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The American Heritage Dictionary defines cannibal as a person who eats the flesh of human beings, so in the discussion of Senate Bill 9502, “the Cheaper Medicine Law,” participants in the hearing conducted by Sen. Manny Villar cringed and felt nauseated when the delegate from the Bureau of Customs revealed the manufacture of capsules containing fecal tissues, human flesh and grounded bones from China prescribed for human consumption in the treatment of nutritional efficiencies and illness.

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Let me acknowledge, first of all, the messages I received from people who, as it turns out, do the same thing I do: edit documents and manuscripts for a living.

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Bring your rain gear out of the closet and say goodbye to summer, as the onset of the wet season is set to be officially declared by the weather bureau today.

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The longest known filibuster by an individual was made by the late US senator Strom Thurmond of South Carolina.

Thurmond spoke for 24 hours and 18 minutes to keep the US Senate from voting on a civil rights bill in August 1957.
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The American Heritage Dictionary defines cannibal as a person who eats the flesh of human beings, so in the discussion of Senate Bill 9502, “the Cheaper Medicine Law,” participants in the hearing conducted by Sen. Manny Villar cringed and felt nauseated when the delegate from the Bureau of Customs revealed the manufacture of capsules containing fecal tissues, human flesh and grounded bones from China prescribed for human consumption in the treatment of nutritional efficiencies and illness.

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Let me acknowledge, first of all, the messages I received from people who, as it turns out, do the same thing I do: edit documents and manuscripts for a living.

[DatePublished] => 2010-10-25 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 135214 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1804847 [AuthorName] => Butch Dalisay [SectionName] => Arts and Culture [SectionUrl] => arts-and-culture [URL] => http://img513.imageshack.us/img513/7936/lif1thumb.jpg ) [2] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 3390 [Title] => Rainy season starts today [Summary] =>

Bring your rain gear out of the closet and say goodbye to summer, as the onset of the wet season is set to be officially declared by the weather bureau today.

[DatePublished] => 2007-05-31 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1804518 [AuthorName] => Ghio Ong [SectionName] => Freeman Opinion [SectionUrl] => opinion [URL] => ) [3] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 346805 [Title] => Are you ready to rock (again)? [Summary] => The perfect balm to my "American Idol" blues: the second season of "Rock Star: The Series," on Wednesdays and Thursdays at 10pm at Star World. It's not as hot as the first show, which brought back oh, just this little band called INXS and gave it a new front man in the person of JD Fortune. [DatePublished] => 2006-07-11 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133855 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1220236 [AuthorName] => CHANNEL SURFING By Althea Lauren Ricardo [SectionName] => Freeman Cebu Entertainment [SectionUrl] => cebu-entertainment [URL] => ) [4] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 345543 [Title] => Mama’s boy [Summary] => Picture this: A middle-aged President of a free republic, a super-power of the western world, is surrounded by his joint chiefs of staff in a situation room. He has his finger above the launch button of a nuclear warhead programmed to eradicate a colony of convicted war criminals, pedophiles, serial killers and EDSA bus drivers. [DatePublished] => 2006-07-05 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1215075 [AuthorName] => Cecile Lopez Lilles [SectionName] => Fashion and Beauty [SectionUrl] => fashion-and-beauty [URL] => ) [5] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 326640 [Title] => The two faces of gossip [Summary] => Each one of us has at one time or another been a victim of gossip. And each one of us more than once in our life has been a purveyor of tsismis. Gossip according to the American Heritage Dictionary is a rumor or talk of a personal, sensational or intimate nature. Gossip usually involves talking about people who are not present when the conversation takes place. And gossip usually starts in a small group or among two to three persons until it spreads like wild fire.
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The longest known filibuster by an individual was made by the late US senator Strom Thurmond of South Carolina.

Thurmond spoke for 24 hours and 18 minutes to keep the US Senate from voting on a civil rights bill in August 1957.
[DatePublished] => 2004-06-11 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133272 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1632202 [AuthorName] => Norman Sison [SectionName] => News Commentary [SectionUrl] => news-commentary [URL] => ) [9] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 231403 [Title] => A snowy morning in Seoul [Summary] => It was 7:30 Monday morning, Dec. 8, barely 12 hours after we arrived in that South Korean capital to cover the Asian launch of Britney Spears’ latest album... [DatePublished] => 2003-12-13 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 134227 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1697794 [AuthorName] => Ricky Lo [SectionName] => Entertainment [SectionUrl] => entertainment [URL] => ) ) )
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