quote [ The 22-year-old woman suffers from severe and complicated illnesses. Her doctors have told her that she will likely die giving birth,...

Beatriz is carrying an anencephalic fetus, which means it has no brain and is only expected to survive at maximum a few hours after birth, even if she carries it to full term.

Beatriz has lupus, worsened by a kidney malfunction, and it is very dangerous for her to be pregnant. ]

quote [ Parents of a 15-year-old Chinese tourist have apologized after the teenager defaced a stone sculpture in an ancient Egyptian temple with graffiti.

The act drew ire in both Egypt and China -- generating a massive online backlash amongst China's unforgiving netizens.

The vandal carved 'Ding Jinhao was here' in Chinese in the 3,500 year old Luxor Temple. ]

quote [ The critics said his writing was clumsy, ungrammatical, repetitive and repetitive. They said it was full of unnecessary tautology.... For some reason they found something funny in sentences such as “His eyes went white, like a shark about to attack.” They even say my books are packed with banal and superfluous description, thought the 5ft 9in man. He particularly hated it when they said his imagery was nonsensical. It made his insect eyes flash like a rocket. ]

quote [ AS A young girl growing up in Canberra, Patricia Piccinini used to wander the grand corridors of the National Gallery of Australia admiring the walls of paintings. On Saturday she returned as the star attraction, unveiling her latest creation, Skywhale. ]

quote [ Here is a peculiar thing. Most people think time exists. Most physicists think it does not. Now a prominent American-Canadian physicist is maintaining that we, who never doubted it, were right after all. “It’s time to reinstate time,” says Lee Smolin of the Perimeter Institute in Waterloo, Ontario. “By doing so, we will remove a major roadblock preventing progress in fundamental physics.” ]

quote [ As an atheist Muslim (I'm not a believer, but I love Eid, the feasts of Ramadan and my Muslim family and friends), I could be jailed or executed in my country of birth, the country I grew up in and a host of other Muslim countries around the world for writing this very piece. Obviously, this is an unsettling, scary feeling for me. You may describe that fear as a very literal form of "Islamophobia." But is that the same thing as anti-Muslim bigotry? No. ]

quote [ The program enrolls Medicare patients with at least one chronic illness and one hospitalization in the past year. It then sends a trained nurse to see them every week, or every month, whether they’re healthy or sick. It sounds simple and, in a way, it is. But simple things can be revolutionary. ]

quote [ Stapel was an academic star in the Netherlands and abroad, the author of several well-regarded studies on human attitudes and behavior...

“What’s up?” Stapel asked, settling onto a couch. Two graduate students had made an accusation, Zeelenberg explained. His eyes began to fill with tears. “They suspect you have been committing research fraud.” ]

quote [ Soon after, “the assembly immediately turned into a full-blown lecture on the supposed miracles, powers, and teachings of Jesus Christ and the Church Representative encouraged all students to find sanctity in him,” and no one was permitted to leave. “The School’s truancy officer, Jeff White (“Officer White”), harassed several students who attempted to leave and told them to sit back down,” read the complaint. ]

quote [ While everyone is familiar with water in the liquid, ice, and gas phases, water can also exist in many other phases over a vast range of temperature and pressure conditions.

..scientists in a new study have discovered a second phase that is more stable than the original. The new phase of superionic ice could make up a large component of the interiors of giant icy planets such as Uranus and Neptune. ]