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...physical insults of a life so confined. Ravaged by an unidentified infection, she is currently in a medically induced coma. There have been reports that, despite her youth, many of her teeth are missing. Stefan has fared somewhat better, although his skin, like that of his siblings, is ghostly pale. Life in a warren of narrow corridors and low ceilings has damaged the spatial orientation of Stefan and Felix, and there may be more serious consequences for all three: health experts say a chronic lack of sunlight and exercise can leave children's bones pliable, their muscles weak and their...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Can Austria's Cellar Children Recover? | 5/7/2008 | See Source »

...getting used to sunlight. After spending their entire lives imprisoned in a cramped, windowless cellar deep underground along with their mother, Elisabeth, they are now being cared for in a special wing of a clinic near Amstetten, Austria. Doctors say the boys and their mother are extremely pale. Their older sister Kerstin, 19, is in the hospital and very ill because of the terrible privations she suffered living in the dungeon created by Elisabeth's father. It was there that he fathered seven children with his own daughter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Children of the Cellar | 5/2/2008 | See Source »

...views. Kimberly N. Foster ’11, a black panelist, said that “in black culture, the thick girl is the idealized girl,” while event organizer Theresa H. Cheng ’08 talked about how Chinese culture focused not only on being pale and thin, but also on the “double eyelid phenomenon.” The double eyelid, which varies in preponderance and degree in Asians, makes the eye appear larger; as a result, the demand for cosmetic surgery among Asians has increased in order to create the trait. Along...

Author: By Peter F. Zhu, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Panelists Discuss Race and Beauty | 4/29/2008 | See Source »

...Polzer said Elisabeth looked very pale and thin and "much older than she actually is." Kerstin is described as being in stable but serious condition, while Elisabeth and the other two children who lived with her are under the care and observation of psychologists...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cellar Incest Case Shocks Austria | 4/28/2008 | See Source »

...shit gets real during Ghostface’s verse when the deal in the back room turns violent. As Clan members rush to the back room pulling heat, a geisha enters with the “merchandise.” Here, the symbolic function of the geisha emerges. The pale-faced woman, spinning a fan like a tape recorder while being showered with kilo upon kilo of white powder, unites sex, drugs, money, and music in a single image. The geisha, not the Wu-Tang Clan, is the focal point of this video: she is the ideal of a high...

Author: By Mark A. Vanmiddlesworth, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: POPSCREEN: The Wu-Tang Clan | 4/25/2008 | See Source »

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