Word: conscious
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...like the nauseatingly responsible, health-conscious clotheshorse that I am, I make a detour to another, less pricey boutique. Still bent on adding something resembling height to my five-foot- five-inch frame, I find myself a pair of stolid, thick-heeled two-and-a-half-inch pumps. And every time I wear them, I try to ignore their dependable chunkiness, telling myself I'm compromising mere aesthetics for something far more enduring: The ability to walk...
...Three months ago, India's mangy but ubiquitous performing bears were forced into retirement by an animal-rights conscious government armed with a rarely enforced wildlife protection statute. The intention: to improve the bears' undeniably terrible lot. The result, however, has been even worse. Ten New Delhi bears have been confiscated from owners and confined to dank animal shelters. Some have stopped eating because of homesickness and one bear has passed away...
...Last December, a federal judge rejected a challenge to the University of Michigan's undergraduate admissions policy, ruling that race could be a determining factor in admissions. But Tuesday, U.S. District Court judge Bernard Friedman made the opposite ruling regarding the similarly race-conscious admissions standards of the unversity law school, declaring its admission system "unconstitutional...
...Robert's mother Florence, 78, is fighting to keep him alive. After several legal battles, the two will next face each other in California's Supreme Court, where the case could produce a landmark decision about whether the extremely incapacitated--some doctors use the term "minimally conscious"--can be denied medical care. Dr. Vincent Fortanasce, a leading Los Angeles neurologist who examined Wendland, believes that the ruling could affect hundreds of thousands of brain- injured people who need feeding tubes to survive...
...case, the execution is so triumphantly free and direct, so conscious of the weight, texture and reality of things, that this small painting not only coheres but expands almost to monumental scale in your mind's eye. In it, as in so many of the pictures in this exquisite show, one sees why Manet inspired such passionate attachment among the younger Impressionists--and why his art, so vastly influential and yet impossible to imitate, remains a touchstone of freshness and originality long after his death...