IMF for a loan to pay for looking after more than 100,000 refugees from conflict-torn Darfur in western Sudan."
  },
  {
    "id": "hf-ag_news-train-00030",
    "title": "Business",
    "text": "Japan nuclear firm shuts plants The company running the Japanese nuclear plant hit by a fatal accident is to close its reactors for safety checks."
  },
  {
    "id": "hf-ag_news-train-00031",
    "title": "Business",
    "text": "Veteran inventor in market float Trevor Baylis, the veteran inventor famous for creating the Freeplay clockwork radio, is planning to float his company on the stock market."
  },
  {
    "id": "hf-ag_news-train-00032",
    "title": "Business",
    "text": "Saudi Arabia to open up oil taps Saudi Arabia says it is ready to push an extra 1.3 million barrels a day of oil into the market, to help reverse surging prices."
  },
  {
    "id": "hf-ag_news-train-00033",
    "title": "Business",
    "text": "Saudi phone sector gets \\$1bn lift A group led by the UAE's Etisalat plans to spend \\$1bn (544m) on expansion after winning two mobile phone licences in Saudi Arabia."
  },
  {
    "id": "hf-ag_news-train-00034",
    "title": "Business",
    "text": "Indians fill rail skills shortage Network Rail flies in specialist Indian engineers to work on the West Coast Mainline because of a UK skills shortage."
  },
  {
    "id": "hf-ag_news-train-00035",
    "title": "Business",
    "text": "Steady as they go BEDFORD -- Scientists at NitroMed Inc. hope their experimental drugs will cure heart disease someday. But lately their focus has been on more mundane matters."
  },
  {
    "id": "hf-ag_news-train-00036",
    "title": "Business",
    "text": "Google IPO: Type in 'confusing,' 'secrecy' I've submitted my bid to buy shares of Google Inc. in the computer search company's giant auction-style initial public offering. That could turn out to be the good news or the bad news."
  },
  {
    "id": "hf-ag_news-train-00037",
    "title": "Business",
    "text": "A bargain hunter's paradise Massachusetts bargain hunters showed up in droves and shopped hard on yesterday's sales tax holiday, buying everything from treadmills and snow blowers to candles and chandeliers, and crediting the 5-percent tax break with bringing them into the stores."
  },
  {
    "id": "hf-ag_news-train-00038",
    "title": "Business",
    "text": "Researchers seek to untangle the e-mail thread E-mail is a victim of its own success. That's the conclusion of IBM Corp. researchers in Cambridge, who have spent nearly a decade conducting field tests at IBM and other companies about how employees work and use electronic mail. It's clear to them that e-mail has become the Internet's killer application."
  },
  {
    "id": "hf-ag_news-train-00039",
    "title": "Business",
    "text": "Microsoft Corp. 2.0: a kinder corporate culture Even a genius can mess up. Bill Gates was a brilliant technologist when he cofounded Microsoft , but as he guided it to greatness in both size and historical consequence, he blundered. He terrorized underlings with his temper and parceled out praise like Scrooge gave to charity. Only the lash inspired the necessary aggressiveness to beat the competition, he thought."
  },
  {
    "id": "hf-ag_news-train-00040",
    "title": "Business",
    "text": "Letters Target the abusers of legal weapons We can all share the outrage, expressed by columnist Steve Bailey (''Summer Sizzler, quot; Aug. 11), at the killings in the city's poor neighborhoods. But there's no need to share his ignorance. He argues for renewal of the so-called assault weapon ban, claiming that otherwise, ''UZIs and AK-47s could again be flooding the streets. quot; His ..."
  },
  {
    "id": "hf-ag_news-train-00041",
    "title": "Business",
    "text": "Somewhere between gleam and gloom President Bush has been saying that the US economy has ''turned the corner. quot; Democratic presidential candidate Senator John F. Kerry, in the wake of this month's poor jobs report, quipped that it was more like a U-turn."
  },
  {
    "id": "hf-ag_news-train-00042",
    "title": "Business",
    "text": "Technology company sues five ex-employees  A Marlborough-based technology company is suing five former employees, including three senior managers, for allegedly conspiring against their employer while working on opening a competing business."
  },
  {
    "id": "hf-ag_news-train-00043",
    "title": "Business",
    "text": "Grant to aid Lynn Central Square Central Square in Lynn should be looking a bit brighter. New sidewalks, curbs, fences, lights, landscaping, and road improvements are planned for the Gateway Artisan Block, a key area of the square, with \\$830,000 in state grant money given to Lynn last week."
  },
  {
    "id": "hf-ag_news-train-00044",
    "title": "Business",
    "text": "State grant to aid Lynn; Bank gives Salem \\$10k Central Square in Lynn should be looking a bit brighter. New sidewalks, curbs, fences, lights, landscaping, and road improvements are planned for the Gateway Artisan Block, a key area of the square, with \\$830,000 in state grant money given to Lynn last week."
  },
  {
    "id": "hf-ag_news-train-00045",
    "title": "Business",
    "text": "A New Legal Chapter for a 90's Flameout A lawsuit against Gary Winnick, the former chief of Global Crossing, refocuses attention on what Mr. Winnick knew about his company's finances as it imploded."
  },
  {
    "id": "hf-ag_news-train-00046",
    "title": "Business",
    "text": "Will Russia, the Oil Superpower, Flex Its Muscles? Russia is again emerging as a superpower - but the reason has less to do with nuclear weapons than with oil."
  },
  {
    "id": "hf-ag_news-train-00047",
    "title": "Business",
    "text": "Switching Titles, if Not Gears, at Dell Kevin B. Rollins, the new chief executive of Dell, talks about Dell's transitory slip in customer service, and why he sees a broader technology recovery taking place."
  },
  {
    "id": "hf-ag_news-train-00048",
    "title": "Business",
    "text": "For Sale: The Ultimate Status Symbol With the country in need of cash and rich people dying to show off their wealth, Mr. Stein proposes a unique solution: having the government sell titles of nobility."
  },
  {
    "id": "hf-ag_news-train-00049",
    "title": "Business",
    "text": "Quality Gets Swept Away Quality Distribution is hammered after reporting a large loss for the second quarter."
  },
  {
    "id": "hf-ag_news-train-00050",
    "title": "Business",
    "text": "Making Your Insurer Pay If Hurricane Charley blows your house down, how can you make your insurance company pay?"
  },
  {
    "id": "hf-ag_news-train-00051",
    "title": "Business",
    "text": "Delightful Dell The company's results show that it's not grim all over tech world. Just all of it that isn't Dell."
  },
  {
    "id": "hf-ag_news-train-00052",
    "title": "Business",
    "text": "Chrysler's Bling King After a tough year, Detroit's troubled carmaker is back -- thanks to a maverick designer and a car that is dazzling the hip-hop crowd"
  },
  {
    "id": "hf-ag_news-train-00053",
    "title": "Business",
    "text": "What's Cool In the Pool ... ... And Hot On the Deck Americans are spending more on tricking out the places where they swim. Here's a look at the new wave of accessories"
  },
  {
    "id": "hf-ag_news-train-00054",
    "title": "Business",
    "text": "The Age of Doom In 1993 six geeks had a digital nightmare that changed the culture. It's about to get far creepier"
  },
  {
    "id": "hf-ag_news-train-00055",
    "title": "Business",
    "text": "Hip Hop's Online Shop Celebrity fashion is booming. These webpreneurs are bringing it to main street"
  },
  {
    "id": "hf-ag_news-train-00056",
    "title": "Business",
    "text": "Stoking the Steamroller No other recording artist can channel American middle-class tastes quite like Chip Davis and his best-selling band"
  },
  {
    "id": "hf-ag_news-train-00057",
    "title": "Business",
    "text": "Coming to The Rescue Got a unique problem? Not to worry: you can find a financial planner for every specialized need"
  },
  {
    "id": "hf-ag_news-train-00058",
    "title": "Business",
    "text": "The New Customers Are In Town Today's customers are increasingly demanding, in Asia as elsewhere in the world.  Henry Astorga describes the complex reality faced by today's marketers, which includes much higher expectations than we have been used to.  Today's customers want performance, and they want it now!"
  },
  {
    "id": "hf-ag_news-train-00059",
    "title": "Business",
    "text": "Barrel of Monkeys, 2004 Edition: Notes on Philippine Elections Well, it's election time in the Republic of the Philippines, and that means the monkeys are rolling around in those political barrels, having as much fun as they can while laughing their heads off at the strange goings-on that characterize a democratic process loosely based on the American model  but that de facto looks more like a Fellini movie crossed with a Tom and Jerry cartoon - column includes a useful election-year glossary!"
  },
  {
    "id": "hf-ag_news-train-00060",
    "title": "Business",
    "text": "Oldsmobile: The final parking lot Why General Motors dropped the Oldsmobile. The four brand  paradoxes GM had to face - the name, the product, image re-positioning, and the consumer - all added up to a brand that had little hope of rebranding."
  },
  {
    "id": "hf-ag_news-train-00061",
    "title": "Business",
    "text": "Not All Jobs Belong To The White Man: Asian Minorities, Affirmative Action, And The Quest For Parity At Work Although a smattering of Chinese, Filipinos, Japanese, Indians, Thais, and others may crow about seeing their kind sitting in prominent positions in corporations and organizations in the USA, these accomplishments become mere cultural high-fives and ritualistic chest-thumping goaded and impishly patronized by 'mainstream society' - the milder and gentler term for the white-dominated populace."
  },
  {
    "id": "hf-ag_news-train-00062",
    "title": "Business",
    "text": "Downhome Pinoy Blues, Intersecting Life Paths, and Heartbreak Songs The Blues is alive and well in the Philippines, as evidenced by this appreciation of the Pinoy Blues band 'Lampano Alley', penned by columnist Clarence Henderson as a counterpoint to his usual economics, business, and culture fare."
