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...public figure,” Stern said in an interview earlier in the week. “It didn’t occur to me that I needed to be on my toes for the way that a single sentence would be taken out of context...
...speed of light, but the speed of life - a little bit hesitantly, a little bit digressively. He's not ramrodding us into submission, not force-feeding us a lot of big melodramatic scenes. Stuff keeps happening in this movie - some of it fairly bloody - but always within the context of its own ideas of carefully-controlled, if very peculiar, sense of normalcy...
...interview in February, Faust said that she has “enormous respect for these students who commit themselves to this effort and to the service of their country,” but that Harvard should treat the issue in the broader context of whether it should recognize discriminatory groups...
...CONTEXT Insulin is a lifesaver for diabetics because it normalizes blood-sugar levels. But diabetic girls, in particular, who are already the ultimate calorie counters because of their disease, can be tempted to keep up with ultrathin beauty standards by denying themselves insulin and with it, their ability to process sugars...
...CONTEXT The Ivory Coast is the world's biggest producer of cocoa, the main ingredient in chocolate, but what fans of the sweet treat don't know is that both sides in the country's civil war are using cocoa revenues to buy weapons and fund militias. In its report "Hot Chocolate," the London-based group Global Witness is calling for international efforts to "break the links between the cocoa trade and the armed conflict...