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Israeli soldiers may not look forward to clearing Gaza settlements, but defending settlements isn't high their list either. Get around cigarette warnings by writing your own. And from India, bilingually ambidextrous.
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Prominent Israeli rabbi Avraham Shapira recently exhorted Jewish soldiers not to help Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon clear Israeli settlements out of the Gaza Strip. It is a request that many reportedly followed. But what about all those settlements in the West Bank that aren't being cleared. Here is a letter  from a soldier explaining why he won't fight for "Sharon's settlements."

The blaring, oversized warnings already plastered on a pack of cigarettes is bad enough. Now the EU is trying to gross out smokers with pictures of rotting innards as well. No need to stop smoking though -- why not just print your own "warning,"  slip it under the wrapper and continue puffing in peace?

With a billion people, India is bound to have a few folks with strange abilities. But check this out. This guy  can write two different languages with two different hands, simultaneously.