Dear Family and Friends, Zimbabwe has limped into another year with almost all aspects of normal life completely gone. Every day has become incredibly tough with an ever growing demand for an increasingly dwindling supply of food, bank notes, electricity and water. Many thousands of Zimbabweans have used the Christmas and school holidays to...
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The Bible never tells us what the Forbidden Fruit was. We only know that, after some prodding by the infamous serpent, Eve gave into the temptation to eat it even though she had been told that the consequences of doing so would be death. Despite the Biblical silence on the question of what the...
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A note from Jan Brown, founder of the Domestic Abuse Helpline for Men and Women:
"The Men's Experiences with Partner Aggression Project is a research study at Clark University and is funded by the National Institute of Mental Health. Denise A. Hines, Ph.D., Clark University Department of Psychology, is the lead researcher on this project. ...
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"Some girl named Tanya Gold wrote a nasty essay in The Guardian about her experience with speed-dating. In between loving on herself for her clever little bits of man-hating prose, she complains, 'Men want us lobotomized.'
"I disagree...What Tanya is missing entirely is what men don't want more than anything: a woman who's a stuck-up,...
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A previously unknown militant group has claimed responsibility for killing a United States diplomat in the Sudanese capital of Khartoum on New Year’s Day. The group, calling itself Ansar al-Tawhid (Companions of Monotheism), said its members shot 33-year-old John Granville and his Sudanese driver Abdel Rahman Abbas. The name of the militant group has...
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Wikinews has learned that the Lakota Freedom Delegation, also known as Lakotah Oyate, an organization of activists fighting for the Sioux Indian Nation to withdraw all treaties with the United States, was “hijacked” by its spokesman, Russell Means, an activist for Native American Indians. On December 19, 2007, Means and the “delegation” went to...
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Wikinews has learned that the Lakota Freedom Delegation, also known as Lakotah Oyate, an organization of activists fighting for the Sioux Indian Nation to withdraw all treaties with the United States, was “hijacked” by its spokesman, Russell Means, an activist for Native American Indians. On December 19, 2007, Means and the “delegation” went to...
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United States Senator Christopher Dodd left the Presidential race last night with his head “held high”, thanking “the Dodd Squad” and his supporters for their efforts and passion. Dodd ended the night with the sobering support of just one state delegate’s support in the Iowa Democratic caucuses. That was still better than Mike Gravel...
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Due to the declining value of the United States dollar, tourism officals in India have decided to no longer accept the American currency at the site of the Taj Mahal and 120 other Indian historical sites. The monument has refused to take dollars since November, as such, any American tourist wishing to visit the...
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Israel is planning measures to curb settlement activity in the occupied territories in response to pressure from the United States. Vice Premier Haim Ramon told Israel Radio that he expects the government to take action against the outposts during and after the visit of President Bush to Israel and the West Bank next week....
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Unemployment in the United States rose sharply last month and government figures released late Friday show the number of new jobs was at its lowest level in four years. President Bush is considering more tax cuts in an effort to boost the nation’s sagging economy. American unemployment rose to five percent last month, the...
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At least nine Palestinians have been killed during Israeli missions in Gaza; four gunmen and five civilians during air and ground raids. Israeli troops moved in to the Khan Younis area early Thursday where clashes with militants took up the majority of the fighting. The deadliest attack by a tank shell reportedly killed five...
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A new study amongst doctors in the United States on the use of placebosâ€â€pills with no medical effectâ€â€shows that almost half of the questioned practitioners prescribe placebos, most of them within the last year. The majority of 466 faculty physicians at Chicago-area medical schools interviewed by a research group of the University of Chicago...
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The new Associated Press story about the latest Britney Spears train wreck/meltdown bears the headline Court awards Spears' kids to K-Fed. Funny, I thought "Spears' kids" had two parents.
Court awards Spears' kids to K-Fed
January 3, 2008
Associated Press
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LOS ANGELES - A court commissioner gave sole physical and legal custody of Britney Spears' two little boys...
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