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The Chennai woman who runs a Hindu crematorium

Edit BBC News 04 Aug 2016
Traditionally, Hindu women do not visit a crematorium for the final rituals of their loved ones ... Minutes before noon, a sombre funeral procession reaches the crematorium ... They said we must be bad people and that was very hurtful," she told the BBC. Then there were people who were dependent on the cremation ground for their living and thought that they would lose their jobs....

Millennial women are waiting longer to have sex, reversing Gen X trend

Edit Mashable 04 Aug 2016
The study's findings fit with a trend toward millennials delaying steps associated with adulthood, such as getting married, and having a more individualistic outlook than their Gen X peers have, said Twenge, who teaches psychology at San Diego State University and authored “Generation Me,” a book about millennial culture ... getting married, buying a house, moving out of their parent’s house and, it seems, starting a sexual relationship....

Taj Mahal casino closing; Carl Icahn says he lost $100M

Edit Boston Herald 04 Aug 2016
The business now belongs to Trump's friend and fellow billionaire Carl Icahn, who decided he can no longer support a casino losing millions of dollars each month amid a crippling strike ... "It was a bad bet," he said. "How much good money do you throw after bad?" ... They look at this as my responsibility, and I'm a bad guy if I don't give them what they want."....

Chinese patients with terminal stage of breast cancer offer free medication provided by charity program (Shanghai Municipal Government)

Edit Public Technologies 04 Aug 2016
Breast cancer patients, who are responsive to Faslodex, a new type of endocrine treatment for advanced breast cancer, can have three-month dosage of the medicine for free after paying for the medicine for three months beforehands and pass doctor's evaluation. The medicine developed by ......

Menez loses part of ear in horror injury on debut

Edit FourFourTwo 04 Aug 2016
Jeremy Menez suffered a horror injury on his Bordeaux debut, losing part of his ear during a friendly ... He entered the pre-season friendly against Lorient in the 62nd minute but had to be taken off 15 minutes later after losing part of his right ear....

Is Donald Trump even trying to win?

Edit The Times Picayune 04 Aug 2016
Ezra Klein, at Vox.com, also wondered if Trump's even trying to win when – the weekend before the Republican National Convention – Trump hadn't seemed to put any energy into preparing for an interview on "60 Minutes."  Trump, who has routinely criticized Hillary Clinton's vote to go to war with Iraq, reiterated that her vote for that war ......

'The Hills' 10th anniversary: They're all grown up

Edit CNN 04 Aug 2016
That Was Then, This Is Now," on Tuesday night ... Conrad is now 30 and married to entertainment lawyer, William Tell ... Montag and Pratt are still married and still on the reality TV circuit ... Patridge, 31, is engaged to marry her longtime boyfriend, Corey Bohan ... Cavallari, 29, is married to NFL star Jay Cutler ... They married in 2015 ... Our favorite bad boy from "The Hills" now lives in New York and performs with his punk rock band, BobbyrocK ... ....

Rio 2016 Men’s Tournament Facts & Figures: Japan (AFC - Asian Football Confederation)

Edit Public Technologies 04 Aug 2016
Some 48 years after making Asian history by winning their first men's Olympic football medal, Japan travel to Brazil still looking for their second ... Japan scored freely and remained undefeated in qualifying, and even when requiring extra-time to beat Iran in the quarter-finals they piled on three goals in 15 minutes to secure the win ... 60....

Strategy planning for Trump's bid for election loss

Edit Press Telegram 04 Aug 2016
"What if I did something bad to a cat? Then would I for-sure lose?" asked Trump. "Just speed-balling here.". "You mean 'spit-balling.' But I don't think you need to do anything bad to a cat," said Steve, an adviser to Trump on how to get out of the race and back to the initial plan, which is to parlay this weird success he's found with Americans into huge successes in the private sector ... ....

United Draws at Home to Puerto Rico (Minnesota United FC)

Edit Public Technologies 04 Aug 2016
With only five minutes gone in the first half, there was plenty of time for the Loons to push the pace of play, but United would have to begin its scoring run from a deficit ... United's best effort of the first 45 minutes of play came from a nifty turn out of J.C. Banks in the 37th minute ... 'So it took a bit of a roasting at half time for them to decide that 'hey, we've got a game here.' We wasted 40 minutes in my opinion.'....

Sound Smart in Japanese / She came to see me yesterday.

Edit The Japan News 04 Aug 2016
It’s too bad.) ... スーパーへ行（い）くとき、痛（いた）み止（ど）めの薬（くすり）を買（か）います。(On my way to the supermarket, I’ll buy some pain medicine.) ... スーパーへ行（い）ったとき、痛（いた）み止（ど）めの薬（くすり）を買（か）います。(When I go to the supermarket, I’ll buy some pain medicine.) ... The sentence suggests the speaker is going to buy the medicine somewhere before reaching the supermarket ... ①心身（しんしん）を治（なお）すために用（もち）いるもの (medicine)....

Poor Will’s Clark County Almanack: Perseid meteors arrive

Edit Springfield News-Sun 04 Aug 2016
The likelihood of rain increases to 60 percent, the highest since the 3rd of July, and the second highest of the summer ... Nights grow longer in August, almost one hour and 15 minutes longer by the end of the month. The first week loses two minutes in a day; by the last week, the loss is up to three minutes every 24 hours ... Leaves trickle to the undergrowth, one every few minutes....

Omar Bravo, Mexican soccer star, introduced as a member of the RailHawks

Edit The News & Observer 04 Aug 2016
If you’re an Olympic sailor in a 49er, a speedy, two-person monohull, it’s not so bad. Or at least, not as bad as expected, or not as bad as it was three years ago when Olympic teams started training here ... A single plastic shopping bag, dragging from a daggerboard or tiller for only a minute, can create enough drag lose a race at the fine margins of Olympic competition ... “It’s not so bad upwind....
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