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...traffic jam the results are spectacular: an almost continuous blast of horns, deep and tinny, near and far. The bass of a bus mixes with the thin shrieks of a motor scooter. Add in the noise of rasping truck brakes, the sweet tinkle of bicycles and rickshaws, the wailing Bollywood music pumped out by kids in their new cars, the reverberating bangs and cries of touts beating on the sides of buses for business, the siren of an ambulance vainly trying to push its way through the heaving mass and the general, constant growl of traffic and you have...
...from being seen as adults. "I know they love their daughter," says Julia Epstein, communications director for the Disability Rights Education and Defense Fund,(www.dredf.org) and the mother of a disabled child. "But they refer to her as the pillow angel. I know that's meant to be a sweet term, but it's terminally infantalizing." Her organization issued a statement affirming that "we hold as non-negotiable the principle that personal and physical autonomy of all people with disabilities be regarded as sacrosanct." With the right information and support, disability rights advocates believe, there is no need...
...only that, but according to the MIT Technology Review, researchers are developing ways to make the little rascals friendlier - injecting bits of DNA into bacteria to make them "glow, detect light," or even smell sweet. "Minty-fresh foot fungus" is projected as a real possibility. Of course, so was democracy in Iraq, but why drag that...
...Parker again; he's everywhere.) For the prissiest of your relatives, you can play the finale: a seriously heartfelt chorale of "Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas." But all 18 tracks are funny, terrific and, in their oddball fidelity to the conflicting spirits of Christmas, kind of sweet...
Need a snack? Walnuts were found to reduce inflammation and oxidation of the arteries by harmful fats, which can lead to heart disease. And on a sweet note: regular doses of cocoa improve blood flow. Something to chew on into...