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...Harvard seeks to expand into Allston and build ties with its Boston neighbors who will bear the brunt of the University’s future development, the two agreements reached this past year in Cambridge provide not only models of successful negotiation, but also a warning of the potential difficulty of winning a community’s trust...
...easy to be pessimistic about how soft and fat Americans have become. It's not healthy to be obese, and if we keep going the way we're headed, the long-term medical costs may be more than we can bear. The case for optimism is harder to make, although there are signs that the tide may be turning. Preliminary data suggest that 2003 was the first year since 1998 that the percentage of Americans who are obese did not increase. But that doesn't include kids, and it still leaves us at epidemic levels. What can be done? That...
...first things that strike foreigners visiting the U.S. is that the rich tend to be skinny and the poor fat. Studies bear this out. The less money you have in America, the likelier you are to be overweight. One in 4 adults below the poverty level is obese, compared with 1 in 6 in households with an income of $67,000 or more. For minorities, poverty has an even heavier effect: obesity strikes 1 in 3 poor African Americans...
...says Budnitz. "They are too unique to be carried at mass-market outlets." But his audience isn't just pop-culture art collectors. Moms, dads, kids and stars including Robin Williams, Mike Myers and Christina Aguilera have been known to pick up quirky, irreverent and highly aesthetic dolls, teddy bears and the like at hip urban-toy stores such as Budnitz's. "Having graphic or graffiti artists involved makes these toys fresh looking and adds depth, but you don't need to go deep to enjoy them," he says. As for what the artists get out of the experience, Keanan...
There are reasons why this two-part reshaping of U.S. strategy may not work, but there is no good plan left, and this strategy has the best chance of success. Departing in the midst of widening chaos for which we bear responsibility would be an awful outcome, but that prospect is looming and time is running out. If we continue to stumble along our stubborn path, any exit strategy we could then design would be particularly treacherous. If we seize this last chance and do our best to make it work we might succeed. If we failed, we would then...