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The growing popularity of female genital cosmetic surgery could have troubling ramifications beyond the effects for individual patients. Broadly speaking, these surgeries may meet the World Health Organization's criteria for female genital mutilation as "procedures that intentionally alter or injure female genital organs for non-medical reasons." This kind...
One of them - the practical world leader of sanitation advocacy - is Jack Sim, the irrepressible founder of the World Toilet Organization, otherwise known as the other WTO. Sim, a retired Singaporean entrepreneur, built the WTO from a group of one - himself - to a sprawling network of 151 organizations in 53...
Daniel Everett came to the Pirahã as a Christian missionary. Thirty years later, he left an atheist. The indigenous Brazilian tribe had no need for his Jesus, just as they had no need for numbers, colors, rituals, sound sleep, daily meals, permanent shelter, the concept of God or stories...
This past Saturday, CSA hosted its annual Iron Chef Showdown between various cultural groups. This year, the Harvard African Students Association challenged challenged CSA’s reign in an all-out clash of cultures that drew in club members, students, and even pre-frosh.
A friend's 6-year-old recently started primary school in Istanbul. By the second week, his favorite superhero, Spider-Man, had been supplanted by a flesh-and-blood mortal who died 70 years ago: Mustafa Kemal, better known as Atatürk, the founder of modern Turkey. The boy...