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...Bush administration into royalty. These playing cards, while reminding us to “Vote Bush,” feature humorous pictures of Bush’s administration and supporters. The King of Hearts is of course the King of compassionate conservatism himself, George W. Bush. Decked out in skin tight spandex, with rippling muscles and a tight Speedo, he’s bound to find his way into any card shark’s heart. Right by his side is the queen of hearts, first lady Laura Bush, posing as a doctor. Moving down the royal hierarchy, we find...
...Luen Thai clothing-manufacturing compound in Dongguan, Guangdong province. There, the visitors are greeted by a neatly uniformed, smiling receptionist who directs them to any of 337 guest rooms?or they can stop by the library, fitness center, Internet caf?, restaurant, cinema or one of the four zebra-skin-motif karaoke rooms. Belying its unimaginative name, Building No. 15 is actually a private, full-service hotel, opened last April by the clothing manufacturer to coddle its visiting clients. "There's not much to do in town," explains Lewis Leung, general manager of the factory. "Here, there's everything you need...
...past, a Pixar human was essentially a model of hollow skin, which was manipulated to mimic human body move- ment. The computer models for the lead cast of The Incredibles had muscles over which a sheath of skin was placed. So when Bob or Helen moves, it's the muscle that's animated, which causes the skin to move, which in turn gives the humans a much more solid presence. The Pixar team also worked hard to make the fabrics realistic (it took three months to nail one brief scene of Bob sticking his finger through a hole...
...became active in an advocacy group that eventually became the Christopher Reeve Paralysis Foundation, which has so far raised $47 million for spinal-cord research. One of the first things Reeve came to appreciate was that healing a damaged cord is monstrously hard. Unlike nerves in, say, the skin, spinal nerves don't regenerate. Even a small wound can cut off the signals that enable the body to move, feel and draw breath...
...those two were not unsettling enough, later there is the figure of the fertility god Xipe Totec, circa 1500. Known to the Aztecs as "our flayed lord," he wears a pebbly garment that represents flayed human skin with pustules of fat clinging to it. The idea behind this image was actually positive. Priests who personified Xipe Totec in fertility rituals wore the skins of sacrificial victims for several days. Then, as the skins dried and came apart, the priests' healthy bodies emerged, symbolizing the fundamental Aztec notion of life growing out of death. But still...