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...shoplifter was detained at the Kennedy School cafeteria. The manager accepted payment for the food, and the shoplifter was issued a general trespass warning for Harvard properties...
...Circuit Court judge handed Kip Kinkel a 111-year prison term; because of his status as a minor, he was not eligible for the death penalty. The Springfield teenager, now 17, was convicted on four counts of murder and 26 counts of attempted murder after spraying his high school cafeteria with gunfire 16 months ago. Kinkel also shot and killed his parents, a grisly twist in the familiar repertoire of schoolyard murderers...
...short of ordering mandatory massages. But many firms encourage workers, for example, to have their cholesterol checked on company time. The U.S. division of drugmaker Hoffmann-La Roche gives each employee $100 for joining a fitness club. Workers who buy one low-fat or vegetarian meal in the company cafeteria get another one free. Through incentives, the company has persuaded 93% of employees to undergo on-site checkups...
...Capping off one end of the dining hall is the "stage," a raised portion of the dining hall blocked off by curtains on all sides and set against a mural that looks like the bastard offspring of a Picasso and a blender. The elementary school cafeteria-cum-auditorium look makes the stage the ultimate in public-private reconciliation, offering one of the most postmodern dining experience on campus (the Pforzheimer lovers balconyaside): the private, commensal experience of eating a meal becomes a dramatic public performance--life as an intermission between play acts...
Nurse Buss slips down to the cafeteria to haul back a bucket of ice. "My major cure," she notes. "When in doubt, put ice on it." She flushes an amorous couple from the girls' room in the back. "We were just talking," the boy protests. The kids are already lining up outside her office: one girl is there for iron pills to treat her anemia--a poor substitute, notes Buss, for what she really needs, which is a decent diet. Another has a bruised hand from a fight over the weekend; a boy wants Tylenol for a stomachache; she gives...