Recent Votes

• Sex-Reassignment Surgery: The Operation That Can Ruin Your Life

  Source: Standpoint

  The past decade has seen an increase in the number of people diagnosed as transsexual. There are now 1,500-1,600 new referrals a year to one of the handful of gender identity clinics in Britain.

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• A New Way to Be Mad - Healthy People Seeking Unnecessary Amputations

  Source: The Atlantic

  Healthy people seeking amputations are nowhere near as rare as one might think. In May of 1998 a seventy-nine-year-old man from New York traveled to Mexico and paid $10,000 for a black-market leg amputation; he died of gangrene in a motel.

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• Why Doesn't Exercise Lead to Weight Loss?

  Source: The New York Times

  For some time, researchers have been finding that people who exercise don't necessarily lose weight. A study published online in September in The British Journal of Sports Medicine was the latest to report apparently disappointing slimming results.

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• The Cat Who Got Swine Flu

  Source: The New York Times

  A few days after two members of an Ames, Iowa, family came down with the flu, they noticed their 13-year-old cat wasn't feeling too well either. The cat has since become the first documented case of a feline with the new H1N1 virus, commonly called swine flu.

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• Movie Review - A Christmas Carol (Walt Disney) - Ghosts of Technology Present

  Source: The New York Times

  But the surprise of this movie — a welcome one — is that, in the midst of obeying the rules of modern-day spectacle, it sticks close to some of the sturdy virtues of the source material. Mr.

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