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...just what constitutes a healthy diet? Less than 30% of calories from fat. Five or more servings a day of fruits and vegetables. Six or more helpings of legumes (peas and beans) and cereals. Exactly the diet that affluent health-conscious people started adopting in the 1980s...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RICH MAN'S DIET | 9/16/1996 | See Source »

Except for all being named, in one way or another, after the university, the Harvards of the world bear little in common. The towns range from Harvard, Idaho, a sleepy logging town with no businesses, one post office and 235 people, to Harvard, Mass., an affluent bedroom community an hour's drive from Cambridge, home to software engineers and financial consultants...

Author: By Sewell Chan, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: 'Harvard' Is More Than A University | 9/13/1996 | See Source »

Nearly all the residents live in homes costing less than $50,000. The town is far from affluent: 14.2 percent of all residents, and 18.5 percent of children, live below the poverty line...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harvards of The World | 9/13/1996 | See Source »

Except for all being named, in one way or another, after the university, the Harvards of the world bear little in common. The towns range from Harvard, Idaho, a sleepy logging town with no businesses, one post office and 235 people, to Harvard, Mass., an affluent bedroom community an hour's drive from Cambridge, home to software engineers and financial consultants...

Author: By Sewell Chan, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: 'Harvard' Is More Than A University | 9/9/1996 | See Source »

Nearly all the residents live in homes costing less than $50,000. The town is far from affluent: 14.2 percent of all residents, and 18.5 percent of children, live below the poverty line...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harvards of The World | 9/9/1996 | See Source »

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