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Graduating seniors eager to fulfill any remaining Core requirements by studying the liberal art of “erbology” received a tantalizing Class Day lesson in the field yesterday from British comic...
With an early rehearsal and football game scheduled for later that day at Columbia, Strauss and the band were eager to leave their situation in New Haven behind them...
Once we knew what we wanted to do, the first call we made was to our friends at ABC News. TIME and ABC were just wrapping up a joint reporting effort in Iraq, and we were eager to try it again. We also knew that Peter Jennings had a particular interest in obesity. Last December he produced an hour-long report, How to Get Fat Without Really Trying. "I find the subject fascinating," he says. "It's about more than just diet. It's about social behavior, political behavior and the whole issue of personal responsibility and government interference...
...Brownell, is to restrict the sale of potato chips, candy and other junk food in schools. Texas, Los Angeles and New York City are leading the way. After that, says Brownell, cafeteria menus should be revised to replace foods high in empty calories with more nutritious fare. Ludwig is eager to eliminate fast-food-type meals from school cafeterias, some of which sell food supplied by McDonald's, Pizza Hut, Burger King and other franchisers. On days when kids eat fast food, they consume an average of 187 more calories than on days without fast food, Ludwig and collaborators reported...
...flame out as quickly as they ignite. By the time the Internet-bubble burst, "vulture capitalists" were tainted as part of the lunatic feedback loop that sent valuations of newly public companies into the stratosphere. After three years of retrenchment, the community of some 900 U.S. investment firms is eager to lend a hand to what it hopes will be the next generation of giants...