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Singapore actress Joanne Peh claims her bust size increase is natural. Experts comment.Source: The Sunday Times, 22/3/9, p.10Headline: BustedQuote1:Local actress Joanne Peh has caused a storm in a D-cup after claiming that her breasts always swell up by one whole cup size at that time of the month, ... claiming that her mammaries usually become bigger when she is having her …
Source: The Straits Times, 21/6/8, p.43Headline: Girls at US school get pregnant for funQuote:BOSTON: A city in Massachusetts is investigating an apparent teenage "pregnancy pact" that has at least 17 girls at a public high school expecting babies, four times more than last year. ... "Some girls seemed more upset when they weren't pregnant than when they were," Mr. Joseph …
Source: The Straits Times, 28/5/8, p6.Headline: Cover up please, we're VietsQuote1:HANOI: The culture czars of Vietnam are telling beauty pageant contestants and fashion models to cover up, even as the country gears up to host the Miss Universe pageant. ... "The world's fashion shows, like the Miss Universe contest, have rules to stop the girls from wearing inappropriate …
Source: Today, 23/6/8, p.20Headline: Why do they turn to sex?Byline: Sarah Sum-CampbellQuote:I would like to offer another explanation [for Ms Sufiah Yusof's situation]: Could her home situation have caused her trauma so severe that she is taking a break from using her brain to make money? ... The sex trade, for many women, is more than just about making money. It is a form …
Source: The Straits Times, 1/12/8, p.A15Headline: Britain on top in casual sex leagueQuote1:LONDON: British men and women are now the most promiscuous of any big Western industrial country, London's Sunday Times reported, citing an international study. ... Professor Schmitt [from Bradley University in Illinois, who led the study] said: "When you free a society by giving women …
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I recently completed my best work to date: the formulation of an instrument to address any question whatsoever. Here's the basic concept. All questions fall into one or more of seven generic question forms, each of which can be addressed with an algorithm. The set of seven question forms and their associated algorithms enable us to address any question whatsoever. Eager to …
Source: The Straits Times, 4 December 2010, p.A18 Headline: Bacterium in US lake unlike any other known life form Quote1 WASHINGTON: All life on Earth ... requires the element phosphorus as one of its six essential components. But now researchers have uncovered a bacterium that ... has replaced phosphorus with its toxic cousin, arsenic. "What we've found is a microbe doing …
In this wondrous land of acronyms, here's one I thought up recently. PIQUE stands for Philosophically Interesting Questions for You to Examine. I think it's quite nice. END
The cartoon strip "Non Sequitur" in The Straits Times of 6 November 2010 has Danae setting up her own church. She says: "I'm taking the doctrines from all the mainstream religions into one church to end all the fighting over who has the most peaceful religion." It's a nice thought. Her strategy is that if all the main ideas from the mainstream religions are all incorporated …
Recently, several billionaires started a campaign to get other billionaires to pledge their wealth to charitable causes. This, of course, made the headlines. When ordinary folk pledge their spare cash to charities, that is one thing. But when people whose individual wealth dwarfs the GNP of some countries want to give billions to charities, that is another thing. In …
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