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...help if they refused to be sterilized. MEANWHILE Bella Figura An alternative beauty contest in Italy chose a new Miss Cicciona (Tubby) to signal resistance against her countrywomen's worship of svelte bodies. Maria Dore, 36, crushed rivals to win the contest after weighing in at 194 kg (427lbs). Afterward she revealed her weight-gaining secret: pizza with mushrooms...
...less pressure on your knees. Exercises can also make a difference. Strengthening the quadriceps around the knee with leg lifts will relieve some of the pressure on the joints. If you play sports or engage in other vigorous activities, doctors recommend a heating pad before and an ice pack afterward. For pain relief, over-the-counter anti-inflammatories, like aspirin and ibuprofen, can help...
...bomb above Nagasaki. The pilots meant to hit the Mitsubishi shipyards 3.2 kilometers south, but the day was cloudy and they missed their target, dropping the device instead over Nagasaki's northern suburb of Urakami. The bomb killed nearly 75,000 people instantly, and at least as many died afterward from the effects of radiation...
...customer service, quirky advertising and the convenience of around-the-clock access. "Pricing's really the thing that keeps them in the game," says Matt Stamski, a senior analyst at Gomez, an Internet consultancy. Egg offers an interest-free, six-month introductory period on its credit card, and afterward a modest annual percentage rate (A.P.R.) of 13.9%. Smile gives current-account holders a credit-card rate of 9.9%; non-account holders pay 12.9%. High Street banks' credit-card A.P.R.s are as high as 24.9% on a standard card. The big banks are hardly standing still. Barclays, for example, invested...
...Belfast when Donnelly's sister was killed, is driving the change. As the leader of Sinn Fein, the I.R.A.'s thriving political wing, he told his party last year that their electoral success meant "physical force republicanism" was unnecessary. He even said the I.R.A. would "cease to be." Soon afterward, the I.R.A. made two symbolic disposals of weapons. Sinn Fein held a lavish ceremony in a Dublin hotel for the families of all I.R.A. members who died in the conflict. The implication was that the dying was over. Irish election results in May mean that, for the first time...