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...much as possible. The U.N.'s Barlow - whose mandate is to increase access to clean water for the 1.7 billion people worldwide who now lack it - is doubtful about the cost of recycling programs like Orange County's, especially for poorer countries. She'd like to see more focus on keeping water sources clean in the first place. But she knows recycling is a necessity. "Water is far, far too precious to waste," she says. "It's a universal human right." We just have to treat...
...lower glycemic index than fully cooked pasta, and for some people, eating later in the day raises the glycemic index of foods that would be lower if eaten earlier. Dr. David Katz, director of the Yale University Prevention Research Center argues, therefore, that it may be more instructive to focus on the "glycemic load" of an entire meal - a combined measure of the glycemic indices of individual foods - rather than looking at one food at a time. "Measuring the glycemic property of a diet at large is in fact quite useful," he says...
...abroad helps students “place what they‘ve learned here at Harvard in a larger context.”For her second semester, Campbell enrolled as a student at Queen Mary, University of London. Again, she took four very different courses, with varying degrees of focus on sociology. Despite one class change that had to be reapproved and an extended period of time before she received her grade for another class, Campbell eventually received four full credits from her year abroad. This was the same amount she would have received had she taken four courses...
...terms of worrying about my schedule and if I’ll have enough time to take the right classes, my philosophy is just get it done any way possible,” Murphy said. “I always focus on being a college football player, being a doctor, and my faith as well—I make sure I always get those three done before anything else...
...competition.While going online will require major shifts on the part of traditional media outlets, they should not discard the best elements of print in the process. In particular, editorial cartoons, artwork, and design risk losing importance in digital journalism. In transition to the Web, newspapers should retain a focus on graphic design and cartooning, and indeed exploit the medium to innovate in those areas. The Internet provides a great opportunity for new, engaging artistry in journalism. Newspapers must not let that opportunity pass by.None of this is to say that print journalism should be abandoned completely. There will always...