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...glamorization of picture-perfect models, to the role of final clubs in the lives of Harvard women. Also discussed were body image issues resulting from specific cultural and racial views. Kimberly N. Foster ’11, a black panelist, said that “in black culture, the thick girl is the idealized girl,” while event organizer Theresa H. Cheng ’08 talked about how Chinese culture focused not only on being pale and thin, but also on the “double eyelid phenomenon.” The double eyelid, which varies...
...From a historical deference perspective, it makes sense. As a service to its students, it makes sense. Not to mention, Harvard isn’t even on the Marathon route. According to Eagan, Wellesley and Boston College, both of which observe Patriot’s Day, were so thick with the smell of alcohol that it was a detriment to the runners. If any schools should be in session, it should be them...
Argentina's capital city of Buenos Aires awoke under an acrid cloud as an ecological disaster of major proportions covered the city. Thick smoke from out-of-control grass fires raging in the large islands of the Parana River Delta some 30 minutes north of the city rolled over urban areas, resulting in the closing of airports, ports and bus terminals. Meanwhile, the authorities were forced to block highway motor traffic following a number of fatal acciddents on smoke-choked national roads. The air has been unbreathable; asthmatics were suffering, as were infants...
...even strong rainfall would stop this now," says firefighter Jorge Albornoz in the rural area of Victoria in Entre Rios, who said some of the islands under fire, cut off by collapsed bridges and thick smoke, are unreachable by firefighters overwhelmed by the size of the fire and by the lack of equipment. Even the single airplane and two helicopters available equipped for dousing water on the flames are unable to penetrate the thick smoke over the area. Meanwhile, the government announced phone numbers for neighbors to report farmers who have started fires...
...chorus singing "Battle Hymn of the Republic." But by the time Bush held a dinner in Benedict's honor Wednesday night, with the Pope not attending (the Pontiff does not attend dinners given in his honor), it started to look as if Bush was laying it on a bit thick...