Word: mens
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...some cases, letting students be themselves can mean letting them discover that they are straight. Says Martin: "Several young men in the school were molested by male relatives and thought they must be gay. It was apparent to us that these boys were heterosexual, but we had to let them find out for themselves...
...shoddiness. Said he: "No competitor gave them a tougher time than they gave themselves. Both of these manufacturing firms were well-established leaders in their markets, and yet both were being steadily squeezed out by the intensive foreign and domestic competition. And in the midst of this crisis, the men and women of these companies found within themselves the will to make a painstaking reassessment and the drive to win back their market share...
...eight-year, 13,344-subject study, carried out by researchers at the Institute for Aerobics Research in Dallas, is hardly the first to establish a link between moderate exercise and longevity. But it is considered especially significant. For one thing, it includes both men and women, in contrast to earlier, mostly male surveys. For another, it strengthens the evidence that exercise can ward off cancer, a relationship discovered only in the past few years. And, perhaps most important, it is one of the largest studies ever done that relied on an objective measure of fitness, not just participants' descriptions...
...study, had died. And after allowing for various other health-affecting factors, including smoking, age, cholesterol levels, weight, blood pressure and family history of heart disease, they found that deaths were sharply higher in the least-fit category than in the second-most- sedentary group -- more than double for men and almost twice as high for women...
...Religious Life (Crossroad; $14.95), Salvatorian priest Robert Nugent, who has worked among gay Catholics for twelve years, says estimates on the numbers of homosexual clergy range from "the most conservative 10% to a more reasonable 20%" or higher. He notes that a national survey by vocation directors in men's religious orders showed that, from 1981 to 1985, 5% of candidates accepted for the priesthood identified themselves to the church as being homosexual in orientation...