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THE COFFEE BREAK - Wednesday, April 30, 2008
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An art major at Connecticut's Yale University is set to show
a project featuring video of her inseminating herself and
having drug-induced miscarriages.
Aliza Shvarts said she impregnated herself "as often as
possible" with donors' sperm during the same nine-month
period she consumed drugs to cause miscarriages, Yale Daily
News reported Tuesday.
Shvarts said the aim of her creation is to ignite
conversation about links between the human body and art.
"Sure, some people will be upset with the message and will
not agree with it, but it's not the intention of the piece
to scandalize anyone," she said.
Several students reportedly oppose to the controversial
abortion project. "(Shvarts' exhibit) turns what is a
serious decision for women into an absurdism," student
Sara Rahman said.
Shvarts has defended her project, saying it was a "private
and personal endeavor" that "lives up to the standard of
what art is supposed to be."
The project, which begins showing Tuesday, features a
hanging cube containing blood from Shvarts' miscarriages
combined with videos of her going through them in her
bathtub, the Daily News reported.
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Man: Woman attacked over porn mistake
An Albuquerque man said his girlfriend attempted to stab
him because she thought he had acted in a pornographic
movie. The man said he was watching the movie with his
girlfriend, identified as Amanda Moya, 20, when she accused
him of being an actor from the film and began chasing him
with a knife, KOB-TV, Albuquerque, reported. "She almost
shanked me and everything. She put the ... knife right under
my throat," the victim told a 911 operator. The man
reportedly fled the house on foot, wearing only a pair of
shorts and ran to a business parking lot, where he
encountered a deputy headed for the scene of the incident,
KOB reported. Moya was arrested and charged with aggravated
assault and aggravated battery. Deputies said she was also
charged with child abuse because she left her 8-month-old
baby boy home alone while she chased the victim. The
alleged victim told KOB-TV Moya has previous battery
charges against her. He alleged she previously stabbed him
in the face and bit his chest. "She's not even supposed
to be around me," he said.
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Man asks God for cheaper gas
A man of faith from the District of Columbia area is going
over the heads of government and industry leaders by asking
God for cheaper gas. Rocky Twyman, a public relations
consultant and church choir director from the Washington
suburbs, said he held his first gas station pray-in
Wednesday in Washington. He followed that up with an event
in San Francisco Friday and had a third prayer session
scheduled Monday in Oakland, Calif., the San Francisco
Chronicle reported. Twyman said the prayers he leads do
not ask God for any specific event to lower the price at
the pump. He said he believes prayers of this manner should
be kept simple. "God, deliver us from these high gas
prices," Twyman said. "That's all they have to say."
Consumer advocates said that while they may doubt Twyman's
methods will yield results, they applaud his effort.
"Given the complete inertia and silence of this White
House on a crisis that has people feeling just hopeless,
prayer is probably as good as anything," said Judy Dugan,
research director with the non-profit group Consumer
Watchdog. "Frankly, I wish them luck."
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Professor unwittingly gives son alcohol
A Michigan professor says he temporarily lost custody of
his son after lemonade he bought for him at a ballpark
turned out to contain alcohol. Christopher Ratte of Ann
Arbor, a tenured professor of classical archaeology at the
University of Michigan, said he doesn't watch much
television, so he did not recognize that the Mike's Hard
Lemonade he purchased for his 7-year-old son during a
Detroit Tigers game at Comerica Park contained alcohol,
the Detroit Free Press reported. "I'd never drunk it, never
purchased it, never heard of it," Ratte said. "And it's
certainly not what I expected when I ordered a lemonade
for my 7-year-old." A security guard who noticed the bottle
in the child's clutches referred the matter to police, who
interviewed Ratte while his son was being examined at
Children's Hospital. Less than 90 minutes after Ratte was
confronted by the security guard, doctors determined the
boy had no alcohol in his blood. However, Ratte said the
police officer told him her supervisor was requiring her
to contact Child Protective Services. The professor said
it was two days before his wife was able to take the boy
home from foster care and nearly a week before he was
allowed by the court to move back him with his wife and
son. Ratte said he and his wife have filed a formal
complaint with the CPS ombudsman's office.
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~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Reader Comments ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
What are your thoughts on Disney stars showing too much
skin?
"It's sad to see these young ladies strive to become sex
symbols before they've even completed puberty. It's even
more pathetic that a lot of adults seem to like it."
"This does not surprise me in the least but I have to
wonder...where were her parents? She's so young...they
should have been with her and exercised parental
judgement."
"Miley is at the start of becoming a woman and I under
stand the pressure to be sexy, but she need her family
to guide her better."
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