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Medieval News Archive06-Feb-2007
In Susan Kleiner's view, the conventional American practice of dieting by deprivation owes more to the techniques of Medieval torture than to modern science. "It's paralyzing, it's defeating, and it doesn't help," says Kleine A couple who found themselves bound by Medieval canon law to repair the chancel of a 13th-century village church were presented with a final demand in the High Court yesterday for more than £200,000. Evidence of a medieval leper colony is discovered by builders who are renovating a pub. Keeping information secure in this age of laptop-lugging workers is the tech industry's most formidable challenge, Microsoft Corp. Chairman Bill Gates said Tuesday. Manuel Azevedo loves Porto for its winding medieval streets, chestnut vendors and shoeshine men that epitomise a bygone age. In his swan song to an annual gathering of 15,000 computer security experts here Tuesday, Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates said the software giant has made giant strides in security. But he acknowledged that threats from malicious computer code and the proliferation of devices connected to the Internet have made security a moving target. One of the West's most historic churches has been rasing money to help restore it's Medieval buildings. St Mary Redcliffe church in Bristol has raised over a million pounds by selling several church-owned houses.
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