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...Corporation, which serves as the University’s executive board, decided to drop the program in large part because of concerns that early admission provides an unfair advantage to applicants from privileged backgrounds, Bok and Dean of Admissions and Financial Aid William R. Fitzsimmons ’67 said in a joint interview yesterday...
...campaign aimed at getting kids to be more active and saying, "obesity is a very serious problem in our society ... obviously it leads to cardiovascular disease," Australia's Minister for Health and Ageing Tony Abbott told a National Heart Foundation conference in Sydney: "There has been a truly remarkable drop in the death rate from cardiovascular disease. Since the 1970s ... [it ]has dropped...
...Proponents of the set-point theory argue that everyone's body is biologically programmed to stay around a certain weight and will fight attempts at maintaining a weight more than 2-3 kg below that set point. Given less food than it's used to and responding to a drop in leptin, a hormone produced by fat cells, the body clicks into survival mode, slowing metabolism to save energy and triggering cravings for high-kilojoule foods. Now what may be looming for the dieter is months or years of fluctuating weight, possible use of potentially dangerous weight-loss pills...
That is unusual. Even defense companies let school groups in to ogle the missiles. And most companies in the luxury-goods industry go to great expense to persuade journalists and style tastemakers to drop by their ateliers to witness artisans at work. There's pressure to differentiate themselves from the increasingly sophisticated fast-fashion chains and copyists?and to justify their prices...
...would think that after an initial burst of blogging enthusiasm, there’ll be a big drop-off,” Bradley wrote in an e-mail...