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Hillary Carroll, the girl on your cover, was 10 years old and weighed 220 lbs. before her Type 2 diabetes was diagnosed? Gee, what was her parents' first clue that she had some kind of problem? Long-term studies of diabetes are a nice idea, but let's not overlook the obvious. Most people today, especially children, eat too much and exercise too little. JOHN M. SAXTON JR. Clarksburg...
Today, Bok defends this stance. “I don’t think any of us would applaud if we said, ‘Gee, we made a big move to bring in low-income students to add diversity,’ and then the next year say half or three-quarters of them have flunked out,” Bok says. “We know more about what it takes [to do well at Harvard] than they do, so we have some responsibility to take people who can reasonably succeed. Once you’re over that...
Four years ago, former Brown President Gordon Gee told the Brown Daily Herald that he felt the rule would be changed. In fact, Gee went on to say that he thought the ban would be overturned soon as a matter of equality. His only reservation was that a sport like football, which has a roster of over 70 people, would have a much greater academic impact on its student athletes than any other sport...
...postcard's passing, however: it is frequently being replaced by the lengthy travel diary, in the form of a group e-mail, that your vacationing friends feel compelled to send from every Internet café they visit. Technology has suddenly made it all too easy to dispatch gushing, gee-whiz accounts of trips to the Pompidou or dives off the Great Barrier Reef, not to mention tediously unedited recollections of meals eaten on Brazilian beaches or at Bangkok street stalls. When several paragraphs about transport hassles and hotel mix-ups are tacked on, you start to realize that whatever...
...could be useful to have a student in the room to say, ‘Gee, that made sense to me’ or ‘That seemed off-base,’” O’Keefe said...