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Survival of the Prettiest
On New Years many of us have made resolutions to take better care of our bodies, eat healthier and exercise. Why bother when we can simply go under the knife? In this day and age more of us are buying the bodies we desire, when did plastic surgery become standard practice? How far will people go to achieve their transformations? Did the Kurds capture Saddam Hussein? Is there life on Mars? Whither the United Nations? And New York business top ten lists!
Kurds and Way
Vance Serchuk Researcher for the American Enterprise Institute says the Kurds didn't capture Saddam Hussein before US fighters and David Pratt foreign editor of the Sunday Herald of Glasgow, Scotland on the theory that Kurdish intelligence led to the capture of Saddam Hussein and Giora Shamiz Chief Editor and CEO of the Debka File, a website based in Jerusalem about terrorism, security and politics.
says the Kurds captured Saddam Hussein before US forces
Life On Mars?
Ken Crosswell astronomer and author,Magnificent Mars (the Free Press, 2003)
explains what the roving robot is doing on the red planet
Lists, Lists and More Lists!
Alair Townsend Publisher of Crain's New York Business
on the Crain's New York Book of Lists
Miracle on 42nd Street
Linda Fasulo UN correspondent for NBC News and MSNBC, frequent contributor to NPR News, and author, An Insider's Guide To The UN (Yale University Press, 2004)
explains the global body
Under the Knife
Virginia Blum author Flesh Wounds: The Culture of Cosmetic Surgery (University of California Press September 2003) examines the culture of plastic surgery
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