Word: pilling
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...Understanding the Gender Gap,” in which she argued that the increasing participation of women in the workforce was a slow and historical process not dependent on the advances of any one generation.She followed this up with three papers studying the positive effect of the birth control pill on women’s willingness to invest in careers, all co-authored with Katz.“We’re probably pretty good at monitoring each other’s work hours,” Katz says.Goldin says her work on the pill was “very...
...Pill Dispensers for Grown Baby Boomers Available in House, Patrick Dempsey, and Doctor Phil...
...University Health Services (HUHS), Assistant Professor of Medicine Steven W. Lockley answered questions for a group of about 18 students. “The bad news is, there’s no way around it,” he said. “There’s no magic pill to allow yourself to work on less sleep.” Lockley said that even six hours of sleep can be detrimental to a day’s work. Lack of sleep can cause obesity, cardiovascular disease, diabetes, increased risk of accidents, and poorer learning and memory, Lockley added...
...this 40s singer-actress "the Blitzkrieg blond" for an energy that would make Rachael Ray seem logy by comparison. Film critic James Agee, and other scribes at TIME, described her variously as "rubber-jointed," "brass-lunged," "super-dynamic," "bouncing, bawling," "raucous, rampageous." To Bob Hope she was "a vitamin pill with legs." She seemed to have swallowed a truckload full of them before every performance; she was indomitable, unstoppable, the Fuller Brush flack with a quick smile, a faster line of patter and her foot in your door...
American parenting has witnessed the institutionalization of a basic tendency in human nature: We like to find ourselves, well, pretty remarkable. To a certain extent, we are all solipsists, convinced that the universe is centered on our above-average selves. Mediocrity is a tough pill to swallow...