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...record in that it broadcasts information and not merely retains it for future reference. Students are far more likely to read about a classmate’s youthful indiscretions in a school paper than similar actions by others in a professional paper. Overall, the decision to print carries more weight now than it ever did in the past...
Pretty much everyone--everyone not directly involved in the business of clothing, that is--agrees that something has to be done about the waning weight of models. Twenty years ago, the average model was a size 8; today she's a size 0. It's easy to explain why models are so skinny--because of their strict dietary regimen of nicotine, arugula and rock-star boyfriends. But nobody can explain why they have to be that...
...reason we want models to gain weight, let's face it, is not mostly to protect them. It's to protect other, less genetically freakish girls--our daughters or, ahem, us--from having poor self-esteem or becoming anorexic. But people don't get anorexia from looking at fashion magazines (although it doesn't help). Anorexia is as much about a girl feeling that her life is not in her control as it is about body image. So dictating to models what their body type should be, whether to make it bigger or smaller, seems to send the wrong message...
...there's another risk: Jose Miguel (Mike) Arroyo, husband of President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo, appears to be waging a legal campaign against his critics. Arroyo has sued 42 journalists and media executives over slights ranging from accusations of graft and fraud to one columnist's irreverent references to his weight...
...prostate cancer. Patients with advanced forms of cancer in need of immediate treatment can take actions to alleviate the increased risks associated with the therapy. “For men who do require this treatment, physicians may want to talk with their patients about strategies, such as exercise or weight loss, which may help to lower risk of diabetes and heart disease,” said study co-author Matthew Smith, a Harvard Medical School associate professor, in the release. Researchers also found that another treatment for prostate cancer, surgical removal of testicles, exhibited an increased risk of diabetes...