December 4, 2003

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Fat chance Asma, 32, says she wants to kill all “diet experts” who she blames kept her fat for the last eight years when she was struggling with her weight. In the last four months, she claims to have lost 22 lbs on the Atkins diet and is now on a...		Life as it seems What is the basis of existence: is it as the Creator made it or as mankind thinks it is? For this mankind has to think and ponder much deeper. The problem...
The hunt is on Come winter and the houbara bustard issue resurfaces in Pakistan like the endangered and shy desert bird itself. If it is not the row over its sustainable hunting, then it is people looking the other way while.....		Off limits One fine morning in November, Amar Sindhu, a feminist poet and lecturer, at the department of Philosophy at Sindh university, was thrilled as well as shocked when she heard about a poster put up on the wall of the entrance to...
Tree theft Pakistan is one of the 178 signatory members of the United Nations’ Conference on Environment and Development (UNCED) held between June 3-14, 1992 at Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, and later in the Summit on Sustainable Development...		The waiting game Sunday October 19, the West Bank I thought it was bad three years ago. Now the landscape itself is changed. New settlements spring up everywhere; more than 60 since....
Trance dance Like the dhamal, the leva dance also has immense magical powers. Every man and woman who watches this dance, becomes enchanted and goes into a deep trance and is in ecstasy....		Special matches Fauzia and Ali recently got engaged and they are looking forward to the big day scheduled for next year. The couple is happy at the way things worked out for them and believe that their common disability will help...
New numbers for normal BP Q :My blood pressure is 127/87, and it’s been like that for many years. My doctor always seemed satisfied with those numbers. Now he says I need to lower my blood...		The love of Lebanese cookery Lebanon is one of the smallest and most fascinating countries of the world. Measuring only 130 miles (210 kms) in length and 46 miles (75 kms) in width, it was, until...
Eight days A week The Matrix Revolutions brings to a sorry end a saga which started off so brilliantly with The Matrix. There was so much originality in the first movie of the trilogy (sure, there’s a lot “borrowed” from Grant...		Soup of the day Tomato soup Ingredients: 6 tomatoes roughly chopped 1 onion roughly chopped 3-4 garlic crushed...