Iconic female beauty in Mauritania (and in a few other African societies, as News of the Weird has reported) regards “rolling layers of fat” as the height of sexiness, according to a July dispatch by Marie Claire magazine, and professional force-feeders earn the equivalent of about $200 each from parents for bulking up their young daughters in boot camps that sometimes serve animal fat as drinks and apply the cattle-thickening drug Oradexon. “The stomach flab should cascade; the thighs should overlap; and the neck should have thick ripples,” said Aminetou Mint Elhacen, the feeding drill sergeant. Some girls rebel, but others embrace their new bodies. Said one, “When I realized the power I had over men, I started to enjoy being fat.”
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Scaffold timber was really from bridge, historical society says
A timber beam held in storage by the Blue Earth County Historical Society is not part of the scaffold used to hang 38 Dakota Indians in 1862, Executive Director Jessica Potter said Friday.
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Sculptors create horse and sleigh from ice for Waseca Sleigh and Cutter Festival
- Mayo Clinic Health System in Mankato ranked by U.S. News and World Report
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Driver injured in nursing home crash
A 30-year-old Mankato man was taken to the hospital after his pickup truck crashed into a South Bend Township nursing home's lobby Thursday night.
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MURRAY: Over-the-top kid at heart
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Today's services, Saturday, Feb . 11, 2012
Claeys, Dorothy, services 11 a.m. at Our Lady of the Prairie Catholic Church
in Belle Plaine.
Eastman, Jane, services 10:30 a.m. at Evangelical Free Church in North
Mankato.
Fitterer, Laurel, services 10 a.m. at Holy Rosary Catholic Church in North
Mankato.
Hogan, Judith, services 10:30 a.m. at St. Joseph the Worker Catholic Church
in Mankato.
Larsen, Evelyn, service 11 a.m. at St. Olaf Lutheran Church in Odin.
Monahan, Shirley Ann, services 10 a.m. at St. Anne's Catholic Church in Le
Sueur.
Pirsig, Mildred, services 2 p.m. at Patton Funeral Home in Blue Earth.
Soeffler, Bernice, services 11 a.m. at Peace Lutheran Church in Arlington.
Vee, Ruth, services 11 a.m. at Bricelyn Lutheran Church. -
Tweten advances to group round on 'Idol'
If it weren’t for a tiny glimpse or two on camera Thursday night, and her mom’s confirmation on Facebook, the world wouldn’t have known that North Mankato’s Shelby Tweten advanced on “American Idol” again this week. The West High School student has made it to the most infamous challenge of the season: “group round.”
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