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...Number of members in the cast of Acropolis Now, the Hasty Pudding Theatricals’ 161st Show: 12 Number of performances put on this year: 38 Year of the staging of the HPT’s first production, Bombastes Furioso: 1844 Age of Paul Dudley, class of 1690, the youngest person ever to be admitted to Harvard: 10 Estimated IQ of Willian James Sidis, class of 1909, a child prodigy who entered Harvard at age 11: 300 Number of books stolen fron Widener library found in the home of a University graduate: 2,054 Number of books in the University?...
That underworld is a place where nefarious female pimps hold sway and where impoverished mothers sell their teenage daughters into a sex market that believes females who reach the age of 20 are too old to fetch a good price. The youngest victims, some ages 11 and 12, are sold for as much as $30,000, while others can go for as little as $2,000. "The buying and selling of girls in Iraq, it's like the trade in cattle," Hinda says. "I've seen mothers haggle with agents over the price of their daughters." (See pictures of Iraq...
...their wives to repair the damage but plagued by their obtuse laziness—fail to act, resulting in a chaotic and (in both senses) dirty struggle for power. Desperate for a solution, Aya (Czech actress Kristýna Malérová), the town’s youngest, and most insightful, woman suggests a sex strike, which would force the men to fix the pipe and allow their wives to finally experience the sway and bargaining potential they’ve gained.As far-fetched—as the title suggests—as this premise may seem...
...regulations into place. The law has been years in the making, and the government has delayed approval as it weighed how to incorporate lessons from the latest food-safety scandals. China has endured a series of such scandals in recent years, and often the country's youngest citizens have been the victims. Five years ago, 13 babies died of malnourishment in coastal Fujian province after they were fed formula that contained little or no nutritional value. Last year at least six infants died and some 300,000 were sickened after consuming milk made from powder contaminated with melamine, a chemical...
...Martha Farah, director of the Center for Cognitive Neuroscience at the University of Pennsylvania. "If you want to invest societal resources where they will have the biggest benefit for all of us, clearly the evidence is there now that protecting children from the worst kinds of deprivation in their youngest years will result in more functional, capable, prosocial citizens...