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...customers would also mirror important trends in public health legislation. New York City has adopted calorie-disclosure regulations that force many restaurants to post calorie information wherever the restaurant lists the information that customers use to make their choices. In a New York Times interview, Dr. Thomas R. Frieden, the city’s health commissioner, remarked “most people underestimate calorie content by a lot” and added that he considered the rules a potent weapon in the crusade against rising obesity rates. At the other end of the spectrum, individuals who have slow metabolisms...
...dormant—part of Faculty of Arts and Sciences Dean Michael D. Smith’s larger initiative to reexamine all standing faculty committees. The Science Center Executive Committee and the FAS Standing Committee on Benefits, which were dissolved, have not met for years. Former FAS Dean Jeremy R. Knowles originally founded the FAS Standing Committee in 1995 in response to the University administration’s intended one-percent reduction in its contribution to faculty pension funds, which had not been discussed with faculty members beforehand. The aim of the committee was to provide an avenue for communications...
...administration is "still not being transparent," said Andrea R. Flores ’10, Undergraduate Council president, at the meeting...
...last week, the two most successful technology companies in the world, IBM (IBM) and Google (GOOG) have announced major new products. These are developments that will probably help the firms take business away from their competitors. The scope of the products' applications is broad enough that the R&D investment to create them must have been extensive...
...Once a runaway instability starts, it cannot be stopped until a new stable position is found [for the ice sheet]," writes geophysicist Erik R. Ivins in an editorial accompanying the Science paper. (See pictures of this fragile earth...