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Finally, Rudenstine's actions may have something to do with the fear of the unfriendly public spotlight and all-too friendly litigation lawyers that could fall on Harvard if the problem gets worse. HUCTW officials say they used these points to influence the University...
However, further smaller-scale studies--published in journals such as Pediatrics and Public Health--have documented a relationship between obesity and poverty among specific and varied segments of the homeless population. These studies have found a prevalence of imbalanced, fast food-dependent diets among homeless children and higher fat intake and prevalence of obesity--along with significant nutritional deficiency in iron, magnesium, zinc, folic acid, and calcium--among a sample of single homeless mothers. In general, homeless study participants had high-fat diets and high serum cholesterol levels, making them more likely to be obese...
...other politicians are discovering, making outrageous public statements about organized religion isn't the only way to be an anti-politician. Republican presidential frontrunner George W. Bush's style of being the anti-Clinton is to say "fuck" a lot in front of reporters. The idea, apparently, is to jar us all by how little he cares about his image, in stark contrast to the relentlessly image-conscious Clinton. Bush also wants us to know that, unlike the legendarily wonkish president, he isn't a nerd. Has the number of abortions fallen during his governorship? "I don't know, probably...
...doubt the sincerity of Ventura's views on religion or anything else, though making them public seems needlessly divisive. There is a difference between political independence and independence from the responsibilities of office--one of which is (or should be) to avoid denigrating your own constituents...
Bush doesn't do that--his anti-politician pretensions are harmless. He scoffs at statistics, but no one really minds; he swears in public, but it doesn't really offend anyone. And it seems like he's doing it on purpose, trying to cultivate an anti-Clinton image...