Word: esteem
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Yale University is inferior in every way to Harvard. New Haven is ghetto. Yalies are unattractive, dirty individuals who have low self-esteem...
Granted, each of these professors could have drawn a full crowd his their own--Gould's Science B-16: "History of Life" is generally held in one of the large Science Center auditoriums. Their collaboration is hardly a result of low self-esteem. That, in fact, seems to be the problem. Have co-taught classes such as these become excuses for posturing by prominent professors? Have they diverged from their well-intentioned beginnings...
...Much of the credit for Harlem's love affair with chess goes to Maurice Ashley, 33, a grand master and the highest-ranked black player in history. Ashley, who established Mott's chess program a decade ago, saw the game as a way to foster academic achievement and self-esteem. "I call chess intellectual karate," he says. "It's about setting a concrete goal and figuring out how you're going to carry it out." Chess improves problem solving, strategic thinking and concentration. It teaches impatient kids the value of hard work and delayed gratification. Says Ashley: "There...
WEIGHT WOES A study in the journal Pediatrics reveals that being overweight begins to take an emotional toll on adolescents at about the time that peer pressure starts to overtake family influence. At ages 9 and 10, obese and nonobese kids show no difference in self-esteem. But by 13 and 14, overweight youths tend to exhibit lower self-worth, especially white and Hispanic girls. Such youngsters are more likely to drink and smoke too. Experts urge parents to instill good eating habits in kids early and to stress that people don't normally look like models...
...pimple outbreaks regularly, Britney Spears had a mondo cyst underneath her lip during the cover shoot for "Baby One More Time," Marky Mark's got a third nipple, Liv Tyler and Jennifer Love Hewitt both have chicken pox scars, the list just keeps going. Need a reading period self-esteem booster? Check it out for another lesson in showbiz magic...