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It hasn't always been this way. When I came to Georgetown I barely managed to browse Time magazine every week. I only knew the outside world existed because my dad and I would watch CNN Headline News after "The Simpsons," catching the occasional sound-bite while silently lusting after the CNN anchor Rudi Bakhtiar. Ignorance is bliss, they say, so I was content, but grossly uninformed, knowing ...
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US President George W. Bush will welcome Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe Thursday and Friday for talks on North Korea, Ira...
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“I am a child of the Kamalist revolution”, declared 92-year-old Muazzez İlmiye Çığ of Turkey. Ms. Cig, an expert on Sumer, observed in her book My Reactions as a Citizen, that Islamic-style head scarves date back more than 5,000 years - several millennia before the birth of Islam - and were worn by priestesses who initiated young men into sex. As if that was no...
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A complex community-based intervention implemented in Zimbabwe has failed to reduce the incidence of new HIV infections in the population. Researchers from the UK, Zimbabwe and South Africa studied the impact of an integrated community and clinic-based intervention programme, one strategy thought to have potential to promote behaviour change. However, despite “greater programme activity and kno...
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South Korea today is a success story, but in the early 1900s the situation was different. A traditional, agrarian society partially under the dominion of a weakening China, Korea was overrun by Japan's aims to establish territorial governments in Manchuria and throughout Pacific Asia. Annexation in 1910 ushered in a period of de facto Japanese rule, ended only by the Japanese surrender in 1945...
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Women and children in China face a growing threat of being trafficked and sold into marriage or sex work, as labor migration and a widening gender imbalance put them at risk, an international aid group said on Wednesday.
About 119 boys are born in China for every 100 girls, an imbalance that has grown since Beijing introduced a one-child policy more than 25 years ago that has bolstered a ...
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Charles Prince's visit to China last week came not a moment too soon, just as a largely state-owned Chinese bank made headway toward surpassing Citigroup Inc.
That humiliation briefly befell Bank of America Corp. last week, when its market value was exceeded by Industrial & Commercial Bank of China Ltd., which ...
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It's not going to be easy to be objective with this, because it's really hitting on a lot of my major comics pleasure centres.
It's like Warren Ellis/Masumone Shirow-style technofetishism married to Paul Pope-style post-Cyberpunk romanticism, and Bryan Lee O'Malley-style absurdism with art by some sort of ungodly mutant artbaby spawn of Dan (Amazing Joy Buzzards) Hipp and Jim Mahfoo...
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Op-Ed: Thai Zoo resorts to ‘artificial’ methods to grow panda population
Looks like any cuddly, little baby Pandas seen at the Chiang Mai Zoo in Thailand in the near future will be born not from normal mating rituals but from medical ingenuity. Or at least that’s what Thai zoo officials are now hoping.
, the lone male panda at the Chiang Mai Zoo, failed to engage in mat...
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Around the globe: Obama raises $25, million, rivals Clinton in funds Thursday, April 05, 2007
DAVENPORT, Iowa — With a stunning $25 million fundraising haul for his presidential campaign, Democrat Barack Obama affirmed his status Wednesday as Hillary Rodham Clinton’s chief rival.
The freshman Illinois senator’s three-month money total stopped just short of the reco...
