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1-km high Kuwait tower planned
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Mar 17, 2006 11:53 am
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Kuwait: Thursday,
December 15 - 2005 at 07:06
Kuwait may be the future home to the world's tallest building after plans were revealed for a 1000-metre, 250-storey tower as the centrepiece for the $150bn Madinat Al Hareer project in Kuwait City, according to Emirates Today. Emaar's Burj Dubai, currently under construction, is expected to be between 700-800m tall. Madinat Al Hareer will house 700,000 people, and take 25 years to build.
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Love made in Kuwait
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Mar 17, 2006 6:24 am
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The above kiddos are born in Kuwait with their unique parents, of course pinay mother.
Ghazi in yellow shirt - Kuwaiti father
Daniel in blue - american father (Texas}
Hussain d bold na bold - egpytian father
Julian the girl - pure filipino parents..
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Kuwait Dates!!!!!!!
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Mar 17, 2006 12:21 am
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Dates have been a staple food of the Middle East for thousands of years.,The fruit of the Date Palm is known as a date. Dates are an important traditional crop in Islamic countries., first meal when the sun sets during Ramadan.
Dry or soft dates are eaten out-of-hand, or may be seeded and stuffed with fillings such as almonds, candied orange and lemon peel, and marzipan. Dates can also be chopped and used in a range of sweet and savoury dishes: puddings, bread, cakes and other dessert items. Dates are also processed into cubes, paste, spread, date syrup or "honey", powder (date sugar), vinegar or alcohol. Recent innovations include products such as sparkling date juice, used in some Islamic countries as a non-alcoholic version of champagne, for special occasions and religious times such as Ramadan.
Dates can also be dehydrated, ground and mixed with grain to form a nutritious stockfeed. Dried dates are fed to camels, horses and dogs.
Young date leaves are cooked and eaten as a vegetable, as is the terminal bud or heart, though its removal kills the palm.
The flowers of the date palm are also edible. Traditionally the female flowers are the most available for sale and weigh 300-400 grams. The flower buds are used in salad or pounded with dried fish to make a condiment for bread.
Date seeds are soaked and ground up for animal feed. Their oil is suitable for use in soap and cosmetic products. They can also be processed chemically as a source of oxalic acid. The seeds are also burned to make charcoal for silversmiths, and can be strung in necklaces.
Stripped fruit clusters are used as brooms.,Date palm wood is used for posts and rafters for huts; it is lighter than coconut and not very durable. It is also used for construction such as bridges and aqueducts, and parts of dhows. Left over wood is burnt for fuel.
Date Palms are susceptible to a disease called Bayoud disease which is caused by the fungus Fusarium oxysporum.
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Staying healthy in the tropics
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Mar 16, 2006 2:38 pm
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The rule of thumb for staying healthy in the tropics is use your common sense. Take notice of how the local middle class behaves and follow that. Drink only water from sealed bottles, and avoid skinned fruits. In general, in restaurants food can be trusted. Take care to drink enough water.
Especially at sea, and in particular when snorkling sun protection is essential. Bring enough sun lotion of a sufficient high factor. Wear a T-shirt when swimming and snorkeling.
Both Cebu and Bohol are free from malaria. The use of prophylaxus is not required (note that malaria does occur a few other Philippine islands if you go there, discuss with your doctor or health authorities.) There are incidental cases of dengue fever. Use a good mosquito repellant, and, especially during dawn and dusk, wear long pants and shirts with long sleeves.
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Iraq - Another Lebanon?
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Mar 16, 2006 4:46 am
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Iraq … another Lebanon?; Fear of spill-over
DUBAI (Agencies): Three years after warning that invading Iraq would unleash hell in the Middle East, Baghdad’s neighbours fear they could be dragged into a brewing civil war. As Sunni-Shi’ite violence intensifies, governments in Turkey, Iran and nearby Arab countries are drawing up plans to prevent any sectarian or ethnic conflict spilling across borders and upsetting their internal political balance, analysts say. They are also considering its likely impact on an already shifting regional balance of power, in which Sunni Muslim Saudi Arabia fears the rising political clout of Shi’ite Muslim Iran.
“If war breaks out in Iraq, it will become a battleground involving everyone in the region,” said Kuwaiti political analyst Jassem al-Saadoun. “Every one of Iraq’s neighbours is guilty of meddling in its affairs for political gain.” Ever since the 2003 US-led invasion that ousted Saddam Hussein, several Arab officials have warned of civil war in Iraq, where Shi’ites dominate the government and security forces and Sunni insurgents control swathes of the country. With its majority Shi’ite population, post-Saddam Iraq was always going to have close ties to Iran. Analysts say Tehran may use its considerable sway over the new US-backed government in Baghdad as a lever in its nuclear dispute with the West.
