• Reading Level 5
Science

How it may soon be weird not to be green

THE GREEN REVOLUTION: 2/5 Society. Will being green soon be as normal as saying please and thank you? A recent book explains how things we take for granted can change remarkably quickly. Yu-fang was only two when the process of binding her feet began. Her mother wound a 20ft piece of white cloth round them, bending all her toes under the sole except the two big toes. Then she placed a large stone on top to crush the arch of the foot. Yu-fang screamed in agony until her mother put a gag in her mouth. She fainted, recovered consciousness, and fainted again.

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