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...pregnant, refuses to try to understand Carrie, a 28-year-old with dwarfism, telling her that her mouth is simply too small to lip-read. "People speak of the disabled community, but we're the most diverse community," says Kiruna Stamell, the Australian actress who plays Carrie. "Even with short-statured people, we come from different backgrounds, different cultures. The shared experience we have is social discrimination." (Read "Disabled Models: A U.K. Reality...
...Laurie Humphreys had already spent the majority of his short life in a Southampton orphanage in England. He was 13, and clearly remembers the BBC Home Service for schools announcing that Australia needed more migrants. "When the sisters asked who wanted to go to Australia, my hand was one of the first to go up," he recalls...
...which grew 8.9% in the third quarter, could pull the global economy out of recession, several skeptics were arguing the Middle Kingdom's performance was unsustainable - and even that it was mostly a mirage. Chief among these naysayers is billionaire hedge fund investor Jim Chanos, who famously sold Enron short in 2001 after concluding that the rosy reports and projections about the company were not based on facts. He has come to a similar conclusion about China, according to Politico.com, and is shorting the country just as he did Enron. (See pictures of the making of modern China...
...Translation: global markets will remain buoyant longer than expected as the short-sellers are forced to cover their anti-China bets and the unbelievers finally come around and belatedly take long positions. For the sake of 1.3 billion Chinese and the rest of us, let's hope it's Jim O'Neill that's right, rather than Jim Chanos...
...Fifty-three-year-old Gabrielle Short, a forgotten Australian, described her ordeal at the Nazareth House, an orphanage in the southeastern town of Ballarat, to the Australia Associated Press (AAP). "If you wet the bed at the house, they'd rub your face into the sheets until it bled," Short said. "I try to explain it to my children now. If you were to read the story Oliver Twist, you take away the music and the happy bits, and that's what it was like." Two sisters, who were also in the care of the Nazareth House, but in Brisbane...