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...Since the news broke of his alleged affair with personal assistant Rebecca Loos (and a procession of honey-limbed others), we've all been given license to consider what it must be like to sleep with Becks. Taylor-Wood's video merely takes it one step further. In the 17th century, privileged courtiers would take turns in the king's bed chamber, watching as his majesty slept. So too today: David gets to be an alternative British royal - so much more attractive and talented and lovable than the real ones, with none of the public-schooled, tight-voweled fustiness...
After more impressive play left Chiampa alone in first place, her fortunes began to shift as she recorded consecutive bogeys on the 15th and 16th holes. But the lone senior on the team was unfazed by the slip-ups, as she sunk a birdie on the 17th hole before firing “the three-wood of her life” on the 18th, leaving the ball just 10 feet from...
Pinker concluded by suggesting that the battleground between religion and science in the 21st century would be psychology, just as it had been cosmology in the 17th century and biology in the 19th...
...troops and about 50 U.S.-trained Iraqi commandos--began debriding Fallujah of its guerrillas as part of Operation Vigilant Resolve. In the first five days of fighting alone, as many as 300 civilians died in block-to-block combat, according to doctors at Fallujah's main hospital. "It's 17th century tactics," says Staff Sergeant Michael Ventrone, a Marine inside Fallujah. "It's under siege...
...still love to chew on biltong (jerky) or dry wors (preserved sausage), often made from game animals such as kudu or ostrich. And no braai (barbecue) would be complete without generous coils of spicy boerewors (farmer's sausages). The importation of indentured servants from Indonesia and Malaysia in the 17th century led to the development of a distinctive Cape Malay cuisine, which mixes European pastries and meats with Asian spices, curries and chutneys. Try bobotie, a tasty casserole of minced beef or lamb, raisins, almonds and curry powder topped with egg custard; or waterblommetjie bredie, a stew made with lamb...