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Other experts are concerned that children who continue to load up on the "empty" calories in sweet foods may not get a proper nutritional balance. Bonnie Liebman, a nutritionist at the Center for Science in the Public Interest, finds it ironic that "the same companies that are making cereals with whole grain, lots of dried fruit, high fiber and few preservatives for adults are still using sugar and refined flour and artificial flavoring for kids." Most everyone agrees the sweet stuff promotes tooth decay. "I tell kids they should throw away the cereal and eat the boxes," says Richard Holstein...
Several strands that extend through Healy's life thrived at Oxford: his deep love of poetry, his passion for teaching, his enthusiasm for young people. Despite his heavy administrative and fund-raising load at Georgetown, he always taught classes, including a popular course on Eliot and Donne ("Kids love him because he's raunchy -- great for seductions...
...gathered in the White House Cabinet Room last week under the austere eyes of George Washington. All were wary. They were budget summiteers from Congress and the Administration, charged with making Uncle Sam solvent. They had to put extra chairs around the mahogany table, which is designed for a load of 15 or so. Several of the White House's 93 servants hustled coffee and cookies. Something unreal here. Twenty-six men trying to figure out how to scrimp, save, cut, deny and maybe tax -- though the word was never spoken directly in an hour and 40 minutes. There were...
Lusia and I were almost buried under the load of the first few months in Moscow. I spent time preparing written responses for almost all major interviews. People passed through the house endlessly. Lusia cooked for a whole crowd. Long after midnight, it was not uncommon to find her, despite her heart attacks and her bypasses, mopping the landing -- our building is self- service -- and me still at work on a statement...
When I was recruited to take on a burdensome load of three sections during the fall semester and two sections in the spring, I realized the tremendous responsibility involved in entering a doctoral program at Harvard. After all, it is ordinarily the honor of admitted doctoral candidates to help teach some of the most gifted young minds in the world...