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Worries about fat thighs, too many helpings of FroYo topped with generic sugary cereal and the wish that the dreaded ‘freshman fifteen’ phenomenon were accurate (that College weight gain stops after the first year, and after fifteen pounds)—these are all concerns we might be tempted to associate with female undergrads. Yet, while the female population is brimming with disturbed weight and body image concerns, these problems are spilling over the gender barrier; the incidence of eating disorders and body dysmorphic disorder—a pathology characterized by preoccupations with an imagined...
Medium's spirituality is inoffensively generic--the standard apparitions caught between our world and an undefined "other side." (Likewise, CBS's Joan offers a smiling, nondenominational God.) NBC will take a more boldly religious tack later this spring with Revelations (debuts April 13), a six-episode series investigating a sequence of events that suggests the Apocalypse described in the Book of Revelation is under...
...Crimson reported on Friday that with a generic e-mail account, reporters were able to access, within 10 minutes, a list of every drug purchased by one Harvard student as well as the e-mail addresses and ID numbers of several students whose identities the University was required to keep secret under federal...
...course, owns Italy's three main private TV stations. Not everyone is convinced of Letta's eminence. "Letta is a formidable ambassador," says Giuliano Ferrara, a conservative newspaper editor and occasional Berlusconi adviser, "but he's not a real political adviser, not a Karl Rove. Someone who always counsels generic prudence is useful, but it's incomplete." And former President of the Republic Francesco Cossiga wonders just how much advice the boss hears. "For someone like Berlusconi, who comes from a modest background and has had that kind of success, it's hard not to think he's always right...
Note: Many of these products are available under their generic names...