Word: bloomed
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...honor, was instrumental in the creation of the Peer Advising Fellows program and organized a photo exhibit and brought guest speakers to campus after returning from an alternative spring break trip. Beck received a $1,500 cash stipend—funded through an endowment from Terrie Fried Bloom ’75—and a jewelry box. Grosso is the director of student internships at the Institute of Politics. Pasricha is a black-belt in martial arts who founded the Health Education Leadership Program, a non-profit dedicated to tobacco-awareness. She literally “kicks butts...
...course, no such bloom would occur if the American soil were not already faith-saturated. But Ratzinger believes in America's "obvious spiritual foundation," its natural, Puritan-instilled DNA. He is well aware that this is eroding; he thinks we watch too much TV and fears that American secularization is proceeding at an "accelerated pace." But he insists that there is a "much clearer and implicit sense" in the U.S. than in Europe of a morality "bequeathed by Christianity." He has also given earnest thought to the mechanics of this civil religion, specifying that to affect the moral consensus...
...live there. Fish and other sea life flee, or suffocate. That's the Gulf's dead zone, and last year it reached 7,915 sq. mi (20,500 sq. km) - nearly the size of the New Jersey. Worse, the dead zone is getting bigger, with last year's bloom the third largest in history...
Though some researchers say the sexual spree of the '20s was confined to big cities and campuses, the famous study, Middletown, by Robert and Helen Lynd, found otherwise. By the middle of the decade, their typical American town (Muncie, Ind.) was in full sexual bloom. The change came with erotic fashions, literature and movies, and an unsuspected sexual aid, the automobile. A team of sociologists, reassessing Middletown from 1976 to 1978, concluded: "The Middletown studied by the Lynds during the 1920s was in the throes of a sexual revolution as far-reaching as the one we have experienced during...
...NOAH S. BLOOM...