The self-esteem soap opera

My room back home is littered with evidence of the self-esteem craze of the 1990s. My annual participatory baseball, basketball, and hockey trophies battle for space, with a couple of sportsmanship...

Image is something

The other day in class, a science professor remarked that the two most popular biology courses at the U of C were the Biology of Gender and Nutritional Science—or, in other words, sex and food. Sex...

Despite best efforts, models still dumb

There are certain things that at first don’t seem nearly as scary as they actually are. Not until Al Gore brought skyrocketing line graphs and drowning polar bears to movie theaters throughout the ...

Sex and this city: The truth about French girls

PARIS—The title of Mireille Guilian's new diet book/memoir, French Women Don't Get Fat (Chatto & Windus, 2005), is a bit of a misnomer, actually. The book ought to be called "Most French Women ...

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