Word: muscularity
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...past decade has seen increasing numbers of men pursuing a muscular body which, if not sculpted to Schwarzenegger proportions, would hopefully never land them the title of “girlie man.” This quest can dip into the danger zone, however, as perceptions of one’s body and ideals of attractiveness become warped. This is especially true in Western countries, as was evidenced by a research team led by the Harvard undergraduate Chi-Fu Jeffrey Yang ’05 in a study published last week in the American Journal of Psychiatry. Comparing Taiwanese...
...persuade substantial numbers in the profession to explore the region north of zero, to look at what actively made people feel fulfilled, engaged and meaningfully happy. Mental health, he reasoned, should be more than the absence of mental illness. It should be something akin to a vibrant and muscular fitness of the human mind and spirit...
...style and storytelling that embody Fuller’s trademark humanistic bent. The film presents the enemy soldiers as strikingly similar to the Americans balancing the brutality and horror of the war, to create what New York Times film critic A.O. Scott calls “a messy, muscular masterpiece...
...Democrats?" piece more than 20 years ago and followed it with too many other whithering rants about the donkeys, I have little appetite this time to do it again. After all, the Democrats took flagrantly responsible stands on the two most important issues of the election: in favor of muscular multilateralism abroad and fiscal responsibility at home. John Kerry ran an honorable, if not entirely competent campaign, while the Republicans skimmedthe outskirts of the acceptable with their nonstop negativity. And why give ammunition to oleaginous telecharlatans, like James Dobson of Focus on the Family, who have been puffing all over...
...muscular assertiveness to fix Iraq , bring peace to Israelis and Palestinians and keep Iran from getting nuclear weapons. That's an irony on which both Chirac and Blair could agree. - By J.F.O. McAllister The Hunt Is Over BRITAIN Ending a long-running, acrimonious debate, Parliament voted to ban all hunting with dogs starting in February. The House of Commons invoked the Parliament Act, a rarely used veto, to overrule opposition from the upper House of Lords. The ban applies to England and Wales. Fresh Questions EUROPEAN UNION Just as the European Parliament finally approved Commission President José Manuel Barroso...