Word: gainful
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...reason we want models to gain weight, let's face it, is not mostly to protect them. It's to protect other, less genetically freakish girls--our daughters or, ahem, us--from having poor self-esteem or becoming anorexic. But people don't get anorexia from looking at fashion magazines (although it doesn't help). Anorexia is as much about a girl feeling that her life is not in her control as it is about body image. So dictating to models what their body type should be, whether to make it bigger or smaller, seems to send the wrong message...
...dealt with what we astronomers really do rather than the mere semantic debate over whether Pluto is a planet or a dwarf planet. Michael Lemonick wonderfully conveyed the feel of using a big telescope and showed how astronomers work together, observing in different parts of the spectrum to gain a complete picture of that early stage of our universe. Jay M. Pasachoff Director, Hopkins Observatory Williams College Williamstown, Massachusetts...
...government in Honiara soon. Sogavare has come to power twice in the wake of violence: following a coup in 2000, and after last April's riots. While some of his government's moves seem erratic, the guiding purpose is clear. Under the slogan of "sovereignty," Sogavare is trying to gain control of donor funds and dominate the bureaucracy again. In New York last week to attend the gathering of the U.N. General Assembly, Honiara's delegation sought out friends and did some business: it announced a new health initiative with Cuba, did some lobbying for Taiwan, and found new personnel...
...blithely ridden into danger with little to gain journalistically...
...Patrick Fisher for a loss.Dawson was slow to get up, and with an injury timeout, he remained off the field for the next play and the last few minutes of the first half.Just a couple of plays later, senior wide receiver Corey Mazza went down after a big gain that would be negated by a holding call against Harvard.Some argued a late-hit flag should have been thrown, but either way, Mazza walked off the field with the aid of his teammates. He would also return for the second half.After the break, things were no different.On the last play...