Word: linked
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Both said they found no evidence to support Mansfield's link between Black student enrollment and higher marks for students, and Rudenstine linked grade inflation to the general atmosphere of the University in the turbulent Vietnam era and the competitive years thereafter...
...other options--my taking his name, both of us keeping our names or his taking my name--left something to be desired," she says. "This sort of avoids the non-feminist implications of women taking their husbands' last name, and it's a way to cement our link...
...studies provide some of the best evidence so far that the popular practice of ingesting large amounts of vitamins may turn out to be more than just an expensive fad. Still, experts caution that the research does not provide a conclusive link between vitamin E and healthy hearts. "We cannot yet make public-policy recommendations," says Claude Lenfant, director of the U.S. National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute. "We need randomized trials" in which the subjects do not know if they are taking the vitamin...
However, the most obvious link between the two stories feels forced: Captain Papagay, an extremely minor character in the first story, who appears only in its final paragraph, "reappears" in the second story as an important absence. Why these two figures should be the same person is unclear. As a result, the coincidence feels contrived and detracts from the other elements that bring these two stories together...
...what the sexual revolution has really done for teenage girls is push them into doing things they may not really want to do. "The irony is that the sexual revolution pressured girls into accepting sex on boys' terms," argues Myriam Miedzian, author of Boys Will Be Boys: Breaking the Link Between Masculinity and Violence. "If they don't engage in sex, they're not cool. At least under the old morality, girls had some protection. They could say their parents would kill them if they...