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...environment. Susan Schiffman, a professor of medical psychology at Duke University Medical Center, has found that African Americans and Hispanics like their food significantly sweeter than the rest of the population--a result she suspects is from campaigns that market high-sugar grape and orange sodas to predominantly ethnic populations...
...more positive side, ethnic communities are introducing other Americans to the notion that babies need not subsist on pabulum. South Asian parents offer curries in small doses at young ages. Hispanic parents give their babies tortillas and other ethnic dishes. "There is no good reason to feed babies bland food," says Nancy Butte, a professor of pediatrics at Baylor College of Medicine. "It's culturally determined, not scientifically based...
...simply Hav. Located south of the Caucasus, north of Turkey and this side of paradise, Hav had drowsed for centuries through Greek, Turkish, Russian and British occupations, wars of all colors and a League of Nations mandate before attaining a genial, pre-civil-war-Beirut balance among its many ethnic and political factions. Morris' word-portraits of Hav's labyrinthine Medina, its precious snow raspberries, its grueling annual "roof race" and the official trumpeter who woke the locals every morning with a tune dating from the First Crusade made the place indelible in the annals of travel. "Hav had seemed...
...lesbian alumni during reunions, according to HGLC President Thomas H. Parry ’74. Once reunions included these events, a greater number of gay and lesbian alumni felt more comfortable attending their reunions, Parry says.Since 2000, alumni groups have expanded beyond the HGLC to include groups based on ethnic or religious affiliations, such as the Harvard Black Alumni Society (HBAS), the Harvard Arab Alumni Association (HAAA), and Harvard University Muslim Alumni (HUMA). The Harvard Alumni Association (HAA), the umbrella alumni association for all graduates of Harvard University and Radcliffe College, created the Shared Interest Group (SIG) program...
Thus it is right about Harvard that our admissions office acts as if each year were its first. It aims to ensure that every class is as or more qualified academically, creative artistically, diverse in economic and gender and ethnic terms, than its predecessors. And after every admission season of high anxiety, we witness its success: the Class of 2010 will now have the opportunity to prove, over the next four years, that it can bear comparison with the great Class of 2006. Meanwhile, the admissions office has started to worry about the Class...