To counter emerging Shi’ite power in Iraq, Saudi Arabia and Jordan have turned a blind eye to the large flow of cash heading to Sunni insurgents there, some Western diplomats believe. They say charities run by Islamist extremists, and religious groups, are funding the fighting in Iraq. They also cite reports that governments are considering arming Sunni tribes there. Turkey wants to stop Kurds carving out a state in Iraq, while Syria, trying to maintain some regional influence, faces US charges that it funnels arms and fighters over the border.
“We could be looking at another Lebanon and that is extremely frightening,” a Western diplomat said, referring to the 1975-1990 civil war which had sectarian roots but was also fuelled by foreign support for rival militias. With their own Shi’ite minorities, Saudi Arabia and Kuwait are especially worried that civil war in Iraq would divide their people and win more recruits for al-Qaeda-type Sunni militants. Nearby Sunni-led Bahrain, which has seen unrest among its Iranian-influenced Shi’ite majority, is equally concerned. Mohammed al-Sayed Said, deputy director of Egypt’s al-Ahram Centre for Strategic Studies, said Saudi Arabia was the Arab country with most at stake, adding:
“It’s a question of immediate borders, so they won’t leave it to luck. They will do their best to stem Shi’ite power.” The kingdom is the world’s largest oil exporter and its key crude-producing Eastern province is mainly Shi’ite-populated. Alan Munro, a former British ambassador to Saudi Arabia, said the kingdom wanted to avoid fragmenting Iraq at all costs. “They are rather worried that (civil war)... would reawaken all sort of designs on the part of neighbours,” he added, referring to Iran. “The unity of Iraq is paramount in Saudi minds. They would do all they could to buttress stability.”
Any sectarian conflict could also suck in Sunni-majority Jordan and Syria, strong advocates of Iraqi national unity. “If there is a widescale civil war in Iraq between Sunnis and Shi’ites, its sparks will spread across the region but mostly hit Jordan and Syria,” said Mamdouh al-Abbadi, a prominent Jordanian lawmaker and former minister. “We will end up being drawn to taking sides because of our predominantly Sunni population,” he added. “Iraq’s neighbours cannot allow a civil war to happen, not out of love for Iraq, but out of self-defence,” said Saadoun, the Kuwaiti analyst. “Most of them are aware that those who fuel the fire of civil war will be burned by it too.”
BAGHDAD: Deep within the Pentagon, they’re trying to piece together a picture of an Iraqi civil war. What would it look like? Donald Rumsfeld asks. Here on the streets of Baghdad, it looks like hell. Corpses, coldly executed, are turning up by the minibus-load. Mortar shells are casually lobbed into rival neighborhoods. Car bombs are killing people wholesale, while assassins hunt them down one by one.
Is it civil war? “In Iraq it is no longer a matter of definition – ‘civil war’ or ‘war’ or ‘violence’ or ‘terrorism.’ It is all of the above,” said one familiar with all of the above, Beirut scholar-politician Farid Khazen, a witness to Lebanon’s 1975-1990 civil war. Phebe Marr, a historian of Iraq, hesitates to put a name to what’s happening today, a chaotic mix of anti-US resistance, Sunni-Shiite communal bloodshed, Islamic-extremist terrorism. “But it’s civil strife,” said the Washington-based Marr, “and it’s getting extremely serious.” It’s only a term from a dictionary, defined as a war between opposing groups of citizens of the same country. But once media headlines begin referring to the “Iraq civil war,” it will mark not only an escalation of vocabulary, but of international concern.
(arabtimes]
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jaywalkers charging KD.5.-
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Mar 16, 2006 4:25 am
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Rules not in black and white for jaywalkers
By Nancy Oteifa
KUWAIT: Pedestrians who crisscross busy streets at their whim - watch out! Traffic cops have launched a campaign to arrest jaywalkers. in and charging KD 5 fine. The Kuwait Times reporter who was near the Safat post office in Murqab found that the cops were treating pedestrians very rudely. One policeman was impolite even to the reporter and threatened to arrest her for doing her job. After a while, the reporter approached some Indians, Egyptians and Bangladeshis and asked what transpired. "They want us to cross only where marked, but the lines are unclear and not visible," said Abu Al-Kher, an Egyptian. Mohammed, also an Egyptian said, "they took KD 5 from each one of us; this is too much because we were never told there is fine for jaywalking".
For Abd Tagdeer, whose salary is only KD 35, the fine of KD 5 will affect him badly. "How do we know when to cross or not as the traffic light is not working?" he asked. Mostafa Jahamjer also expressed a similar view. "This is unfair and there is certainly a more civilised way to treat people." One of the policemen, meanwhile, said, "These people do not appreciate that we are doing this for their own good," pointing out that many deaths on road are because people do not following the rules.
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englishing
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Mar 16, 2006 12:12 am
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the englishing really hit the market...it was really made to order.
Its fun right? 
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