In any department store at this time of year there is a reliably comic sight - buyers trying to choose discounted perfumes by sniffing the necks of the spray bottles. Scent makes sense on skin, and only on skin. Why are we such…

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Jan 1 2009 by Andrew Pugh, Neath Guardian A TEENAGER told his younger step-brother he could have stabbed him after confessing to beating and knifing the family’s cat in a “prolonged, extremely violent and traumatic” attack….

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By Tom Lasseter | McClatchy Newspapers MOSCOW — The subway crowd brushed past Alla Semyonova, tromping through the now-gray slush of a December snowfall. There are many oft-quoted indicators of Russia’s suffering economy — the…

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