Word: idealizes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...stay in contact with my class, to give back to the school and to make a statement about how much I care about this place," said Edemeka, who is a Crimson editor. "It would be a privilege for me to be thought of as embodying some sort of Harvardian ideal...
...ideal college should serve as the final mediator in a gradual process of maturation. It should be the last bridge between unsophisticated adolescence, often a time when one learns of mass culture and peer acceptance, and unprotected adulthood, when one's purpose and schedule are entirely at one's own determination...
Americans are certainly primed to respond. The U.S. is one of the fattest countries on earth, and at the same time the most obsessed with slimness. Some 58 million citizens, nearly a fourth of the nation's population, are clinically obese--at least 20% above their ideal body weight. For a 5-ft. 3-in. woman, that's 162 lbs. or more. Millions more are significantly overweight. All told, Americans are carrying around tons of excess fat, and we are desperate to lose...
...does that make Redux, in its stylish sweater-striped capsule, the ideal drug for our look-good, feel-good era? Hardly. Like any other medication, Redux has side effects. Some are merely annoying: fatigue, diarrhea, vivid dreams, dry mouth. But some are patently dangerous. The drug has caused significant, possibly permanent brain damage in lab animals--though not, as far as anyone knows, in humans. It can trigger a rare but frequently fatal human disorder called primary pulmonary hypertension, which destroys blood vessels in the lungs and heart. European research on fen/phen shows that using such drugs for more than...
...Redux, the latest revolution in weight control. I'd never taken pills like that before. Even in college, when others gobbled speedy white crosses, I stuck to black coffee. But Redux isn't an amphetamine, isn't addictive, and has limited side effects. I knew I wasn't the ideal candidate for the drug--it's supposed to be used by Chris Farley-type fatties, not guys with little potbellies. Still, I was determined to give it a whirl. I went to one of the new pill mills that have sprung up around Los Angeles, but was instantly turned...