Word: performancy
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Some day, somewhere, some surgeon is going to perform the first face transplant. It might even be Dr. Maria Siemionow of the Cleveland Clinic. But despite news reports this past weekend that she is interviewing potential candidates for this pioneering operation, don't expect that it will be happening any time soon. It will take months to find the right person with the right combination of physical disfigurement and psychological adaptability to be a recipient. And - if past experience with hand transplants is any guide - possibly more than a year to find a donor for the procedure...
...engaged in oral sex (and their claims are fairly credible, since the questions were posed not face to face by an adult interviewer but through a specially designed computer program). That proportion was about the same among boys and girls. And although you may assume that girls mostly perform and boys receive, the numbers show the give and take is again about equal...
...DIED. HAYDEE YORAC, 64, tenacious and incorruptible human-rights lawyer called on by three Philippine presidents to perform some of the country's most difficult assignments; in Evanston, Illinois. The daughter of a mayor from the central Philippines, Yorac spent three months in jail in 1972 during Ferdinand Marcos' oppressive rule, emerging from prison to defend victims of government-ordered brutality. Yorac later served as head of President Corazon Aquino's Human Rights Commission and the Presidential Commission on Good Government, which was charged with recovering Marcos' hidden wealth after he was exiled. Her team of young lawyers repatriated...
...Sudan Washington Rap Superstar Kanye West Your article on hip-hop musician Kanye West [Sept. 5] was a brave and smart choice. You gave insights into who West is and, more important, why we should care. West does everything a true musical artist should do: write, produce and perform. He not only employs the traditional hip-hop technique of sampling but uses samples of influential artists like Nina Simone, Shirley Bassey, Marvin Gaye and Luther Vandross. West's songs pay homage to the origins of hip-hop while simultaneously giving today's generation a chance to experience legendary musicians. Justin...
...plays by British playwright Tom Stoppard. Late last month, Stoppard was able to form a view on how that struggle is faring in Belarus. Along with around 70 local spectators packed into a tiny bar in a shabby industrial area of Minsk, the capital, he watched an underground theater performance. The Belarus Free Theater (FT), a group of some 40 playwrights, directors, producers and actors, operates in the repressive regime of President Alexander Lukashenko. Stoppard was there to see FT's first-ever production, a Russian translation of 4.48 Psychosis, a play by another British playwright, Sarah Kane, about...