--Central Market Phnom Penh--Phsar Thom Thmei--

Phsar Thom Thmei market was built in the shape of a dome in 1937 and is the capital's main shopping centre.

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Double-digit economic growth rates in recent years have triggered an economic boom, with new hotels, restaurants, bars, and residential buildings springing up around the city. Phnom Penh's wealth of historical and cultural sites makes it a very popular tourist destination.

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Nowadays, the market is a tourist hot spot. The four wings of the yellow coloured Phsar Thom Thmei are teeming with numerous stalls selling gold and silver jewellery, antique coins, clothing, clocks, flowers, food, fabrics and shoes.

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With the economic growth seen since the 1990s, new shops have opened as well as western-style malls such as Sorya Shopping Center and the new Sovanna Shopping Center.

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Two international franchises have also opened up in Phnom Penh. Dairy Queen has already opened up inside Phnom Penh International Airport and Kentucky Fried Chicken (KFC) has opened up a restaurant on Monivong Boulevard and plans to open more soon. The same company that opened up KFC in Cambodia has now obtained franchise rights to open Pizza Hut in the country.

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~http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phnom_Penh

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~http://www.virtualtourist.com/travel/Asia/Cambodia/Phnom_Penh-1194372/Things_To_Do-Phnom_Penh-Central_Market_Psah_Thmay-R-1.html

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~http://www.asiaexplorers.com/cambodia/phnom_penh_central_market.htm

--X-Men Origins--Wolverine--

James Logan aka Wolverine and his brother Victor Creed (who will later become Sabretooth) run away together as children in the mid 1850's after Logan kills their biological father who had murdered Logan's adoptive father. After serving together in many wars they are recruited by William Stryker to serve in a special unit made up of mutants. After wiping out an African villiage, Logan quits the unit and goes off to live a life of peace in the Canadian Rockies with his girlfriend later to be known as the Silver Fox.

Six years pass for the both of them until Stryker shows up and asks Logan to come back and be a part of a new Weapon X project. Logan refuses but Creed shows up and murders Logan's girlfriend leaving him wanting revenge against his brother. Logan accepts Strykers offer to be infused with Adamantium so that he can be indestructable and go after his revenge but is double crossed by Stryker and hears him give the order to wipe his memories. Escaping before this can happen, he goes searching for Creed killing anyone who gets in his way.

~http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0458525/

~http://www.x-menorigins.com/

--10,000-year-old mammoth found in Siberia--2007--

4-foot gray-and-brown baby could help in climate change studies

updated 8:40 a.m. ET July 12, 2007

MOSCOW - The well-preserved carcass of a 10,000-year-old baby mammoth has been unearthed in the northern Siberian permafrost, a discovery scientists said could help in climate change studies.

The 4-foot gray-and-brown carcass, discovered in May by a reindeer herder in the Yamal-Nenets region, has its trunk and eyes virtually intact and even some fur remaining, said Alexei Tikhonov, deputy director of the Russian Academy of Sciences’ Zoological Institute.
The animal’s tail and ear were apparently bitten off, he said.

“The mammoth is an animal that you look at, and you see that there is an entire epoch behind it, a huge time period when climate was changing,” he said in comments broadcast last week.
“And of course when we talk about climate change, we must use the knowledge that we will get from them (mammoths).”

Scientists believe mammoths lived from 4.8 million years ago to around 4,000 years ago. Studies suggest climate change or overkill by human hunters as possible reasons leading to their extinction.

Tikhonov said the mammoth would be sent to an institute in Japan for further study.

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~http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/19725653/

~http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2007/07/070711-mammoth-picture.html

~http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,288975,00.html

~http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/6284214.stm

~http://www.usatoday.com/tech/science/discoveries/2007-07-11-baby-mammoth-carcass_N.htm

--DENIAL--

Denial is a defense mechanism postulated by Sigmund Freud, in which a person is faced with a fact that is too uncomfortable to accept and rejects it instead, insisting that it is not true despite what may be overwhelming evidence.

The subject may deny the reality of the unpleasant fact altogether (simple denial), admit the fact but deny its seriousness (minimisation) or admit both the fact and seriousness but deny responsibility (transference).

The concept of denial is particularly important to the study of addiction. The theory of denial was first researched seriously by Anna Freud. She classified denial as a mechanism of the immature mind, because it conflicts with the ability to learn from and cope with reality.

Where denial occurs in mature minds, it is most often associated with death, dying and rape. More recent research has significantly expanded the scope and utility of the concept. Elisabeth Kübler-Ross used denial as the first of five stages in the psychology of a dying patient, and the idea has been extended to include the reactions of survivors to news of a death.

Thus, when parents are informed of the death of a child, their first reaction is often of the form,
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"No! You must have the wrong house, you can't mean our child!"

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~http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denial
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~http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/denial
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~http://www.minddisorders.com/Del-Fi/Denial.html