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Fred Oesterreich was a big man who had a big appetite and smoked big cigars. That's all Frank had that was big. In 1903, in Milwaukee, Wisc., he owned a thriving apron factory. Fred's wife, Walburga, was a gorgeous woman, with a figure that could wake a corpse.
The Oesterreiches simply didn't get along. Oh, sure, they had been married for 15 years, lived in a comfortable home and were ...
Submitted by admin on Sat, 2005-10-29 08:00. ::
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Editor's Note: Lost Sparrow, Sister Lotus and a host of other Chinese women are changing the rules between the sexes -- and prompting government censorship -- as they post intimate details of their lives online.
The nude black-and-white photograph of the young Chinese woman is gritty and amateurish. She sits in front of h...
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The foreign women were among 174 people – including 105 men and 15 other women – who were picked up during the 3am raid yesterday.
The raiding party from the Federal narcotics department, which also arrested the owner of the joint, in his 30s, found ketamin, in powder form, cigarettes laced in ganja as well as Ecstasy and Eramin 5 strewn all over the floor of the lounge.
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Cai Wenjun/Shanghai Daily news
Men's health hot lines, including a line for university students, were launched yesterday in the city to mark the National Male Health Day.
Ten male health education centers were also inaugurated.
The men's hot line is 6474-9014; the hot line for male university students is 6465-9922 - it also helps women.
Men's health status in the city an...
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A Seattle weight-loss doctor and former obstetrician who was suspended from prescribing medicine has reached a settlement with the state medical board.
Dr. Michael E. Greer is allowed to prescribe medications with certain restrictions, but he is barred from ever practicing obstetrics. The state Medical Quality Assurance Commission stayed a five-year suspension of Greer's license. It coul...
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U.S., Japan Agree to Boost Military Cooperation, Realign Bases
Oct. 29 (Bloomberg) -- The U.S. and Japan will agree to abide by a set of proposals to increase military cooperation, realign U.S. forces, and give Japan a greater role in regional security to better adopt to Asia's shifting strategic makeup.
Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfel...
Submitted by admin on Fri, 2005-10-28 08:01. ::
"People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war or before an election." (Otto von Bismarck Prussian Prime Minister, 1815-1898)
I wonder how many people really believe that the milestone figure of 2000 US soldiers killed is the real truth - I certain do not, and it has nothing to do with my views on the war, but everything to do with the various independent reports and analyses ema...
Submitted by admin on Fri, 2005-10-28 08:00. ::
The best comes first. Fruit Chan's "Dumplings" is cut down from a 90-minute version, but this truncation may be its ideal form. The Hong Kong film is classically spare, and like the best of fellow masters Hitchcock and Shyamalan ("The Sixth Sense") before, its crispness gives it immense powers. More would not only be too much but possibly excessive.
"Dumplings" is a study of the wicked p...
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The thought that - as some of the epistemological scientists,philosophers and biologists of our time cogitate - whether the incipient moment of theNeolithic age has brought forth the greed, covetousness and cupidity in the mindset ofHomo sapiens is an intriguing one. Before that age, human beings were not capable ofhunting the wild and ferocious animals and that they would have schemed and plan...
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Today Taking the appearance of a silent film, the second segment entitled `A Time For Freedom' (¦Û¥Ñ¹Ú) is set in 1911, during the Japanese occupation. The unspoken love between a courtesan and a member of the Taiwanese literati is narrated through Hou's signature use of long takes and static cameras as seen in 1989's City of Sadness (´d±¡«°¥«) and 1998's Flowers of Shanghai (®ü¤Wªá).
