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...that looks like Nike's swoosh with a foxtail attached. Li says the affluent Chinese he is now targeting are too young to remember his feats on the pommel horse. "I wish I were as popular as I used to be," Li says with a sigh. It's a fate Jordan, 39, has also suffered. Sales of the Air Jordan are down this year...
...push on a new range of whizzy phones that can take, send, and receive color digital photos. Holiday snaps don't sound especially revolutionary, but to hear the networkers talk, multimedia messaging is just about the biggest thing since rechargeable batteries. mmO2 chief executive Peter Erskine even tempts fate by invoking that dreadful New Economy buzzword, killer app. Pure hype? Maybe not. Wireless operators are looking hopefully to Japan, where Vodafone's subsidiary J-Phone already has more than 40% of its subscribers using camera phones. And this wasn't the result of any giveaway subsidies on the handsets...
...goddess were to grant Khudu Karmakar the awesome powers he expected from a virgin's death, the victim had to be willing, had to know what was happening, watch the knife, and not stop it. But even tranquilizers couldn't lull 15-year-old Manju Kumari to her fate. In his police confession, Karmakar says his wife, daughter and three accomplices had to gag Manju and pin her down on the earthen floor before the shrine. In ritual order, Karmakar wafted incense over her, tore off her blue skirt and pink T shirt, shaved her, sprinkled her with holy water...
...rich in phosphate deposits and fishing grounds. The Spanish were in pre-democracy turmoil and washed their hands of the Saharawi people, most of whom now live in vast desert refugee camps across the border in Algeria. But, perhaps ashamed of their politicians having abandoned the Saharawi to their fate - which was to wage a long guerrilla war against Morocco - the Spanish people have adopted them. In the refugee camps outside the Algerian town of Tindouf you see 4WD vehicles, solar panels, stoves, medical supplies, torch batteries ... all gifts from Spanish fund raisers. Several thousand Saharawi children spend their summer...
Conventional wisdom once held that a terror attack on Israeli civilians on a day when diplomats were meeting to discuss the fate of the Middle East was a deliberate attempt by extremists to disrupt the peace process. That theory may no longer apply...