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...answer, readers soon learn, is not as forthcoming as it initially seems, while recourse to the dictionary provides little illumination: Although certainly an improvement on “the rib of Adam,” Webster’s “adult female person?? remains frustratingly nondescript...

Author: By Courtney A. Fiske | Title: Situating Sex | 4/20/2010 | See Source »

...use—a clearly ludicrous idea. To some extent, the absorption of harmful UV rays are a more natural part of our existence on this planet, unlike tobacco and alcohol consumption, so a ban on tanning beds would not be quite the same as taking away a young person??s right to smoke or drink...

Author: By Ayse Baybars | Title: To Bronze or Not to Bronze | 4/1/2010 | See Source »

First of all, I do not mean to define wealth merely from a superficial analysis of a person??s appearance or behavior: Obviously, someone in the Yard wearing a Burberry coat is not necessarily a card-carrying member of the American socio-economic elite. But as Harvard still educates a sizeable percentage of the children in this demographic, chances are that you’ve run across more than one in your time here. And I would be willing to bet that these wealthy individuals have actively attempted to hide the extent of their privilege, if only...

Author: By James K. Mcauley | Title: Friends With Money | 3/8/2010 | See Source »

...read about these men, a part of me regretted my failure to recognize their accomplishments while they lived, and a part of me admired and, at the same time, felt sorry for the obituary writer who had to select the most important and interesting moments of each person??s death to memorialize...

Author: By Alina Voronov | Title: The Dead Writer's Society | 2/24/2010 | See Source »

This one exercise in channeling a person??s imagination, however, was just the beginning. Cook proceeded to entertain the audience for the next hour and a half with animated personal stories about his first kiss, his time at school, and his American Sign Language students, among other anecdotes—all without saying a single word...

Author: By Devon M. Newhouse, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Deaf Performance Entices the Senses | 2/17/2010 | See Source »

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