Issue 6 - January 2001
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Checking his bank account on-line he noticed a banking glitch which put his wealth at a staggering 9,999,999,973,885.24 Norwegian crowns. That's equivalent to about seven hundred and fifty-three billion dollars - easily eclipsing the fortune of Bill Gates with his miserly thirty-three billion dollars. Honesty got the better of him however and he handed back his new found wealth to the bank. Source: The Guardian |
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 David Blunkett launches "Playing for Success", a national initiative in association with football clubs and the local education authorities. MORE |
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 An unemployed mathematician and his Cambridge student friend took just seven months to figure out Eternity. MORE |
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 Bill Gates beware - a Norwegian man may be in the running for the title of "World's Richest Man". MORE |
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Bill Gates beware - a Norwegian man may be in the running for the title of "World's Richest Man".
