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...sappiness and sentimentality that usually plague films of this kind. After watching the movie, I felt a sense of relief and hope comparable to that which is felt after watching a particularly refreshing episode of Oprah—but not much more. “The Secret Life of Bees?? tells the story of Lily Owens, played by Dakota Fanning, who in the first scene of the movie frightfully awakens from a nightmare of her mother’s death. We are introduced to the ensuing mystery of who her mother really was. Lily lives with her widowed...

Author: By Keara D. Cormier-hill, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: The Secret Life of Bees | 10/24/2008 | See Source »

...them a sense of moral enlightenment. The cover is a picture of a green chalk board, on which two chalk birds and several chalk bees are drawn. Judging by this punny picture, this book should be entertaining, light, and full of those awkward “birds-and-the-bees?? moments. The Cleft, by Doris Lessing Cleft sentence, cleft palate, cleft chin, or the Cleft of Venus? The big, black, water-colored bird doesn’t help with the ambiguity. However, what it does suggest is a topical treatment of an ominous, dark, and tenuous subject. Wings...

Author: By Juli Min, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: BY ITS COVER | 12/7/2007 | See Source »

...course, it is the responsibility of parents to have “the birds and the bees?? talk with their children, but not all do. While literature does not replace this role, I would rather a child increase their vocabulary—in male anatomical terms or any other—through reading than through absorption of playground wisdom or a television...

Author: By Ronald K. Kamdem | Title: Not So Lucky | 3/1/2007 | See Source »

Forget about the birds and the bees??it’s the multivitamin. In a study conducted over an eight-year span involving more than 18,500 women, Harvard School of Public Health researchers found that women who took six or more multivitamin tablets a week reduced their incidence of ovulatory infertility by 40 percent. “Since these findings are preliminary, it is important that they undergo peer review (currently underway) so that the medical and scientific communities have a chance to scrutinize the study more closely and decide about their relevance,” Jorge...

Author: By Alexa D West, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Vitamins Prevent Female Infertility | 10/27/2006 | See Source »

After that first shift though, the Tulsa team and its coach, Butch Kaebel, discussed the situation with Commissioner M. Thomas Berry, Jr. With the agreement of Rio Grande Valley Killer Bees??Tulsa’s opponent for the night—Ruggiero was allowed to return to the ice in the third period...

Author: By Gabriel M. Velez, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Mixing It Up, Making History with the Big Boys | 2/10/2005 | See Source »

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