Search Details

Word: understanding (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first (reverse)


Usage:

...back the same season she delivered her son. Lisa Leslie waited a year. They're still at the top of their game. I don't think it's going to be easy, by any means, but I think it's possible to come back better than I was. I understand my body a lot more. I focus a lot more on stretching and taking care of myself...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 10 Questions for Candace Parker | 7/6/2009 | See Source »

...necessary to understand the place and role of folk crafts in the general construction [of the market]," said Viktor Khristenko, head of the Industry and Trade Ministry, in March. As orders have started to dry up, the production of handicrafts by registered companies in the period between January and May fell 19% compared with the same period last year, dropping from $35.2 million worth of goods to $28.5 million, according to the Federal State Statistics Service. Meanwhile, the number of tourists, who make up the bulk of buyers of Russian handicrafts, has dipped drastically, with 25% fewer visitors arriving...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Trying Times for Russia's Nesting Dolls | 7/5/2009 | See Source »

...that some people drink the placenta raw as a smoothie. "I do this for a living, and I couldn't do that," she said. The pills, she explained, were superior, since Cassandra could stretch their hormone-rich benefits much further, perhaps even freezing some for menopause. Sara did not understand that when Cassandra's looks fade in her 50s, there's no way I'm putting up with this crap. (Read TIME's 1933 article "Medicine: Protective Placenta...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Afterbirth: It's What's For Dinner | 7/3/2009 | See Source »

...It’s unfortunate for Harvard because we clearly are in a very serious financial state,” said Harry R. Lewis ’68, former dean of Harvard College. “This is a place where it takes a lot to understand how it works. The learning curve is not overnight...

Author: By Bonnie J. Kavoussi and Esther I. Yi, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERS | Title: FAS Finance Dean To Depart After Less Than A Year | 7/3/2009 | See Source »

...ones; they are less likely to become teenage parents and high school dropouts. But children of divorced middle-class parents do less well in school and at college compared with underprivileged kids from two-parent households. "There's a 'sleeper effect' to divorce that we are just beginning to understand," says David Blankenhorn, president of the Institute for American Values. It is an effect that pioneering scholars like McLanahan and Judith Wallerstein have devoted their careers to studying, revealing truths that many of us may find uncomfortable. It's dismissive of the human experience, says Blankenhorn, to suggest that kids...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Is There Hope for the American Marriage? | 7/2/2009 | See Source »

Previous | 172 | 173 | 174 | 175 | 176 | 177 | 178 | 179 | 180 | 181 | 182 | 183 | 184 | 185 | 186 | 187 | 188 | 189 | 190 | 191 | 192 | Next