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Most professional athletes are by definition models of good health. But when pro-football linemen, with their towering builds and sometimes massive girth, lumber onto the field, many people understandably start to wonder: How can these trundling behemoths possibly be healthy...
...notes that current players are likely to be healthier than retirees in decades past, due to lower smoking rates and a 1983 ban on steroids. If anything, says Tucker, this latest research "puts us on the path of finding out just where problems surface - on or off the field." That's good news for both current and retired players...
Swiss food giant Nestlé is a pioneer in the field. It set up its halal committee way back in the 1980s, and has long had facilities to keep its halal and non-halal products separated. Turnover in halal products was $3.6 billion last year, and 75 of the company's 456 factories are geared for halal production...
...Nikolai Petrov, an analyst at independent think tank The Carnegie Moscow Center. "It looks like it wasn?t extremely successful, but it wasn't a failure." Referring to past E.U. conferences that have been held in remote Russian cities, he adds: "If anything, this was a continuation of E.U. field trips into Russia's deep countryside...
...leader of the Boston Youth Symphony Orchestra and the New England String Ensemble—will replace James Yannatos, who first joined the HRO in 1964. An eight-member conductor search committee composed of students, faculty, and other stakeholders appointed Cortese to the post from a field of nearly 200 applicants. “The voices of the students in the orchestra were paramount in everything that we were doing,” said Jack Megan, director of the Office for the Arts and co-chairman of the search committee. The top candidates auditioned for the orchestra by planning...