  },
  {
    "id": "hf-ag_news-train-00063",
    "title": "Business",
    "text": "The Real Time Modern Manila Blues: Bill Monroe Meets Muddy Waters in the Orient Globalization does strange things to people. A day in the life of a Manila Philippines based business consultant - proving that you really CAN talk about Muddy Walters, bluegrass and work all on the same page..."
  },
  {
    "id": "hf-ag_news-train-00064",
    "title": "Business",
    "text": "Best Asian Tourism Destinations The new APMF survey of the best Asian tourism destinations has just kicked off, but it's crowded at the top, with Chiang Mai in Thailand just leading from perennial favourites Hong Kong, Bangkok and Phuket in Thailand, and Bali in  Indonesia. Be one of the first to vote and let us know your reasons."
  },
  {
    "id": "hf-ag_news-train-00065",
    "title": "Business",
    "text": "What are the best cities for business in Asia? One of our new categories in the APMF Sense of Place survey is for best Asian business city. After a couple of days, Singapore leads the pack, followed by Bangkok, Thailand and Hong Kong. Enter your vote and comments and make your views count. More new categories include best city for livability, and best tourism destinations."
  },
  {
    "id": "hf-ag_news-train-00066",
    "title": "Business",
    "text": "IT alligator tales I grew up in New York, where giant alligators -- sometimes more ornately described as albino alligators -- were rumored to roam the citys sewer systems. According to legend, vacationers picked up the tiny crocodilians in Florida, brought them home to New York, and eventually flushed the little buggers when they grew too big for the local concrete jungle."
  },
  {
    "id": "hf-ag_news-train-00067",
    "title": "Business",
    "text": "IT Myth 5: Most IT projects fail Do most IT projects fail? Some point to the number of giant consultancies such as IBM Global Services, Capgemini, and Sapient, who feed off bad experiences encountered by enterprises. Sapient is a company founded on the realization that IT projects are not successful, says Sapient CTO Ben Gaucherin."
  },
  {
    "id": "hf-ag_news-train-00068",
    "title": "Business",
    "text": "BEA grabs CA exec to head product group BEA Systems Inc. has hired the Computer Associates International Inc. executive responsible for CA's Unicenter line of enterprise management software to head BEA's product development group."
  },
  {
    "id": "hf-ag_news-train-00069",
    "title": "Business",
    "text": "Autodesk tackles project collaboration Autodesk  this week unwrapped an updated version of its hosted project collaboration service targeted at the construction and manufacturing industries. Autodesk Buzzsaw lets multiple, dispersed project participants -- including building owners, developers, architects, construction teams, and facility managers -- share and manage data throughout the life of a project, according to Autodesk officials."
  },
  {
    "id": "hf-ag_news-train-00070",
    "title": "Business",
    "text": "U.K.'s NHS taps Gartner to help plan \\$9B IT overhaul LONDON -- The U.K.'s National Health Service (NHS) has tapped IT researcher Gartner Inc. to provide market intelligence services as the health organization forges ahead with a mammoth, 5 billion (\\$9.2 billion) project to upgrade its information technology infrastructure."
  },
  {
    "id": "hf-ag_news-train-00071",
    "title": "Business",
    "text": "Play Boys: Google IPO a Go Anyway Even though Google's two founders gave an interview to Playboy magazine in the midst of its IPO filing, the SEC allowed the company's offering to go ahead. The boys filed the interview with the SEC and corrected mistakes in it."
  },
  {
    "id": "hf-ag_news-train-00072",
    "title": "Business",
    "text": "More Big Boobs in Playboy An interview with Google's co-founders due out in the current issue of Playboy may delay the company's IPO. Securities regulations restrict what executives can say while preparing to sell stock for the first time."
  },
  {
    "id": "hf-ag_news-train-00073",
    "title": "Business",
    "text": "Dutch Firm Beats Apple to Punch A music retailer from the Netherlands beats Apple by launching a download service in Europe's latest market battleground. Also: Movie industry wrests agreement from defunct company.... Microsoft challenges Photoshop   hellip;. and more."
  },
  {
    "id": "hf-ag_news-train-00074",
    "title": "Business",
    "text": "HP to Buy Synstar Hewlett-Packard will pay \\$297 million for the British company. Also: TiVo goes all out to attract customers   hellip;. Sprint offers service guarantees for business wireless subscribers   hellip;. and more."
  },
  {
    "id": "hf-ag_news-train-00075",
    "title": "Business",
    "text": "A Personal Operator From Verizon Verizon plans to offer a service that would act as a virtual switchboard operator, letting customers stay in touch at all times. The program would send phone calls, voicemails and e-mails wherever customers designate. By Elisa Batista."
  },
  {
    "id": "hf-ag_news-train-00076",
    "title": "Business",
    "text": "Paid Search Growth May Slow A new Internet advertising forecast shows a slowdown in paid search listings in the next five years. Will the projection affect Google's prospects when it goes public?"
  },
  {
    "id": "hf-ag_news-train-00077",
    "title": "Business",
    "text": "Fark Sells Out. France Surrenders Blogs are the hottest thing on the Net, but are they messing with traditional publishing principles? One of the most popular, Fark.com, is allegedly selling links. Is it the wave of the future? By Daniel Terdiman."
  },
  {
    "id": "hf-ag_news-train-00078",
    "title": "Sci/Tech",
    "text": "'Madden,' 'ESPN' Football Score in Different Ways (Reuters) Reuters - Was absenteeism a little high\\on Tuesday among the guys at the office? EA Sports would like\\to think it was because \"Madden NFL 2005\" came out that day,\\and some fans of the football simulation are rabid enough to\\take a sick day to play it."
  },
  {
    "id": "hf-ag_news-train-00079",
    "title": "Sci/Tech",
    "text": "Group to Propose New High-Speed Wireless Format (Reuters) Reuters - A group of technology companies\\including Texas Instruments Inc. (TXN.N), STMicroelectronics\\(STM.PA) and Broadcom Corp. (BRCM.O), on Thursday said they\\will propose a new wireless networking standard up to 10 times\\the speed of the current generation."
  },
  {
    "id": "hf-ag_news-train-00080",
    "title": "Sci/Tech",
    "text": "AOL to Sell Cheap PCs to Minorities and Seniors (Reuters) Reuters - America Online on Thursday said it\\plans to sell a low-priced PC targeting low-income and minority\\households who agree to sign up for a year of dialup Internet\\service."
  },
  {
    "id": "hf-ag_news-train-00081",
    "title": "Sci/Tech",
    "text": "Companies Approve New High-Capacity Disc Format (Reuters) Reuters - A group of consumer electronics\\makers said on Wednesday they approved the format for a new\\generation of discs that can store five times the data of DVDs\\at the same cost -- enough to put a full season of \"The\\Sopranos\" on one disc."
  },
  {
    "id": "hf-ag_news-train-00082",
    "title": "Sci/Tech",
    "text": "Missing June Deals Slow to Return for Software Cos. (Reuters) Reuters - The mystery of what went wrong for the\\software industry in late June when sales stalled at more than\\20 brand-name companies is not even close to being solved\\although the third quarter is nearly halfway over."
  },
  {
    "id": "hf-ag_news-train-00083",
    "title": "Sci/Tech",
    "text": "Hacker Cracks Apple's Streaming Technology (AP) AP - The Norwegian hacker famed for developing DVD encryption-cracking software has apparently struck again  #151; this time breaking the locks on Apple Computer Inc.'s wireless music streaming technology."
  },
  {
    "id": "hf-ag_news-train-00084",
    "title": "Sci/Tech",
    "text": "European Download Services Go Mobile (Reuters) Reuters - The ability to download complete\\tracks directly over cell-phone networks to mobile phones is\\becoming a reality in Europe."
  },
  {
    "id": "hf-ag_news-train-00085",
    "title": "Sci/Tech",
    "text": "Open Source Apps Developer SugarCRM Releases Sugar.Sales 1.1 (TechWeb) TechWeb - News - August 13, 2004"
  },
  {
    "id": "hf-ag_news-train-00086",
    "title": "Sci/Tech",
    "text": "Oracle Sales Data Seen Being Released (Reuters) Reuters - Oracle Corp. sales documents\\detailing highly confidential information, such as which\\companies receive discounts on Oracle's business software\\products and the size of the discounts, are likely to be made\\public, a federal judge said on Friday."
  },
  {
    "id": "hf-ag_news-train-00087",
    "title": "Sci/Tech",
    "text": "Sun's Looking Glass Provides 3D View (PC World) PC World - Developers get early code for new operating system 'skin' still being crafted."
  },
  {
    "id": "hf-ag_news-train-00088",
    "title": "Sci/Tech",
    "text": "Apple to open second Japanese retail store this month (MacCentral) MacCentral - Apple Computer Inc. will open its second Japanese retail store later this month in the western Japanese city of Osaka, it said Thursday."
  },
  {
    "id": "hf-ag_news-train-00089",
    "title": "Sci/Tech",
    "text": "Charley's Force Took Experts by Surprise (AP) AP - Hurricane Charley's 145-mph force took forecasters by surprise and showed just how shaky a science it still is to predict a storm's intensity  #151; even with all the latest satellite and radar technology."
  },
  {
    "id": "hf-ag_news-train-00090",
    "title": "Sci/Tech",
    "text": "Science, Politics Collide in Election Year (AP) AP - With more than 4,000 scientists, including 48 Nobel Prize winners, having signed a statement opposing the Bush administration's use of scientific advice, this election year is seeing a new development in the uneasy relationship between science and politics."
  },
  {
    "id": "hf-ag_news-train-00091",
    "title": "Sci/Tech",
    "text": "Building Dedicated to Columbia Astronauts (AP) AP - A former dormitory converted to classrooms at the Pensacola Naval Air Station was dedicated Friday to two Columbia astronauts who were among the seven who died in the shuttle disaster Feb. 1, 2003."
