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...kids might have to look for jobs outside the retail sector to generate extra Christmas cash. Best Buy is bringing in 16,000 to 20,000 holiday hires this season, down from 26,000 in 2007. (The good news for hopeful or clueless males: Victoria's Secret and Toys "R" Us say they'll keep last year's levels to ensure top-notch service...
...youth sex-education website Scarleteen.com, dozens of teenage girls can be found commiserating about their labia. "i REALLY h8 mine! They hang really REALLY low and r SO long!" reads one comment. Meanwhile, on MakeMeHeal.com, a consumer site that sells special bras and other gear for women recovering from plastic surgery, women of all ages submit photos of their nether regions and ask for feedback on whether they should get nipped and tucked down there. Welcome to the strange new world of female genital cosmetic surgery, where body insecurity issues are fueling a small but growing Western market for such...
...oddly inevitable, if you look back on it,” says Maya R. Jasanoff ’96, speaking out about her recent hire as an associate professor in theHistory department. Jasanoff notes that while she didn’t always have “an incredibly strong sense” of what profession she would pursue after college, academia “was always one of the options.” Following her post-doc work, Jasanoff taught at the University of Virginia. She applied for a tenure track position at Harvard in 2006. Jasanoff?...
...department was formed in response to student activism that had been spurred by the death of Martin Luther King Jr. in 1968. Since then, the department has been home to a number of leading intellectuals, such as Henry Louis Gate, Jr. and Cornel R. West. But over the past ten years the Af-Am faculty shrunk to bare bones after University President Laurence H. Summer’s contentious tenure spurred the departure of five prominent scholars...
...they expect to raise $150,000 at the end of the day. Sponsors range from Macy’s to Red Bull. Given such high stakes, a serious attitude dominates the show’s operations—from the music mixed and produced by Michael R. Polino ’11 to the posture of the student models, many of whom are new to the business. “The models are all very professional. I was so surprised,” said Angela Gao, one of the designers. She would know what “professional?...