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...were taken to make treatment of the mentally ill more “humane,” but well into the 20th century these people were still confined to asylums and forcibly subjected to terrifying treatments like shock therapy. With reason, such institutions acquired the label “snake...
...South Asia bureau chief for the Financial Times from 2001 to 2005, Luce is the author of In Spite of the Gods: The Strange Rise of Modern India, a recently published work that is the latest in a line of tomes seeking to explain how the erstwhile land of snake charmers and flying carpets has become the world's newest economic power. It is also, far and away, the best...
...Dems gained at least a dozen G.O.P.-gerrymandered districts. (The word refers to a salamander-shaped Massachusetts district carved by Governor Elbridge Gerry in 1810.) But funny shaping did cut G.O.P. losses. For example, New York Congressman John Walsh won with 51% of the vote in his snake-like district. The past two times...
Jackie Bibby, a.k.a. "The Texas Snake Man," had four records, including sitting in a bathtub with 81 rattlesnakes and sharing a sleeping bag with 109. He earned a fifth last week, holding ten 212-ft. Western diamondback rattlesnakes in his mouth...
...hallways that snake between the offices of the Du Bois Institute faculty lies the permanent art collection—a motley assortment of paintings, posters, and sculptures—that memorialize many moments in the history of Africans, African-Americans, and the institute itself...