  },
  {
    "id": "hf-ag_news-train-00092",
    "title": "Sci/Tech",
    "text": "Russian Cargo Craft Docks at Space Station (AP) AP - A Russian cargo ship docked with the international space station Saturday, bringing food, water, fuel and other items to the two-man Russian-American crew, a space official said."
  },
  {
    "id": "hf-ag_news-train-00093",
    "title": "Sci/Tech",
    "text": "Bangkok's Canals Losing to Urban Sprawl (AP) AP - Along the banks of the canal, women in rowboats grill fish and sell fresh bananas. Families eat on floating pavilions, rocked gently by waves from passing boats."
  },
  {
    "id": "hf-ag_news-train-00094",
    "title": "Sci/Tech",
    "text": "T. Rex Had Teen Growth Spurt, Scientists Say (Reuters) Reuters - Tyrannosaurus Rex grew incredibly fast\\during a teenaged growth spurt that saw the dinosaur expand its\\bulk by six times, but the fearsome beasts \"lived fast and died\\young,\" researchers said on Wednesday."
  },
  {
    "id": "hf-ag_news-train-00095",
    "title": "Sci/Tech",
    "text": "Gene Blocker Turns Monkeys Into Workaholics - Study (Reuters) Reuters - Procrastinating monkeys were turned\\into workaholics using a gene treatment to block a key brain\\compound, U.S. researchers reported on Wednesday."
  },
  {
    "id": "hf-ag_news-train-00096",
    "title": "Sci/Tech",
    "text": "Dolphins Too Have Born Socialites (Reuters) Reuters - Some people are born to be the life and\\soul of the party -- and so it seems are some dolphins."
  },
  {
    "id": "hf-ag_news-train-00097",
    "title": "Sci/Tech",
    "text": "What's in a Name? Well, Matt Is Sexier Than Paul (Reuters) Reuters - As Shakespeare said, a rose by any other\\name would smell as sweet. Right?"
  },
  {
    "id": "hf-ag_news-train-00098",
    "title": "Sci/Tech",
    "text": "UK Scientists Allowed to Clone Human Embryos (Reuters) Reuters - British scientists said on Wednesday\\they had received permission to clone human embryos for medical\\research, in what they believe to be the first such license to\\be granted in Europe."
  },
  {
    "id": "hf-ag_news-train-00099",
    "title": "Sci/Tech",
    "text": "Russian Alien Spaceship Claims Raise Eyebrows, Skepticism (SPACE.com) SPACE.com - An expedition of Russian researchers claims to have found evidence that an \\  alien spaceship had something to do with a huge explosion over Siberia in 1908. \\  Experts in asteroids and comets have long said the massive blast was caused \\  by a space rock."
  },
  {
    "id": "hf-ag_news-train-00100",
    "title": "Sci/Tech",
    "text": "Comets, Asteroids and Planets around a Nearby Star (SPACE.com) SPACE.com - A nearby star thought to harbor comets and asteroids now appears to be home to planets, too. The presumed worlds are smaller than Jupiter and could be as tiny as Pluto, new observations suggest."
  },
  {
    "id": "hf-ag_news-train-00101",
    "title": "Sci/Tech",
    "text": "Perseid Meteor Shower Peaks Overnight (SPACE.com) SPACE.com - A fine display of shooting stars is underway and peaks overnight Wednesday into early Thursday morning. Astronomers expect the 2004 Perseid meteor shower to be one of the best versions of the annual event in several years."
  },
  {
    "id": "hf-ag_news-train-00102",
    "title": "Sci/Tech",
    "text": "Redesigning Rockets: NASA Space Propulsion Finds a New Home (SPACE.com) SPACE.com - While the exploration of the Moon and other planets in our solar system is nbsp;exciting, the first task for astronauts and robots alike is to actually nbsp;get to those destinations."
  },
  {
    "id": "hf-ag_news-train-00103",
    "title": "Sci/Tech",
    "text": "Studies Find Rats Can Get Hooked on Drugs (AP) AP - Rats can become drug addicts. That's important to know, scientists say, and has taken a long time to prove. Now two studies by French and British researchers show the animals exhibit the same compulsive drive for cocaine as people do once they're truly hooked."
  },
  {
    "id": "hf-ag_news-train-00104",
    "title": "Sci/Tech",
    "text": "NASA Chief: 'Let's Go Save the Hubble' (SPACE.com) SPACE.com - Amid uncertainty over the fate of the Hubble Space Telescope and with a key instrument not working, NASA Administrator Sean O'Keefe gave the go-ahead Monday for planning a robotic servicing mission."
  },
  {
    "id": "hf-ag_news-train-00105",
    "title": "Sci/Tech",
    "text": "Armadillo Aerospaces X Prize Prototype Crashes (SPACE.com) SPACE.com - Armadillo Aerospace of Mesquite, Texas has reported a \\crash last weekend of their prototype X Prize rocket."
  },
  {
    "id": "hf-ag_news-train-00106",
    "title": "Sci/Tech",
    "text": "Prairie Dog Won't Be on Endangered List (AP) AP - The black-tailed prairie dog has been dropped from a list of candidates for the federal endangered species list because scientists have concluded the rodents are no longer threatened."
  },
  {
    "id": "hf-ag_news-train-00107",
    "title": "Sci/Tech",
    "text": "Hubble Trouble: One of Four Instruments Stops Working (SPACE.com) SPACE.com - One of the four astronomical instruments on the Hubble Space Telescope shut down earlier this week and engineers are trying to pin down the problem. The other three instruments continue to operate normally."
  },
  {
    "id": "hf-ag_news-train-00108",
    "title": "Sci/Tech",
    "text": "Invasive Purple Weed May Meet Its Match (AP) AP - They burned it, mowed it, sprayed it and flooded it. But nothing killed the purple loosestrife weed, which has become a regional plague, until officials at the Parker River National Wildlife Refuge set a European beetle loose on it."
  },
  {
    "id": "hf-ag_news-train-00109",
    "title": "Sci/Tech",
    "text": "New NASA Supercomputer to Aid Theorists and Shuttle Engineers (SPACE.com) SPACE.com - NASA researchers have teamed up with a pair of Silicon Valley firms to build \\  a supercomputer that ranks alongside the world's largest Linux-based systems."
  },
  {
    "id": "hf-ag_news-train-00110",
    "title": "Sci/Tech",
    "text": "Ants Form Supercolony Spanning 60 Miles (AP) AP - Normally clannish and agressive Argentine ants have become so laid back since arriving in Australia decades ago that they no longer fight neighboring nests and have formed a supercolony here that spans 60 miles, scientists say."
  },
  {
    "id": "hf-ag_news-train-00111",
    "title": "Sci/Tech",
    "text": "Viewer's Guide: Perseid Meteor Shower Peaks Aug. 11-12 (SPACE.com) SPACE.com - Every August, when many \\  people are vacationing in the country where skies are dark, the best-known meteor \\  shower makes its appearance. The annual Perseid meteor shower, as it is called, \\  promised to put on an above average display this year."
  },
  {
    "id": "hf-ag_news-train-00112",
    "title": "Sci/Tech",
    "text": "Rescuers Free Beached Whale in Brazil (AP) AP - Rescuers succeeded in freeing a minke whale that washed up on a beach in southeastern Brazil, the fire department said Thursday."
  },
  {
    "id": "hf-ag_news-train-00113",
    "title": "Sci/Tech",
    "text": "Red-Footed Falcon Sighted in Mass. (AP) AP - A red-footed falcon spotted for the first time in North America is enticing birdwatchers to Martha's Vineyard."
  },
  {
    "id": "hf-ag_news-train-00114",
    "title": "Sci/Tech",
    "text": "Weak Version of Most Powerful Explosions Found (SPACE.com) SPACE.com - Gamma-ray bursts are the most powerful events in the universe, temporary outshining several galaxies and likely signaling the birth of a black hole."
  },
  {
    "id": "hf-ag_news-train-00115",
    "title": "Sci/Tech",
    "text": "Simultaneous Tropical Storms a Rarity (AP) AP - The prospect that a tropical storm and a hurricane  #151; or possibly two hurricanes  #151; could strike Florida on the same day is something meteorologists say they have never seen."
  },
  {
    "id": "hf-ag_news-train-00116",
    "title": "Sci/Tech",
    "text": "NASA's Genesis Spacecraft Adjusts Course (AP) AP - NASA's Genesis spacecraft successfully adjusted its course this week as it heads back toward Earth with a sample of solar wind particles, the space agency said Wednesday."
  },
  {
    "id": "hf-ag_news-train-00117",
    "title": "Sci/Tech",
    "text": "Earth is Rare, New Study Suggests (SPACE.com) SPACE.com - Flip a coin. Heads, Earth is a common sort of planet. Tails, and ours is as unusual as a coin landing on edge. That's about the state of knowledge for scientists who ponder the question of our planet's rarity."
  },
  {
    "id": "hf-ag_news-train-00118",
    "title": "Sci/Tech",
    "text": "Scientists Probe Pacific for Dead Zone (AP) AP - His hand on a toggle switch and his eyes on a computer screen, Oregon State University graduate student Anthony Kirincich uses an array of scientific instruments to probe the vibrant waters of the Pacific. He is searching for the absence of life."
  },
  {
    "id": "hf-ag_news-train-00119",
    "title": "Sci/Tech",
    "text": "Life on Mars Likely, Scientist Claims (SPACE.com) SPACE.com - DENVER, COLORADO -- Those twin robots hard at work on Mars have transmitted teasing views that reinforce the prospect that microbial life may exist on the red planet."
  },
  {
    "id": "hf-ag_news-train-00120",
    "title": "Sci/Tech",
    "text": "India Rethinks Plan to Send Man to Moon (AP) AP - India is rethinking its plan to send a man to the moon by 2015, as the mission would cost a lot of money and yield very little in return, the national space agency said Thursday."
