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...downcast. Debbie says she was raped almost every night for the next six months. And every day, she was put through an arduous physical training program that included push-ups and 20-km runs. She was also trained how to kill: by strangling with shoelaces, by stabbing with a knife. "They told me it's a secret for life. 'If you tell anyone you'll be killed.'" Debbie tried to escape the camp three times. Once, when she was caught, she was buried up to her neck as punishment. She finally fled after the camp was closed following...
...perpetrating it. So it was not a conventional expression of religious freedom when, last week, thousands of Shiite men took to the streets of Karbala, Iraq, to do something that the Baathi leader had made illegal for over two decades—beat, whip and knife themselves until their faces and clothing were drenched in blood...
...comparisons to World Wrestling Entertainment, as both are staged fights between grown men. But it is the undercurrent of self-parody that gives these fights their hipster gravitas against the Rock et al. When Kung-Fu Chicken Noodle, a giant chicken noodle can with arms, legs and a steak knife, goes up against Los Plantanos, the heroic Spanish banana twins, the pretense of seriousness is thin...
...plastic surgery does mean going under the knife, and lately there have been plenty of reminders of the risks involved. From May 2003 to January 2004, five people in Florida died following cosmetic plastic surgery, prompting the state's board of medicine to open an investigation. All five, ranging in age from 38 to 63, had their operations done in doctors' offices. One had a breast augmentation; another, surgery on his eyes, chin and neck; another had liposuction and a fat transfer; and two, liposuction and tummy tuck. Citing an "immediate danger to public health," the board issued...
Whatever the reason, plenty of people will pay to play with food. At the Vinoklet Winery in Cincinnati, Ohio, couples laugh and chat at the vast communal grill while poking their slabs of mahimahi or steak. Kreso Mikulic, the mustachioed owner, bellows out advice: "A knife! You have to cut it with a knife." Setting their first date here helped kindle romance two years ago for Ali Dehner and Jeffrey Pfirrmann. "It was a good icebreaker," says Dehner...