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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...three billion people around the world suffer from malnourishment and yet, ironically, efforts to increase food production have actually produced food that is less nourishing. Fruits seem to be less affected by genetic and environmental dilution, but one can't help but wonder if it's even possible to avoid nutritionally bankrupt veggies. Supplementing them is problematic, too: don't look to vitamin pills, as recent research indicates that those aren't very helpful either...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Eating Your Veggies: Not As Good For You? | 2/18/2009 | See Source »

...Kaiser (MBK): To be fair, these courses are not about sex per se. They are about sexuality, which is the intellectual and political act of experiencing one’s identity through the logic of sex. What I try to do in my courses is to try to avoid idealizing sex and fearing sex. 2. FM: What does your mother think? MBK: If she were a student I think she’d be the first person to study these courses. In fact, students invite their parents to my lectures all the time. I think it?...

Author: By Stephanie M. Woo, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: 15 Questions with Matthew B. Kaiser | 2/18/2009 | See Source »

According to Magliozzi, the company has since taken steps to avoid additional conflicts with the University...

Author: By Spencer H. Hardwick, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Finalsclub.org Passes Punch | 2/18/2009 | See Source »

...Becker said that SEIU is working closely with other unions and students to craft a response to the cuts, and that Harvard should avoid such practices because of its wealth and non-profit status...

Author: By Peter F. Zhu, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Harvard To Trim Custodial Staff | 2/18/2009 | See Source »

...search for one last Republican vote to pass a budget. But the complex negotiations hit a snag Wednesday when Republican state senators ousted their leader, Senator Dave Cogdill, who had dared to agree to a plan involving a tax hike, and replaced him with a staunch antitaxer. To avoid a collapse of state finances, legislators are attempting to pass a $42 billion budget-balancing plan that includes $14.4 billion in new taxes, an action anathema to the rank-and-file Republican minority. "I don't want to see a tax increase passed," said Senator Dennis Hollingsworth, the new Republican leader...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: California: One Vote Short of Averting Catastrophe | 2/18/2009 | See Source »

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