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...Middle East. Except that didn’t work out, either: David Kuo cites one OFBCI grant analyst who admitted, “When I saw one of those non-Christian groups on the set I was reviewing, I just stopped looking at them and gave them a zero...
...viewed and judged by others. As a result, for many women, their actual weight and any manifestations of it—namely clothing sizes—can become integral parts of their identity. Now, living as we are in an era of the size zero and a constant bombardment of images of ever-shrinking celebrity women, there is more concern than ever that women’s self-images are being pushed in an extremely unhealthy direction by a combination of forces...
...good way to start would be by doing away with the meaningless (sub)-zero to mid-twenties numbers that identify women’s clothing sizes but do not correspond to any actual part of a woman’s body. Obviously, wearing a size two does not mean that one’s waist is two inches in circumference. Instead, clothing companies should make the switch to the practices of men’s sizes—base the numbers on waist and height measurements. That way, women will have a consistent, concrete basis through which to understand their...
...security is absolutely zero here,” he said...
...short, the book is informative, but just not very enjoyable. Schelling makes several attempts at humor, some of them hysterical, and some of them atrocious (“winnings and losings add to zero [less than what one must pay for sandwiches]”). At least the blame can partially be placed on the editors, who failed to take out several of the author’s outdated or nonsensical jokes. Perhaps in an attempt to liven up the book, Schelling provides too many examples for concepts that only require one or two. At one point, he even tries...