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Posted by Contributor on May 11, 2009 at 1:52 pm in Health & Lifestyle, Other Stories
A Kenyan man is seeking damages for anguish sustained during a week-long sex ban called by women’s groups in a bid to force political leaders to put their rivalry aside to work for the common good. James Kimondo is suing the leaders of G10, a coalition of women’s groups that called for a national boycott [...]
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Posted by Contributor on at 1:44 pm in Health & Lifestyle, Other Stories
Article By: Erin O’Dwyer, Reader’s Digest Save money on cars, travel, clothes, appliances and more. Here’s our guide to finding good bargains… To read part one is this series, click here. Clothes How to haggle: Kathryn Finney, author of ‘How to Be a Budget Fashionista: The Ultimate Guide to Looking Fabulous for Less’, says: [...]
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Posted by Contributor on at 1:37 pm in Other Stories
A couple in Sweden has appealed to the country’s supreme court in their fight to name their baby boy ‘Q’, legal papers showed on Friday. Judges ruled in the couple’s first appeal in January that Q was not an "appropiate" name for a child, arguing that Swedish law forbade names consisting of just [...]
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Posted by Contributor on May 6, 2009 at 9:41 am in Health & Lifestyle, Other Stories
Dr. Augustine K. Kwashie, a physician specialist at the Korle-Bu Teaching Hospital, on Tuesday called for the national coordination of statistics on reported cases of asthma to enable the disease to receive the needed attention. He said currently recorded data on the disease were scattered, making it difficult to ascertain the actual prevalence [...]
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Posted by Contributor on April 30, 2009 at 4:43 pm in Health & Lifestyle, Other Stories
Article By: With the launch of two important new initiatives, 2009 could be the year the prevention of HIV prevention takes centre stage in South Africa. Years of workshops and speeches in which Aids experts and politicians talked about the need to prioritise prevention are finally translating into action. January 2009 saw the launch [...]
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Posted by Contributor on at 4:17 pm in Health & Lifestyle, Other Stories
Article By: Robyn Cooke, Style Commentator I’ve been working with several people lately to try and get the contents of their wardrobe aligned with the season, their lifestyle, the new economic climate and some kind of logical arrangement so that they can find everything in it, when they need it. And I confess to [...]
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Posted by Contributor on November 2, 2007 at 4:12 pm in Other Stories
Karin Zeitvogel Few vegetables can claim to have shaped nations, sent the economy of a country tumbling, or played a starring role in diplomatic spats. But the humble potato can. In fried form, the potato took center stage in the diplomatic row that broke out between Washington and Paris in 2003 when France refused to [...]
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Posted by Contributor on August 15, 2007 at 3:22 pm in Other Stories
Members of Ghana Chefs Association who participated in an International Cooking Competition in Kenya have returned home with six medals – three silver and three bronze. The competition held in Kenya last week was in three categories – Starters, Main Meals and Desserts. The Ghanaian chefs competed with their Kenyan counterparts in three rounds in [...]
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