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...well need a moral revival. Though illegal, live sex acts still grind away in Manila's sleazy bar districts. Video porn is easily available, and far cheaper than a movie ticket. The President's men recently banned pornographic videos on long-haul buses, but nothing has been done to halt the practice of provincial theaters to creatively splice a few minutes of hard-core porn into their main features. Films such as Live Show, which tries to explore the poverty behind sexual degradation, may actually serve to diminish the audience for pornography...
...rebels near the border with Kosovo as fighting spilled into the neighboring province, where a stray shell killed three civilians. nato ordered an urgent probe into the incident, at the ethnic Albanian hamlet of Krivenik, while 400 British troops were deployed in the region and pressure mounted for a halt to hostilities...
...LANKA The harvest is celebrated on April 14 with a rare coming together of the Tamil Hindu and Sinhalese Buddhist communities. The country grinds to a halt for a week as everyone flocks back to the parental home. Drums across the island announce the New Year. Hearths are lit to cook milk rice, and state television counts down to the auspicious time for the meal to begin. Firecrackers explode throughout the night. Families eat festival food, including cakes and sweetmeats. If you can arrange it, this is one holiday best enjoyed in a family home...
Doctors are all too familiar with the final stages of Alzheimer's disease, when neurodegenerative plaques and tangles spread throughout the brains of their patients, robbing them of memory, dignity and finally their lives. But what if there were a way to halt this terrifying decline? What if scientists developed a treatment that could somehow stop Alzheimer's disease in its tracks and prevent any further deterioration? Chances are you'd want to treat folks as soon as possible, in the earliest stages of the disease, long before devastating brain damage had occurred...
...course, that was more than seven years ago, before the night he got wildly drunk and flipped his Dodge Ram truck, bringing his seemingly sweet life to a crashing halt. Today Wendland, 48, lies in Lodi Memorial Hospital, kept alive only by a tube that delivers liquid nourishment to his broken body. Severely brain damaged and with his left side paralyzed, he cannot walk, talk, eat or communicate meaningful thoughts, if indeed he still has any. And though he is occasionally able to perform a simple, repeated command like a zombie--tossing a ball or placing a color-coded...