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Aftermath of the Seventeenth Annual Delta Awards

Ethan Switch - Wednesday, 22 October, 2003 - 18:58:57 - print it raw

In the wake of Delta Goodrem's historic collection of spires at the 17th ARIA awards one thing is certain: less severe cancers make for good character builders. With ten nominations in total there was hardly a chance the young singer/songwriter would leave the building without at least a handful. At the end of the night she managed to score wins for seven excluding Best Male Artist and Album of the Year.

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Undead Chinese Spaceman Urges Coalition of Spacefarers

Ethan Switch - Friday, 17 October, 2003 - 23:57:13 - print it raw

Earlier this week the world's first taikonaut, Chinese Yang Liwei, blasted off into space, orbited the sickening refuse of a planet called Earth and returned alive, well and uncharred. An event steeped in delay and firecracker jokes about the viability of it all. Such was the reaction that a coalition of spacefarers have decided to make moves in pushing forth for a Commercial Space Act (HR 3245) to the US Congress

"The suborbital launch industry offers tremendous promise," said Brian Chase, Executive Director of the National Space Society. "The tourism component alone could be worth billions of dollars per year, and has the real potential to jump-start our stagnant aerospace sector. The United States has the opportunity to be the leader in this exciting market, but without steps like this legislation we may see it move to other countries."

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New Tupac Album Released, Still No Plans for Tour

Ethan Switch - Wednesday, 8 October, 2003 - 19:16:09 - print it raw

Elvis does it, why not the genuine black? Even though the rapper known as 2PAC was gunned down in 1996, his music is still making money for Death Row Records. So much so that they've released another remixed version of the dead man's songs in Death Row Presents 2Pac Nu-Mixx Klazzics.

"Seeing and hearing 2PAC again brings back fond memories," notes Death Row Records founder and CEO Suge Knight, who is also the album's executive producer. "The fact that there's new video footage augmenting the recording is a great bonus, both for me and PAC's many fans.". Indeed it would. Seven years without a twitch of life and Shakur still rakes in the big money for Death Row.

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Gunner to do Runner in NYC Marathon

Ethan Switch - Wednesday, 1 October, 2003 - 18:14:16 - print it raw

Who would pay to watch a rapper run around in the city streets of New York without the zipping of bullets overhead? And in the harsh UV beaming time of daylight? Sean 'P. Diddy' Combs is expecting a lot as he sets himself up for a running of the gauntlet that is the New York City Marathon later on in November.

The initiative, Diddy Runs the City, is expected to raise awareness about the state of education and health for the city kids. That and about one million dollars to help it along.

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Clean-up Collection Service Begins Again

Ethan Switch - Friday, 26 September, 2003 - 17:43:52 - print it raw

Like Scandal'us and Scott Cain before them, the newest bargain bin pop product that will be preened and sheened by the producers of Australian Idol have officially had the time set off on their yet to implode careers with the screening of Inside Idol.

Unfortunately not in anyway colonic - or even pornographic - the show, which premiered last night on TEN-10 to an audience of a weary few thousand made the closest alignment between it and the previous pop laundry acid wash otherwise known as Popstars.

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Anastacia to Help Repay Breast Cancer Boost

Ethan Switch - Tuesday, 16 September, 2003 - 18:29:02 - print it raw

Having sensed a lull of sorts in her career back in the early part of 2003, singer/songwriter Anastacia tried to shock the world by announcing that at the relatively young age of 29 she had breast cancer. Now with the fanfare on her washboard stomach looking dimmer than the time of her operation, US Lifetime Television have come to her aid and have enlisted the artist as their new spokesperson for its "Stop Breast Cancer for Life" campaign.

The initiative, now in its ninth year, will annex a newly created Anastacia Fund to the Breast Cancer Research Foundation and continue to raise the awareness of early breast cancer detection.

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