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...Houston The Next Madoff? The Securities and Exchange Commission has charged billionaire R. Allen Stanford--head of the Antigua-based Stanford International Bank--with orchestrating an alleged $8 billion investment fraud, fabricating data and luring investors with dubiously high returns. Two other bank executives have also been accused of wrongdoing...
Declining Fruit and Vegetable Nutrient Composition: What Is the Evidence? By Donald R. Davis Journal of HortScience; February...
...check out the February issue of the Journal of HortScience, which contains a report on the sorry state of American fruits and veggies. Apparently produce in the U.S. not only tastes worse than it did in your grandparents' days, it also contains fewer nutrients - at least according to Donald R. Davis, a former research associate with the Biochemical Institute at the University of Texas, Austin. Davis claims the average vegetable found in today's supermarket is anywhere from 5% to 40% lower in minerals (including magnesium, iron, calcium and zinc) than those harvested just 50 years ago. (Read about Americans...
...Brown was indifferent about Eliot earning a reputation from the event. “So what? People in Eliot are really weird.” “I’m glad I don’t live in Eliot,” declared Dunster House resident Leah R. Schwartz ’11, adding, “Eliot sucks.” Schwartz, a Radcliffe rower, is one of the many athletes who frequent Eliot dining hall. Unfazed by the pantsless dining episode, she asserted that she will continue her regular interhouse dining in defiance of the Eliot...
...process of scooping out food and putting it on a plate is just the antithesis of dining,” said Ritchell R. van Dams ’11, a guest at the launch and bimonthly patron of Manhattan dining establishments...