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...Harvard—in the first-year dorms, the College should use those prime proctor suites to house undergraduates who can help first-years cope with the difficulties that they so recently experienced. If the Yard had one proctor per dorm, first-years would have more than enough adult supervision, if the College really believes adult supervision is what first-years need. This would encourage inter-class interaction—a stated goal of the curricular review—more effectively than a Yale-like housing system, and it would not compromise students’ ability to choose their House...
...Jacobs Field to braised pork "wings" at St. Louis Busch Stadium. This month burger chain Hardee's signed baseball great Mark McGwire, known as Big Mac, to flog its bunless Thickburger, playing catch-up with the other Big Mac, McDonald's, which is phasing out supersize portions and offering adult Happy Meals that are carb conscious. Burger King is launching an Angus steakburger that can come wrapped in lettuce and slathered with low-carb steak sauce. Krispy Kreme says it will have a low-sugar--and therefore lower-carb--doughnut by year...
...Those slim, wine-drinking, chain-smoking Europeans chuckle at our diet and health obsessiveness, since we continue to overeat. Yet there are signs that carb counting may be working. In its latest annual report, NPD found that after six consecutive years of weight gain, the number of overweight adult Americans fell 1 percentage point, to 55%. Was it carb counting? No one really knows. But at fast-food restaurants, salad orders (low in carbs) rose 12%, while French-fries consumption (carb mountain) fell...
...given moment, a quarter of the adult population is on a diet, a figure that has remained fairly steady for decades. Not surprisingly, the publishing world has built a reliable revenue stream serving this market, pumping out titles addressing any and all diet concerns of the day. Book publishers "will jump on any bandwagon," notes Nora Rawlinson, editor in chief of Publishers Weekly...
...different too. He's more of a mischievous prankster; he can often be seen scampering off in the last frame with a punk'd victim in hot pursuit. Once or twice Schulz even breaks one of the cardinal rules of Peanuts: he lets us hear the voice of an adult...