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...organizations lobbying to curtail bulging childhood obesity rates should certainly be commended for doing their part to raise awareness of the issues. Obesity has been linked to myriad health problems, and the excessive quantities of soda children consume these days—the typical teenage boy consumes just under seven ounces of soda daily—together with devastatingly sedentary lifestyles have left the health of our youth in dangerous shape. But banning soft drink contracts from schools will not make children healthier; it is the responsibility of parents and young people on their own to monitor consumption habits. More...
...patrons enter Enormous Room, they are often greeted with a friendly “Take a seat wherever you can find it.” The statement is not to be taken lightly. The myriad couches and rugs lining the restaurant’s perimeter are filled with hungry customers who huddle around communal silver platters. There is no “waiting room”—instead, people waiting for a vacant spot mingle, drink and chat in the central pathway to the pulsing, flowing rhythms that fill the room...
...abominable that, in the context of these myriad failures in Harvard’s handling of sexual assault cases, the one change it chose to make did not address any of the actual problems and instead sought to avoid the situation altogether by making it more difficult for survivors to bring forward complaints...
...cure the common cold [HEALTH, March 10]? It's simple. Look in any drugstore, and you will see myriad products aimed at alleviating the many kinds of cold symptoms. Find a way to kill the rhinovirus, and you kill the profits of the pharmaceutical companies. We will undoubtedly be sneezing for hundreds of years yet. And the drug barons will see to it that no cure will ever appear on the horizon. Kerchoo! JOHN CHARLTON Ottawa...
...Thai phrik khi nu chili bush, which was said to impart a spicy flavor to the opium smoke. Also on exhibition are dozens of pipe bowls, the bulbous feature that sets an opium pipe apart from an ordinary tobacco pipe. Roughly the size of a doorknob and produced in myriad shapes, the pipe bowl was a canvas on which Chinese artisans displayed their talents. Patterns on pipe bowls ranged from geometrical designs, such as the Hindu swastika (also used in Buddhist art), to whimsical portraits of Chinese roosters, tigers, dragons and phoenixes, to floral renderings of bamboos, orchids and peach...