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...Perhaps the occasional frivolous purchase is the price we have to pay for the most responsive and accommodating of all campus institutions. Execution can miss the mark: brain-break offerings don’t put a dent in late-night hunger, and the “ethnic”-ness of endless grilled-chicken riffs is debatable. But HUDS’ efforts to invite—and respond to—student feedback are remarkable: take cage-free eggs and fair trade bananas, for example—and the mere fact that brain break exists. They even wash and replace...
...father of two, says women look at him when he walks down the street with his kids. "I think it's admiration," he says. Adam Wolff, also 38--with two kids and one on the way--ponders what it means to be a man. "Is my man-ness about being the breadwinner or being a good father to my kids or something else?" Michael Gerber, 36, father of a 7-month-old, asks, "Do you mean, Do we feel whipped...
...ever envision becoming so prolific a builder of latrines? -Ricardo Fernandez, Orland Park, Ill. [Laughs.] Ethiopia has one of the highest incidences of blind?ness on earth because of trachoma, which is caused by filthy eyes. To eliminate flies, we taught people how to build very simple latrines. Women have adopted building them as a kind of liberation movement - there had been a rigid taboo against a woman relieving herself in the daytime - so although we thought we'd have about 10,000 latrines, we've passed 340,000. Now instead of my being famous for negotiating peace between Israel...
...much of its readership--from 1.2 million in the 1980s to 83,000 now. In fact, I feel incredibly old to have been alive at a time when people read a newspaper with a Bigfoot beat and watched Leonard Nimoy use science to go in search of the Loch Ness monster and Atlantis. It's almost like living in a time when people try to heal themselves with ginkgo biloba...
...TIMELY(NESS) MATTERS...