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...eating it, I thought, That looks like it could come from any good restaurant. And it's cheaper and easier than eating off campus." Such words herald a small battle won in the big food fight erupting over U.S. lunchrooms. With childhood-obesity rates zooming--more than a three-fold increase in 30 years--schools are under pressure from parents, health officials and legislators to serve something more wholesome than greasy burgers and Tater Tots. Across the U.S., administrators are banning deep-fat fryers from cafeteria kitchens. Sodamakers agreed last month to stop selling their sugary, fizzy products in schools...
...submitted a detailed proposal for a student-run Third World Center financed by the University. The proposal called for the immediate establishment of a center providing social and academic support for minority students in light of the fact that the Third World student community at Harvard had grown 20-fold in the 15 years leading...
...back Ariel Sharon's Gaza pullout. Sharon's exit from Gaza, whereby Israel withdrew to its 1967 border, was a move welcomed throughout the international community. But in the West Bank, Olmert's intention, revealed by the route of the security wall Israel is building, is to fold in huge settlement blocs on land occupied in 1967, bisecting the West Bank and cutting it off from East Jerusalem, as well as possibly maintaining an Israeli military corridor along the Jordan Valley. Whatever their internal disagreements, Palestinian leaders would easily agree on rejecting Olmert...
...Brown sang his praises) and Washington (Walter Mondale and Rosalyn Carter appeared with him). For a time, he was head of San Francisco?s Housing Authority. But the whispers about his predatory sexual appetite (which devoured parishioners of both sexes) and his reluctance to let disaffected members leave the fold caught the attention of the authorities. Jones moved the Temple to the Guyanan jungle, out of which his flock built an impressive village, Jonestown, housing thousands of Temple worshipers and their families. In a newsreel clip, Jones shows off the stocks of food he has amassed: meats, vegetables, Kool...
...tend to be more concerned with campus legislation than social life.To fix this, Riley sponsored a bill that passed earlier this month to create an independent social programming board. Beginning next semester, the College will endow the board with a $200,000 financial allocation, a four-fold increase over the UC’s typical events budget. According to an article in The Crimson, the new board will be responsible for planning five different social events: two outdoors events like Yardfest, a concert, and Harvard-Yale. The board’s creation effectively outsources the social-planning role traditionally held...