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	Freak snow storm hits Nepal

n2sooners

5-31-2007 2:20 AM

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snow, cold, weather, nepal, sex

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Proof that natural remedies aren't always safer than modern drugs.

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"We have reports that at least 16 people died and about a hundred others were blinded by a freak snow storm and blizzard," Home Ministry spokesperson Baman Prasad Neupane told Deutsche Presse-Agentur dpa.</DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.int.iol.co.za/index.php?set_id=1&click_id=126&art_id=nw20070529095234381C871116"><DIV>
The snow storm is said to have hit a mountainous area where hundreds of people had gathered to collect an herb locally known as  Yarshagumba, which is thought to increase sex drive.</DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.int.iol.co.za/index.php?set_id=1&click_id=126&art_id=nw20070529095234381C871116"><DIV>
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