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...when you're standing on the shores of Lake Michigan, it's easy to imagine an idyllic Olympic experience. With Grant Park and the tip of the Willis (n� Sears) Tower at your back, gaze out at the site of the planned rowing venue. Instead of the geese you hear honking, imagine coxswains barking at their boat mates. A comfortable breeze blows in your face on a sun-splashed Saturday afternoon. "Look around," says Casie Piejko, an Olympic supporter and a 30-year city resident, during a break from biking along the lake. "It's beautiful." (See 10 things...
...developed by Katz. As students learn to read and understand labels and identify healthy foods, for example, the nearby grocery store devotes a special section to healthful products, featured along with a Nutrition Detectives logo. On a recent visit to the local supermarket, Greg Gilliam was pleasantly surprised to hear that the store had done one better--by bringing in a nutritionist to advise shoppers on how to whip up tasty, good-for-the-family meals. "If a family sat down with somebody like that, they could find very practical ways to put healthy eating ideas into play," says Greg...
...hundred people crowded inside of Geological Lecture Hall on Saturday night to hear tales of New Guinea birds and Tibetan antelopes from National Geographic photographer Timothy G. Laman and renowned alpinist Conrad Anker...
...values—the standards and principles that the majority of Americans deem important in their lives, and in the life of the country—should be at the heart of our politics.” Remembering these words, it’s disturbing not only to hear the offhanded response of the DNC spokesperson, but also to read the comments on the Daily Kos advocating a value-free politics and listen to students talk about crazy wingnuts’ morality...
...that's telling in itself. In many ways, mainstream Italian society is several generations behind the rest of the West when it comes to race. In supposedly polite company, one can still hear the word negro, (pronounced neh-grow) which essentially translates to the N word. A cleaning woman is often generically referred to as a "Filippina." Northern Italians joke that darker-skinned southerners are "Moroccans...