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...1980s and '90s saw school districts contract with private companies to stock brand-name soft drinks and snacks in exchange for a cut of the profits. While the partnerships boosted school revenue, they also exacerbated soaring childhood-obesity rates. (See the top 10 food trends...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: School Lunches | 10/7/2009 | See Source »

When Draimli opened Birds and Fish World in the 1980s, he says, "People weren't all that interested in cats." It took a few years, he says, to convince his neighbors in the Gaza Strip - home to 1.5 million people, the majority of whom are refugees - that the animals make worthy household companions. (Read TIME's 1981 cover story on cats...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Raising Cats in Gaza: A Pet Store Owner's Lament | 10/7/2009 | See Source »

...come to America until 1991, when he crossed the ocean for love. He met his wife in Rome when she was on vacation there in the late 1980s. After having spent a year in Rome, she then had to return to her work in Massachussetts. Ultimately, Fiorentini decided to move to America so that he could live with her in the States. They now have two children: Alexander, who is 14, and Arianna...

Author: By Sofia E. Groopman, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Guardian of Graves Saves Burial Ground | 10/6/2009 | See Source »

Szostak's two colleagues were Elizabeth Blackburn of UC San Francisco and Carol W. Greider of Johns Hopkins. Apparently, the three had begun working together on the topic back in the 1980s, when none of us were even alive, much less pretentious enough to pretend that we actually know what telomerase is or what it does...

Author: By James K. Mcauley | Title: HMS's Szostak Wins Nobel Prize | 10/6/2009 | See Source »

Szostak's two colleagues were Elizabeth Blackburn of UC San Francisco and Carol W. Greider of Johns Hopkins. Apparently, the three had begun working together on the topic back in the 1980s, when none of us were even alive, much less pretentious enough to pretend that we actually know what telomerase is or what it does...

Author: By James K. Mcauley | Title: HMS's Szostak Wins Nobel Prize | 10/5/2009 | See Source »

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