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...images reflect America's sexual interests, however, is a matter of some dispute. University of Chicago sociologist Edward Laumann, whose 1994 Sex in America survey painted a far more humdrum picture of America's sex life, says the Carnegie Mellon study may have captured what he calls the "gaper phenomenon." "There is a curiosity for things that are extraordinary and way out," he says. "It's like driving by a horrible accident. No one wants to be in it, but we all slow down to watch...
Once the storms of perimenopause have cleared, many women see little reason to remain on estrogen. Some enter a period of well-being, famously dubbed "post-menopausal zest" by anthropologist Margaret Mead. In her latest book, New Passages, Sheehy calls this the "pits to peak phenomenon": Women emerge from the morass of menopause with "a greater sense of well-being than any other stage of their lives...
Harvard may not be the real world, but the real world can be influenced by the University's progeny , especially those with a little perspective on the 'Net phenomenon, such as the dinosaurs of the Class...
...that's not because no one talks about the Internet Phenomenon--far from it. In my four years at Harvard, the network has exploded into campus consciousness, co-opting students, faculty, administrators and anyone else who can manage to wheedle and account out of Mother Harvard, otherwise known as fas.harvard.edu...
...attributes this phenomenon to time constraints, pressure to keep up with the explosion in new scientific technology and huge tuition debts that can be paid off more easily by larger salaries specialists and surgeons earn. He alsoportrays medical school applicants in a negativelight, calling them "biokids," "brainoids" and"organodweebs." According to Langone, they are allafflicted with the competitive, noncooperativeillness called "premed syndrome...