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...tend to think of airplane crashes as fatal events. So when survivors emerge from the carcass of a crumpled jumbo jet, as they did outside Amsterdam's Schiphol Airport on Wednesday or on the Hudson River in mid-January, the spectacle is often described as miraculous. But survival in an airplane crash is no miracle. It is the result of more-prosaic interventions, from sturdier seats to more carefully placed emergency lights...
...eating less, however simple it may sound, is hardly a one-man job. Some nutrition experts argue that the balance of responsibility needs to fall more heavily on society at large. Martjin Katan, a professor of nutrition and health at Amsterdam's VU University, wrote an accompanying editorial that analyzed the merits of the diet study. He suggests that focusing on individual diet plans of any kind may be misguided, and that only community-wide change will truly be able to stem the tide of obesity. He points to a small town in France that tapped all of its residents...
...heels of that defeat, she went on to serve as the UC’s communications director and ran again for the SAC chair in the fall of 2008 while Staff was spending the semester in Amsterdam...
...visit, I unknowingly turned our tour of the city into a cupcake walking tour. Interested in eating brunch near the Upper West Side? I would transform this into a tasting tour of the petite cupcakes of Magnolia Bakery at Columbus and 69th, the overpowering cupcakes of Crumbs at Amsterdam and 75th, the cream-filled cupcakes of Alice’s Tea Cup at Columbus and 73rd, and the pastel-colored cupcakes of Buttercup Bake Shop at Columbus and 72nd (the tour could have continued, but our stomachs always seemed to be full and wallets empty after these almost-$4-each...
...spike in murders of prostitutes including three sex workers who were killed in their apartments in January. The rising death toll is forcing the city's conservative leaders to consider how members of the world's oldest profession might be better protected under Hong Kong law. (Read about Amsterdam's drive to clean up its red light district...