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...days later, national media outlets report that, based on tests done on the cheek cells left on the candidate’s utensil, he carries the gene that causes Huntington’s Disease, a fast-acting, highly degenerative neurological disorder that first appears in the patient’s middle-aged years. Doctors say chances are high that the diseases’ onset will come within the next five years. Under heavy pressure, he withdraws from the race, since there’s a good chance that he’d be unable to complete a term as president...
...guitar was of the ironic sort.I was forced to abandon this stance after a particularly aggressive attempt to perfect my “power windmill” stroke. Sustaining air-induced injuries to my neck and strumming arm taught me that, though the tongue begins very much in the cheek of every air guitarist, it is not long before that tongue is bared Gene Simmons-style and lolling about for all to see. “It’s funny,” says Crane of this inevitable transformation. “We’re all aware...
...Makai Hall, now 24, was in the Columbine High School library when Eric Harris, 18, and Dylan Klebold, 17, went on their shooting rampage April 20, 1999. He suffered a bullet wound in his right knee and shrapnel in his torso and cheek. His scars remain visible...
...event was supposed to highlight the risky sexual behavior of truck drivers, who have some of the highest rates of HIV infection in India. At one point in the proceedings, Gere embraced Shetty, bent her back in an exaggerated kind of dance hold and kissed her on the cheek. If it looked slightly awkward, Shetty said later, that's because it was unexpected. "Richard does not understand Hindi," she told a press conference. "All he knows is that Bollywood is all about song and dance. So, he decided to give a dance pose with me to entertain the crowd...
...more than than the Hindi language that Gere did not understand: His dance move and smooch on the cheek went way beyond what is acceptable, at least according to India's Hindu nationalists who claim that Shetty has dishonored her culture. Protestors burned Gere and Shetty in effigy, and now plan to lodge a complaint against Shetty with the police. "How much can you degrade yourself because you are being paid money to make an appearance?" asked Sumit Mishra, of the youth wing of the Hindu nationalist BJP party in the state of Bhopal. As a foreigner, said Mishra, Gere...