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...self-denial. Women are advised to avoid alcohol and cigarettes as well as deli meat, sushi, coffee and a million other pleasures. But the women of I Didn't Know I Was Pregnant didn't deny themselves anything during those nine months, had few if any symptoms and still wound up with perfect-looking babies! (See the top 10 medical breakthroughs...
...closely related to us - vanished from the earth, leaving us as the last humans standing. Nobody knows for sure what happened to them. Maybe we killed them off. Maybe we outcompeted them for scarce resources during the waning decades of the last Ice Age. Or maybe - though this is still hotly debated - we simply mated with them, which would mean we all have a bit of Neanderthal in us.(See the top 10 scientific discoveries...
...tribal areas, was an attempt by militants fleeing the South Waziristan offensive to punish the civilian population and apply pressure on Islamabad to negotiate a truce. "But it is making the people more adamant, more convinced in what the army is doing against the militants," he says. Still, for that resolve to hold, the government will have to do more to stem the tide of terror. (See pictures of Pakistan's vulnerable North-West Frontier Province...
...many Icelanders say they are being unfairly persecuted. They are still smarting from Britain's decision to use antiterrorism laws in 2008 to freeze Iceland's assets and force the country to agree to reimburse the British savers. "The British government used gunboat diplomacy, putting us in the same category as al-Qaeda and the Taliban," says Magnus Arni Skulason, a founding member of InDefence, a grass-roots campaign that helped secure 62,000 names - over a quarter of Iceland's 320,000 people - on a petition calling for the referendum. Skulason says Iceland has become the whipping...
...calculated this way in Egypt or in the Arab world in general. Popularity is not the element or the factor that could really influence the regime or push the regime to adopt this policy or that one." But for an already unpopular regime, an unpopular approach to Gaza may still be a step onto ever thinning...