  },
  {
    "id": "hf-ag_news-train-00121",
    "title": "Sci/Tech",
    "text": "Natural Sunblock: Sun Dims in Strange Ways (SPACE.com) SPACE.com - When Venus crossed the Sun June 8, showing up as a clear black dot to the delight of millions of skywatchers around the world, astronomers noted something less obvious: The amount of sunlight reaching Earth dipped by 0.1 percent for a few hours."
  },
  {
    "id": "hf-ag_news-train-00122",
    "title": "Sci/Tech",
    "text": "Website Lets Users Scout the Red Planet from Home (SPACE.com) SPACE.com - For those who want to explore Mars but cant wait for a spacecraft to take them there, NASA scientists have reformulated a website that lets the general public search data and images from previous missions."
  },
  {
    "id": "hf-ag_news-train-00123",
    "title": "Sci/Tech",
    "text": "Appeal Rejected in Trout Restoration Plan (AP) AP - The U.S. Forest Service on Wednesday rejected environmentalists' appeal of a plan to poison a stream south of Lake Tahoe to aid what wildlife officials call \"the rarest trout in America.\""
  },
  {
    "id": "hf-ag_news-train-00124",
    "title": "Sci/Tech",
    "text": "Explore the Many Colors of Stars (SPACE.com) SPACE.com - One of the pleasures of \\  stargazing is noticing and enjoying the various colors that stars display in \\  dark skies. These hues offer direct visual evidence of how stellar temperatures \\  vary."
  },
  {
    "id": "hf-ag_news-train-00125",
    "title": "Sci/Tech",
    "text": "Britain Grants Human Cloning License (AP) AP - Britain granted its first license for human cloning Wednesday, joining South Korea on the leading edge of stem cell research, which is restricted by the Bush administration and which many scientists believe may lead to new treatments for a range of diseases."
  },
  {
    "id": "hf-ag_news-train-00126",
    "title": "Sci/Tech",
    "text": "The Next Great Space Race: SpaceShipOne and Wild Fire to Go For the Gold (SPACE.com) SPACE.com - A piloted rocket ship race to claim a  #36;10 million Ansari X Prize purse for privately financed flight to the edge of space is heating up."
  },
  {
    "id": "hf-ag_news-train-00127",
    "title": "Sci/Tech",
    "text": "Growth, Mortality of T. Rex Gets Clearer (AP) AP - Here's a dinosaur finding that parents can appreciate: The teenage Tyrannosaurus rex typically went through an explosive growth spurt, gaining nearly 5 pounds a day."
  },
  {
    "id": "hf-ag_news-train-00128",
    "title": "Sci/Tech",
    "text": "Space Science Pioneer Van Allen Questions Human Spaceflight (SPACE.com) SPACE.com - A leading space scientist has called to question the validity of human spaceflight, suggesting that sending astronauts outward from Earth is outdated, too costly, and the science returned is trivial."
  },
  {
    "id": "hf-ag_news-train-00129",
    "title": "Sci/Tech",
    "text": "China Begins Manned Space Flight Countdown (AP) AP - Chinese astronauts are in the final stages of preparing for a manned space mission that will orbit the globe 14 times before returning to Earth, a state-run newspaper reported Thursday."
  },
  {
    "id": "hf-ag_news-train-00130",
    "title": "Sci/Tech",
    "text": "Sunspot Grows to 20 Times Size of Earth (SPACE.com) SPACE.com - A sunspot group aimed squarely \\  at Earth has grown to 20 times the size of our planet and has the potential \\  to unleash a major solar storm."
  },
  {
    "id": "hf-ag_news-train-00131",
    "title": "Sci/Tech",
    "text": "Japanese Lunar Probe Facing Delays (AP) AP - A lunar orbiter that Japan had planned to launch this year could face further delays, possibly until next year or later, because of a funding shortfall and problems developing the probe's information-gathering capabilities, Japan's space agency said Wednesday."
  },
  {
    "id": "hf-ag_news-train-00132",
    "title": "Sci/Tech",
    "text": "Pollutants From Asia Appear on East Coast (AP) AP - Scientists looking into air quality and climate change have found pollutants from as far as Asia over New England and the Atlantic."
  },
  {
    "id": "hf-ag_news-train-00133",
    "title": "Sci/Tech",
    "text": "Vietnam's Citadel Vulnerable to Weather (AP) AP - Experts from Europe and Asia surveyed 1,400-year-old relics of an ancient citadel in Hanoi Tuesday and said they were concerned the priceless antiquities were at risk from exposure to the elements."
  },
  {
    "id": "hf-ag_news-train-00134",
    "title": "Sci/Tech",
    "text": "U.S. Barred From Weakening Dolphin Rules (AP) AP - In a victory for environmentalists, a federal judge ruled Tuesday that the Bush administration cannot change the standards commercial fisheries must meet before the tuna they catch can carry the \"dolphin-safe\" label."
  },
  {
    "id": "hf-ag_news-train-00135",
    "title": "Sci/Tech",
    "text": "Canadian Robot a Candidate to Save Hubble (AP) AP - NASA said Tuesday it is moving ahead with plans to send a robot to the rescue of the aging Hubble Space Telescope."
  },
  {
    "id": "hf-ag_news-train-00136",
    "title": "Sci/Tech",
    "text": "Cave Explorers Discover Pit in Croatia (AP) AP - Cave explorers discovered a pit inside a mountain range in central Croatia believed to have the world's deepest subterranean vertical drop, at nearly 1,700 feet, a scientific institute reported Monday."
  },
  {
    "id": "hf-ag_news-train-00137",
    "title": "Sci/Tech",
    "text": "Aquarium Reviews Death of Dolphin (AP) AP - The chief scientist at the National Aquarium in Baltimore has launched a review of the dolphin breeding program after the death of a 4-month-old dolphin."
  },
  {
    "id": "hf-ag_news-train-00138",
    "title": "Sci/Tech",
    "text": "Scientists Seek Better Way to Measure Rain (AP) AP - Meteorologists at North Carolina State University are working on a way to more accurately measure rainfall in small areas."
  },
  {
    "id": "hf-ag_news-train-00139",
    "title": "Sci/Tech",
    "text": "Wash. State Team's Private Rocket Explodes (AP) AP - A team taking a low-budget stab at the  #36;10 million Ansari X Prize for private manned spaceflight suffered a setback Sunday, when their rocket malfunctioned and exploded after shooting less than 1,000 feet in the air."
  },
  {
    "id": "hf-ag_news-train-00140",
    "title": "Sci/Tech",
    "text": "Nevada Ponders Superfund Status for Mine (AP) AP - Pressured by a ranking senator from Nevada and the Environmental Protection Agency, Gov. Kenny Guinn says he might reconsider his opposition to a federal Superfund cleanup declaration for a huge abandoned mine contaminated with toxic waste and uranium."
  },
  {
    "id": "hf-ag_news-train-00141",
    "title": "Sci/Tech",
    "text": "Indictments Using DNA on Rise Nationally (AP) AP - Authorities once had no choice but to drop rape cases if they weren't able to catch a suspect before the statute of limitations expired. But prosecutors across the country increasingly are buying themselves time, keeping cold cases alive by indicting unidentified rapists using their DNA profiles."
  },
  {
    "id": "hf-ag_news-train-00142",
    "title": "Sci/Tech",
    "text": "Southeast Coast Sees Fewer Turtle Nests (AP) AP - About half the usual number of loggerhead turtles have nested between North Carolina and Florida this season, and scientists have no explanation for the drop."
  },
  {
    "id": "hf-ag_news-train-00143",
    "title": "Sci/Tech",
    "text": "Company Said to Be Ready to Clone Pets (AP) AP - A company that unveiled the world's first cloned cat nearly three years ago now says it is ready to start filling orders for cloned pets, a newspaper reported Thursday."
  },
  {
    "id": "hf-ag_news-train-00144",
    "title": "Sci/Tech",
    "text": "Deep-Sea Vessel Puts Ocean Floor in Reach (AP) AP - A new deep-sea research vessel will be able to carry people to 99 percent of the ocean floor, diving deeper than the famed Alvin that pioneered the study of seafloor vents, plate tectonics and deep ocean creatures over the past 40 years."
  },
  {
    "id": "hf-ag_news-train-00145",
    "title": "Sci/Tech",
    "text": "Chorus Frog Found Croaking in Virginia (AP) AP - The Southern chorus frog has been found in southeastern Virginia, far outside its previously known range. The animal had never before been reported north of Beaufort County, N.C., about 125 miles to the south."
  },
  {
    "id": "hf-ag_news-train-00146",
    "title": "Sci/Tech",
    "text": "Expedition to Probe Gulf of Mexico (AP) AP - Scientists will use advanced technology never before deployed beneath the sea as they try to discover new creatures, behaviors and phenomena in a 10-day expedition to the Gulf of Mexico's deepest reaches."
  },
  {
    "id": "hf-ag_news-train-00147",
    "title": "Sci/Tech",
    "text": "Feds Accused of Exaggerating Fire Impact (AP) AP - The Forest Service exaggerated the effect of wildfires on California spotted owls in justifying a planned increase in logging in the Sierra Nevada, according to a longtime agency expert who worked on the plan."
  },
  {
    "id": "hf-ag_news-train-00148",
    "title": "Sci/Tech",
    "text": "New Method May Predict Quakes Weeks Ahead (AP) AP - Swedish geologists may have found a way to predict earthquakes weeks before they happen by monitoring the amount of metals like zinc and copper in subsoil water near earthquake sites, scientists said Wednesday."
  },
  {
    "id": "hf-ag_news-train-00149",
    "title": "Sci/Tech",
    "text": "Marine Expedition Finds New Species (AP) AP - Norwegian scientists who explored the deep waters of the Atlantic Ocean said Thursday their findings  #151; including what appear to be new species of fish and squid  #151; could be used to protect marine ecosystems worldwide."
