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The World Health Organization estimates more than 100 million women worldwide have been circumcised - that is, had part or all of their clitoris, labia or vulva cut out. The practice, now commonly called female genital mutilation (FGM), is most widespread in sub-Saharan Africa, especially in the Horn of Africa...
DIED. ROBERT TOOLS, 59, the world's first recipient of a fully self-contained artificial heart, which kept him alive for 151 days; in Louisville, Kentucky. Doctors had given Tools, a former telephone-company worker, only a month to live before the AbioCor device was implanted at the beginning of...
In a "mission statement" printed in its inaugural edition in December 1975, ASIAWEEK magazine promised to "see the world from an Asian perspective, to be Asia's voice in the world." Through Asia's remarkable years of growth, Asiaweek told of the transformation of a continent before succumbing to Asia...
Many travelers are simply staying within their own domestic borders. An English Tourism Council survey says that 1 million people in the U.K. intend to take a holiday in Britain. On the Continent, holiday makers are planning to travel shorter distances. By car.
English is now the most creolized tongue of all time, spoken in some form by people on every continent. Well-known English dialects include Patwa (in Jamaica), Scots and Spanglish. But newer hybrid languages continue to evolve. In Singapore English, or Singlish, a tired worker might say, "I was blur...