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Posted by bab on March 18th 2008 in Business
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Before:

Although it has been suggested that he was referring to brokerage accounts held with the firm and not its stock.

After:

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Posted by bab on December 13th 2007 in Parenting, World
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I just saw this on our local bay area NBC 11 news about a dutch couple giving up their 7-year old adopted daughter because the kid they say doesn’t fit in. They had adopted the South Korean girl when she was four months old after they failed to conceive any children. However after the adoption they did conceive two kids biologically. They have handed over the kid to social workers in Hong Kong where they are currently living (The dutch guy is a diplomat). I am not sure what to say but their actions certainly don’t fit it.

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Posted by bab on December 15th 2006 in Animals, Rescue, World
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arms. The world’s tallest man, a 7-foot-9 herdsman from Inner Mongolia, used his long 41.7-inch arms to save two dolphins by pulling out plastic from their stomachs. Click here for slideshow.

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Posted by bab on December 07th 2006 in Society, Women, World
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Two tribal women in Orissa, India married recently after getting consent from the village elders. The two women had to offer a barrel of country liquor, a pair of oxen, and a sack of rice and hosted a family feast, as fine to get blessing from the community. More here.

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Posted by bab on August 21st 2006 in Dance, Humor, India, Movies, bollywood
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This is an old video about a white guy doing a bollywood number.

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Posted by bab on July 10th 2006 in Sports
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The world is wondering today what Marco Materazzi may have said to Zidane to provoke the headbutt. It has to be something nasty but what if it is something lame and silly like.

Hey Zidane, got comb ?

Or something complementary

Hey Zidane, nice head and a nice butt.

Or something neutral but got mis-interpreted in the Italian to French translation or in the ambient noise

Hey Zidane, paper or plastic ?

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Posted by bab on March 30th 2006 in Cars, Developing Nations
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Thanks to good old sugarcane, Brazil is all set to achieve gasoline independence this year. Most of the new cars sold in Brazil are flex cars which are able to run on ethanol, gasoline and blended mixture of the two. Moreover sugarcane ethanol is cheaper to produce than corn ethanol which is used in United States. Brazil also requires all gas stations to provide atleast one ethanol pump. According to NBC news, sugarcane ethanol will remain cheaper than gasoline as long as gasoline stays over $45 a barrel. More here.

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Posted by bab on March 29th 2006 in Rants
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Here is an interesting article whether Hell is exothermic (radiates heat) or endothermic (absorbs heat). It’s about a question that a professor asked in his mid-term paper and the response from one of his students.

BTW, Dr Robert Schambaugh, Chemical Engineering professor from the University of Oklahoma, maintains he never asked the question. As you search the internet, you find different variants of the response with different school, professor, the girl and the outcome.

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