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July 22, 2008
One of the oldest Bibles will be available on the Internet, starting Thursday, a German university said Tuesday. Written on calfskin and discovered by a German researcher nearly 200 years ago, the half-finished text will become available for online readers, the University of Leipzig Library said. The University of Leipzig Library director said the half complete Bible was discovered in a waste basket by a German scholar. Liepzig University Library Director Ulrich Johannes Schneider said readers would be able to study the manuscript which has great importance to Christians.
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July 15, 2008
Topics girls, school, usa, videos, address, rose, photos, video, health, internet, girl, young, florida, university and children
Cyberbullying is on the rise with methods becoming meaner, including posting photos and videos on social networking websites. A report by the University of New Hampshire's Crimes Against Children Research Center said the number of young Americans between the ages 10 to 17 who experienced online harassment has gone up by 50 percent from 2000 to 2005.
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July 15, 2008
The high cost of lawyers' fees has resulted to a rise of Americans handling their own court cases, with assistance from legal self-help sites and groups. The kind of self-handled cases has gone beyond civil cases involving small amounts of money to domestic problems, divorces and child custody matters, according to the National Center for State Courts.
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July 3, 2008
German authorities have returned an infant to its parents after a joke went afoul about selling the baby boy on eBay for $1. The twenty-something parents' admission halted a days-long probe into potential baby trafficking. In a May 24 auction that was online less than three hours, a writer advertised the baby was for sale because it "has gotten too loud. " Internet auction giant eBay quickly removed the ad.
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July 3, 2008
Jeff Taylor, the founder of online job site Monster. com, is now touting his latest Internet project: online obituaries. Taylor said his newest venture, Tributes. com, is aimed at moving death notices from the newspaper to the Internet. Unlike Legacy. com, which is owned partly by the Tribune Co. and receives fees from 650 newspapers to publish online death notices, Taylor intends to obtain obituaries directly from funeral homes and earn revenue by selling advertising, among other ways.
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