Word: forbiddenness
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...already "knows" Saddam Hussein is hiding stockpiles of illicit biological and chemical weapons and is close to obtaining a nuclear one. Of course, many Europeans suspect Saddam has dangerous stuff; they understand the arguments that he is a bad guy who may do worse things some day. Yet the forbidden weaponry turned up so far is pretty tame: 16 undeclared chemical warheads, illegal importation of 200 missile engines and the disappearance of some high explosives that could be used for nuclear warheads. Also uncovered were documents that describe a technique used to enrich uranium...
...Saudi Arabia has banned the phones altogether, but thus far, Asian nations are leaving damage control to the private sector. In Japan, Hong Kong and Singapore the gadgets have been forbidden in some health-club locker rooms...
...Getting attention for the "project" is one thing, but Tatu's pop actually delivers. Their million-selling album, 200 km/h in the Wrong Lane, was re-recorded in English and produced by Trevor Horn, who's been there before, with Frankie Goes to Hollywood. The album - lyrics of young forbidden love set to a mix of synth-heavy Europop and rock - is catchy and unusual enough to carry them through, for at least a merchandising cycle or two. The girls also attempt a cover of The Smiths' angst anthem How Soon Is Now? Not quite Britney's style. And with...
...about who we are. He both explained the human mind and made it more mysterious. One of Freud's key insights was to divide the mind into the conscious and the unconscious: he showed us that beneath the surface banality of everyday thoughts and gestures lurk subterranean caverns of forbidden longings that reach all the way back to our earliest childhood memories. Freud's therapeutic technique, psychoanalysis, was an intellectual exploration of those depths, where patients could confront their deepest, darkest desires. If they recognized and overcame those repressed desires, the theory went, they could return to the surface with...
...than 3,000 years and has been historically important in a variety of ways. Newlyweds in the 7th century B.C. shared an apple as a symbol of a fruitful union; Aphrodite, the Greek goddess of love, was frequently represented holding an apple; and, of course, the apple was the forbidden fruit that got Adam and Eve expelled. But in the past few decades, in the U.S. at least, the apple has been trying to get back into our good graces...