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During the last year, Yasser Arafat has left his Ramallah compound only once, for a brief tour of the West Bank in May.
Only a single, tan three-storey office building remains standing in the compound. Sandbags flank its front door. Every window is b...
DATE: Jan 06, 2003
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In 1952, the American composer John Cage wrote a work in which a pianist is heard to open the lid of a piano, but then to play nothing for four minutes and however-many seconds might be left.
A lot of people sniggered, as you might imagine, but Mr Ca...
DATE: Dec 30, 2002
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Being well adjusted, in the 21st Century, means taking some pretty odd things in your stride. Eggs are a health food one week, poison the next; India's cows have their very own Bill of Rights; it's against the law to stare at the mayor of Paris; Yass...
DATE: Nov 18, 2002
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On the Internet, there are countless web sites that offer advice on building self-esteem. One of them, geared to school-age children, says the reason self-esteem is important is that having it makes for a confident person, one with the courage to say...
DATE: Nov 04, 2002
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A few weeks ago, I wrote an article about Pioneer 10, the 35-year-old space probe that is now heading out across the great empty spaces between our Solar System and the red star Aldebaran, the eye of Taurus, 68 light years away.
I mentioned that, as ...
DATE: Oct 21, 2002
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Mum's the word
March 1, 2002
Dear Sir,
The executive committee of the Meet-A-Mum Association would like to sincerely thank all of the businesses in Bermuda that have been so generous in providing support and donations for our organisation over the la...
DATE: Mar 18, 2002
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NEW YORK (AP) — With seven-year-old Adam at her side, Sherra Schwartau typed “Boston Terriers” into an online search engine. Instead of information Adam could use for a school report on dogs, they got a porn site.“As mom is scrambling trying to close...
DATE: Feb 25, 2002
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One of the most important and difficult skills needed for living sanely in a world that sometimes seems awash with nonsense is an ability to read between the lines.
Accepting everything on offer as the gospel truth is a foolishness exceeded only by a...
DATE: Feb 25, 2002
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Isn't it a little odd that the Australian actor Russell Crowe, who last year played the part of a pretty violent gladiator, and a couple of years before that played a pretty violent detective, should show up this year playing the part of a mathematic...
DATE: Feb 19, 2002
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based on European Commission law, the requirement for six-month quarantine for pets has been removed for properly treated animals moved to and from the UK and within the European Union. This treatment involves microchipping, vaccinating against rabie...
DATE: Apr 12, 2000
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