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...Four days later Lu found his daughter's body in the rubble of the school. He identified her by a pair of cloth shoes, which had been handmade by her grandmother. "Just what evil have I done to deserve this?" he asks. "I already feel very guilty for my wife's death - she died giving birth to my daughter. For my daughter, I had not gotten close to any woman for 10 years, and now she is taken away from me, too." A few days after identifying his child's corpse, Lu posted petitions at earthquake shelters calling...
Four days later, Lu found his daughter's body in the rubble. He recognized her by a pair of cloth shoes, which had been handmade by her grandmother. A few days after identifying his child's corpse, Lu posted petitions calling for an investigation into the school deaths. (See pictures of the earthquake in China...
...ever protest on Monday outside New York City's Manhattan Center for Vaginal Surgery. Two dozen women - ranging in age from teenagers to, ahem, sexagenarians - handed out index cards and held up orange poster boards with the message "No Two Alike," while two members of the group donned giant cloth vulva costumes. New View, which was created in 2000 in response to the introduction of Viagra, is trying to fight what it calls "the medicalization of sex," the idea that there is a physical right and wrong when it comes to all things sexual. Says the group's leader Leonore...
...more competent. Much of this is rooted in very early childhood experiences, Bargh argues, when infants' conceptual sense of the world around them is shaped by physical sensations, particularly warmth and coldness. Classic studies by Harry Harlow, published in 1958, showed monkeys preferred to stay close to a cloth surrogate mother rather than one made of wire, even when the wire "mother" carried a food bottle. Harlow's work and subsequent studies have led psychologists to stress the need for warm physical contact from caregivers to help young children grow into healthy adults with normal social skills...
...Then they entered the museum.Once inside, they were some time in getting to the Englishman’s gallery. Felicity demanded that they stop to examine the male nudes, constantly bemoaning the placement of leaves or folds of cloth. Ollie was only too happy to encourage her.“Ah, signorina woulda like to have a little peek? She would like to see the trunk of da tree underneath da leaf?”“Perhaps you could tell me what kind of trunk I might be expected to find,” said Felicity, running...