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...herbally enhanced foods contain such small amounts of their active ingredients that they probably don't have any biological effect at all. What they do have plenty of, however, is excess calories, which hardly seems healthy or worth the added cost. So while the FDA and the food manufacturers duke it out over herbal additives, do yourself a favor and stock up on the true, original health foods: tomatoes, broccoli, asparagus, apples, pears and other fruits and vegetables...
Hajdu, who wrote a well-received biography of Duke Ellington's collaborator Billy Strayhorn, deftly re-creates these era-defining characters and their world. To read this book now, when Dylan's long career seems inevitable, is to wonder whether things would have been different had Farina survived...
These borderless B schools underscore a broader educational trend. Universities are now the fifth largest U.S. exporter of services abroad--topping entertainment and health care--and raked in $10 billion last year. In the past two years, Duke University's Fuqua School of Business in Durham, N.C., has opened an outpost in Frankfurt, Germany, while Harvard has established research facilities in Hong Kong and Buenos Aires. And in April, Cornell announced that it would open a branch of its medical school in Qatar...
...visited Harvard and loved many aspects of the school - the diverse student body, the Cambridge area, and of course, the academics. But I was worried about school spirit. Several students told me that there was very little school spirit. And having visited Duke and Dartmouth a few weeks earlier, the response at Harvard to questions concerning school spirit was much less encouraging. No, Harvard students don't wear Harvard clothes, and no, the stands at football games are never sold...
...Last year alone, Harvard saw its endowment jump almost a third, from $14.4 to $19.2 billion—an increase larger than the entire endowment of universities like Dartmouth, Cornell and Duke...