Word: breakfast
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Today energy bars are increasingly being targeted to weekend warriors and office workers. They're pitched as a way to eat breakfast on the run or to dose up with a burst of energy late in the workday--to help, as PowerBar says, with "life's daily marathons." But as they enter the mainstream, many are dropping the ascetic rubber-brick ethos in favor of more savory--and fat-laden--formulas that appeal to a wider market...
...worry about the "Snackwell phenomenon." As with Nabisco's tasty low-fat cookies, consumers may be so blinded by the health claims that they lose track of how much they eat. "I just saw a swimmer today who had two bars before practice, and another afterward with a full breakfast," says Kristine Clark, Penn State's director of sports nutrition. "She's 15 lbs. overweight, and she doesn't know she's doing anything wrong...
...children in bed when they're little. Eventually, if that's a wonderful experience for them, they'll start to read for themselves." Parker says he has never met a kid with high scores on the verbal section of the sat who wasn't a passionate reader. "At the breakfast table, these kids read the cereal boxes. That's what readers...
...post-primary party unity breakfast onSept. 16, Finneran supported Democraticcandidates, but was cryptic in his comments onHarshbarger...
Terry Sanford, Duke University's president from 1969 to 1982, tried to build bridges between town and gown. He was the first Duke president to go to city hall, and on Sunday mornings he brought people from Durham to the campus for breakfast meetings. Duke's current president, Nan Keohane, has reached out even further. Since arriving in 1993, she has opened a Duke University office in downtown Durham and helped establish clinics in five city schools. Although the public University of North Carolina receives the bulk of government funding for indigent care in the city, Duke and Durham Regional...