  },
  {
    "id": "hf-ag_news-train-00150",
    "title": "Sci/Tech",
    "text": "Annual Study Finds Rise in Beach Closures (AP) AP - The number of days that beaches closed or posted warnings because of pollution rose sharply in 2003 due to more rainfall, increased monitoring and tougher standards, an environmental group said on Thursday."
  },
  {
    "id": "hf-ag_news-train-00151",
    "title": "Sci/Tech",
    "text": "Pacific May Be Seeing New El Nino (AP) AP - Warming water temperatures in the central equatorial Pacific last month may indicate the start of a new El Nino."
  },
  {
    "id": "hf-ag_news-train-00152",
    "title": "Sci/Tech",
    "text": "Cassini Spacecraft Sees Saturn Lightning (AP) AP - The Cassini spacecraft's mission to Saturn has revealed a new radiation belt around the ringed planet and found that lightning in its atmosphere is occurring in different patterns than it did when NASA's Voyagers flew by in the early 1980s, scientists said."
  },
  {
    "id": "hf-ag_news-train-00153",
    "title": "Sci/Tech",
    "text": "Poachers Putting Endangered Rhinos at Risk (AP) AP - Gangs of poachers in Congo have been slaughtering the world's minuscule population of northern white rhinos, reducing the population by about one-half in just more than a year, a key conservation organization said Friday."
  },
  {
    "id": "hf-ag_news-train-00154",
    "title": "Sci/Tech",
    "text": "Experts Downplay Texas Shark Attacks (AP) AP - Three shark attacks off the Texas coast in the past two months are unusual but don't mean there are more sharks than normal along the beach or that they are getting bolder, marine biologists and other experts say."
  },
  {
    "id": "hf-ag_news-train-00155",
    "title": "Sci/Tech",
    "text": "Study Says Birds Feed Other Birds' Young (AP) AP - It's a lesson many little humans could learn from baby birds: Sometimes, being nice to other youngsters pays off. Brown-headed cowbirds, like several other bird species, leave their eggs in the nests of other birds, who then feed and raise the cowbird chicks."
  },
  {
    "id": "hf-ag_news-train-00156",
    "title": "Sci/Tech",
    "text": "Canadian Team Joins Rocket Launch Contest (AP) AP - The  #36;10 million competition to send a private manned rocket into space started looking more like a race Thursday, when a Canadian team announced plans to launch its rocket three days after an American group intends to begin qualifying for the Ansari X prize."
  },
  {
    "id": "hf-ag_news-train-00157",
    "title": "Sci/Tech",
    "text": "Universities to Build Largest Telescope (AP) AP - The University of Texas and Texas A amp;M University are planning to construct what they call the world's largest telescope with the help of a Houston businessman's  #36;1.25 million gift."
  },
  {
    "id": "hf-ag_news-train-00158",
    "title": "Sci/Tech",
    "text": "Mauritanian Capital Battles Locust Swarm (AP) AP - Residents burned tires and trash in the streets Thursday trying to drive off swarms of locusts descending on the region in what a U.N. agency called the worst sub-Saharan invasion in more than a decade."
  },
  {
    "id": "hf-ag_news-train-00159",
    "title": "Sci/Tech",
    "text": "Customers of Telco Companies Face Privacy Breach A security advisory posted on Bugtraq demonstrates how hackers can compromise customers of T-mobile wireless and Verizon (landline) voicemail boxes. The advisory talks about the use of Caller-ID spoofing the customers number, allowing a bypass of the PIN code since the voicemail thinks that the customer is calling to check their own voicemail. According to Secure Science Corporation, there has been no response from the vendors. Comments have been posted that T-Mobile has optional PIN code protection off by default. Better turn it on."
  },
  {
    "id": "hf-ag_news-train-00160",
    "title": "Sci/Tech",
    "text": "Mozilla To Add Support For XForms, World Yawns It's ironic that Microsoft could help further cement its dominance in the browser market by joining its largest rival in an effort to support web standards.  nbsp;At the same time, that act would go a long way towards improving the web in general for developers and users alike."
  },
  {
    "id": "hf-ag_news-train-00161",
    "title": "Sci/Tech",
    "text": "Junk faxes to be legalized as  quot;opt-out? quot; The Register ran a story on August 6th called 'Phone spam misery looms stateside.' It seems that there's legislative nastiness underway in Washington, DC to essentially gut the existing junk fax law, and replace it with a marketer's wet dream."
  },
  {
    "id": "hf-ag_news-train-00162",
    "title": "Sci/Tech",
    "text": "Biased Against Whom? Liberal bias versus right-wing conspiracy is a wonderful distraction. There is evidence enough on both sides. How can opposite claims be true? Confront a physicist with evidence supporting contradictory hypotheses and she will go looking for a more basic cause. Let's try that."
  },
  {
    "id": "hf-ag_news-train-00163",
    "title": "Sci/Tech",
    "text": "The Visual World of Michel Gondry A month ago I was introduced to the works of Michel Gondry.  In short, I was amazed and tantalized by his short films and music videos.  Even if you haven't heard of him, you've probably seen his many works in Gap commercials, various music videos, and the recent movie Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind.    Many of his works explode with visual elements that, when taken alone, are simple and mundane.  However, under his masterful guidance, these elements come together to form a highly mesmerizing visual experience.  He never ceases to push visual technologies and challenge our ideas about the visual medium."
  },
  {
    "id": "hf-ag_news-train-00164",
    "title": "Sci/Tech",
    "text": "The Austral-Asian Strike Fighter The Australian Defence Force must defend and project across an air-sea gap. This requires long range autonomous strike weaponry. The Joint Strike Fighter does not solve this issue and detrimentally places added pressure on Australia's limited force of aerial refuelling assets. The world's defence manufacturers are not creating strike platforms that solve Australian needs. For this reason, Australia needs to look to other nations with similar defence needs. In this case, Japan, South Korea and Taiwan all face defending an air-sea gap. Australia should enter a partnership with these nations to create a strike fighter that satisfies the strategic needs of defending an air-sea gap. The benefits of such a partnership will be many."
  },
  {
    "id": "hf-ag_news-train-00165",
    "title": "Sci/Tech",
    "text": "Insecurity: (Or Why Americans Aren't Feeling The Recovery) The New Republic's website is currently carrying an interesting piece which tries to explain the anomaly that although the US economy is growing, a lot of its citizens are still feeling worse off. The article explains the results of a 40 year panel study which has shown that although mean incomes have increased, income variability has increased massively, causing many Americans to feel less well off, despite the growing economy."
  },
  {
    "id": "hf-ag_news-train-00166",
    "title": "Sci/Tech",
    "text": "The Great K5 Limerick Contest Queue submissions being scarce, I suggest we all submit limericks for consideration.  Mod up your favorites.    I'm no poet, so I'll submit a favorite of my childhood:    There was a young woman named Bright,  Who traveled much faster than light    She set out one day  In a relative way    And returned on the previous night.    I'm afraid I don't remember the author."
