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...chicken - which dawns this week - has brought hard times for vendors of the nation's New Year toy mascots. 2004's year of the monkey saw huge demand for toy simians. But surplus plastic roosters and terry-cloth chicks are still crowding store shelves in Beijing . Some blame the problem on the inadequate cuteness of domesticated fowl; others point to the fact that the Chinese word for chicken is slang for prostitute...
...never should have come to that. We should have played better, so we can’t blame it on the refs,” Stehle said...
...more deaths occur in poorer nations is their extreme overpopulation. Moreover, governments disburse their money as they see fit. If poor nations, many of which have extensive internal political corruption, choose to pay for things other than more hospitals, better roads and coastal barriers, they have no one to blame but themselves when disaster strikes. Poor nations of the world, take heed: spend your money wisely, and hold your politicians accountable. Christopher Vera Carlsbad, California...
...DIED. ROSE MARY WOODS, 87, doggedly loyal secretary to U.S. President Richard Nixon, who famously shared blame for an 18 1/2-minute gap in a tape recording of a conversation between Nixon and his chief of staff made three days after the Watergate break-in; in Alliance, Ohio. The recording was considered critical because it might have shown that Nixon knew about the break-in or its ensuing cover-up. Woods said that she may have erased part of the tape accidentally while reaching for her telephone, an improbable maneuver which fueled speculation about Nixon's possible complicity...
...Camorra war is on, the factions "start counting the dead, and looking for anyone to kill from the other side - brothers, cousins, girlfriends. It's an escalation that's hard to stop." Father Stefano Salviuci of the rectory of Santa Maria della Speranza in Scampia says authorities can't blame people for being scared. "No one is called to be a hero," he says. "The residents here don't feel protected." One man who's tried to fight back is Antonio Bassolino, Governor of the Campania region. When he was mayor of Naples in the 1990s, Bassolino led a campaign...