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...wide V. While the florist cradled her from behind, the plumber wrapped Nagla's hands around her ankles. Then the plumber quickly leaned in between Nagla's legs and cut off her clitoris with a pair of barber's scissors. The girl barely had time to emit her first gasp of pain before her legs were lowered and her mutilated genitalia were bound with rags. Only then did she find her voice. "Father! Father!" she shrieked. "A sin upon you. A sin upon...
Since black holes do not emit or reflect light by definition, and therefore cannot be seen, their existence is based on indirect evidence, say Kirshner...
There is folly aplenty here: klutzy drug lords, nattering detectives, angels on bungee cords. Oh, and Willem Dafoe as a death figure named Emit Flesti -- which makes sense only when spelled backward, and then not nearly enough. But Wenders has always worked on the wild side; even his previous film, the botched Until the End of the World, was a misstep so grand and elaborate it was like a clown's jig on a high wire. In Faraway, So Close! the dance lasts almost until the end of the film. And for those two hours it seems almost seraphic...
...humans into space remains extraordinarily dangerous. Both the Office of Technology Assessment and NASA itself, quietly, have agreed that the chances of catastrophic failure for the shuttle are currently 1 in 78 -- not exactly reassuring for the astronauts. Among the potential dangers: the shuttle's solid-fuel rocket boosters emit irregular bursts of extra power that put stresses on the ascending shuttle. The space agency twice overrode its own safety rules to let launches go forward. It doesn't have to do that anymore -- not because the boosters have been improved, but because the rules have been relaxed...
Using a genetic technique known as transfection, a group of researchers at the School of Public Health were able to induce Plasmodium, the malaria parasite, to produce luciferase, the enzyme used by fireflies to emit light...