Word: label
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...Sendak, who has always resisted the label of children's author ("I don't even know what that means," he says), this is a way of making peace with his past. It's his first acknowledged work for children. And he can let go of some of the emotional residue of his childhood. "I wanted to handle my situation creatively, where you turn the bad or the evil feelings into something you can live with and explore and even exploit...
Summers’ remarks did spark some good debate on how appropriate it is for such an influential man to label a whole movement, which contains both anti-Israel crazies and reasoned activists, as anti-Semitic. But his speech still put inappropriate pressure on members of the Harvard community, especially junior faculty striving towards tenure, into distancing themselves from the divestment campaign. No one at Harvard, let alone President Summers, should recklessly throw around accusations of even unintentional bigotry...
...Cymetra--a gel made from the skin of human cadavers. The manufacturer claims that Cymetra harnesses the body's own skin-building machinery to fill its wrinkles. Some surgeons are also experimenting with Radiance, a synthetic version of the mineral that builds our bones, which doctors now use "off label" to fill particularly deep folds. Then there's Artefill, a mix of cow collagen and tiny acrylic beads that an FDA advisory committee in February recommended for approval. Once injected, the cow collagen breaks down, but the beads stimulate the skin to secrete its own collagen. The good news...
...What will they freeze? We don't have a single centavo." EId Kabalu, Moro Islamic Liberation Front spokesman, on the Philippine government's threat to label the milf a terrorist outfit and freeze its assets...
...exceptional vague in the social atmosphere at Harvard. While representing the University at a sporting competition, a team is clearly identifiable. But in a student’s room on campus or in a personal off-campus residence a “club event” is hard to label. In this case—a gathering at the home of a student—drawing the line between a team event and a party that team members attended is not the place of the University...