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Proposing a program of "media literacy," Catherine Steiner-Adair, director of education, prevention and outreach for the Eating Disorders Center, argued for greater acceptance of different body shapes...
...Adair said that individuals, particularly women, have come to be judged more on their appearances than on their personalities. She said that this can contribute to abnormal eating behaviors in women...
Describing the issue as one of "body-size prejudice," Adair also said that eating disorders should be treated as an issue of social justice...
...Ants on the Melon (Random House). Virginia Hamilton Adair's first book of poetry is one of the year's imaginative peaks. The 87 poems by this 83-year-old poet are short--the longest runs to 52 lines--and as richly terse as haiku. But the many themes addressed in this collection--life and love and loss--are clear and capacious, a distillation of life into a perfect ordering of words...
...Harvard-Radcliffe Hillel; Mallar Bhatacharya '98, co-president, South Asian Association Vipin Goyal '98, co-president, South Asian Association; Devi Sengupta '98, co-chair, Minority Students Association; Eric D. Albert '97, treasurer, Progressive Action Network; Jante C. Santos '99, treasurer, Kuumba Singers, business manager, Diversity and Distinction; Diana L. Adair, co-chair, Girl Spot; Helen F. Skinner '98, president and co-director, Expressions Dance Company