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...blended families and interracial marriage. It's not a question that can be answered by biology or by citizenship papers. The Wongs' teenage daughter Lizzy, adopted as an abandoned baby, complains that no one knows exactly who she is or where she comes from: she's "soup du jour." But as The Love Wife opens and the Wongs' connections to each other begin to fray, Jen shows Lizzy is hardly alone?American confusion may be the American identity...
...stand up to the many forces that propel them to eat too much and move too little. For decades, they say, the country has seen obesity as a personal problem to be solved by each overweight individual waging a lonely war to trim pounds on the diet du jour. While it's true that we are each responsible for what we put in our own mouth, they note that the personal-responsibility approach has been a big, fat flop. In the past 30 years, the percentage of Americans who are overweight has ballooned from 48% to 65%. The percentage...
...know the Zeitgeist is shifting when Nicole Kidman can don a pencil-thin suit from menswear designer du jour Hedi Slimane - or David Beckham can step out in a sarong. "Men are much more receptive to the idea of looking fashionable," says retailer Seper. "There was previously a misunderstanding that if you took an interest in yourself, your masculinity was diminished somehow, whereas now (male grooming) is accepted, in fact it's sought after...
Steven Pinker is in your head. Johnstone Family Professor of Psychology and teacher of core du jour Science B-62, “The Human Mind,” Pinker appeals to people who aren’t budding neurosurgeons. Pinker’s PhD student and Human Mind Teaching Fellow Ned Sahin describes the class as aimed at students “who maybe don’t care about past tense verbs or the synapse between two neurons, who maybe don’t care about one facet of psychology, but who do want a user?...
Brian A. Sullivan claims that the Yard of yore isn’t so very different from Harvard today. And he’s right. The musing pontifications and perspicacious reflections of Francis Ellingwood Abbot make him the pundit du jour, relevant in his time and in our own. Word...