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University spokesperson Joe Wrinn, who served on the advisory committee, said that he disagreed with the students’ suggestion that their voices had not been taken into account...
...concern helps account for a surge in enrollment in children's etiquette classes and is transforming the moribund manners trade. "I've been in this business for over 40 years, and I've never seen anything like the current hunger for this information," says Dorothea Johnson, who runs the Protocol School of Washington in the nation's capital. In the past three years, she says, the number of people signing up for her children's classes has quadrupled. But unlike the mini-finishing-school lessons of yore that dwelt on cutlery and curtsies, the curriculum nowadays stresses social skills...
...meet. (His feet are only one size bigger than hers.) That was less than a year after Jones' then husband shot-putter C.J. Hunter got busted at the 2000 Olympics for taking steroids. (The New York Times reported that Hunter wrote a $7,350 check from Jones' account to BALCO in 2000, according to two sources with knowledge of the check.) Jones, 28, divorced him and surprised fans when she kissed Montgomery, 29, on the finish line in Paris in September 2002 after Montgomery broke the 100-m-dash world record. Compared with track and field, Hollywood seems like...
...food, they consume an average of 187 more calories than on days without fast food, Ludwig and collaborators reported in a large study published in the January issue of Pediatrics. Since, on average, the American kid eats a fast-food meal 1 out of every 3 days, "this would account for an extra 6 pounds of weight gained a year," says Ludwig. "It's a poor return on investment to fund education by selling this kind of food to kids...
...diversify liability and attract new investors. In July the Treasury will auction new 20year TIPS and in October will follow up with a five-year note. You can buy TIPS from the Treasury directly (at treasurydirect.gov or through your broker. If possible, keep TIPS in a tax-sheltered account like a 401(k) or IRA. While TIPS are free from state and local taxes, you do get taxed each year at the federal level on semiannual interest payments and gain in principal, even though those amounts are automatically reinvested...