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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...
...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...
...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...
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...
...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...