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How many empires have risen and fallen in the Middle East during the past 5000 years?
Find out in just 90 seconds...
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Winner of the 2008 Grammy for Best Album, jazz great Herbie Hancock's journey into Buddhism began in 1972 with a life-altering bass solo.
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Happiness is life with a wood burning stove, says Julia Stephenson
Recent hikes in fuel costs plus the controversial news that the
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I once worked with John, a client whose life and career had
been blighted by an experience from his schooldays, writes Sarah Litvinoff
He had been severely bullied by a group of girls. The misery this had caused him was compounded by shame - after all, they were only girls.
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Daisaku Ikeda is president of Soka Gakkai International, and founder of
Soka University and the Toda Institute for Global Peace and Policy
Research.
This year, the Doomsday Clock devised by the Chicago-based Bulletin of
the Atomic Scientists was advanced two minutes, for the first time in
five years. It now stands at 11:55 p.m., just five minutes away from
the 'midnight' of human annihilation. This change not only reflects
last
year's nuclear test by North Korea and uncertainties regarding Iran's
nuclear development goals; it is also a reflection of the impact of
environmental degradation and climate change.
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Guido Daniele is a multimedia artist and body painter living and working in Milan. He started working with living canvasses in 1990, painting the naked bodies of models for advertising campaigns. His brilliant, hyper-realistic animal hand-paintings can take anything from two to ten hours to complete.
Click 'read more' for more amazing hand art...