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Liquor firms to challenge work drink ban
Seeded on Wed Feb 20, 2008 9:19 PM EST (Reuters)
BEIJING (Reuters) - Liquor makers in central China's Henan province are planning a legal challenge to fight a ban on Communist Party officials and civil servants drinking alcohol at lunch during work days, state media said on Wednesday. The ban,...
Late Mailer wins 'bad sex' award
Seeded on Tue Nov 27, 2007 6:19 PM EST (BBC News)
Late author Norman Mailer has been announced as the winner of the Bad Sex in Fiction Award for the most awkward description of an intimate encounter.
Author Norman Mailer dies at 84
Seeded on Sat Nov 10, 2007 8:07 AM EST (BBC News)
Pulitzer Prize-winning author Norman Mailer has died of renal failure aged 84, his literary executor has said. Mailer won the prestigious Pulitzer Prize twice, for The Armies of the Night in 1968 and The Executioner's Song in 1979.
Textbook screening — not always on same page
Seeded on Mon Oct 29, 2007 7:59 PM EDT (search.japantimes.co.jp)
The spotlight has fallen again on textbook screening as people in Okinawa denounce the government's March instruction that publishers delete descriptions about the role the Imperial army played in ordering mass civilian suicides during the Battle of Okinawa.
Sexy Corals Keep 'Eye' on Moon, Scientists Say
Seeded on Thu Oct 18, 2007 10:49 PM EDT (The New York Times)
After the full moon, corals dissolve in an orgy of reproduction. Scientists say primitive photoreceptors drive the process.
US Dalai Lama award angers China
Seeded on Thu Oct 18, 2007 9:44 AM EDT (BBC News)
China has stepped up a row with the US over its decision to award the Dalai Lama one of its highest honours, by summoning the US ambassador to protest.
Doctors save man with vodka drip
Seeded on Thu Oct 11, 2007 8:22 AM EDT (BBC News)
Australian doctors have kept an Italian tourist alive by feeding him vodka through a drip for three days, medical staff in Queensland say. The 24-year-old man, who had swallowed a poison in an apparent suicide attempt, was treated while in a coma.
Doris Lessing wins Nobel honour
Seeded on Thu Oct 11, 2007 7:13 AM EDT (BBC News)
British author Doris Lessing has been named the recipient of this year's Nobel Prize for Literature. The Swedish Academy awards the annual prize, considered by many to be the world's highest accolade for writers.
U.S. Contractors in Iraq Rely on Third-World Labor
Seeded on Wed Oct 10, 2007 7:42 PM EDT (NPR)
If you thought all contractors in Iraq were gun-toting American mercenaries, think again. Only a fraction of the estimated 180,000 contractors working on behalf of the U.S. government are security contractors — and the overwhelming majority aren't even from the U.S.
Secret Thoughts of Travelers, Revealed
Seeded on Wed Oct 10, 2007 12:29 AM EDT (The New York Times)
When I travel, I am reminded of the anonymous voices sharing their latent animosities, soulful confessions and hidden acts of kindness that happened while traveling.
Japan plans unmanned mission to the moon
Seeded on Tue Oct 9, 2007 9:41 AM EDT (Yahoo! News)
Japan plans to launch its first mission to land a spacecraft on the moon in the next decade, officials said on Tuesday, joining China and India in a race among Asian nations to explore the lunar surface.
Christianity's Image Problem
Seeded on Thu Oct 4, 2007 8:34 PM EDT (TIME)
It used to be, says David Kinnaman, that Christianity was both big and beloved in the U.S. — even among its non-adherents.
'Gay bomb' scoops Ig Nobel award
Seeded on Thu Oct 4, 2007 8:24 PM EDT (BBC News)
Pioneering research into a "gay bomb" that makes enemy troops "sexually irresistible" to each other has scooped one of this year's Ig Nobel Prizes.
Court Acquits in Canada AIDS Scandal
Seeded on Mon Oct 1, 2007 8:58 PM EDT (TIME)
A judge acquitted three doctors, a New Jersey company and a former Red Cross official of criminal charges Monday in a tainted-blood scandal that infected thousands of Canadians with HIV or hepatitis and resulted in more than 3,000 deaths.
BBC Worldwide buys Lonely Planet
Seeded on Mon Oct 1, 2007 9:46 AM EDT (BBC News)
BBC Worldwide, the commercial arm of the BBC, has bought the travel guide publisher, Lonely Planet.
The rudest travel book ever written
Seeded on Sat Sep 29, 2007 3:05 AM EDT (Independent.ie - Frontpage RSS Feed)
In the mid-19th century, one Mrs Favell Mortimer set forth to write a definitive travel guide to the world. There was just one problem: she had never set foot outside her native Shropshire. This was the result..
Asean assails Myanmar crackdown
Seeded on Sat Sep 29, 2007 2:04 AM EDT (International Herald Tribune)
The Association of Southeast Asian Nations has voiced "revulsion" at the killings in Yangon and sternly demanded that Myanmar, a member of the group, stop using violence against demonstrators.
From back seat, Saudi women long to drive
Seeded on Fri Sep 28, 2007 11:33 PM EDT (International Herald Tribune)
From a taboo about which there could be no open discussion, a woman's right to drive is developing into a topic of growing and lively debate in Saudi Arabia.
Greek recovery 'to take decades'
Seeded on Thu Sep 27, 2007 11:30 PM EDT (BBC News)
The environmental charity WWF has said it will take at least two decades for forests to grow back in the areas of Greece destroyed by the recent fires.
Bargains galore at US lost luggage sale
Seeded on Tue Sep 25, 2007 12:20 AM EDT (BBC News)
It is the warehouse of the lost and never found, the final destination of airline luggage that goes missing in the US and is never reclaimed.
Forbidden City Starbucks replaced
Seeded on Tue Sep 25, 2007 12:15 AM EDT (BBC News)
A traditional Chinese cafe has opened up in Beijing's Forbidden City, replacing a Starbucks coffee shop that was forced to shut after protests.
Muhammad Uproar: Swedish Cartoonist Goes into Hiding
Seeded on Mon Sep 24, 2007 1:05 AM EDT (SPIEGEL ONLINE)
Swedish artist Lars Vilks is taking no chances. After a cartoon he drew of the Prophet Muhammad was published, the cartoonist received death threats and has temporarily gone into hiding under police protection.
Scotland's Independent Spirits
Seeded on Sat Sep 22, 2007 1:14 PM EDT (The New York Times)
The country's small bottlers make sublime whiskeys. And you'll never find them at home.
Pulitzer Winner to Take Over as New Yorker's Poetry Editor
Seeded on Sat Sep 22, 2007 1:12 PM EDT (The New York Times)
Alice Quinn, the poetry editor of The New Yorker, is stepping down after 20 years and will be succeeded by Paul Muldoon, the Pulitzer Prize-winning poet.
Tokyo's neon lights to dim as Japan ages
Seeded on Sat Sep 22, 2007 3:55 AM EDT (Yahoo! News)
Welcome to the macabre side of ageing Japan, where growing numbers of people are dying alone, uncared for and unnoticed in suburbs that are rapidly turning grey.
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