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During that first lesson, I also learned how to change lanes in the face of a sea of oncoming traffic. Jay’s method? Give...
...major reasons for never wanting to get married. The first was that you can't have sex with other people. The second was that marriage is really just a legal method for the patriarchy to possess and subjugate women. You would not believe how long it took me to come up with the second reason...
Unlike tigers and bulls, great whites hunt mostly during the day, and their preferred method of attack is to shoot up vertically from 30 ft. down, knocking their prey right out of the water with the impact. Researchers in South Africa have produced spectacular footage of great whites leaping 15 ft. into the air with a seal in their teeth...
...would someone come so far for a medical procedure? One reason is that the operations are cheap: $60 per patient, all inclusive. But the main draw is the method used: in 1998, Guangzhou Second City People's Hospital began using general anesthesia for every operation, which is used in the rest of China solely for late-term abortions or patients under extreme stress. But here, thanks to the drugs, all patients are unconscious during the 10-minute operation. "We've performed over 7,000 'no-pain' abortions since we began the service midway through 1998," one long-haired nurse...
...controversy begins at the source--the human embryos that must be destroyed to retrieve stem cells. Scientists can obtain these embryos in four ways, each with its own ethical challenges. The least morally problematic--using embryos left over from fertility treatments--is the only method Bush is considering supporting. Private groups are already attempting the others...