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...pursuit of a more "ideal" body amongst teenagers. In fact, search data confirms this phenomenon. One of the most popular sites visited from the search term "plastic surgery" is the official site of the American Society of Plastic Surgeons (www.plasticsurgery.org). Over 25% of visitors to the site (the largest segment) fell within the 18- to 24-year-old demographic - that's up from 19.6% two years...
Five generations of one family smile down from photographs hanging in the small house of Pauline and Anguteeraq Kreutzmann, who have lived all their lives in Sisimiut, Greenland's second largest town after the capital Nuuk. Their sitting room is filled with stuffed seabirds, homemade bows, fishing spears and tiny hand-carved bone figures shaped like mythical creatures. Laid out on the table are their best cups and saucers - it is time for Kaffemik. Translated from the Danish as "Please come to our house for coffee," this phrase is used to welcome neighbors, friends, relatives and - increasingly - tourists into local...
After next Friday, Bostonians will finally have their own outlet for their Apple woes and whims. A new Apple Store, expected by some online bloggers to be the largest in the world, is set to open on Boylston Street, where local businesses expect it will have an impact on neighborhood commerce. A large green wooden cover, announcing the upcoming opening in colors reminiscent of local favorite Fenway Park, hides what will be a three-story glass facade. Harvard students expressed little interest in the alternative to the Cambridgeside Galleria location. “I haven?...
...their classes, but we fell just short of perfect on another type of report card: A recent release by the Sustainable Endowments Institute gave Harvard an A- on its second annual College Sustainability Report Card, which measures the environmental sustainability of the 200 colleges with the largest endowments. We applaud the Institute’s work in raising awareness about sustainability, and hope that Harvard—one of only six schools to receive the highest grade by the Institute’s measure—will continue to improve its admirable environmental policies. The report, which graded schools...
India’s economy is booming; its leaders proudly proclaim it is the world’s largest democracy. To promote this unqualified positive vision of modern India, however, is to ignore the many negative aspects of development that tell a less optimistic story. Improvement in India has been in pockets, leaving huge numbers of people both invisible and vulnerable. Until recently, the government tolerated civil society, human rights defenders and non-governmental organizations that are often the only voice for India’s otherwise disenfranchised groups. But the government’s attitude towards these groups...