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...years before he formally asked to marry her. Majid's parents, who are Sunni, quickly gave their blessing, but two of her three brothers stood in the way. "My youngest brother, in front of all our family, said, 'If you insist on marrying this man, we promise you and swear to God that we will kill you in your wedding clothes,'" Majid recalls. "He said, 'We can't live with the shame you will bring to us by marrying...
...Life’s disappointments are harder to take,” Calvin says glumly in another strip, “when you don’t know any swear words...
...year-old provocateur then asks the librarian to rattle off all of the swear words she knows—and their definitions...
Many migraineurs swear by various nonpharmacological methods of keeping their headaches at bay, such as yoga, meditation and biofeedback. These techniques probably work best for patients whose headaches are triggered by stress or tense facial muscles. One of the surprises of the past couple of years is the effectiveness of botox, which is now being injected into facial muscles to temporarily erase wrinkles. Migraineurs have reported that botox seems to banish their headaches as well. Studies are under way to see if those observations hold...
...prevent, say, a pedophile from joining the site and masquerading as a 13-year-old girl. Although some sites aimed at younger kids, such as Disney' s ToonTown and Ganz' s Webkinz, only let members exchange canned messages, on Zwinktopia kids are free to type their own messages. However, swear words and sexually explicit comments get replaced with a "bleep." And while there is no age verification process, members who claim to be 17 or younger are directed to chat areas separate from older members. On the site' s opening night, conversations on the virtual beach called "Splash" went like...