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Would you risk using it if its safety were only proven by "cruelty-free" conjecture? The CVS crusader might discount the happiness of lab bunnies when she gets a speck of Jim's-All-Natural-Cruelty-Free-Third-World-Friendl y-Gentle-Tooth-Cleaner in her eye and writhes in pain as the substance eats away at her cornea via some reaction unforeseen by the bunny-friendly safety testers who formulated...
Professors tend to discount the psychological effects of the B+. "What's happening is that a materialistic concern is being made into a psychodrama," remarks classics professor Gregory Nagy. But according to UHS psychiatrist Dr. Irving M. Allen, grade-anxiety is real. "It's a problem. People... aren't doing as well as they'd like to... You certainly get the impression that Harvard is a pressure cooker." But, Allen warns, victims of the B+ blues "weren't made at Harvard. It long precedes Harvard... [They] come to Harvard full of desire to get A's." Pasula agrees that...
...Culture and Society," and she means it. By arguing for the restoration of partial truths and solid standards, Himmelfarb's book is a Modern's response to the postmodern condition. Since Himmelfarb is now a professor emeritus and a historian of nineteenth-century England, one might be tempted to discount her description of the current impoverished state of the humanities. This would be a grave mistake...
Oxman did not discount the need for direct aid from the United States government to Eastern European nations, citing the success of the Marshall Plan earlier this century...
...local economy. In this way, Shops are symptomatic of the upscale fever that is infecting Harvard Square. Furthermore, many of the Shops sell frivolous and strange merchandise--like handmade southwestern-style headbands and weird psychedelic quilts--that would be undesirable at any price. Where once we had discount bookstores, now we have Keely's Kites and Life's a Grind, a now defunct kiosk that sold salt and pepper grinders...