Word: amsterdams
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...days of Sputnik had returned, Americans can stop worrying that Russia is winning the race to put boy bands in space. Early last week 'N Sync's LANCE BASS reported that he was negotiating to visit the International Space Station aboard a Russian rocket, an idea hatched by the Amsterdam-based MirCorp. When MirCorp approached Bass, he enthusiastically embraced the proposal, issuing a statement saying he was "looking forward to completing this lifelong dream." But by week's end the Russian space agency said it was not MirCorp's prerogative to book passengers aboard its rockets. Undeterred, MirCorp vice chairman...
...Dutch are using a more innovative technique for discouraging cell-phone thieves. In Amsterdam, police spam stolen cell phones with short message service (SMS) technology. When a victim reports a theft, police take the number and send an SMS message every three to five minutes to the stolen phone. It says: "You are in possession of a stolen cell phone. Did you know that stealing a cell phone is a crime punishable by imprisonment? Using a stolen cell phone is too, and you are risking a prison term of one year...
...body was dotted with electrodes - on his deltoids, biceps, flexors, hamstrings and calf muscles - that delivered gentle electric shocks, just enough to nudge the muscles into involuntary contractions. The electrodes were connected to a computer, which was in turn linked via the Internet to computers in Paris, Helsinki and Amsterdam. By pressing various parts of a rendering of a human body on a touch screen, participants at all three sites could make Stelarc do whatever they wished...
...summer of 2001, Reid was back in London. In July he obtained a new British passport in Amsterdam, claiming that he had accidentally put his old one through a washing machine, and flew to Israel on an El Al flight. Once in Israel, according to security sources there, Reid spent most of his time in Tel Aviv, where he cased the mall and office complex called the Azrieli Center as well as the local bus and train stations. ("Abdul Ra'uff" also checked security at the Western Wall of the Temple Mount in Jerusalem.) After 10 days in Israel, Reid...
...didn't stay there long. On Aug. 9, Reid was back in Amsterdam. It was a good choice. Amsterdam is an open city. In its streets and bars, a rough-looking and by all accounts singularly malodorous Englishman would hardly merit a second glance. He spent much of his time sending e-mails to addresses in Pakistan from Internet cafes. Presumably, it was during these months that the plan to bomb Flight 63 took shape...