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...ballooned into a more serious problem, join the club. About 18% of American children aged 6 to 19 are now overweight, and childhood obesity rates are rising around the world. But what does early overweight mean for youngsters in adulthood: will overweight kids necessarily become overweight - and unhealthy - grown-ups? Epidemiologist David Freedman from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's division of Nutrition, Physical Activity and Obesity studies that question. Though the science has been less than conclusive about the precise health risk factors obese children will face in the future, Freedman's research shows at least...
...your mark. Get set. Let the ethical dilemma begin! Last Monday, the People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) announced a $1 million prize for the commercial development of in vitro meat—meat that is grown from stem cells in a laboratory. Of course, offering prize money to entice entrepreneurs is not a novel idea. The Ansari X prize, eventually awarded to Space Ship One, provided $10 million to develop private space flight. The Pentagon’s Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has awarded prizes to develop autonomous ground vehicles. Even Google has offered...
...year-old HPAIR pursues an “understanding of critical issues facing the Asia-Pacific region,” according to an e-mailed statement from Chelsea Lei ’09, the executive co-chair of HPAIR. The event has grown to become the largest yearly student-run conference in the region and Harvard’s biggest annual event in Asia, Lei wrote...
...Participants range from Asian dance groups to singers who are also in Kuumba. “Not everyone is from a Latin-American background,” Rosa says. “Part of it is that they have either had an experience in Latin America or they have grown up with the culture and want to get involved in some way.”Pacheco says Presencia Latina hopes to pull people entirely unrelated to the Latino community at Harvard to come see the show. “I think that this year, part of our intention...
...first major slave trade memorial in the U.S. and creating a center for the continuing study of slavery and justice. Simmons also exceeded the committee’s recommendations about how Brown could help public school students obtain a quality education by establishing a trust fund—grown in perpetuity as part of the university’s endowment—to provide educational programs for Providence schoolchildren.Alongside Yale and Brown, several other schools—like the University of Alabama, the University of North Carolina, the University of Virginia, and the College of William and Mary?...