Word: lit
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 2000-2009
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...their meetings with administrators, students are asking the University to decrease the building’s height and width in order to preserve the open space next to Leverett House and ensure that the area is well-lit...
...estrogen-like chemical distilled from women's urine and a testosterone-related chemical derived from male sweat. Using both MRI and PET scans, the researchers found that women registered the female pheromone in the smell-processing part of the brain. But when women sniffed male pheromones, their hypothalamuses lit up as well. In men, the results were exactly the opposite...
...control group for this kind of study," says Hamer, "because they're pretty much the same as straight men except for that one factor." Sure enough, when the Swedish scientists ran the experiment this time, the results were striking: when gay men were exposed to male pheromones, their hypothalamuses lit up just like a woman's. Female hormones did nothing for them...
...great American obesity epidemic has given rise to its own literary sub-genre. You could call it Chunk Lit: memoirs of the overweight. This wicked, paradoxically lean example chronicles McClure's overeating, her love-hate cycles with Weight Watchers, her rationalizations ("Everyone says Renée Zellweger looks hotter in that one movie"). And what it's like to binge, postbreakup, on hamburger buns sprayed with I Can't Believe It's Not Butter!: "It is like a sandwich ... made of emptiness and disbelief." I'm Not the New Me is, in every way, tastier and more filling than that...
...right now, Harvard has a few islands of interdisciplinarity in a sea of deeply entrenched academic departments. But even long-established tropical interdisciplinary paradises such as history and literature have major problems integrating disciplines. Hist and lit has its recognizably history-oriented TFs and its literature-oriented TFs. Students break down generally the same way. Again, there are always exceptions. But neither teachers nor students are ever required to stray far from their comfort zones, even when they are technically expected...