Word: smith
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Johann M. Schleier-Smith '00 is one guy who won't be counting chickens any time soon...
...Schleier-Smith is responsible for technology development for Limespot.com, formerly known as Flyingchickens.com. He claims that the council stole his idea in creating UC Books, but he says he's not angry about...
While a mother's behavior is very likely one component in the development of anorexia, says TIME medical contributor Dr. Ian Smith, it's far from the only influence. "Girls and women at risk for anorexia have a distorted self-image - and that image can be affected by wide variety of factors," he says. "The media pitches in to create an unrealistic, perfect image, and so do peer pressure and various parental issues." Anorexia, Dr. Smith points out, has a wide range of causes, and the breaking point varies from person to person. A nervous or particularly invested mother could...
While McCain wasn't blasted for an answer that might be considered politically incorrect, the Human Rights Campaign's Smith was quick to point out that gaydar is not without a serious downside: "In the halls of TIME magazine and big cities it's a safe discussion, but not everywhere." By buying into part of a stereotype, we may be giving cover to those who buy all of it. Gaydar can lead to a social form of racial profiling. The police aren't stopping gays on the highway, but a gay who comes anywhere near the Richard Simmons profile still...
Then it began intertwining with several other notorious crimes of the 20th century. In 1991, during the William Kennedy Smith rape trial, a rumor in the press section placed Smith at the Skakel home on the night of the murder in Connecticut that most people had forgotten. The lead proved false but attracted the attention of author Dominick Dunne, an omnipresent analyst of the O.J. Simpson trial and a specialist in high-society true crime; his own daughter was murdered at a young age. Dunne wrote a thinly veiled novelization of the Moxley case, A Season in Purgatory, which became...