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...cereal, along with other childhood favorites like Corn Pops and Cocoa Pebbles, is being labeled a public-health menace by Yale's Rudd Center for Food Policy and Obesity. The center is trying to expose the marketing tactics that make kids clamor for a sugary start to the day, crispy calorie bombs that are often low in fiber and high in junky carbohydrates. Rudd researchers just finished crunching Nielsen and comScore data - which track television and Internet marketing - to figure out exactly how much cereal advertising kids see. The result: obesity researchers for the first time have hard data proving...
...Uighurs, some of whom clashed violently with Chinese earlier this year. India and China fought a brief war in 1962, when China captured territory in - for India - a mortifyingly rapid incursion. They skirmished again in 1967, but since 1993 the two countries have coexisted more or less peacefully along an undemarcated border. What's at stake now isn't territory so much as influence and global status. China is an economic powerhouse, but ever since last year's signing of a civilian nuclear agreement between the U.S. and India, Beijing has become increasingly uneasy with India's growing clout...
...would have been easier to just go along, as so many other judges did. But Wayne, who died Oct. 13 at 89, didn't wink at the law. After receiving handwritten letters from prison inmates describing awful conditions and brutal treatment, he appointed a lawyer to handle the case, a decision that led to an overhaul of the state's prisons. While most people in Texas were glad to use migrant laborers as indentured slaves, Wayne helped their children get an education in the state's public-school system...
...Crimson had a well-balanced attack on Saturday, taking advantage of the Big Red offensively and defensively. Harvard had a 38-36 advantage over Cornell in kills, along with a 59-48 advantage in digs. Senior Lily Durwood notched 30 assists, and junior Mikaelle Comrie led the Crimson with 10 kills—giving her 31 for the weekend. Freshman Taylor Docter also had a big game, with nine kills, three aces, four digs, and four blocks, which Coach Weiss noted is what she is capable of doing consistently...
Comrie notched a career-high 21 kills against the Lions, while Ingersoll added 16 kills of her own along with five blocks. Docter and sophomore Sandra Lynne Fryhofer recorded 12 and 14 kills, respectively, and Durwood added to her 3,000-plus career assist total with...