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...Damn good advice on how to work out, lose weight, and eat like a caveman...
...rise of male-targeted articles such as these only reinforces the fact—already seen in the gender unspecific proliferation of diet coke and low-carb lifestyles—that weight-maintenance is no longer female-only territory. Men, previously considered immune from society’s diet culture, are becoming increasingly (and dangerously) preoccupied with body image issues...
According to a 1997 Psychology Today study, 43 percent of men are dissatisfied with their overall appearance, and 52 percent are dissatisfied with their weight. The article also cites 17 percent of the poll as saying they would give up more than three years of their lives to achieve their weight goals...
...sort of European uncle watching America with hope, alarm and clarity, consistently arguing against knee-jerk anti-Americanism. In the 1990s, he defended Operation Desert Storm and supported the U.S. interventions in Bosnia and Kosovo on human-rights grounds. But Habermas' carefully grounded tribute to international law also gives weight to his critiques of the Bush doctrine and the war in Iraq. For Habermas, it is the "morality of international law" that refutes Washington's "revolutionary perspective." In this collision of ideas about America's role in the world, Habermas emerges as the genuine conservative. --By TODD GITLIN, professor...
...film justifies the otherwise vapid (and very cool) Vol. 1, which should never have existed as a separate film. The commercial logistics of a four-hour movie aside, Kill Bill would have worked best as a single entity, the second half imbuing the first with a certain weight. Indeed, Tarantino’s lip fetish is itself enough to empower Vol. 2 with far more powerful scenes than Vol. 1: when a tied-up Beatrix must wrap her lips around a flashlight, the degrading image is worth more than any moment in the first volume. Here Tarantino employs the same...