Intensive health and nutrition education is delivered by animatrices to women belonging to the women’s clubs using a curriculum called RICHES² developed by the NGO, CARE.[…]Apparently, one animatrice threatened her younger sister with public humiliation if she did not exclusively breastfeed for three months.

The Harvard man went back into the kitchen and sat down at a rickety table covered with a red-checked oil-cloth. On it were spread the spoiled ham, a dish of poke salad, a corn pone, and a pot of weak coffee.

Kali reached with her own left hand and clasped Whit's, palm to palm; seconds later, they joined right hand to right hand, forming the mannaz symbol, the ancient runic sign for humanity, with the figure-eight of their crossed arms.

They discuss the implications of online dating; online pornography; virtual sex in the fantasy worlds of Second Life and The Sims; and technosexual intercourse, an activity traditionally associated with phone sex but now embracing all manner of cyber-based connections such as sexting (sexually explicit text messaging) and erotic instant messaging.