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...regularly.” Professors Anita Raj of Boston University and Jay Silverman of the Harvard School of Public Health published a study in 2002 that found similarly disturbing results: When a sample of South Asian women in Boston were surveyed, 40 percent of them had experienced physical or sexual abuse in their current relationship, but only 11 percent went to seek outside help for their problems. Studies on this issue have not yet been performed on a larger scale, but the results from Massachusetts, a state with a thriving South Asian community, are indicative of a larger and worrisome...

Author: By Ravi N. Mulani and Francis G. Thumpasery | Title: Breaking the Silence | 3/31/2010 | See Source »

...deer antlers. Among enthusiasts for this esoteric branch of traditional medicine, few animals are more treasured for their nutritive qualities than the tiger. Tiger bone wine - a rice alcohol brewed in a vat with the carcass of one of the cats - is prized as a tonic for fatigue and sexual potency, for example. In an effort to clamp down on the lucrative poaching industry that sprung up around the big cats, sales of tiger parts were banned...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Tiger Abuse in China Sparks Calls for Animal Rights | 3/31/2010 | See Source »

...priest scandal - what the Catholic writer and papal critic Andrew Sullivan pointedly refers to as "child rape" by clergy - has transfixed Catholics around the world, particularly with the allegations out of Germany that Benedict XVI, then Archbishop Joseph Ratzinger of Munich, may have allowed a transferred priest accused of sexual abuse to work again with children. The scandal has had a telling effect on the tradition-bound Holy See. High-ranking clerics have complained of media bias and a conspiracy against the Pope. One well-placed Vatican official who worked closely with the Pope when he was a Cardinal says...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sex Abuse: The Vatican's Struggle for Damage Control | 3/31/2010 | See Source »

...contemporary Hipster has a definite spatial prerogative involving dependable access to amenities required for a comfortable, relevant existence. The outplay of this has been a new wave of gentrification in American cities. There is gender and sexual flexibility in the metropolitan Hipster scene, but this comes with the relative safety of increased mainstream and corporate acceptance of queer identities, which the Beats did not have. The music of Hipsters is the mash-up, which rather than putting forth an original and challenging new style of music, plays off the popularity of different mainstream elements that produces something...

Author: By Zachariah P. Hughes | Title: A Revised Portrait of the Hipster | 3/30/2010 | See Source »

Between bookends describing his sexual exploits, Usher does actually reach the confessional aspect of the album. “Papers” sounds like a legitimately heartfelt song about the troubles Usher has been facing during his divorce. Going through all of his difficulties with soaring vocals, “I damn near lost my mamma / I been through so much drama / I done turned into the man that I never thought I’d be / I’m ready to sign them papers.” Unlike many of the other songs, “Paper?...

Author: By Thomas J. Snyder, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Usher | 3/30/2010 | See Source »

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