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What makes Crichton a qualified expert on environmental policy? After three years of reading scientific texts on the issue, Crichton claims he discovered that global warming is an altogether naturally occurring phenomenon that has little to do with human activity— and perhaps nothing at all to do with the effects of fossil fuel burning or air pollution...
Worries about fat thighs, too many helpings of FroYo topped with generic sugary cereal and the wish that the dreaded ‘freshman fifteen’ phenomenon were accurate (that College weight gain stops after the first year, and after fifteen pounds)—these are all concerns we might be tempted to associate with female undergrads. Yet, while the female population is brimming with disturbed weight and body image concerns, these problems are spilling over the gender barrier; the incidence of eating disorders and body dysmorphic disorder—a pathology characterized by preoccupations with an imagined...
...meeting. Behrendt told one of the show’s writers that the man whose behavior she was trying to decipher was really as clear as she was dense: “Listen, it sounds like he’s just not that into you.” A phenomenon was born...
...wrong with me? With us? Hadn’t feminism gotten rid of this problem, this lack of confidence? Instead, when I talked to my mother, I learned that women at Harvard were actually more confident in their social lives when the sexual revolution was still a fringe phenomenon...
...sale of liquor on Sundays in Massachusetts is a new phenomenon. Since the revision of the “blue laws” in 2004—statutes codified by New England’s early Puritan settlers which mandated Sabbath observance, prohibited blasphemy, and forbade gaudy dress—Massachusetts businesses are permitted to sell alcohol on Sundays...