Monday, July 12, 2010
And in Egypt: Group Wants to Censor Arabic Classic
Lawyers Without Shackles seeks to delete salacious passages from contemporary literature and cherished classics. Its campaign against 'The Arabian Nights' is part of a growing religious conservatism. Let the ancient temptress beware, censors with sharp pens beckon. Arab writers and poets through the...
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Friday, July 9, 2010
And in Colorado: Thieves could go Free While Victim Faces Jail Time…
Admitted thieves are going free, while an elderly Wheat Ridge man is facing the possibility of spending the rest of his life behind bars, all, he says, for trying to defend his property and his life. 82-year-old Robert Wallace said in February that he looked out his window and saw two men hooking...
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Monday, July 5, 2010
And in Toronto: Mental-Health Centre Backs Away from Smoking Ban…
T oronto ’s Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, the largest mental-health facility in the country, has backtracked on a plan to ban smoking from its grounds. Instead of enacting an all-out ban that would force patients off-site to smoke, CAMH now plans to set up designated outdoor smoking areas...
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Wednesday, June 30, 2010
And in France: Prisoner Mistakenly Eats Lung of Cell-Mate…
While Yale researchers have succeeded in growing a lung in the lab, this discovery has come too late for a French prison inmate. The Associated Press reports on Nicholas Cocaign who has been charged with barbarism and cannibalism after he killed and then ate the lung of a fellow prisoner in France’s...
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Tuesday, June 29, 2010
And in San Pedro (Los Angeles): Pantless Multicultural Man Finally Arrives…
"Multicultural Man," a statue of a man encircled by a globe, arrived at the San Pedro waterfront yesterday, nearly two years after the city received it from LA's sister city in Italy. The waterfront statue had initially drawn criticism because locals feared the naked statue--and his feared big...
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Monday, June 28, 2010
And in New York: The King of Beers…
There are thousands of people in New York who have quite forgotten the use of plain water as a beverage. In certain quarters of the city, ‘lager’ is the main staple of life, being for sale in almost every house, and the drink and even the food, of all then men, women and children. Lager is king!...
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Saturday, June 26, 2010
And in Florida: Women Plan Topless Protest in Key West…
Hoping to make a statement about gender equality, a group of Key West women is planning a topless Fourth of July demonstration on Duval Street. Their point is that women should be able to be top-free any place that a man can, like at the beach, riding a bike or, as evidenced in the planned march,...
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Thursday, June 24, 2010
And in Japan: Secret Ingredient – Bird Poop…
Japanese women use ground-up nightingale droppings to lighten and smooth skin. (MacLean’s, July 5, 2010 ) Sources report that, because of a shortage of Japanese nightingale droppings, the market has been inundated with counterfeit bird poop. The head of Japanese customs spoke of the difficulty in...
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Sunday, June 20, 2010
And in India, Family of 162 Could be Largest Living Under One Roof...
Ziona, the 66-year-old head of the family, has 32 wives and 94 children of his own, and his house is also home to his sons’ children, according to a report in The Times of India. The extremely large family all live together in one building, located 62 miles from Mizoram, eastern India, in which his...
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Wednesday, June 16, 2010
And in Japan: Teacher Wants Sex with Students to say Sorry...
A history teacher has apparently offered to have sex with Chinese students at her college in Japan to apologize for her country's invasion of China in 1937, it is reported. Anri Suzuki, 24, from Tokyo - is said to have a doctorate in Sino-Japanese history, but said she had specialized in studying...
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