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The '60s and early '70s were a time of heated rebellion.
Sixties counter-culture had a point, it was an act of rebellion. Forty years on, th...
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According to the survey, brand owners are failing to engage female consumers with their communication. The survey was conducted in cities, including Mumbai, Shanghai, Bangkok and Singapore.
“Marketers are continuing to present women in traditional roles and focus on old cliches, resulting in the alienation of many female consumers,” it said.
The study was aimed at determining what w...
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The Texas Rangers raised ticket prices for next season, when they will slash the number of afternoon games during the summer's hottest months. Texas announced an across-the-board increase in ticket prices yesterday, the largest at nearly 14 percent. The Rangers also cut their home day games from 25 to 15.
Bucky Dent was hired as bench coach of the Cincinnati Reds, making him the top assi...
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BANGKOK, Thailand — A kamikaze suicide pilot fell in love with imprisoned "comfort woman" Lee Yong Soo, but that did nothing to stop the atrocity of her being raped by hundreds of Japanese soldiers during World War II.
Up to 200,000 females — mostly teenagers — were enslaved for rape by Japan‘s military in China, Korea, Taiwan, the Philippines, Malaysia, Indonesia,...
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Essay Sign In to E-Mail This Printer-Friendly Single-Page Save Article By RACHEL DONADIO Published: November 6, 2005
This fall, Senator Barbara Boxer of California and Richard A. Clarke, the ubiquitous counterterrorism expert, became the latest inductees into an elite political fellowship, one that doesn't discriminate on the basis of party affiliation, security clearance, home state or ...
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Top-seeded Andy Roddick saved two match points Friday before beating David Ferrer 2-6, 6-3, 7-6 (10-8) to reach the semifinals of the Paris Masters.
Roddick, who faced both match points in the third-set tiebreaker, will play sixth-seeded Ivan Ljubicic today. Ljubicic reached the semifinals with a 7-6 (8-6), 3-6, 6-1 win against Tommy Robredo.
Eighth-seeded Radek Stepanek, last year...
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WASHINGTON, Nov. 3 (UPI) -- A British study released Thursday indicates combining the anti-clotting drug clopidogrel with aspirin to treat heart attacks could prevent thousands of deaths, recurrent heart attacks and strokes each year.
The study shows that clopidogrel -- sold by Bristol-Myers Squibb under the trade name Plavix -- provides a benefit to heart-attack patients with an elevated...
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TORONTO (CP) - Carpenters have an old adage: "Measure twice and cut once." With some slight modifications, that simple rule could also help many Canadians reduce their risk of having a heart attack.
But the measurements they need to take are of the waist and hips, concludes a Canadian-led international study, which found that the two circumferences are a much better yardstick of risk than...
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Sign In to E-Mail This Printer-Friendly Reprints Save Article By THE NEW YORK TIMES Published: November 4, 2005
'JOY OF CHRISTMAS BAZAAR,' Fifth Avenue Presbyterian Church, 7 West 55th Street, Manhattan. Today, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.; tomorrow, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.
'WORLD'S LARGEST BLOCK PARTY,' Madison Avenue, from 42nd to 57th Streets. Tomorrow, 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. Sponsored by the Ame...
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Based on Huxley's definition, I'm here to report to you that I had a very, very interesting weekend, which I spent with a group of some of Washington's leading policy intellectuals, AKA policy "wonks," in a Big Ideas retreat outside of the U.S. capital, where one of those wealthy foundations wined and dined us for three days in what could be described as a mini-Davos.
In return, we wer...
