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...night before I was planning to pass on the shirt, I received an e-mail from Joe Garcia ’84, confirming that he was its original owner. It had been a gift from Dollar-a-Pound, a still-extant used clothing store in the Garment District. He passed it on to his successor as a bit of a joke, never expecting it to last...
...October 2003 ceremony at HLS, Cox witnessed the unveiling of his portrait, which now hangs in Pound Hall...
...buck tends to be packed with sugar, fat and refined grains (think cookies and candy bars). In general, processed foods hog ever larger portions of all Americans' diets--one reason we spend just a tenth of our incomes on food today, compared with a fifth in 1950. But a pound of lean steak costs a lot more than a pound of hot dogs. "The stomach is a dumb organ," says J. Larry Brown, director of the Center on Hunger and Poverty in Waltham, Mass. "It doesn't know anything about quality. It knows only when it's full...
Like millions of other plus-size Americans, Arias had tried a couple of times to lose weight--only to regain every pound she shed and then some. Finally, one August day in 1992, she says, "something just clicked. I knew I had to do something." Arias started swimming at a local pool and limiting what she ate. At first, she didn't tell anyone what she was doing because she feared she might fail again. But after the first month, when she lost 25 lbs., people at work started to notice and compliment her efforts. After two years...
...showcase, a crown jewel," laments Pierre Graff, president of Aéroports de Paris (ADP), which operates Charles de Gaulle (CDG), Orly, Le Bourget and 14 other airports in the greater Paris region. "This is a very hard blow to our image." The collapse also threatens to pound ADP's bottom line. If major design or construction flaws are found to be at fault, the entire building might have to be razed and rebuilt. ADP refuses to speculate on that; independent experts say that after insurance is factored...