Word: self-esteem
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...this century's globalization is that it is fast dividing the world into front-yard and backyard countries. To survive in the new world, huge populations living in the second category are being forced to take newly outsourced jobs that are at odds with their culture and undercut their self-esteem. The anger of people whose countries have only superficially benefited from globalization is rising. Jamal A. Khan Islamabad
...that I’ve had my transplant, my body actually does what I want it to,” said 16-year-old Kaitlyn McNamara to US News Today, one of recipients of a new bladder. “It kind of boosted my self-esteem.” Atala said that as this technique matures and becomes more mainstream, other organs such as hearts, livers, kidneys, pancreases can be laboratory-grown. “This suggests that tissue engineering may one day be a solution to the shortage of donor organs in this country for those needing transplants...
...story is that he paired them up by height. Kids who wouldn’t talk in the cafeteria had to touch each other, hold each other, respect each other. He was teaching them life skills. If a kid is hunched over with his pants hanging down, his self-esteem is affected, it’s different than if he was standing up straight. [Dancing] is a team sport and you’re forced to learn incredible skills. I felt it was a commercial movie, but it had a message. The more programs [like Pierre’s] could...
...Gang. Artist Boone is not dissimilar from that novel's vociferous antihero. But instead of the colonial authorities, he's up against an ex-wife (his unnamed "alimony whore") and an art-world ?lite (including "the idiots at Sotheby's") intent on stripping him of all worldly assets and self-esteem...
Especially disturbing is Levy’s interview with a teenage girl from an upscale Northern California high school. The girl bases her self-esteem entirely on the male attention she receives...