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...alternative is an agonizing four hours on cramped tippy toes craning to catch a glimpse over the heads of bystanders packed six deep. If you think that is agony though, consider the poor drag queens who walk the 3-km-long route in 15-cm stilettos. A few floats and costumes may shock?and occasionally the crowd gasps loudly?but more often they simply laugh, applaud or roar in approval. The largest cheers are reserved for gay members of the police force, who march in uniform. Twenty-four years ago, the authorities stopped the protest march. Now they are part...
...including the group's founder, former agricultural student Pushpa Kamal Dahal, known as Prachanda, have found shelter across the border in the northern jungles of Bihar State. The emboldened rebels are also striking isolated army posts to seize automatic weapons. The arms used with such devastation at Mangalsen?5-cm mortars, rocket-propelled grenades and Indian self-loading rifles, according to Kunda Dixit, editor of the Nepali Times?were the first demonstration of their newly acquired armory. "The Maoists, for the first time, had better weapons," said Dixit. "The police were still using their old .303s...
After fasting for eight hours, Stelarc ingested a 15-mm by 5-cm capsule made of titanium, stainless steel, silver and gold. The capsule was tethered to a cable, which was linked to a control box outside his body. The stomach had to be inflated with air before this metallic lozenge slithered its way into Stelarc's abdomen. Once there, the capsule unfurled to its full dimensions of 5 cm by 7 cm and began beeping and emitting flashes of light...
...house had filled with water to a depth of 2 m. "All I have left is what I'm wearing," moans the 42-year-old mother of four, now living with 1,000 others in a cemetery, the highest point in one east Jakarta neighborhood. Within a week, 50 cm of rain, double the amount that normally falls in all of January, had inundated the city...
...Huang laments. "They saw me in line and shooed me away." To make up for nature's oversight, his father constructed a crude iron ring, bolted it to the rafters of their home and hung Huang from it upside down every afternoon. Huang swears it stretched his legs 3 cm and gained him entrance into the Shanghai Dance Academy...