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...years ago [people expected] that online banking would take things over and people wouldn’t need banks,” said Barbara Cox, the marketing director for Cambridge Savings Bank, which has its headquarters in the Square. “That has not been true...
ASHIL ANN, A SOPHOMORE at the University of California at Santa Barbara, went to college to stretch her mind--she didn't expect it also to expand her waistline. "At home my mom made choices on what I could eat," she explains, "but it was all-you-can-eat at the dining halls." Ashil got to school a year ago as a featherweight size 1. She now fits "snugly" into a size 3, she says. Say hello to the "freshman 15": the unwanted pounds many students pack on during their first year of college. The extra pounds--usually the result...
...science and leaves product development and marketing--and the glory--to others. Glenn invented some nonfood uses for wheat starch, including a biodegradable version of Styrofoam food containers. His work is being incorporated in various products at EarthShell Corp., a disposable-food-packaging company based in Santa Barbara, Calif. But when commercial production of the wheat-based plates and bowls begins next year, consumers will see only EarthShell's name on the label. There will be no reference to ARS. "We don't want the USDA to appear as an endorser," says Ed Knipling, the mild-mannered plant physiologist...
...recent years, colleges across the country have begun working to challenge that longstanding tradition, revamping dining-hall menus and introducing classes on weight loss to combat unnecessary frosh noshing. At UC Santa Barbara, for instance, biology professor Diane Eardley introduced a freshman seminar called You Are What You Eat after observing what she calls a "second-year metamorphosis" among students. "The girls would come in gorgeous and come back 30 pounds heavier," explains Eardley, whose course is fully enrolled, with 10 students on the waiting list...
...more than it spent in 2002. But Colgate's problems may not be so easily brushed away. P&G is also stealing market share in places like Mexico and China, and other companies, like Church & Dwight, which owns Mentadent toothpaste, are making inroads into the business too. --By Barbara Kiviat...