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...limbs had been sawed off. Some experts believe the brain has a blueprint of body parts that persists even if they've been cut off. According to one theory, when the brain sends signals and receives no feedback, it bombards the missing limb with more signals. That aggravates the swollen nerves that once served it, inducing pain...
This may turn out to be the case, but regardless of Harvard’s construction efforts, it seems that a commercialization of the surrounding neighborhood, to serve the needs of a suddenly swollen daytime population, is inevitable. Even those who are able to stay in subsidized housing will no longer feel that the Allston community that has developed is their own—it will become a place to work, as much of Harvard Square has become, instead of a place to live. Allston’s current personality may be a little gritty, but it?...
...took down my underwear, and tore it to pieces, and kept on hitting me on different parts of my body asking me to bend down. I refused, but they forced me." Gamal Eid, Al Sharqawi's lawyer, said when he saw his client after the beating, his eye was swollen shut and his body covered in cuts and bruises. "This sexual assault is a new variety of torture being used against the activists," he said. "I haven't seen any beating this bad since 13 years ago, when the government was cracking down on Islamists...
...Well before the Budget, great hopes were held by the urgers. Maverick M.P.s, think tanks, business lobbyists, welfare groups and opinionaters shot out a stream of ideas for things to do with revenues swollen by the resources jackpot. A short list included tax cuts, for companies and individuals; more investment in skills development, education and research; increasing workforce participation and raising national savings; improving child-care arrangements; and modernizing infrastructure, especially broadband, roads, railways and ports. The government certainly delivered in some of these areas, but the programs were scattered and underfunded; they seemed like mere sops to the policy...
...fetishization of helplessness or even the grotesque. Writing about a line of dolls from the toy company Galoob, Harris observed that most cute dolls, were they to exist in real life, would not be adorable at all, but in fact deformed and helpless, unable to walk on their stumpy, swollen legs, cursed with useless, fat fingers and with heads too large to be held up by a weak infant's neck. Science has borne out that such helplessness is exactly what beckons the observer of cute: We are hard-wired to respond to big eyes set low on a round...