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The army jawans at the Indo-China border had more than one reason to dance and rejoice recently for they were joined by none other than the sizzling sisters Shilpa Shetty and Shamita Shetty .
The occasion was an episode of NDTV's Jai Jawan, and the stunning Shetty sisters joined the jawans at the Indo-China border.
The star siblings trekked it up to Nathula Pass on the Indo-China b...
Submitted by admin on Sun, 2005-10-16 08:00. ::
The locals spend hours peering into plastic containers full of the sundry creepie-crawlies. People buy the crickets so that their gentle chirping will help children get to sleep at night, which is nice. Crickets and other insects are also reared for battle so that the gambling-mad Chinese can bet on the outcome, which is not so nice. But, with the same fascination as you would have for a corrid...
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China had 126,808 people who officially reported as HIV-positive at the end of July, according to figures compiled over the past 20 years, but the estimated number of sufferers could be as high as 840,000, the Ministry of Health revealed on Friday.
The total registered number of AIDS patients both alive and dead is 28,789, said Hao Yang, vice-director of the ministry's Disease Control De...
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The United Nations is celebrating its 60th anniversary. Yet little or no acknowledgment is given to the African Americans who contributed to the formation, founding ceremonies and 60-year history of this great international body. Among them: Mary McLeod Bethune, who was present when the official United Nations Charter was signed in 1945 in San Francisco.
Before the founding of the United ...
Submitted by admin on Sat, 2005-10-15 08:01. ::
http://www.guardian.co.uk/israel/Story/0,2763,1112442,00.html
Chinese workers at a company in Israel have been forced to agree not to have sex with or marry Israelis as a condition of getting a job.
According to a contract they are required to sign, male workers may not have any contact with Israeli women - including prostitutes, a police spokesman, Rafi Yaffe, said. The labourers a...
Submitted by admin on Thu, 2005-10-13 11:00. ::
It's about the battle over opportunity in America as seen through the lens of the admissions policies at Harvard, Yale, and Princeton over the last century. More specifically, it's about who was admitted, who was excluded, and why; how and why admissions policies changed over the course of the past 100 years; who won and who lost with each of these changes; and, most important of all, what th...
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Mr. Joseph, Ph.D., produced the documentary, Nightmare in Nanking , and obtained his Ph.D. from UHS/The Chicago Medical School, completing his Internship at Yale University Medical School and the VAMC in CT. He has published dozens of scientific and scholarly studies in prestigious scientific journals. His works have been translated or reprinted by foreign scientific journals and medical school...
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Robert H. Knight and Jason West, both concerned about homosexuals, Knight for their souls, West for their acceptance, debated the issue of same-sex marriage Wednesday night in a packed ballroom at the University of Northern Colorado.
Knight told the audience about two friends he believed to be gay. He said he worries about the men's safety from disease and their eternal salvation.
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In 14 small square paintings, women's faces bask in ethereal landscapes of turquoise and violet and tart red and pale yellow.
Their hair curls around them, evoking a 1920s flapper chic.
A graceful cursive script dances across collages of antique postcards and delicate Chinese paper, as if garnishing a vintage dream.
Nowhere in these paintings can the viewer spot guns or bre...
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Married at the age of 18, Ranu, from the northern Indian state of Rajasthan, is now fiercely protective of her only remaining offspring, a baby boy.
Yet she and her husband Muktar have no remorse about the fate of their "missing" daughters.
"I will kill other children if they are born girls," Ranu said, explaining that she is too poor to pay for their weddings.
All over Rajast...
