Word: phenomenons
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What used to be whispered on campuses is now broadcast, in the most cowardly way, for anyone with an Internet connection to see. Beverly Low, dean of first-year students at Colgate University, describes the phenomenon as an "electronic bathroom wall." The posts - which are often suffused with racism, sexism and homophobia - can be so vicious and juvenile that Ben Lieber, dean of students at Amherst College, likens them to "the worst of junior high...
Zuma describes the demonstrations as recurring annual phenomenon. But he is not complacent. "[The protests] say to the government that we had better move," he says. "It's a wake-up call. 'Deal with this! Pay serious attention!' If we do not deal with these things now, people will lose confidence in the ANC." That is the promise of Jacob Zuma. That after half a century in which so many of Africa's independence hopes soured into arrogant dictatorships, the new leader of its proudest democracy accepts that if he wants the job, he's got to earn...
...need to doubt the sensationalist tabloid, “World Weekly News”; elusive sensation Bat Boy can soon be found at the New College Theatre. “Bat Boy: The Musical” follows the half-human, half-bat phenomenon as he is taken from a cave in small-town West Virginia and taught to integrate himself into society. Bat Boy must fight his natural animal instincts as he discovers family, friendship, and love amongst the townspeople...
Though researchers are unable to fully explain the “Stroke Belt” phenomenon at this point, Glymour offered possible explanations such as social norms influencing dietary patterns, quality of public resources, and other environmental conditions...
...self-contained emotional state - a condition that affects people individually, either by circumstance or by dint of an antisocial personality - researchers now say that loneliness is more far-reaching than that. John Cacioppo, a psychologist at the University of Chicago, believes it is a social phenomenon that exists within a society and can spread through it, from person to person, like a disease. And while everyone feels lonely once in a while, for some it becomes a persistent condition, one that has been associated with more serious psychological ills like depression, sleep dysfunction, high blood pressure and even an increased...