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...will the current blip on the sales charts really endure? Zomnir hopes so. "The whole earring thing was considered wild and crazy 10 years ago. Now it's common," she says. But she concedes that men are "not big on maintenance"--we're talking tedium: a trim, a filing, cuticle removal, and then a base coat, two primary coats and a top clear coat, each and every week. On the other hand, she says, "guys can get away with chipped nails more than women...
...lowest percentage of women among Harvard's nine schools. Fadule said women have historically comprised about 29 percent of the school. Last year's low number was only a "blip," she said...
...result, the rankings released during the first week of school amounted to more than a blip on the radar of the 1996-97 school year...
...hear of heaven is when somebody has died." David Wells, a theology professor at Massachusetts' Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary, notes, "We would expect to hear of it in the Evangelical churches, but I don't hear it at all." He pauses. "I don't think heaven is even a blip on the Christian screen, from one end of the denominational spectrum to the other. The more perplexing question is, What explains this...
...departmental recommendation--rose to 115 last June, nearly 50 percent more than there were in the Class of 1995. And according to Professor of Chinese History Peter K. Bol, a member of the Faculty Council, the number will continue to rise. "It seems not to be a one-year blip," he explained. "There's evidence based on juniors that this is going to continue." Some in the Faculty believe that rising GPAs, spurred by grade inflation, are responsible for the recent increase...