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...intake, but they did manage to reduce it to 24% in the first year, though it slid back up to 29% by the sixth year. The other, so-called control group received printed material on dietary guidelines but no other help on healthy eating. The fat content of their diets was 35% after one year and crept up to 37% after six years-and they gained a little weight to boot. (The intervention group lost weight or stayed the same...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: No Miracle Diets for Heart Disease or Cancer | 2/7/2006 | See Source »

Fellow editor Kate Holbrook, who was a teaching fellow for Religion 1529, said she fears that people will not read the book because they have already read works by the speakers or because they feel they will disagree with the content...

Author: By Emily J. Nelson, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Ex-Religion Course Spawns Book | 2/5/2006 | See Source »

...will cost about 20 percent of what it would cost to produce for the network; advertisers will also pay less for spots, making it (at least initially easier) to attract their interest (and dollars). More importantly, "StarTomorrow" takes NBC further into the realm of digital entertainment. ?We?re a content company and there?s an awful lot of content moving towards the web. We need to experiment and find new things,? says Gaspin. Even, as with this particular "Idol" imitation, they're just experimenting with a new version of an old thing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NBC's New Net Show | 2/3/2006 | See Source »

Internationally, Stone is best known for programming a software system called General Inquirer, which performs content analysis on text gathered from surveys and questionnaires...

Author: By Ying Wang, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Pioneering Psychology Professor Passes Away at 69 | 2/3/2006 | See Source »

...syllabi on their course web sites well before the first class meeting—in place of the partial or nonexistent syllabi often found online in advance of this semester’s shopping period—so that students can get a more complete sense of the course content and expectations. Posting lecture videos, either from previous years of a course or recorded during shopping period, would also give students a better sense of a professor’s pace and style—important variables not always evident during an introductory meeting. These modifications would make it vastly...

Author: By The Crimson Staff, | Title: Smooth Shopping Ahead | 2/3/2006 | See Source »

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