Americans need to vote to kick the state out of the bedroom, or the boardroom, but not both.
Medically, it was possible to make a woman speak, but there was no medical way of making one silent.
As someone who has studied Mandarin for years, I can tell you that the most difficult aspect of any language to master is neither tone, grammar, nor spelling, but rather how to use it to communicate with a woman.
A golden wedding is a terrible time for a marital crisis.
The happy life seems to be lived in accordance with goodness, and such a life implies seriousness and doesn't consist in amusing oneself.
The judges decided that a child who has been brutalised becomes freer to make sexual choices. So a child prostitute is somehow no longer a child.
People inherit mitochondria only from their mothers, which is why only the female line of descent can be tracked using them.
Being liked is not the same as doing shit.
Being gay-friendly can attract gay customers, too. Witeck-Combs Communications, a consultancy, estimates that gay Americans spend $835 billion a year. But But homosexuality is still illegal in 76 countries — including such vibrant business hubs as Dubai and Singapore — and is punishable by death in Saudi Arabia, Iran and parts of Nigeria. 29 US states still allow discrimination on the basis of sexual preference.
"As part of their daily lives, children across Europe and the world continue to be spanked, slapped, hit, smacked, shaken, kicked, pinched, punched, caned, flogged, belted, beaten and battered in the name of discipline, mainly by adults whom they depend on."
Ali Hili, head of a group called Iraqi LGBT, (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender) says that since the 2003 invasion more than 700 people have been killed because of their sexuality. Lesbians in Muslim countries tend to have an easier time: in Iran they are sentenced to death only on the fourth conviction.
Why, though, allow yourself to be ambushed if you are a female? Why mate with a second-class beau who cannot be bothered to bring you the fishy equivalent of roses and diamonds? No matter how hard males compete, they will always be outwitted by the wiliest, most subversive competitors of alclass="underline" females.
With their talk of placing stability and growth above individual rights, Communist officials sometimes make human rights sound like air conditioning, or colour television: a luxury you can afford once you acquire a certain level of wealth.
Women can be required to lift their veils "if necessary" — would that be before or after a veiled suicide-bomber detonates her (or his) device?
It is particularly striking in a Stockholm playground filled with Somali toddlers, squeaking as they queue for sledge-rides.
When most people talk about "broken Britain" they mean whether someone stands for a pregnant woman on a train or fears being stabbed for asking kids to throw their litter in a bin.
In 1849 George Bancroft, an American historian and diplomat, said that for a man to have two countries was as intolerable as for him to have two wives.
It is thought that about 10m Asian women sell sex to 75m men, who in turn have a further 50m regular partners.
Sharing a womb is not an ideal start to life.
To Mr Santorum the Supreme Court's ruling in 2003 that anti-sodomy laws were unconstitutional was a bad mistake: this was a slippery slope that would establish a right to bigamy, polygamy, incest, adultery — "anything".
When Iranians say "Death to America" they sometimes mean
"Please America, show me more love".
"Pre-salt oil is like a pretty woman on a dance floor full of men," Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, Brazil's president, put it bluntly. "Everybody wants a go."
Relatives, friends, children and dogs are du, everyone else is Sie.
"Bin Laden", he said, "is the illegitimate child of Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher".
To Edward Weston Charis Wilson was a landscape — in the repeated curve of her thigh and calf he saw shapes like sea shells, with the luminescence and faint muscular rays of the great chambered nautilus. Her torso, outlined in light, was like the trunk of a cypress tree just entering the soil. Her skin, every follicle and flaw in focus in the ground glass of his lens, had the same sun- and sea-wind weathering, but fainter, of the stones of the Californian desert, and her hips had the convolutions of the naked mountains.
Any Mohawk who marries a non-native must leave. "Everyone knows the law: if you marry out, you stay out".
Mr Ahmadinejad compared Hillary Clinton, the American secretary of state, who has asked Syria to distance itself from Iran, to "the daughter-in-law's mother", in the Iranian family a symbol of easily ignored powerlessness.
Greater promiscuity in females does, indeed, lead to bigger testes, presumably because a male needs to make more sperm to have a fighting chance of fathering offspring, if those sperm are competing with sperm from a lot of other males. Gorillas, which discourage dalliances between other males and the females of their harem, have small testes. Chimpanzees, among whom females mate widely, have large ones. Human testes lie between these two extremes.
If America stood for anything, it was to kick Communist butts.
Her passage through the family was like the river Rhone flowing through the lake of Geneva "without mingling any part of its streams with that lake".
In 2000 the census takers in China reported an undercount of 1.81%. Officials deemed this to be within acceptable limits. To compensate, they added more than 22m notional people to the total, to produce a population of 1.27 billion. Many of the uncounted were so-called "black children", ie, those born in breach of regulations that limit urban couples to a single child. From sample surveys, officials estimate the population at the end of 2009 to have been 1.33 billion.
She accidentally poisoned him with a potion she thought would render him eternally faithful.
By riding on the coat-tails of his wife's brother-in-law, Nathan Rothschild.
Durex, Trojan and Australia's Ansell offer chiefly condom brands that appeal to men, with names such as "Performa", "Magnum", and "Jissbon", whose name in Chinese means "James Bond". Safedom, by contrast, sells "Elegant Winter" condoms under brands such as "Beautiful Girl" and "Green Lemon" in oval-shaped, paisley-patterned tins. Its marketing emphasises female health benefits. Whether or not Safedom goes all the way in Europe and other markets will, as usual, depend on the womenA short man, and a serial fornicator, Koestler, it seems, used his conquests as a kind of self-validation.
A trait is sexually selected if it evolved specifically to enhance mating success. They come in two main forms: weapons, such as an elk's horns are used to fight off competitors; and ornaments, like a peacock's tail, which are used to advertise genetic fitness to attract the opposite sex.
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Why not name storms after senators instead?
On current trends, the Arctic ocean will be largely ice-free in summer by 2040.
Sharks kill jast 10-20 people worldwide each year while humans kill around 73m sharks.
How did the world get from bacteria to Bach, from fungus to fugues?
In August 2016 the result of the Great Elephant Census, the most extensive count of a wild species ever attempted, suggested that about 350,000 African savannah elephants remain alive. This is down by 140,000 since 2007.
If Mr Xi were a bird, he would be a swan.
The body had decided that the pink dolphin, a rare type sometimes seen cavorting in the territory's harbour, would be a mascot of the handover festivities.
Of the millions of animal species on Earth, only one has built a spaceship and flown to the Moon.
By the middle of the century the ocean could contain more plastic than fish by weight. There are estimated to be 5trn bits of plastic in the ocean, with over 8m tonnes of the stuff added every year.