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...soda deal, in the meantime, will affect at least 35 million school-age children, and by any measure it comes none too soon. Two-thirds of U.S. adults are overweight or obese, and so are a shocking 17% of kids, with another 15% at risk. Children who start life fat often stay that way, with all the attendant health consequences. Kids as young as 10 are turning up with obesity-related Type 2 diabetes, which used to be known as the adult-onset form of the disease. The Clinton-backed plan would cut off a significant part of the sugar...
...factors may also be contributing to the spike. To get to the bottom of that mystery and others, federal funding for autism research has more than tripled in the past decade, to $100 million, although it pales in comparison with the estimated $500 million spent on childhood cancers, which affect fewer youngsters...
...avoid greater publicity, said that although he or she does not receive term-time financial aid, the student was allowed to keep Harvard funding for an upcoming summer program.Although none of the six alleged offenders were arrested, the fact that these busts were made by police will not affect the outcomes of their disciplinary proceedings.In terms of “severity of punishment...[it] makes no difference,” wrote Assistant Dean of the College John L. Ellison, who is also the secretary of the Ad Board, in an e-mail.The legal gravity of the drug involved, in addition, will...
...secondary field, a list of courses that would count for secondary field credit, which faculty members would organize and administer secondary fields, and what advising resources would be available to students, Gross wrote in an e-mail.The EPC still needs to work out the details of how secondary fields will affect core course exemptions, Kenen said.“There are potential inequity problems,” Kenen said. “Depending on what gets on the agenda and what gets approved first, some seniors will be able to do this and some won’t...That?...
...other purely aesthetic criterion on the camera. These scenes communicate the emotional and metaphysical turmoil of the characters, in theory, but the balance between visual coolness and purposeful movement of the film definitely shifts toward form over function.Nevertheless, a few of the heavily stylized, minimally scripted scenes do profoundly affect the audience. These scenes are the ones that powerfully pair contrasting music and sound effects with the deluge of visual artistry and action to draw a greater conclusion than a prettily shot film. For instance, a medley of barhopping and raucous revelry is narrated by the soft, acoustic music that...