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...PESTICIDES The wax in beehives is a natural sink for airborne toxins, and the relatively weak bee immune system is no match for such concentrations of man-made poisons...
...Sale (Sourcebooks), takes it to the nth degree. She points to her own experience as an example. After 15 years as a stay-at-home mom, she took a job in the early '90s selling copiers. At first, Stutz says, "I was always looked at as weak because I cared too much about the client." By the fourth month, she was the top rep. One of her male colleagues grilled her about the secret of her success. "I said, 'I do one thing none of you do. I'm actually nice to my clients.'" The boys were busy backslapping themselves...
...didn't like herself very much. She figured losing a few kilograms would take her closer to perfection, but when that didn't work she set about losing more. By last Christmas, now 18, her weight had plunged from 55 kg to 32 kg. Racked by headaches and too weak to leave the house, she was often irrational yet also cunning in the ways she foiled her mother's attempts to make her eat. Because the girl she saw in the mirror still looked fat in the hips, thighs and stomach, she ignored her family's pleadings that...
When the Harvard women’s soccer team (3-11-1, 2-3-0 Ivy) suffered its third straight loss, 5-0, at Princeton on Saturday night, its defensive collapse in the eleventh minute of the second half told the story of the team’s weak play. With the Crimson already trailing 3-0 at the 56th minute, Princeton’s Vicki Anangnostopaulos, who had already netted two goals, doubled her total in a mere 33 seconds, giving her a golden sombrero on a career night. Anangnostopaulos’s performance put her in elite company...
...have gained one lesson in my first three years at Harvard it is that anything worth doing involves a risk and, given the weak to non-existent content of much of what students talk about on a daily basis, I don’t feel we can’t do a whole lot worse. The ability to argue forcefully while remaining respectful and measured is a critical skill, and one that is rarely developed in classrooms anymore because of the almost complete abandonment of public speaking, and the palpable sense of apathy which infects most discussion sections...