Rains bring mudslides, death
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Two people negotiate their way out of a building, badly damaged by a mudslide, as another heavy downpour inundates the Taipei area yesterday.
PHOTO: CHEN CHENG-CHANG
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A house is completely covered by large rocks following a mudslide after a heavy overnight downpour.
PHOTO: AFP
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Wang snags candidacy in poll
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Wang Chien-shien, right, from the New Party and the KMT's Lin Jih-jia demonstrate they're still friends at a press conference yesterday in which the two parties announced the results of an opinion poll to decide which candidate to field in the Taipei County commissioner elections. Wang edged out Lin by 0.28 percent.
PHOTO: CHIANG YING-YING, TAIPEI TIMES
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President Chen wades into Lu's housing dispute
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File photo of the former official residence of late president Yen Chia-kan, which was designated as a cultural heritage site in July. Vice President Annette Lu wants to live in the residence instead of the houses offered by the Presidential Office.
PHOTO: LIAO RAY-SHANG, TAIPEI TIMES
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Trying to overshadow genius
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Chin Shih-jie, in the role of Anotonio Salieri, is out to destroy Mozart, played by Wang Po-sen, and his wife Constanze, played by Tsuo Jun, in Amadeus.
PHOTO: COURTESY OF GODOT THEATER COMPANY
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Turntablists to duke it out at @live
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DJs will face off Sunday afternoon at @live.
PHOTO COURTESY OF VESTAX
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Restaurant of the week - China Pa (¤¤°ê¤÷)
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Simple dishes, such as the fried vegetables with garlic and the hot spicy bean jelly are done particularly well at China Pa.
PHOTO: IAN BARTHOLOMEW
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Big PC brother's ever watchful eye frustrates users
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Cookies changed the Web from being a relatively anonymous activity to the kind of environment where records of one's transactions, movements and even desires could be stored, sorted, mined and sold. For nearly six years David M. Kristol of Bell Laboratories led a group trying to come up with standards for cookies.
PHOTO: NY TIMES
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Web-based photographers attacking search engines
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In Irvine, California, photographer Leslie A. Kelly, right, and his lawyer, Steven Krongold, contend that a search engine hijacked his photos. Search engines must make a copy of every image they come across, whether they have permission to do so or not. The images are then displayed in the search engine's listings without approval from the creators.
PHOTO: NY TIMES
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Restaurant of the week - Chu Cha Dan Fan (ªì¯ù²H¶º)
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The fatty pork is surprisingly light at Chu Cha Dan Fan.
PHOTO: VICO LEE, TAIPEI TIMES
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