Filth or fine art?
Buzludzha was once the futuristic, flying-saucer shaped headquarters of the Communist Party in Bulgaria, but it is now a semi-ruin after being left to rot http://econ.st/1Z35eZn
Bedtime stories complete with mutilation, cannibalism, infanticide and incest.
Are Grimm’s Fairy Tales too twisted for children?
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Female genital mutilation has declined in many places, but not all. 30 million girls and women are still estimated to be at risk over the next decade #econarchive (2013) http://econ.st/1DXhFL6
Wounds and scars
The barbarism that is female genital mutilationMORE than 125m girls and women alive today have been subjected to female genital mutilation of some kind in the 29...
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Dancing genitals. For kids.
Gotta love the Swedes
Swedish children’s TV dancing genitals cartoon sparks parental outcry
Parents complain about cartoon video for children’s channel Barnkanalen...
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BBC World Service
Female genital mutilation was banned in Egypt in 2008 but there is still a demand and it is still widely practised. One woman who performs FGM procedures several times a week has been speaking to the BBC's Orla Guerin.
Female Genital Mutilation - "Mums come begging us to do it"
BBC.IN
'All you want to do is watch TV and rot in your own filth. Instead you spend the evening backing up your phone, downloading a gigantic file and sitting around while your phone undergoes an intense psychological makeover, at the end of which it may or may not function'
“The solution to the gender divide in housework generally is just that simple: don’t bother,” writes Stephen Marche in Opinion.
情感教育 p.552 梁永安
[P.552] He mingled in society, and he conceived
attachments to other women. But the constant recollection of his first love
made these appear insipid; and besides the vehemence of desire, the bloom of
the sensation had vanished. In like manner, his intellectual ambitions had
grown weaker. Years passed; and he was forced to support the burthen of a life
in which his mind was unoccupied and his heart devoid of energy.
他出入社交場合,跟不同的女人談情說愛,In this case Congress would be enhancing President Obama's foreign-policy leverage in Asia, not undermining it. Some of the wiser figures in the White House might even be thankful if the Congress takes this difficult decision off their hands. As well as selling the F-16s, lawmakers might also consider how to strengthen the Taiwan Relations Act to put arms sales to the island on a more automatic schedule that would allow future Presidents to deflect Chinese pressure. That would be a boon to American policy making, an assurance for Taiwan's freedom—and a spur to more responsible Chinese conduct.
Definition of
genital
in English:
ADJECTIVE
1.1Psychoanalysis (In Freudian theory) relating to or denoting the final stage of psychosexualdevelopment reached in adulthood.
NOUN
(genitals)Back to topOrigin
late Middle English: from Old French, or from Latin genitalis, from genitus, past participle of gignere 'beget'.
bother
Pronunciation: /ˈbɒðə/
Translate bother | into French | into German | into Italian | into Spanish verb
noun
[mass noun]exclamation
British
Phrases
can't be bothered (to do something)
Origin:
late 17th century (as a noun in the dialect sense 'noise, chatter'): of Anglo-Irish origin; probably related to Irish bodhaire 'noise', bodhraim 'deafen, annoy'. The verb (originally dialect) meant 'confuse with noise' in the early 18th century
mutilation
Pronunciation: /ˌmjuːt(ɪ)ˈleɪʃn/
noun[mass noun]
NOUN
1The action of mutilating or being mutilated:a culture which found any mutilation of the bodyabhorrent[ COUNT NOUN] : there were fatalities and appallingmutilations
1.1The infliction of serious damage on something:the proposed mutilation of City Hall by our own councillors
(būn)
n.
- A benefit bestowed, especially one bestowed in response to a request.
- A timely blessing or benefit: A brisk breeze is a boon to sailors.
[Middle English bone, from Old Norse bōn, prayer.]
boon2 (būn)
adj.
- Convivial; jolly: a boon companion to all.
- Archaic. Favorable.
[Middle English bon, good, from Old French, from Latin bonus.]
Cost of Stimulus Cash Vexes Schools
The $18.2 billion marked out in last year's federal stimulus package for research and development was hailed as a boon for universities, but many that received funds are finding their share of the costs burdensome.
-some
suff.
Characterized by a specified quality, condition, or action: bothersome.
[Middle English -som, from Old English -sum, -like.]
-some2
suff.
A group of a specified number of members: threesome.
-some3
suff.
- Body: centrosome.
- Chromosome: monosome.
[From Greek sōma, body.]
noun
[mass noun]
burthen
Pronunciation: /ˈbəːð(ə)n/
noun
- archaic form of burden.
Derivatives
burthensome
adjective
adjective
filth
Pronunciation: /fɪlθ/
nounOrigin:
Old English fȳlth 'rotting matter, rottenness', also 'corruption, obscenity', of Germanic origin; related to Dutch vuilte, also to foulrot
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VERB ( rots, rotting, rotted)
[ MASS NOUN] Back to top
NOUN
Origin
Old English rotian (verb), of Germanic origin; related to Dutch rotten; the noun ( Middle English) may have come via Scandinavian.
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