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Early detection can avert risk of cancer

October 24 - 30, 2007
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GulfWeekly is committed to enhancing cancer awareness within our community and reflected in the support given to the Bahrain ‘Think Pink’ campaign in association with World Breast Cancer Month.





Do not hurt your siblings

October 24 - 30, 2007
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WE all go through endless fights with our families over the silliest things, especially with our own siblings.





Military probe as two female sailors are shot dead at base

October 24 - 30, 2007
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INVESTIGATIONS are continuing into the deaths of two female US navy sailors who were shot dead by a male colleague at the American naval base in Juffair on Monday morning.





iPhone to iBricks

October 24 - 30, 2007
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The furore over cracked Apple iPhones made useless when users try to download applications from the company’s website is set to continue in the American courts.





Young Brits arrive in Bahrain

October 24 - 30, 2007
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A love for the Arabic language and a desire to learn more about Bahraini culture has drawn 23 British students from their homes in London and Durham to the kingdom this week.





Not just any crostini but gourmet gobbledegook?

October 24 - 30, 2007
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IS it just me or do others feel bewildered by the trend to market mass-produced food items as handmade and “gourmet”?





Awali days

October 24 - 30, 2007
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The following tale is just one more “walk down memory lane”.  I’m pushing 59 and I can still remember everything about Awali School like it was just a couple of years ago. Sometimes I will smell something that brings me back to a better time and place … like bread baking, just as it always was at the house next door where Bill and Willeen Wood lived with their children, Shireen and Graham, writes Judy Cullen





It’s all in the bag

October 24 - 30, 2007
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CAMPAIGNING housewives are determined to help the kingdom turn green and stem the scourge of plastic bags littering the island.





ONE TRILLION PLASTIC CARRIERS CONSUMED EACH YEAR

October 24 - 30, 2007
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Each year an estimated 500 billion to one trillion plastic bags are consumed worldwide, most end up as rubbish, and countries worldwide are starting to ban them.





Lost Paradise ‘found’

October 24 - 30, 2007
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Bahrain’s new water theme park has attracted a staggering 35,000 visitors in its first six weeks.





$3.5 billion city plan

October 24 - 30, 2007
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THE designers of an innovative engineering facility have this week released new images of the futuristic development which is set to make Bahrain the centre for the world’s motoring advances.