Word: developed
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Asselin says Brandeis also tries to support entering first-years with approximately 100 student volunteers known as AIDE group leaders (short for Advise, Integrate, Develop and Educate...
Fuller, a Toronto native, arrived in the U.S. nine years ago to reinvent the teen magazine YM, and was soon to develop a reputation for making magazines profitable by tarting them up. At the time, YM combined health and relationship advice with reporting on serious subjects such as apartheid (that topic was covered by current New Yorker writer William Finnegan). Fuller relieved the magazine of such weightiness, turning YM into a primer on waist trimming and boy procuring--a junior Cosmo--and more than doubling its circulation. At the real Cosmo, which she joined after a stint as editor...
There are several reasons for singling out teenage girls. For one thing, they develop chlamydia more often than adults. In fact, whenever health experts track cases by age, they find that about half of all chlamydia cases occur in girls ages 15 to 19. Reason: the younger the woman, the more vulnerable to infection is her cervix, the ring of tissue that protects the opening to her uterus. In addition, chlamydia often infects silently, with few or no initial symptoms. Although it is easily cured with antibiotics, the longer it remains undetected and untreated, the more likely...
...insidious threat of waterborne diseases can bring everyday community life to a grinding halt. Imagine communities without chlorination, running water or the fuel to boil drinking water. One in every three people in the developing world drinks from unprotected sources, and every year diarrhea alone kills nearly 3 million children under the age of five, accounting for a quarter of all deaths in this age group. The U.N. Development Programme has been working to develop safe water sources, but the loss of life due to water-related illness continues because of the lack of political will, inadequate institutional structures, poor...
While Bartlett says he would rather have a smaller, more focused business like Helmut Lang or Paul Smith than develop a huge multiplex of style like the label of Ralph Lauren or Calvin Klein, he still has expansion plans. Having his clothes produced in Italy rather than in the U.S. means better tailoring and fabrics, but has raised prices. Eventually he plans to introduce a cheaper line for the malls. By then, maybe Bartlett's nerdy sexuality will be a look the masses can pull...