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Body Dances and Big Muscles Stir College Moms
A Long Fading era debate on women’s physique at New England colleges. Mothers of Boston area students express alarm at growing muscular bodies and fuller waists, while Dr. Sargent and experts defend body dances as beneficial exercises for health and blood flow amid shifting fashion norms.
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Boston
Harvard
Anite
Concon
Wellester
Tata
Dudlew A. Cneennt
Hemenway
Wellesley
Ana Wardle Yanen Saveaing
Sargent