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...Pain: “Buy You a Drank”—May have the most unusual chord progression ever to hit the top spot on the Billboard Hot 100. Also has beautiful, Brian-Wilson-Pet-Sounds- style background vocals. (T Pain and Akon have brought a spiritual sound to pop music these past couple of years. Interesting that they’re both Muslims...
...stop at giving people prosthetic limbs. The ICRC's Ali Abad Ortho Center in Kabul provides jobs, employing only the disabled. "We discriminate 100% here," says Alberto Cairo, an effusive Italian who heads the orthopedic program. "If you want a job here, cut off your leg." He pauses to pet the center's resident collie, which limps because it was hit by a car. "Actually, don't do that. We don't have enough jobs as it is." Cairo nods at a young man serving tea with a prosthetic right hook. He also wears a prosthetic left foot. "That...
...future: "social network included." The increasingly popular Ganz toy "Webkinz," for example, seems at first glance like a simple stuffed animal, but it actually comes complete with its own online persona and a secret-coded portal to the Webkinz World online, where kids care for their virtual pet and earn KinzCash. The latest entrant to this year's most-popular list is a collection of toys called the "Littlest Pet Shop," which also includes a social network online. And even the old bird Barbie now has her own interactive Internet playspace. (Didn't Barbie recently break up with Ken? Maybe...
...Friday, at least 13 people died when a bomber struck a popular pet market in heart of the city shortly before 9 a.m. An estimated 60 others were wounded in the explosion. At least two other bombs went off in areas north of Baghdad, leaving at least 26 people dead across the country in all for the day. On Thursday, a volley of 10 mortars sailed into the Green Zone, which had enjoyed many weeks without such attacks. And earlier that day insurgent fighters attacked Iraqi security forces in the southern reaches of the capital in fighting that left least...
...campaign contributions, and all the corruption and perversion of democracy that the pursuit of them creates in the U.S., they don't exist in Australia; a whole national election costs less to stage than a California primary. You don't need to be rich or a plutocrat's pet to run for office here...