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"The only difference between doctors and lawyers is that lawyers merely rob you, whereas doctors rob you and kill you, too." (Anton Chekhov) "It's not the people who are in prison worry me. It's the people who aren't." (Arthur Gore) "Dancing is a perpendicular expression of a horizontal desire." (George Bernard Shaw) "When you see what some women marry, you realise how they must hate to work for a living." (Helen Rowland) "You mean apart from my own?" (Zsa Zsa Gabor, asked how many husbands she had had)
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| Russian MPs worried by Simpsons Russian MPs have given a final warning to TV stations to cut back on violent shows like the Simpsons if they want to avoid censorship. State Duma deputies overwhelmingly voted for a motion warning television channels to cut down on the amount of violence they show. The resolution was approved by a 417-1 landslide. It called on television companies to avoid promoting a "cult of violence and cruelty". The move came after the Simpsons was given a hard core adults-only rating and blamed for corrupting Russian schoolchildren and degrading family values. "They found the Simpsons were crammed with violent and aggressive episodes. These cartoons also introduce antagonism between children and parents."
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BERING IN MIND Are there asexuals among us? On the possibility of a "fourth" sexual orientation
MIND MATTERS The New Science of Temptation What happens when Harvard scientists use a brain scanner to look for the devil inside?
Zombie Creatures: What Happens When Animals Are Possessed by a Parasitic Puppet Master? From fungi to flies, some parasitic species have figured out how to control their host's behavior to get what they need. See what happens when bugs go really bad
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An AK-47 assault rifle and two hand grenades were some of the prizes for the winners of a team quiz organised by Somalia's insurgent Shebab group during the holy Muslim month of Ramadan. (AFP/NATO/File)
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