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Marilyn Degman holds her 10-year-old toy poodle, Angel Baby, outside the First Baptist Church in Moore, Okla.

Half a dozen temporary shelters have been set up for animals lost when a terrifying tornado hit Moore, Okla. One veterinary technician says, “It’s pretty amazing anything could survive what happened, but animals are pretty resilient.”

Photo: Katie Hayes Luke

life:

Teen mom, 1971 edition.

Photos from a 1971 LIFE magazine story on teen pregnancy, “Help for High School Mothers,” chronicling the lives of teen moms and moms-to-be.

(Ralph Crane—Time & Life Pictures/Getty Images)

Excellent photo essay on teen moms from 1971. Life revives these amid news that teen pregnancies are on the decline.  — heidi

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Can you find the artist hidden in this photo? — heidi

Ambrose! —Wright

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Sports-talk radio was abuzz Wednesday morning with some comments that Sergio Garcia, the professional golfer, made about his frequent foil, Tiger Woods.

“We’ll have him ‘round every night,” Garcia said. “We will serve fried chicken.”

The comment came after Garcia was asked if he would invite his rival, with whom he has a frosty relationship, to his house during next month’s U.S. Open. Woods responded to Garcia’s tweets on Twitter: “The comment that was made wasn’t silly. It was wrong, hurtful and clearly inappropriate … I’m confident that there is real regret that the remark was made.” (Garcia offered a textbook nonapology apology.)

Wait. This again?

This black-people-and-fried-chicken thing is really old — it’s not even the first time a professional golfer made a joke about fried chicken and Tiger Woods.

What is it with this stereotype about black people loving fried chicken?

— Where Did That Fried Chicken Stereotype Come From? : Code Switch

(via Amid Nails And Mud, Oklahoma Neighborhood Pulls Together : The Two-Way)

Siblings (from left) Alan, Sylvia and Ariel Trillo pose for a portrait at their home. The Trillo home is one of a few in their subdivision that is still standing though everything inside is damaged. Sylvia was amazed at the outpouring of help the community received from strangers.

Click on the link to see more photos from Moore, Okla., and read Alan Greenblatt’s report from the Heather Wood neighborhood there.

Photo: Katie Hayes Luke for NPR

Be nice, worship God and eat pigs’ feet: That’s how Jeralean Talley of Inkster, Mich., says she lived to celebrate her 114th birthday today — and be crowned the oldest person in the United States. Using census records, the Gerontology Research Group verified her title after the previous oldest American, Elsie Thompson, died at 113 in March. Talley is still a youngster, relatively speaking, compared to the world’s oldest person, Jiroemon Kimura, who is 116 and lives in Japan.

— Oldest American, Jeralean Talley, Turns 114 Years Old

Photo: Courtesy of Michael Kinloch

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Vendors nap at their stalls inside a market in Jiaxing, Zhejiang province, China. REUTERS/William Hong

A Seattle Times review of a recent Madonna tour stop praises the artist for “rocking us as a feminist icon” and applauds the singer for her brazen sexuality: “stripping down to a bra, then pulling her pants down below a thong and baring her cheeks to the Key [Arena].” Even the Guardian’s Freeman, in an ode to Like a Prayer, the writer’s favorite album, speaks longingly about Madonna’s midriff-baring ’80s fashion and the video to the title track, which “featured a woman named Madonna apparently giving a blow job to a black Jesus.”

Through a career that has included crotch-grabbing, nudity, BDSM, Marilyn Monroe fetishizing, and a 1992 book devoted to sex, Madonna has been viewed as a feminist provocateur, pushing the boundaries of acceptable femininity. But Beyoncé’s use of her body is criticized as thoughtless and without value beyond male titillation, providing a modern example of the age-old racist juxtaposition of animalistic black sexuality vs. controlled, intentional, and civilized white sexuality.

— All Hail the Queen? | Bitch Media