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...inappropriate. Slang words abound, but ‘tapping it,’ ‘touching it,’ or ‘spanking it’ (‘it’, of course, being ‘that ass’) are too informal and somewhat gender specific. The best phrase I used was, ‘Have you two ever hit it?’ Linguistically ‘hitting it’ allows a simple yes or no answer...
...oldest subjects in the study now, who were examined as children, are about 45. Still, there have been probably at least a dozen studies that have been able to do this around the world. Many studies have been conducted in England, but in all honesty the results have been somewhat conflicting. Some studies found a slightly increased risk of cardiovascular disease. Some studies - but not all of them - have found an increased risk of mortality. I think, though, that part of the reason for these discrepancies is that to obtain results from these long-term longitudinal studies, many have...
Adam Melech is from California, but his temporal home, today, is the Galilee town of Safed, home to stoners and Sufis and people like himself-somewhat ecstatic Hasidic mystics. Separating himself from the whisky-fueled merriment all around, he takes me aside to share something important: "See this wedding?" says Adam, gesturing to the gathered crowd. "This is like Bill and Fleur's wedding...
...actually just a mudblood - a muggle, not a wizard, because my muggle mother had converted to Reform Judaism, not Orthodox. But I shouldn't despair, he says. There are good muggles and bad muggles, just as there are good and bad wizards. I could still play a (somewhat diminished) role in fighting evil...
...couple of days later, I called Rabbi Dr. Chaim Pollock, Dean of Foreign Students at the Michlalah Jerusalem College, whom I had read had also used the Harry Potter analogy. He seemed somewhat embarrassed that I was asking him about the topic. "Harry Potter is fiction," he said. He had never suggested that it spoke to the Jewish experience specifically. He had just defended its emphasis on good and evil back when a lot of religious leaders were denouncing the books as occult. "The following, I think I can tell you," he said, warming slightly to the topic. "Rowling...