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...child-endangerment charges. Police said Arias and his wife could be pickpockets, and that they had trained their 23-month-old daughter to do precisely the kind of swiping she had nearly pulled off. "Apparently her parents taught her to do this," said Sergeant Roger Belding. Authorities put the toddler in protective custody...
...women. He exposed healthy patients to yellow fever and X-ray radiation and, when he was finished with an experiment, had his subjects exterminated. Of particular interest to Mengele were twins and dwarfs: at a tribunal in Jerusalem last February, Auschwitz survivors told of how he had had two toddler twins stitched together and of how, discovering a Rumanian circus family of seven dwarfs, he exhibited them naked before an audience of 2,000 cheering SS men. On the walls of one of the doctor's labs were, remembered one victim, rows upon rows of eyes "pinned up like butterflies...
...birth. Mary is the outspoken, truculent daughter of a gas-station manager; Joseph is a taxi driver who at the news of her pregnancy mutters about how good her other lovers must have been; the Archangel Gabriel is a drunken roughneck; and Jesus turns out to be a turbulent toddler who exclaims, "I am the one who is," leading Joseph, behind the wheel of the family car, to reply, "Shut up and get in." For good measure, Mary, played by Myriem Roussel, has several nude scenes. Godard, 54, has replied to the criticism with questionable contrition: "If we, producers...
...horrific stories kept pouring out, each more grisly than the last. One survivor of the Auschwitz-Birkenau death camp in Poland described how he had had one of his testicles removed on order of Nazi Medical Researcher Josef Mengele. Another recalled that the doctor had taken two toddler twins and sewed them together as Siamese twins. In one Auschwitz lab, said Vera Kriegel, a wall was covered with human eyes, extracted by Mengele and "pinned up like butterflies." Said Kriegel: "I thought I was dead and was already living in hell...
...home was broken, not just somewhat. Anne Frances Robbins, soon nicknamed Nancy, was born in 1921 in Manhattan. Her parents, Car Salesman Kenneth Robbins and Actress Edith ("Lucky") Luckett, split up the same year. Edith felt she had to go on the road to earn a living, so the toddler was deposited just outside Washington, in Bethesda, Md., to live with her Aunt Virginia's family. In 1929, Edith was married for the second time, to a Chicagoan named Loyal Davis, and reclaimed her seven-year-old child...