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...other business, the council heard pleas from Cantabrigians living west of Kendall Square on Broadway to ask the city's zoning board to reconsider plans by the Bulfinch Co. of Boston to construct two buildings in the area...
...doctors think it might even improve the sexual response of postmenopausal women) but in the broader philosophical implications. Is sexuality, like the state of happiness or male-pattern baldness, just one more hitherto mysterious and profound area of human-beingness that can be pharmaceutically manipulated, like any other fathomable construct of enzymes and receptors? Another looming question: Since Viagra is taken--at prices ranging from $8 to $12 a pop--not on a day-in, day-out basis but only when one actually wants to have sex, will HMOs and other insurers soon be telling us how much...
...harassment law rests on the congressional foundation of Title VII, which makes it illegal "to fail or refuse to hire or to discharge...or otherwise discriminate against" someone based on sex. From that foundation, the EEOC and the courts have done their best (which is often very bad) to construct an edifice of sexual harassment...
...Although I think there is a population here that is genuinely interested in the broad political world, I think that the Beth Stewart election, at least, is testament to the fact that...people do construct their interests fairly narrowly and want things that relate to themselves," Hopkins says...
...Young people today construct their livesaround popular culture--it's their life," shesays. "To be honest, that's why I think I'minterested...