Parents seek to ban books. (via Dustbury) Are some parents overprotective? Too conservative? It probably totally sucks being a kid of a domineering parent. They force ideals on you, they don't want you to think for yourself, what they say goes. Sometimes I think I'm incredibly lucky to have parents who never questioned what I brought home from the library.
Forbidden Fruit: Something About a Mangosteen. Ah, so that's what they're called. The first (and so far only) time I've had the pleasure of consuming one was many years ago when I was visiting Vietnam. Here's something interesting from the article which I have never heard of before: "In this balance between yin and yang, mangosteens supply the cool element to offset the heat of the other most-loved Southeast Asian fruit, the huge, spiky durian, whose foul aroma would stun a goat. Many Asians therefore like to consume the two fruits at the same time."
Googling Me, Observed. Spend money to see who's trying to find you? There's got to be a more insidious way of tracking.
Going to Harvard for $7.50. I always notice the custodians and the cleaning ladies. Maybe this ignorance of the "underclass" is more endemic to students and administration who feel they have more privileges?
Trying to Kill AIDS Virus by Luring It Out of Hiding. Many AIDS specialists are working on ways to tease the virus out of hiding so it can be killed, and real progress has been made. A laboratory at the University of California at Los Angeles recently reported 80 percent success in mice. Even that, however, cannot stop the virus from roaring back. "Eighty percent is close," said Dr. Roger J. Pomerantz, an AIDS researcher at Thomas Jefferson University in Philadelphia. "But close only counts in horseshoes and hand grenades."
Death Stinks, but It's Revealing. Even if they claim there's nothing morbid about leaving corpses to rot out in the open (and all for science, too), it's still creepy.
