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Probably Krake's enthusiasm for folk art pressed Johnson to look hard at black women's quilts, with their strong outlines -- shapes made by folding and cutting, very unlike the fluid, convulsive drawing of his earlier paintings -- and their bright blocks of distinct color...
...activism has sparked a new debate about sexuality in general. Are people essentially either straight or gay, with bisexuality being merely the unnatural by-product of confusion and repression among some homosexuals? Or is bisexuality a third distinct orientation? Is sexuality governed by biology or culture? Is it fixed, an identity that is set early and endures through life? Or is it fluid, shifting with time and temptation...
That assumption may be ill-founded. Legal experts quickly dismissed defense claims of double jeopardy -- the impermissible prosecution of a person twice for the same offense -- because jurisdiction in federal civil rights charges is distinct from that of the state. Yet in proving that the officers violated King's civil rights, the feds must clear the hurdle that tripped up the state prosecutors: convincing a jury that the police used excessive force. "The issue is ultimately the same," says Professor Erwin Chemerinsky of the University of Southern California Law Center. "Was it reasonable or excessive force? If the jury finds...
...days, it transforms itself like some buggy version of Terminator 2. Its nerves and muscles melt and reform with astonishing speed until the new adult mosquito sloughs the pupal skin, emerges at the surface and takes off. If one thinks of the humble, fishy mosquito larva as a distinct animal in its own right, then it is one of God's creatures for which resurrection and afterlife are scientific facts. Instead of dying, it sprouts wings and ascends into the heavens...
Using biochemical tools that were not available at the beginning of the epidemics in Africa and the Americas, molecular biologist Chin-Yih Ou and his colleagues at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control found two distinct epidemics caused by somewhat different strains of HIV in the northern Thai city of Chiang Mai. Both epidemics started no more than four years ago, but one occurred mostly in intravenous drug abusers and the other started in female prostitutes. There was little overlap between the two groups...