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Toomey is a City Councillor and a State Representative for the 29th Middlesex District. He wants to increase the amount of open space, stabilize housing and pass a residency ordnance for city employees...
...once easygoing colleges to become more selective. At the same time, the number of high school guidance counselors, the traditional college advisers, has been slashed because of budget cutbacks, creating impossible student-to-counselor ratios (1,040 to 1 in California, for example) and diminishing, if not demolishing, the amount of information available to many students...
...guidance counselor, which would just reduce the student-to-counselor ratio to 650 to 1. Moreover, the person hired would be saddled not only with giving college advice but also with staying on top of disciplinary and psychological problems. For the same amount of money, DeFuniak is planning to employ three Achieva counselors to do only test prep, a service he expects to translate into a 50-point jump in SAT scores. He says such gains are more likely to help his kids--87% of whom are minorities, many from disadvantaged families--make college an option...
...have become a convert. Carbohydrates in the amount we commonly consume them (particularly sugar and other refined carbos) are often prime saboteurs of our weight. What's more, cutting back on them--especially on wheat--seems to produce improvements in energy, mood and sleep for many patients. It is hard to do--our culture is carbo- and wheat-driven. But of all the diets I've seen over the past few decades, the moderate-fat, lower-carbohydrate ones are the most successful. They stress not how much food you eat but what kinds. Calorie counting is not as important...
...healthy, a high-fat diet is usually fine for a while. But after about a month, you should go off it. That's the problem. When people begin to go off the strictest form of the diet, they have to be extremely careful as they increase the amount of carbos and dramatically cut back on fats. For most people, this is too much of a metabolic swing, and weight regain is all too common. The more moderate diets of Sears and the Hellers--cutting carbohydrates by about one-third and eating moderate amounts of fat, preferably monosaturated ones like olive...