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...Though it's a challenge to illustrate the microscopic intricacies of the genetic code, some readers reminded us how much trickier it is to depict DNA's outward expression in the human form. "Is that Adam and Eve on the cover?" asked a Minnesotan. "Then those belly buttons have got to go." An "appalled" Missouri man agreed that the image showed too much; he declared it "pornographic." But in anticipation of such a reaction, a reader in El Salvador counseled, "To all those who would complain: the human body is beautiful and nothing to be ashamed of. Lighten...
...original form, the proposal was a specific response to claims by anti-abortion group Harvard Right to Life (HRL) that its “Natalie” posters, which depict a fetus in progressive stages of development, are being widely vandalized...
...Germans Arrive” is surrounded by a series of lithographs that depict German behavior towards Belgian civilians during World War I. The lithographs portray horrors such as German soldiers’ use of Belgian captives as human barricades, rape and the impalement of women and children...
...such positive terms. On his magazine’s web site, Goldstein has compiled a slide show of digitally altered photographs of his son, which can be accessed through a link entitled “See what Jordan Goldstein does best.” The photographs depict the younger Goldstein performing graphic sexual acts with other men and farm animals as well as mutating into the Incredible Hulk...
It’s hard to miss Harvard Right to Life’s updated ‘Natalie’ posters, which are now printed in color and depict a growing fetus, already in its eleventh week. This week, we’re told, the fetus has acquired finger and toe-prints. The message behind the posters is clear—fetuses develop during gestation, becoming increasingly “human-like” until the ninth month when they, well, look just exactly like a newborn baby...