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...into dining halls to make payment easy. Others might protest that the program would be biased against students with less money, but the College could simply include a meal allowance in its financial aid packages. Perhaps the most potent possible objection to such a program is that it might disrupt the bustling nexus of House community. While the number of people eating in the dining halls would probably decrease if our unfair meal plan were eliminated, the increased quality of food and service should draw back many students tempted by Pinocchio’s, perhaps, or any of its Harvard...
Swithers stops short of saying that the animals in her study were compelled to overeat to compensate for phantom calories. But she says that the study does suggest artificial sweeteners somehow disrupt the body's ability to regulate incoming calories. "It's still a bit of a mystery why they are overeating, but we definitely have evidence that the animals getting artificially sweetened yogurt end up eating more calories than the ones getting calorically sweetened yogurt." (See the top 10 bad beverage ideas...
...recent study, Reinherz and his colleagues probed how an antibody might disrupt HIV and prevent it from entering human cells in the first place...
...Morin did over the weekend, French officials are describing the timing of Thursday's rebel push from Sudan as designed to disrupt impending deployment of the European Union's 3,700 EUFOR peacekeeping force along Chad's eastern border. Those troops are charged with establishing safe zones to protect refugees from violence-torn Darfur. That imposition of well-armed foreign soldiers, French officials say, would have complicated Khartoum's plans to destabilizing the Chadian regime...
...also a UC representative, met with two Coop officials—President Jerry P. Murphy ’73 and Corporate General Manager Allan E. Powell—on Monday. Powell said yesterday that the Coop would tolerate the practice of copying ISBNs if it did not disrupt other patrons. “We know that this is going to happen. We’re not going to invite you in to do it,” Powell said, adding that the Coop would not prevent CrimsonReading employees from “coming in when it?...