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...with these new technological solutions come also new technological problems. We are all familiar with the threat of the YM problem last year, when the abaci that recorded the Year CMXCVIIIJ were to roll over and show the year...well, something other than the Year M. [The lack of a zero can cause problems sometimes.] Luckily, few people were using the abacus, since it had only been introduced to Europe a few decades earlier by Gerbert of Aurillac, now Pope Sylvester II. [This is part of how you got to be Pope in those days. Want to make friends...
...year Lauren M. Jiggettsi mother sent in pictures to a modeling agency when she was just five months old. Her first job came soon after, with an appearance in an ad for K-Mart. As she matured, so did her career; she went on to model for magazines like YM and Teen...
...Lauren has also seen the seedier side of the modeling world. iMy roommate during my YM photo shoot was anorexic. There is an inherent pressure in the modeling agency to be a certain size. A size 10 is often considered plus size for modeling,i she explains. In Laurenis experience, modeling agents have encouraged extreme anorexic behavior, including one agent who told her to restrict her diet to water...
...this is sounding a bit too much like YM magazine's "Say Anything" column, bear with me. It has a point...
With a section on readers' embarrassing moments and an interactive quiz, Parents is hard to distinguish from Seventeen or YM. Of course, these confessions feature parental blunders, not teen tribulations. Rather than tales of untimely menstruation, Parents spotlights more mature bloopers. In Parents' "I Can't Believe I Did That" section this month, a blushing mother admits to dosing off and leaving her baby in the automatic swing for four hours on the high speed setting. Likewise, "reader quizzes" bypass classic teen quandaries of "Does He Like You?" for more mature, soul-searchers like the "Family Stress Test." The familiar...