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Pink Justice: In parts of India's Uttar Pradesh state, according to a November BBC News dispatch, women are hopelessly oppressed by poverty, abusive husbands and corrupt officials, but two years ago, Ms. Sampat Pal Devi got fed up. She organized bands of vigilante women (with several hundred members), dressed in pink saris, to protect their sisters using both nonviolence (heaping public shame on wrongdoers) and violence (with axes and the traditional Indian stick, the "lathi"). Said Sampat Devi, "Village society in India ... refuses to educate (women), marries them off too early (age 9, in her case), barters them for money. Village women need to study and become independent to sort it out themselves."

In November, an association of Ugandan activists of Rwandan ethnicity complained to the Ugandan Parliament that the government was discriminating against its women, in that passport-application officials were singling them out to check their Ugandan nationality by verifying that their backsides and legs are sufficiently large. According to a columnist for the newspaper East African, "Uganda is a society that's besotted with women's buttocks like few other places are." (Immigration officials denied the profiling charge.)

In November, an association of Ugandan activists of Rwandan descent complained to the Ugandan Parliament that the government was discriminating against its women, in that passport-application officials single them out to verify their Ugandan nationality based on the whether their derrieres and legs are sufficiently large. According to a columnist for the newspaper East African, "Uganda is a society that's besotted with women's buttocks like few other places are." (Immigration officials denied that they "profile.")

Lee Myung-bak was elected president of South Korea in December, with experts in "poonsgoo" (similar to the Chinese feng shui) attributing the victory in part to the favorable location of his ancestors' graves, which is an important predictor of good fortune. Candidates not so lucky spent part of the campaign moving their ancestors' remains to better sites. Former president Kim Dae-jung is said to have learned the hard way, losing an earlier election with poor burial location, then winning after moving some dead relatives around, according to a November Reuters dispatch.

Lee Myung-bak was elected president of South Korea in December, with experts in "poonsgoo" (similar to the Chinese feng shui) attributing the victory in part to the favorable location of Lee's ancestors' graves, which are important predictors of good fortune. Candidates who lacked lucky spots spent part of the campaign moving their ancestors' remains to more favorable sites. Former president Kim Dae-jung is said to have learned the hard way, losing an earlier election with poor burial location, then winning after moving some relatives around, according to a November Reuters dispatch.

Also Questionable: Japanese adults push their children to save more, but few are buying the piggy bank introduced by the TOMY Co. in November, because, if not fed with savings for a period of time, the bank just explodes, scattering the contents.