PICA: The Eating Disorder that prefers Rubber or Wood to Cake

Chewing and swallowing matches, hair, cushion foam is not for most people the mid-morning snack of choice:

"Chewing a pencil in class? We’ve all done it!
However, chewing and swallowing? Now that’s a different story!
You say it’s impossible for someone to eat a pencil, a paper, a light bulb, etc.
I say it happens all the time!
… And it is called Pica!

What?
Pica is an eating disorder typically defined as the persistent ingestion of nonnutritive substances..."

This week Muslims celebrate the festivity of Eid Al-Adha, that commemorates Abraham´s sacrifice. In this year of revolutions, uprisings and changes, this festivity means even more for Muslims in the Middle East and North Africa.

"Using all the tools at their disposal, activists in the Middle East have become as creative as they are daring in ensuring that their story is heard. In August this year, Egyptian activists used Twitter and Facebook as a means to not just organize a protest, but they decided to take the protest itself online."

"In this Monday, Nov. 7, 2011 photo, an Ultra Orthodox Jewish man is reflected on a mirror displayed next to another mirror and a painting, in Jerusalem. Images of women have vanished from the streets of Israel's capital. Women have been shunted onto separate sidewalks."

When Reagan came up with a solution for King Hussein's fish draught in the Dead Sea!

"Ronald Reagan was the US president between 1981 to 1989. After the end of his term, in 1994, he announced that he was diagnosed with Alzheimer's Disease. However there were some signs suggestive that he had some "concentration issues" , to say the least, while he was still in office. One of these incidents occurred during a meeting with King Hussein."

"I went to Cinema City in City Mall yesterday to watch the new Tintin movie. The movie was produced by Steven Spielberg, but you wouldn’t know that just by looking at the posters. Steven Spielberg’s name is blacked out on all posters!"