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...Healthy Eating Pyramid” devised by nutrition experts at the Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH), alongside white bread, potatoes, soda, and sweets. According to the HSPH site, these items “can cause fast and furious increases in blood sugar that can lead to weight gain, diabetes, heart disease, and other chronic disorders.” Although HSPH experts say that the items at the top of the pyramid should be used “sparingly,” HUDS has actually increased their presence in the dining halls in the face of higher costs. Rather than...
...someone is one of the major freedoms involved in life on campus. To that end, ingenious undergrads here have attempted to work around physical limitations. Regulation beds have been enlarged using cinderblocks and plywood. Second mattresses have been adjoined. Larger mattresses and even futons are bought in order to gain a little extra width. Clearly Harvard does not satisfy its students with its bedding...
...disorder most discussed in the context of these debates) not experience any benefit from taking this type of medication, but they might experience any number of these medications’ undesirable side effects, which include insomnia, constipation, diarrhea, muscle pain, increased sweatiness, nausea, constant fatigue, extreme weight gain, memory loss, decreased sexual desire, and inability to orgasm. (Let people who question the reality of depression note that people who take antidepressants decide that living with these pretty awful side effects is better than living with depression.) No one would choose to take these medications just for kicks...
...escape literature. It’s a truth that Bolaño lived when he led an outlaw band of avant-garde poets called the “infrarealists,” and it’s a truth that he writes into his book. One character, hoping to gain status but choosing to forgo violence, turns to “literature, which is a surreptitious form of violence.”As the book proceeds, Bolaño’s seemingly objective portrait of these writers slowly breaks down. In the book’s final portrait...
Given the Lone Star state's influence as the second largest purchaser of textbooks nationally, any changes likely would have had a ripple effect across the country. Miller says she is concerned that if the social conservatives gain the upper hand they may try to reassert that influence by drawing up a conservative curriculum that would necessarily have to be addressed in textbooks. "One vote, one member, could be the difference between kids getting a 21st century science education or a 19th century education," Miller said...