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These developments have the potential to exacerbate a number of already disturbing trends in the culture of American women. The advent of the new size “subzero” runs the risk of tempting women to aspire toward even lower, and by extension often much unhealthier weights for themselves, as the article notes. Lately, it is not unusual to hear about women aspiring to lose enough weight to fit a size two, a size much smaller than the previously common target size of six. Obviously this is not true for women of all cultures, as different subsets...
...Chinese officials sometimes extol the healthy qualities of wine - in any case seeing it as better than local spirits which are often made of rice, corn and other cereals. China has officially committed to reduce import tariffs as part of its membership of the World Trade Organization. And the advent of stores like VIN, albeit catering only to privileged citizens, may presage some bigger trend in the future. "Wine has become very popular, particularly among young upper-middle-class Chinese, and in particular young upper-middle-class and wealthy Chinese women with a lot of disposable income," enthuses Leah...
...tradition at Harvard. At first, students were all white, Anglo-Saxon, Protestant, and male. Eventually, men of other faiths were admitted, as were men of color. Finally, with the merger of Radcliffe, women became full members of the Harvard community. In the past decade, the changes have accelerated; the advent of affirmative action has made diversity of every form a goal of most universities.As it should be. But while we firmly believe that a diverse campus is a strong campus, a new frontier has been reached that deserves further scrutiny—affirmative action for gay students.This past Monday...
...With the advent of the third season of “Lost,” we are able to embark on a new chapter of excitement, mystery, and confusion with our plane-crash survivors, as the newly captive Jack, Kate, and Sawyer struggle to free themselves from the Others and their creepy leader Ben (a.k.a. Henry Gale a.k.a. that freaky serial killer from “The Practice”). However, before we move forward, let us take a moment to remember the past…the places that are now destroyed (i.e. Locke’s Hatch), the people...
Although street lit's roots reach back to the 1970s and the novels of Donald Goines and Iceberg Slim, the development of cheap digital printing smashed one barrier to entry. And the advent of Amazon, which diminished the need for display space in bookstores, smashed another. So street-lit authors had a route around mainstream publishing houses. Following the success of The Coldest Winter Ever by Sister Souljah in 2000--it sold 475,000 copies--a flood of gritty, self-published crime novels hit the market. What street-lit authors may have lacked in wordsmithing, they made...