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...Norway's best-known comedians, has made a career out of poking fun and provoking outrage at the predicament of conservative Muslim immigrants in socially and sexually permissive Scandinavia. She makes jokes about everything from the facial hair of fundamentalists to the operations some engaged Muslim women in Norway undergo to make it appear they're still virgins. She also satirizes the Norwegians themselves, with their "booze-and-pork" culture and "progressive" family structures in which a single child can have multiple sets of parents. "I talk about sexuality and pornography, about desire and our bodies," Rehman says. Her tart...
...hospital in central Beijing is an unlikely place to seek cutting-edge treatment. Orderlies in the shabby five-story building pile surplus furniture in the crowded hallways and push patients around on jerry-rigged gurneys made with bicycle wheels. Yet Nan Davis has traveled halfway around the globe to undergo a new procedure available only here. Six hours ago, Dr. Huang Hongyun injected 1.5 million fetal cells into her damaged spinal cord. Davis, a teacher from Ohio, hasn't walked since 1978 after a car crash left her paralyzed from the bottom of her rib cage down. Shortly after...
...sent them because she harbored a crush on Douglas and was upset by a tabloid story claiming that Zeta-Jones was cheating on him. After facing the couple in court, Knight took sleeping pills in her jail cell and had to be hospitalized. A judge has ordered her to undergo a psychological evaluation before resuming the hearing...
...course, being surrounded by sheet metal is no guarantee of safety. Poorly maintained vehicles, as well as a large number of tinny, cheap cars on New Delhi's roads, also contribute to accidents and injuries. Many domestically made cars do not undergo crash testing, and until a few years ago, economy models often lacked even rudimentary safety equipment such as seat belts. "These cars are designed for city traffic and people will take them out onto our 120 km/h highways and get splattered," says Sikdar, the Central Road Research Institute director...
...with a 2.25 ERA while being used almost exclusively out of the bullpen. After earning recognition as the organization’s co-Pitcher of the Year in 2002, however, Birtwell pitched much of last season in pain with a frayed labrum that forced him to undergo corrective surgery last fall...