Word: birthed
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...reports of human-rights abuses in the U.S. that Amnesty International USA has been issuing since last fall. The latest installment--a horrifying account of the treatment of female prisoners--is due this week. According to AIUSA, such barbaric practices as shackling female prisoners even while they are giving birth, along with rape and other sexual assaults by both guards and male inmates, have become commonplace as the female prison population has nearly tripled since 1985, to 138,000. But there has been only sporadic press coverage of the issue and next to no public outcry. "The victims of these...
Millennium madness is upon us. With the countdown to the end of the world in full swing, cultural icons assault us with visions of the coming apocalypse, passing judgment on the last century of human progress and awaiting the Second Coming and the birth of the Antichrist. Codrescu's messiah, impressively, manages to surf the web, enjoy an orgasm, save humanity and open a restaurant all in time for Mardi Gras...
...blue-blooded I-banking firm, McKinley Morganfield is actually the birth name of Muddy Waters, Blues legend. The man is gone, but you can still hear his influence through the Muddy Waters Tribute Band, featuring Pinetop Perkins, Luther Guitar Junior Johnson, Steady Rollin' Bob Margolin and Jerry Portnoy. Somerville Theatre, Davis, Somerville...
Then, students' main problems were avoiding thedraft, birth control, abortion, relationshipissues, civil rights and women's rights...
Until the mid-80s, Morell was a street photographer in the tradition of Robert Frank. He strolled through cities, hoping to capture the accidental compositions of the metropolis, chance photogenic oddities. With the birth of his son, Morell discovered the wonders of the domestic interior, the strangeness of objects--there was "a huge landscape of...things" to be investigated. Like a Columbus of the kitchen floor, Morell began to photograph cooking eggs, refrigerators, building blocks and realized that "you don't have to go to Tibet to find a great picture...