Archive for March, 2007
Chinese bound feet
Zhou Guizhen, who is 86-years-old, shows one of her bound feet where the bones in the four small toes were broken and forced underneath the foot over a period of time, at her home in Liuyi village in China’s southern Yunnan Province, February 2007. Villages in China where women with bound feet survive are […]
Bill Stickers will be prosecuted
Neck tumor man
A man from China is to finally have a huge tumour removed today after discovering it 17 years ago.
Huang Liqian, 58, first discovered a bizarre growth on the back of his neck in 1990, but chose to ignore it.
However, as the years rolled on, it continued to increase in size at a rapid pace, with […]
Presidency for Dummies
Sue Richards knows her place
Camel Bookmobile
“The actual Camel Bookmobile brings books to semi-nomadic people in Northeastern Kenya who live with the most minimal of possessions, suffering from chronic poverty and periodic drought. I visited the region during a period of drought and made several hours-long walks through the African bush with the bookmobile. I cannot describe how moving it was […]