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...such a perfect victim. One of the best recent female villains was Polly Walker in HBO's series Rome. As Atia of the Julii, she is lovely, charming, sometimes even amusing, but always diabolically evil as she plots mischief, mayhem and revenge-and then flounces off to enjoy her latest male conquest. Rebecca Silverberg, San Francisco...
Egypt is leading the developing world in efforts to save the lives of its children. That's according to the U.S.-based charity Save the Children, whose latest State of the World's Mothers report puts Egypt at the top of a list of 60 countries that have curbed the death rate among children - since 1990, Egypt has cut its child mortality rate by an impressive...
...Arab countries have reason to celebrate these latest findings. Save The Children puts Iraq at the bottom of the list, with a 150% increase in the child mortality rate since 1990. Most alarmingly, the report finds that in 2005 alone about 122,000 Iraqi children died before the age of five, about half of them perishing during their first month of life...
Denouncing the latest outbreak of Palestinian infighting as "senseless" and "shocking," Saudi Arabia's Foreign Minister Prince Saud al-Faisal says that the Gaza warfare threatens to become a "catastrophic" setback to Arab-Israeli peace prospects...
...casualties have been minimal so far, with three people injured in the latest attacks. But the threat of rockets from Gaza is unlikely to abate anytime soon, and locals complain that the government has abandoned them. "People in Tel Aviv can sleep at night but we don?t have this option," said Limor Aflalo, a 35-year-old beautician whose home was damaged by a rocket that struck next door. Aflalo and her husband would like to take their two daughters and leave the town, but they said it would be impossible to sell their home. "I don?t know...