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...navigate and slightly more welcoming. Harvard University Dining Services (HUDS) recently reorganized Quincy’s serving line, rearranged its salad bar, put Fair Trade coffee in its carafes everyday and improved its steam table displays. But HUDS admits that these changes came as tradeoffs for yet another delay of Quincy dining hall’s long-awaited renovation—formerly expected to come this summer and now slated for a year later, in the summer of 2004. Similarly, Dunster and Mather dining halls, also potentially facing long waits before overdue renovations, have received such extras as more frequent...
...result, men avoid treatment for much longer than women. The 1997 HEDC study found a 13.7 year delay among men before treatment for males with a binge eating disorder, and 8.4 years for bulimia nervosa, which is considerably longer than the year or two delay that face female patients. As Linda Gelda, a social worker specializing in eating disorders, confirmed, “many men have only come into treatment because of [another] medical concern. Some of them had been purging for decades, and nobody knew...
...burden of rebuilding the country it conquered. American and British troops are already on the ground in Iraq, and it makes sense for them to lead the immediate reconstruction effort. Waiting for a U.N. force to be assembled and shipped to the Middle East would cause a potentially damaging delay in returning Iraq to stability...
...gets worse. Because of their apocalyptic creed, the views of many pro-Israel Christian groups tend to be extreme and counter to the interests of peace. Since the Bible prophesizes endless conflict in that region, Christian Zionists such as House Majority Leader Tom DeLay (a stickler for calling the West Bank “Judea and Samaria”), and evangelist Pat Robertson are only all too happy to support policies like the expulsion of Palestinians from the West Bank and the expansion of Israel’s borders from the “Nile to the Euphrates...
...Paying for College Without Going Broke. You might make the case that you face a higher-than-average cost of living in your area, then send the numbers and a budget to the school along with copies of more generous offers from schools of similar quality. Don't delay. You have the most leverage after being accepted but before committing to attend...