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...everyone chooses their concentration, and it is no secret that one can choose several different flavors here--ranging from Harvard Lite to Harvard Lager (Extra Dark). Responsible students still pick classes based on their interests, so maybe it's okay that science majors have to work just a little harder...
...similar to Elders', especially his eight-year-old "I Have a Future" program, which distributes condoms to disadvantaged teens. "The president is making another mistake, and it's my hope that the Senate will not," said Gary Bauer, president of the conservative Family Research Council, who labeled Foster "Elders-lite." "Our concern is that the Clinton administration doesn't understand why Joycelyn Elders was such a disaster...
...pits a frenetic workaday pace against the understandable temptation to put one's feet up at the end of the day, turn on the tube and just veg out. It may even turn out that the best-intentioned resolutions made in the '80s -- to lose weight, to eat "lite," to plunge headlong into heart-pounding aerobics -- ended up doing more harm than good...
...half-pound slice of cheesecake may contain 700 calories -- roughly a third of an adult's recommended daily allowance.Manager Michael Moore notes that the Factory's reduced-calorie cheesecakes languished on the shelves when they were introduced last year. "If people want cheesecake, they don't want 'lite,"' he says. "They come to our restaurant...
...explosion of "lite" and "reduced-calorie" foods may also have raised the needle on the scale. People often forget that reduced-calorie foods are not calorie-free. Cathy DeThorne, a research director at the Leo Burnett advertising agency, ran a series of focus-group studies for the Beef Industry Council that suggest that when it comes to food, people show an almost infinite capacity for self-delusion. A woman believed she was eating a low-fat diet because she was pouring the fat off her pork chops. Others forsook meat for healthy salads, and then drowned those salads in dressings...