03-17-2008, 02:48 AM
some stuff from TIME again
"Is it not funny that those with 160,000 forces in Iraq accuse us of interference"
- Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, President of Iran, following the firs visit to Iraq by an Iranian President since the 1980s.
1,269
# of succesful suicide jumps off the San Francisco's Golden Gate Bridge since 1937...
90%
percentage of people who were prevented from jumping off the Golden Gate Bridge...
124,000
number of roses an iranian court has ordered a man to pay his wife for her dowry. The couple have been married for 10 years, but Iranian law holds that a wife can claim her dowry at any point in the marriage. The court has seized the man's home until he pays up.
$2
cost of one long-stemmed rose in Tehran, making the dowry worth an estimated $248,000
... so life's not that bad for women in Iran... anywayz poor guy
"Is it not funny that those with 160,000 forces in Iraq accuse us of interference"
- Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, President of Iran, following the firs visit to Iraq by an Iranian President since the 1980s.
1,269
# of succesful suicide jumps off the San Francisco's Golden Gate Bridge since 1937...
90%
percentage of people who were prevented from jumping off the Golden Gate Bridge...
124,000
number of roses an iranian court has ordered a man to pay his wife for her dowry. The couple have been married for 10 years, but Iranian law holds that a wife can claim her dowry at any point in the marriage. The court has seized the man's home until he pays up.
$2
cost of one long-stemmed rose in Tehran, making the dowry worth an estimated $248,000
... so life's not that bad for women in Iran... anywayz poor guy
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