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...striking portraits, goes on display at London's Natural History Museum from May 28 to Sept. 18. Each over 6 ft. [1.8 m] tall, the photographs reveal a moving depth of personality in their subjects. Mollison's apes are laid-back, cheeky, happy and sly. But disconcertingly, many also appear profoundly depressed and fearful, and no wonder. They are orphans, rescued from poachers. One of the subjects, a young gorilla named Pumbu (pictured above right), saw her parents killed for bush meat. Another, a sad-eyed Indonesian orangutan called Bonny (shown left), lost her mother and was sold...
...movement for equality. Though women are the only ones physically getting abortions, they are not the only ones having sexual intercourse. Sullivan's assertions that the decline of teenage pregnancy is due in part to "sexual restraint among young women" and that abstinence programs "can work for some women" appear to exclude men from the equation, as if women alone were the guardians of sexual morality. If the goal is to reduce the number of unwanted pregnancies, then educating young men about abstinence and sexual responsibility is just as important...
Damien falls into the time-honored cinematic category of the saintly and precocious child. His saintliness narrowly avoids cliché, however, by the inclusion of actual saints. He has immersed himself in his readings about saints to the extent that they appear to him and offer guidance—although whether they’re real or imaginary is left ambiguous...
...years from ’64 to ’95 on this album appear as a mishmash of easily recognizable sounds, heavy synth in ’88, soulful “oohs” and “aahs” from “’76 aka The Slow Train,” but only in spots seem to precisely nail the musical feel...
...reasons, it is impossible to censor the Internet at present. "It's designed to work around censorship and blockage," explains Stoll. "If you try to cut something, it self-repairs." But some antipornography activists have found a clever way to cope with that. From time to time, they will appear in newsgroups devoted to X-rated picture files and start posting messages with titles like "YOU WILL ALL BURN IN HELL!" These typically provoke flurries of angry responses -- until it dawns on the pornography lovers that by filling the message board with their rejoinders, they are pushing out the sexy...