Word: idea
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Customers at the Harvard Coop are eating up Le's idea for a nutritious treat in flavors like apple and cherry...
...idea for "Take 5," as it is called, came from Sergeant Regina Evans, who was looking for a nontraditional way to get teenagers to come to the station to bond with police. But she has been surprised by its popularity among officers as an opportunity to work through the vicissitudes of cop life...
Government researchers are understandably concerned that millions of people are gulping supplements without any idea what their effects are, positive or negative. The National Institutes of Health is undertaking a study of the effects of ginkgo on elderly people with mild memory impairment. But it could be years before results...
...latest strategy in the college-admissions game. "Kids need to hear the message that anyone can go to college and need to know how to make that possible," says Diana Phillips, director of the U.S. Department of Education's middle school initiative, Think College Early. "In many households, the idea of talking about college doesn't exist," says Phillips, whose program's goal is to let all kids, regardless of family income or their parents' educational level, know they have a chance to earn a college degree...
...Still, the idea of essentially bribing North Korea not to cause trouble has become part of Washington?s playbook since a 1994 deal that dismantled Pyongyang?s weapons-grade nuclear energy program in exchange for substantial energy and food aid from Japan, South Korea and the U.S. "We may be buying them off, but that?s the cheapest thing we can do at the moment," says TIME U.N. correspondent William Dowell. "Even if we were to send troops and threaten them, that would be unlikely to ease tensions. And the money does influence them." In these wacky post-Cold...