  },
  {
    "id": "hf-ag_news-train-00167",
    "title": "Sci/Tech",
    "text": "RuntimeProperties... Reflection from System Properties \\\\Java developers often load system properties to customize the runtime behavior\\of their applications.\\\\For example a develoepr could define a 'max_connections' system property to\\define the maximum number of TCP connections that their application server can\\support.  While nice, this prevents all other applications from using this\\variable name.\\\\The first reaction to this would be to namespace your variable names.  Instead\\of using max_connections you would now use\\'my.application.Server.MAX_CONNECTIONS' as your property name.  This works of\\course but now you have to load this property on startup.\\\\public static int MAX_CONNECTIONS = Integer.parseInt( System.getProperty(\\\"my.application.Se ...\\\\"
  },
  {
    "id": "hf-ag_news-train-00168",
    "title": "Sci/Tech",
    "text": "Thank You IBM! \\\\I just wanted to say thanks to IBM for Open Sourcing  Cloudscape .\\\\You guys really have your act together.  Keep up the good work!\\\\"
  },
  {
    "id": "hf-ag_news-train-00169",
    "title": "Sci/Tech",
    "text": "LinuxWorld, IDs, and Privacy \\\\Today Jonathan Moore  and I headed over to LinuxWorld after lunch to see what\\kind of cool hardware and Linux hacks they had on the expo floor.\\\\Only \\$15 to get in the door so I figure why not.\\\\I'm a bit of a privacy freak.  When you're trading some security for liberty\\there are situations where it *might* be worth it.  In situations of extreme\\violence having the police by your side might be a good idea.  \\\\I think we can all agree that trading liberty for *nothing* isn't worth it.\\This country was *founded* on liberty after the British were abusing their\\colonial powers.  Every true American should cherish their liberty and think\\long and hard about just turning them over for no reason.\\ ...\\\\"
  },
  {
    "id": "hf-ag_news-train-00170",
    "title": "Sci/Tech",
    "text": "My Blog as a Time Machine \\\\I'm starting to realize that my blog is a bit of a time machine.  For example I\\can create a blog entry to warn myself about something that WILL happen in the\\future.  \\\\My current NTP  blog entry is a good example.  I wrote this for myself as\\much as for the people who read my blog (or find me via Google).\\\\I know for sure that NTP on Debian is going to bite me sometime in the future\\and I'm going to forget WHY.  Then I'm going to (of course) go to Google or my\\aggregator and search for NTP and then find my blog post.  \\\\I've done this about a dozen times now and its saved me a TON of time!\\\\"
  },
  {
    "id": "hf-ag_news-train-00171",
    "title": "Sci/Tech",
    "text": "NTP in Debian \\\\The Network Time Daemon (NTP  Daemon) implementation within Debian leaves a\\lot to be desired.\\\\First off they don't include it with a working config.  You have to create your\\own /etc/ntpd.conf.  To make matters worse the configuration doesn't accept DNS\\names so you have to manually enter IPs.  Fun.  I can understand that they might\\not want to provide ONE configuration and overwhelm one or two NTP servers but\\they can provide a dynamic config that balances load among all available\\servers.  There is of course the public serves list  but you have to Google\\for it.\\\\All you really need to do here is enter a list of servers:\\\\server time.nist.gov\\\\server 192.43.244.18\\"
  },
  {
    "id": "hf-ag_news-train-00172",
    "title": "Sci/Tech",
    "text": "Pretty Log4J \\\\I've been a big fan of Log4J  for a while now but haven't migrated any code\\over for one central reason.  The following line of code:\\\\    final static Logger logger = Logger.getLogger( \"some.name\" );\\\\... is amazingly ugly and difficult to work with.\\\\Most people use Log4J with a logger based on the classname:\\\\So we would probably see:\\\\    static Logger logger = Logger.getLogger( \"org.apache.commons.feedparser.locate.FeedLocator\" );\\\\Which is amazingly verbose.  A lot of developers shorten this to:\\\\    static Logger logger = Logger.getLogger( FeedLocator.class );\\\\But this still leaves us with cut and paste errors.\\\\What if we could just reduce it to:\\\\    static Logger logger = Logger.g ...\\\\"
  },
  {
    "id": "hf-ag_news-train-00173",
    "title": "Sci/Tech",
    "text": "Saudis: Bin Laden associate surrenders \\\\\"(CNN) -- A longtime associate of al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden surrendered to\\Saudi Arabian officials Tuesday, a Saudi Interior Ministry official said.\"\\\\\"But it is unclear what role, if any, Khaled al-Harbi may have had in any terror\\attacks because no public charges have been filed against him.\"\\\\\"The Saudi government -- in a statement released by its embassy in Washington --\\called al-Harbi's surrender \"the latest direct result\" of its limited, one-month\\offer of leniency to terror suspects.\"\\\\This is great!  I hope this really starts to pay off.  Creative solutions to\\terrorism that don't involve violence.  \\\\How refreshing! \\\\Are you paying attention Bush administration?\\\\"
  },
  {
    "id": "hf-ag_news-train-00174",
    "title": "Sci/Tech",
    "text": "Mozilla Exceptions (mexception) \\\\For some reason I never released this code.\\\\I developed it while working on NewsMonster and just forgot I think\\\\It's an extension for Mozilla that allows you to see all runtime exceptions\\(with full stack traces) that are unhandled by Mozilla. \\\\Just install it and if your code generates an unhandled exception it will show\\up in the logs and on the console.\\\\Very handy for doing any hardcore Mozilla development.\\\\"
  },
  {
    "id": "hf-ag_news-train-00175",
    "title": "Sci/Tech",
    "text": "Ron Regan Jr is My Kinda Guy \\\\\"Now that the country is awash in Reagan nostalgia, some observers are predicting\\that you will enter politics. Would you like to be president of the United\\States?\"\\\\\"I would be unelectable. I'm an atheist. As we all know, that is something\\people won't accept.\"\\\\\"What would you do if Senator Kerry asked you to be his vice president?\"\\\\\"I would question his sanity.\"\\\\\"Do you ever go to church?\"\\\\\"No. I visit my wife's sangha.\"\\\\\"So you sometimes practice Buddhism?\"\\\\\"I don't claim anything. But my sympathies would be in that direction. I admire\\the fact that the central core of Buddhist teaching involves mindfulness and\\loving kindness and compassion.\"\\\\So lets get this straight.  He's an a ...\\\\"
  },
  {
    "id": "hf-ag_news-train-00176",
    "title": "Sci/Tech",
    "text": "Al Qaeda member surrenders \\\\\"RIYADH, Saudi Arabia (CNN) -- One of Saudi Arabia's most wanted militants has\\turned himself into the authorities, the first senior suspect to surrender under\\a one-month government amnesty announced last week.\"\\\\\"Othman Al-Omari, number 19 on Saudi Arabia's most wanted list of 26, accepted\\King Fahd's offer of amnesty, which was made last week, according to Saudi\\sources Monday.\"\\\\\"Al-Omari, who turned himself in on Sunday night, was a business partner of\\Shaban Al Shihri -- the first al Qaeda member to accept the offer when he turned\\himself in Friday.\"\\\\When I first saw this I was really upset.  I thought that it would certainly\\lead to more violence if they just let terrorists off the ...\\\\"
  },
  {
    "id": "hf-ag_news-train-00177",
    "title": "Sci/Tech",
    "text": "Mission Accomplished! \\\\\"BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN) -- Members of Iraq's interim government took an oath of\\office Monday just hours after the United States returned the nation's\\sovereignty, two days ahead of schedule.\"\\\\\"Led by Iraq's interim Prime Minister Ayad Allawi, each member of the new\\government placed a hand on the Koran and promised to serve with sincerity and\\impartiality. Iraqi flags lined the wall behind them.\"\\\\Iraq!  Now with 100 less Coalition Provisional Authority!  Act now and get a\\free Weapon of Mass Destruction (offer only available in Syria, Jordan, Saudi\\Arabia, Pakistan, Syria and Iran).\\\\Also check out our new Puppet Government!  Keeps the kids occupied for hours!\\\\"
  },
  {
    "id": "hf-ag_news-train-00178",
    "title": "Sci/Tech",
    "text": "Java3D - Half Right \\\\SUN has announced that Java3D will be released in a different manner than any\\other SUN project in existence.\\\\\"We announce the availability of the source code for the Java 3D API on\\java.net.  We are involving developers in the evolution of the Java 3D API.\\Come join the Java 3D projects on java.net, and download the source code for\\the core Java 3D API, vecmath, the Java 3D core utilities, and the Java 3D\\program examples.\"\\\\The key thing here is that they have provided the core utils under a BSD license\\and even have the CVS available .\\\\Good job SUN!  You're headed in the right direction!\\\\Here's the only problem:\\\\\"We are releasing the source code for the j3d-core and vecmath projects u ...\\\\"
  },
  {
    "id": "hf-ag_news-train-00179",
    "title": "Sci/Tech",
    "text": "Reverse Psychology \\\\I really hope SUN doesn't Open Source Java at JavaOne this year.  It would be a\\terrible decision and seriously hurt the tech industry.  Also, it would hurt SUN\\and I'm sure their responsible enough to realize this.\\\\(Lets hope that works!)\\\\"
  },
  {
    "id": "hf-ag_news-train-00180",
    "title": "Sci/Tech",
    "text": "Kerry's Disgusting Ad \\\\A few days ago Kerry sent around this ad:\\\\\"Yesterday, the Bush-Cheney campaign, losing any last sense of decency, placed\\a disgusting ad called \"The Faces of John Kerry's Democratic Party\" as the\\main feature on its website. Bizarrely, and without explanation, the ad places\\Adolf Hitler among those faces.\"\\\\\"The Bush-Cheney campaign must pull this ad off of its website. The use of\\Adolf Hitler by any campaign, politician or party is simply wrong.\"\\\\Which of course is a mistake.  I went and downloaded the video (which is just\\stupid btw.  Not a masterpiece by any means.) and there are shots of Hitler in\\there, but only from the MoveOn contest from a few months back.\\\\Here's the problem.  The ...\\\\"
  },
  {
    "id": "hf-ag_news-train-00181",
    "title": "Sci/Tech",
    "text": "What would Baby Jesus Think? \\\\\"On Tuesday, Cheney, serving in his role as president of the Senate, appeared in\\the chamber for a photo session. A chance meeting with Sen. Patrick J. Leahy\\(Vt.), the ranking Democrat on the Judiciary Committee, became an argument about\\Cheney's ties to Halliburton Co., an international energy services corporation,\\and President Bush's judicial nominees. The exchange ended when Cheney offered\\some crass advice.\\\\'Fuck yourself,' said the man who is a heartbeat from the presidency.\"\\\\Wonder what the moral majority has to say about this?\\\\It isn't profanity!  Its a freedom praise!\\\\"
  },
  {
    "id": "hf-ag_news-train-00182",
    "title": "Sci/Tech",
    "text": "Americans and Freedom \\\\\"When we Americans first began, our biggest danger was clearly in view: we knew\\from the bitter experience with King George III that the most serious threat to\\democracy is usually the accumulation of too much power in the hands of an\\Executive, whether he be a King or a president. Our ingrained American distrust\\of concentrated power has very little to do with the character or persona of the\\individual who wields that power. It is the power itself that must be\\constrained, checked, dispersed and carefully balanced, in order to ensure the\\survival of freedom. In addition, our founders taught us that public fear is the\\most dangerous enemy of democracy because under the right circumstances it ...\\\\"
  },
  {
    "id": "hf-ag_news-train-00183",
    "title": "Sci/Tech",
    "text": "Why Windows isn't Unix \\\\\"I first heard about this from one of the developers of the hit game SimCity, who\\told me that there was a critical bug in his application: it used memory right\\after freeing it, a major no-no that happened to work OK on DOS but would not\\work under Windows where memory that is freed is likely to be snatched up by\\another running application right away. The testers on the Windows team were\\going through various popular applications, testing them to make sure they\\worked OK, but SimCity kept crashing. They reported this to the Windows\\developers, who disassembled SimCity, stepped through it in a debugger, found\\the bug, and added special code that checked if SimCity was running, and if it\\did ...\\\\"
  },
  {
    "id": "hf-ag_news-train-00184",
    "title": "Sci/Tech",
    "text": "Microsoft, IE and Bloat \\\\Zawodny  threads off of Scoble  on the IE issue:\\\\\"I have to say, when I first read that I nearly fell off my chair laughing. I was\\thinking \"how stupid ARE these IE guys?!?!?!\" But we all know that Microsoft is\\full of smart people who care about what they're doing. So something really\\doesn't compute here.\"\\\\\"Last time I checked, IE wasn't even close to feature parity with Mozilla's\\browsers. No popup blocking, no tabbed browsing, etc.\"\\\\\"Does the IE team really not know what their product is missing?\"\\\\Perhaps.  It's highly likely that they just don't know.\\\\The bigger issue here is that Microsoft products can't fail and they can't\\succeed.  Microsoft has 40-50 billion in the bank.  There ...\\\\"
  },
  {
    "id": "hf-ag_news-train-00185",
    "title": "Sci/Tech",
    "text": "DRM is doubleplus good for business, Congress advised The Budget Office and the case of the disappearing public interest"
  },
  {
    "id": "hf-ag_news-train-00186",
    "title": "Sci/Tech",
    "text": "HP: The Adaptive Enterprise that can't adapt <strong>Opinion</strong> SAP hardly to blame"
  },
  {
    "id": "hf-ag_news-train-00187",
    "title": "Sci/Tech",
    "text": "Buffy the Censor Slayer <strong>Letters</strong> Readers drive stake through parents' group"
  },
  {
    "id": "hf-ag_news-train-00188",
    "title": "Sci/Tech",
    "text": "Ashlee Vance: the readers have spoken <strong>Poll results</strong> Bright news for resident <em>Reg</em> ladyboy"
  },
  {
    "id": "hf-ag_news-train-00189",
    "title": "Sci/Tech",
    "text": "<em>El Reg</em> pledges to name BSA antipiracy weasel <strong>Competition</strong> Get those suggestions in"
  },
  {
    "id": "hf-ag_news-train-00190",
    "title": "Sci/Tech",
    "text": "Wireless net to get speed boost Wireless computer networks could soon be running 10 times faster than they do now."
