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Cambridge Public Health Department’s interim chief of public health, Karen A. Hacker, revealed that the department is currently examining the issue and New York City’s approach to it. In the mean time the department is “doing tremendous things for obesity prevention in Cambridge,” she said...
...face in Europe's policy of "appeasement" toward "intolerant" Islam, says Bawer, Europe faces "a long twilight of Balkanization with Europe divided into warring pockets of Muslims and non-Muslims." A new best-selling volume from Denmark titled Islamists and the Naive strikes a similar chord. Its co-author, Karen Jespersen, is a former Interior Minister with Denmark's Social Democrats, a party often associated with policies friendly to Muslim immigrants. The threat posed by Muslim fundamentalism in the 21st century is comparable, Jespersen writes, to the twin scourges of the past century, Nazism and communism - other forms of "totalitarianism...
...hoping to start programs aimed at closing the achievement gap between black and white students. “We’re trying to understand and perhaps help racial differences in test scores by giving incentives to kids in elementary school,” Fryer said. Karen C. C. Dalton, the Institute’s assistant director, is on medical leave, and William Casey King, the executive director will be leaving his post. King could not be reached for comment last night.Fryer isn’t the only faculty member taking up a new role at the Institute. Visiting Professor...
...easily resurrected." In fact, some experts say, these reminders of childhood may be so appealing because that era was--at least until the boomers started raising their own kids--the most child-centered in history. "Industry and communities focused on these cherished progeny," notes Purdue University family-studies scholar Karen Fingerman. "Communities built schools to educate them, and toy companies generated trinkets to amuse them...
...cure-all for all schools. Yale University, for one, says that banning early admissions just isn't necessary and insists its early admissions process is fair. "I worry because the entire country will read about this and think this is what higher education is up to," says Karen Giannino, the senior associate dean of admissions at Colgate University, who states the university has no intention of changing its admissions policies...