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...first book devoted to male body image issues, The Adonis Complex: The Secret Crisis of Male Body Obsession, was published only four years ago. The book’s authors coined the term “The Adonis Complex” to encompass the widespread phenomenon of compulsive male body maintenance behavior, which ranges from muscle dysmorphic disorder (an obsessive desire to get bigger) to anorexia, bulimia and steroid abuse...
...exploiting the old depiction of black American men as hypermasculine would be no less deplorable. And yet, oddly, no one is likely to soon write a “Gay or White?” column. Why should the racial identifier “White” seem to encompass too many diverse human lives to caricature, while the identifier “Asian” does not? At best, the reduction of the rich diversity of a pan-ethnic minority group into a mere subculture gives it a status subordinate to white heritage, and is deeply disrespectful. At worst...
...course, they never actually did. After three months of research into libraries around the world, Koolhaas and Ramus concluded that the two chief challenges the building would have to address were the unpredictable future proliferation of new technologies that the library would need to encompass and the new social functions that it may have to serve. The solution was a library organized as a series of five internal enclosed "platforms," from basement to upper-level administrative areas, each to serve a function such as parking, offices and meeting space. Instead of being stacked neatly one atop another in a rectangle...
...French electronic duo Air, who played Avalon on Monday, we find something truly sexy—a band broad enough to encompass the sadness and the ecstasy of it all. They are smart enough to realize that sex is as much about anticipation as stimulation, that it involves not only the heat of the act itself but also the chill of waking up to find yourself alone in the morning. They show why Britney and Christina, for all their gyrating, are still just Mouseketeers...
While traditional liberals and conservatives encompass 32 and 16 percent of the college population, respectively, the poll adds two new categories—“religious centrists” and “secular centrists”—to describe college students’ political affiliations...