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...several dozen times (this was, no doubt, to show she was no prude). A major theme of the evening: Pornography has invaded our culture to such an extent that even a woman’s behavior is altered by it. Porn causes a woman to feel immense pressure to conform to an unattainable standard of beauty and sex appeal. Dines blames everything from hard-core pornography to mainstream magazine covers of models who are “blonde, female, and white…with a ‘fuck me’ look on her face...
...days later when, during a visit to the White House, Chinese Foreign Minister Yang Jiechi reportedly told President Bush the episode was due to a "misunderstanding." But the next day, ministry spokesman in Beijing Liu Jianchao, told reporters that reports Yang had used the word "misunderstanding" didn't "conform with the facts...
...then, is that farmers need it. Why, I can’t quite figure out. But even if they really did need it, our concessions to farmers are already excessive. We already spend hundreds of millions of dollars on unnecessary farm subsidies to prop up American agriculture. Must we conform our schedules to farmers’ whims as well? Farmers should have to adjust their alarm clocks, not everyone else...
...Seidel, a graduate of Harvard’s Graduate School of Design who was narrowly defeated in the 2005 election, said he would solve this equation in two ways: developing higher densities around transit nodes, such as Porter Square, and making new building conform to environmental standards. But for Kelley, who was elected for the first time two years ago, the most sustainable road is the one not traveled. “The most sustainable new building project is a building that is not built,” he said. “No matter how LEED certified the building...
Harvard has over 20 buildings that conform to LEED’s energy-saving design standards, according to a May 2007 Harvard Gazette article...