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Newborn survives fall through train toilet CNN – February 28 , 2008 Newborn baby falls through the toilet on a moving train after being prematurely born Baby survives for 2 hours on the tracks before being found Toilets on Indian trains usually open directly onto track Baby has still not been named, was 10 weeks premature and weighed 3.22 pounds.
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Crowds flock to monkey 'wedding' BBC – February 26 , 2008 Some 3,000 villagers have attended an elaborate Hindu wedding ceremony in eastern India for two monkeys.
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Mao offered U.S. 10 million women CNN – February 14, 2008 Amid a discussion of trade in 1973, Chinese leader Mao Zedong made what U.S. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger called a novel proposition: sending tens of thousands, even 10 million, Chinese women to the United States..
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Surprising reasons you're not having sex CNN – February 12, 2008
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Kidney transplant scam: GTA home to 'Dr. Horror' The Toronto Star – February 3, 2008 While police forces around the world search for the Indian doctor who scammed hundreds out of their kidneys, his wife and children remain barricaded behind security doors at their Brampton home.
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Take off and strip off The BBC – February 2, 2008 GERMANY: Pay 499 euros and, this July, you'll get the chance to take off - and strip off up in the air. And naked you'll stay until the plane touches down in Usedom on the Baltic coast.
"But what if the stewardess spills a hot cup of coffee over a naked passenger?"
"Hot drinks will be banned on board," says Sandra calmly.
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Kidney transplant scam shocks India The Toronto Star – January 31, 2008 Many of the donors were day labourers, like Mohammed, picked up from the streets with the offer of work, driven to a well-equipped private clinic, and duped or forced at gunpoint to undergo operations. Others were bicycle rickshaw drivers and impoverished farmers who were persuaded to sell their organs, which is illegal in India.
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Women-only bus service makes first stop in Mexico The Toronto Star – January 23, 2008 MEXICO CITY-The Mexican capital has started a women-only bus service to protect female passengers from groping and verbal abuse common on its packed public transportation system.
Millions of people cram into subway trains and buses in Mexico City, one of the world's largest cities, and women have long complained of abuse from men taking advantage of overcrowding to sneak in an inappropriate grab.
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Canada puts US on 'torture list' BBC – January 18, 2008 The United States has been listed as a country where prisoners are at risk of torture in a training document produced by the Canadian foreign ministry.
The manual - part of a training course on torture awareness for diplomats - also includes Israel, China, Iran and Afghanistan on its watch list.
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Why We Flirt Times – January 17, 2008 It is a long article, but here are the highlights! :)
- And before you claim, whether single or married, that you never flirt, bear in mind that it's not just talk we're dealing with here. It is the gestures, stance, eye movement, etc.
- One of the reasons we flirt in this way is that we can't help it. We're programmed to do it, whether by biology or culture.
- Simpson's research suggests that women who are ovulating are more attracted to flirty men.
- Flirtation is a game we play, a dance for which everyone knows the moves.
- To evolutionary biologists, the advantages of this are clear: mates die, off spring die. Flirting is a little like taking out mating insurance.
- One of the most fascinating flirting laboratories is the digital world.
- Most people who flirt--off-line at least--are not looking for an affair.
- Flirting is a decaf affair, a way of feeling more alive, more vital, more desirable without actually endangering the happiness of anyone you love--or the balance of your bank account. So go ahead and flirt, if you can do it responsibly. You might even try it with your spouse.
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Scientists revive dead heart The Toronto Star – January 14, 2008 Researchers have brought a dead animal heart back to life in the lab by repopulating it with healthy cells, a feat they believe may someday allow them to grow new hearts and other organs for people desperate for transplants.
In a paper published online yesterday in Nature Medicine, researchers at the University of Minnesota describe the process of revitalizing the heart of a euthanized lab rat, which begins with washing out the interior cells to leave just the outer shell of the organ.
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Tiger urine to scare killer elephant BBC – December 24, 2007 Forest officials in eastern India have advised villagers to stock tiger urine and excrement to scare away a killer elephant and his marauding herd.
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Wife stabs husband who opens Christmas gift early The Toronto Star – December 12, 2007 A woman stabbed her husband with a kitchen knife following an argument that began when she accused him of opening a Christmas present early, authorities said Friday.
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Who Believes in Jesus and the Bible There are about 2.0 billion Christians in the world. Assuming they are all fundamentally religious, how many people believe in Jesus and the Bible?
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BBC – December 12, 2007 Scientists
in Japan have created a genetically modified mouse which is unafraid of cats.
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The Toronto Star – December 11, 2007 A kiss on the hand, or even feet, was a show of deference, of servitude.
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BBC – December 3, 2007 Cultural pressure to have a boy is leading some British women of Asian origin to travel to India for abortions to avoid having a girl.
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Lion killer is killed by hyenas BBC – November 21, 2007 A Kenyan herdsman, who fought off and killed a lion, has died after being attacked by a pack of hyenas.
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Fewer Japanese women are choosing to have children BBC – November 20, 2007 In Japan, people flagged up three separate issues as obstacles to child-rearing - money worries, the problems of working and having a family, and a lack of support for mothers.
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