IRAN ISSUES HAIR
GUIDE FOR THE
COUNTRY’S MEN
Iran Next time you bemoan
your boyfriend’s dodgy
haircut, spare a thought for the men
of Iran who have just been issued
a style guide by their government
detailing acceptable ways to wear
their hair. The government’s aim is
to rid the country of ‘un-Islamic’,
Westernised hair, meaning mullets,
spikes, long hair and ponytails are
a definite no-no. Hair gel, though, is
acceptable if used in moderation.
A catalogue of styles which have
been given the OK is to be promoted
at this month’s Modesty And Veil
Festival. In recent years several
Iranian barber shops have been shut
down for offering offending Western
haircuts aircu while men and women are
routinely outinely arrested for sport sporting g
flimsy imsy headscarves, spiky hair and
tight ight jeans.
MULLETS, SPIKES AND
PONYTAILS ARE DISCOURAGED
IN IRAN. SADLY, NOT THE UK
STUDY DOESN’T
BUY HAPPINESS
Australia New research from
the University of Adelaide has
revealed that university students are
four times more likely to suffer from
depression than their non-universitygoing
peers. The research, published
in the Australian And New Zealand
Journal Of Psychiatry, found that
48% of students from the medicine,
law, engineering and psychology
faculties suffered from depression,
compared to 11% of their nonuniversity
peers. Results suggested
that levels of depression were highest
among law students (58%), while
psychology students were most likely
to seek help (24%) for their low
moods. The study’s authors said the
results indicate that part-time work
and university commitments were
factors in the high rates of distress.
STUDENTS FACE HIGHER
RATES OF DEPRESSION AND
ANXIETY THAN THEIR PEERS
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South Korea The South
Korean government is
responding to the increasing divorce
rate between Korean men and
their foreign wives (in South
Korea 10% of marriages involved
a foreign spouse). Last year, the
number of international divorces
jumped 47% to 6,187 from 4,208 in
2005. The justice ministry will now
require men, who wish to marry
a foreign woman, to attend classes on
marriage ethics. The tutorials will be
held at immigration offices, before
men head out to China or southeast
Asia in search of a bride. They will
focus on teaching men that it is
wrong to think they are buying a wife,
and to conceal personal information
such as previous marriages or alcohol
addiction. The government will not
grant visas to foreign brides whose
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ROSIE, THE ROBOT
Canada A robot named
Rosie is enabling Canadians
in the remote town of Nain, Labrador,
to receive healthcare. Previously,
residents had to fly 350km south
to central Labrador – even in an
emergency – as there are no doctors
based in Nain. Now physicians are
able to hold remote consultations
with patients through Rosie. The
robot has a built-in camera and the
doctor can remote control its
movements so they can look at
different parts of the patient’s body.
The camera also means the doctors
can look at a patient’s ultrasound or
X-ray in order to make a diagnosis.
If a seriously ill patient can’t be
flown out because use
of bad weather, the
$250,000 robot t
even allows a doctor octor
to lead a
resuscitation.
Dr Ivar
Mendez, a
neurosurgeon
who helped
launch the
Nain project,
said he hopes
other clinics
in northern
Canada will soon on
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LOVE SONGS UP
MEN’S CHANCES
France A study has found
that women are more easily
seduced by an ‘Average Joe’ after
hearing romantic music. The University
of Southern Brittany invited single
women to take part in a fake
marketing study. When each woman
arrived, she was played one of two
songs, either the romantic Je L’Aime
A Mourir (I Love Him To Death) or the
neutral L’Heure Du Thé (Tea Time).
She was then asked for her number by
a man (previously rated ‘average’ in a
different survey) who was also doing
the ‘market research’. Over half the
women who’d heard the romantic song
accepted, while only 28% of the Tea
Time listeners said yes.
LADY LUCK
“OH MICHAEL BUBLÉ
WHEN SHALL WE BE
TOGETHER? WHEN!?”
A WOMAN IN LAS VEGAS HAS
WON HER FOURTH LOTTERY
JACKPOT. WE’D BE HAPPY WITH
JUST ONE THANKS
USA Everyone’s daydreamed
about a jackpot
lottery win, but for one American
that dream has just become reality…
for the fourth time. Joan Ginther,
63,
from Las Vegas recently won
£6. £6.3m, her fourth multimillion
po pound jackpot since her first scoop
in 11993 when she won £8m on
a
£20 scratchcard. In 2006, she
netted £1.4m, adding a further
£2m to her kitty in 2008.
Extraordinarily, three of the
winning tickets were bought from
the same local convenience store
in Mrs Ginther’s hometown of
Bishop, Texas. A spokesman for
World Lottery News said, “This
must confirm Mrs Ginther as the
world’s w luckiest lottery player”
while wh the shop’s manager Bob Solis
remarked rem that his was a very “lucky
store”. sto See you in Bishop, Texas.
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