  },
  {
    "id": "hf-ag_news-train-00191",
    "title": "Sci/Tech",
    "text": "Watchdog rules over broadband  The UK's ad watchdog rules over which net connections can be described as full speed broadband."
  },
  {
    "id": "hf-ag_news-train-00192",
    "title": "Sci/Tech",
    "text": "GameBoy mini-games win prize A set of GameBoy micro-games is named as the most innovative game of the year at a festival in Scotland."
  },
  {
    "id": "hf-ag_news-train-00193",
    "title": "Sci/Tech",
    "text": "Microsoft takes down SP2 sharers Microsoft is stopping people getting hold of a key security update via net-based file- sharing systems."
  },
  {
    "id": "hf-ag_news-train-00194",
    "title": "Sci/Tech",
    "text": "Long-awaited Doom 3 hits the UK Doom 3 goes on sale in the UK at a time of renewed concerns over violence in video games."
  },
  {
    "id": "hf-ag_news-train-00195",
    "title": "Sci/Tech",
    "text": "Britons embrace digital lifestyle People in the UK are spending more time and money going digital, says communications watchdog Ofcom."
  },
  {
    "id": "hf-ag_news-train-00196",
    "title": "Sci/Tech",
    "text": "PlayStation potential to learning The PlayStation games console could be developed into a learning tool for children, says a Northumberland head teacher."
  },
  {
    "id": "hf-ag_news-train-00197",
    "title": "Sci/Tech",
    "text": "'Invisible' technology for Olympics Getting the technology in place for Athens 2004 is an Olympic task in itself."
  },
  {
    "id": "hf-ag_news-train-00198",
    "title": "Sci/Tech",
    "text": "Satellite boosts Olympic security An enhanced satellite location system aims to help Olympic security guards react more quickly to emergencies."
  },
  {
    "id": "hf-ag_news-train-00199",
    "title": "Sci/Tech",
    "text": "3D holograms to crack forgeries A 3D hologram technique could transform how experts spot forged signatures and other handwritten documents."
  },
  {
    "id": "hf-ag_news-train-00200",
    "title": "Sci/Tech",
    "text": "Video games 'good for children' Computer games can promote problem-solving and team-building in children, say games industry experts."
  },
  {
    "id": "hf-ag_news-train-00201",
    "title": "Sci/Tech",
    "text": "Fake goods tempting young adults Young people are increasingly happy to buy pirated goods or illegal download content from the net, a survey shows."
  },
  {
    "id": "hf-ag_news-train-00202",
    "title": "Sci/Tech",
    "text": "Catwoman far from perfect The Catwoman game is a major disappointment that feels like a pointless tie-in with the film."
  },
  {
    "id": "hf-ag_news-train-00203",
    "title": "Sci/Tech",
    "text": "'Madden,' 'ESPN' Football Score in Different Ways  PROVIDENCE, R.I. (Reuters) - Was absenteeism a little high  on Tuesday among the guys at the office? EA Sports would like  to think it was because \"Madden NFL 2005\" came out that day,  and some fans of the football simulation are rabid enough to  take a sick day to play it."
  },
  {
    "id": "hf-ag_news-train-00204",
    "title": "Sci/Tech",
    "text": "AOL to Sell Cheap PCs to Minorities and Seniors  NEW YORK (Reuters) - America Online on Thursday said it  plans to sell a low-priced PC targeting low-income and minority  households who agree to sign up for a year of dialup Internet  service."
  },
  {
    "id": "hf-ag_news-train-00205",
    "title": "Sci/Tech",
    "text": "Microsoft to Introduce Cheaper Version of Windows  SEATTLE (Reuters) - Microsoft Corp. <MSFT.O> said it will  begin selling a stripped-down, low-cost version of its Windows  XP operating system in the emerging markets of Indonesia,  Malaysia and Thailand in order to spread the use of computing  and develop technology markets."
  },
  {
    "id": "hf-ag_news-train-00206",
    "title": "Sci/Tech",
    "text": "Companies Approve New High-Capacity Disc Format  LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - A group of consumer electronics  makers said on Wednesday they approved the format for a new  generation of discs that can store five times the data of DVDs  at the same cost -- enough to put a full season of \"The  Sopranos\" on one disc."
  },
  {
    "id": "hf-ag_news-train-00207",
    "title": "Sci/Tech",
    "text": "Missing June Deals Slow to Return for Software Cos.  NEW YORK (Reuters) - The mystery of what went wrong for the  software industry in late June when sales stalled at more than  20 brand-name companies is not even close to being solved  although the third quarter is nearly halfway over."
  },
  {
    "id": "hf-ag_news-train-00208",
    "title": "Sci/Tech",
    "text": "Microsoft Upgrades Software for Digital Pictures  SEATTLE (Reuters) - Microsoft Corp. <MSFT.O> released on  Tuesday the latest version of its software for editing and  organizing digital photographs and images to tap into  widespread demand for digital cameras and photography."
  },
  {
    "id": "hf-ag_news-train-00209",
    "title": "Sci/Tech",
    "text": "Google to Pay Yahoo to Settle Patent Dispute  SEATTLE (Reuters) - Google Inc. <GOOG.O> on Monday again  boosted the number of shares it plans to sell in its initial  public offering, saying it will issue 2.7 million shares to  Yahoo Inc. <YHOO.O> to settle a lawsuit over technology used to  display ads."
  },
  {
    "id": "hf-ag_news-train-00210",
    "title": "Sci/Tech",
    "text": "A Digital Doctor Treats Computer Contamination Unfortunately for users, computer equipment manufacturers and resellers don't adequately inform Windows users of the risks involved in accessing the Internet without proper security measures.<br><FONT face=\"verdana,MS Sans Serif,arial,helvetica\" size=\"-2\"\\ color=\"#666666\"><B>-The Washington Post</b></font>"
  },
  {
    "id": "hf-ag_news-train-00211",
    "title": "Sci/Tech",
    "text": "'SP2' a Must With XP Use Service Pack 2, \"SP2\" for short, aims to stop viruses, worms, browser hijackings and worse by including security features that people have to add and adjust on their own. <FONT face=\"verdana,MS Sans Serif,arial,helvetica\" size=\"-2\"\\ color=\"#666666\"><B>-Rob Pegoraro</b></font>"
  },
  {
    "id": "hf-ag_news-train-00212",
    "title": "Sci/Tech",
    "text": "Putting Your Own Stamp On All Your Parcels Fido the Stamp is here. Well, he could be -- all it takes is for one dog owner to snap a digital photo of his beloved pooch, submit it to the Stamps.com Web site and order personalized postage. <FONT face=\"verdana,MS Sans Serif,arial,helvetica\" size=\"-2\"\\ color=\"#666666\"><B>-Leslie Walker</b></font>"
  },
  {
    "id": "hf-ag_news-train-00213",
    "title": "Sci/Tech",
    "text": "Internet Challenges Face-to-Face Mingling At Bungalow Billiards in Chantilly on Wednesday, about a dozen single parents from Northern Virginia gathered at happy hour to mingle, eat and drink. All were divorced or widowed members of the Fairfax chapter of Parents Without Partners."
  },
  {
    "id": "hf-ag_news-train-00214",
    "title": "Sci/Tech",
    "text": "Forecast: Plenty of Activity On the Weather Blog Front If it's possible to love something just because it could visit torrents upon the Washington region, fling hail from the skies and swell streams into rivers, then Jason Samenow is smitten."
  },
  {
    "id": "hf-ag_news-train-00215",
    "title": "Sci/Tech",
    "text": "Google Starts Auction Company launched the biggest electronic auction of stock in Wall Street history Friday but warned that it could face legal liability from a Playboy magazine interview in which some aspects of the Internet search engine's performance were overstated. <FONT face=\"verdana,MS Sans Serif,arial,helvetica\" size=\"-2\"\\ color=\"#666666\"><B>-The Washington Post</b></font>"
  },
  {
    "id": "hf-ag_news-train-00216",
    "title": "Sci/Tech",
    "text": "Bids Placed Despite Mixed News Umesh Patel, a 36-year old software engineer from California, debated until the last minute."
