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- Egyptian court sentences Christian family to 15 years for converting from Islam
- Courtesy of the country to which the US is donating fighter jets: "The 15-year prison sentence given to a woman and her seven children by an Egyptian court for converting to Christianity is a sign of things to come, according to alarmed human rights advocates who say the nation's Islamist government is bad news for Christians in the North African country."
- Teacher avoids prison in affair with student by marrying him
- "42-year-old Leah Gayle Shipman waited until her divorce was final, then married Johnny Ray Ison six days later. By that time, Ison was 17, and his mother had to give permission since her son was still a minor. Shipman was facing 15 years in prison on charges of statutory rape; but now, under North Carolina law, Ison can’t be compelled to testify against his new wife."
- Democratic Germany leads free-market England in football's recovery
- Would be interesting if more professional sports leagues were run like this: "A league regulation, maintained by the clubs, holds that these football companies must be majority owned (50% plus one of the shares) by its member association. So even the mightiest of clubs, the multimillion-pound giants on the European stage Bayern Munich and Dortmund, are majority-controlled by their supporter-members. ... The way the clubs work in practice varies, but all the member-owned clubs incorporate democracy."
- The new face of eating disorders: Men starving themselves to look like the pictures in magazines
- "Community-based studies suggest one case in three of anorexia nervosa is a male, said Dr. Blake Woodside, director of the program for eating disorders at Toronto General Hospital. For bulimia, it is about one in four. 'And that’s a dramatic finding, because in clinical samples (based on people in treatment) it’s more like one in 15, or one in 20,' Woodside said."