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Making bows and arrows has become a communal task. Although women and girls do not fight, they assist in collecting materials for the weapons. Five bow-and-arrow construction groups of 10 members each are scattered around the town. Weapon-makers first cut the head off a 4-inch nail, which is then chiseled with a heavy hammer into a sharp edge. The nail is then coiled to fit onto a bamboo stick. A groove is cut into the bottom of the stick in order to add paraffin paper wings for the arrow to have better flight. Sometimes, the arrow...
...measured by size alone, the Spanish family has seen better days: until 1996 Spain had the lowest fertility rate in Europe. The rate has actually started to inch back upward, from a low of 1.16 live births per woman in 1996 to 1.38 in 2006. That minor uptick is linked to larger immigrant families, but also to children of Spain's early-1970s baby boom starting to have kids of their own. It's not enough, though, to maintain the population level, so Parliament last year approved a $3,700 "baby bonus" subsidy for each child born...
This weekend marked the eighth snowstorm of more than one inch for the winter, according to the National Weather Service’s Boston area records...
...Playboy model Rita G exits the car dressed in fur and large black sunglasses. She promptly strips down to her expensive lingerie, then lights her clothes on fire. With flames now at her back and Kanye belting his rap, Rita G glides back toward the car. With her four-inch heels, push-up bra, and the camera speed slowed down just slightly, the viewer is treated to a drawn-out display of bouncing bosoms. An atypically restrained Kanye finally makes his appearance when Rita opens the trunk to reveal his bound, gagged, and tuxedoed figure. She gives his ducktaped mouth...
...French café mix played in the background, lending a dreamy quality to proceedings as students clambered onto a scaffold for a better view of the eclipse. Colorful paintings and photographs of outer space covered every inch of the walls, lit only by the skylight and a few dim, red lights...