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...Khatami. Iran's penal code specifies, "The stoning of an adulterer or adulteress shall be carried out while each is placed in a hole and covered with soil, he up to his waist and she up to a line above her breasts." Court-appointed officials or ordinary citizens then pelt the accused with stones large enough to cause pain but not large enough to kill immediately. Last year Iranian newspapers reported that Maryam Ayoubi, 30, was stoned to death in Tehran for murdering her husband and having an affair with a younger man. Another woman was stoned to death...
...their living rooms glued to their computer screens? That is what the World Rally Championship (WRC) is hoping for. Rallying is an enormously popular sport. In 14 countries across four continents around 10 million fans go out and watch some of the best drivers in the world racing full pelt for three days over narrow, twisting public roads. But because of the distances involved in following the race, television coverage of the sport even as recently as five years ago consisted of week-old footage. Since David Richards' company, International Sportsworld Communicators (ISC), bought the TV and commercial rights...
...allow the Koreans to attack. The hosts were happy to oblige. For the final third of regulation time, only one side showed genuine appetite for goals. That side won. Justice was done. It's up to you whether you want to eat your sour grapes, Giovanni, but don't pelt them at the referee...
...seems as if young Hollywood is up in arms to don something borrowed and something blue. Newest casualty: remember little Mark from Home Improvement? Well, he’s now little married Taran Noah Smith, at all of 17 years old to 33-year-old chef/artist Heidi van Pelt. TV’s Dark Angel Jessica Alba, 20, will be trading black for white at her marriage to 33-year-old co-star Michael Weatherly, and with the tragic passing of R&B artist Aaliyah, rumors are resurfacing about her marriage at 15 to her mentor at the time...
Most school nurses are pleased to be tackling the new challenges, Pelt believes. But she is nostalgic for the days when children's needs weren't so great: "The problems we're seeing today can't be helped with a Band-Aid. We wish, for the kids' sake, that they could...