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...have to know if you'll be eating any beef while you're in the U.S.," the student said...
...currently offers five types of sandwiches--ham and cheese, three-cheese, roast beef, turkey and peanut butter and jelly--in addition to a variety of fruits and chips, and a choice of beverages...
What's going on? Is it something in the water? That's a possibility. Scientists think it may be linked to obesity, though they've also proposed a witches' brew of other explanations, from chemicals in the environment to hormones in cow's milk and beef. But the truth is that all anyone knows for certain is that the signs of sexual development in girls are appearing at ever younger ages. Among Caucasian girls today, 1 in every 7 starts to develop breasts or pubic hair by age 8. Among African Americans, for reasons nobody quite understands, the figure...
Could other substances besides PCBs and DDE influence sexual development? Perhaps, Rogan says. But few compounds are as persistent and pervasive. Hormones given to livestock, for instance--another frequently invoked possibility--break down very quickly in the body. "I have not studied the effects of hormones in beef or dairy cattle," Rogan says. "It's not something I'm running out to study either...
When he was an undergraduate, only men lived in the Yard. Coats and ties were mandatory for meals. Mr. & Mrs. Bartley's Burger Cottage had just opened. At Elsie's on Mt. Auburn Street--since replaced by the Wrap--he could get his favorite roast beef sandwich for less than a dollar. But he never, ever went in Mass. Hall, where his current office...