Word: rite
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More than just a race, the Head of the Charles is a sweaty, beery rite of passage, eagerly anticipated by some Harvard students and dreaded by others...
...category of sexuality. Instead, the behavior has been explained away as a phase. For instance, teenagers sometimes experiment with both male and female partners on the way to establishing their sexual identity. Among Sambia Highlanders in Papua New Guinea, boys practice oral sex with one another as a formal rite of passage toward manhood and adult heterosexuality. Dual sexuality has also been seen as a pragmatic response, a way to fill a sexual need when passion is thwarted by culture and circumstance, such as imprisonment. Mixing between men and women before marriage is strictly limited in some Muslim societies...
...hysterically nationalistic social deviants; I was now surrounded by raving, hysterically nationalistic social deviants in a frenzy." But even black humor bows out as Buford's tale of unrelenting, mindless violence and moronic patriotism unfolds, and the "lad culture" with its bloated code of maleness centered on the Saturday rite of soccer is revealed in all its crude nihilism...
Even with overtime production, the patch shortage is expected to last at least until early August. "We're only getting about 50% of what we could sell," says Carolyn Fray, spokeswoman for Rite Aid Corp., which owns 2,498 drugstores nationwide. Merrill Lynch analyst Richard Vietor estimates that sales will top $880 million this year and nearly $1 billion in 1993. (Six months ago, he predicted sales of only $150 million for all of 1992.) "This is overwhelmingly the biggest first-year market for any prescription product," he says...
Next year, she will work on a public health program in Lebanon, with the Lebanese Family Planning Association. the Stride-Rite winner says she will talk about proper health care with people in the worst affected areas of the country, and that she will volunteer in health clinics in the villages...