As the sun rose, the men from the raiding party chanted verses from the Qu’ran, spread their chequered scarves on the dirt, and prayed for Osama bin Laden’s swift passage to paradise.
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The Myth About Boys
My son was born nearly 10 years ago, and I remember telling him that morning that he was one lucky baby. Forget Dr.
Flibanserin Drug: Will ‘Female Viagra’ Boost Sex Drive?
There was a time when Wendy and her husband had sex three times a week. But for the past six years, the purple negligee that Wendy used to entice her husband has been stuffed in the back of a drawer.
Essay: WHY THOSE STUDENTS ARE PROTESTING
ONE great educator became so infuriated with what he called the licentious, outrageous and disgraceful behavior of students at his college that he quit in disgust. The college was at Carthage, the year was A.D.
How To Live To Be 100
Margaret Dell is 96, but you’d need to check the birth date on her driver’s license to believe it. Sporting a baseball cap with a Harley-Davidson logo on it, she is the designated driver for her seventysomething friends who no longer feel comfortable behind the wheel.
Unveiled: First Turkish Woman Poses for German ‘Playboy’
This post is in partnership with Worldcrunch, a new global news site that translates stories of note in foreign languages into English. The article below was originally published in the leading German daily Die Welt
Military Spending: Why the Defense Budget Should Be Cut
You know the government’s broken when, in the face of tough fiscal times, the President freezes government spending but gives the military a pass. That’s because spending on the military and homeland security, following 9/11 and the launch of two wars in its wake, has become sacrosanct.
‘Help’ Author Kathryn Stockett on Writing Debut Novel
Kathryn Stockett never intended to write a best-selling novel. In fact, when she started writing her debut novel, The Help, she didn’t think anyone would ever read it.
Cell-Phone Radiation: What Is the Risk?
Roughly 270 million Americans do it several times a day: talk on a cell phone. Seems harmless.
Study: Running Not so Bad for Your Joints After All
Perhaps because it seems intuitively true, the notion persists that running, especially when done long-term and over long distances, is bad for the joints. Indeed, it would be hard to think otherwise when with each foot strike, a runner’s knee withstands a force equal to eight times his or her body weight — for a 150-lb.