Word: weightness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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After a generation of books and cautionary tales about self-esteem, girls still diet more than they should. A 1995 survey of 1,955 students in Grades 9 to 12 conducted by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention found that 60% of the girls were trying to lose weight, compared with 24% of the boys. More cases of anorexia and bulimia are reported every year, and between 5% and 10% of females 14 and older suffer from such disorders, according to the nonprofit group Eating Disorders Awareness and Prevention. "I don't think in local communities and in schools...
...AFAX is the heaviest weight ever flown on the Space Shuttle," Collins said...
...wrists and elbows; her eyes dart from pool table to door; and her butt compulsively scoots around inside her baggy jeans. Crank kills the appetite, just wipes it out, and while many women she knows view this as a selling point, Jennifer doesn't want to lose more weight. Hoping to supplement the child-support check that turns to drugs the day it hits her mailbox, she'd applied for a job as a cocktail waitress, but her meth-shrunken breasts didn't fill the skimpy costume...
...That would be the initial draw, I think," says Nancy Waite-O'Brien, Ph.D., director of psychological services at the Betty Ford Center in Rancho Mirage, Calif. Add to this the wannabe-supermodel factor. "Women," observes Waite-O'Brien, "get into meth because they think it will manage weight. Which I suppose it sometimes does--at first...
Veronica Chase--Nikki, to her friends--is the only black member of the Harvard Economics Department. As an assistant professor, Nikki is sinking beneath the weight of research and teaching responsibilities, but her efforts have resulted in her appointment to the Crimson Future Committee (CFC), a prestigious, interdisciplinary group whose members are paving the way towards Harvard's financial security in the twenty-first century. All appears to be well with the CFC--that is, until Nikki stumbles over the dead body of Law School committee member Ella Fisher after a late meeting in Littauer on a rainy night...