Word: offshoots
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...offshoot of Val Newton's 1942 thriller of the same name. Cat People has one concern, the duality of sexuality--love versus last, innocence versus corruption, spiritual versus animal...
...Harvard Chapter of the Washington, D.C.-based Collegiate Association for the Research of Principles (CARP), an offshoot of Rev. Sun Myung Moon's Unification Church, has launched an effort to convince students to rethink their sexual values and assume "new sexual ethics," Richard Panzer, the project organizer and a part-time Divinity School student, said yesterday...
...apparently, since the descriptions of the two men do not match. In Beirut, a previously unknown group calling itself the Lebanese Army Revolutionary Faction claimed credit for "executing" the officer because of American "crimes" against the Lebanese people. Western intelligence officials did not know whether the group was an offshoot of the Palestine Liberation Organization, a hit squad from Libya or some other Arab country, or indeed whether the report was simply a hoax...
Sally, a Harvard freshman who occasionally gulps handfuls of laxatives to cleanse her body of excess calories consumed during food binges, agrees. "I think Harvard is a perfect microcosm for eating disorders," she says. Afflicted with one offshoot of bulimia, Sally shuns forced vomiting ("I hate the idea of hurting myself"), and instead relies on laxative overdoses to combat overeating...
...four daughters, all murdered in 1918 by the Bolsheviks, became saints. In an unprecedented ceremony of glorification, they, along with some 30,000 other Russian Orthodox Christians killed by the Soviets, were named "martyrs" and canonized by the Russian Orthodox Church Outside Russia, a strongly anti-Communist offshoot that claims 270,000 adherents, including...