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...mixing with young people who are that the peak of their intellectual activity, and so I will [gain] a lot of intellectual energy from them, as well as giving them anything I can give them,” Pertile said. “It’s a marvelous prospect...

Author: By Xi Yu, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Dante Scholar To Lead Harvard Center in Italy | 12/18/2009 | See Source »

...their kids at home once in a while, or on Sunday morning with waffles, but it doesn't have any place in schools on a daily basis," she says. If a child chooses chocolate milk instead of regular milk every single day for a year, she says, they'll gain about 3 lbs. because of the extra sugar and calories. "Over the course of a K-12 education, that can add up," says Cooper...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: U.S. Schools' War Against Chocolate Milk | 12/18/2009 | See Source »

...York City's Anthos and Bon Apptit's 2008 Chef of the Year. "It's an excuse we've used to eat," says Psilakis, who went from 280 lb. to 200 lb. before putting a few back on recently. "If I'm opening a new restaurant, I always gain weight, partly from the stress. For people who love food, they use it as a form of therapy. It's the same thing for people who smoke...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Celebrity Chefs Show How to Lose Weight | 12/14/2009 | See Source »

Aside from rebounding, Harvard was effective on the offensive attack, but neither team could gain a clear advantage.  Both the first and second halves brought a series of lead changes and momentum shifts, and the greatest separation between the opponents was just seven points...

Author: By B. marjorie Gullick, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Harvard Outlasts Northeastern, Sweeps Boston Teams | 12/10/2009 | See Source »

...Therein lies the irony of Obama's downsizing effort: he needs to ratchet up conflicts at first - by sending more troops to Afghanistan and perhaps pushing new sanctions against Iran - to gain the diplomatic muscle to cut deals that don't look like abject American defeats. It's a risky strategy, since there's no guarantee that the bigger sticks will work, and if they don't, pulling back will be even harder. But it's a gamble Obama may have to take. The harsh truth is that the U.S. is significantly weaker in the Middle East now than...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Obama Shrinks the War on Terrorism | 12/7/2009 | See Source »

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