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...evolved into a masterly manipulator of New York's tabloid press and an astute political power broker, but his army of critics charges that he has not outgrown a tendency to play the crassest kind of racial politics. Case in point: the convoluted New York imbroglio this month in which Sharpton was reported to have offered to endorse Bronx borough president Fernando Ferrer--a Puerto Rican who's trying to win the Democratic mayoral nomination by building a coalition of Latino and black voters--if and only if Ferrer backed a slate of black candidates Sharpton favored. The New York...
...jewel" of the University, and thus were troubled by the issues faculty and administrators kept raising: classes were too big, there weren't enough faculty, housing was overcrowded, and the sciences seemed to be falling by the wayside. Finally, it became clear to the committee members that Harvard had outgrown Cambridge. Over the next half-century, Harvard would need to shift across the river to land purchased in Allston, and the 27th president needed to lead the move. To top it all off, the committee decided it wanted someone who would work to foster diversity throughout the University...
...books have the power to touch readers of all ages and backgrounds. And for those of us who still get a tingly feeling in our spines whenever we see the words “Faster than a speeding bullet” on a comic page, comics will never be outgrown...
...dresses with a 23-year-old before the school's formal dance. I wrote our anatomy group's freshman skit. I kept up with the who's-dating-whom gossip. I even went to a few keg parties. Still, we career switchers didn't quite fit in. We had outgrown our college-age antics. Instead of joining our younger classmates for late-Thursday bar nights, we opted for a sedate viewing of ER before bed. We replaced their mantra, "Highest score rocks," with our own: "Lowest pass wins." We worked hard but opted for some balance in our lives...
TALL ORDER Outgrown clothes may not be the only problem faced by tall kids. A study of 1,000 children ages 3 to 14 shows that height is linked with Type 1 diabetes. The tallest 15% of kids were 40% more likely to develop diabetes. The heaviest children were also at risk. Parents can't stop their children from growing, but they can make sure the kids eat right and get plenty of exercise, which may help ward off the disease...