Word: jeffrey
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According to Jeffrey H. Booth, a unionized library worker and one of the Socialist Alternative’s most active members, the organization has been a presence in Cambridge since the early 1980s, and although it didn’t start including Harvard students until this year, many of its members have been working together for more than a decade...
...memoir tends to meander, but that's the result of its strange conception. Lilley's son Jeffrey initiated the project more than five years ago to learn more about his father's idealistic, superachieving brother, Frank, who committed suicide at the age of 26 while posted in Japan as a detachment commander during the U.S. military occupation. A pacifist, Frank was crushed by the destruction he saw in Japan and felt conflicted by his belief that military might was America's way forward, which he expressed to his younger brother in a good-bye letter. Frank, a world-record swimmer...
...stories came in from the field--from Lisa Takeuchi Cullen on the link between poverty and obesity, from Jeffrey Kluger on the sociology of eating, from Daren Fonda on marketing to kids, from Eric Roston on the corn industry, from Richard Lacayo on community efforts to encourage walking--Janet Michaud, Cristina Scalet and Kristina Dell collaborated on design, photography and graphics to make the visual elements as informative as the text...
...Jeffrey Kluger...
...haven't discovered it. By contrast, the evidence in favor of one that protects against weight loss is increasingly strong. Genetic variations clearly push some people toward bigger appetites, slower metabolisms and greater weight gain than others. "There are genes in the population that predispose to obesity," says Dr. Jeffrey Friedman, a molecular geneticist at the Rockefeller University in New York. "Obviously, there's an environmental contribution, but no one questions that genes are involved...