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...Increasingly, we saw the weight women were gaining was going outside the established guidelines, either below or above them," says Kathleen Rasmussen, a professor of nutrition at Cornell University and the chair of the committee that wrote the IOM report. "That suggested a need to re-examine them." (Watch a video on fitness gadgets...
...thought their relations were good. "From a Hispanic perspective, Obama's election didn't just mean that a black man could be President, but that any minority person could," says Freddy Balsera, a Miami-based consultant who headed the Obama campaign's Hispanic- communications effort and is now a chair of the Democratic Party's National Hispanic Leadership Council. "As a result, on Election Day you could feel a new appreciation on both sides for each community's struggles...
Egypt is not a BRIC nation, which may make Boutros-Ghali the ideal man for the position, says Desmond Lachman, an expert on multilateral lending institutions at the American Enterprise Institute: "If the Chinese wanted [the chair of the policy committee], there would have been friction with other emerging economies, like India. Boutros-Ghali, coming from a smaller country, can be even-handed...
...Sanskrit and Indian Studies Department chair Leonard W. J. van der Kuijp said that his department should be spared further cuts because it is “already bare bones,” with just one staff member and one tenured professor in the department itself. He said that about a decade ago a proposed merger between Sanskrit and East Asian Languages and Civilizations was rejected because there was “no intellectual rationale...
...aware of the importance of anonymous testing. “I hope that it’s raising awareness,” she said. “UHS is trying to make this a very undercover issue.” Jia Hui Lee ’12, a political chair of the Harvard College Queer Students and Allies, said that the decision to halt anonymous testing puts people at risk. “It fails to acknowledge the fact that there are individuals in the community who need this service,” he said. “We?...