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...another sexually frustrated Joel, the one played by Tom Cruise in Risky Business. From the first frames of the film, in which a kittenish con woman named Cindy (Mila Kunis) is introduced in the midst of a deft act of shoplifting, we know this Joel is headed for trouble - girl and, likely, financial. After Cindy reads about an industrial accident in which Step loses a component (and a half ) of his manhood and stands to gain an insurance and lawsuit settlement, she's a freight train steaming toward Reynolds Extract. But we're also hoping the con woman...
...body to appear externally female. "I cannot comment on the gender test as I am not a doctor, but the incident surely robbed India of a world-class athlete," says P. Nagarajan, her coach, who recruited her in high school. "An incident like this is enough to ruin a girl's life - and it did ruin her life and career...
...subcontinent? Although Harappan cities were vast - Mohenjo-daro could have been populated by as many as 50,000 people, a staggering figure for such deep antiquity - they have left behind few towering monuments or epic ruins. Instead, we have clues in miniature, a copper figurine of a mercurial dancing girl, for example, and a treasure trove of delicately carved seals, most no larger than a postage stamp. "They are a window into how these people were thinking," says Vahia. "And they can tell us, in a sense...
...pressure there, but I would say the same pressure applies to boys. I think the biggest difference in an Asian family is going to be the expectation that a female be deferential to men and really repress the expression of negative feelings. The very first countries to translate Odd Girl Out were all Asian. I think that there is a huge, huge indirect aggression problem in Asia. It has to do with the Asian culture's very inflexible expectations of women and girls...
Natascha Kampusch's story is perhaps even more troubling. The Austrian girl was abducted at age 10 and held for eight years in a windowless cellar by her abductor, Wolfgang Priklopil. She ran away in August 2006. Yet upon learning that he had thrown himself in front of a train a few hours after she escaped, she reportedly burst into tears. "All I can say is that, bit by bit, I feel more sorry for him," Kampusch said in a 2007 documentary intended to mark her first year of freedom, calling Priklopil a "poor soul - lost and misguided." (Experts note...