26 September 2010
Sex change operations in Thailand
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Richard S. Ehrlich
BANGKOK, Thailand -- Using a penis to create a vagina is relatively easy, compared to the surgical difficulty of constructing a penis with a clitoris.

Thailand's most famous transgender surgeon, Dr. Preecha Tiewtranon,...
21 August 2010
Help Save Kevin Keith's Life in Ohio
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National Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty
This is it. We have only days to save an innocent man's life. Yesterday, the Ohio Parole Board made a nonbinding, advisory recommendation to Governor Strickland that Kevin Keith should be executed, but the Parole Board's own findings do...
12 August 2010
Bourj el-Barajneh: Searching for meaning in a refugee camp
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Ramzy Baroud
Beirut, Lebanon - Two young girls stood, as if frozen, starting below them at an ever vibrant Beirut. Their balcony, like the rest of their house and most of their refugee camp was of an indistinct color. It was dirty, as were their...
09 August 2010
Buddhist "Body Snatchers" collect Bangkok's dead and dying
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Richard S. Ehrlich
BANGKOK, Thailand -- Fearless body snatchers careen through traffic, with sirens blaring and lights flashing, to morbid disaster sites where they seize fresh human corpses to pack in mustard-colored coffins for yet another profitable...
08 August 2010
Whose Hands? Whose Blood? Killing Civilians in Afghanistan and Iraq
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Tom Engelhardt
Consider the following statement offered by Admiral Mike Mullen, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, at a news conference last week. He was discussing Julian Assange, the founder of Wikileaks as well as the person who has taken...
05 August 2010
Elderly Thai kickboxers' brains suffer after fights
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Richard S. Ehrlich
BANGKOK, Thailand -- When a Muay Thai kickboxer's brain is battered by the star-twinkling impact from too many hits, and the fighter becomes spaced-out and forgetful, retirement can mean a dismal life far from the maddening crowd of...

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