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Sheila Allen, Shopper: It amazes me the things people put in their suitcases for checked luggage. Like, this diamond ring that I have on, well, it's a heart-shaped diamond ring. It is a cluster of stones.

A promiscuous person is one who engages in many sexual liaisons with a number of different people. In the days when purity and morality were commonly considered virtues, promiscuity was frowned upon. In our current cultural environment, however, promiscuity is promoted in television, movies, and music. Kids feel the pressure by early middle school to

This made manse is on the market. A baroque bit of local legend is looking for a new owner, one who doesnt mind this palatial property having some bloody former associates. In Staten Islands tony Todt Hill the highest natural point on the East Coast a 33,000-square-foot mansion that once belonged to Gambino

"I'd like to think that in the next 20 or 30 years we will get a deeper understanding of what happened genetically in our evolutionary history, and of how those genes affect the brain and other properties that make us modern humans," said Richard Durbin of the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, who led the study.

By David GrittenBBC News More than 700 Palestinians have been killed by Israeli air strikes in the Gaza Strip over the past 24 hours, the Hamas-run health ministry says. Israel's military said it struck 400 "terror targets" and killed several Hamas commanders over the same period.