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Wandi was asked to get double-eyelid surgery, but she refused to conform to China's beauty standards · the Tory leadership debate: desperate as a sales pitch, worse as entertainment · study finds people with extremely low BMIs, aren't more active, they are just less hungry · more than a thousand deaths have been attributed to a climate change-linked heatwave in Europe · at least one in five jobs on prestigious & often well-paid Australian federal government boards are held by political appointees, the majority of them with direct ties to the Coalition after it awarded dozens of plum positions to political allies during its nine years in power · about 25 million children worldwide have missed out on routine immunizations against common diseases like diptheria, largely because the coronavirus pandemic disrupted regular health services or triggered misinformation about vaccines, according to the U.N.