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...giving no further description of a character except their designation as a woman. This open-endedness allows actresses and directors to craft who these characters are, as long as they fall within the definition of woman. But what definition of woman? Such a question may seem odd to people not involved in gender studies, but there are many ways to define a woman—such as chromosomes, a vagina, breasts, a uterus, clothing, pronouns, using the ladies’ room, self-identification—and no consensus has been reached...
When she first attempted her second shot, she whiffed on the puck. The moment was reminiscent of Friday’s game, when freshman Julie Chu whiffed on an odd-man rush but recovered in time to set up linemate Lauren McAuliffe for a game-tying goal. MacDonald bounced back in a fashion that would have made Chu proud...
...that "a lot of good" could come from the money he would earn from them. He is reportedly seeking $16 million. Also on Larry King last week, Sarah Ferguson, Diana's former sister-in-law, revealed that Hewitt recently rang to ask her out for a drink. She declined. Odd, since he seems like such a decent chap...
Less dramatic but just as stubborn is the so-called anxious cluster, including the straightforwardly named dependent personality, the socially withdrawn avoidant personality and the rigid and rule-bound obsessive-compulsive personality (a different diagnosis entirely from obsessive-compulsive disorder, an anxiety condition). The third group--actually called the odd cluster--includes the paranoid, schizotypal and schizoid personalities. Paranoid sounds like just what it is. Schizotypals and schizoids both have problems forming relationships and interpreting social cues; schizotypals may also suffer delusions. "Schizoids are lone wolves," says Clemens. "Schizotypals skate along the edge of real schizophrenia...
Mobile phones may seem an odd way to sell underwear. But shoppers responded when Gossard, a lingerie company owned by the Sara Lee Corporation, began using a mobile short messaging service (SMS) - those little text messages that show up on your cell phone - to promote its new line of G-strings in the U.K. "It was a huge success," says Shaeren McKenzie, Gossard's London-based marketing director. "We reached our eight-month sales target in eight weeks." The Gossard campaign was based on a television commercial that urged viewers who wanted a ?1 discount on a G-string...