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QUIZZERS, please hang on to your horses a bit longer, as Dee
Nesenolis appeared to have disappear into thin air!
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EVEN Spy was stumped, unable to locate him, and dialling up a
storm in an effort to locate our Nesenolis. However, we found Lurch
gleaming following a quick check in the garage.
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MUST have probably wandered off by himself in search of an
inspiration to come up with a quiz that will really test our faithful
quizzers’ grey matters.
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Let’s see what the wires have in store for us.
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MADRID: Women in the northern Spanish city of Pamplona,
world-famous for its ferocious bull-running festival, are demanding their
own version complete with cows instead of bulls. A student website,
www.estudiln.net, set the ball rolling with its campaign “Cows want to
run” which asks for a separate encierro, as the bull-runs are known,
where only women are allowed to take part. Women have been allowed to
take part in the San Fermin bull-running for some years but they still
represent a tiny minority of the thousands of runners who attempt to
dodge 600kg bulls along an 800m course through the streets of Pamplona.
Organisers of the festival, which runs from July 7-14, have not responded
to the suggestion. And just what the late Ernest Hemingway, who made the
bull-run in Pamplona internationally famous, would have thought will
never be known.
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BEIJING: China is looking into claims of a herbal weight loss
patch which its makers said helped former US president Bill Clinton’s
daughter, Chelsea, shed 12kg in under a month, state media reported
yesterday. Customers are instructed to stick the patch to the area of the
body where they want to lose weight and then just wait for the fat to
flow out, the Beijing Morning Post said, citing an investigation by China
Cental Television. The patch is named after an acupuncture point and
translates clumsily into “America Seven-Point
Thinness”. Though it claimed to be imported from the United States –
where the advertisements said it was a top seller and used by Chelsea
Clinton – it was actually made by a company from the nearby industrial
city of Tianjin, the newspaper said.
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– Dee Ada Nesenolis
 
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