Word: taboo
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...know the children's names. We meet the parents, the best man at the wedding, the football coach, in the newspapers and on morning television. Whatever taboo made grief a private matter is for now a casualty of war. Has there ever been so intimate a reckoning as this--and not just on our side? Mohamed Atta was a scrawny kid who liked chess and got upset if someone killed a bug. Osama bin Laden was devoted to his mama and liked to drive tractors and watch nature videos. We compare his pallor from video to video to assess...
...Nobody does taboo quite like Korean filmmakers. Kim Ki Duk's The Isle took sexual fetishism to new extremes: fishhooks became S&M tools. Park Chul Soo's feminist 301, 302 developed a friendship between a female anorexic and her overweight neighbor?only for the larger woman to eat the anorexic. Dogs, directed by first-time helmer Bong Joon Ho, takes on a lesser taboo in a manner reminiscent of another of this year's inspired works, Jean-Pierre Jeunet's Amelie from Montmartre. Both Bong and Jeunet have an eye for eccentric detail, produce a bagful of tricks...
...also an "American street." It is more dangerous to the Arab street than the Arab street is to the American, for this reason: the indelible grievance of 9/11 has nullified certain long-nurtured American inhibitions--such as the constraints of political correctness and "hate speech," and even the taboo against speaking of nuclear weapons...
Perhaps the best-known researcher attempting to defy the taboo on reproductive cloning is Severino Antinori, the maverick Italian gynecologist best known for helping a 62-year-old woman bear a child in 1994. Antinori, who dismisses his critics as "Taliban," told Time that reproductive cloning could help infertile couples and that he was "very, very close" to cloning a human baby...
...ready to start paying a bounty for human organs? Is there a better way? It?s a sticky policy debate - made even more complicated by the introduction of cold, hard cash in exchange for human tissue, a practice some medical ethicists consider the ultimate taboo. Cases in Asia, where prisoners and poverty-stricken parents have given up organs (or had them stolen) for much-needed cash, highlight the disastrous potential of such a plan taken to extremes...