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Im sorry to tell you but argentine and uruguayan press think it is real.

http://www.clarin.com/diario/2009/08/03/elmundo/i-01970785.htm -- "RaÃl Castro: 'No fui elegido para restaurar el capitalismo' " -- "Elegido", in Spanish, doesn't mean "elected". It means "selected", or "chosen". Any other question you would need to discuss today, besides difficulties in dealing with ignorance, arrogance, and poor manners? We do have quite a list already. ------- Raul Castro told the truth when he said he wasn't elected to restore capitalism; he wasn't elected - period. --

I laughed to myself when reading this and then realized I have been browsing with adblock for months... You just get used to not seeing annoying stuff. I almost freaked out when I visited my paper's website with an ad that COVERED THE WHOLE SCREEN! Some product I already forgot about with animation and what-else, which then scrolled to a side... When reading articles, the right half of the page was full of annoying ads!
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Not a joke: http://www.clarin.com/diario/2006/09/08/um/m-01267 643.htm

Babelfish translation:
The fire affects the terrace of the building, located in the Alem avenue to the 900. Four dowries of firemen work in the place and not yet the causes were determined by which the fire began.

Four dowries of firemen try to control this morning a fire in a building of the Buenosairean district of Retirement. Not yet the causes were determined and it is not known if there are victims. The fire affects the terrace of a tower where offices of IBM, located work in Alem to the 900 in the intersection with the Cordova avenue.

In Argentina, in some provinces, you must be "licensed" to program, or even to call yourself "computer consultant". Hard to believe? Read it here or here or here an opinion agains it (sorry, all in Spanish).

from one of the links, (my own translation):

"[professional license] assure that professional exercise is made exclusively by the people who certify corresponding academic formation as well as ethical integrity in their performance, as a minimum guarantee of the quality..."
 

Here is the link to the article (In spanish) no a too much tecnical review: http://old.clarin.com/diario/2003/01/09/s-02601.ht m and google translated for those who doesn't speak spanish: http://www.google.com/translate?u=http%3A%2F%2Fold .clarin.com%2Fdiario%2F2003%2F01%2F09%2Fs-02601.ht m&langpair=es%7Cen&hl=en&ie=UTF8.

I was thinking in posting this story because the team of researchers were formed by 3 argentinians (I live there) and "study co-author Dr. Sunil K. Ahuja". This isn't mentioned anywhere in the article. In fact, an announcement was made in a local Hospital ("Garrahan") here and presented by different media as a discovery made by this groups of argentinians collaborating with Ahuja. I would really like this post updated with this important info. Links to the local story (in spanish): Clarin newspaper The names of the three argentinian investigators: "Andrea Mangano, Luisa Sen y Rosa Bologna".

As it was already done in other places, in Argentina it was done last year. Here is a newspaper article about this (translation by Google.