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...policies that encourage children and adolescents to develop healthy habits that will last a lifetime. It is admirable, therefore, that federal lawmakers have recently proposed legislation that recognizes the government’s responsibility in the fight against childhood obesity. If passed, an amendment appended to a $268 billion farm bill would impose a federal ban on the selling of unhealthy snacks—such as candy and soda—in public school snack bars, vending machines, and à la carte cafeteria lines. Food would be vetted based on levels of saturated fat, trans fat, and sodium...
...some of these people have pretty horrendous facebook pics,” he wrote in a diary entry in October 2003, referring to the undergraduate House where he resided at the time. “I almost want to put some of these faces next to pictures of farm animals and have people vote on which is more attractive.” Facebook argued that the documents were under court seal and should not have been released. The company’s lawyers notified 02138 on Thursday morning that they had filed the motions, giving the magazine less than...
It’s an arduous journey from farm to plate.The average vegetable travels 3,000 miles to your dining hall, spending up to a year locked in near-freezing storage chambers. By contrast, the diced squash served in the dining hall last Friday was raised on a small New England farm less than 250 miles from campus.As households nationwide increasingly turn to local farms for their produce, Harvard undergraduates are lobbying for more culinary choice. But Harvard still lags behind some of its peers in serving up locally grown food. Jessica S. Zdeb ’04, coordinator...
...space, straddling the rings of Saturn. The song itself is indie college pop in its most unadulterated form. Politically conscious and goofy, country yet polished, Blitzen Trapper’s video collage is nothing if not pure fun. With an ongoing European tour through December, might these guys spread farm boy rock to France? Oui. Another geographical wonder courtesy of Blitzen Trapper...
...Coalition, it was even more so to some of his Labor colleagues. Prissy, bookish, and married to a multimillionaire businesswoman, he wasn't exactly everyone's picture of the Aussie working-class man, though he lost few opportunities to remind people he'd grown up on a Queensland farm. "If he grew up in poverty in rural Queensland," sneered former Labor leader Latham, "where did the posh accent come from?" Advising Rudd to "take the piss" out of himself, his brother Greg reportedly said: "You're just not that sort of personality where people want to spend time with...