Afghan Woes...
Wow. Just when you thought it couldn't get any worse for the women of Afghanistan, this happens. Shia husbands, by law, have the legal right to starve their wives to death for not having sex with them. Where does it go from here?
Read more:
http://thelede.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/08/17/afghan-husbands-win-right-to-starve-wives/
http://www.afghanistanwomencouncil.org/
Another R.I.P...
Like something out of a bad horror movie, famed Geologist Campbell Bridges was attacked by a mob of angry villagers and killed the other day, with machetes.
"He was credited with discovering tsavorite – a brilliant dark green gemstone – in the 1960s on the nearby border with Tanzania. His Tanzanian mines were nationalised in the 1970s, and he moved his operations to Kenya – where he studied geological records and located tsavorite again. Initially he lived in a tree house, and claimed to have set a python to watch over the first gems he found. He kept a pair of leopards instead of guard dogs. He was also a special consultant to the famous New York jewellers Tiffany & Co."
Read more here:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/aug/13/geologist-campbell-bridges-stabbed-kenya
Sign of the Times...
Is this the end of Readers Digest? Thought it was already gone? Well, it may be soon.
Read more:
http://www.forbes.com/2009/08/17/readers-digest-bankruptcy-business-media-readers-digest.html
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