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...Taliban has meant a speedy return in Afghanistan to a formerly banned activity: watching TV. And one of the most popular shows is Mirada de Mujer, a MEXICAN TELENOVELA originally aired in 1997-98 and now seen on an Indian satellite channel. Unlike Afghan TV shows, the Mexican soap, in which a married woman takes a lover after her husband has an affair, does not have its LOVE SCENES edited out. "I'm thrilled to find that the novela is providing balm for the suffering Afghan women after all the barbarism they've endured," says producer Epigmenio Ibarra, a former...
...things will still be important, which is why curators at places like the Smithsonian are busy collecting contemporary objects. I recently saw in storage there a set of pacemakers in various sizes showing the evolution of that technology—and similar collections of birth-control pills, tampons, and soap!,” she wrote...
...gathering them into bunches that you grasped loosely and tapped folded-edge down, so that they slid together cleanly in thick blocks and the newsprint rubbed its way into every swirl and crevice in the pads of your fingers and stayed there until you scoured it out with rough soap. And then walking home filthy as the sun came up, knowing you’d helped put together something good, something finite and ephemeral and tangible, something hundreds of people you’d never see would hold that very morning in their hands...
...Make a Thermonuclear Device!" which appeared in a now defunct humor publication called Journal of Irreproducible Results, and the language in the Times story, as well as the images on the BBC. A sample passage from the article: "Please remember that Plutonium is somewhat dangerous. Wash your hands with soap and warm water after handling the material, and don't allow your children or pets to play in it or eat it." To read more on this, go to wired.com/news/culture...
...right to be. After a drippy and yet oddly charming love song, Little Sally muses that Hope, the female ingénue, loves her male counterpart, Bobby. “Of course, she does,” replies Officer Lockstock breaking down into tears in his best tribute to soap opera acting, before adding a second punch line with the tongue-in-cheek explanation, “he’s the hero of the play...