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Monk Convicted of Praising North Korea
A Buddhist monk was given a suspended one-year-prison term Wednesday for posting articles and video images praising North Korea on the Internet. According to the Seoul Central District Court, the monk was identified as Seo and he lived from day-to-da...
Man marries virtual girlfriend
We may occasionally wish our spouses had an "off" switch but a Japanese man will have that luxury full-time after he married his virtual girlfriend in an official-looking ceremony over the weekend. In a bizarre story reminiscent of the film Lars and ...
Floods strand haj pilgrims
JEDDAH (Saudi Arabia) - HEAVY rains and floods killed at least 13 people and stranded thousands of Muslim faithful in the Saudi Arabian port city of Jeddah on Wednesday on the first day of the annual haj pilgrimage. The floods shut a motorway to Isla...
35, Single and Psychoneurotic: Valium advertisement, 1970
The purser on her cruise ship took the last snapshot of Jan. You probably see many such Jans in your practice. The unmarrieds with low self-esteem. Jan never found a man to measure up to her father. Now she realizes she's in a losing pattern -- and t...
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Swiss court agrees to grant Polanski bail, but he remains behind bars for now
A court in Zurich, Switzerland, has accepted Roman Polanski's request for bail, but he will remain in prison for now. A Swiss Justice Ministry spokesman told the Associated Press that the court today approved a $4.5-million bail for the famed directo...

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