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...Despite the economic surge, Kayseri and its region remain deeply conservative. There is only one bar in the city, and it is usually closed. Business leaders plough a portion of their profits back into schools, universities, hospitals and mosques - a form of tithing. Many women wear headscarves. Still, the recent prosperity is lending new texture to Turkey's traditional image as the meeting place of East and West. Celal Hasnalcaci, a local manufacturer of denim jeans for export, prays five times a day but adorns his office walls with photographs of young women striking provocative poses in low-cut jeans...
...reason that, despite Turkey's impressive economic performance, Europe appears to be cooling toward welcoming it into the club. Although formal negotiations over its membership were recently started after Turkey had spent four decades knocking on the door, those negotiations are plagued by difficulties, and next month, a portion of those talks aimed at bringing Turkey up to Europe's legal, economic and political standards are likely to be suspended. E.U. officials say Turkey has not made sufficient progress on key reforms, and that it has refused to open its ports to ships from the new member states...
...surprises." ABU OBEIDEH, Hamas spokesman, on Palestinian grandmother Fatima Omar Mahmud al-Naja; the 64-year-old woman strapped on a suicide belt that detonated as she approached Israeli soldiers in Gaza. Three soldiers were slightly injured; only al-Naja died "Apart from a small portion of traffic victims, most of the organs from cadavers are from executed prisoners." HUANG JIEFU, Chinese Vice Minister of Health, acknowledging that China harvests organs from executed prisoners for transplants, a practice it has long denied "We may have lost a dear old friend and teacher." michael meyer, NASA scientist, announcing that the Mars...
...This is an elitist report, as it is only concerned with rich people who go out to eat at restaurants,” said Bercaw during the public comment portion of the meeting...
Henrik G. Rummel ’09, one of the roommates, said that his parents’ insurance will cover a portion of his losses...