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...native of India, is the author of more than a dozen best-selling novels including The Satanic Verses, for which former Iranian spiritual leader Ayatollah Khomeini Rushdie condemned him to death in 1989 for its alleged attacks on Islamic religion. Rushdie went into hiding for several years after a reward of a million dollars was offered for his murder...
...good enough to beat someone two years from now. The arguments in the new all-women's leagues are something like 25 times as many as occur in the men's leagues. For women who don't work, tennis is their only outlet. There is no definite reward system in being a mother. With tennis, there is a definite reward system."... One who thinks cutthroat competition for women is bad is anthropologist Margaret Mead. She admits that if women turn their backs on the home and childbearing, they may need sport to give them confidence in their bodies...
...water probably isn’t an issue, as they also lack a working bathtub. When it’s shower time, they pack their towels and deodorant into tote bags and head out to the public bathhouse for three yuan a visit. Alice’s reward for standing in front of a classroom about nine hours each week and sitting probably twice as long in an office is less than 1500 yuan per month...
...first Reagan-Gorbachev summit, telling Americans he had looked into the Russian leader's eyes and "got a pretty good idea of his soul." The comment prompted titters across Europe, not least because Putin came through the ranks of the KGB, an organization that doesn't exactly reward transparency. Still, Putin has been pleasantly surprised by the new administration's attentions, and he's quite happy to milk the diplomatic possibilities presented by the Bush quest for a missile shield...
...health checks. "A breeder can mate a blind dog to a deaf dog and register the offspring with the Kennel Club and no one will know," says David Hancock, an authority on pedigree dogs. Most reformers would like to see the Kennel Club using registration as a weapon - or reward - in the eradication of congenital diseases. John Bower, former president of the British Veterinary Association, suggests a "gold standard" register for breeders who do test. For years Sweden's progressive Kennel Club, they note, has had compulsory health checks for some breeds. Britain's Kennel Club maintains that breeders must...