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...magazine for rural women: A 27-YEAR-OLD MAN...DIVORCED WITH AN OPEN NATURE...POSSESSING A FIVE-BEDROOM TILE HOUSE WITH FURNITURE, MODERN APPLIANCES, AND A MOTORCYCLE, SEEKS A WOMAN TO BE A PARTNER FOR LIFE. The preoccupation with property was not as mercenary as it appeared, like height, apartment ownership was a marker, a sign that a man could be depended...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Inside China's Factories | 10/15/2008 | See Source »

...picture of the other player. “In our version, half of the participants were white and half were African Americans,” Norton added. “The question we faced was whether a person would use race in their description as they would gender or height.” “We found that young kids were willing to ask about race, but the 10 and 11 year olds acted more like adults—they were less willing to ask about race versus other characteristics,” Norton said. According to Apfelbaum...

Author: By Prateek Kumar, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Study: Younger Children Better At Talking Race | 10/10/2008 | See Source »

...another issue altogether—one that English doesn’t seem to care much about. He presents his work in a vacuum, for his patrons to contextualize how they will; the image itself is without textual footnote, be it to clarify or confuse its meaning. At the height of his fame, Simon Hantaï retreated from society, afraid that society wanted to wrest his work from him. Today, Ron English and artists like him seem to be using society itself as another instrument in their art. What ensues is nothing short of fascinating.—Columnist Ryan...

Author: By Ryan J. Meehan, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: From the Street to the Web | 10/9/2008 | See Source »

...month intervention, all the girls who read books had lost weight, but the girls who read Lake Rescue lost more. They lowered their body mass index (BMI), a ratio of weight and height used to measure obesity, by .71, compared with .33 in the Charlotte group an average .05 increase among the nonreaders...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Can Reading Help Kids Lose Weight? | 10/4/2008 | See Source »

...absurd (“Oh no… I think I have gas” and “Groupies!”). Inexplicably, a bald woman thinks, “Pull my hair.” Women are crazy. Ludacris, the rapper whose modest height will always belie his astronomical self-esteem, constantly reminds us that he both subjugates women and deeply respects them. After spitting “So get loose and slide off your damn garments / Show ’em who’s the boss, they take orders from the sergeant...

Author: By Matthew H. Coogan, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: POPSCREEN: Ludacris | 10/3/2008 | See Source »

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