Word: bents
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...whole theme of the African Studies concentration and committee…is transforming Africa through knowledge.” His sentiments reflect what many in the department see as a larger social mission. West, with his outspoken politics, was the first to bring this activist bent to AAAS. Three years since his departure, the impulse for social action continues to resonate with the department’s faculty, but it has been incorporated more subtly into the larger curriculum...
...that there is a place for it in the gentler field of healing. The son of Ghanaian academics, he was born in Wisconsin, reared in Tanzania and Kenya, and earned degrees in medicine and public health at Harvard and an M.B.A. at Oxford. After graduating, he followed his business bent and took a job at McKinsey & Co., the big New York City management-consulting firm. But that didn't mean he left the medical world behind. The field of medicine, after all, is really about product distribution--that product being good health--and from what he could see, the distribution...
...story quoted a women's rights activist as saying, "Women must work twice as hard as men to advance their careers because of prejudices within Japanese companies ... And then they have to go home and work three times as hard there." Japanese women work until their backs are literally bent to the ground and get no thanks from their husbands and sons. I am glad that a high-profile publication like Time is shedding light on this important subject. Amy O'Dell Obihiro, Japan...
...face of Indian cinema to millions of people, Bachchan's entry into filmdom was not spectacular, as he made a series of flops before his first hit, Zanjeer. His perseverance and persistence paid off finally once his professionalism came to the fore. Even when the media were hell-bent on finishing off his career each time a movie bombed, he resurfaced and confounded his detractors. Most Indians admire Bachchan not just for his talent and charisma but also for his focus and ability to smile during times of adversity. Sajit Nambudiripad Kerala, India...
...bodies covered with blood lying all around," Chawla says, gesturing to the ground, now covered with glass shards, and tattered bits of clothing; one cycle-rickshaw, partially destroyed, lies amidst the mess. Windows of several nearby building have shattered; and the sign-boards above the shops have been bent backwards, as if by a giant hair-dryer blowing at them. Chawla says, "I saw one child which couldn't have been more than six months old, which was dead; its body had been split by the blast. And then there was a family of shoppers, all dead-a mother...