Word: preps
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...childhood obesity is skyrocketing--there has been an almost threefold jump in the number of overweight teens since the 1970s--some school cafeterias look little different from food courts at the local mall. Many serve burgers and pizzas rife with full-fat meats and cheeses or simply turn the prep work over to franchises like Burger King and Papa John's, which have a burgeoning side business in catering school meals. "If nothing changes, a generation will be having heart bypasses by the time they're 25," says Kelly Brownell, director of Yale University's Center for Eating and Weight...
...Latin. The two have encountered some surprised reactions when people learn that they are working toward their teaching certification. Brown says, “When I tell people I’m doing this, they say, ‘Oh yeah, I was thinking about teaching in a prep school or doing Teach For America.’ They don’t realize that I’m thinking about making a career out of teaching in public schools.” Koski-Karrell agrees, “To most people, it seems kind of silly...
Growing up in Seattle, Wash., Pettit spent his weekends driving the two and a half hours up to Vancouver, B.C., where his league games took place. He eventually left the West Coast for four years of hockey at Taft, a Connecticut prep school...
There’s one now—he’s Fenwick’s 6’6 junior prep All-American named Corey Maggette, and right now he and his teammates cling to a two-point lead against their conference rival. Those folks who felt that tonight’s game would have held much more promise had Brother Rice’s Quentin Richardson—another legend in diapers—not transferred out have found the game to be one of the best of the year anyway...
Friday nights are game nights and this is Chicago—where game nights at high schools mean something, where the local network affiliates and cable outlets (ABC, NBC, CBS, everybody) devote weekly half-hour chunks of air to prep legends and pro prospects, where driving home some nights you’re as likely to hear a high school basketball star make an appearance on sports radio as you are a Chicago Bull, even though Michael Jordan is still playing and looks like he could keep winning championships forever...