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...simplified explanation," says Souter. The twins have different proportions of male cells (XY) and female cells (XX), and are chimeric, meaning they have tissue with a diverse genetic make-up. Twin A, identified as a hermaphrodite, has 5% XY and 95% XX after genetic testing of the skin. Comparatively, Twin B, the male...
...Taser use by police is a frightening possibility. Being Tasered might be preferable to being shot, but it is certainly no picnic. The weapon that would find itself in the hands of the CPD shoots four barbs that embed themselves up to 0.3 inches into a victims’ skin and deliver a 50,000-volt electrical shock. Cambridge Police Lieutenant Stephen A. Ahern, who was willingly Tasered at a public demonstration, told the Cambridge Chronicle afterward that, “It was the longest five seconds of my life. The electrical current feels like the pulse of a jackhammer...
...maybe it’s because we’re tough—we know that it takes a lot to get under our skin, and since you’re not as tough, it shouldn’t take much to get under yours...
Movie comics know that the trick to their craft is to expose themselves to public humiliation. Will Ferrell does so literally, by stripping down to his pudgy skin. Here are five other comedians, masters in the art of taking a metaphorical--or otherwise--pie in the face...
...their interactions with each other as they make it through the titular two weeks. The eldest son, played by Ben Chaplan, is unable to cry for his mother. His performance is touching—that is, when one is not distracted by hints of a foreign accent and skin color that calls to mind a foreign exchange student amongst his freckle-faced, whitebread siblings. Julianne Nicholson, playing the only girl of the four and her mother’s best friend, refuses to leave the house even for a moment and is constantly doling out advice from self-help books...