Word: shapes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...major social issue in your report on overweight Americans [Cover Story, Jan. 16]. While the leading reasons for obesity continue to be studied, there can be little argument that it is caused largely by an excess of food, insufficient exercise and a growing lack of self-respect. Time to shape up, America...
Many, many Americans are woefully out of shape. However, it's a cop-out to blame McDonalds or the American automobile industry for our epidemic of obesity. The primary blame rests squarely upon those who lack the initiative to establish a reasonable personal-fitness program and who lack the discipline to monitor the quantity and quality of their food intake. The obese have few to blame for their condition but themselves...
...Arena,'' is a panorama of hot-button topics: rape, harassment, pornography, abortion. What makes Paglia infuriating and invaluable is her willingness to find, in these victimological issues, shades of male anxiety and female responsibility. There are also quieter pieces, notably a loving memoir of four homosexual friends who helped shape her sensibility. But it's silly to ask this brainy pipshriek to calm down; shouting is her form of conversation...
...Lewis has left his successor in the ComputerScience Department big shoes to fill, he hasissued himself an even larger challenge bycoauthoring the report which may shape his tenureas dean...
...with no children in the school system, such as the elderly, Many of them believe they have no direct stake in the public schools; in a way, they're right. But if they care at all about the nation's future, then they do have a stake, for schools shape children's minds and character, and children make up the future...