Word: distortedly
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Relating her own experience with the media in Britain, Williams said the press tends to distort individuals...
...Only through education can we ward off the almost obvious potential for an increase in fraud in the marketplace," he said. "Giving people the ability to select investment options will provide the unscrupulous with new opportunities to deceive and distort...
Trouble is, Black 6 and kin often do their jobs too well. "Mice distort or exaggerate what you see in humans," says tumor biologist Robert Kerbel of Toronto's Sunnybrook Health Science Centre. Mouse tumors, which are usually planted just under the skin, grow much more rapidly than deep-seated human tumors. Also, as Nobel laureate J. Michael Bishop observes, too much breeding isn't always a good thing. In his labs at the University of California, San Francisco, he is genetically altering mice to provide better models for studying leukemia and neuroblastoma, the most common tumor in children under...
What are mistakes in our era that parallel those of Sanger's? There is still an effort to distort her goal of giving women control over their bodies by attributing such quotes to Sanger as "More children from the fit, less from the unfit--that is the chief issue of birth control." Sanger didn't say those words; in fact, she condemned them as a eugenicist argument for "cradle competition." To her, poor mental development was largely the result of poverty, overpopulation and the lack of attention to children. She correctly foresaw racism as the nation's major challenge, conducted...
...Column, March 13): What Noah Oppenheim fails to realize is that when a young woman is constantly presented with idealized images of beauty, she is being sent a message about the kinds of appearances that are pleasing to the male eye. While the "sexual objectification" of women might not distort the male "perception of all women," it can certainly have damaging effects on female's perceptions of themselves. When women begin to compare themselves to media images, they are subscribing themselves to a certain image of beauty which for most, is completely unattainable...