meanwhile

[rm]

Return of the ugly child question:
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/05/03/health/03ugly.html?8hpib

"Although the researchers were unsure why, good-looking boys were usually kept in closer proximity to the adults taking care of them than were pretty girls. The researchers speculated that girls might be considered more competent and better able to act independently than boys of the same age."

Or perhaps we just expect girls to be stolen.

like in Kyrgyzstan

Comments

[lawnrrd]

When I first read the Kyrgyzstan story in the Times, I have to admit that I immediately thought of the O. Henry story The Ransom of Red Chief.