Word: touchings
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Ashley is not an object, something to touch, snuggle, hug and feed. She shouldn't be reduced to a "pillow angel," a sort of living puppet to cuddle. Her parents, with the complicity of an ethics committee, violated not only Ashley's body but also her soul. Do the disabled have to undergo such procedures for their lives to be considered worth preserving? Everyone needs to be respected and loved for who they are. Ashley's case is a sign of the beginning of the end of a civilization. Pietro Dri Porpetto, Italy...
...wait by the furnace to scoop up the magic one made and baked by the master himself. It takes only 30 seconds to bake to blistered perfection in the woodburning oven, and he expertly spins and lifts the pizza with the long wooden paddle. He has the alchemist's touch that turns mere dough and a minimal amount of the simplest toppings into a cavalcade of flavor. The secret to eating a thin-crust Neapolitan pizza is to slash the pie into four pieces on the spot, fold a slice in half, and wolf it down before the crust deflates...
...rooms feel palatial - averaging 42 sq m, they're atypically large in a city of closet-like accommodations. Collins leaves his materials - limed oak, rich leather, creamy cotton - largely unembellished and judiciously uses lush color, like the paisley-patterned wallpaper that could be 21st century William Morris. His best touch combines beauty, comfort and whimsy: the sleek white rocking chair moves like your grandpa's but looks like modern sculpture...
...window in the door of the cell, saying, ''I'll lend you this. When you get your supply, you must return to the government the same number of sheets. Now go to sleep. Lie with your head toward the door. That's the regulation.'' I didn't want to touch the dust-covered bed. But I needed to lie down, as my legs were badly swollen. I pulled the bed away from the dirty wall and wiped it with the toilet paper. But the dirt was so deeply ingrained that I could remove only the loose dust. Then...
...Many people have these symptoms, but the cruel truth is that there is no reliable cure for any of them. Clever doctors watching their incomes melt away have taken notice, establishing all sorts of lucrative NRWAT practices. They've become chiropractors, osteopathic manipulators, prolotherapists, postural therapists, acupuncturists, even Therapeutic Touch practitioners. Each of these therapies proclaims the existence of force fields, bodily reactions, energies or auras that simply cannot be measured or observed scientifically. The "patients" who pay these docs run the gamut from the hopelessly deceived to the downright self-indulgent. But lest we look down too haughtily...