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...attendant health risks continued to spread around the world. The World Health Organization (WHO) estimated that the number of adults who are overweight or obese passed the 1 billion mark in 2005. Although obesity rates have grown threefold or more since 1980 in some parts of the U.S., Britain, Eastern Europe, the Middle East and the Western Pacific Islands, some of the most rapid increases are found in developing countries. The cause is the same everywhere: increased consumption of energy-dense, nutrient-poor food high in saturated fats and sugar, combined with a decrease in physical exercise. The rise...
...disciplines.English and American Literature and Language Department Chair James Engell spoke in favor of the report, noting that its simplicity will allow for more effective advising because every professor will know what the requirements are and will be able to discuss them more easily with students.Albertson Professor of Middle Eastern Studies William A. Graham Jr. and Hoffmann argued that, given the report’s recommendations, the Faculty must remain vigilant to ensure that departments produce the right kinds of courses.“I am not totally confident that the departments will take very seriously the task of creating...
...Sept. 19, 2005, I provided The Family Center for Missing Persons my DNA in Baton Rouge, La., on my way to my mother's house. I had not heard from her since the storm. I picked up my son, who accompanied me to Eastern New Orleans. We arrived at [my mother's] house at about noon, and discovered that the search and rescue team had already searched the house because of the markings on the house that indicated no one was inside. However, my 79-year-old mother's car was in the driveway. I noticed that there...
...weekend the African Studies Association (ASA) held its annual meeting, a coming together of many hundreds of scholars under the roof of a palatial Marriott around the corner from the National Zoo.In what is called a “serendipitous occasion,” the ASA and the Middle Eastern Studies Association have double-booked the hotel, so that their annual meetings’ overlap.This serendipity is manifold. Several yards away, two Levantine sorts whisper to one another—one, a grey-bearded man wearing a maroon beret, puts his palms on either cheek of his lady companion...
...Cromwell continued to demonstrate why he is one of the elite swimmers in the league, garnering two individual wins in the 100 backstroke (in which he set a pool record) and the 200 backstroke, and leading the 200-yard medley team to victory. In the increasingly competitive Eastern Intercollegiate Swimming League (EISL), the Crimson must fight even harder to maintain its dominance. The Lions finished fourth in the league last year, but this season have defeated both Harvard and Yale and boast a strong freshman class. “I don’t think that we underperformed in this...