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...bitches” and “hoes.” Their offspring, I suppose, would naturally be “bastards.” And I mean that in both senses of the word. This is most harmful because it promotes the crude objectification of women. And this is only one example where a hip-hop artist is dispensing harmful lyrics. The always self-consciously provocative gangsta rappers 50 Cent and Snoop Dogg provide us with another good example. After seeing their music videos and hearing them talk about their multitude of “bitches...
...nature of "Americanness." Even its liberal use of Mexican colloquialisms in the original Spanish puts the book at the edge of today's controversy over the purity of English. La Perdida includes a glossary for all the Spanish at the end, except strangely, a translation of the title. My crude Google-based research roughly translates it as "The Lost One." For a smart, involved and serious graphic novel read, La Perdida should be found...
...Tuesday night, two crude devices-unidentified explosives packed into pressure cookers and fitted with a timer-exploded within minutes of each other at a temple and a train station in Varanasi, the greatest of all Hindu pilgrimage centers on the Ganges in northern India. Police say 21 people were killed and more than 60 injured. Fearing a violent Hindu backlash, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh appealed for calm and put security forces on high alert across the country...
...least you can try. Those molecular clocks are still rather crude. "The mitochondrial DNA signals a migration up to 30,000 years ago," says research geneticist Michael Hammer of the University of Arizona. "But the Y suggests that it occurred within the last 20,000 years." That's quite a discrepancy. Nevertheless, Hammer believes that the evidence is consistent with a single pulse of migration...
Light sweet crude oil prices topped $68 a barrel last month but have since fallen under...