Mathematician KURT GODEL

Kurt Godel was born in 1906 in Brunn, then part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire and now part of the Czech Republic, to a father who owned a textile factory and had a fondness for logic and reason and a mother who believed in starting her son’s education early. By age 10, Godel was studying math, religion and several languages.

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Asia’s Killer Diet Pills

By a mother’s standards, Andrea De Cruz didn’t need to lose weight. But show business imposes strict requirements on appearance, and when the dial on the Singaporean TV actress’s bathroom scales spun to more than 48 kilos, De Cruz started taking a Chinese diet pill named Slim 10 that she purchased from a colleague

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Massive Fail for Microsoft With In-Game Ads?

Massive Fail for Microsoft With In-Game Ads? Microsoft appears poised to shut its Massive in-game advertising division. If so, it would be a huge failure for Massive, which Microsoft had high hopes for when it acquired the company for $200 – $400 million in 2006. Mediaweek reported  that the software giant will shut down the […]

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Turks mourn relative of Ottoman sultan

More than 80 years after his family was ordered from the country, the grandson of one of the last Ottoman sultans was buried Saturday as hundreds of admirers looked on. Ertugrul Osman, grandson of Sultan Abdulhamid II and heir to the Ottoman throne, died this week in Istanbul of kidney failure at the age of 97, after having lived most of his life in exile in a humble third-floor walk-up apartment on Manhattan’s Upper East Side

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Fatah and Hamas: Heading for a Showdown in Lebanon

Stacks of portraits of Mahmoud Abbas stand unused, gathering dust in the office of his Fatah movement in Beirut’s Shatila Palestinian refugee camp. Posters of Abbas — president of the Palestinian Authority, leader of Fatah and chairman of the Palestine Liberation Organization — would normally hang in offices and on street corners throughout Lebanon’s 12 Palestinian refugee camps

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