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...saying that The Ugly Truth is a career ender for Heigl. Indeed, as the first romantic comedy in wide release since Sandra Bullock's The Proposal five weeks ago, the movie will attract its share of dating couples and single women. But if you're looking for a rom-com with a higher IQ and an almost obsessive aim to charm its audience, you'd do better with (500) Days of Summer, which should soon get to a theater near you, than this (500) ways of abasing Katherine Heigl...
...Sufism really bend terrorist swords into plowshares? The question is most urgent in South Asia, home to more than a third of the world's Muslims and the cradle of Sufi Islam. Shrines of Sufi saints are ubiquitous in India and Pakistan and still attract thousands of devotees. Yet the Taliban in Pakistan have set about destroying such sites, which are anathema to their literalist interpretation of the Koran. "Despite our ancient religious tradition," says Ayeda Naqvi, a writer and Sufi scholar from Lahore, "we are being bullied and intimidated by a new form of religion that is barely...
...most properties, the value of a birdhouse depends on three factors: location, location, location. Before building one, advises Kok, you must survey the skies for a regular passage of swiftlets. Once constructed - a three-story birdhouse with room for about 40,000 nests costs roughly $100,000 - you must attract tenants. The maker of the Swiftlet Bazooka Tweeter claims it can broadcast "love calls" to birds flying up to a mile away. Humidifiers keep the interior of the house attractively damp like the caves swiftlets prefer. And don't forget your feces powder: bird droppings mixed with ammonium bicarbonate which...
...Even if you build it, they don't always come. Up to two-thirds of birdhouses fail to attract a self-supporting colony of birds, estimates Kok. "We don't really understand them," he says. "They are wild animals. We find that they like to stay in dark areas. But at one hotel in Malacca they are nesting in bright light." Lucky producers can harvest two to four pounds of nests a month, worth up to $500 per pound ($1,100 per kg). Middlemen are buying up all the nests they can source, usually as quietly as possible. "They come...
...Business School has significantly increased its marketing for the 2+2 program, particularly for students in subjects not typically associated with business education. During the past year, the admissions office gave presentations at 58 colleges around the country in an effort to attract students with backgrounds such as science, engineering, and non-profit organizations...