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...early 1970s, primarily by Dr. Gerald Berenson. We examined all the children in this town for lipids, blood pressure, weight and height, skin-fold thicknesses, smoking, alcohol consumption - anything we thought might be related to heart disease in adulthood. Of those children, the ones who had a body mass index (or BMI, a ratio of weight to height that's commonly used to define overweight) in the 95th percentile or higher when compared to a CDC reference population - as 18% of American children now have - about two-thirds grew up to be very obese as adults, with...
...stomach right now that we're just another day away from another one of those situations. It's going to break my heart, because we've been telling everyone to listen. We've been very careful not to be Chicken Little, but we're at the point of critical mass...
...Given Staples' public commitment to responsible practices (and Harvard’s proximity to both Staples’s headquarters in Framingham, Mass. and its president Michael Miles, a Business School graduate), the time is right to exert pressure on corporate leadership: either by sending letters to Staples’ corporate headquarters or attending a rally on Boston Common this Sunday. Instead of resigning ourselves to the supposed immovability of institutions, we should keep in mind the individual consciences involved in any organization, and speak to these when we say corporate responsibility means not only an abstract ethical obligation...
...will be “imagining creative possibilities, not anticipating [financial] limitations.” After the committee makes its final recommendations in early fall 2009, Cohen said that funds to implement the plans will come from the central administration and dedicated fundraising. “President Faust and Mass Hall are extremely committed to this project,” she wrote, “so the committee’s job is to come up with dynamic ideas, not to worry about paying for them.” Cohen and the other co-chair, Graduate School of Design Dean...
...Perhaps most prominent of all was Senator Charles Sumner, Class of 1830, the leader of the vehemently anti-slavery Radical Republicans whose statue now stands in the midst of Harvard Square, just outside Mass Hall...