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...greatest importance. "The cow and the Masai came from the same place in the creation, and they have always been together." The visitor thought of the cattle-raiding warriors, and asked the laibon if it is all right to kill a man. The laibon thought, drank, blew his nose onto the dirt floor and replied, "It is not so bad to kill a man. If you do it and are successful, it is not so bad, because God allowed the man to die. God agreed, and so it happened...
...children were paralyzed by fright. A girl named Hyinka dreamed that when she went into the forest for firewood, a Cape buffalo attacked her and she tried to push her down with his horns. She could neither run nor scream. The buffalo pushed her into the water with his nose. Memusi had a dream about a lion's attacking and biting, and she tried to scream but could not. Lekerenka could not scream, either, when bitten in his dreams by a spitting cobra. He woke up crawling on the ground...
...estimated 10,000 comatose Americans who cannot swallow are now kept alive by feeding tubes, usually inserted into the stomach directly or through the nose. The claim that such patients -- or proxies acting on their behalf -- have the right to halt nutrition was endorsed a year ago by both the American Medical Association and the American Bar Association. Seriously debilitated but conscious patients who are unable to swallow are claiming the same right. Last month a Colorado court granted a no-feeding request from a patient who was conscious but paralyzed from the neck down. He died two weeks...
...least no female member of the human species looks as stunningly beautiful as Elle does on the pages of this year's Sports Illustrated swimsuit issue. In real life, of course, Elle sweats, peels, breaks out, belches, gives off odor and blows her nose. She gets split ends, skin blemishes, bags under her eyes, food between her teeth and hair on her legs. She does not always smile radiantly...
Although some of his current repertoire is different and Bauhaus is history, solo artist Murphy alters his stage routine for no one. This rather haughty fellow takes idolatry very seriously. He paces righteously back and forth across the stage, eyes bulging, nose...