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I sat forlorn in a discount haircut franchise watching as my hair fell to the floor whilst what remaining on my head began looking similar to unwanted patches of crab grass in my lawn. I handed over my $5.00 off coupon and grimaced as the total still came to $12.00. Why was I paying money for a haircut I could from a chance encounter between my head and the weed whacker in my garage?

RIYADH - Palestinian Authority president Mahmud Abbas discussed with Saudi King Abdullah on Saturday ways of halting the Israeli onslaught on the Gaza Strip, Abbas's spokesman said. A source in Abbas's entourage meanwhile said that Saudi Arabia had transferred 46 million dollars to the Palestinian Authority, amounting to half its pledged yearly contribution under an Arab summit resolution. Abbas held talks with the Saudi monarch in the Red Sea city of Jeddah "in the context of efforts to formulate a joint Arab position with the aim of bringing an end to the Israeli aggression in Palestine and Lebanon," spokesman Nabil...