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Just what is it like to be lashed? In 1993, Gavin Sherrard-Smith, a computer expert from Cheltenham, received 50 lashes with a bamboo cane in a prison in Qatar.
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The seven-year-old said he suggested the name – after HIMSELF, not the Islamic prophet.
And he says he would be upset if jailed Gillian Gibbons never came back to teach at Unity High School in Sudan’s capital Khartoum.
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Scientists have found intriguing evidence that one major reason so many people are overweight these days may be as close as the seat of their pants. Literally. According to the researchers, most of us sit too much.
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In a release posted on its Web site today, the Arizona-based company claimed that the U.N. Committee Against Torture is “out of touch with the reality that confronts law enforcement officers every day worldwide.”
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Apple Inc. will introduce a version of the iPhone next year that can download from the Internet at a faster rate, AT&T Inc. Chief Executive Officer Randall Stephenson said.
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But if an Italian group calling itself the Mirror of the Sacred Scriptures and Paintings World Foundation is correct, da Vinci and his contemporaries may have been doing a lot more with mirrors than anyone has previously imagined.
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A proposed Massachusetts law would outlaw corporal punishment, including spanking, even for parents disciplining their kids at home.
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Something I’ve noticed more and more as I drive around the neighborhood is that everybody is turning into a frickin packrat. We’re not talking about middle income here, we’re talking $300,000 plus homes and $30,000 vehicles.
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