guardian.co.uk Society:
Labiaplasties can be risky, yet the number carried out on the NHS rose by 70% last yearBefore she had even turned 10, Anna had started worrying that there was something physically wrong with her. "I would look at other girls (Read More)
Neatorama:
Trigger Finger of Santa GuerraWhen I die and become Saint Neatorama, I’d like sculptor Al Farrow to make me a reliquary to treasure one of my body parts. Presumably my blogging pinkie. Al has made some 40 unusual reliquaries, (Read More)
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Author : Joey StevieOften when you see an airplane or a helicopter passing through the clouds, what do you feel? Either you want to fly as a passenger or you wish to fly the airplane all by yourself The first option can be f (Read More)
Crooks and Liars:
If they're already admitting to causing deaths, why should they care about a little girl's hearing?What more do we have to do to fight back against these horror stories? What will it take to get these insurance companies to s (Read More)
L.A. Times - Health:
Many binge eaters do not fit into currently defined and accepted psychiatric illnesses. Binge eating was long seen by psychiatrists as an (Read More)
www.guardian.co.uk:
The culmination of a triumph of storytellingYour Face Tomorrow III: Poison, Shadow and Farewellby Javier Marías, translated by Margaret Jull Costa 560pp, Chatto & Windus, £18.99Part two of Javier Marías's metaphysical epic, (Read More)
www.guardian.co.uk:
Suffering from 'novel nausea', Zadie Smith wonders if the essay lives up to its promiseWhy do novelists write essays? Most publishers would rather have a novel. Bookshops don't know where to put them. It's a rare reader who s (Read More)
www.guardian.co.uk:
This past year or two I've been revisiting what you might call my cultural roots. Because I was distracted almost daily by treatment for a wounded foot and unable to work much, I began re-reading the PG Wodehouse, Edgar Rice (Read More)
Politics As Usual:
Sen. McCain has takes unusual step of personally targeting a fellow senator in an attempted grassroots campaign against the Dem bill. John McCain - John McCain presidential campaign 2008 - United States - Ben Nel (Read More)
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AFP - NASA astronaut Randy Bresnik entered an unusual space countdown on Friday as he waited onboard the International Space Station for the birth of his daughter back on Earth. (Read More)
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from Twitter:
@badpirate @Bytemarks That one's all over the web this morning. Unusual to publicize in advance. The crew will be busy fending off fans. (Read More)
Daily Kos:
The good news on the Senate version of the public option is (beyond the fact that there is one included in the bill, making conference that much easier) that it uses the essential components of the HELP version of the public (Read More)