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POPSA life revealed: "The Afghan girl", seventeen years later
More: In the mid-1990s, during a lull in the fighting, Sharbat Gula went home to her village in the foothills of mountains veiled by snow. To live in this earthen-colored village at the end of a thread of path means to scratch out an existence, nothing more. There are terraces planted with corn, wheat, and rice, some walnut trees, a stream that spills down the mountain (except in times of drought), but no school, clinic, roads, or running water. Here is the bare outline of her day. She rises before sunrise and prays. She fetches water from the stream. She cooks, cleans, does laundry. She cares for her children; they are the center of her life. Robina is 13. Zahida is three. Alia, the baby, is one. A fourth daughter died in infancy. Sharbat has never known a happy day, her brother says, except perhaps the day of her marriage… "I want my daughters to have skills," she said. "I wanted to finish school but could not. I was sorry when I had to leave."
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POPSMiracle "Hand of Hope" Baby Turns Nine Years Old
Samuel took first place last weekend in a 25-yard backstroke event. FOX News reported: "When I see that picture, the first thing I think of is how special and lucky I am to have God use me that way," Samuel told FOXNews.com. "I feel very thankful that I was in that picture." On Aug. 19, 1999, photographer Michael Clancy shot the "Fetal Hand Grasp"-- on Dec. 2, Samuel Armas was "born famous." The photo, which first appeared in USA Today on Sept. 7, 1999, quickly spread across the globe as proof of development in the womb and was later cited during congressional debates on the Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act, which passed in 2000. "It's just a miracle picture, a miracle moment," Clancy told FOXNews.com. "It shows the earliest human interaction ever recorded." Samuel, now 9 and living in Villa Rica, Ga., said the photo likely gave countless "babies their right to live" and forced many others to debate their beliefs on abortion, something he's proud of.
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POPSThe Bunny with 2 noses "It's no April Fools joke. The baby bunny really does have two noses. A Connecticut pet shop worker found the nosey bunny in a delivery of 6-week-old dwarf rabbits that arrived at the Milford store last week. Both noses have two nostrils. The owner of the Purr-Fect Pets shop says he's never seen anything like it in 25 years in the business. He says the bunny eats, drinks and hops around like the rest of the litter. Beardsley Zoo director Gregg Dancho says the deformity could be the result of too much inbreeding or the parents' exposure to pesticides or poisons."
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POPSNirvana Baby now a teenager Can you smell the teen spirit? A tip o'the hat to Newser for pointing to me to this article. http://www.newser.com/story/6307.html
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POPSZsa Zsa Gabor's Husband Claims HE'S The Father Of Dannielynn Smith Anymore men want to come forward and say they're the father? (I'm guessing all the cockroaches are coming forward because they want the millions they "think" they'll get if they're the guardian of Dannielynn. At this point, the only two I think should get her are the photographer and Anna Nicole's mother. Ugh!
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POPSBridgestone Tire Commercial - The Wheel This is actually a news release from 2005. However, I found it interesting and thought I'd clip it. If you listen to Roseanne Cash's "The Wheel," it is not anywhere near the re-make that you hear on the Bridgestone commercial. The words are there but the music is definitely different. Personally, I like both version of the song.
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