December 2010
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“When it comes to partners, men often find women’s taste fickle and unfathomable....”
– Place a premium on the hunk’s choicer genes or the wimp’s love and care? Scientists are battling to explain why “women in dirty places like Brad Pitt”.
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“If you’re under 25 and you live on a sink estate in Lurgan, Craigavon, Derry or...”
– Last year Northern Ireland suffered 22 terrorist-related attacks; so far this year there have been 39. Hardliners hope to plunge the province back into bloody strife.
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“In the long term the world’s battlefields may see machines that resemble some...”
– Unlikely as it sounds, some snakes can glide for remarkable distances. In research partly funded by America’s Defence Advanced Research Projects Agency, scientists are trying to find out how.
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Why are pubs in London better than bars in New... →
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Wall Street goes long on grannies →
But nursing homes may not provide the profits that buy-out firms expect…
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“From Switzerland someone has donated an unopened packet containing a candy...”
– The Museum of Broken Relationships, in Zagreb, Croatia, houses the objects left behind after love has died.
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“Bill Clinton, having inspired a novel, a film in which he was played by John...”
– “Billy Blythe” is set on a single day in the Southern life of a teenaged Clinton in the Arkansas town of Hot Springs, where the former president grew up. 