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13 August 2001
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Video-Game Character Wondering Why Heartless God Always Chooses ‘Continue’ (As you can probably tell from the headline this is another rather entertaining story ripped from the pages of The Onion).ameriquest officer loanloans 401k adploans americangeneralloan $1000.00 payday203k loans fhaaccounting ais student loan systemsloan accountnow and payday2450000 loans personalloan and 401k and hardshipsrudent loan acs

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How To Survive A Mugging One of the web-exclusive entries from the site accompanying the ever-entertaining best-selling book – The Worst Case Scenario Handbook.

I have to say that my preferred (and doubtless the safest) approach to “how to survive a mugging” is not mentioned – “run away.”

It doesn’t say what to do if you try to stomp on a mugger’s instep and miss, thus making them angry…

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Webcams – threat or peril? An interesting Salon feature on how teenage girls sometimes exploit their sexuality through their websites and receive gifts from their online admirers. Also how they occaisionally find their pictures linked to from paedophile sites (Charisma, the first person whose site is mentioned, complains of this in her posting of 8.4.2001).ringtone 3360 nokia8700c ringtonephone ringtones cell alcatelabsolutely ringtone sprint freeverizon agency ringtones mp3 foralltel funny ringtones600 palm ringtone treo7600 ringtones nokia Maptax energy credit 2007gas amoco credit cardcredit remortgages uk adverscanada in study acredited distanceaccredited in university diego santechnology engineering and board for accreditationair academy credit unioncredit 2007 earned table income Map

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American Newspeak – “Your one-stop shopping center for cutting edge advances in the mangling of meaning. The Wal-Mart of satire, a beacon in the corporate consumer fog, powered by two Triple A batteries…”

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