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Four Saudi women teaching in a remote village school have married their driver so they can live closer to work, Al-Watan newspaper said on Monday. The newspaper said the women from Al-Baha province in south-west Saudi Arabia were impressed with the man's "good morals" and decided to marry him and live together in the village where they teach -- avoiding a tiring daily commute. They were married in ...

Old prostitutes find work in rural Australia: Prostitutes as old as 70 continue to work in rural Australia, pushed out of the cities due to strong competition from younger and more attractive sex workers, the author of a study said on Tuesday. Brothels are legal across most of Australia, but states have strict laws against soliciting and running brothels in residential areas, and near churches or ...

WOTD (Word Of The Day) Billet-doux n. /bil-ay-DOO/, plural billets-doux /bil-ay-DOO(Z)/: A love letter or note. http://dictionary.reference.com/wordoftheday/archive/2005/11/29.html Interesting proverb: "Reculer pour mieux sauter" = "Move/step backwards to leap forward better". Also used sarcastically when someone is procrastinating... Therefore mieux, here, doesn't really refer to the 'quality' of your jump. But rather to its inevitability.