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...threat, there are many other areas of the body you can try to injure: —The groin is a very vulnerable area if your attacker is male. You can either kick him or grab the area and squeeze it. —A hard kick or stomping motion on the attacker’s instep can cause enough force to break his or her ankle. —Jab the attacker’s eyes using your fingers. —If your attacker grabs you from behind, turn your chin toward his or her elbow and force...
...made by guys named Chaplin and Keaton. But for a higher-minded sample of the genre than cursing toddlers and Philippine prison dances, pick up the DVD COLLECTION OF 2007 ACADEMY AWARD NOMINATED SHORT FILMS. The most inventive shorts are in the animation category, particularly two painstakingly made stop-motion movies with not a lick of dialogue. In Madam Tutli-Putli, a woman boards a night train laden with all her possessions--and ghosts. The filmmakers imposed images of real human eyes onto the animation, creating eerily emotive characters. The other wordless film, a dark spin on Prokofiev's Peter...
...deliriously dense. Renouncing literal sense (Is the film set in the '50s or today? In America or Britain? Who knows? Who cares?), the Wachowskis have created a fantasyland that is part retro, part nextro. It's a rich, cartoonish dream: Op Art in nonstop, Mach 2 motion...
...broke several bones while climbing a ladder. One of the case's lead prosecutors had a baby. Then, last December, Kelly failed to make a scheduled court appearance because Utah police stopped his speeding tour bus. Just today, the Chicago Tribune reports that Kelly's defense team filed a motion to delay the trial yet again because of "a torrent of publicity surrounding the case." Now, many are wondering if this will prove to be another case of a celebrity evading justice...
...either side of the rich-poor divide. "Those with higher incomes welcome pain almost by choice, usually through exercise," he says. "At lower incomes, pain comes as the result of work." Indeed, Krueger and Stone found that blue-collar workers felt more pain, from physical labor or repetitive motion, while on the job than off, which at least offers hope that the problem can be mitigated. This finding "emphasizes the need for pain preventing measures [in the workplace] such as better ergonomics," wrote Juha H.O. Turunen, a professor of social pharmacy at Finland's University of Kuopio, in an accompanying...