Word: unevennesses
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...hits some communities harder than others. The skyrocketing increase in childhood obesity--the percentage of 6-to-11-year-olds classified as obese has nearly tripled since 1980--may argue strongly that the American environment has changed in a way that makes gaining weight much less avoidable. But the uneven distribution of the problem argues that who you are, where you are and how much your family has in the bank have a lot to do with whether your child will be claimed by the crisis or emerge unharmed...
...happy that Dershowitz was able to speak for himself at the Dec. 11 FAS meeting. However, it should be noted that his involvement in the discussion—beyond his distribution of flyers at the meetings and his multiple Crimson articles—arose from an uneven application of the rules. On the one hand, I was required to jump through every possible procedural hoop in order to raise these incidents for discussion in the FAS meeting, and it cost me significant time, effort, and social capital to secure my undeniable right as a Faculty member...
...inauguration ceremony was on a particularly rainy, unpleasant autumn day and I was having a particularly disastrous senior fall. I walked back to Dunster, as per usual spilling coffee on myself and stepping in puddles on an uneven DeWolfe Street, and found that my eight male roommates had used the last of our toilet paper to mop up beer. I curled up on our futon and cried, cursing womanhood, the Cambridge weather, and Crimson-induced stress...
...There are two layers to this sweeping though uneven and too long tale. The first is Meera's Austenian struggle as a caged woman seeking self-realization in a chauvinistic world. Hers is a moving story in theory, as she fights against the reign of her petty tyrant of a father, against Dev's alcoholism and neglect, and later, when Dev dies, against advances from her oily brother-in-law Arya. But she's also an irritating egoist and self-styled tragedienne who blames everyone else for her problems while selfishly, and in one case quite perversely, smothering teenage...
...Face: Ask them to smile and see if the face looks uneven...