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Those who entered the Women’s Center last Thursday night were met with a wall of advertisements featuring perfectly toned bodies and flawless skin. By the time they left, however, the skeletal figures of the models—flaunting the wares of companies such as Olay and Ralph Lauren—had been written on and called out for their false portrayals of the female figure...
Chava E. Kenny ’12, a Women’s Center staff member who contacted Jenkins about facilitating the discussion, commented on the significance of such alterations. “If people are holding this as a standard of beauty and not realizing that it’s not real, that it’s distorted, a very unhealthy body image issue for young girls at an impressionable age is created,” Kenny said...
...rare and progressive neuromuscular disorder that is usually fatal. He quit his job and started his own biotechnology company in search of a cure. Eventually, Cambridge-based biotechnology giant Genzyme acquired Crowley’s company and, in collaboration with Duke University and the Erasmus Medical Center in the Netherlands, ultimately developed Myozyme—a treatment that saved the lives of Crowley’s children...
...when Mooney himself took center stage at the close of the meeting to move to establish a undergraduate concentration in Biomedical Engineering, nearly an hour after his phone made its debut, he apologized for the disturbance...
...best solution, says Samina Ahmed, Pakistan director for the International Crisis Group, a global policy-research center, is to ring in political and social reforms that will rid this territory of its antique system from British colonial rule and draw it into mainstream Pakistani life. For now, bringing back the music in the bazaars may not be enough, but it's a start...