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...prices go up, buying goes down, especially among younger consumers,” said Alison Field, assistant professor of pediatrics at Harvard Medical School (HMS). Other experts would also like to see the government reduce farm subsidies that help make sodas cheaper. “Subsidies for corn make high-fructose corn syrup, an already cheap product and the main ingredient in soda, even cheaper,” says David S. Ludwig, associate professor of pediatrics at HMS. Students who listed soda as an interest in their facebook profiles said that they would be disappointed if the price of soda...
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...than a dozen middle-level politicians and businessmen, including current Representative Robert Jaworski, Jr. and former Representative Ding Tanjuatco, were in and out of the meeting, which ran well past 1 a.m. While one of Cojuangco's daughters kept a buffet table piled high with chicken sandwiches, macaroni salad, corn and cookies, Pastor Saycon, a businessman and longtime Arroyo critic, discussed a new government. As the others listened, Saycon spoke over the phone to a person he identified as an American official in Washington, assuring him that the post-coup regime would remain on good terms with...
...many of her fellow students. She says she felt like an outsider.She wasn’t the only one affected by her travels. Liz K. Panarelli ’07 came back to Harvard in January after teaching in Tanzania, living for four months on variations of beans and corn. As she sits in the Eliot Dining Hall, deliberately eating first a bowl of lentil soup, then a small plate of succotash, one might wonder if she has grown accustomed to this type of food. The difficulty of returning to Harvard surprises students, who expect—and are expected?...
...English major. Often, educators at the elementary level never liked science in the first place. That's in part because science enthusiasts, who start at about $32,000 in a public school teaching job, are lured to careers in the business world. "Corporate America is eating its feed corn," says Wheeler. Women who excel in science today, he says, have career options that weren't open to them in the Sputnik era, a victory for equality but a loss for schools. "Teachers are so frightened of these subjects that they transmit the fear to the children," says former Merck...