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...applaud Clinton and his allies for working to get sugar out of our schools. But as a parent who has served sodas and other treats to my kids and their teammates following baseball, basketball and soccer games, I can tell you that the blame for childhood obesity resides not in our vending machines but in ourselves. David Housewright Roseville, Minnesota...
...Randall often says, with a hint of pride, that her father “never wore a pair of shoes until he was 13 years old.” Though her parents sent her to the prestigious Georgetown Day School in D.C. and later to Harvard, her childhood was certainly less than idyllic.“She’d had a very difficult childhood,” said Megumi “Mimi” Oka ’81, who lived two doors down from Randall in Pennypacker Hall and has been her best friend ever since...
...Having founded five businesses during her career, Pritzker, along with her family, has continued to give back to the community. Pritzker is one of the four trustees of the Pritzker Foundation, which runs the family’s philanthropic efforts. In addition to funding efforts aimed at curbing childhood obesity, Pritzker says she and her husband, Bryan S. Traubert, are interested in the welfare of children.“I believe the availability of quality public education is the foundation of our democracy,” Pritzker says. “This is something we are extremely passionate about...
...Neumann Whitman ’56 has always known what she wanted.Growing up in the household of a faculty member at the Institute for Advanced Study—a leading research center in Princeton, New Jersey—meant having Albert Einstein as a frequent dinner guest and a childhood focused on high intellectual standards.“I was my father’s only child, which means all his expectations were focused on me,” recalls Whitman, whose Hungarian father, John von Neumann, is known as the creator of game theory...
...surprised by a passage in America in Vietnam which details how Americans traditionally think a soldier who commits a war crime should be put to death with little regard to the conditions or insight into the soldier himself. But a common murderer is treated more thoughtfully - his background, childhood, education and social circumstances are taken into consideration when looking at what punishment should be meted out. "Isn't it a strange turn of events that Marines are expected to be perfect under the stresses and brutality of a guerrilla war, but society says we need to uncover every mitigating circumstance...