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Labiaplasties can be risky, yet the number carried out on the NHS rose by 70% last yearBefore she had even turned 10, Anna had started worrying that there was something physically wrong with her. "I would look at other girls in the shower, and think, 'They don't have what I have,'" she says, and wearing a pair of jeans be (Read More)
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This past year or two I've been revisiting what you might call my cultural roots. Because I was distracted almost daily by treatment for a wounded foot and unable to work much, I began re-reading the PG Wodehouse, Edgar Rice Burroughs and Sexton Blake stories I enjoyed as a kid. From these I went on to movie and TV favourit (Read More)
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Originally published on 21 November 1945NUREMBERG, NOVEMBER 20.When Lord Justice Lawrence, British President of the International Tribunal, opened the great Nuremberg war trial this morning he called it unique in the history of the jurisprudence of the world, and on that note proceedings are begun against the surviving lead (Read More)
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The real challenge to the biblical literalism held dear by creationists is in the Bible itselfAn academic conference in Louisville, Kentucky, provided me with an opportunity to visit the Creation Museum in nearby Petersburg with a friend who is also an Anglican priest. Opened in 2007, this $25m museum's mission is not only (Read More)
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'I felt that the only thing I was on earth to do was to write'A couple of months ago Mavis Gallant had a dream. A messenger came to the door carrying a cardboard box with a lid on it. On top was written "Mavis Gallant" in big letters – and underneath it "Bad Prose". "I was devastated. Devastated for days. I thought, they ar (Read More)
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Suffering from 'novel nausea', Zadie Smith wonders if the essay lives up to its promiseWhy do novelists write essays? Most publishers would rather have a novel. Bookshops don't know where to put them. It's a rare reader who seeks them out with any sense of urgency. Still, in recent months Jonathan Safran Foer, Margaret Drab (Read More)
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Van Gogh's letters provide an extraordinary map of the artist's interior worldMichelangelo wrote some wonderful sonnets; Constable's correspondence has a fascinating tough-tenderness; most visualisers have, with varying degrees of success, tried to match words to their images. But Van Gogh's letters are the best written by (Read More)
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guardian.co.uk Politics:
It would be hard to imagine a less democratic process for appointing the EU president. I should know – I tried toThe news from Brussels is something to slowly savour. For those of us in the Euro-project sceptic camp, the announcement that two of the grandest positions in the world, Europe's de facto president and foreign mi (Read More)
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Labiaplasties can be risky, yet the number carried out on the NHS rose by 70% last yearBefore she had even turned 10, Anna had started worrying that there was something physically wrong with her. "I would look at other girls in the shower, and think, 'They don't have what I have,'" she says, and wearing a pair of jeans be (Read More)
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David Cesarani (A frisson of conspiracy, 18 November), is absolutely right that our investigation for Channel 4, Inside Britain's Israel Lobby, was followed by a deluge of pretty horrible antisemitic comment on a range of websites. Nasty, but predictable. In fact, exactly the same reaction we got in response to our previous (Read More)
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Three teenagers were injured -- one critically -- in a single-vehicle crash Thursday in the Glenn Dale area of Prince George's County, police and fire officials said.
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This sickly sweet romp through yet another American high school comes up trumps on its dazzling musical numbersI am full of glee. Is this a good thing? This week, the New York Times ran a story on how an hour-long comedy on the Fox TV network "has become a cult favourite among the theatre community in New York." Most days, (Read More)
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Subscribe here for your own daily copy delivered to your inboxTHE INCREASINGLY BAD LUCK OF THE IRISHStepping over our red-haired, green-felt-hat-wearing alcoholic Irish cousin Theme Pub O'Fiver as he lay unconscious in a pool of his own sick in the wake of Ireland's defeat at the hands of France this morning, the Fiver wond (Read More)
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Labour colleagues are concerned business secretary could set precedent that would allow Tories to help Murdoch take on GoogleLord Mandelson is seeking to amend the laws on copyright to give the government sweeping new powers against people accused of illegal downloading.But Labour colleagues are concerned that if he succeed (Read More)
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More than half of white boys on free school meals do not attain Sats standard expected of them, figures showBoys from poor, white families performed worse in primary school tests than those from ethnic minorities for the first time this summer, government figures revealed today.Until now, black boys from poor families have (Read More)
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