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...plan does have its detractors, who see it as shot through with loopholes, not least because soda represents less than half of school vending-machine sales, with fatty and sugary snacks making up the rest. And since school administrators are hardly likely to conduct beverage pat-downs, nothing will prevent kids from bringing sodas to school or ducking out to a 7-Eleven for a midday sugar shot. "The soda agreement looks like a step in the right direction," says Marion Nestle, nutrition expert at New York University, "but I can't help being skeptical...
...surprising, given their common penchant for intrigue and suspicion, that the rulers of China and the Roman Catholic Church have had a hard time getting along. Beginning five centuries ago, emissaries from the Vatican visited Beijing to seek permission to conduct missionary work in China. During the Qing dynasty they built iron globes and trellises for the Emperor--astronomical instruments that at the time were considered cutting-edge technology. That approach didn't work: a later Emperor banned all Christian missionary activity, sending the clerics packing. He kept the Vatican's gifts, however, on a tower overlooking the thick stone...
GRANNY PEACE BRIGADE These 18 women, ages 59 to 91, protested the war in Iraq by trying to enlist with military recruiters in New York City's Times Square last October. Their arrest for disorderly conduct, trial and acquittal won them sympathy and headlines across...
Kirby’s senior adviser on diversity, Dillon Professor of International Affairs Lisa L. Martin, will set up programs to help department heads to conduct “inclusive” searches in her capacity, he wrote...
...School in Sheffield, Mass. According to the school’s newspaper, the Green and Gray, “Meat has constantly been a high achiever.” In middle school in Minnesota, “he taught himself pre-algebra, as there were no teachers qualified to conduct the course themselves,” the paper wrote in 2001. “[T]here is no arguing the fact that [Berkshire] has prepared Meat to the fullest, and Harvard awaits him next fall,” the paper said. —Staff writer April...