Browsing Year 2003

;Come to Montenegro—Y

;Come to Montenegro—Your Car is Already There! used to be a tongue-in-cheek tourist slogan aimed at Westerners.

Mardom-salari is Farsi

Mardom-salari is Farsi for “democracy.”

Partnered lesbians are

Partnered lesbians are five times more likely as other women to report ever having served in the US armed forces.

Five bad flights in Africa.

Five bad flights in Africa.

Russ are final-ye

Russ are final-year Norwegian secondary school students who, between the end of compulsory classes and final exams leading up to May 17, the National Day of Norway, wear colored overalls indicating their line of study and compete in drunken games to earn the right to add knots to cords which dangle from their caps.

“Wave of Strikes Leaves Much of Western Europe Crippled” by Mark Landler from

;We are all living longer; there are fewer children. You can’t strike against demographic developments like that.

Granitas,

Granitas, or “ices,” are made from water, sugar and flavoring, and have a granular texture.

Five times more medical ma

Five times more medical malpractice suits than normal—2700—were filed in Harris County, Texas, in the week before a deadline after which damage awards would have been capped at $250,000 each per doctor and hospital.

60 percent of Egypt’s economy

60 percent of Egypt’s economy comes from tourism. The 2003 American-Iraqi war cost the country more than $2 billion in tourist income.

Phencyclidine (PCP or Angel Dust): Joint Hearings before the Subcommitte on Alcoholism and Drug A

“Balster and Chait have been in the forefront of those studying questions related to tolerance. In their work with rehsus and squirrel monkeys, they found that the animals did in fact self-administer larger doses of the drug. In the study of two rhesus monkeys, the subjects voluntarily adminsitered PCP by lever pressing, at any time more…