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...general, the number of people who pursue multiple degrees is very small. Because the programs are often unofficial exact numbers are hard to attain...
...angers me is that just as we once suggested "a woman's place is in the home," we now see ourselves entrapped by the need to be at work. Women are not at college to land great providers as they may once have been but to pursue careers and attain certain lifestyles. Just think about how many people would say you'd wasted the opportunity of Harvard if all you wanted was to stay home with your kids...
...ivory tower: the professor lifts weights six days a week, from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. (He can even mark historical occasions by his workouts: "I remember when the Challenger went down; I was doing a set of squats.") "We are being assaulted by images virtually impossible to attain without the use of drugs," says Pope. "So what happens when you change a million-year-old equilibrium of nature...
...when younger boys took Pope's test, they revealed an even deeper sense of inadequacy about their bodies. More than half of boys ages 11 to 17 chose as their physical ideal an image possible to attain only by using steroids. So they do. Boys are a big part of the clientele at Muscle Mania (not its real name), a weight-lifting store that TIME visited last week at a strip mall in a Boston suburb. A couple of teenagers came in to ask about tribulus, one of the many over-the-counter drugs and body-building supplements the store...
...brutal life of pre-civil society--is not an unmitigated good. In fact, it is the enemy of society, order, peace and of our own well-being. No one wants a brutish life. Hobbes writes that we all must give up our natural manly tendencies in order to attain some remnant of civilization. Pride is an obstacle to our own safety. In short, he recognizes that our boys may want to go hunting, but we need to trick them into self-restraint...