Word: shapes
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While undergraduates get in shape this summer on rollerblades or treadmills, Harvard Yard's historic buildings are getting a full-body makeover...
...final day of the 1995 term, the Supreme Court handed down a major ruling that could shape the racial makeup of Congress for years to come. On a 5-4 vote, a sharply divided Court said thatrace cannot be the predominant factor in drawing up election districts. The decision could make it much more difficult for blacks in southern states to be elected to Congress, saysTIME legal correspondent Adam Cohen. "In Alabama and Louisiana, two states with large black minorities, you could once again see an all-white congressional delegation. In the civil rights movement," says Cohen, "the pendulum...
This model is appealing because of its intuitiveness and simplicity. It tells us that culture is merely a reflection of our norms and values; it does not have any ability to shape those values. But the problem with this argument is that it offers us a gross oversimplification of the relationship between culture and human behavior. I would submit that the issue is not as simple as Frank Rich and others like him would have us believe. The world of action and the world of words are inextricably linked. Neatly separating these two worlds from each other and then determining...
...which still thinks of itself and is still viewed as a removed Ivory Tower, was intrinsically a part of the outside world from which it sought to be separate. In having the "real world" intrude so pervasively on it, the school realized its responsibility as an educator to help shape the community around it by helping to shape the thinking and concerns of the people who would one day leave its gates. It started a host of new support networks and adopted a more flexible, compassionate approach to help students with new problems instead of categorically denying the existence...
...contends Dr. Lila Nachtigall, co-author of the popular handbook Estrogen: The Facts Can Change Your Life! (HarperCollins; $11). The natural waning of estrogen in the middle years often brings physical changes that can ruin a woman's pleasure in sex. The vagina basically reverts to its prepubescent shape: narrower, shorter, dryer, less elastic, with thin walls that tear easily and are prone to infection. The libido may also dry up, if only because sex becomes painful. While many women are spared these problems in their 50s, the odds are they will strike to some degree within a decade...