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...Burns??s film, which will air on PBS in the fall of 2009, considers the first national parks and the man who envisioned them...
...weapons,” he said. Burns has visited the Kennedy School several times since the mid-1990s, according to Belfer Center Director of Communications and Outreach Sasha Talcott. In September 2006, he hosted a Directors’ Seminar on US policy toward Iran. Students had mixed reactions to Burns??s performance at the forum, entitled “Clash with Iran: Inevitable or Avoidable?” Naveed Malik—a Kennedy School student and member of the class “Central Challenges for American Foreign Policy”—asked...
...states over a quarter of all citizens were obese. Offering smaller portion sizes would be a small but significant step in combating this staggeringly high number. Admittedly, obesity can be caused by many factors, but it ultimately boils down to a person consuming far more calories than he burns??a habit that super-sized portions feed. A 2005 study in the Journal of Nutrition Education and Behavior showed that portion size influences overall food intake as much as taste; that is, if served more, someone will eat more, regardless of how hungry he actually is. A person will...
...This owes to Burns?? fame for off-color jokes, the most recent of which concerns the immigration status of his house painter. Everyone has their favorite Conrad Burns line. I have two. Conrad Burns walks into a federal office building where a young white girl with a nose stud is working as a receptionist. Inquires the Senator: “What tribe are you from?” On a cold December day in Washington, D.C. some years ago when I was a Senate page, Senator Burns entered the Republican cloakroom and declared, “It?...
...laidback attitude I adopted.But spending seven straight hours under an umbrella in the sand was probably the best way to experience “real” Greek culture and do something totally different from my usual routine. The sun usually gives me freckles or second-degree burns??sometimes even in the dead of winter during a 15 minute snowbound trek to Widener. But I took cues from locals on how to enjoy the sun without a case of heat stroke, and found myself waxing philosophical in the Mediterannean instead of at the museum.Granted...