Unlike previous generations of Vietnamese women who dutifully accepted the “so,” or destiny, of living a solitary life, a group of women in Loi decided to brave patriarchal mores and take motherhood in hand.
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a unit of heat expressing the energy value of food
Turns out watching adrenaline-pumping horror films can burn up calories, which could help you lose weight as long as you don't pair the film with buttered popcorn.
A leaking battery prompted an All Nippon Airways jet to make an emergency landing. It was unclear if the batteries caused the problems that led aviation regulators in India, Europe and the Middle East to ground the 787s.
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You could say that nights in Cairo are electric. Midnight comes and goes, but men and women still haggle with shop owners, merchants hawk their wares, and waiters serve coffee and juice to their 24-hour clientele.
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Walls lined with seismic fabric, a new material with high stiffness and considerable tensile strength, could potentially keep escape routes free of debris during the evacuation of schools, hospitals, and rest homes.
"We're providing them with bigger and bigger challenges, so you've probably seen raccoon-proof garbage cans to try to keep them from figuring things out. But they always do, and we're actually shaping an uber-raccoon."
A "large scale Canada-U.S. cheese smuggling operation" has been brought down, after an international investigation tracked criminals who were skirting import duties and Canada's higher cheese prices.
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wear or display a distinctive or noticeable item
Anne Hathaway sports fetching glasses and a winter coat as she joins co-star Amanda Seyfried for a screening of her forthcoming movie Les Miserables. Despite her casual look, the actress still managed to look stunning.
In the wake of the Dec. 14 massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn., 3-D printer manufacturer MakerBot Industries has removed files for 3-D–printable guns from its user-generated design database Thingiverse.