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Prezs visit
President Pranab Mukherjee will
be visiting Israel from
Oct 12 to 15 as part of a
six-day visit to West
Asia. The President
will also be travelling
to Jordan and the
Palestinian Authority
Birthday treat
All schools in Maharashtra will
observe a No-Bag day on
Thursday to celebrate the birth
anniversary of late president A P
J Abdul Kalam. Students from
class III-VIII will be
encouraged to
read nonacademic books
on this day in
order to cultivate
a habit of reading
Lecture by SRK
Shah Rukh Khan has been
invited to deliver a lecture to
students of the University of
Edinburgh, UK, on Thursday. The
event in
question is a
public lecture
and the
website has
reportedly
sold out all
the tickets to
the same
New innings
Former Indian captain Sourav
Ganguly will be elected as the
chief of the Cricket Association of
Bengal on Thursday.
Ganguly, who was the
CAB joint secretary till
now, will be stepping
into the shoes of late
Jagmohan Dalmiya
It is a distraction that
stops humans living
to their full potential,
claims scientist
Mushroom for
instant orgasm
Jasper Hamill
Jeff Parsons
horizons, he said.
He recommends instead that we
exercise regularly, including sit-ups
and press-ups and concentrate on eating less. Zhavoronkov himself says
he only consumes between 1,600 and
1,700 calories a day mostly from
fruit, yoghurt and protein bars.
The World Health Organisation
proclaimed last week that we could
soon be living in a world where living
to 100 is normal. Dr Margaret Chan,
director-general of the WHO said, At
a time of unpredictable challenges
he magical Dictyophora
mushroom provides women with instant orgasms.
Its powers were first mentioned
in The International Journal of
Medicinal Mushrooms in 2001,
but rumours of its erotic potential have now resurfaced on IFL
Science. It was officially discovered
in 2001 by John
H a l l i d ay a n d
Noah Soule.The
unusual fungi
grow in lava flows
in Hawaii. There Dictyophora
are significant multicolor
sexual arousal
characteristics in the foetid odour
of this unique mushroom, academics wrote. Women who sniffed
the shroom experienced an orgasm instantly. DAILY MIRROR
he Oregon Shakespeare Festival has decided that Shakespeares language is too difficult for todays audiences to understand. It recently announced that
over the next three years, it will commission 36 playwrights to translate
all of Shakespeares plays into modern English.
Many in the theater community
have known that this day was coming, though it doesnt lessen the
shock. The Oregon Shakespeare Festival has been one of the stars in the
Shakespeare firmament since it was
founded in 1935. While the festivals
organizers insist that they also remain committed to staging Shakespeares works in his own words, they
have set a disturbing precedent.
Other venues, including the Alabama
Shakespeare Festival, the University
of Utah and Orlando Shakespeare
Theater, have already signed on to
produce some of these translations.
However well intended, this experiment is likely to be a waste of
money and talent, for it misdiagnoses
the reason that Shakespeares plays
can be hard for playgoers to follow.
The problem is not the often knotty
language; its that even the best directors and actors British as well as
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GLAMOUR BUST:
Victoria Secrets
Fantasy Bras
priced at $2
million are part
of the Singapore
JewelFest. This
eye-wateringly
expensive
lingerie took
more than 1,380
hours to make,
using 16,000
rubies,
diamonds and
sapphires