Word: younger
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Reading Nancy Friday's the Power of Beauty (HarperCollins; 589 pages; $27.50) can make one very self-conscious. Provoked by the author1s analysis of feminine self-loathing, the haunting doubts creep in, says TIME's Wendy Wasserstein. What do I look like perusing this book? Am I envious of younger women whose toned arms could lift this nearly 600-page opus in consecutive rotations while riding a mountain bike? Could it be that I am home alone with The Power of Beauty because I am frightened of expressing the full range of my repressed sexuality? Or have I come...
...highlights the improving role of women in professional and public life [NATION, July 1]. Although we have yet to consider seriously a woman for the U.S. presidency, it is encouraging to see that two such strong women as Hillary Rodham Clinton and Elizabeth Hanford Dole are role models for younger women. This is healthy for our society, as there is greater acceptance of women in positions of power. I look forward to the day when we contemplate the role of the President's husband. JAMES MCKEAN WOOD New Hope, Pennsylvania Via E-mail...
Time management professionals, who manage their time so well that they are actually on average 4 years younger now than when they started out in the business, call the time that is spent doing nothing, like waiting in line, sitting around after lunch, watching commercials on TV or attending Undergraduate Council meetings, down-time. Minimize your down-time by taking wolf-naps. In Farley Mowat's Never Cry Wolf, he observes wolves taking naps that are often as short as two minutes each. Train your body to do that, and all-nighters are a cinch because after...
That's the good part. What is exasperating about Isaacs' novel is that every even-numbered chapter breaks off from this engaging legal drama to spin out a whiny and exceedingly slow-moving melodrama of Lily White's fretful childhood and early adult years. Her younger sister, we learn at great length, was pretty and petulant and absorbed all their parents' attention; her father was a Jewish businessman who tried unsuccessfully to be a Wasp; the husband Lily eventually married was handsome but shallow...
...Mammograms detect only 75% of invasive breast cancers in women under 50. That's probably because tumors in younger women grow so rapidly that they can go from undetectably small to large between MAMMOGRAM exams...