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...them and how fluky her life was. Perhaps, after all, outsize fame is more suited to young teens. They don't overthink it. The Book of Job is 41½ chapters about misery and 10 verses about restoration, yet Cyrus read it as being about her. That's a mind trick only a teenager - or a star - can pull...
What makes an Olympic athlete the greatest? In my mind, it's not the number of gold medals or world records but what one does with the rest of one's life...
...beginning, there was dough. When Egypt's pharaoh finally agreed after much convincing (and 10 plagues) to let Moses' enslaved people go, the Jews left their homes so quickly - pursued by the pharaoh, who by then had changed his mind - that they didn't have time to prepare bread for the journey. Instead, they ate an unleavened mixture of flour and water that, when baked, turned flat and hard. Passover began on April 8 this year, and for the next eight days, Jewish people all over the world will remember their exodus by forgoing cakes, cookies, pasta and noodles - anything...
...World Bank announced this week that while China's growing economy had lifted a half billion people out of poverty from 1981 to 2004, medical costs remained one of the top financial threats to low-income rural residents. With that burden in mind, Beijing has said it will spend $125 billion over the next three years building thousands of clinics and hospitals and expanding basic health care coverage to 90% of the population. "This commitment to improve equitable access to essential health care for all in China is quite important," says Sarah Barber, a China-based World Health Organization expert...
...taken steps to improve these attitudes, including implementing an anti-discrimination law in March 2006, but perceptions like these don't help in the fight to educate people about their own risk of infection. "It's not something that can change overnight," says Schwartlander. "People have to get their mind around...