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...took what I gave him and added it to his base of knowledge,” O’Mary says. “I would often pick up the phone and call Harvard professors—they were able to point me in the right direction. They know more than anyone else on the planet about their area of expertise...
...defend the bracelets as just kitschy accessories. "I've been wearing my bracelet since eighth grade," says 15-year-old Roby Behrens of Los Angeles. "It's a fashion thing. You don't need them to have sex, but people do use them to kiss or get to third base...
...terror organization Jemaah Islamiah (JI) in the Philippines. His arrest, along with information stemming from his capture, has confirmed what Philippine officials have until now been reluctant to acknowledge: that a large number of foreign Islamic militants are using the country?more than any other in Asia?as a base and a refuge...
...process of telling her own tale, Namu opens a window onto one of the world's last matrilineal societies. The Mosuo number only some 30,000 and live near pristine Lugu Lake, which lies at the base of the sacred Gamu Mountain, the protective site of their mother goddess on the border of Sichuan and Yunnan provinces in southwestern China. They practice their own shamanistic religion, called Daba, and also Tibetan Buddhism. But it's the role of Mosuo women that sets them apart from other cultures: they don't marry. Instead, womenfolk take a series of lovers throughout their...
...after his watermelon episode, are we really sure the Democrats had no choice but to drop Bill Clinton like a political hotpotato rather than use him in the 2000 campaign? Now, Democrats shudder at the Kerry campaign because he’s Northeastern and liberal, as though embracing their base (never mind their fringes) were some kind of a political death sentence. On an individual level, this is the kind of insecurity that makes a popular southern Democratic Senator, afraid to lose a vote by mentioning the title of a movie that hasn’t been focus-grouped...