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CATS: A PET FOR THE 21ST CENTURY
Melanie Hudson
In the western world, cats
are becoming the most desired pet because their needs fit
perfectly with busy lifestyles...
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MODERN URBAN MYTHS
Wilfredo Fernandes
Though the vast majority of
urban tales are pure invention, a handful do turn out to be based
on real incidents.
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WORLD CUP 2006 - ARGENTINA NIL-SIX
Buenos Aires Herald
Their performance was
packed with classy, high-speed football and marvellous individual displays
amid
great teamwork and memorable goals...
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TUTANKHAMUN: THE CURSE OF A PHARAOH
Sarah Coles
Are fatal events linked to the opening of an Egyptian tomb? Curse
or coincidence?
Many tales
are told of the measures that the past
rulers of...
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SPACE TOURISM
Simone Baines
Hand in hand with the one you love you gaze at the horizon to
watch the earth rise. Then you decide to do some zero-gravity
aerobics, while your partner...
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THESE SHOES ARE FOR WALKING
Kesta Allen
Maybe
a pair
of shoes is not very interesting but think again!
Many customs
are associated with shoes
and they
are even the source of inspiration for...
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SACRED PLACES: THEIR IMPORTANCE AS GATHERING
SITES
Caitlin Cahill
Our
churches,
mosques,
synagogues, temples
and religious meeting
houses
are important gathering places
because they
preserve culture
and spiritual...
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TERROR IN LONDON: THE DUNGEON MUSEUM
Robert Kent
Over the centuries
the people of London
have survived
plague,
fire, war and disaster.
On a smaller scale,
they have also lived
through times when...
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CAMBRIDGE GHOST: AN AMAZING STORY
Robert Kent
The ghost of a
suicide victim was
stalking the
corridors of Peterhouse College in
Cambridge University and perturbed professors wanted to call in...
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HOW TO SPOT SOMEONE WHO'S NOT TELLING THE
TRUTH
Wilfredo Fernandez
In a famous fairy story, Pinocchio's nose
grew longer when he was telling
a lie.
Surprisingly, most of us
give
off signals
when we are not
being truthful...
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THE HUMAN GENOME PROJECT
Yolanda Devere
The
mapping of the genes
in the human body caused great excitement,
but although it
will be a
major step forward it also brings
difficult moral problems...
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THE SECRETS OF TEA DRINKING
Kesta Allen
A
British obsession, tea
drinking started in England
as late as the 17th century
and the
tradition of the afternoon tea dates back to the early 1800s...
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SHAKESPEARE: BRITISH MAN OF THE MILLENNIUM
Mark Hull
William Shakespeare
was voted the Man of the Millennium for Britain. He is considered to have been the most influential figure in
Britain...
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THE SHERPAS
Robert Moore
The Sherpa tribe of Nepal live at a higher altitude than any other people in the world.
Their home is in the Everest region of the Himalaya mountains...
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WHAT IS "REAL" FOOTBALL?
Mac
What is "real" football? Soccer? American football,
Australian
Rules? Rugby? Canadian football? Gaelic football? Many
of course would
beg to
differ...
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WAKE UP, ARGENTINA - John C. Broome
John C. Broome writes for the New York
Times and lives in Fresno, California. In 2002, he wrote this
special poem about the situation in Argentina.
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EN BREVE LOS SIGUIENTES
ARTÍCULOS
LLEVARÁN GLOSARIOS INTERACTIVOS |
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OMAR IORIO: AN INTERVIEW TO OUR FIRST
SUBSCRIBER |
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BEER: EVERYTHING YOU WANTED TO KNOW |
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CHINESE HOROSCOPES:
ARE YOU A ROOSTER OR A RABBIT? |
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FENG SHUI: HOW TO HARMONISE YOUR ENVIRONMENT |
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