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Let’s say a woman gives birth to, but does not raise, a child, who then ends up in another family. What is the woman to the child? Is she called a “natural mother”? A “birth mother” or “birthmother”? A “biological mother”? What is the child’s father called? The “real father”? The “sire” or “begetter”? What...
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For the past six weeks, Malaysians have been mesmerized by a series of shocking sex videos. The video clips, which started circulating in journalists’ WhatsApp groups on June 11 and then went viral, depicted what the New Straits Times described as “two men frolicking in bed.” Within a day, Haziq Abdullah Abdul Aziz, a 27-year-old...
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One Sunday night last fall, Courtney Mims was out with a friend when “No Caller ID” flashed across her phone. Mims, a senior in the journalism program at the University of Florida, Gainesville, doesn’t usually answer calls from unknown numbers, but she had recently distributed her resume and sports-reporting reels to media companies. Graduation was...
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On June 12, Chong Man-lung, a contract driver, arrived at Hong Kong’s government complex ferrying a reporter for Radio Television Hong Kong. That day, tens of thousands of people were protesting a government bill that would have allowed criminal suspects to be sent to mainland China to stand trial. Chong stepped out of the car...
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