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Madrid's ban on models who are too thin has started a pointed conversation. If pressure is put on models, it may find its way up to designers and magazine photographers. The emphasis on skinny bodies is demeaning to women and encourages anorexia and bulimia. I know healthy women who are a size 4 or 6 and nonetheless diet to try to look like models. That is not good for anyone. When was the last time you saw men starving themselves to death for a career...
...beyond the fashion industry. As a psychologist, I am seeing an alarming number of young women who enter my office hating their bodies and starving themselves to achieve an unattainable ideal. Any movement to stop this travesty should be lauded and supported. If Madrid outlaws the use of dangerously thin models in fashion work, perhaps that could begin to force those responsible to adapt...
...Cambridge police. Clearly, you’re dealing with more than the Harvard disciplinary infrastructure is equipped to handle. You’ll have some fun pretending to be a crotchety Cantabrigian, and even more fun hearing about your neighbors’ underage drinking citations through your paper-thin walls. Hey, they asked...
...long prelude to last week's black acts, there might have been a thin shaft of light, and that light might have been an opportunity missed. Roberts was a killer 20 years in the making - that's 20 years of being haunted by what he may have done when he was 12 (the now grown relatives say they have no memories of any such incidents), and 20 years in which he could have stepped forward and sought help...
...Despite all the chatter about the DPRK, it's erratic leaders and the nuclear fraternity they've apparently entered, this is a country skating on thin ice. A special report from the U.S. Institute of Peace reveals that NoKo's people are poor and starving, the resources are desolate and the economy is in shambles...