Outlook Weekend: Curses

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Megan Phelps-Roper was born into the Westboro Baptist Church believing that AIDS was God's curse for being gay. Arunachalam Muruganantham took it upon himself to radically improve the way women in rural India deal with their so-called monthly curse ... their periods. Jess Thom has Tourette's syndrome which causes her to have uncontrollable verbal tics in which curse-words feature heavily. Image: Fork lightning striking down Credit: prudkov/GettyImages