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While I sympathize with him for the “Don’t you feel guilty?” incident, it is very insulting of him to suggest that Africans are “deluded” and live in a “dark continent.” It is such a condescending attitude that led his supposedly righteous British liberators to expel Africans from their arable lands leading to land problems that still trouble post-colonial African states. The same British were responsible for a gulag of 1.5 million Kenyans and the murder of hundreds of thousands...
...night convenience store is visited by zombies who refuse to buy anything. An entire village pulls up stakes and moves itself inside a handbag made of the skin of a dog. Link casts her spells like an expert; these tales are far darker, crueler and sadder than their premises suggest...
Among the lesser known dangers of cigarette smoking is eye disease, say British researchers writing in the journal Eye. Data suggest that smoking doubles your risk of age-related macular degeneration, a common cause of severe and irreversible vision loss. Reduce that risk by quitting. --By Sora Song...
...hunted down and beaten to death. Now two contemporary writers, an artful veteran and a clever newcomer, offer variations on the theme that are hardly more optimistic. Their central characters, while not quite killed, lose virtually everything else along with their visibility -- jobs, apartments, girlfriends, respectability. Invisibility, these novels suggest, is a difficult and dangerous condition, and there is no fun in it. Except, happily, for the reader...
...affirmation." True fresco did not include the use of glue sizing and dark washes a secco. "No other fresco painter applied such a glue," says Head Restorer Colalucci, "so why should Michelangelo have done so? He knew very well that the final result could not have lasted long. To suggest that he gave his fresco a glue sizing is an insult to his technical ability. A fresco artist studies colors and their relationships, and balances them correctly so that they have unity from the moment they are applied...