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Nobody is shocked by Christina Aguilera and Britney Spears "honoring" Madonna
by making out with her at the Mtv Music Awards, but everyone is acting
as if they are. One year, there was none of this sort of [...]

Suburban sprawl appears to be contributing to the nation’s obesity epidemic,
making people less likely to walk and more likely to be overweight, researchers
reported yesterday.
In the first comprehensive examination of whether suburbs [...]

Hindu
Holy men attend the third ‘Shahi Snan’ (grand bath) at the ongoing Kumbh
Mela (sacred Hindu pilgrimage) in Trimbakeshwar, near Nasik, which
is some 180 km (112.5 miles) [...]

The sentencing to death of a Louisiana man this week for raping an 8-year-old girl has reopened a debate about whether crimes that do not involve killings may ever be punished by death.
There has not been an execution for rape in the United States since 1964, and no one has been executed [...]

Thomas J. Friedman argues in the New York Times that we are in fact fighting
"The Big One" in that the war on terrorism is the defining struggle of
our times.  He asks some provocative questions:

 
In the wake of the bombing [...]

BBC correspondent Valerie Jones, at the scene of the blast outside
the Imam Ali Mosque, said the crowds were chanting against Saddam Hussein
and the US forces.
"They are blaming Saddam Hussein supporters for the attack but also they
[...]