nsnbc : The government and military of Finland barred the Russian bark Kruzenshtern, operated as school ship for the Russian Navy, from docking in Mariehamn […]
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‘I have to be taller’: India’s limb-lengthening industry
May 12th, 2016 Awake Goy
Komal never told her friends where she really went for six months last year. The 24-year-old, from the town of Kota, in western India, went to see Dr Amar Sarin, an orthopaedic surgeon in Delhi, who made her eight centimetres (3in) taller, a procedure which involved breaking the bones in her legs and wearing […]
Magnitude 3.8 earthquake rocks Southcentral Alaska, on anniversary of 1964 quake
March 28th, 2016 Awake Goy
A magnitude-.3.8 earthquake struck east of Anchorage on Sunday — which just happened to coincide with the 52nd anniversary of the devastating magnitude-9.2 earthquake that reshaped the Southcentral Alaska landscape. According to information from the Alaska Earthquake Center, Sunday’s brief temblor was centered just 7 miles southeast of Eagle River and 17 miles east […]