  },
  {
    "id": "hf-ag_news-train-00217",
    "title": "Sci/Tech",
    "text": "Antitrust Lawyer Takes Helm at FTC As Deborah P. Majoras takes over the Federal Trade Commission on Monday, she's expected to build on the broad agenda set by her predecessor, Timothy J. Muris."
  },
  {
    "id": "hf-ag_news-train-00218",
    "title": "Sci/Tech",
    "text": "GAO Calls Stryker Too Heavy for Transport The Army's new medium-weight armored vehicle, the Stryker, weighs so much that it curtails the range of C-130 military cargo aircraft that carry it and under certain conditions make it impossible for the planes to take off, a new report for Congress found."
  },
  {
    "id": "hf-ag_news-train-00219",
    "title": "Sci/Tech",
    "text": "BioVeris Settles 2 Lawsuits Against Chief Executive's Son BioVeris Corp. announced yesterday that it settled two lawsuits against Jacob N. Wohlstadter, its chief executive's son, whom the company had accused of spending millions of dollars on cars and real estate to sabotage a joint venture he ran so he could purchase it for a bargain price."
  },
  {
    "id": "hf-ag_news-train-00220",
    "title": "Sci/Tech",
    "text": "Google: Now Playboy's Latest Bunny Investors in the company that's trying to come off as cute as a bunny could find themselves holding a fistful of vipers if the founders of Google Inc. continue to do things like show up in Playboy magazine around the same time their company is going public. <FONT face=\"verdana,MS Sans Serif,arial,helvetica\" size=\"-2\"\\ color=\"#666666\"><B>-washingtonpost.com</B></FONT>"
  },
  {
    "id": "hf-ag_news-train-00221",
    "title": "Sci/Tech",
    "text": "EBay Buys Stake in Craigslist Internet auctioneer eBay Inc. said Friday it acquired a 25 percent stake in craigslist, an online community of classified ads and forums. <FONT face=\"verdana,MS Sans Serif,arial,helvetica\" size=\"-2\"\\ color=\"#666666\"><B>-Associated Press</B></FONT>"
  },
  {
    "id": "hf-ag_news-train-00222",
    "title": "Sci/Tech",
    "text": "Blog Interrupted The instant message blinked on the computer at Jessica Cutler's desk in the Russell Senate Office Building. \"Oh my God, you're famous.\""
  },
  {
    "id": "hf-ag_news-train-00223",
    "title": "Sci/Tech",
    "text": "Hungry world 'must eat less meat' People will need to eat more vegetables and less meat because of dwindling water supplies, scientists say."
  },
  {
    "id": "hf-ag_news-train-00224",
    "title": "Sci/Tech",
    "text": "Hopes soar for solo record plane Richard Branson says the Virgin Global Flyer is looking good for its solo trip around the world without refuelling."
  },
  {
    "id": "hf-ag_news-train-00225",
    "title": "Sci/Tech",
    "text": "Arctic team reaches destination A team of British explorers, who are retracing the steps of a Victorian  pioneer, have reached Thom Bay."
  },
  {
    "id": "hf-ag_news-train-00226",
    "title": "Sci/Tech",
    "text": "Shuttle camera to watch fuel tank The space shuttle's external fuel tank, implicated in the 2003 Columbia disaster, is to get its own camera."
  },
  {
    "id": "hf-ag_news-train-00227",
    "title": "Sci/Tech",
    "text": "Hubble peers at celestial bubble The Hubble Space Telescope has looked into a bubble of gas and dust being inflated by a young star's particles."
  },
  {
    "id": "hf-ag_news-train-00228",
    "title": "Sci/Tech",
    "text": "Bacteria gives coral orange glow Orange coral common to the Caribbean has bacteria to thank for its hue, say US marine scientists."
  },
  {
    "id": "hf-ag_news-train-00229",
    "title": "Sci/Tech",
    "text": "Honey bees close museum  A Worcestershire museum is forced to close for several weeks while a swarm of honey bees is removed."
  },
  {
    "id": "hf-ag_news-train-00230",
    "title": "Sci/Tech",
    "text": "Clouds dash Perseids show The annual Perseid meteor shower could provide a \"spectacular\" show, despite a disappointing start."
  },
  {
    "id": "hf-ag_news-train-00231",
    "title": "Sci/Tech",
    "text": "Worms may slow Parkinson's A protein which helps increase lifespan in worms offers hope for new Parkinson's and Alzheimer's treatments."
  },
  {
    "id": "hf-ag_news-train-00232",
    "title": "Sci/Tech",
    "text": "Nasa help for stem cell study UK tissue engineering experts are teaming up with NASA to find treatments for diseases back on Earth."
  },
  {
    "id": "hf-ag_news-train-00233",
    "title": "Sci/Tech",
    "text": "TB test to slash infection rates A rapid and accurate test for TB could cut infection rates around the world, say experts."
  },
  {
    "id": "hf-ag_news-train-00234",
    "title": "Sci/Tech",
    "text": "Scientists given cloning go-ahead The first request by British scientists to clone human embryos has been granted by experts."
  },
  {
    "id": "hf-ag_news-train-00235",
    "title": "Sci/Tech",
    "text": "Vandals damage bird reserve A disturbance free zone for nesting birds is put at risk by vandals who cut down the boundary fence."
  },
  {
    "id": "hf-ag_news-train-00236",
    "title": "Sci/Tech",
    "text": "Heat waves set to become 'brutal' Heat waves in the 21st Century will be more intense, more frequent and longer, US experts say."
  },
  {
    "id": "hf-ag_news-train-00237",
    "title": "Sci/Tech",
    "text": "Monkeys test 'hardworking gene' Scientists in the United States find a way to turn lazy monkeys into workaholics using gene therapy."
  },
  {
    "id": "hf-ag_news-train-00238",
    "title": "Sci/Tech",
    "text": "Hearing clue to whale evolution The evolution of whales from four-legged land dwellers into streamlined swimmers has been traced in fossilised ears, Nature reports."
  },
  {
    "id": "hf-ag_news-train-00239",
    "title": "Sci/Tech",
    "text": "News: NASA Extends TRMM Operations Through 2004 Hurricane Season NASA will extend operation of the Tropical Rainfall\\Measuring Mission (TRMM) through the end of 2004, in light of a\\recent request from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric\\Administration (NOAA)."
  },
  {
    "id": "hf-ag_news-train-00240",
    "title": "Sci/Tech",
    "text": "News: Climate Change Could Doom Alaska's Tundra In the next 100 years, Alaska will experience a massive loss of its historic tundra, as global warming allows these vast regions of cold, dry, lands to support forests and other vegetation that will dramatically alter native ecosystems. (Oregon State University press release)"
  },
  {
    "id": "hf-ag_news-train-00241",
    "title": "Sci/Tech",
    "text": "News: How Strongly Does the Sun Influence the Climate? Researchers have shown that the Sun can be responsible for, at most, only a small part of the warming over the last 20-30 years. (Max Planck Society press release)"
  },
  {
    "id": "hf-ag_news-train-00242",
    "title": "Sci/Tech",
    "text": "News: New England Forests at Greater Risk from Air Pollution When it comes to forests, air pollution is not an equal opportunity hazard. While dirty air spreads across large areas of the New England region, it's more scattered in the southeastern part of the United States. (University of Wisconsin-Madison press release)"
  },
  {
    "id": "hf-ag_news-train-00243",
    "title": "Sci/Tech",
    "text": "News: Warmer Weather, Human Disturbances Interact to Change Forests While a rapidly changing climate may alter the composition of northern Wisconsin's forests, disturbances such as logging also will play a critical role in how these sylvan ecosystems change over time. (University of Wisconsin-Madison press release)"
  },
  {
    "id": "hf-ag_news-train-00244",
    "title": "Sci/Tech",
    "text": "News: Duke Study Disputes Idea that Trees Can 'Relocate' Quickly in Response to Climate Change In a study with implications for how North American trees might respond to a changing climate, molecular information collected by Duke University researchers refutes a widely accepted theory that many of the continent's tree species migrated rapidly from the deep South as glaciers retreated at the end of the last Ice Age. (Duke University press release)"
  },
  {
    "id": "hf-ag_news-train-00245",
    "title": "Sci/Tech",
    "text": "News: Droughts Like 1930s Dust Bowl May Have Been Unexceptional in Prehistoric Times, New Study Suggests Events like the great Dust Bowl of the 1930s, immortalized in \"The Grapes of Wrath\" and remembered as a transforming event for millions of Americans, were regular parts of much-earlier cycles of droughts followed by recoveries in the region, according to new studies by a multi-institutional research team led by Duke University. (Duke University press release)"
  },
  {
    "id": "hf-ag_news-train-00246",
    "title": "Sci/Tech",
    "text": "News: New Study to Investigate Demise of Coral Reef Ecosystems Scientists are embarking on a project which will explore how global warming is devastating one of the world's most diverse ecosystems, coral reefs. (University of Newcastle press release)"
  },
  {
    "id": "hf-ag_news-train-00247",
    "title": "Sci/Tech",
    "text": "Natural Hazards: Typhoon Rananim The MODIS instrument aboard NASA's Terra satellite captured this true-color image of Typhoon Rananim on August 12 at 2:40 UTC."
  },
  {
    "id": "hf-ag_news-train-00248",
    "title": "Sci/Tech",
    "text": "Horseflies and Meteors Like bugs streaking colorfully down the side window of a moving car, Earthgrazing Perseid meteors could put on a pleasing show after sunset on August 11th."
  },
  {
    "id": "hf-ag_news-train-00249",
    "title": "Sci/Tech",
    "text": "Spinning Brains One day, astronauts could zip across the solar system in spinning spaceships.  How will their brains adapt to life onboard a twirling home where strange  quot;Coriolis forces quot; rule?"
  }
]