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Minutes to drag a life from the flames in Toodyay bushfire Nicolas Perpitch From: The Australian December 31, 2009 12:00AM Fire contained at Toodyay VIDEO: Fire contained at Toodyay The bushfire blazing across the Toodyay, WA has been contained but sections remain unpredictable. GREG Bull barely had time to throw together his most precious photographs and crucial documents and jump in his car before the full force of the Toodyay bushfire hit...

EADY ON THE BACK FOOT? Mr Justice Eady THE hope that senior judges are about to cut England’s censor-in-chief down to size is growing among lawyers, who are watching agog as the law’s big guns move on to Mr Justice Eady’s lawn – over the British Chiropractic Association’s controversial libel action against the science writer Simon Singh. The case has helped to inspire a fightback against the English law’s attacks on freedom of...

Barack Obama rallies the CIA after seven staff were killed by an Afghan bomber - one of the worst attacks in its history. More...

In my day we had to pass a 'Code of Conduct' test before going overseas. That gave you a taste of (and forewarned you about) the interrogation techniques that you might encounter if you were captured and it was not at all pleasant. It was primarily physological and lasted 3 days during which time you were locked up and treated like shit. But, as you stated, the line was drawn against straight out torture although some of the bastards...

Now its over 900 cases in the UK alone!

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Quote: The survey also found that while 74% of businesses offer paid sick leave for employees, only 35% of businesses offer paid leave that would allow employees to take care of sick family members, and even fewer would allow paid time off to care for children if schools/daycares were closed (21%). -- Legislators will now conspire to force businesses to pay employees 'sick-leave' to 'care for ill neighbors, pets and...

Quote: Originally Posted by Yorkist Let's hope the virus doesn't mutate again .... It certainly will. They always do. Yet, a vaccine developed explicitly to protect against the current strain would still be partly effective also against a mutated strain, because each mutation only changes the virus in some small details. The hype against the swine flu came about because this was a completely new strain, not a mutation of something...

Quote: Originally Posted by VanishingPoint You and most others will not like this but I believe he did NOT do any of those things. I believe he was railroaded because of his eccentricities and his money. I do not believe he is a child molester. He's not a child molester anymore, that's for sure...

Now Ian, tell us how Amritsar was the 'action that saved India.'