Thursday, April 30, 2009

8-year-old Saudi girl divorces 50-year-old husband


CAIRO – An 8-year-old Saudi girl has divorced her middle-aged husband after her father forced her to marry him last year in exchange for about $13,000, her lawyer said Thursday.

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And it's not even from the National Inquirer. Different eras of civilization always have co-existed but only with modern media have we had to know about one another on an hourly, make that minute-by-minute, basis. What would it have been like to live at a time when you learned about the assassination of your president days, weeks, or months after the fact?

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