Word: conscious
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...like to be obese. "Ever since I was a kid, I was probably always chunky," she says. "Every year I would just gain weight." By the time the 5-ft. 5-in. San Francisco city worker was 34, she tipped the scales at 260 lbs. "I was self-conscious about everything--getting on a bus, sitting in an airplane seat," she recalls. "I would put off seeing doctors, I was so embarrassed...
...giving itself a demographic sex change, focusing on women under 35. (Don't worry guys: "Smackdown!" stays on Thursday, when every conscious female will be watching "Joey," "Survivor" or "The O.C." in its new time slot anyway.) Which means that next season we get not one but two editions of Tyra Banks' ingenious masterpiece of ambition and bitchiness. Bridging the months between them will be "The Missy Elliott Project," which UPN describes as a hip-hop version of "Top Model," in which a group of aspiring performers hits the road to get their freak on and compete to become...
...short, FLO is able to pay a premium to promote progressive environmental, agricultural and labor regulations in Third World countries by capitalizing on consumer demand for socially-conscious food. As socially-conscious consumers, Harvard students should embrace the principles behind Fair Trade bananas, just as they have already embraced Fair Trade coffee, and demand to make these bananas a permanent fixture in the dining halls...
Fair trade bananas will make their Harvard debut seven months after first appearing on the shelves of select U.S. food stores, thanks to the efforts of the Harvard Fair Trade Initiative (HFTI), a student group which member Mary M. Jirmanus ’05 described as committed to promoting conscious consumerism...
While part of that strategy might be the result of a conscious effort to maintain good habits, Harvard admittedly has little knowledge of its opening-round opponent Ohio St. and even Bergman confesses to knowing “nothing” of likely Friday singles challenger Lindsay Williams, who has knocked off a pair of top 20 players already this season...