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...Berg: Though it is freshman-only for lunch and dinner, industrious upperclassmen can gain entry by getting a tabling permit for “important functions” or posing as a prefect...
Alison Field, lead author of the study and an assistant professor of pediatrics at HMS and Children’s Hospital Boston, said the study shows that children need instruction earlier on in life about how to stem tendencies towards weight gain, and that more children than previously presumed are at risk for such weight gain...
...DeLay was raising and contributing to their campaigns. Had it not been for the six additional seats that Texas picked up in the House last year, thanks to a redistricting plan engineered by DeLay, George W. Bush would not have been the first re-elected President since F.D.R. to gain seats in Congress. And DeLay has always been solicitous of G.O.P. Representatives as individuals--adjusting the House schedule to accommodate a daughter's recital, knowing who needs a place to smoke and who is having a family crisis, making sure there is pizza in his office to tide members over...
...gain "life experience" that Batchelor joined the Army in August 2001, dropping out of the branch of Texas A&M University in Commerce, Texas. He had spent three years working toward a degree in criminal justice, and now hopes to find a way to complete it without having to sit in classrooms full of people, a prospect he can't bear. He walked out on a job answering phones for a credit-card company last month and spends his days on his father's farm in Kemp, Texas, working...
...long frame on a sofa in his London town house. "And no one would deny the richness of their thoughts." Most of humanity probably won't read his new novel, Saturday (Doubleday; 289 pages), which arrives in stores next week. But the sizable part that does will gain definite advantages in the richness of its thinking about brain surgery, the war in Iraq, the psychic burden of life after Sept. 11 and how it feels to be sucker-punched by an excitable creep...