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O mankind! We created you from a single (pair) of a male and a female and made you into nations and tribes that ye may know each other (not that ye may despise each other). Verily the most honored of you in the sight of Allah is (he who is) the most righteous of you. And Allah has full knowledge and is well acquainted (with all things). Qur'an 49:13 Quotations on Islamic Civilization
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What: Outstanding goat's milk, goat cheese, and goat's milk yogurt from a salt-of-the-earth couple that raises a lot of kids. Tim and LeeAnne Carlson never intended to be dairy farmers or cheese makers. In fact, they moved to the country simply to have enough room to raise their expanding brood of children -- they have 12, after all. Twelve.
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Unfriending someone online can be awkward or liberating, depending on who it is and how you do it. CNN's "netiquette" columnists offer advice on how to politely unfriend people online Consider reaching out before you unfriend someone you've had a fight with If you dump someone, let them unfriend you first You may want to reconsider unfriending someone you will run into socially Editor's note: Brenna Ehrlich and Andrea Bartz are the sarcastic brains behind humor blog and soon-to-be-book Stuff Hipsters Hate . When they're not trolling Brooklyn for new material, Ehrlich works as a news editor at Mashable.com, and Bartz holds the same position at Psychology Today. (CNN) -- We've all done it -- surfed on over to the book of faces, our hearts racing and pupils dilating with excitement, let our cursors linger over those oh-so-powerful words, "Remove From Friends," and clicked away with the maniacal glee of a serial killer.
To unfriend or not to unfriend: That is the Facebook question
Wasps: Man's New Best Friend! -- Entomologists Train Insects to Act Like Sniffing Dogs
July 1, 2006 — If rewarded with sugary water, wasps can be trained in minutes to follow specific smells. The olfactory sensors in their antennae can sense chemicals in the air in concentrations as tiny as a few parts per billion. Wasps could be cost-effective helpers in searching for explosives, toxic chemicals, and even fungi on crops. Wasps are not man's best friend -- probably their worst. But when it comes to sniffing out trouble, scientists believe they may be better than dogs.
Cheap computing: $35 solar-powered laptop unveiled in India - SmartPlanet
India Minister for Human Resource Development Kapil Sibal with prototype While there continues to be plenty of fuss and noise being made about Apple’s iPad computer, it doesn’t change a crucial fact about the ultimate direction of personal computing. That is, all our computing is off the Web, and the hardware we use to access the Web is almost irrelevant, and to a large degree, throwaway.