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...negatives in our society attached to people who are overweight - sloppy, lazy, undisciplined. You don't want anything negative to affect people's opinions about you, because this is a really tough time that we're living in. Every little detail counts. (See 10 cool ways to get in shape...
...Stacy Tessler Lindau and researcher Natalia Gavrilova of the University of Chicago - call this measure your "sexually active life expectancy," or SALE. A 30-year-old woman has a SALE of just 31 more years. (The study also finds that men and women who stay healthy and in good shape gain extra years of sexually active life in older age, compared with their peers in poorer health.) But women live about five years longer than men, so when you do the math, all this means that women go approximately twice as long without sex as men before they...
Lerner’s dynamic use of punctuation gives an added shape to his sequences. His lines are almost always broken by a caesura, dramatically moderating the flow of his verse. “It cannot save us. But it can remind us / Survival is a butcher’s goal. All hands / To the pathos. Let the credits,” he writes. The poet explains that this is “a structure of feeling / Broken by hand.” Alternatively, Lerner also often leaves out punctuation, leaving sentences unfinished, imitating the rhythm of real conversations...
...Coming back, I’ve had to really focus on the swing of this year and get really back into game shape,” the goalie said. “It took a little bit to get back and get comfortable playing again at the college level...There was definitely a transition period...
...limiting themselves because of oppression and are thus "victims"? Women all over the world change their appearance in ways to reflect the opinions of other people, whether they be men, other women, or their families, and we certainly don’t see all these other forms of shape-shifting as rooted in oppression. High heels are awfully painful, and in a gender-neutral world I probably wouldn’t wear them that often. But I do choose to confine my existence as such from time to time, and it’s for myself as much...