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South Africa remains loyal to Mugabe but criticism from other states is growing. President Thabo Mbeki, Mugabe’s chief supporter, now finds himself under increasing pressure.
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Accusations of sodomy, potential DNA tests of semen, a pre-dawn run to the Turkish embassy. On June 28, a 23-year-old male political volunteer accused Anwar Ibrahim of sodomizing him. Even Hollywood can’t predict how this story will end.
Bill Gates didn’t figure out how to beat the Internet. Microsoft is the PC era’s biggest winner, and the Web era’s most spectacular casualty. His grand old monopoly software company didn’t transition into a business that thrives on the...
In these more permissive times, what is considered obscene? Who holds the line between permissiveness and obscenity? And how do those people entrusted to make these calls cope with the harrowing work?
Men tend to get more [ultraviolet] exposure because of their jobs. They use sunscreen less. They also detect skin cancer late. Of an estimated 8,420 people who will die of melanoma in the US in 2008, 64 percent are men.
When skin cancer is spotted early, it’s almost always curable. For melanoma, the deadliest form of skin cancer, the 5-year survival rate is 99 percent–if the tumor is spotted when it’s nothing more than a spot on the skin.
Evolutionary biologists claim that sociality is what has made humans such a successful species. We are masters at what anthropologists call “social intelligence.” Sarcasm, then, is a verbal hammer that connects people in both a negative and...
Homosexuality in males may be caused by genes that can increase fertility in females, says a new study. This may help solve the puzzle of why, if homosexuality is hereditary, it hasn’t disappeared from the gene pool, since gay people are less...
From Shakin’ Stevens to Jay-Z via James Blunt, Amy Winehouse and many more, Glastonbury’s main stage had one of its most eclectic ever line-ups on Saturday. Some 172,000 people were on site by Saturday morning, police said.
Computed tomography (CT or CAT) scans help doctors detect everything from cancer to kidney stones. But some physicians are raising concerns about the safety of such procedures — most notably, an increase in cancer risk as CT scan packs a mega-dose of...
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