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...were the protests generated by real indignation, or were they just a ploy by the BJP and other nationalist parties to bolster their support? Sudhir Kakar, who has written a novel based on the Kama Sutra and one of dozens of new translations of the ancient text, says the answer is both. "The people who protest want the masses to be offended by [the kiss]," says Kakar, a psychoanalyst and a former senior fellow at the Center for Study of World Religions at Harvard. "They want people not to go down the road towards erotic freedom. There's a struggle...
Researchers from Harvard and Columbia have moved one step closer to discovering the cause of the fatal neurodegenerative Lou Gehrig’s disease through a novel use of embryonic stem cells from mice. Supporters of embryonic stem cell research have long pointed to the potential to use these cells to directly treat diseases of the nervous system. But the Harvard and Columbia teams assert that stem cells have a broader application in providing critical information for understanding many other human diseases. The researchers have harnessed stem cells from mice embryos, which can develop into any kind of tissue...
...yucca rope and beaten with sharp dry corn husks as you stand in a vat of soggy fideos. If your racial and cultural ethnicity is Other, then it's about time you learned about the most famous of Mexican singers and actors." -Denise Chavéz, from her 2002 novel Loving Pedro Infante...
...Missy and Dre, as well as JT’s conspicuously sexed-up chorus, make for a fairly good time. The latter half of the album pairs Timbaland with some rock heavyweights. Although it seems like he’s experimenting for pure fun, the results are often novel, and they provide the only venues where his lyrical ability is showcased to positive effect. “Time,” with She Wants Revenge, is dark and rewarding, like their hit single “Tear You Apart,” but the real treat...
...dropped out of school at 15, stole the books he read, attended poetry readings only to shout down those he disdained, and led an outlaw band of avant-garde poets. This is the life he idealizes in “The Savage Detectives.” The semi-autobiographical novel begins with a series of journal entries by Juan García Madero, a 17-year-old law school dropout who falls in with a group of poets calling themselves the “visceral realists” (the fictional counterparts to Bola?...