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Bookmarks save entire pages...Clipmarks save the specific content that matters to you!en-ushttp://clipmarks.com/clipmark/82554F99-30DB-4A76-B914-3E46352117B8/<b>clipped by:</b> <a href="http://clipmarks.com/clipper/hotdoge3/">hotdoge3</a><br><div border="2" style="margin-top: 10px; border:#000000 1px solid;" width="90%"><div style="background-color:"><div align="center" width="100%" style="padding:4px;margin-bottom:4px;background-color:#666666;overflow:hidden;"><span style="color:#FFFFFF;font-weight:bold;">Clip Source: <a style="color:#FFFFFF;" href="http://www.stuff.co.nz/4486270a4560.html" title="http://www.stuff.co.nz/4486270a4560.html">www.stuff.co.nz</a></span></div><div style="padding: 10px;"><div style="text-align:left;"><H1>Bangladesh army feeds troops potatoes </H1></div></div><hr size="2" color="#666666" /><div style="padding: 10px;"><img src="http://clipmarks.com/image_cache/hotdoge3/512/E4B2D2C5-AE52-4CEE-8478-6911FFD3658B.jpg" alt="" /><br /></div><hr size="2" color="#666666" /><div style="padding: 10px;"><div style="text-align:left;"><STRONG>More than half a million Bangladeshi troops have been ordered to eat potatoes in an attempt to ease the impact of surging rice and wheat prices.</STRONG></div></div><hr size="2" color="#666666" /><div style="padding: 10px;"><div style="text-align:left;"><P>Potatoes are not traditionally on the menu for Bangladesh's 140 million people but army chief General Moeen U. Ahmed and the country's army-backed interim government has ordered a change in diet because the tubers are now cheaper and more abundant.</P></div></div><hr size="2" color="#666666" /><div style="padding: 10px;"><div style="text-align:left;"><P>World prices of rice, wheat, edible oil and pulses have almost doubled over the last year, increases that poorer Asian countries can ill afford.</P></div></div><hr size="2" color="#666666" /><div style="padding: 10px;"><div style="text-align:left;"><P>Bangladesh was hit last year by two severe floods and a cyclone that destroyed around 3 million tonnes of food grains, raising fears of a possible famine.</P></div></div><hr size="2" color="#666666" /><div style="padding: 10px;"><div style="text-align:left;"><P>"The daily food menu now includes 125 grams of potato for each soldier irrespective of ranks," government agriculture adviser Choudhury Sajjad Karim quoted the army chief as saying on Thursday.</P></div></div></div></div><br><div style="margin-bottom: 40px;"></div>http://www.stuff.co.nz/4486270a4560.htmlSat, 19 Apr 2008 05:18:09 GMThttp://clipmarks.com/clipmark/20A86645-0561-4C2F-BDE3-E9B006FF8C12/<b>clipped by:</b> <a href="http://clipmarks.com/clipper/hotdoge3/">hotdoge3</a><br><b>clipper's remarks:</b> Something old, something new. <br><div border="2" style="margin-top: 10px; border:#000000 1px solid;" width="90%"><div style="background-color:"><div align="center" width="100%" style="padding:4px;margin-bottom:4px;background-color:#666666;overflow:hidden;"><span style="color:#FFFFFF;font-weight:bold;">Clip Source: <a style="color:#FFFFFF;" href="http://www.stuff.co.nz/4486881a4560.html" title="http://www.stuff.co.nz/4486881a4560.html">www.stuff.co.nz</a></span></div><div style="padding: 10px;"><img src="http://clipmarks.com/image_cache/hotdoge3/512/B8E49AE6-0151-4827-830E-654BD4F0912B.jpg" alt="" /><br /></div><hr size="2" color="#666666" /><div style="padding: 10px;"><div style="text-align:left;"><H1>Toilet paper bride is flushed with success</H1></div></div><hr size="2" color="#666666" /><div style="padding: 10px;"><div style="text-align:left;"><P><STRONG>Something old, something new, something borrowed from the loo.</STRONG></P></div></div><hr size="2" color="#666666" /><div style="padding: 10px;"><div style="text-align:left;"><P>Flushing Christchurch bride Vicky Heir strutted her toilet-paper wedding dress creation on the red carpet on Christchurch's Victoria Street yesterday, leading up to the city's Wedding Expo tomorrow.</P></div></div><hr size="2" color="#666666" /><div style="padding: 10px;"><div style="text-align:left;"><P>Heir won a promotional competition with her Cottonsofts gown, beating seven other designers.</P></div></div><hr size="2" color="#666666" /><div style="padding: 10px;"><div style="text-align:left;"><P>Expo manager Peta-Marie McLeod said the designers were allowed to use two four-packs of the double length Cottonsofts toilet tissue -- about 16 normal rolls -- to make their dresses.</P></div></div><hr size="2" color="#666666" /><div style="padding: 10px;"><div style="text-align:left;"><P>"Most dresses took about eight to 10 rolls. They were absolutely stunning. It was just amazing -- the amount of effort some put in. They looked like the real thing."</P></div></div><hr size="2" color="#666666" /><div style="padding: 10px;"><div style="text-align:left;"><P>The competition was something fun and lighthearted to promote the Wedding Expo, which would be held at the Christchurch Convention Centre tomorrow from 10am to 4pm, she said.</P></div></div></div></div><br><div style="margin-bottom: 40px;"></div>http://www.stuff.co.nz/4486881a4560.htmlSat, 19 Apr 2008 05:13:00 GMT