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Also, let he who has not sinned cast the first stone. If you are pure, honest and clean then you go and stone people. If people have committed immoral or sinful acts let Allah punish them. We are too little to make such decisions.
Sania Saeed, Pakistan
"Apply Holy Koran What Maulana Ghazi or what the Govenment Or what the readers says is not important - what is important is what the Holy Koran says and correct me if I am wrong - the verdict in Holy Koran for adultory is to be " Stoned to death ". That's it. The wisest of the wise do not debate the holy Koran with if's and but's but implement it unflichingly. Salman Malik, Pakistan" Salman Malik, the Holy Quran is a great book, but remember Allah has given you another amazing gift...your brain. Please use it. To blindly follow scripture without using logic and reason is stupidity, not religion.
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She now moves in a circle of entirely like-minded women. Her social group includes six lesbian couples with babies all born within six months of Joseph. Half were conceived through donor sperm from clinics, and the others were arrangements like hers, where a gay friend or acquaintance agreed to provide the sperm. Such arrangements are extremely fraught. There are long waiting lists for donor sperm at infertility clinics because of a chronic shortage caused by new laws allowing children conceived by donor sperm to track their genetic fathers. With informal arrangements, the father runs the risk of being approached for financial support for the child, even years after its conception, as has happened in the case of the fireman Andy Bathie, 37, of Enfield, north London, who is being pursued for child support for two children produced from his sperm donation to a lesbian couple who have now split up.
With petrol at $2 a litre, life's tough for motorists
But from April, it jumped thrice to reach $1.840 in July. It climbed to $2.030 last week. This surge in petrol prices brought on by rising crude oil prices - which reached a record of US$98.62 (S$143.11) per barrel last week - has forced some motorists to re-think the way they use their cars. Of the 30 motorists with whom The Sunday Times spoke, more than half said they avoid making unnecessary car trips. Ms Huang Li Min, 29, a tutor, said that, instead of driving, she now takes a 10-minute walk to the provision shop near her Ang Mo Kio flat. Sales executive Alan Ang spends 10 minutes every morning planning his route before leaving his house in Toa Payoh. He makes at least four trips a day to see his clients. The 31-year-old, who reckons he saves $20 monthly by planning his journeys, said: 'I'll try and schedule all the meetings in one area around the same time.
Don't blame Duluth cops for action of one
I've been following the Jay Dailey story quite closely, and it only gets more bizarre. Can we get a blog about corrupt cops in this town?" Here's your blog. But it's probably not what you were expecting. To recap: A Duluth police officer, Jay Dailey, 42, was jailed Saturday after being treated for a gunshot wound. He is said to have been shot during a confrontation with Fulton County police officer Paul Phillips, who also was injured. Dailey faces four counts of felony aggravated assault. Gwinnett Police have not said much about what happened, but witness statements to the media paint this picture: Phillips was flagged down to help a distressed woman on Level Creek Road in Sugar Hill. He was off duty but in uniform and driving a marked patrol car.
Look out for skid marks
In December, as his Harvey Norman electrical and furniture empire was riding the pre-Christmas rush, his 30 per cent stake in the company was worth somewhere north of $2 billion. Since then it has been a slalom run for the shares amid the general stock market carnage and concern that Reserve Bank boss Glenn Stevens's repeated interest rate rises will crimp consumer spending. Yesterday, Harvey was worth $1.5 billion and falling. But don't weep for him. He still has outside interests in horseflesh and property. He cannily offloaded two million shares for $11.8 million in cash near the top of the market just before Christmas, and his wife, Katie Page, has about $80 million worth of shares. Underbelly will be all over VICTORIAN Supreme Court judge Betty King may know a lot about the law but she clearly isn't too computer savvy.
Can't you all just get along?
Here was unanimity on child-rearing technique. Holding the baby diagonally on my chest would give him crooked posture. Letting his legs or arms or head go bare was an invitation to ruin. Around us, Beijing children squatted down and defecated on the sidewalk, while parents cast a disapproving eye at our baby's exposed toes. Now we had new sources of information, but there was no chance for us to absorb it in whole. Our practical introduction to the books started at the back, in the indexes, where the crisis of the moment might be: "Spitting up, 104-105, 389, 691"; "Rashes. See also Eczema; impetigo"; "Vaporizers, 666-667, 684." Before long, we began to notice that the answers to our questions depended on which book we were consulting. About that vaporizer - or is it a humidifier? The American Academy of Pediatrics recommends a cool-mist humidifier, because hot-mist vaporizers can scald babies.
New support for old idea: Death penalty deters crime
For the first time in a generation, the question of whether the death penalty deters murders has captured the attention of scholars in law and economics, renewing an intense debate about one of the central justifications for capital punishment. According to about a dozen recent studies, executions save lives. For each inmate put to death, the studies say, three to 18 murders are prevented. The effect is most pronounced, according to some studies, in Texas and other states that execute condemned inmates relatively often and relatively quickly. The studies, performed by economists in the past decade, compare the number of executions in different jurisdictions with homicide rates over time — while trying to eliminate the effects of crime rates, conviction rates and other factors — and say murder rates tend to fall as executions increase.
Men's Fitness magazine ranks OKC among fattest cities
Oklahoma City residents appear to be getting fatter. A fitness survey of the 50 largest cities in the nation conducted by Men's Fitness magazine and released Monday shows Oklahoma City has moved up seven spots in the 2008 survey to No. 8 on the magazine's list of the ten fattest cities. .
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