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...more unlikely food crazes of recent times, but agar-agar (the flavorless, seaweed-based thickener used in soups and jellies) is hip?at least in Japan, where it is known as kanten. The reason? It has no calories, is rich in dietary fiber and fills you up quickly, so that you're inclined to eat less. That makes it a perfect fit for today's slimming-obsessed consumer. "Kanten is filled with soluble fiber ... and significantly slows down digestion," explains Jacqueline Marcus, associate professor of culinary nutrition at Kendall College, Chicago. All of a sudden, Japanese magazines and websites...
...campaign is driven by our need to invest to ensure that we remain amongst...the top ten universities world-wide,” Peter Agar, director of development at Cambridge, wrote in an e-mail. “We also want to diversify our sources of income (key to preserving academic freedom) and to engage our alumni far more actively in the future of the University and the Colleges...
...Since we are in the top ten and at least eight of the others are US universities,” Agar wrote, “we do indeed compete for staff and for graduate students in particular with institutions that have far larger resources than...
With a larger endowment generating more revenue, Cambridge said it will decrease its reliance on government funding. According to Agar, the United Kingdom has cut real expenditures per student by 40 percent during the last 15 years...
DIED. JOHN AGAR, 81, Air Force sergeant, actor and, briefly, husband to Shirley Temple; of emphysema; in Burbank, Calif. Agar was 24 when a friend enlisted him in 1945 to escort Temple, then 16, to a party. The two married and three years later had a daughter, but Agar's drinking led his wife to file for divorce in 1949. He appeared with Temple in John Ford's cavalry classic Fort Apache and went on to a film career that included westerns, war films and a host of grade-B horror flicks, including Revenge of the Creature and The Brain...