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...circumcised appears to be declining, the number of men uncircumcising themselves seems to be rising. Ron Low, who makes the conical silicone TLC Tugger, has sold about 9,000 Tuggers since 2003. Stephen Kwan, sales manager of 4restore.com, which makes a competing product, says sales of his stainless steel apparatus increase by about 15% each year. Many men, like Prince, restore their foreskins to improve sex; circumcision, after all, removes some of the most sensitive cells in the body. Others do it because they feel dry and uncomfortable. Some feel abnormal - though circumcision is customary...
...observers would have given the Dongsibatiao residents much chance of winning their battle. More than 1 million Beijingers have already been relocated as the city prepares for the Olympics, and groups lobbing for preservation have had negligible success - except in drawing the unwelcome attention of China's vast security apparatus, which is notoriously suspicious of attempts to create independent organizations of any kind. In 2004, for example, housing rights activist Ye Guozhu - who had attempted to organize protest against forced evictions - was arrested and sentenced to four years in prison after being convicted of "disturbing social order...
Carrio, however, is taking some satisfaction in coming in second. Crediting the Peronist party organization for getting out its vote, she said "I'm a woman without a political apparatus and without a husband, so I did pretty well." Furthermore she said, "The Civic Coalition is here to stay as a modern, civilized republican force that could provide the next President in four years' time." And, who knows, that President may be a woman...
...many, even some members of Burma's own oppressive security forces, remain unconvinced. On Monday evening, a 26-year-old member of the plainclothes security apparatus knelt to pay a final homage to the Buddha at Shwedagon before fleeing for the Thai border. The officer had taken part in the nighttime roundup of monks, and it still weighed heavily on his conscience. "I have had enough. I have to leave," he said as he rose from his knees and started his journey to the border. Still, the nightly roundup of suspects continues under the darkness of a 10 p.m. curfew...
...attention captured by discrete cases that pirouette on a narrow point of law suits their shared temperament. They are like priests, schooled from an early age in the orthodoxies, mysteries and controversies of the constitutional faith. Many of them have been enfolded from an early age in the ideological apparatus of the right or the left. As young Justice Department lawyers in the early days of Ronald Reagan, Roberts and Justice Samuel Alito played on the same volleyball team, and both men were quickly marked for big things and nurtured for the bench. Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg's cocoon...