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...campuses is "Eat local." Students are rediscovering the political adage that you are what you eat. And colleges are voting with their palates--and their multimillion-dollar food budgets--against an ever more global agricultural industry in which produce travels, on average, 1,500 miles from farm to plate. Posters around the University of Portland campus proclaimed that BUYING LOCAL FOOD IS ONE WAY YOU CAN HELP STOP GLOBAL WARMING ... AIR AND WATER POLLUTION. A racier consciousness-raising stunt was staged at Brown University, where activists published Ripe, a 2005 calendar featuring naked students posing with strategically positioned Rhode Island...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Food: What's Cooking On Campus | 11/7/2005 | See Source »

...doling out stars. It has granted its single star to only 1,500 out of the 45,000 eateries and hotels it has scrutinized, and its coveted three stars grace only 50 restaurants in all of the EU. Michelin claims the stars are based on "what's on the plate," but most chefs don't buy that. "There had to be so many inches between the tables to go a step up," says leading New York chef David Bouley, who apprenticed at Michelin-starred restaurants in France. "You had to have certain kinds of china, glassware, linens...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The French Taste New York | 11/4/2005 | See Source »

...quite-severe collage of limestone, concrete and black steel, simultaneously grave and jazzy. Nor is it simply a multimillion-dollar one-liner: the entrance to the place is one thing (giant, portentous limestone chunks), the inside quite another (vast, airy volumes), and the rear (a huge, mirrorized steel plate) still another. Out back, a 60-ft. ramp projects uselessly and wonderfully up into the sky. With its impeccable detailing and rich, complex plan, the building reinvigorates the idea of the modernist villa...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE BEST DESIGN OF 1993 | 11/3/2005 | See Source »

Critics accuse West of being too media-hungry, too invested in his public image and not focused enough on his studies. Indeed, he now has more extracurriculars on his plate than ever before. He’s got a new album out, for starters. His website (www.cornelwest.com) claims that the2-CD set is “the new face of educational entertainment...

Author: By Victoria Kim, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Same As He Ever Was | 11/3/2005 | See Source »

...Morgan and Bobo, Gates now has only the most sincere praise to offer the Pres. “Five African-American scholars under President Summers have been offered tenure at Harvard since last spring,” he says. “Summers has really stepped up to the plate in terms of his commitment to sustaining the number one status of the department. He’s been a pleasure to work with...

Author: By Daniel J. Mandel, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Since They Parted Ways | 11/3/2005 | See Source »

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