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...didn't really happen organically. Over the past decade, Berkeley has become a paragon of school-lunch reform, thanks to the woman who helped hire Cooper--California cuisine pioneer Alice Waters. "We have to go into the public-school system and educate children when they're very young," says Waters, whose famed Berkeley restaurant, Chez Panisse, features seasonal meals made from local produce. Waters started educating children 10 years ago, creating the Edible Schoolyard at Berkeley's Martin Luther King Jr. Middle School. There, kids spend 90 minutes a week planting and harvesting produce and cooking their own healthy food...
Professor of Psychology Philip J. Stone, a pioneer in the field of positive psychology who also revolutionized the use of computers in the social sciences, died in his Cambridge apartment on Jan. 31. He was 69.Colleagues and friends described Stone as a “timeless Renaissance man” who inspired a generation of Harvard undergraduates.AHEAD OF HIS TIMEThe precocious Stone entered the University of Chicago at age 15. By 23, he had a doctorate in psychology and social relations from Harvard. He began teaching here in 1960 and remained on the faculty for the rest of his life...
...became just that. After 68 minutes of play, the two squads entered the third extra frame exhausted and eager to leave the other team heartbroken in defeat. Two minutes and 45 seconds later, Crimson attacker Greg Cohen came around the left side of goal and stretched past the Pioneer goalie, putting the ball into the bottom of the net for the win. The victory in the friendly confines of Jordan Field avenged a 2005 loss in Denver, a game which saw the Crimson leading 8-7 with 24 seconds remaining before two late Pioneer goals began a four-game Harvard...
...says. A precocious child who learned to read at three, Scott recounts becoming immersed in thrillers while at the library. “From then on, I was pretty much hooked,” Scott says. Scott, a native of Little Rock, Ark., went on to become a pioneer of gay and lesbian fiction who has written 20 science fiction and fantasy novels so far.A consistent theme of Scott’s novels is how society defines a person, who gets to set the definition, and how people shape their mental landscape.Fellow science-fiction writer and close friend Susanna...
...health. One month after that dinner, he contracted pneumonia, and he died on April 3 at his Louisville, Ky., home. He was 72.The man who went by “Barry Jr.” made his name as a hard-nosed newspaper publisher, a generous philanthropist, and a pioneer in journalistic ethics. But after his family’s loss of its Louisville media empire in 1986, Bingham refocused his life.At Bingham’s funeral on April 6, Rev. Alfred R. Shands of the Christ Church Cathedral in Louisville delivered the homily. “With your mustache...