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...Batman (pop. 500,000) hospital records show there have been 31 attempted female suicides this year, already more than last year's total, and five women have died, although the total number of actual suicides is impossible to document. "Women are locked away in a room with a rope and put under pressure. Or they might be forced to take rat poison," says Nebahat Akkoc, founder of Ka-Mer, a women's rights group in Diyarbakir, the regional capital of the south-east. Last week the U.N. sent Yakin Ertürk, rapporteur on violence against women, on a fact...
...legs. Limb length usually means bulk, since it takes a lot of muscle to move long bones. But muscles add weight, and weight reduces speed. The horse solves that problem by packing its musculature in its upper body, then transferring that power down to the legs with an elaborate rope work of tendons and ligaments that absorb shock as the animal runs and then snap the leg back to reuse the energy on the next stride. The system works well, but it does leave the legs exceedingly vulnerable to injury because when a break occurs, the blood vessels embedded...
...CARRICK-A-REDE ROPE BRIDGE Once an even shakier bridge used by salmon fishermen to access a tiny island they used as a fishery, the now tourist-safe bridge, less than a kilometer from the harbor of Ballintoy, is a thrilling way to cross over a 25-m-deep chasm. From the island, gaze back toward the mainland at wave-carved cliffsides full of caves and natural archways...
...said. “They’re beautiful swamps full of industrial ruin.” Van Cleef, who formerly focused on painting, recruited her friends to help produce around 10 articles of clothing for each design. Her mail-order catalogue offers instructions on how to make rope out of old trash bags and tips on net construction for fishing. “Objects that now seem like eyesores will become essential items like floats, storage bottles, and drinking vessels,” according to her catalogue. “Things that we have now will come into their...
...series of uniquely shaped rock formations from way back when molten lava met the cooling seawater. See if you can spot the Camel, the Granny, the Giant's Boot and the Wishing Chair. The polygonal basalt columns are perfect for a midafternoon seaside scramble. Carrick-a-Rede Rope Bridge Once an even shakier bridge used by salmon fishermen to access a tiny island they used as a fishery, the now tourist-safe bridge, less than a kilometer from the harbor of Ballintoy, is a thrilling way to cross over a 25-m-deep chasm. From the island, gaze back toward...